skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually depends on the judge whether the lawmaker has a say in it. Traditionally, most judges looked to the legislature for this kind of thing, but that type of judge has been in rapid decline over the last few decades.

Let's take an example. Imagine a municipality wanted to pass an anti-electric scooter law. So they pass a law that bans "electric scooters, electric bicycles, and other such electric motor powered conveyances not generally used by handicapped people" from city sidewalks.

Then one day someone gets arrested for driving a mobility scooter on the sidewalk (like, the three-wheeled things in Wal-Mart, not a Bird). Is this covered by the law? On one hand, it explicitly bans "scooters" and this is a scooter. On the other hand, it says it doesn't target conveyances generally used by the handicapped.

So the court takes it up. Traditionally, a judge might look a the transcripts of the city council as evidence, and find that the line about handicapped vehicles was inserted by a city councilman who said he specifically wanted to allow mobility scooters. When he said this to the rest of the council, they unanimously agreed to add the exemption. So with this very clear evidence of legislative intent, the judge rules that mobility scooters are fine.

Another judge is a textualist. This is an increasingly popular way to look at laws in judicial circles right now. A textualist doesn't care about what the city council meant only what the law says. The text of the law is the text of the law, period.

Which sounds convincing, but the problem with that is two people can look at a law that's a bit vague or seems to conflict in two places, and come up with different readings. One textualist might say, sorry, mobility scooters are banned. Hell, the law is called the "Get Scooters Off Our Sidewalks Act." It's a dumb law, the judge says, but that's what it says.

Another textualist looks at the same law and says, of course it doesn't mean mobility scooters. Any idiot can see that!

The great thing about textualism to a judge is it basically boils down to "the law is what I think it is." And they can ignore the legislature's opinion. It gives judges much more power. Which is why it's popular with the kind of judges that like to overturn precedent like Scalia was.
Before you make any life altering decisions and stick to them dogmatically to your potential detriment it's best to investigate extraordinary claims. Especially when it's in a compelling narrative like a movie.

https://elementnutri.com/myth-busting/the-game-changers-debu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq4Apc2Xk7Q

IMHO: Vegetarian is well established (millennia old cultures have been veg for 100+ generations) and good to go. Eating eggs, milk products, honey and fish is, all things considered, just fine and dandy.

On top of that if we all just stopped eating beef the world would be a lot better place.
Superficially similar but one of these was the disintegration of a nuclear superpower and multi-national empire. Bulgaria is a small country in the Balkans. Its population is smaller than that of NYC.
There are statutes of limitations on crimes.
Just shows how rotten to the core the services are.
> Raise your hand if you use TLS between your database server and your web frontend. Keep your hand up if you rotated that certificate in the last month. Keep your hand up if you know whether your database's certificate has been tampered with. (i.e. do you check that it's signed by your internal CA? Then who is signing it? Who maintains the ca-certs package? What does the certificate verification code even look like?)

I’m standing here with my hand up :)
Aviation has always been implicitly or explicitly state supported. Worrying about the market is just a farce.

Think about how research is done, the aircraft makers get fat on their defense grants, airport land and infrastructure are built with subsidies, the transportation to and from the airport are usually public buses, metro, or public roads, the regulation of airspace by the FAA is taxpayer funded, the security theater is provided by DHS, it goes on and on. Only the most visible part of the system is really "deregulated" and run by people trying to make money. Even then they get bailed out whenever they whimper.
Our customer base skews older and you wouldn't believe how many customer service tickets we field where they don't know what their apple account password is because they have literally never installed an app on their phone before. And these are people with brand new, most recent model iPhones that get a new one every few years.
Yeah volume and brightness are just a press, hold for a split second, slide. I must be in the minority, I figured it out immediately and have used the Touch Bar quite extensively. It’s especially useful for presentations. Control spotify, volume, and switch slides back and forth all in one interface without leaving the presenter view.
> It's a bit ironic that you would say that, even as others have complained that the "subjective" presentation is just weasel words and fake balance, i.e. saying "Some people think X." when you really really want to say "X."

Wait, didn't you just pull that trick on me, by referring to some vague 'others'? :) In seriousness, here is for example the Wikipedia policy that indeed discourages the use of weasel words in attributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie... . The difference is, that policy explicitly prohibits presenting opinions as facts without any attribution so there is a temptation to write in some bogus attribution so that is prohibited too. In any case, an opinion stated with no attribution whatsoever appears to bear more weight.

Of course I am not advocating that magazine articles should be written in the encyclopedic style but I think it is important to be consistent. E.g. it is well-known that authors of The Economist write as omniscient gods and that's OK because readers can correct for that, but mixing styles is suspicious. And isn't it suspicious that almost all statements written from the author's POV in the article are negative?
I don't know why you'd say that. I expect they would have handled "Bert Axelrose" exactly the same way. Great name though!
If you can't get past the splash image like me:

http://archive.is/LGCzt
it is a self-selected sample - which is a sample. Ofcourse it introduces seld self-selection bias. However a vast majority of studies on race in the US rely on self reported data (for thical and legal reasons) and include some element of self selection bias. The end.
> in UTC, always!

… which the proposal doesn't use. (It uses POSIX.)
It would be an ok answer, but the whole discussion started with you saying "On Windows, the native widget toolkits are just awful" which is more than just a statement of an opinion. Then you were asked what makes the screenshots bad and you answered with a sub-par analogy. Only after that you narrowed your aim down to "taste". So, please, fix your discussion tactics, it's bad.

Nothing looks "objectively bad" only in complete isolation and in the absence of context. When you add the world to an object it unavoidably begets aesthetic meaning. So you're wrong there.

I'm sorry for the formatting, can't get used to putting two linebreaks.

What's a real waste of time is arguing with strangers over the internet.
Could you elaborate?

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say.

Businesses are only concerned with ethics if it improves their bottom line. 'Free' money in uncertain times is an opportunity any business will seize if it has the means to obtain it.
What was that German government malware that was found on regular computers like ten years ago? Could have sworn there was something like that.
That's awesome! Someone should post this on HN.
>> AI as a field relied mostly on 'understanding' based approaches for 50 years
without much success. These approaches were too brittle and ungrounded. Why
return to something that doesn't work?

To begin with, because they do work and much better than the new approaches in
a range of domains. For example, classical planners, automated theorem provers
and SAT solvers are still state-of-the-art for their respective problem
domains. Statistical techniques can not do any of those things very well, if
at all.

Further, because the newer techniques have proven to also be brittle in their
own way. Older techniques were "brittle in the sense that they didn't deal
with uncertainty very well. Modern techniques are "brittle" because they are
incapable of extrapolating from their training data. For example see the
"elephant in the room" paper [1] or anything about adversarial examples
regarding the brittleness of computer vision (probably the biggest success in
modern statistical machine learning).

Finally, AI as a field did not rely on "understanding based approaches for 50
years"; there is no formal definition of "understanding" in the context of AI.
A large part of Good, Old-Fashioned AI studied reasoning, which is to say,
inference over rules expressed in a logic language, e.g. this was the approach
exemplified by expert systems. Another large avenue of research was that on
knowledge representation. And of course, machine learning itself was part of
the field from its very early days, having been named by Arthur Samuel in
1959. Neural networks themselves are positively ancient: the "artifical
neuron" was first described in 1938, by Pitts & McCulloch, many years before
"artificial intelligence" was even coined by John McCarthy (and at the time it
was a propositional-logic based circuit and nothing to do with gradient
optimisation).

In general, all those obsolete dinosaurs of GOFAI could do things that modern
systems cannot - for instance, deep neural nets are unrivalled classifiers but
cannot do reasoning. Conversely, logic-based AI of the '70s and '80s excelled
in formal reasoning. It seems that we have "progressed" by throwing out all
the progress of earlier times.

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[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03305

P.S. Image, speech and text generation are cute, but a very poor measure for
the progress of the field. There are not even good metrics for them so even
saying that deep neural nets can "generate surprisingly good text" doesn't
really say anything. What is "surprisingly good text"? Surprising, for whom?
Good, according to what? etc. GOFAI folk were often accused of wastig time
with "toy" problems, but what exactly is text generation if not a "toy
problem" and a total waste of time?
> Blake said last year to Forbes that development would take about 6 billion dollars.

From the article, it sounds like that's just the cost of development. They're going to need a hefty chunk on top of that for lobbying.
Even if you could somehow “fix” the press, you’d still be left with the problem of individuals favoring those elements of the press that reinforce their existing beliefs. It’s not a lack of information that’s the problem; the problem is that people self-select news sources that reinforce their existing beliefs. In fact one could argue that the present abundance of “information” is a primary enabler of such bubbles.
> SSH with a bastion (jump) system and ControlMaster/ControlPersist settings is generally how SSH handles this.

This works if you have a simple network toplogy. If you have multiple layers, like:

1. VPN to office network
2. SSH to office desktop Linux machine
3. VPN to internal secure network segment
3. SSH from office desktop to internal secure host
3. SSH from secure host to another, even more secure, no-network-access host

Then jump hosts are a colossal pain to set up and maintain, since you have to configure a jump to A through B, then to C through A, then to D through C, and you end up with multiple layers of configuration, which you have to configure manually for each host or group of hosts.

> That's interesting. I'm initially skeptical of how that shifts the security responsibilities based on that description, but don't know enough about it to level any specific criticisms, if any are warranted.

In the design that I envision (for our installation), we have one authentication one time, via our SAML provider (which uses 2FA); now the user is authenticated to the system even more securely than regular SSH can provide, and can SSH to any hosts, as any users, which they have been granted access to. All authentication and host access is configured and managed in one place, so we can just focus on 'this person can do these things' rather than 'oh, that server... you need the SSH key, I think it's this one, and you need to connect as I think user X... or maybe user Y... it's a mess but we haven't had time to change everything.'
Given the choice, I would choose to not have a job.

If you're asking what I enjoy working on, it's art.

My top medium is hypertext, but I enjoy many others
> I don't need to argue for freedom of speech and equal rights and justice for all because in my world those are givens.

The article was about somebody who was arguing that using falsified numbers about rape statistics was not only acceptable feminism but was actually a good thing and that anybody who disagreed with that deserved to be destroyed.

Speaking as somebody who believes that the truth is quite sufficient justification for feminism to win, and that lying serves only to hand our enemies means to attack us, I believe that sadly we live in a world where that argument does need to be made.

I would prefer to live in a word where these arguments don't need to be made. I would prefer to live in a world where those truths are self evident.

But we don't yet, as both Adria Richards and David Shor have found out to their detriment. So making the argument that we should continues to be valuable.
It's disappointing to read this thread. Even tptacek, a prominent speaker on Hacker News, exhibits bizarre ignorance regarding this topic.

Generally speaking, it seems to me that much sloppy thinking in the current debate involves the mixture of the following basic errors:

1) Ignorance about biology. Evolutionary biology has been an exceptionally fertile section of science for the last decades, and provided deeper understandings on many biological phenomenon, including human behaviors. The accusers' understanding of biology (e.g. condemning it as "genetic determinism") is at least 50 years behind.

2) Poor understanding of the due process. Calling a random petition to condemn a person publicly is exactly a witch hunt. History proves that it's a very error-prone way to punish someone, and no civilized country accept it as a proper procedure anymore.

As to (2) I'd recommend everyone to read DJB's "The death of due process". It is very important, because it may be you (or your family) to be hung by lynch mobs next time.

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20160607-dueprocess.html
Hum... Pure functional is a bad way to do real time I/O, but my point was about types.

If you try to verify the kind of state machines that low level I/O normally use with Haskell-like types, you will gain a huge amount of complexity and probably end with more bugs than without.
This is an ever present issue as technology advances and what was not possible to efficiently or effectively do before is now possible through these new techniques. And it is not limited to government and law enforcement either, the worst transgressions are from the private sector and political campaigns.

As a society we are only starting to become aware of the implications. "Fair game" is the biggest misnomer - it is anything but.
There are a few differences between an OpenSSH jump host and Teleport:
- you have to actively manage authorized_keys for every person using openssh; Teleport manages a PKI and can be backed by your existing SSO
- it hard to restrict any given user to a subset of hosts (e.g. only allow select few to access prod database); Teleport has RBAC
- hosts with Teleport also get SSH certificates, so you don't need to trust-on-first-use (which everyone has been conditioned to ignore)
Well, regardless of how unlikely you think it is... it's still true.

You don't need tactile feedback when the feedback is real-time in the image on the monitor or the sound in your headphones. It's audiovisual feedback in the actual creative product you're creating.

And the touch bar is definitely tall enough to handle the fattest fingers. ;) Not sure why you bring typing into it.
>Back in the days when electronics records were not the norm there were a lot of these things especially in less-developed provinces. Nowadays it's better but I'd suspect there are still things similar going on.

Like some Chinese criminals with money hiring body doubles to serve their prison term for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_zui
Yes, as much as demographic decline is a big problem, the bigger one is the total and deep institutional corruption.
"All other countries have a mafia, in Bulgaria the mafia has a country."
Anyone doing specialized calculations with time at that level of precision is going to be using specialized code and not any built-in time handling code.
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Announcing Classic Computer Science Problems in Java
"We supply various obscure sports accolades that can be purchased for the children of wealthy families to obtain admission to our leading universities."

? I don't really think this is the mechanism.

When major donors, who are alumni and part of the institution, ask for a favour to have a slot for their kid ... to me that may seem 'unfair' but it's also above bar if the school wants to do that and I have no problem with it so long as it doesn't take up a huge share of any particular intake.
I stand by my assertion. Anyone trying to use a concept as misunderstood as IQ to explain a disparity in tech regarding black people is most probably misguided and jumping to conclusion. The other person responding to my comment (and who seems to be in the same boat as you) said: where they're still in disagreement is what causes it and the definition of "race". There's a very good reason for that. There are many other attributes that correlate _very strongly_ with what people like to call "race", that are likelier candidates (based on strong evidence) as factors of IQ disparity.

IQ researchers know that unless you can trace the direct origin of their findings to genes (as it's been done for some diseases), you cannot claim causation. Especially when there is also strong evidence of socio-cultural factors (environment, history, culture, nutrition, education, lifestyle, means, etc). Even the plasticity of IQ suggests that since it's not a number set in stone, it wouldn't be prudent to make wild genetic claims. Unfortunately the public at large doesn't want to hear that part, and would rather run with its own version of what I like to call "tldr science", that purports to explain why the world works the way it does with cliff notes.

In a discussion about bias against a specific genetic group, if you want to bring arguments that excuse the status quo, by basically saying that the discriminated group is just genetically at a disadvantage, you need to damn well know what you're talking about. But as it's common with many "bottom-line" numbers like IQ, people tend to look at them and make the same mistake of drawing overly simplistic conclusions to very complicated and entangled issues.

The issue at hand here is the relative invisibility of black people in the tech scene. You brought up a point. I will assume that you're in tech, as I am. Despite what we pride ourselves to be able to accomplish, nothing in that field places it beyond the grasp of 99% of humans with a functioning brain, whether those individuals belong to a low scoring group or not. It's a challenging field, yes, but you don't need genius level IQ. What you need is a favorable environment (education, food, etc) that adequately prepares you for it. And this is true for most other fields.

The fact that you ran with "IQ" to explain the phenomenon (and that you had many advocates coming to your rescue in that endeavor) is very interesting to me, as it really is symbolic of how otherwise smart people may convince themselves that they've figured something that they really don't understand that well.

As I said earlier, this is how we remain in that situation.
Any day now people will start compiling old programs to web assembly so that you can wrap them with election, instead of compiling them to machine code. Once that happens, we have generated another 3 years of demand for Moore's law X_X
Thanks for this feedback.

Did you know that this is only to show your first name on a leaderboard if you win prizes above a certain threshold or did you take this to mean something else?

Wondering if it's an issue of it not being clear what it means or if even knowing what it means, it still is a privacy concern for you.
I'm pretty sure Antirez doesn't mean it the way you're interpreting it. Just like me, he's not a native English speaker.
I believe what he means is that she has NOT been chosen simply because she's a woman, but because of her skills.
Has anybody found any credible institutional source on this?
Can we say the same thing about Mexico and the cartels?
I think the US system is best served by Americans being very pessimistic of law enforcement getting anywhere near politics.

Many of the ugliest chapters in our history involve failing to uphold this standard.
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The typical argument I've heard against term limits is that you limit the experience your lawmakers have.
This is a really good insight and a part of the delivery experience I think could be greatly improved. Different services offer surprisingly different versions of the same menu, and customers are unaware there might be better selection on a different website.
Depends on where you are, where the local law is, etc. "Allowed to eat a piece of bread to avoid dying of hunger" .. is there a law against it?

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at. Our society is based on trade. They also have charities and shelters to help those who don't have it.
When I think of a basic programming book, I think of references to a certain language or tool. If that is what you are looking for, then I wouldn't suggest reading or listening to a programming book without a computer open. If you have a certain understanding of the big picture, then there are some really good seminars out there. I love the "Uncle Bob" lectures on Youtube.
Conceivably: If you have MITM and can inject... you'd next need web browser 0day exploit chain w/ sandbox escape and then a stealthy trojan to install. This would obviously be quite the capability and require a lot of maintenance to work cross-browser, cross-OS, and evade security products / built-in security features. It is definitely possible however.
And that's the problem with the EU. It will happily turn a blind eye to corruption as long as the exports keep flowing.
Xfinity is now charging $10/50gb bandwidth overage fees
but they keep writing software for them

wait until AI is used in hiring.
They may also find SpaceX eating their lunch, if the rumors of ballistic flights have any substance to them at all.

And the EPA doesn't curb-stomp them.
I suppose it would be too much to hope for more trains.
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> that I would like surveiled

This part of your comment really, really rubs me the wrong way. Your personal inclinations absolutely cannot direct the apparatus of state on a whim. Either those groups are suspected of criminal activity or conspiracy to commit criminal activity, which is probable cause for surveillance, or they aren't.
Nope. Is that how you save?
This is actually a great point ... How many readers can relate to wholesale drug prices vs how many know how much a hit of coke - at street prices - costs?
it would be very sad and a huge net negative for the world.

Being able to cheaply and quickly travel practically anywhere makes us see others as much less different from us and helps us see global issues as our issues