skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Racism is hate speech, and hate speech is not a form of protected speech.

Where did you ever get this idea? Hate speech is still protected under law. Of course Google doesn't have the same restrictions as the government, the could probably choose to censor anything containing the word "banana", but that doesn't change the status of free speech in general.
Maimonides was a smart dude, but I must say I don't understand the highest level here: do you have to know they are about to be impoverished? If so, don't you know their identity to give them a job, a loan, or a gift? Payday lenders might qualify? Maybe I need to consult a rabbi.
A lot of it was accurate in between the nonsense. I was surprised to learn that there really was a Cookie Monster virus that made you type "cookie". And the hackers are accurately depicted reverse engineering some machine code as a major plot point.
Female refers to biological sex. It would be more appropriate for this article to refer to her simply as a 'woman', but ideally just 'backup driver'.
I think it might just have been needed to clarify potential confusion around her name.
It has been awhile since this happened, but at the time I thought the video showed that the woman came out between two cars right before the Volvo hit her. Perhaps more information came out during the indictment, but there has been many cases in the past where even drunk drivers were cleared of the more serious charges when it was determined that even an attentive driver wouldn't have had enough time to avoid a crash. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I don't think the mass media is a reliable or accurate source for learning about or promulgating scientific findings. Most medical research is fraught with ambiguity and mixed messages, simply because of the
phenotypic variance found in humans (and other organisms). (See more about phenotypic variance here: [0]) Generally speaking, different organisms will respond differently to the same environmental stimuli. This is why drug trials require large sample sizes and extended periods of time to assess efficacy and safety.

With regard to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), there is nothing that could be considered definitive about its efficacy or safety for all people when used as an off-label treatment for COVID-19. While there is evidence that (in some people) is does not reduce the viral load ("Neither HCQ nor the combination of HCQ and AZTH showed a significant effect on viral load in any of the analysed tissues." [1]), there is evidence that HCQ "... can significantly decrease the production of cytokines and, in particular, pro-inflammatory factors" [2] and HCQ has "... potential, but controversial, characteristics to combat pathological inflammation associated with COVID-19." [3]

Of course, raw research does not give a definitive answer about efficacy and safety for all people, but it does suggest that HCQ may be one possible treatment (perhaps preventative, perhaps in vitro) for inflammation, which is one of the serious complications of COVID-19. It will likely be years before the mechanisms of COVID-19 are well understood. In fact, it is likely that some other urgent calamity will come along and compete for research funds currently used for COVID-19 research, which could significantly extend the time it takes to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

[0] https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/adaptation-and-phe...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2558-4

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0156-0

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41419-020-2721-8
I think they only did that to explain why her name doesn't match her legal name from the case.
In fact they do not collect biometrics. Not even under the NSA’s definition of “collect”.
I think in context of the article it was explaining why the name of the person who was originally reported has changed.
> I will interview at the very least 50 candidates.

Why? IMO this is about an order of magnitude too many. I typically interview about 3-4 people, on rare occasions a few more. I've been interviewing candidates for about 25 years now.

If your recruiter is sending you 50+ mismatched resumes for a role, get a better recruiter. But even in that case, you should notice and weed these out while reviewing the resumes yourself, before getting to the interview stage.

I literally cannot imagine any scenario where I'd interview over 50 people for a role. Or even ten people.

A few startups ago we had to grow the team from 20 people to ~120 in a year. Your approach would result in interviewing well over 5000 people in a year. That would be over 20 people a day, every single day, zero work getting done meanwhile! I suggest a re-think of your hiring strategy.

> being obviously unfit after the first 10 minutes of a technical interview

Which one is more likely:

1. Senior people who have built many successful products don't actually know how to do what they've done.

or

2. Interview techniques that focus on skills unrelated to the job (e.g. whiteboard puzzles, algorithm trivial pursuit) have an inordinately high false negative rate.
The GP said that China/Asia produces 90%. You say China is at 60%, so if we add India and the rest of Southeast Asia, you are saying essentially the same thing.

And while China might be starting to cleanup its act, India is fast urbanizing and increasing its waste production, with less investment in infrastructure. In a few years, the proportions might be swapped but the problem is not going away soon.
> I fail to see the problem, if you have more money than you could possibly use in a lifetime, why shouldn't that be redistributed through programs that benefit all of society, instead of whatever pet projects the rich person favors.

Who decides that? The great and scholarly politicians we elect?
>What surprised me was that the USA were so bad at recycling

No, you can thank the coca cola corporation for that. They have lobbied millions, along with the groceries associations to prevent things like bottle deposits to make recycling more common. Google it, plenty of information out there on the topic.
>Yes, all proprietary software vendors are stereotypical mustache twirling villains.

I didn't say they were all evil or malicious. I said there is an asymmetric power relationship. This is true whether or not you trust the vendor. You might! But it's good to be aware of it nonetheless, and to think about:

- How much do you trust them?

- Are they incentivized to keep your data safe and private?

- Do you think you'll still be able to trust them 5 years from now?

To varying degrees, the platform owner has a significant say over your use of the platform. It's more pronounced the more locked-down the platform is, but for example: if Apple doesn't want you to run some software on iOS, it's going to be very difficult for you to run that software. If Microsoft decides to push an update to Windows that adds more intrusive telemetry, you have little choice; Windows is going to force an update and you're going to get that telemetry whether you like it or not.

>Also I don't need open source software to see that vendors have tracking code.

You don't necessarily, but it's a hell of a lot easier to tell if you can see the source code.

>You think they are going to swap out the code on their TV even if it was a choice? That's delusional. It would be far easier for them to just plug in an Apple TV if privacy is a top concern - but sadly for most people privacy isn't a concern.

Just looked up the current top-selling TVs on Amazon, this one[0] is currently #1, selling for $130. Adding an Apple TV to the mix ($150 for the base model) would more than double that cost. You, me, and probably most people on this site can easily afford that - but for a lot of people that's a more difficult choice.

Yes, I absolutely believe that some people would replace applications on their TVs with alternatives with less surveillance - possibly many people, if the process were easy.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/TCL-32S325-Inch-720p-Smart/dp/B07G9XZ...
> Were asbestos manufacturers externalizing the cost of asbestos? Are car, plane and ship manufacturers externalizing the cost of CO2? Are cigarette manufacturers externalizing the cost of cigarette butts?

In the examples given I don't disagree there was externalites being produced, I only disagree with the characterization that it was caused by the manufacturers[1]. Taking some examples from wikipedia[2]:

* In the case of Water pollution, I would say the entity causing the externality is the chemical plant doing the polluting, not the chemical plant for the precursor chemicals

* In the case of spam, I would say the spammers are causing the externality, not the authors of SMTP clients

* In the case of noise pollution, I would say the construction workers are causing the externality, not the makers of the jackhammers

>The difference between your examples and examples like plastic and the ones above is that yours are a one time cost with little to no negative externalities - hell most of them have positive externalities.

And what about the road network that auto manufacturers depend upon? Sure, we still might need one even without cars, but would need orders of magnitude less (in terms of area). We, the tax payers and residents are paying for the road network in the form of dollars need to maintain it, and the various quality of life damages that arise from it (noise pollution, air pollution, unwalkable cities, etc.).

[1] literally the first sentence of my initial comment: "why is it being characterized as an cost externalization by the petrochemical/packaging industries, rather than the consumers"

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative
It can be really tough to see beyond one's own isolated experience, but you are expressing something analogous to a refusal to fly on any airline because one airline lost your ticket. Whilst there's certainly a risk of your ticket being lost, as you found, for 99.99% of people tickets work just fine and are never lost.
And you think AI researchers will be better?

So. This seems like the perfect question for folks with deep knowledge in history, politics/current events (on a global scale), and philosophy.

Luckily, that's kind of what a lot of political philosophy / political science / political theory (the name varies) is!

Or social theory. Or philosophy. Even literature, to be honest. You laugh? Consider how often literature has been a driver of social reform.
Nothing happens in a vacuum. You could very easily end up incentivizing worse behavior by misjudging what the externalities actually are and their impact.

Do you remember how telephone fraud with blue boxes was prosecuted? The stolen time was judged at full sale value of the minutes. But this doesn't make any sense, as if the call could not be placed for free it would not have happened, and if no one else was in line to place a call there was not lost revenue.

It seems like people are trying to do this with e.g. unrecycled plastics. Recycling is expensive likely because it is not economically productive, not because people are freeloading. The bar for showing otherwise should be very high.
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I don't know much about GPT-3, but if you drastically reduce the size of the corpus won't you also drastically reduce the output domain to the point that it's no longer useful? Or is there some way to get it to take whatever "semantic understanding" makes it somewhat convincing, that it's gathered from the full corpus, and ape a particular author's style over it?

It's very possible for human authors to imitate style. In fact, if you write a lot of the same kind of thing that you read, you'll find your own style gravitating toward that of whoever you're reading at the time. I just (re)read Franny and Zooey, for instance, and for days I've been fighting Salinger outbreaks in my own prose. Presumably a machine could do the same thing, but I'd guess it's a very hard problem on top of creating something like GPT-3.

edit: and this is not even getting into the thematic and semantic richness of the content, which is something good authors pack a lot more of into each word than the blogspam wordsmiths GPT-3 is about to put out of work.
Is that true that the smoke will get in after a few hours? Over the last few days, as soon as I step outside, I can smell the smoke out there really bad. I thought for sure that if it was smokey in the house, my nose would be used to the smell. I mean, I can see some particles getting into the house, but it has to be far better indoors doesn't it?
I mean this makes sense. She was watching a video on her phone while driving. It was her literal job to know that the car might make mistakes and correct for them, so she should have known that she still has to pay attention as though she were actually driving.
This is the kind of thinking that keeps us focused on the middle income portion of the company - the 200k/year earners deserve it! - rather than the extreme wealth end. And it’s not a justification for cutting anyway, when the value produced by the employee is unchanged.
Well in this case, yes by default.

Are you implying that the US population in general is more aligned with the ideology of the submission?
I'm going to be free of your fundamentalist religion and there's nothing you can do about it.
thanks I ordered one from aliexpress
Android bundles a Linux kernel, or it won't run, it doesn't expect you to supply your own. It also doesn't try to reinvent DNS or TCP, the VM bytecode format or all the other things that Android leveraged to make itself into a useful platform so quickly.

The other difference is that Android has millions of users, Urbit, not so much.
I think fault, specifically when it comes to litigation, is something that will end up holding back self-driving cars (at least in the USA). If there is an accident or someone is injured, who ends up getting sued? How does insurance resolve these claims?

Please note that I am not saying I think someone needs to get sued. I just think that the concept of liability is deeply ingrained in the American legal and insurance systems, and I almost forsee a future where we cannot come to terms with who is liable in different situations and it coming to preventing the adoption of and progression of self-driving vehicles.
NanoCharging: Syncing EV charging with the wind
I have an alias called "ding" that plays a sound. Add "; ding" to a command and you're set.
And is everything you are saying just sort of, your own take on things?

Or do you have some sort of special expertise?

Because sure, what you're saying sounds good, but it's far from a piece of ironclad logic, so, color me un-convinced : ).
No, unfortunately, and the driver missed her over 1.5 lanes - it's extremely egregious https://youtu.be/51HQ5JXIvWw
You are forgetting families. Peloton is $12 a month, but the workouts are tied to one account - so your wife's workout gets synced to your apple watch.

Also Apple is offering yearly pricing that works out to $6.67/mo...and then there is the bundle which if you are in the ecosystem already essentially makes it a free service...
Are people not allowed to make products aimed at upper/upper middle class people? Why would that have been anywhere near funny? Why is a luxury brand targeting those with discretionary income short sighted?
> The industry didn't even have to convince anyone. It's genuinely consumer-led.

And yet they spent millions doing just that when research showed that people had no interest in buying it:

https://priceonomics.com/the-ad-campaign-that-convinced-amer...
There is a very simple way to tell if an ML script has failed: the GPU fans turn off. No joke. Even with a water cooled machine, I know something has gone wrong if I come back in an hour and the rig is silent.
Eh, from a noise level there’s no difference with having an in-person meeting at a cafe, which happens all the time and is not bothersome (depending on the cafe).
I can't imagine it would be. Tips aren't charitable donations.
The question is what level of maintenance is required to call something "supported." But yes, there is some maintenance done for free on old versions of the JDK in OpenJDK Updates in the form of backports.

The thing is that the money saved in hardware/hosting by running the current version would more than pay for any update costs. By using the current version, companies will be using better maintained software and paying less money for it. Those "free LTS" builds, which aren't really LTS, is a mind game that keeps companies on old versions that cost more money to run in the hopes that people will ultimately pay for real maintenance, perhaps once they fall behind too far.
Yes, please share the questions.
Let them release the game for Linux, especially since they are already making a Stadia version.
True. They’re not entirely independent though.

Society has made murder, theft, and rape illegal largely because of a fairly broad-based agreement that those are immoral.

Where there isn’t broad agreement on morality, I would prefer to avoid passing laws to regulate behavior and allow choice. (Roe v Wade/abortion being just one crystal clear case of this tension which I believe is generally best resolved in favor of individual freedom. I am free to follow my own morals where they are stricter than the law; I do not force others to follow them.)
I believe OP is talking about class, not race, and is making the same orthogonal observation as you that race is tied up in class to some extent. But tbh that makes it a strange point to my eye: Apple remains a luxury consumer goods and services manufacturer, it should not be a surprise that they target the upper/middle classes.
You mean the video of a dashcam Uber released to deliberately make it appear as if it was pitch-black and this women came into frame like a second before impact?

No, indeed it turns out this is a very well lit, wide open area and your eyes would have had no problem seeing and predicting her path from many many feet away. As of course could the $$$ industrial cams Uber actually uses to inform its vision.
Perhaps a solution would be a liability chain ?
Get sued personally as the vehicle operator, and then sue the car manufacturer yourself ?

This way people will be pushed to pick the safest cars, or to adapt their attitude when the self-driving functionalities are unsafe.
How to Leave Space and (Safely) Crash Back Down to Earth
If you have a furnace, you have a filter. Take the filter out of it and stick it on your box fan. Even if it's a little dirty, it's better than nothing.
One of the other front page articles right now is the PDF about Judea Pearl's book, and it describes exactly this case, including that there was a roughly six second window. And that the car normally had a feature to stop in those cases, but that the engineers (who I take to not be the driver) turned it off due to false positives.

I'm still unclear on how they find liability here - should it all fall on the driver? You could argue "but for" the driver's failure to pay enough attention to stop in those six seconds, and you could also argue "but for" the engineers' decision to turn off the safety feature.
I don't plan on moving to wireless headphonens for my iPad workflows, so it effectively just means an extra adapter I have to carry with my headphones.
I'd refrain from saying half of American Republicans believe something so fringe without real data.
Yes, there's no doubt it was a major problem for Axis nations. However, it didn't prevent them from going to war. In the case of the Japanese one could argue securing their own source of petroleum and other resources was a major driving factor behind their expansionist policy.
So you're thinking "buildable" in terms of short-term market when nuclear power is the kind of thing built to operate on the scale of a century (and really gives financial returns only when you look over many decades), ESPECIALLY because the initial capital invested is the only real cost and most of the energy income from nuclear power plants has to go back towards investors at a typical 10% (if governments don't step up to do it themselves at much lower interests), exactly because the market is expecting returns NOW.

This is a problem of framing you've got there, because by definition pretty much all the actions taken on markets have short-sightedness in mind, and at the very least nowhere near a century-long vision.

The existence of reactors AND the fact that they are being built RIGHT NOW is enough to define buildable. That you don't WANT to build them is an entirely different problem, and again it is motivated by the fact that incorrect information is constantly being thrown at nuclear (even in countries where it once was a major thing to build new reactors, i.e. France) and that this information trickles down into the way people drive their representatives (politicians) towards short-sightedness.
The current production storage engine is an old-ish version of the SQLite btree. A new btree engine is being written now and is available but I don’t know if it is being used in production anywhere.

RocksDB is shipping soon thanks to some work by members of the community.
depends what she was told by the company I guess... and if he situation was avoidable at all
Portland burbs here: box fans and filters of all types sold out days ago. A lot of people here doing the box fan filter.
It seems that the trend of make-believe advertisement has gone worse and worse. Today's advertisements are way worse than those in the articles.

Everything must be "natural" and "chemical-free". This is home-made, and that is hand-crafted. Pills are better if they contains herbs. Buy the "smart" scale/hygrometer/ruler: it has a sleek design with no screen, and it connects to your phone. And of course, who doesn't want more "air freshener" on literally everything?

Maybe I'm too grumpy about it, and the ranting is hyperbolic. But it's genuinely hard to shop sometimes. There are too many buzz words. What's worse? Some descriptions on the packages are actually technical and important, but you need learn enough to figure it out.

I'm more inclined to purchase store-brand products these days, because at least it just says what's in the box.
Speaking of accessibility for math equations, there is some really good work done in MathJax 3:
http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/basic/a11y-extensions.html...
slides from presentation: https://mathjax.github.io/papers/CSUN19/csun2019_talk.pdf

You can try on any of the demos on this page:
https://mathjax.github.io/MathJax-demos-web/
(right click on an equation to enable the accessibility options)
That, my friend, depends on which party you support.
Are you talking about on device authentication or iCloud authentication? The biometrics for unlocking are only stored on device. Your name is associated with your account, yes.

I can’t tell if you’re trolling? You also haven’t said what it means to “own” fingerprints.
Did the value never recover?
It's a great book; an enjoyable read even for someone like me who's mostly afraid of statistics. Pearl's enthusiasm for the topic is palpable, and he seems to have the academic pedigree to match the occasionally lofty claims.

The book makes a very clear case in walking the layperson through various causal techniques and underlining how they differ from traditional methods. Few popular science books actually go into such detail.
Not really relevant to the cold war standoff in Europe though.
It seems unfair due to the high costs though, meh quite a bad idea.
By buying $1mil of MSFT you helped set the market price for their stock and therefore value the company. Based on that value Microsoft can then go to the market and raise new capital.
How high on legal weed do you have to be to believe that Trump being re-elected is going to cause civilization to collapse?