skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost everyone is ethically challenged, we just need the right circumstances for particular expressions to emerge. The people who do right and wrong by you might be alternative persons under alternative scenarios.

The very poor and very rich are often placed in front of ethically interesting bargains, such as a trade of life for money, whereas Hacker News has trouble even daring to ballpark the dollar value to life -- a middle class aesthetic where one has neither the resources nor the desperation to trade in flesh.
What resources or practices helped you in developing mathematical intuition?
Basic economic theories require that consumers have full information and make rational decisions. Neither of those are valid assumptions.

In this case, the vast majority of people don't know if a shirt was made with child labor or not. If this information was clearly communicated to every consumer I'm sure you'd see consumer behavior change to some degree.
No, nobody is suggesting a pogrom.

But, they could have been prevented from resuming power, and attaining future positions of influence. Otherwise the Civil War was a sacrifice made for nothing.

Lincoln should have made a law to oversee the southern states, and put in Federal leadership, that was loyal to the Union cause. And he should have instituted the law for 100 years, in order to wipe out any future separatist activities from the Confederates.

But honestly, who knows. The Civil War was a long time ago, and it’s doubtful that even this idea could have succeeded.

Which leads us to where we are now. It’s too late to do anything like that anymore. The divisions are now too deep. We need a new solution.
Libra is not a cryptocurrency.

It's a centralized payment processor owned by a group of banks.

It's no different from any other company store scrip.
I also have synchronous gigabit fiber, and I was surprised to get way different results from the others. They're similar to yours. Not sure if this is on CloudFlare's end, or if there's something on my end or my ISP's end.
I don't know where you got 1MB, the page for me was 363.09KB with caching off. That said, I do that React+TypeScript is overkill for a personal blog.
Ditto. I thought this is a new product by bear. Got me excited for a bit.

I wonder if trademark would kick in later for this.
Weekly digest with data related blogs from LinkedIn,Google,Pinterest,Uber etc.
I'm ethicality challenged if I think the biggest (or at least up there) forum of public discourse shouldn't be micromanaged like a day care, with "divisive" people sent to time out? Is it unthinkable to you that some people value free expression over being protected from negativity?
That's quite the broad brush you are painting all capitalists with. There are many ways to be successful many forms of capitalism, some degenerate yes, some not so degenerate. It is up to good honest people to set the example, because yes the greedy ones will always greed away. History has shown me that it doesn't matter what economic and political system is instituted, greed will find a way to exploit the good intentions of those systems.
As management is responsible for bad management decisions, so too is the programmer responsible for implementing bad decisions.
Librem 5 April 2020 Software Development Update
Yeah, that's a totally new connection (no pool), time from memory (could be off).

On my home system with a database I happen to be running anyway, I see:

$ time mysql -u mythtv -h 192.168.0.12 mythconverg \
-e 'select * from credits where person = 147628 limit 1' > /dev/null

real 0m0.023s

Server is running a Celeron(R) CPU 1007U @ 1.50GHz, client is Celeron(R) 2955U @ 1.40GHz, networking is 1GBps. I don't have a super easy way to measure just the connect + login time, so this is connect + login + indexed query. The server is lightly loaded, and I warmed up the table, but it's also a laptop chip on a desktop oriented board with a lowend NIC.
The meme about Web Components being the future is older than React at this point.
Stage Presence
I agree that public research should be publicly available, and Covid research in particular, but having worked in biomedicine, I also know that making data available to, and consumable by, everyone else takes actual work and dedicated resources, and most of the time when the data aren't easily downloadable it's usually not because someone doesn't want to share, but because they have other work to do and are possibly still collecting data. Unfortunately some of those resources now have to be spent recovering from a hacking attempt instead of actual science. Speaking as an American, I would prefer that the CIA and NSA please NOT hack Covid vaccine research in other countries based on stupid assumptions.

Again, to deflect the obvious misstatements of how IP actually works, anyone who wants to sell a vaccine to the world will need to produce large amounts of data and presumably a formal patent which will actually document how it is made. How the licensing actually shakes out is a complicated question and will no doubt be as acrimonious as everyone expects, but as long as we're at the early stages these arguments are a waste of time and effort. Get the vaccine(s) working, do it right, do it without fing over the rest of the world, then* worry about whether IP rights or excessive secrecy are holding us back.
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Eh, not sure about that one. I don't particularly like Ruby or Liquid but I run my blog on Jekyll because it is the right set of tradeoffs for me (works on GitHub Pages, produces a static site), not because I'm particularly invested in the stack. It works, I write things in it, from time to time I extend it to support some new thing I am putting in the blog post I'm working on.
"Time heals many things"

Extremely true, also relevant for work disagreements between people who have existing positive relationships. A surprising number of disagreements disappear if left on their own for a time.

I find that many people with engineering backgrounds (myself included) can struggle letting conflicts sit unresolved. I suspect that instincts learned debugging code get ported over to interpersonal issues, as code bugs almost never disappear if simply left to rest.
> the west's covert activities are not limited to benign surveillance.

Compared to the CCP, it's fairly benign. The example you gave, Merkel's phone, is a textbook example. Spy all you want, but we're not stealing IP or sabotaging power grids (to my knowledge). We're not interfering with other countries' covid response or possibly corrupting medical records.

> why would the Chinese be interested in sabotage here?

Presumably, because it gives China a geopolitical edge in the international sphere. Think about how damaging it would be to not only be the country where the virus started, but also not having a valid vaccine. By slowing down Western vaccine efforts and boosting their own, they can regain the upper hand and make China look strong. "Strong China" keeps those leaders in power, and they'll do whatever they can to project the feeling that they're in control and "better" than the West. Also, China is posturing itself to be a counterpoint to the West, but they need to show themselves as somehow a viable candidate for that.

So a wide variety of reasons, but it's easy to see why they would do this.
Hey everyone, cool to see this being shared again. I'm Patrick, one of the mentors for this Incubator. Lots of chatter in this thread already, but just want to reiterate what we're offering / looking for in this Incubator:

We have 3 different offerings for this Summer. All incubator style, meaning you meet weekly or biweekly with mentors and we really try to help drive you from point A to point C.

1. $75k investment in a startup. MUST be serious about wanting to build something awesome and put in the hard work it takes to do so.

2. $16k funding in a much earlier stage project (idea stage / MVP stage). MUST be serious about commitment it takes to get to launch.

3. OPEN LABS: these are open to the entire community and you have access to the mentors. 10 min checkins each week & peer sessions. We've had TONS of amazing projects for our Open Labs in the Spring and we hope to see TONS more for the Summer.

In terms of MISSION and what we're looking for:

We started this new incubator out of Mozilla in order to work with & invest in developers, startups, and technology enthusiasts who are building things that will shape the internet and have a positive impact without needing to hyper focus on the bottom line. Projects, apps, & technologies that will be huge and a big part of the internet ecosystem while also being in line with Mozilla's mission of an open web & ethos of "Privacy over Profit".

Comment below if you have any questions about the programs and we'll be happy to answer them.
I guess it depends how you define alternative medicine. The bark of a willow tree, a traditional remedy, from which aspirin is derived is given as an example in the beat poem.
As part of the short list:

* Swarat: https://blog.sigplan.org/2020/04/15/synthesizing-neurosymbol... <- probably heaviest on the math side wrt PL people

* Ras Bodik (Berkeley -> UW): esp. w/ Pedro Domingos and all the MSR collaborators (Sumit Gulwani, ...) <- a bit biased b/c I was in the group while at Berkeley; Ras + Dawn are crazy creative

* Percy Liang (Stanford): Coming from the ML side and w/ a long-running interest here
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I think this is generally helpful to keep in mind.

I also think there’s an art to deescalation and discussing ideas or persuading someone you disagree with to see an alternative view (and then giving them space to change their mind).

Productive discussion isn’t possible with everyone or even one individual depending on where they are in their life, but I’ve generally found it works better than expected when you can remove your own identity and feelings from it.

It’s rarely in the spotlight though because it doesn’t get retweeted or shared as much as combative arguing that’s more a performance from each side (with likes and cheering on the sidelines).
There is this common pattern that industrialization is accompanied by urbanization and disruption of rural social networks. You've got young men moving to rapidly growing cities, and of course there's a market for the sex trade with that. You could see this in England and Germany. The Belgian Congo was orders of magnitudes worse. I think it's a tenable position.
It's possible that it's a good thing for certain parts of the world as a non-volatile alternative to the domestic currency. However, with all centralized things - it'll be good up until the moment that it's not.

Other commenters have mentioned the moral hazard that could occur if a region finds its economy priced on a corporate group's currency versus a country or country group's currency.

I guess now the discussion goes back to would you rather trust <insert name of depostic country with history of ignoring certain rights> or <insert names of multinational corporations with history of ignoring other types of rights>.

They should just be using a decentralized cryptocurrency like Bitcoin but there's myriad reasons why they wouldn't want to/be able to.
What is the problem with gen 7 ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carb... looks ok to me ?
>Seems likely that social media as an industry selects more strongly for unethical executives

More so than the fossil fuel industry? Big tobacco? Or the pharmaceutical industry? Wallstreet? Clothing/apparel manufacturers?
Newsgroups and message boards users of old probably aren't very representative of the populations using Facebook today.
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I come to grips with:

* The 'engagement' metric leads to toxic outcomes no mater what.

* The upper management / board is single mindedly obsessed with 'engagement', as a proxy for making money.

* I cannot function in an environment where my personal ethics is in direct conflict with the company focus.

Therefore I quit. YMMV.
The general algorithm for calculating integrals [1] is rather complex and I guess not suitable for humans so that calculating integrals sometimes looks much more like a black art then calculating derivatives does. On the other hand one could argue that there are algorithms for doing both and so there is no real difference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risch_algorithm
> Privately owned infrastructure has good reason to be cheap, that is, competition from of their privately owned businesses

I've been reading HN for years and people from the USA keep writing that this didn't happen there for fiber and other telecommunication service. Is it going to happen for EV chargers?
Sanitation guided by germ theory might never have been explicitly called "alternative medicine", pre-dating common use of the term, but when Miasma Theory was dominant germ theory was just that.

Does rely on accepting "cleaning things" as medicine. It's certainly a great way to prevent disease. Does it count as "alternative preventative medicine"?
Event Driven Growth
I think what an FB exec is trying to decide is more analogous to "should we use child labor to make our shirts?" or "should we incur higher costs to run a humane farm?"
"But we did. When mathematicians provided a rigorous definition of fractions (rational numbers) they separated them from the real world"

This seems totally absurd to me. The concepts of proportion, ratio, etc preexisted any kind of formal definition of fraction.

They may have invented a definition of fraction, with the correct notation, and the correct set of rules after a long series of trial and errors (as with a lot of mathematical "rigourous definition"), but they always had in mind that this concept they tried to define should "work" when manipulating ratios / proportions, etc.

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that purely mathematical concepts spawning out of pure mathematical world exploration is a very modern (aka 19th century max) concept.
Which makes it impossible to have an open, informed discussion on the subject.

Instead, you get tribalist arguments over who believes which secret police.
No. To me, all recommendation engines should be:

- User-configurable and interpretable: Enable tuning or re-ranking of results, ideally based on the ability to reweight model internals in a “fuzzy” way. As an example, see the last comment in my history about using convolutional filters on song spectrograms to distill hundreds of latent auditory features (e.g. Chinese, vocal triads, deep-housey). Imagine being able to directly recombine these features, generating a new set of recommendations dynamically. Almost all recommendation engines fail in this regard—the model feeds the user exactly what the model (designer) wants, no more and no less.

- Encourage serendipity: i.e. purposefully select and recommend items that the model “thinks” is outside the user’s wheelhouse (wheelhouse = whatever naturally emerging cluster(s) in the data that the user hangs out in, so pluck out examples from both nearby and distant clusters). This not only helps users break out of local minima, but is healthy for the data feedback loop.
Isn't it preferable to be somewhat paternalistic when you have paternal amounts of power over your userbase? Its not like giving up the power is on the table.

There is of course the well documented problem of moderation - it inevitably turns into an issue of a subset of the users vs the moderators. Facebook gets by pretending to be neutral "platform providers", but they actively optimize for their benefit. They are about as neutral as a bathtub salesperson on water heaters.

This whole idea that they don't have control only has the ability to stand based on the indifference of its users. I can only hope it eventually falls and the next grand experiment in mass social interaction is a lot more gentle for society.
I highly doubt you and I are socially or professionally connected and yet here we are.
Speaking of this, my mind is in a constant battle between "ISPs like Comcast do nothing to improve the infrastructure they monopolize" and "ISPs like Comcast are doing amazing things like converting an old cable line into a 200mbps downlink and handling 'quarantine-level' network usage with ease".

Somehow I think both are true, I'm just not sure how it's possible...
Elixir for the graalVM
Indian Government Open Sources Aarogya Setu – Its COVID19 Tracking App
The habitual use of any of the above will increase your chances of untimely death.
You don't have to live through something to be aware of it. I'm not a web developer, and in 2015 I think I might have started programming, but even I have figured out that HTML forms are a thing that exist.
We need to regulate this industry very badly
> you meant the more specific term

No, I meant what I said. The fact that iteration is a kind of composition is true, but it's a tangent from the point I was trying to make, which is that infix notation is a Really Bad Idea. No one in their right mind would use it if they were not indoctrinated into it.

> "the successor function is not a composition of anything" is definitely false

That's news to me. I genuinely thought that successor could legitimately be considered a primitive. What is successor a composition of?
897 / 343 Mbps, not too shabby but expected better.

In my region it seems only Azure manages to pump full gigabit up and down.
> title="The great thing is, the sentence is really just a reminder to the listener to worry about whatever aspects of the technology they're already feeling alarmist about, which in their mind gives you credit for addressing their biggest anxieties."
100%. Some of my biggest learning experiences were when I walked away when I thought I was completely, utterly correct only to find out a little later that I was actually completely wrong!

I say that in the past tense just because it makes in terms of what I'm trying to convey but it still routinely happens too, and will continue to happen.
I'd disagree. Gamedev may be closed-source, but most developers (ea being a notable exception, i think?) release white-papers, and do presentations concerning technical and workflow innovations they've achieved, and make them available to the wider industry without patent.

The papers tend to cover everything from general implementation, to details such as cache optimizations they discovered later on in development. If you reach out to the devs over twitter, they're often more than happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Not open by foss plug-and-play standards, certainly. But technologically, they're absolutely open.
Apple will open about 100 more stores in the U.S. this week
Agreed. Engineers have an ethical duty to the public. When working on software systems that touch on so many facets of people's lives, a thorough education in history, philosophy, and culture is necessary to make ethical engineering decisions. Or, failing that, the willingness to defer to those who do have that breadth of knowledge and expertise.

I'm reminded of this article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/progr...

"The term is probably a shortening of “software engineer,” but its use betrays a secret: “Engineer” is an aspirational title in software development. Traditional engineers are regulated, certified, and subject to apprenticeship and continuing education. Engineering claims an explicit responsibility to public safety and reliability, even if it doesn’t always deliver.

The title “engineer” is cheapened by the tech industry."

"Engineers bear a burden to the public, and their specific expertise as designers and builders of bridges or buildings—or software—emanates from that responsibility. Only after answering this calling does an engineer build anything, whether bridges or buildings or software."
1. Iranian nuclear capabilities are a "legitimate target". For whatever that is worth. We're not sabotaging medical records or taking down Tehran's power grid.

2. Textbook definition of surveillance is watching and collecting. "Active measures" are "spy stuff" but usually far outside of the scope of intelligence collection.

3. Fair point, no way to know. But from what has come out from PRISM/NSA leaks, it honestly looks that the US intel community is mostly postured for data collection.
Ahem https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2001_herrmann1
Yeah, nothing is a bigger turn-off for me on the home page for a language or framework than starting off with "Helps you build [some combination of] simple, maintainable, fast, scalable software". No kidding! You and every single other language out there.

This one isn't nearly as bad as that, but the point remains: tell me up-front why I should care.
There are more than a few books I have found this way...

The first part, or first book in the series, is published for free, then a reasonable (key being reasonable) price to buy the rest of the series or book

I like this model, especially for fiction works
This is the point I got to when I realized I should no longer have an account and I just went ahead and deleted it.

For about 6 months after, I thought I would reactivate and jump back in but it's been years now and I'm 100% sure it was a life improvement.
I think they weren't as toxic because content creators didn't realize divisive content drives much more engagement. It's not about moderation, it's a paradigm shift in the way content is created.
"Trust me, I have evidence for a theory that is politically convenient for my boss, but I won't tell you what it is" is not keeping people informed.

It's propaganda that pushes an agenda. That agenda may even be correct, but an outside observer who can't verify any of the evidence can't tell.
Another way of labeling this:

: = Out Of
A = Table A
B = Table B
E = Every Table Added (A + B)

1:3 * A + 1:3 * B = (1:3 + 1:3) * E
2 out of 6 among Every Table Added
Are you sure that "websites of today" use 16px or larger universally? HN appears to use 9pt Verdana, which I believe is equivalent to 12px on my Windows system if my math is correct.

Georgia is a terribly underrated font. I'm sure it's heavily hinted to look good at small sizes, but even at large sizes it has an elegance that is lacking in e.g. Times Roman.
> American ethical framework in which Facebook's actions can be viewed as unethical

I'm curious what you mean by this, because I'd expect the American values of independence and free expression to be counter to wanting Facebook to actively supress divisive discourse. (Yes, I know the first amendment only applies to the government; the point is the spirit of the "American ethical framework")
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This isn't necessarily bad all the time. But when content is used to form opinions on real world things that actually Matter, it definitely becomes a problem.

In other words, Steam, please filter games by my engagement in previous games I've played. News organizations, please don't filter news by my engagement in previous news.

Facebook's problem is it acts in two worlds: keeping up with your friends, and learning important information. If all you did was keep up with your friends' lives, filtering content by engagement is kind of meh.

Same with youtube. I mostly spend all my time on there watching technical talks and video game related stuff. It's pure entertainment. So filtering content is fine. But if I also used it to get my news, you start to run into problems.
WalkWithFriends
Wild to see so many people fail to realize that part of a "personal developer blog"'s job is CV support. From that perspective, it makes perfect sense to build it with the same technologies as the jobs you're looking to get.

But hey, I guess it's a lot more fun to talk about how somebody's hobbying wrong and they should've used Jekyll or Hugo or PHP or a shell script or a Python script or a Makefile or just hand-write everything and use framesets like it's still 1997 and the concept of user experience hasn't been invented yet. Carry on.
YouTube confirms it’s “accidentally” deleting comments that insult CCP
Maybe allows stream reading a database?