skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I acknowledge that "toxic" is a loosely-defined term that can be thrown around at people that really aren't... I'm mostly meaning people that go out of their way to be negative/harmful in unnecessary ways, harmful forms of trolling, the inability for people to have a discussion without it dissolving into attacks/etc extremely fast... that kind of thing

I think we're looking back at history with rose-tinted glasses here. Toxicity has always been around. Maybe in recent years it has grown, but I think that's just the nature of the technological beast.

It doesn't mean that on a broad scale technology always actively contributes to making things more toxic- but just that it amplifies and contributes to all sorts of things, and that includes the negative. We're more connected than we've ever been, and the unfortunate side-effect is that the degrees of separation between us and those that are toxic have been significantly reduced. Anonymity is maybe a small part, but there are plenty of openly toxic people, both online and off.

Toxic people are just toxic people and I think it's a social issue that is just always going to exist at some level. Maybe there are ways to use technology to assist in fighting against it and maybe not. I think it's just a potentially-unsolvable complex problem that will always arise in society.

I don't know the most effective ways to fight it. However, I'm trying my best not to contribute to it, and maybe personally fighting it within myself will have an outward effect on others. While I wouldn't say I'm mean/toxic/etc online, I do try to stay self-aware of my actions/reactions/emotions and what I post online (and have failed to do this sometimes) because it's very easy to get caught up in negative news/misery and then it's easy to branch off from there into an unhelpful level of anger/negativity.

I try to do my best not to assume the worst of others, to realize there are beings with entire lives unknown to me behind every screen name (if it's not a bot) and to realize it's sometimes difficult to properly infer the tone of what someone is saying online. It's still an internal work-in-progress, but I think I'm far more mindful of my behavior now than in years past.
Could we please get that changed to the actual article and add a (2016)?

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2016/02/oxford-uehiro-p...

That contains much more debatable content. But even with the linked excerpt, I find it hard to draw the rather absolute conclusion the title suggests. Computers are indeed very good at both points, but only after a human carefully crafted a problem specific set of instructions to hold its virtual hand.

I think the bias and modelling discussions of the last few years sufficiently show that it's rather non-trivial to project these functions to algorithms/ML/... and state of the art in the foreseeable future is not particularly good at many aspects of the tasks mentioned in the article.

In the long form it even draws analogies between asking the phone for food recommendations and ethics considerations. Every recommendation engine out there is being actively gamed, that was the case in 2016 just as it is now. There's some truth to the article of course, e.g. more crafted systems that actively address human biases, but we're nowhere near a point to even remotely let our computers take over ethical considerations - even if it's just a recommendation.
What do you mean free data must be free?

The data is free, but the aggregated formatted data has been worked on and processed, are you saying the resulting aggregated data should also be free? That isn't going to happen, why would anyone do that work for free?

Or are you afraid linkedIn and others will make everything private? That's completely up to linkedIn or individual linkedIn users what they want to make private vs public. Maybe more data would be made private if they don't want it scraped. I don't think that's inherently a good or bad thing.
Ask HN: How do I tell my employer I love the job but hate what I'm working on?
I am working a job I love. I work for decent pay in a location close to home with people I like. However, one of my assigned tasks is causing me so much grief that I would rather leave the company than endure another minute. I absolutely hate it. The thing is, I'd like to tell them this in a productive manner as I wish to continue my other work (and maybe additional work), but I am _miserable_ doing this one specific task.

How do I tell my employer that I like it here but find myself drained and unmotivated about one of my assigned tasks?
A Running List of Disinformation Spreading About the Coronavirus
"In order to best serve our retail merchants and learn about React Native in a physical retail setting, we decided to build out the new POS natively for iOS and use React Native for Android."

Unbelievable, really. The previous paragraph literally mentions the importance of performance.

facepalm
Seems like a hard problem to legally solve. I can see so many valid use cases for bots to scrape pages. But in all of your examples, I'm inclined to say that it shouldn't be allowed.

Maybe it falls into a "fair use" situation? Obviously copying an entire website would not be considered fair use, but something like scraping a bunch of public profiles on Steam to get aggregate data on what games are played the most seems totally valid.

Hopefully it doesn't end up with everything gated behind a sign-in and a TOS.
Re 3: I wonder if part of it is that many people don't have an identity. So they make a tribe their identity.
> The Medallion fund has been closed to external capital since 1993, and analysis of the flagship fund’s annual returns suggests that significant distributions are made each year to keep the fund about the same size. For example, despite the fact that Medallion reported annual net returns above 29 percent every year between 2010 and 2018, the fund’s assets under management stayed at about $10 billion throughout that period.

This suggests to me that whatever opportunities they're exploiting, they would vanish quickly if they would increase the fund's size (e.g. by compounding returns).

It's worth taking a look at the Numberphile interview with Simons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0). There he suggests that they're mostly using ML and other relatively simple techniques, with a bit of more advanced math when it comes to predicting how a trade will move the market. This chimes in well with the idea that they have to keep their trades relatively small in order to remain this profitable.
Good article - paints a clear picture of how things ended up this bad and how the govt attempted to handle it (poorly).
You only need one participant in the market to start advertising and seeing profits, and then everyone else has to follow suit. Collectively the money may still be wasted because no one's relative market position changes very much.
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They have a Discourse forum: https://community.monzo.com
What part of that actually contradicts the point made by the article? As far as I can tell those laws cover knowing or willfully ignorant facilitatation of laundering stolen money.

It says nothing about the need to return stolen money recieved as part of a legitimate seeming transaction.
I know a couple of doctors overseas and while there isn’t direct to consumer advertising for Rx drugs, the doctors get invited by the pharmas to conferences in the Greek islands or the Adriatic, sometimes they are invited to “talk”. They can bring their spouses too... in addition I think they get kickbacks for Rxs -but I’m not sure.

Not sure which one is better or worse.
Yes. I believe there are secondary and tertierary reactors that can handle the waste.
The name "Standard ML", with a capital S, is not ambiguous - it's (still, just about) unambiguously the name of a programming language.

You have to call the language something. For decades it was mostly just referred to as ML. In recent years people (including me) have started calling it Standard ML explicitly to avoid confusing people who now expect ML to mean machine learning. It doesn't always work, as we see.

Expanding to "meta-language" sadly is no good either, since nobody has ever called it that and most practitioners wouldn't even recognise it.

SML is a possibility that's used often enough, but there's a semantic difficulty there - the difficulty is that Standard ML is the standard version of a language called ML; it isn't quite a language called SML.
I just wish with PWAs ... there was some more love as far as how they're handled.

Last time I looked at them it was really wonky to install a PWA from Chrome.

Developer advocacy at the time from Google was big on PWAs, but they were second class citizens everywhere in Google land....
there is a distribution of talent in the government as there is in a private enterprise. the talent is distributed as much across functions as within them. where government "chooses" to be excellent, it is. such pockets of excellence are nurtured by funding, top cover and insulation from the inefficient and less competent parts of government. if policymakers wanted to create an enclave of excellence in public pharma, it could. if.
Sure. Here is our demo page. https://demo.amy.app
We usually white label our product and try to work with bigger companies like publishers to get our products into the hands of students.

But, we are still a very small start-up.
A possible result of the publication of salaries, and increased salaries to balance gender salary imbalance?
A fast reactor can burn the waste of thermal (traditional) reactor.

One design is the TWR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
*lack of public exporters. Because of the NDAs around shipping for these platforms, no one can "advertise" that they have the exporters, but the truth is that there are consultants/gamedev shops who have done this work for all of the current platforms. You just have to get in touch with them via the community.

EDIT: This page has some backstory: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/tutorials/platform/conso...
I just find it funny how the "concerned brexiters" that are always decrying EU regulations are curiously absent from these discussions about face recognition overreach.
There has been a large push to support web as a target in react-native by expo.

https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/

Depending on the complexity of your app - expo is the best place to start with react-native. Their managed workflows allow you to write in 100% javascript w/ a lot of the native libraries already linked an exposed in JS. If you need something they haven't bundled already then you can eject and have a good starting point.

Expo web is still fairly new but they seem to have prioritized it as highly as support for Android and iOS.
People with illegally earned money put their money into a series of short lived sucker funds which exist to funnel money invisibly into the winner fund where it reappears as legitimate investment returns. The dumb version of this with very simple mirror trades which were easy to track has been seen "in the wild" in Russia as carried out by people at DB.

BTW I don't really buy this theory but that's how it would work.
The Ionic team recently released React support so you can build a PWA using React and target iOS, Android, web, and electron. Uses Capacitor under the hood for full native access. It’s been getting a lot of usage since the release: https://ionicframework.com/blog/announcing-ionic-react/
> I wonder who's paying for this stuff.

Oil companies, of course:

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

> Friends of the Earth was founded in 1969 in San Francisco by David Brower, Donald Aitken and Gary Soucie after Brower's split with the Sierra Club[4] due to the latter's positive approach to nuclear energy. The founding donation of $500,000 (in 2019 USD) was provided by Robert Orville Anderson, the owner of Atlantic Richfield oil company.[5]
>The topic is price fixing; the discussion is about the efficaciousness of price fixing.

No it's not. This is specifically about price fixing as it relates to insulin.
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Americans Go to the Library More Than Anywhere Else
Honestly, I'd rather not want that ability than risk a never-ending unescapable 1984 dystopia.
> Abbreviations without context are not suitable for HN titles

Write hn@ycombinator.com and get dang to make it a rule. Until he makes that rule, I call bullshit.
Ironic that BuzzFeed - the emperor of fake news, is the one carrying this story. Apparently, lying is only punishable on social media when the publication has a conservative bent.
Better population controls, on a global scale. Let's get our population back down to 5 billion, I'm sure our environmental problems would quickly evaporate if we did so.
100% agree. If we didn't have data about any of these other Western country's healthcare systems, then arguments like "maybe that's just how much it costs" or "there are tradeoffs between market driven and government driven" are plausible. However, that is simply not the case. The money goes >somewhere<, to >someone<, and with wealth inequality being quite high in the US, I imagine you can identify where a large amount of that money is going. Extremely rich pharma Bros are a great example of how the market has failed in the pharma industry.
I find it really hard to believe that the fund can be generating returns so consistently by pursuing a variety of different strategies over time.

It seems very unlikely that Renaissance/Medallion constantly finds these things, whereas other operations almost never do.

The conspiracy theorist in the back of my brain thinks that Renaissance/Medallion hires a lot of eggheads so they can plausibly claim to keep finding mathematical and operational edges, but the actual money-making strategy might be something else entirely.
I don't think anybody read the headline and assumed that no other technology would ever be used at Shopify.
Currently using Pocket to quickly bookmark important articles. Their simple tagging system allows us to organize links by topic. We have a "read later" tag for quick bookmarks and after reviewing content we will add a new topical tag. Sharing with peers is easy as well.
Sounds like a dialect of ML!
>nuclear really does have some real scaling issues

Like what? Almost everything from the linked article is false, I'm surprised it's in IEEE at all.

As far as I am aware, nuclear has only the same scaling issues as any other power source.
SIM Swappers Are Phishing Telecom Company Employees to Access Internal Tools
> I did not claim that [tree-like and easy-to-read] is the same thing.

Your example implied it. If you meant something different, it wasn't explicitly stated. There are multiple factors that play into "easy to read", and they often differ per person. Tree-ness helps in some cases, but not others, or can be over-done.

> After long and intense training lots of things look easy

But reading words PLATEAUS in most people. You can't throw time at it to speed it up much. "Speed reading" courses don't improve comprehension of details, only summary skimming speed.

> I have also learned first to code in hex codes, assemblers, BASIC, Pascal, Modula, etc. Still I can read Lisp code just fine.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here.

> Unfortunately you haven programmed in Lisp and thus you have no idea about how difficult it would be to learn it.

I dabbled it in many years ago, and just found it hard to read and didn't see that exposure time was paying off in the speed compared to learning/reading other tools/languages. Groking it faster either has a long learning curve, or is the "hockey stick curve" I mentioned earlier.

You haven't explained why it has that comparatively slow ramp up and why I should accept the slow grok start compared to other tools. If it does have the hockey stick grok curve, it stands out unique in that regard and there should be a good reason behind that, yet strangely nobody knows why. You appear to be avoiding these key questions/puzzles. I don't understand why. If you want to promote Lisp, you better start caring about this decades-old conundrum: it's not going away. "Just keep it at forever" is NOT a good answer.

> You believe that a hammer is difficult to use, but you have only seen one, not hammered with it.

After many decades I have a pretty good feel for what kinds of tools, symbols, layouts, and UI's work best for MY eyes and brain. I'm not going to force things for 10+ years to see if my assessment rules of thumb are actually wrong for specific tools. That's not a rational use of anybody's time.

And MANY others have said the same about Lisp, and it has yet to catch on in the mainstream despite being around 60 years and tried in many projects. It does fine in certain niches and continues to do fine in those niches. But if you keep failing mainstream beauty pageants for 60 years, common sense should tell you that the public just plain finds you ugly. Get a clue already! Lisp has buck teeth and a big nose. You may have a thing for buck teeth, but your brain is not a representative specimen of humanity.

Further, there's nothing to force people to use good Lisp style and formatting. If it did go mainstream, more would probably abuse and misuse it. Fans treat their prized possession with care, others don't. Nice things that happen in Nicheville don't scale to big cities.
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This does not legalize theft, it says sites cannot respond to suspected scrapers differently than they respond to non-suspected scrapers. You can still rate limit, as long as you do it universally to all site users

Copyright law is unchanged. If someone scrapes your blog and then re-uses your posts on their own blog, you still have possible copyright infringement claim
It can, the author of the article is cherry picking facts to make it seem like it can't.
From what I can gather (I'm in the same boat), it seems Facebook launched a portal for users to see what third-party services/activities they know about. One user here mentions an offline, in-store Macy's transaction appearing in that data; others mention streaming service data (Netflix, Hulu); one even mentions a reference to Blind, but not much detail on what type of data.

Surely, Facebook must be collecting this on non-users as well who obviously have not agreed to their terms.
Where are you getting those numbers from? Estimates I found place the cost to produce a vial, including the entire supply chain, at $3-$6.
They were economists... Which might explain the outcome.
Not specifically the NIH, but someone was recently arrested trying to take work from a hospital's cancer research lab back to China: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/12/30/chinese-medical... The article mentions that the NIH has 180+ active investigations, although it sounds like those are based more on funding sources than straight-up espionage
> After all, a common complaint about practical ethics is that there are too many factors for any one person to consider. A similar complaint could be made about weather forecasting, economic modelling and space travel – and yet we seem to be able to do all of the above just fine with the aid of computers.

Space travel is very hard, but it's "just physics." Weather forecasting is harder, and we get it wrong a lot of the time. Economic modelling is harder still, and our inability to do this accurately was arguably a major contributor to the subprime mortgage issue that led to the last economic down-turn. So, taking moral advice from computers seems like a bad idea.

I think it helps to distinguish between which problems are "wicked" or not - while it may be technically true that some function is represented by a Turing machine, as a practical matter the amount of data would be too large, and how one measures the "output" of the function has so much ambiguity, that it's not practically doable. (I don't know the original source of the term "wicked problem," but it's a concept others have written a lot about why it's different.)
Along similar lines, I read a study nearly twenty years ago and I wish I could find it for these very recurring government vs market debates. The study evaluated prices between single payer countries and found that it wasn’t the collective bargaining that reduced prices in those countries. They observed that there was no correlation between the size of the single payer and pricing. Rather, it was that the pharma adjusted price to minimize counterfeiting and black markets. In countries where black markets and counterfeiting risks were high, the price was lower. Ironically the decision to lower gave some single payers added incentive to participate in arbitrage. One country would be so low the country itself decided they could arbitrage their Higher priced neighbors by selling off their excess through undisclosed side deals. You see a variant of this example playing out between Canada and US. The article talked about individual black markets and state backed black markets that would emerge as a result of these single payer deals... which were supposed to be confidential but of course the black markets allowed pricing information to leak causing everyone to demand lower prices... everywhere except the US which essentially subsidized all of these below market deals that give the appearance that collective bargaining is superior.

Edit: another thought comes to mind - has anyone compared the size of health insurers in the US and compared their purchasing power to government run single payers? I’d hazard a guess that United Health for example probably dwarfs entire single payers of some governments.
> Your analogy doesn't hold.

It does, in the US. You're likely making an inconsistent comparison.

Property ownership has nothing to do with visual access.
You cannot legally be barred from casually (involuntarily) perceiving something. It's reasonable to put up physical barriers to reduce what is casually perceived. It's a very good analogy.
That doesn't make any sense, but at least it's consistent with the rest of the climate changes mumbo jumbo.

Why should somebody living today be taxed for CO2 emissions from the time before they were born?
The developers live in Argentina I believe and it pays for 2 of them. There's a world outside SV...
Aha Tcl/Tk makes writing desktop apps fun! In my system admin days I used it for little UI's to interface with my bash scripts. Running scripts or little visualization tools on remote servers with X forwarding was pretty nifty too!
Yes, I'd imagine a hotel in central London would also have more incentive to keep it going. Maybe in the past 10 years the technology and/or understanding has improved too.

There's a much smaller scale one on a private residence that I pass most days that the owner (or new owner) has given up on though. There's something very sad about it, like it symbolises lofty dreams for a greener future that have withered and died.
> When [publicly funded] research bears fruit it is often given away almost at-cost

Publicly funded research should be given away, royalty-free, to the public. Universities aren't in the business of...business.
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Yes, for typo correction + instant search, Lucene definitely is not fast enough on large datasets. There are also some limitations with fuzzy searching when you also want to sort/rank documents at the same time. Lucene is also a very generic mature library for a wider set of usecases.
Here's what Google says. Ask your lawyer if you want to know what it means.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?p=web_app_...

When Web & App Activity is on, you can include additional activity like:

* Sites and apps that partner with Google to show ads

* Sites and apps that use Google services, including data that apps share with Google

* Your Chrome browsing history
Don't you just have to report it? I get that this poor guy's name is attached to it but if that's the only means to fix this egregious violation of user rights, I think we have to think about what will benefit society the most overall.