skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some case studies from a government review of the program here [0] if you are interested.

Your skepticism is warranted, especially since the government doesn't make programs like this as accessible as they should to people who aren't in the know/not already mired in government funding through DOD, NSF, etc. The list of massive companies that have taken this funding at an early stage is quite impressive though: Genentech, Illumina, Qualcomm, Biogen, and Symantec for example.

[0] https://www.nap.edu/read/11963/chapter/13#282
More that caving blindly to mob behavior is untenable.

We don't handle crime by letting people shout "hang him" and following through.
Are you saying that extraterrestrial intelligence is not “a strange phenomena perfectly explainable by physics”?
Need both, in USA - the at home toolbox in SI countries don't have this problem as they rarely bump into the odd-duck US measurements. The US system require to buy more tools - so I can work on most stuff (SI) and the some stuff (USA).

Buying two things to do one job - as is tradition.
I'd echo one of their recommendations: Robert Mile's YouTube channel focussing on AI safety. He presents the material in a very interesting and accessible way. For example, this video on whether or not corporations can be considered a form of superintelligence: https://youtu.be/L5pUA3LsEaw
She's active on twitter here: https://twitter.com/sophaskins
It seems to me that we're in the middle of a witch hunt. The actual existence of witches (racists) is not necessary. Keeping the hunt on and amping it up is what's most important. If we can't find any real witches, we'll just have to make some up and assume the worst about them.

I wonder how the last witch hunt ended, and if that might be applicable here.

I also fully expect to see comments demanding that the article author, Yascha Mounk, be fired for daring to imply that something else might be of comparable importance to the witch hunt.
Exactly. Kiva doesn't give out the loans itself, but uses partner organisations. And IIRC they have cut ties with several of these due to various scandals, though a quick search hasn't yielded any reputable source. Maybe that means that the due diligence process (ultimately) works...
Is this really typical? Or are we more aware of these “edge case” stories nowadays given social media?

Just seems we’re in the perfect storm for cherry picking outrage these days. But it’s hard to know if there’s a new or statistically novel pattern occurring.
I'm going to guess this guy doesn't have any dogs :-D
Yes. Carbon tax, plastic tax. Basically we're still in the full denial phase. We need more energy, and we need clean energy. (Because ultimately every problem with plastics and pollution is solvable via spending more energy.) And some serious transformation.

* Tyres? Make them out of biodegradable organic materials. Maybe they'll need to be replaced every year, and they'll cost more, that's why the pollution tax has to make the safe/sane/eco/green version competitive. (Also more investment in infrastructure, mass transit, denser cities, more walking, etc.) Urbanization is already ongoing, but somehow instead of building efficient dense cities many countries on Earth are just building sprawling slums and/or suburbs. (Plus we need carbon-efficient concrete and a more carbon-efficient construction industry as a whole.)

* Synthetic fibers. Cotton. Sure, but you'll need non-polluting cotton farms, so closed loop energy intensive [indoor/vertical] farms.

* Plastic packaging. Meh, just use biodegradable alternative packaging. Eg. paper. (Heavier, needs more energy to transport.)

* Plastic bottles. Use aluminum cans. Again, heavier, plus needs more energy to manufacture, but endlessly recyclable.

* Plastic pigments in paint. Meh, find biodegradable alternative or stop using them.
I'm an introvert and I strongly prefer empty beaches.
Nuclear energy is very safe, but to be safe it relies on the systems that support it. One of those systems is the economic system. I hope nothing bad has happened.
Is it an example of bad code? Should we avoid using Cryengine?
My guess is a nanotech slug impacting earth and turning us into grey goo/a matrioshka brain factory.
The money is used more than once as it stays in that community rather than being paid back with interest.

Often money earned, lent or given to the least well to do has the highest velocity in changing hands, resulting in much more positive economic impact than if the money were given to people who were better off.
Same here. I'm new-ish to JS and have JavaScript.info tab pinned for occasional reference. Fantastic resource.
If it works, it's an example of ugly code. Plenty of game code is ugly as sin, though.
A costly loan provides only a tiny fraction of value, compared to an actual transfer. You can't sustainably "loan" money to people in extreme poverty, they can't possibly pay you back. And once these people have bought assets with their transfer they can even access traditional loans.
Has any war ever done better than that in all of human history?
In a culture, where appearances dominate, this is the end result. Look at any work place, it is all about appearances: appearance of doing the great job, appearance of managers' helping the company goals, appearance of being busy, appearance of product novelty, appearance that company X cares about African Americans, etc.

Extend this game of appearance to personal life, as others can capture your personal life and post it on twitter; then look at the consequences: losing the livelihood.
Kiva.org has been taking loans since 2005 (and repaying them, by and large). They ask for a donation to cover their operating costs, but it's optional.
Huh? I'm directly addressing the point of the article.

Because our institutions are structurally racist and legislative remedies are unattainable, social pressure must be applied. It's unfortunate that while just in the aggregate social pressure is occasionally unjust in the specific, but that's what you get when you deny justice systemically.
I've had it for something like 5 years now, but I think the only qualifier was joining the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN), which is free, but I think you need to have a business, which I'd assume many on HN do (even a sole trader is OK, I think).
That's right. And the Chinese Exclusion Act was generally popular too. Also big-government bigoted shit.

That's the funny thing about bigotry. It doesn't matter how big your posse is. You can still be bigoted. For instance, oppression of the Uighur community is generally tolerated in China. The support is greater than the 52%. Still bigotry.
It depends what industry you work in and how big the company is. The worst is higher education. Endless scandals over nothing. The most notable example is Bret Weinstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Weinstein#Evergreen_State...
> Are you trying to suggest that there are a large number of unreported, undiscovered murders in more affluent areas?

No. I didn't mention murders - is there a reason you're focused on them?

I'm saying that the same forces the put poor communities of color at risk for crime also likely disrupt the collection of statistics in more wealthy & powerful communities. This is important because both sides of the ratio matter. I believe there's more crime in vulnerable communities and I believe that we likely over-estimate how much more. This generates statistics that support the over-policing of poor communities.
Yes yes and being pro-slavery was at one point a majority political position too. Whether or not you agree with Eichs firing, the argument you're making to defend him is a remarkably bad one
When I cross a road I usually quickly look two or three times to check traffic, even when it's one-way. This way, I make sure that even if I'm in a hurry, I'll likely take a look at least once at each side.
The United States (and perhaps other countries?) decent into mob "justice" has been breathtaking. Many people I've known for over half my life and known to be fairly reasonable people now routinely repost "make this person famous" posts pointing out a variety of behaviors deemed unacceptable without any evidence other than what's posted in an image. If you question the evidence or whether shaming someone as punishment is an appropriate response you're instantly vilified.

I have little doubt that I could pick a stranger at random, create a social media post with some baseless accusations and fabricated screenshots and get it shared extensively.

I really hope our society can find a way out of this, but I honestly don't see it.
I think it’s a tension between useful metrics to help measure performance and stopping people who game the metrics. This is hard as vanity metrics are easy to pick and game.

I try to go for macro metrics that at least let people understand what’s important, bur also not directly rewarding specific values or targets. An example is that I’m trying to promote data hygiene in my organization so we have some guidelines for how to clean data, where to store it, etc. We a general metric for “Who is reading our guidance” to at least see what pages are read. We have another for “who is versioning their data.”

I don’t have goals tied to specific numbers of readers or data repos, but do use it to at least make sure the material is available.

I’m still testing to see, but the problem with no metrics, I think, is that sometimes people will get astray without an outside source to help test and prioritize.
society of the spectacle perhaps? even communication is done at the level of the image
1) The one relative to the receiver of the coordinates

2) You start by explaining the encoding first, before sending coordinates, maybe by establishing X and Y axes as well as compass direction based on “landmarks” that should be visible from the receiver.

That’s the first thing that came to my mind at least.
I tried that one, but it stands out even more garishly. The one that's up there is already too bold relative to the surrounding text—not the most competent tribute to a master designer, but at least our, uh, heart is in the right place.
> We accept the status quo of countless racist tragedies occurring day after day.

Do we? Because a company firing workers, even their own family, to avoid being seen as racist doesn't exactly scream "acceptance" to me.
That's my bad on the first one, you should now see an error page asking you to login when clicking App and logged-out.
Hitting back will take you back to the homepage.

For the second, there should be some intro text. But proper copy is on my TODO list
The release likely happened during fuel reprocessing. Since fuel is left to cool for at least several months before reprocessing, there’s essentially no I-131 left at that point.
i took a tour a couple years ago. they said they basically gave him free beer for life. every year one of his assistants comes in a van and they load it up with their beer.
You have to be making some awfully specific assumptions about what the article is claiming in a throwaway sentence to conclude that it's a lump of labor fallacy. I don't see the article committing itself to a broad argument about the theoretical fungibility (or lack thereof) of labor just because it was noting that the workers need to find new jobs. There's a huge personal cost to the workers.

>and definitely in the short term it can lead to real misery for those losing the competition and not having the time or savings to wait for a new job or for an investment to start paying off

Yes, exactly. That's a reasonable interpretation of what's being said.

>But that doesn’t mean that we should just stop innovation and stop trying to become more productive.

But I don't think this is.
Sounds like you hate to learn and don't work on anything important.
Yes I completely agree... and I mentioned it in my comment! ;) When I said that auditing is hard, i meant that it's a painstaking process with a high employee turnover, isn't gratifying, at all and that doesn't and can't catch everything.

In some cases, I truly don't blame auditors when very sophisticated fraudulent schemes fall apart since a part from the basic checks auditors are mostly there to verify the reported numbers match the internal numbers. If those internal numbers are fudged then there's little that can be done expect to some small degree with simple cross checks, of which even the simplest has not been done in this case. It takes minutes to ask for a bank to confirm statements. I literally can't see how this doesn't involve colluding with EY to cook the books.
The main reason for me is that Ubuntu somehow breaks at every major upgrade, while Mint doesn't. That and Cinnamon, of course.
"Keys Under Doormats" should be required reading for anyone wanting exceptional access to encrypted data. https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-keys-unde...

Even if you honestly wanted to implement this, the real elephant in the room is how to manage multiple jurisdictions. For example, the US government and its contractors routinely use off-the-shelf hardware and software. If China happens to confiscate one such device, would we want to live in a world where they too have exceptional access? If the implementation exists, you're kidding yourself if you think only the US can require it.
I just wanted to point out that this is a live video and is scheduled to start in a few moments.
"Judge systems for their results, not their motives."

There's a third important concept: the process.

In this case, the process is pretty horrible -- the article's author has no idea what was wrong, and therefore can't remedy it. Similarly, since he doesn't know what's wrong, we can't criticize the process in any specific way, so the process can't be improved.
Is there really anything that the government should do if the mob is only boycotting?

No one is required to continue with their past buying habits once their mind has changed.

The word 'mob' implies unregulated violence, usually based on emotion and not reason. And the vast majority protesting racism appear to be peaceful and thoughtful.
>> If you want to get it, I recommend the Microsoft Action Pack

> Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any legal method to acquire Windows 10 Enterprise without signing up for all the other enterprise junk that no small business wants to deal with

Not sure if there is a misunderstanding here, but you're replying directly to my comment that explains how you can get the Enterprise edition without a volume licensing deal or any other "enterprise junk".
I'm also "oldchool" in a similar vein. But. Docker, dude. Docker.

For instance, yesterday a PHP tool made the HN frontpage [1] that seemed rather interesting. Problem is, it needs PHP 7.2+ and my app runs on 5.6.*
What to do? (Bear in mind, 3 weeks ago I moved from Virtual Box to Docker for local dev, and my files are now in a regular folder in my machine).

In this case, I just need to tell Docker to fetch the image and run it pointing to the same folder where my app is. Just a 1 line command.

After that, I just need to remove the Docker image and my system is as pristine as before.

I think I have itches very similar to yours (Like, I'm learning Python and all things Data Science and Machine learning related, instead of virtualenv or even *conda, I'm separating my projects using Docker), and nowadays I'm using Docker for all of'em.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23654973
It was interesting but much too slow.
I think the Earth will likely end up like Venus.
Thank you for this. It's my first time learning about it. I'm almost happy it's unknown since this is such a better argument against nuclear power than 3 Mile etc. Although I suppose for it to be an effective scare tactic you'd have to ask yourself some tricky questions about how much you value indigenous lives over corporations...
Kiva indicates I have been using them for 8 years (2012); 75 countries/territories, 15 sectors, 163 activities and 258 field partners (the company on the other side processing the loan in country is the field partner to which you're referring). My lend focus is primarily agriculture, infrastructure education and other back end type microloans as opposed to finished goods and services typically for front end selling (a long time ago there was another website just for education, they merged with Kiva many years ago).

Stats as of today: Delinquency rate 29.40%, Defaulted rate 7.67%, Currency loss rate 0.04% - the webUI indicates my Delinquency rate is higher than average (20.70%), same with Default rate (1.76%) but Currency loss much lower than average (0.33%). Results from folks who lend in the sectors I do not may have wildly different results...
Does it mean the filter has to very very precisely aligned when booth shooting and printing from the negative?

I may be daft, and your explanation sounds reasonable but I still feel "magic + potato starch" :-D
How do you ensure that all of your AUR packages are up-to-date? The makepkg workflow makes installation easy but I didn't update my AUR packages very consistently until I used a helper.
Aren't they supposed to change every couple of years, under SOX, exactly to prevent auditors and clients becoming to intimate? Mind you, Wirecard was a German company, so SOX didn't apply.

Also, government oversight was kind of limited, it only applied to the German banking activities.

While SOX can be a pain, there are very valid reasons for it. Hopefully Germany learns its lesson and implements something similar after Wirecard.
But "acquiring money" from others means, if you follow the idea of money as a placeholder for value, "producing value" for others. That's absolutely what we want.

That is: if you care about society, you will want to produce something of value for your fellow beings in that society. Them giving you money is them saying "I like what you do", essentially.

Of course it's not that simple, and of course every system gets gamed and you have irrational actors everywhere and customers get lured with false promises etc, but does it matter at the scale of the economy itself?

For example, if you look at the US with a GDP of 20 trillion dollars and you believe that celebrities getting huge amounts of money is stupid and they don't actually add value ... How much do they "misdirect", 10bn per year? That seems like a small price to pay compared to the big picture. Like taking a life-saving medication but having to deal with a rash or occasional constipation as a side effect, not using the medication because of this undesired side-effect seems foolish.
It’s tough to give feedback because GA Tech is very selective, and about every other online program is cost prohibitive (yeah I can’t afford 10k plus per year, anyone that can is an upper tier of society competing amongst themselves, we haven’t reached open yet). The whole situation is not built on a real market yet. We are in the infancy.

In other words, in the Wild West, you must make your own toil.
You only need a few examples to make the rest fall in line.
Thanks for posting that. My grandmother told me about having that type of "color" tv before and I had never been able to find it. I had decided it must have just been some little cereal box kit with stick on color filters or something.
well, take a look at System76 laptops and Dell XPS. Dell looks amazing and System76 not so much. also build quality, screens can be important.

also availability and warranty is important for companies too.
Not that I am aware of. Kind of disappointed actually.
>Likely unbeknownst to most Americans, the alt-right has appropriated a version of the “okay” symbol for their own purposes because it looks like the initials for “white power”; this is the symbol the man accused Cafferty of making when his hand was dangling out of his truck.

I am so tired of watching journalists repeat this irresponsible lie. The "white power" symbol was the result of a spontaneous flashmob campaign to prove that journalists will pick up and run with any ridiculous "trend" that fills their demand for racism. I challenge anyone to find a legitimate link explaining the relationship between the symbol and white supremacy that doesn't ultimately lead to a journal article sourced from cherry picked Twitter threads.

Journalism died when ideologues normalized activist journalism. We are in the midst of a mass hysteria and media outlets are fully culpable. 70 years ago we called it McCarthyism.
Carbon tax (or a similar, more general environmental impact tax) would sort thing out in no time.

It wouldn't matter if someone uses water to raise almonds in the middle of the desert, but it should have its env. impact priced in.

Similarly, it's absolutely ridiculous that large states can't plan ahead for ~20-50 years and instead of building efficient power plants we're stuck with windmills and solar and batteries as the "green" option.
Milton Glaser, Co-Founder of New York Magazine and Creator of ‘INY,’ Dies at 91
I really can't believe we're still talking about this. He could easily have moved past what he did by making a short statement and a donation to an LGBTQ+-friendly cause. Instead, he was apparently completely unprepared for something that had been brought up internally at Moz many times and made a blundery, offensive non-response. That is what was disqualifying for the position of CEO.
WD MyCloud devices create a .wdmc directory in any folder that has images or videos. I've solved this issue at various times by adding a new file extension for mp4 files (mmp4, associate it with media player) until I changed apps to one that only displays video files; running a script after uploads to delete them; killing the service every time the NAS reboots (and I notice). Currently I'm using ftp instead of smb, as it doesn't seem to cause it and transfers faster as well--plus, ftp displays the hidden directories where smb doesn't.
Paul Volcker (Fed chairman before Alan Greenspan, just died Dec 2019) famously quipped in the aftermath of the financial crisis that "the most important financial innovation that I have seen the past 20 years is the automatic teller machine"...

https://nypost.com/2009/12/13/the-only-thing-useful-banks-ha...
The article was about people who were accused of beliefs they didn't hold, so this example is different.

Also, if lots of your employees threaten to quit, your company has a big problem. The examples in the article were about individual employees, two of which had employers that said the employees were fired for other reasons. In the example of mozilla, separate from agreeing with the decisions, the actions were known and done for known reasons. No one lied about why they did what they did.
Yes, they are – well, as much as raw pointers are. In reality, the optimizer can always remove indirections when it can prove that doing so doesn’t affect visible semantics, but that applies equally to raw pointers and references.

(edit: replaced asterisks with “[asterisk]” since HN’s Markdown has no way to escape them.)

Critically, Rust references have pointer identity: you can convert between references and raw pointers, and if you convert a [asterisk]const u32 to &u32 and back to [asterisk]const u32, the pointers are guaranteed to compare equal. In my opinion this is unfortunate. It would be nice if the compiler could represent &u32 in memory as if it were just u32, i.e. just pass the value rather than a pointer. After all, the pointed-to value is guaranteed to remain unchanged as long as the &u32 exists. And passing by value is almost always faster for small values (where the size of a value <= the size of a pointer); the programmer could just pass by value directly, but only if they know it’s a small value, which isn’t the case in generic code. Unfortunately, the ability to compare pointer identities means that you really do need a pointer, even though most code never does so. (LLVM can transform pointers to values for local variables and even function arguments if it can prove that the actual code never checks pointer identity, but again, that applies to both references and raw pointers; most of the distinction between the two has been lost by the LLVM IR stage anyway.)