skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you want perfect privacy for yourself, but also it’s ethical and good to harvest and archive everyone else’s information because they haven’t explicitly blocked you personally from it.

That’s why I have a bit of a hard time taking your complaints about Def Con seriously.
What Happened to Val Kilmer?
> nothing that would help me believe that slavery is the thing that ended secessio plebis.

It's like saying that steam machine and industrial revolution bancrupted landowning class and abolished serfdom in Eastern Europe in XIX century.. It is perhaps true but it is also complex, multidimensional dynamics.
I will repeat what others said but here we go.
On my work pc, on windows, VSCodium works much better when it comes to graphics.
Yes, I can't wait to buy a self driving car :)
'term of art' means that there's a specific meaning inside a particular sphere of discussion for this term (which has normal sense elsewhere).

To accuse a research group of shingling means that you think that that group releases a lot of papers one after the other which have a lot of overlap between them and back-cite each other-- and that this is done to artificially boost publication count and citation count to make the group look prominent.
Only through action and example will this start to happen. Before Musk kicked the car and rocket industry both in the nuts, there were hardly any startups in both sectors. Now, there are many in both.

As he's showing, it won't be easy. EVERYONE will try to kill the earnest attempts. For all of Musk's faults, he is trying to show there is another way and how to get there.
The Economics of Faith: Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Belief [pdf]
Your initial proposition is one I find hard reconcile
> Damore was not offered a chance to receive forgiveness by either the company or the outrage mob, therefore I don't respect what people generally have to say about whether what he did was right or wrong

I'm not sure the onus is on the other party to "offer" a chance to receive forgiveness when they have been offended or wronged? That's generally not how society or even the legal system functions. The accused has to "show" remorse and "ask" for forgiveness, otherwise what's the point of offering something you either don't want or don't deserve?
first you're going to have to teach me how to cure covid by writing JavaScript
A meaningful diff summary like this can only be made in retrospect after some time. There are a lot more differences between, say, BERT and XLNet than the ones listed. At the time of publication, it wasn’t yet clear which particular differences were the important ones (and to some extent it is still not clear).
She has written books on both, and they’re quite interesting.

I suppose she has to be cast to the “Intellectual Dark Web” for daring to suggest the obvious fact that our brains work differently.

The ultimate irony is that someone can deny such differences while simultaneously arguing for the importance of diversity. What a walking contradiction.
Damore was explicitly asked for his feedback on a subject. He provided it supported by academic research and was fired for it. If Damore had provided an unconnected list of papers that would have been ignored, yes, because nobody would have known what he meant. Instead, he put together a document that connected different research findings with his own suggestions.

A recurring pattern in this debate is that people criticize Damore for a lack of expertise. Which is odd given that Damore, a Harvard Masters Degree holder in Systems Biology, is clearly conversant with the research and the context he is giving advice in. Furthermore, I have yet to see anyone point out a substantive specific error that Damore made, its just general things like "he lacks expertise."

Tell me, what is the most obvious or least controversial example of Damore's lack of expertise in terms of his argument?
I'm curious about your reasoning for that
We need 4D porn, and fast!
I don't care, I think that would be much more pedantic than drawing a distinction between [wW]i-?[fF]i and [iI]nternet access.

(Other than for consistency: a publisher should have a style guide entry on it, but it doesn't bother me what they choose.)
I think people should go to prison for shit like this.The cost to the society of such a person throughout their life is astronomical.
It doesn't have to be perfect. Some players are incredibly good and might show up as extreme outliers but whenever I watch cheaters it is so incredibly obvious. Cheaters don't play like Shroud. They kill people with snipers that they can't even see on their screen. It should not be that difficult to differentiate a cheater from Shroud.
In my neck of the woods (biomedical sciences), this hubris' name is "the andy grove fallacy": https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2007/11/06/an...

and it is rampant.
> If I circulated a memo to my co-workers that not only opposed a new policy from management, but did obvious harm to the expressed intent of that policy, I might be fired.

Google had fostered a culture were it was expected to respond with to new policies from management that you didn't agree with.

Google wasn't a normal job where whatever management says gos. Although, it's certainly seems to be moving in that direction from the outsiders perspective.
He is working for financial gain, but as a means to get to the end of his goals:

1) Going to mars.
2) Sustainable energy / transport
Why was I expecting something...interesting and unique from this sub/story...underwhelming :/
I never understand why people expect there won't be self-driving cars for sale to the public which voids the need for self-driving car taxis? I would prefer buying such as car than keep taking taxis. In the end I think it would be much more convenient if you could call via app your own car in a similar way :)

That's the kind of future I am imagining
> Counting cards isn’t illegal, but a casino, like any business, has the right to refuse service to anyone. I know players who have been handcuffed, searched and dragged into windowless back rooms

But surely handcuffing someone for doing something that isn't illegal is itself illegal search and detention?
"We celebrate our diversity, but we cannot talk about what makes us different."
The bridges today in modern Kalningrad.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Knaypkhof,+Ulitsa+Kanta,+K...

It appears that the geometry has changed since Euler's time, or the diagram is incorrect. It appears that is the larger ( Lomse/ Oktyabrsky ) island that has the 4 bridges from the mainland rather than the smaller one (Kneiphof). Ironically; the topology appears preserved, so it doesn't actually matter, which underscores the point of Euler's achievement.
With or without the viewport meta tag zooming a page won't (and shouldn't) cause the page contents to re-flow. When zooming the viewport size isn't changing as if you had changed the window size. Switching orientations or opening a new window on iOS change the viewport dimensions and will cause a re-flow but not zooming.

Besides setting the viewport width you can set a couple CSS properties on block elements to keep stuff more mobile friendly. I suggest `max-width: 100%;` and `overflow-x: scroll;`. This would keep for instance those `<pre>` blocks on your page from causing a horizontal scroll on mobile.
Ok so the idea of a statistical edge in blackjack, as well as the strategies of card counting and what is called basic strategy, were developed by mathematician E.O. Thorp in the 70s. Thorp has a large body of research on the mathematics of many casino games that are worth taking the time to read, some of them with the father of information theory himself Claude Shannon (with whom he used to go gambling, along with both their wives).

The empirical testing of his work was conducted over a number of years by MIT, Harvard Business School and others to show that indeed card counting and other strategies were effective at giving the bettor a statistical edge [1]. Casinos being casinos, they learned of this soon enough and effectively banned card counters in many outlets (as well as putting various measures in place to prevent or minimize those who are more subtle about it, as discussed in OP's comment). In modern times, even a small town casino will have measures in place to stop card counters, the simplest of which is just to have an automatic deck shuffler.

As for his papers on the academic research that have led to strategies like card counting, you can find most or all of them on his site[2]. Of particular note is his paper "Blackjack Systems"[3] describing a proto card counting strategy, "The Mathematics of Gambling"[4], and of course the book that started it all: "Beat the Dealer"[5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team
[2] http://www.edwardothorp.com/articles/
[3] http://www.edwardothorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Black...
[4] http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/the-mathematics-of-gamblin...
[5] https://www.amazon.com/Beat-Dealer-Winning-Strategy-Twenty-O...
from this brief blurb, I find myself wondering whether the mom is deliberately thwarting your efforts. your actions essentially imply that she isn't doing a good job parenting. probably true, but she may resent that signal. you've already gone above and beyond your duty as a neighbor, but have you tried talking to the mom directly?
Reminds me of D.E. Shaw. Became a billionaire hedge fund manager but now does research in computational biochemistry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw
Never heard o this company...

Scraping is legal since the lawsuit:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2019/09/10/linke...
There are several simultaneous misperceptions I see:

First, noted in the article, is a false sense of security. If the Secret Service in the White House can have an outbreak, any workplace can have an outbreak. The pandemic has yet to hit large swathes of the planet, but it will probably do so before a vaccine is available. This is really, really bad, and will be until there is some substantial change.

Third is a sense of false optimism: There is one antiviral that has been tested to have a significant but relatively modest effect on recovery time, and that may reduce risk of death by an as yet unknown amount. Other than that, no confirmed breakthroughs in treatment. Nothing that sharply reduces risk of death or duration and severity of illness. In other words, the risks are almost the same as on day one. Why does anyone thing a lockdown can be lifted with a price in terms of many tens of thousands of lives just in the US?

Lastly, there is a sense that we will be in a permanent pandemic. As the above comment points out, the direct impact will be felt for one or two years. There will be permanent changes, perhaps as a result of the realization that access to health care is key to minimizing pandemics. Perhaps infectious disease surveillance will rise in importance. But the economy will resume. Un-parking airplanes will happen. Humans want to travel. Businesses may realize that business travel can be cut down. Schools may realize distance learning can work. But I see no reason why discretionary travel would not resume and grow. I see no reason why in-person social mingling would not resume, maybe with a bang, as people celebrate being vaccinated.
you can find about 5 svg skeletons inside the github's folder: resources/illustration/ Have fun
Yeah I've been using it - took a while but pretty happy with it so far.
It has more to do with these recent YT changes causing big issues with monetization and community-building. Less revenue, but also comments are now disabled for example. If you make content which could in any way be aimed for kids, or has kids appearing in the video (with some nuances) then you don't get comments which are huge for building a community. And if you get it wrong, the video or channel could be demonitized altogether based on YT's interpretation.

Essentially YT opted out of actually creating moderation tools and a team and instead just increased their ad revenue cut while placing further burden on independent creators who don't have millions in budgets to cushion this effect.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20963459/youtube-google-...
Mini Prince: ASCII Prince of Persia for DOS
> The infrastructure to connect your house to the public street network has to built and paid for by someone.

Yes. Me. I pay for it

Care to expand on your comment, it currently doesnt seem to have a purpose that I can discern.
Huh, I wasn't aware of that. Somehow I always thought that hashicorp/raft was used in etcd. Thanks for the correction!
I don't believe that Mexico or the USA actively tried to suppress news of those epidemics. Am i wrong?
If all the lawyers in the world lost 10 IQ points, which were redistributed to the non-lawyers, who would lose out?

I argue that law is an adversarial profession - what matters is if you are smarter than the lawyer in the other side of the courtroom. If everyone was less good, outcomes would be much the same, and we as a society could redistribute those smart people to engineering problems where those IQ points will make the difference between inventing something useful or not.
So what are you trying to say, we shouldn't be allowed to talk about gender differences?

There's an enormous difference between the references you made because they are all trying to rationalize treating a race/gender as inferior. On top of that, there is no real scientific evidence backing anything up and it all basically amounts to inferring causation from correlation (ie. they are inferior because they are poor).

James' memo does not in any form attempt to rationalize why women should not become engineers (the analogue to your comparisons), rather it tries to explain why women do not pursue careers in tech at the frequency with which men do.

Women are not "discriminated against" when it comes to signing up for computer science classes in high school or choosing to major in computer science in university, yet significantly less of them sign up for these classes then men. There is no discrimination going on here since any women can sign up for any class of their choosing in high school. Clearly something is causing this gender imbalance, what might that be? That is what the memo tries to investigate. There is nothing "sexist" about asking or attempting to answer this real life phenomenon.

In terms of gender differences, the author lists points such as "women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things" , "women on average are more cooperative", and "Women on average look for more work-life balance while men have a higher drive for
status on average", hardly statements that anyone can consider as insinuating female inferiority.

I'm guessing that the most contentious part of the memo is where the author states that women tend to have higher degrees of neuroticism, but he did cite Wikipedia which states "Research in large samples has shown that levels of neuroticism are higher in women than men." and references a research paper [1]. I'm no biology/psychology/gender expert and have no opinion on the authority of the source, but the legitimacy of the paper is certainly not a question of "politics", but of science.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497...
If Damore suspected that women at Google were, on average, shorter than men at Google would you doubt that too, because there is no study on gender differences in height among Google employees?

When thinking about this you should ask what your priors are. If neuroticism is widely, across ages and cultures, found to be higher in women and men, and it is, then wouldn't your prior, without a Google specific personality survey, be that Google women likely have higher neuroticism than men?

To me it seems like an impossibly high standard to expect Damore to do a personality survey of Google to figure out if this oft repeated neuroticism result also holds true for Google employees.
Well, this takes the cake as the most toxic comments section I've ever seen on HN.

The degree of "I'm tired of the left being outraged at the right tearing our country apart but i also couldnt care about the right tearing our country apart, oh also let me normalize hating women" makes me very sad for our future.
I've started using a debug diary, and it's been quite helpful. When I hit a problem, I often realize, "Wait, I've solved something like this before." I look through my debug diary and find entries related to what I'm working on now. It's saved me a bunch of time! Much better to read the solution I already came up with than to reinvent the same wheel for the 6th time.
Not unless the USA tries to deceive them like what China did originally
The author makes some valid points, but doesn't consider downsides very carefully. In a world where there is no central publication venue, those who are "famous" (or work in famous institutions) have a very large advantage over newcomers, who can't simply "send email to their colleagues." A little more thought and discussion of this part of the problem would be useful.
I don't think she's doing it maliciously, I think she is just easily guilted/convinced to buy her kids stuff when they want it (she also has a daughter older than the son who always has the latest iPhone, so it's not unique to the boy). They don't have much money (they are on both SNAP and HOC), but enough for short term luxuries like smartphones and video/computer games.

> have you tried talking to the mom directly?

I have not talked to her directly, though I'm starting to come to the same conclusion that it is necessary if I want to help her son. I'm slightly apprehensive that it might be a touchy subject though and I'm not the best at confrontation.
The trouble is that there are well known physical[1] and psychological[2] differences between the sexes. The same isn't true between races. It may still be political, but the arguments against it shouldn't be the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans?wpro...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology?...
I use NoScript, so if a site needs JavaScript, it does not work in my browser and I go to another site.
> Damore was not offered a chance to receive forgiveness by either the company or the outrage mob, therefore I don't respect what people generally have to say about whether what he did was right or wrong.

Are you saying that it's wrong for people to judge actions as right or wrong without first offering to forgive the person who did the action?

That's an interesting standard, I've never heard something like that before.

How do you handle the fact that the statement itself does not meet the criterion it's advocating? That is, you're saying it's wrong for people to do X, but you didn't offer forgiveness first. Isn't that what you're saying one shouldn't do?

> We would never tolerate companies that encourage religious discussion but fire employees that say things against the Christian faith.

Surely there exist church-backed business encourage discussion about certain religious topics and would fire you for holding beliefs that don't comport with their particular religion? I'm thinking e.g. church-backed hospitals. Or even churches themselves, although perhaps you wouldn't consider them to be a "business".

But more to the point, I wonder if there are limits to what you've defined as "political". What if my political belief is that Black people are intellectually inferior to white people (and that explains why there are disproportionately fewer Black people in tech). Am I not allowed to have a workplace where some political discussion is allowed (say, a newsroom) and at the same time not tolerate this (or any?) belief?
At the time, this ventures were not "another" online payment venture. This class of startups were the first, period.

As I have stated in my other replies, at the time there was an opportunity like no other. Musk put his goals on hold to capitalize... then he returned to his priorities.

I'll say this, if other 'smart people' did this... made a truck load of $$$ off of their finance gigs and then did stuff like build EVs, rocket or whatever. That would be something. That's not the normal path at all, however.
It is a legitimate strategy, and I think the casino is not actually allowed to arrest you, accuse you of cheating, take back your winnings, etc for it. They can ban you though; casinos can ban you whenever they want to. I think they can also refuse to give you any comp bonuses. I am not really so sure how it works; I don't gamble in a casino and do not intend to.
The time range is incorrect, but there was an era when the community hosted all or most of the servers. CS and CS:S are still this way.

Fallout 3 is single player, so that’s an uncharitable choice.
That said, a lot of the damage done by cars is quality-of-life, not direct physical harm. It really sucks to have to leap off your bike, or even just feeling under pressure from somebody in a car who you have to share road with. Cycling on a dedicated path is relaxing and enjoyable. Cycling in the grit and spray of a bunch of cars, any of which may be driven by somebody on their phone or half-asleep, is no fun at all.
Why not make this calculation yourself versus demanding a stranger does it?
If the past 100 years are anything to go by, on average, it ought to happen about once every 25 years; 1918, 1957, 1968, 2020. More often than that if you start thinking about how close to being one of those SARS and MERS were.

I think there were a few interesting factors this time around:

1. Better communication: In the previous cases, there was no internet. Communication even between doctors would have happened via governments, international media, or international conferences.

2. Increased travel: The globalisation of the virus was certainly a bit faster than it otherwise would have been due to the greater level of international travel that (until covid) had been the status quo.

3. Politics: It seems as though health issues, whether to wear masks, whether the virus is "real", how businesses should respond, and so on have become divided along political lines. I'm not sure whether this happened in 1918, 1957 and 1968, but I am guessing it didn't happen to the same degree.

Will we be better prepared next time? Ideally yes, but I'm not sure that it's a certainty.
The Acer Swift is limited to only 8GB of (non-upgrade) ram, which is a deal breaker for most developers. I also wonder about that Wi-Fi 6 chip and its Linux support. If it wasn't for those factors, I'd probably get one.
That what ends up being considered 'normal' is not what used to be (the 'old normal').
Here's my response to a similar sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126109

Please tell me which of Damore's recommendations amounted to opression. I see "we can make software engineering more people-oriented" and "allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive". Nowhere do I see anything even remotely comparable to Nazi treatment of jews or denying women the right to vote. In fact his suggestions attempt to improve the workplace satisfaction of women.
I could be off-base here, but I think they’re saying that a sparse matrix (for holding the edge weights) is ultimately something like a list-of-lists format, rather than a dense n x m array (for which GPUs have optimized routines). Except I that there are libraries doing sparse matrix operations on GPU (https://developer.nvidia.com/cusparse).