skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Human-level intelligence/performance" is a term that is often used in many ML tasks to indicate a top-level performance by a very performant human, to compare the performance to, performance at that specific task which is being discussed. Perhaps not world's best human (but sometimes, like in AlphaStar), but at least someone competent at the task (for example in https://github.com/syhw/wer_are_we). It is just a term to use, to gauge and compare how well a network operates.

You could of course find cases where this term makes other sense (or does not at all), since English is a flexible language, but I think that in areas where we obviously discuss AI/ML, let's just use the de-facto term and make everyone's lives easier.
Do you prefer "Ad Boycott of Facebook Kind of Growing"?
Or "Ad Boycott of Facebook Growing Slowly"?
Or "Ad Boycott of Facebook: The Details"

It is growing, the details are accurate in the article, and I can't think of a headline that has zero editorial information in it. If they don't run any story, then they risk the opposite criticism: why didn't you tell us?!

You should worry more about the media that philosophically rejects the notion of objective reality.
> All they say is, ‘Go get a subpoena,’ or, ‘File a UDRP.’ That’s not the answer that’s going to work for us.”

If you can't find an answer that is going to work for you, many would take that as a hint to stop it and not ask that question.
The screen is not really relevant in this case since the point is to get words onto the page. It is to avoid procrastinating enabling distractions in this author's case, but I have also heard of authors turning off their monitor while writing to avoid premature editing. Other authors find archaic software most effective, while some use modern applications that are designed to display as much or as little information as they need.

It seems as though writing is a highly individualized process.
Seems like it is easier for a smaller group of capable people to make a big change than a giant org of diverse talented people from different backgrounds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23628665
You don't think there's a severe mental burden associated with having to clock in and out, reprimands for being 6 minutes late, only being allowed to visit a doctor if it's on the health plan's list, few opportunities for advancement, work quotas, can't leave early to pick up a sick kid from school, etc etc?

Not to mention most warehouse workers don't make nearly enough to have the luxury of quitting.
> It was an economic basket case, however.

true

> That’s why so many Indians left during the socialistic policies of Indira Gandhi.

don't know, i think more people leave India now than ever, but that is not necessarily a bad thing (in net).

> It was due to socialism that India regressed and fell behind China.

Questionable, even at the height of cultural revolution in China, India was growing slower than China. Perhaps India had more societal issues that it needs to solve, perhaps China has inherent advantages, in either case, this sort of question is for the historians to discuss.

> Had India adopted state capitalism earlier, as it has now, it would have grown at a much faster rate.

true
And now PIX will never be implemented.
Misuse. Tunneling data and commands over DNS to bypass firewalls

What was used to resolve IPs from domains by research institutions is now used for hookups, trolling, zoom meetings and social media influencers selling herbal supplements.
It’s a spark, of the sort that didn’t exist a while ago.

Could turn into a real fire.

I hope it’s not an overstated headline, and I’m willing to wait, and help if I can, make it a firestorm.
It is a significant drawback!
It is literally not the only option to the situation you described.

Spying is the only solution for spying, yes.
Spying is the only solution to over-eager people wanting mostly useless metrics.

It's not much different than me checking my Twitter "likes" constantly.
This is so incredibly common, it's embarrassing. I was on an expert panel about "AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare and Life Sciences" back in January, and I made it a point throughout my discussions to keep emphasizing the amount of bias inherent in our current systems, which ends up getting amplified and codified in machine learning systems. Worse yet, it ends up justifying the bias based on the false pretense that the systems built are objective and the data doesn't lie.

Afterward, a couple people asked me to put together a list of the examples I cited in my talk. I'll be adding this to my list of examples:

* A hospital AI algorithm discriminating against black people when providing additional healthcare outreach by amplifying racism already in the system. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6

* Misdiagnosing people of African decent with genomic variants misclassified as pathogenic due to most of our reference data coming from European/white males. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1507092

* The dangers of ML in diagnosing Melanoma exacerbating healthcare disparities for darker skinned people. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abs...

And some other relevant, but not healthcare examples as well:

* When Google's hate speech detecting AI inadvertantly censored anyone who used vernacular referred to in this article as being "African American English". https://fortune.com/2019/08/16/google-jigsaw-perspective-rac...

* When Amazon's AI recruiting tool inadvertantly filtered out resumes from women. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...

* When AI criminal risk prediction software used by judges in deciding the severity of punishment for those convicted predicts a higher chance of future offence for a young, black first time offender than for an older white repeat felon. https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

And here's some good news though:

* A hospital used AI to enable care and cut costs (though the reporting seems to over simplify and gloss over enough to make the actual analysis of the results a little suspect). https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/flagler-hospital-uses-...
I don't know the best way to put this, but for me the anectodal evidence i've seen, consisting mainly of tech articles and Elon Musk tweets, seems to point in this direction. Albeit facebook's data might probably show that their ad use is growing despite these setbacks.

In my opinion this all stems what I think is a lack of "emotional intelligence" on the part of facebook's CEO. They clearly don't have the ability to judge correctly how people will feel about many of their decisions, nor do they seem to have any remorse from damages they cause ( i.e. how facebook was used during the genocide in Burma)

They have a superb ability to predict changes at scale on the technical side and I think their role in the company should be restricted to this.
Honestly I'd rather have one big unified collection if I was going to review.
similar devices https://www.are.na/laurel-schwulst/free-writing-devices
Lately, Elixir has dethroned Python as the language that I get the most joy from using. Pattern matching in one of the big reasons. Great to see that Python core contributors (including Guido!) wants to see this feature in Python as well! Hopefully it will be well integrated and not feel like a tacked on feature.

If you're curious about why this is so useful, and reading the (quite dry) PEP isn't your thing, I would heartily recommend playing with Elixir for a few hours. Pattern matching is a core feature of the language, you won't be able to avoid using it. The language is more Ruby-like than Python-like, but Python programmers should still have an easy time grokking it. When I was getting started I used Exercism [1] to have some simple tasks to solve.

[1] https://exercism.io/tracks/elixir
> the civil right you claim you wish to discuss.

Since you've accused me of bad faith, I'll invite you now to go fuck yourself.

You're a fool if you think context doesn't matter. I asked the questions I did to invite that person to consider and clarify his position, which I didn't entirely disagree with. Context is how a conversation accumulates non-trivial meaning, and a lack of respect for it generates the sort of valueless crap I'm replying to right now.

This conversation, by the way—the one between you and me—is now over.
Owning the software they build doesn't seem to scale.
No one said it was easy. I was hoping this clickbaity post had something novel to say about talking to your users, but it doesn't.
Is this what replaced ACH in the EU? It baffles me that it still takes 2-3 business days to perform transfers in the US over ACH.
> But it is also a good paradigm to model pretty much any real, outside thing

If we get to the crux of the matter, what you like there is the tree structure (which definitely is the end result you want) the problem is if you store your data in a tree structure (whether by OO, file system or json document) you cannot easily express that same information but in a different tree layout

Trees couple relationships and things together in such a way that they are hard to tease apart. If you think about your brain what it does is stores the sum of your knowledge in a graph, then at runtime your brain can construct any number of trees from that graph easily

You can think of yourself as being a member of the tree of life and a member of your workplace hierarchy very easily, your data store should be graph like and your query language should be able to pull trees out of at will, checkout Clojure's Fulcro or any EAVT database if you want to see how that works in practise
To complete the title: "Tuvalu Makes $4M/yr from the .tv Domain".

From a December 2019 Washington Post article[1], there are ~500,000 registered .tv domains. The math on that works out to license fees of ~$8/domain ($4M/500k).

Considering .com is around $10/yr and .tv is around $30/yr[2], I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes ($30 - $8 - $10).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/12/23/tuvalu...

[2] Namecheap
Unless there's some other context that I'm missing, the current boycott appears to be caused by Facebook's unwillingness to delete a (non-sponsored) Facebook post by a world leader.

If they were to do this, they would 100% be restricting the free speech of the leader in question, as well as that of the audience to read that speech. Facebook empowers its users to block / mute speech that individual doesn't want to read. It does not, however, empower you to prevent me from reading something that I, personally, have no issues reading.

This seems consistent with the principles of free speech, non-chronological feed notwithstanding.
I find it interesting how much of that article talks about features, but is about fashion and brand identification.
Can you explain why you think FB's products are good for the world? Do you think Donald Trump would be President without FB?

Edit: Apparently someone downvoted this comment within 60 seconds...this seems contrary to HN's ethos. I asked a general question with a specific example; is someone triggered by the words "Donald Trump"? This is pushing a legitimate question about FB's effect on the world down into the gray...is that a good thing?
I like to compare HTTP / REST / HATEOAS with DCOM, conceptually.

DCOM was deeply misguided as a model for distributed programming. When you look at an actually functioning system, you realize that network transparency at the programming level is possibly the worst thing you can do. Can you imagine how web pages would work under a DCOM model?
Microsoft has a new clear mission: The Cloud.

That's a clear mission?
I am not a doctor but both my kids are T1D so I am quite familiar with it.

This part stood out to me;

> In most people with type 1 diabetes, the body’s immune cells start destroying β-cells — which are responsible for producing the hormone insulin — in the pancreas, often suddenly. In Gnadt’s case, Hollstein suspected that the virus had destroyed his β-cells, because his blood didn’t contain the types of immune cells that typically damage the pancreatic islets where the β-cells live.

If the virus damages the islets it could suppress insulin production, but without an autoimmune response there’s reason to be hopeful that the damage is only temporary and that the pancreas can recover.

TFA says that whether the virus directly attacks cells or induces an immune response, and whether the damage is permanent or not, are both areas under active investigation.
For that price a NOS Brother Geobook would be competitive.
Exactly. The right demanded those "parental advisory: explicit lyrics" be imposed, and then complain when people voluntarily put "trigger warnings" on their material.

(the originator of the campaign was actually Tipper Gore, wife of Al; reminder that the US Democrats mostly operate as a center-right party roughly corresponding to Merkel's Christian Democrats)
It depends on how TCP like you end up being. In TCP, all outgoing data is stored for retransmit if not acked; in this application, a server wouldn't need its responses acked or stored (if the client doesn't get the response, it will resend the request), and push messages could be regenerated if not acked, rather than stored and retransmitted as-is.

That reduction in required storage could be significant. User space connection tracking might also use less memory than kernel connection tracking, depending on how many non-essential things each implementation tracks. Colocation of the connection tracking data and the application level data might be beneficial as well.

I didn't read the prior RFCs to see what kind of hoops they jumped to make the connections long lived though, my guess is TCP session timeouts for NAT boxes are longer than UDP, and there are more networks that disallow UDP than TCP, so TCP is probably a good idea from that standpoint.
Has anyone ever questioned this talk to your users dogma? They aren't even your users until they are using something of yours.
Lufthansa: The Billionaire and the Bailout Drama
I want to say no. It does sound close, but at least with what you've cited it gives the appearance of choice.
Outline link: https://outline.com/PzjuRt
Value Investing in Life Sciences
So You're Out of Energy Again
I see what you did here.
> think people who are rejecting it should dig deep into their assumptions and reasoning to examine why they are really opposed to technology like this.

Because a false positive ruins lives? Is that not sufficient? This man’s arrest record is public and won’t disappear. Many employers won’t hire if you have an arrest record (regardless of conviction). His reputation is also permanently smeared. These records are permanently public and in fact some counties publish weekly arrest records on their websites and in newspapers (not that newspapers matter much anymore)

Someday this technology may be better and work more reliably. We’re not there yet. Right now it’s like the early days of voice recognition from the ‘90s.
I had a support call yesterday where the computer was highlighting things and deleting them while the user was going back to change things in a document. I was initially suspecting either a faulty shift key or a double-click setting causing things to be highlighted. When I looked at the user's screen I recognized the block cursor and told him to press Insert.

I haven't seen that or heard of it happening for probably 10-odd years now. Didn't realize it still worked in Windows 10!
Google has a clear mission and it's advertising, duh
The link goes to 404
As clear a way to put it as I've heard.

But all companies seek to become monopolies for purposes of profit, while avoiding being seen as monopolies for purposes of responsibility.
Where do you get 2 suns from?
Google is only good at search. The only reason why I use everything else they create is because of their massive distribution, market penetration and inter-operability.

Thankfully there are solid alternatives in certain areas like fore example using iPhone instead of Android.

But for everything else I don't see a massive migration happening any time soon. Notion, Hey.com, DuckDuckGo are all niche products. My dad has Gmail and I can assure that's going to be the case for ever. He is never going to find out what Hey.com is. Even if he does he is not even going to consider it.

Google didn't blew a ten-year lead on anything.
I saw a more snarky comment on this topic which still makes me smirk: "Hopefully one day they will see the little skull icons on their hats and ask the question 'are we the baddies?'"
As a methodology, push is always better than polling.

Change my mind.
I'm hoping to put a side project into production soon, crystal the language is basically perfect, biggest issue is that I often have to write my own shards, but every shard I write is a shard someone else won't have to write and sometimes npm/gems can easily be converted. The performance and type system working in ecr templates gave me confidence that I could write a higher quality lowjs webapp with a better dev experience than my default stack, which was going to be an uphill battle getting typescript Frankenstein'd into vuejs with a backend in laravel or Frankensteining typescript into a nodejs library (I didnt find any typescript-first nodejs http webservers that I actually liked _and_ also didn't require infinite yakshaving just to get tsconfig, tests, vuejs SSR, etc. working).
So let’s go with Mary Kay and Tupperware....
> The real sad part is for things like this, because the documentation is so lacking/missing, is that you may run into issues where not even Stack Overflow can help you.

This is how we used to write code, back in the day. If you had a particularly hard time and experimentation wasn't working well, you traced through the disassembly in the debugger.
It's amazing to me that British seem to get the full PR whack of that attrocity when it was all under the auspices of the US who paid the Brits to kick them out.

Kind of like how we all collectively forget that the Allies dropped the bomb on Japan and not just the "Americans".
Mati, an Identity Verification Service, Raises New Funding from Spero Ventures
That's very misleading...
Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic
Right, used to be that H-1B employees would eventually become permanent residents and start businesses. Myself included. Though it's getting harder. It took me 12 years. There are people in H-1B now who have no realistic chance of becoming permanent resident in the life time.
Right, but you need to be sponsored by your employer to get the visa in the first place. Not saying it can't be done, just unclear on how.
I propose the millibellard as a convenient unit.
For all the people who keep fawning of how Microsoft is now such a wonderful friend of open source, how this is not the Microsoft of 10 years ago, blah blah blah, THIS is why the old timers don’t trust them. THIS kind of behavior is what we expect from Microsoft, and is exactly why we have long memories and distrust of them, including all their new seemingly open initiatives.
Marti: A washing machine that grows with you
Thank you for making this. It’s important to highlight the visibility of what immigrants have contributed to America. One of the reasons why the United States continues to be the powerhouse it is today is because of its continued influx of highly talented and educated people coming into the country. To block off this pipeline would be a mistake.
> Isn’t it amazing that a country that’s merely a speck in ocean ... controls something so crucial to the internet world?!

I spit my tea out bahaha

But on a more "substantive" note, I think I did a case study 12 years ago about what an invasion of Tuvalu could look like - by private persons, and we mapped out their satellite and internet infrastructure for how to disable that. I had only ever heard of the country because of this TLD and looking it up.
I don't know if they have something specifically like what you want, but VTech has a whole range of educational toys with keyboards and assorted phonics and spelling tutorials.

If you do a search for "vtech abc" and variations you'll find a huge number of different types of devices.
I talked with my beloved outlining what you've described. Nearly all stage four chemo-therapy is palliative. It is a tradeoff between symptoms of the disease and side-effects of the chemo chemicals. The advice was to try chemo and see how it goes, if the side-effects are too much then stop. There's no reason to complete a palliative treatment that's not palliative. The goal of the treatment is to reduce the tumor burden on the patient.

My advice from years of living with someone who helps people going through what you and those around you are going through:

1. Bring in hospice as soon as the patient qualifies. Helping people through the dying process is what they do everyday. There's counseling for the patient, the care-givers, and other family members. Before during and after. There are also chaplin services. And of course nursing.

2. Right now all the healthcare protocols are new and conservative due to Covid-19. Hospice will have the best grasp on what institutionalization of the patient will entail, how to navigate the new reality should institutionalization happen, and how best to avoid it under the current circumstances.

3. There is unlikely to be a sudden shift in family dynamics in terms of relationships. If people have always been close, that's probably the way it will stay. If people have always been unhappy with each other, plans should presume that that's the way it will stay...this probably won't suddenly fix tense relationships.

There is an analytic view, but it is difficult to accept and feels rude to articulate. Yet, we all know that life only lasts not long enough. And making the most of the not long enough is entirely rational.

Again, I sorry you are going through this and hope it all goes as peacefully as it can.
At the current rates, it seems like it's only going to be another 5 years or so before Python is straight-up a more complicated language than Perl 5. What it lacks in frankly bizarre corner cases it's going to make up for in subtly bizarre corner cases.

I used to feel like I could define __getattr__ or __setattr__ and understand the implications, but that's getting increasingly terrifying.