skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the identity fraud and supposing the information obtained were public, this thread seems to have a lot of people who believe that applying information arbitrage to insurance is in and of itself inherently wrong, and that's not a stance I think I can agree with.

As a litmus test, when the roles are reversed and the insurance company overprices a policy we seem fine with that as a society because even though any individual can have a hugely disproportionate premium the company as a whole has bounded profits (both legally and due to competitive forces). We might even try to argue that an individual can't possibly know their own risk better than a team of actuaries and that they should accept that the premiums are actually correct.

If an insurance company is allowed to knowingly profit 2x, 3x, or more on an individual's premiums based on their best models, why is an individual disallowed from doing the same if only using public information?

If so, where do we draw the line? Is it at a break-even point? What if the insurance company were trying to target an individual for 15% profits; is that person allowed to engage in the contract if they think the company will only earn 3% on average since that would also demonstrate a model better than the company's?

I can definitely see arguments against an individual having any _causal_ effect on the policy (e.g., like burning down a house), but I'm struggling to see why this kind of information arbitrage is inherently wrong.
Covid-19 pandemic is 'fire drill' for effects of climate crisis, says UN
I exactly get your point. I don't know why either, but I'm assuming there's a reason.
Still works fine for me in Chrome 83.
There are only so many politically "inelastic" companies and organizations. Customers or employees are bound to have a political opinion that rubs against the company's line(s) of work. The only exceptions are large utilities (e.g. protesting the use of water and electricity in response to climate change) and small retail businesses (which often proudly display their politics and attract like-minded customers).

BLM platform explicitly calls for an "end to all jails, detention centers, youth facilities and prisons as we know them." So maybe GitHub CEO should have not said anything, but he did and its fair for the public (including GitHub employees) to drive accountability to the BLM platform.

And this says nothing of corporate political spending. From the perspective of a dissenting employee, what is the difference between having co-workers who demand an end to ICE contracts (in response to leadership public supporting BLM platform), and collecting salary from a company that donates to politicians who want to abolish ICE?
Putin is financing both sides to extend Russian influence over the territory

He's not actively involved in the war, he's sitting on it
> there is a lot of good research about how housing segregation is one of the largest continuing drivers in systemic racism in the US

Could you link some of it? I'm alien to this particular issue.
It appears to be a typo for "files".
China plans pan-Asian digital currency to rival Facebook’s Libra
I wonder how much this will enable another wave of "Adobo Flash Player Browser Toolbar"-like adware since the official source will be removed.
HTML Based Phishing Run
The contract was brought to an end - but did the company prove they were an unreliable partner or did the government? These calls to end government association aren't coming from no where - these government acts don't have majority support and it's gotten to the point where individuals are feeling the need to take on personal risk to ensure that the government is actually aligned with the citizenry.
I disliked the Obama administration’s stance on several policy issues, including immigration and his fondness for using drones, executive orders, and the secret powers of the state.

All of which and much more are significantly worse under the vile, toxic, xenophobic current administration.

But nice try at attempting to derail the conversation with some good old-fashioned whataboutism! Better luck next time!
how is it a bargaining chip if no one ever quits no matter what. I would say 99.99% these people won't quit their jobs even if github decides to start working directly with ISIS.
You've got this backwards. What is happening here is the real political process - people congregating and trying to achieve their political goals through organizations they can actually influence. Organizing to convince your employer, or your local government, or your school board or whatever organization you can to push things in some direction is the political process. Sure, voting is one aspect of it, but it is by no means the be-all, end-all of politics and democracy.
I have a Performa 6115/CD sitting under a desk- I should fire it up and see if it still works. Was my main machine for a long while.
After 2004, where Germany didn’t get through the group stage in the European championships, they realized they had become complacent, and started a project to focus on footballing technique throughout all their teams.

That turned their national side from a strong team into a strong team where all players have good technical skills.

2014 is where this led to the first great success (https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/confederations...), but they only could play like that because of that decade long process.
I was playing with tf.js last year and there were some core components still being converted to WASM, which gave me some big performance boosts once I switched. I had some problems with WebGL-related bugs too. It seems that they're currently in the process of writing WebGPU-based back-ends. I'm hoping that when WebGPU is on-by-default in most browsers, and there's been a year or two to sort out all the major teething problems, we'll see some wide-spread uptake.

Internet speeds are still increasing exponentially, so hopefully the model size problems will become less of an issue - perhaps aided by some CDN-served (and thus cached across domains) "base" models that are fine-tuned with some parameters downloaded from the server. I think I could start playing with it seriously if I could get the model sizes under 30mb or so. In a few years (with increasing internet speeds) that might be 50mb. I think huggingface's distilled GPT-2 model is a couple of hundred megabytes, for reference, so we're certainly not going to be doing anything revolutionary in the browser, but I have a bunch of neat little ideas that I think would be useful.

For bringing the "big" stuff to the web we're probably stuck with APIs, like OpenAI's new GPT-3 offering. I think access to SOTA models on hard problems is going to be almost exclusively via APIs for the foreseeable future.
I think both worlds can exist. You can have the "traditional" VCs going for the high-risk, high-reward model. And you can also have "new" VCs going for low-risk, medium-reward.

As an anecdote, in 2014 we looked for ~$250k investment. We had a business model that realistically took us to ~$5mm/year revenue in 5 years. We pitched various "traditional" VCs. The overwhelming feedback we got was that nobody doubted our team, the product, or the model. The problem was that the returns weren't big enough. The product was niche and could never become an "Uber" without really stretching the imagination. In the end, we found an angel investor in our space. We indeed did turn that $250k into $5mm/year revenue in 5 years and sold the company for 8 digits.
It's the same BS that got us out of control qualified immunity, just because a court hadn't already found that the precise way a cop/government official violated your rights was a violation of your rights they couldn't be charged for it. [0] More conservative justices love originalism because it lets them just throw back to the decisions of a more backwards time and say, 'well we have to respect their direct explicit intent' [1] it's a convenient way to not move forward.

[0] Never mind that it also expects the existing case to be /exactly/ the same situation.

[1] Often just what anyone appealing to originalism wants them to have intended.
Agreed, I think this is the craziest investing story in my lifetime. Trying to find the HN link from last week about an article that said this was the 3rd type of bubble: type 1 is you expect the future to continue on with more of the present indefinitely, type 2 is you expect the future to be substantially different from the present, and this type 3 is the future just doesn't matter.

While the world is in a betting mood, I'm just going to bet my 2 cents on "I don't think this will end well."
Because ICE as an organization isn't purely bad, nor is it purely good. As it is made up of people, there are good and bad. ICE also fights sex trafficking, which to me is akin to modern day slavery. I want ICE to have every tool at their disposal to fight sex trafficking.

If we stop ICE from using these tools, are you saying that sex trafficking victims are less worthy of help than detained immigrants? How do you draw that line?
Direct link to the live editor:
https://github.com/mermaidjs/mermaid-live-editor

Another diagram-from-text tool:
https://www.diagram.codes/
So you don't agree with employees disagreeing with their company hosting code or developing tools for the Chinese government to run their concentration camps? Like the parent says, being non-political IS being political. You cannot separate it.

What is so bad about employees at a company having a say in what type of work the company does?
ICE, America, and the Shadow Democracy
IBM helped hitler. Hitler wasn't breaking any German laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_...
Watch Germany vs. France and say that. The Germans stalled and fouled the whole game and scored off a set piece. In the final versus Argentina too, the game was scoreless until extra time. They also needed extra time versus Algeria. Their only real display of attacking was versus Brazil who self-destructed after having their best player (and top 3 player in the world) horrifically injured.
You seem pretty well read on SCOTUS.

A while back I listened to a podcast called 'First Mondays', that was very insightful. It not longer airs.

What resources do you use to follow SCOTUS? other than reading the decisions.
>I am strongly against a private business being able to refuse service to a person/organization on political grounds, even when the "victim" may seem to be performing evil actions, as long as it is not breaking any laws

If a government was committing acts of genocide, do you believe private enterprise should be compelled to be complicit in these acts?
I think a better way to look at it is that workers should be able to protest working on a machine they find morally wrong. The world might be a better place if people directing resources were required to stop and think "Are the workers going to willingly do this?" before making decisions.
Is anyone buying puts?
America’s Democratic Unraveling
> The filing clearly states investors will lose their money.

So if I want to sell stock with a registration statement which says, "this is a Ponzi scheme and investors who buy in too late will lose all their money," that should be permissible?
I am a Hertz Gold member, which is a free program like flight miles. However, being a gold member, you can skip the counter and pick up your car (sometimes you have to go to the 'gold counter' if your flight is delayed, etc). It's always a quick and painless experience. Definitely saves a ton of time if you travel frequently. I'll often pay a little bit more because I like their service (crazy, right?)

I'm really disappointed in Hertz going bankrupt. Hopefully their operation can continue, I really enjoyed using them.
This omits the important fact that ICE arrests steeply decreased year–over–year for seven out of Obama’s eight years in office, while arrests have increased year–over–year for two of Trump’s three years [0]. That doesn’t exonerate Obama, but it does say something about the administration that a new president inherits.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/02/how-border-...
Even more so since gh is part of Microsoft, a publicly traded company.
Roy Bahat and Eric Ries on Tech's Response to Covid
Former eBay employees harassed couple who wrote critical newsletter articles
I really like Mermaid, and use it quite a bit (people forget how long they spend dragging boxes, arrows, aligning in Visio/DrawIo), but for some diagram types, you have no control over layout, there isn't even hinting (yet - it continues to improve).

Sequence diagrams are great. I imagine Gantt charts are fine. Flowcharts will sometimes be rendered unintelligibly.. adding/removing a link or new element will completely rearrange the layout. If you have any implied order of your flow (as simple examples on the website imply) this maybe rearranged as your flow gets more complicated. If you want flowcharts over swim lanes (either distinct or implied - think of data-processing ingress on an app), or the start point first and the end point last - this isn't a great tool. There is support for subgraphs, but you have no control over their location either.. so if you want a web-firewall-loadbalancer-app-db type flowchart, it may be rendered in a circle.
I think this ultimately comes down to where individuals see effective levers for expressing political opinions at a policy level.

There is very little trust across the entire political spectrum that the US government is an effective policy maker and enforcer. It often feels like our representatives at the state and federal levels no longer represent individuals, and so we've turned to corporations and US government suppliers looking for leverage to force change instead.
Are you thinking about the consequences of your breathing? Because every breath grants you the oxygen that your body needs to metabolize the food you eat into useful energy for you to fight the power. So even breathing is political!

Again, it's a meaningless statement. We deliberately draw the line somewhere, partly to avoid incessant infighting over pedantic "political" but not actually political things.

Do you want to know how to turn an entire generation of people against your cause? Impose your politics onto them at work and facilitate a culture of suppression and targeting for anyone critical. This is happening all across society right now and the pendndulum is already starting to swing back and when ivory tower CEOs impose their views onto people who just want to do their jobs, the swing only builds momentum
I think that is a valid point. While I have not asked people about this myself, the article on All The Tropes wiki about "Political Correctness Gone Mad" has examples of people trying to change things to avoid offending people, resulting in the people they are trying to avoid offending complaining about it.
Does hurricane season mean your family is camping out in the basement?
And HDMI 2.x, HDMI 2.x, power levels, & color settings.

Still, it looks like a fun project. I ended up watching the entire video.
> Yes, but also companies exist literally only to make money.

False.
I try to do my best to assume good faith, but sometimes comments like this make it really hard.

In any case, here's two links. One's from Drexel University, the other is a meta-composition of resources by an organization connected to the Kennedy School at Harvard. Educate yourself.

[1] https://drexel.edu/now/archive/2016/December/Black-Men-3-tim...

[2] https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-...
Prescreeners are a terrible idea.

I’ve been bitten by prescreening email resulting in missing tons of email because they were being funneled elsewhere.

Most of the features are borderline useless and will result in an inadequate email experience.

Good luck to Hey, I’m sure they can funnel their Basecamp users to adopt it though.
This is an inversion of the surveillance society? Suppose I walk in the city from Grand Central to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, I must be captured many times by that system: "just anybody" could match the images at different places and times and put together something about as good as a GPS track.

It used to be that the police and the extended security system would have this technology, but now it is free.
> She used multiple identities in attempt to keep police off of her trail.

If you do well enough at a Casino, they can ask you to leave, and ban you from the premises, even if you're not doing anything illegal.
Hyper Reality – Concept Film [2016]
Well, libertarians are not running things. So the government will not be leaving you alone of its own accord.
Sadly very true.
No, you're not making a false claim (the flights did get delayed) nor did you cause the claim in the first place (you didn't cause the delay to the flight).

I fail to see how this is in any way fraudulent.
> The court here isn’t necessarily creating legislation but rather are making the judgment/interpretation that “sex” does include sexual orientation.

No, the majority opinion is not doing that. It is not arguing that "sex" includes "sexual orientation". It is arguing that, in order to discriminate based on sexual orientation (or transgender), you have to also discriminate based on sex.

The dissents disagree with that argument. But both sides agree that "sex" does not include "sexual orientation"; they are distinct concepts.
With ML the textures can be upscaled too. Though, no one has attempted to do this as an emulator plugin yet as far as I know.

Image superscaling is a well known problem with real world solutions so, it's only a matter of time and interest.

ML will draw in details that never existed to begin with. It's quite amazing, but most versions of image superscaling that exists today is trained on drawn art, like from Deviant Art, so the ML makes the images look subtly pastel. It's great if you want a 4k desktop background.

Heck, I could make one if I cared enough. A friend of mine makes a popular emulator. Maybe she'd appreciate the functionality.
For many reasons, transistor density is not a terribly useful metric: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/mtr-mm%C2%B2

Not least because a transistors are not nice neat npn regions. They have multiple gates, all different gate sizes, all number of inputs, outputs and regions.

Intel manages to cram 20 million SRAM cells per mm^2 with 14nm; each cell has 6 transistors. That's three times higher than their reported density of 45 million per mm^2. More to the point, the transistor density really isn't that important. For one thing there are three regions and four terminals in every transistor, so it doesn't make much sense to collapse all that to a single atom.

It also doesn't make much sense because that wouldn't offer much benefit: those regions and the space between transistors are pretty minor issues compared to the increased switching efficiency from shrinking the gate, which is the truly important part and the limiting feature. Electricity moves at a significant fraction of c, which moves 30 millimeters every clock @10 GHz. Enough to completely cross a CPU multiple times, which it should never need to do.
The line item veto at the federal level only existed from 1996 to 1998 and was limited to certain budgetary items.
I find this girl's analysis of Fibonacci series and the Golden Ratio concepts and seeing how it applies to plants to be fascinating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0

I wish she would edit the video and slow it down a bit (don't like that rapid fire style of tutorial that so many people YouTubers adopt lately) but the presentation is amazing.
I'm guessing that having to use more power is a bad proxy for perceived difficulty of engineer work.
ICE is not a person. ICE does not have a "race, political orientation, gender, origin or religion." It is a social construct and a very recent one at that.

Denying service to ICE the organization isn't even remotely comparable to denying service to actual human beings.
On the other hand, someone is trying to harness neutrinos for power:

https://www.power-technology.com/features/neutrino-energy-ha...

One of my far-future-tech fantasies is that we someday learn to make photovoltaics that are powered by cosmic rays and/or neutrinos.
Blocking tracking pixels/external images is standard in outlook and many other email clients/providers.
Why don't current traditional VC funding vehicles scale down? Like if you took hypothetical paperwork that says the VC invests $10mm, at a $50mm valuation for Series-A, and just swapped in the numbers $10k and $50k?

I'm assuming the overhead of vetting a deal is a mountain of toil for the VC firm, and there are going to be some fixed costs - eg filing fees for S or C-Corp paperwork, lawyer time. But outside of that, I'm not familiar enough with what a VC does to understand why current vehicles can't scale like , and why a different type of funding vehicle is necessary for $10k investments to become the norm instead of $1mm or $10mm?

Could a tech company automate the shit out of all the toil involved with VC deals and do VC-funding-as-a-service? Stripe Atlas already makes it trivial to spin up a company so further automation doesn't seem unrealistic.
That's the inverse, not the converse, and if we're talking about propositional logic it is not implied by the original statement.
Community forms from unplanned interaction. If you need to put every group event on your calendar, you wont ever really reach the level of "community" that I'm describing. What's really needed is a "space" moreso than a "group".
It depends on where you start. Exercise and training follow a very basic dose/response relationship where the higher you start, the more you need to progress. If you are a couch potato, 7 minutes a day will give you a lot of progress... until it doesn't. For example my starting point would be training four times a week and squatting 500lbs, so it probably wouldn't do much for me.

I wouldn't replace my current exercise routine with it because it wouldn't be enough to even match the 2018 physical activity guidelines for Americans [1]:

* 150 to 300 minutes per week of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity, OR;

* 75 to 150 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, AND;

* Resistance training of moderate or greater intensity involving all major muscle groups on 2 or more days per week.

[1]: https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/Physical_Acti...
Well let’s see. In 25 years I’m quite positive that I have never been discriminated against when it came to hiring working in technology. That’s from working at some of the smallest companies to some of the largest. I can’t say the same when it comes to being stopped by police when I “looked suspicious”.

Given a choice between trusting Big Tech and Big Government. I trust Big Tech a lot more.

Non anecdotally, who were the first to recognize the rights of LGBTQ? The government or Big Tech?
I don't buy into the theory that "things haven't changed" and thus discounting visibility.

Protests happened in the past too? Do we discount that?

It's all cynicism and divisiveness these days about how someone isn't doing enough, even among folks who share values ... in favor of I don't know what standard ...
Analyzing Messi and Ronaldo's Games Using Python and Streamlit
Again, we have data on that. Police do not have to deal with violent or dangerous criminals very much, especially during traffic stops.
Thanks feiss and everyone here for the kind words, they keep me motivated to create more content...
I remember this being a theme during the 2001 recession. I can't find the link right now, but I remember more than a few articles about this trend back then. I was able to find VC capital investment. [1]

Clearly there was more silly money being throw around in the late 90s and into 2000, but by 2002 the mantra in was "ROI, ROI, ROI!"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#/media/File:US_...
U.S. to allow companies to work with Huawei on 5G standards – sources
Shareholders don't want to make money? That's not their primary goal?