skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learnt C as a first language, but think Python is a great language for beginners!

Forces okayish formatting, error codes are pretty readable, good library support for doing everyday useful things (for people not in the cs community), you don't have to strictly worry about type for your tiny scripts...

Why do you think it's not great? (in all sincerity)
You can hit 100% with zero assertions if you like.

Probably not the test you want to have though.
The threads so far on this ongoing story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25307167

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25292386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285502

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25289445
Any purpose to this comment other than to show that you haven't even read the article?
>It could be fair to avoid all planes coming from those experts. But if you don't trust them to fix a single flaw, why in god's name do you trust them to design an entirely new plane? This is not a reason to push for a redesign.

Well it's not just experts. There's a bunch of factors surrounding this design decision. Business pressure. I would say the experts are aware of the flaw and went with it because of pressure. I would ask that the experts design the plane AS if they weren't under that same kind of pressure.

>Ever heard of speed tape?

Duct tape was a metaphor for a patch work fix that is unsound. Think: speed tape used to tape an entire tail onto a plane.

>Most people will either get on the plane when it's fixed, or they will never get on the plane. They're not going to care about the exact details.

Hard to say. I think for myself I can (possibly) be convinced to get back onto that plane if I knew more details and the details sounded pretty good to me.

>I'm wise enough to not play armchair plane engineer when my life is on the line. If I don't trust the process, then I'll wait for a certain number of flight hours instead. I'm not going to depend on my own ability to analyze plane design.

Agreed. Data trumps my own BS judgement. Still even with my garbage aerospace engineering knowledge I'm sure I can tell the difference in safety between an entire air frame redesign versus just software patches and if the latter was all they did, likely I'm never getting on that plane unless the data says otherwise.
There's risk of folks foregoing other precautions because they believe they can mitigate the effects of COVID with other treatments.
I looked them up. I found the exchange robust but not extraordinarily so. She was firm but didn't seem to step out of line.

What inference was I supposed to make?
just checked it again, seems a lot smoother, maybe its been fixed.

I just remember videos would just have a black screen, wouldn't load at all.

maybe now with elections over the front page won't be 50% politics and I can get back to looking at cool stuff lol
Don't. Don't go woke, don't get broke.
"the Product Manger and the Project Manager can be the same person"

Depending on how many typos you have there, definitely! What did you mean?
MeFi's apparent niceness/decorum is what makes its negativity so cutting and icy. I have never seen flamewars, however infrequent, as bitter and contemptuous as I have seen there.
That's why I stopped enabling it.

Because I've noticed a strong correlation with lack of accessibility and poor quality content I ended up regretting wasting my time reading.
Do any of these papers determine the exact transmission vector? (Air to eye, air to nose, air to mouth, hands/fingers to eye/nose/mouth, etc.)?
Same here, I used to be a big Levi's guy back in the day but they've destroyed one of the great American brands. Total garbage now. You can get much better jeans these days for a comparable price.
No, the paper is not on arxiv

> [...] Though Bender asked us not to publish the paper itself because the authors didn’t want such an early draft circulating online, it gives some insight into the questions Gebru and her colleagues were raising about AI that might be causing Google concern.
This is why I still use Word 97 for writing.
In my experience it’s carbohydrate rather than meat which makes me feel lethargic after eating.
Likewise, I don’t understand why Google and Microsoft weren’t more successful at killing off Slack. They already had all the users via Gmail and Exchange, so chat was just a feature.
Using what screen size, page zoom level, and font rendering engine?
What is the threat? No one makes me use any of their services or buy any of their products. But I have and will continue to do so because Amazon is so obviously superior to the competition.

Recently I have begun ordering from Walmart. Why? They have upped their ecommerce game.

Just as Sears was once dominant and even sold houses via catalog, and no one in 1930 could have imagined Sears going bust, no one in 2020 can imagine Amazon losing its dominance.

But Sears collapses, IBM fades, and the world moves on.

In 2020 I’m happy Amazon exists, proud America allowed it to grow, and don’t feel ill-will towards people who voluntarily agree to work for them.
The software I will use to invoke your command immediately send EOF to your process's stdin. Almost all traditional Unix command do something sensible in response. "mv -i" for example, refrains from moving anything. The software I prefer to use to run your command has no provision for your command's trying to engage me in a conversation.

If I am sufficiently motivated to run your command, I might choose to re-run your command in Terminal.app. For example, I ran whatever command needed to install Command Line Tools in Terminal.app so that I could indicate my agreement to its terms and conditions by my typing "y". But your command is probably not important enough for me to bother running it in Terminal.app.

If I use your command incorrectly (e.g., if I misspell a flag), and your command tells me so, then I am willing to issue a new, corrected command line, and in fact I have the patience to try a command over and over, varying the command's arguments and the command's environment variables till I get it right.

But I no longer have the patience for things like vim or mutt or lynx -- i.e., programs that have what one might call a terminal user interface. (What about pagers? Well, I set the environment variable PAGER to cat. Similar to how Plan 9's terminal works, the software I will use to invoke your command does not automatically scroll to the bottom of the process's output: the window does not scroll unless I tell it to scroll, e.g., by hitting the page-down key.)

lynx was my primary browser for about 10 years, so it is not like I am ignorant of "full screen" terminal interfaces; I am just weary of them.
I think you bring up a good point. So what if the consequence for these crimes (any crimes?) was compulsory treatment? That needn't include being imprisoned except for where it's absolutely warranted.
If the final identifier can't be reverse engineered to identify the specific individual is it PII?

So A user visited me on the 12th. That user visited me again on the 15th. Is that PII?
Does OpenAI? Does the rest of the industry? Everybody is training larger and larger models, with research groups competing on who will be the first to scale up to some number of parameters.

It seems obvious that this would be something an ethicist would be interested in researching to figure out what the impact will be and start discussions about how to offset it.
> Anything less than effective immediate feedback is unacceptable for interactive use.

I feel like you're ignoring the presence of tactile feedback, which is in fact effective on the device in question. Possibly because basically no other electronic gadgets in your life give reliable tactile feedback anymore, so you're used to visual feedback as the only indicator that your tactile input was registered.
I think paras 2&3 were also the curse: firefox.com was a “good neighbourhood”, which made it convenient/accessible, but that’s good for the whole spectrum of actors.

I guess this is why most no-account file hosting is on sketchy sites.
> There have been a few high-profile cases, such as the college student who churned out AI-generated self-help and productivity advice on a blog, which went viral.

This is how much of the internet has felt for a long time. After this nugget, I now wonder if Vox is just a model trained on Piketty and Tumblr.

edit: Also not sold on the CO2 argument. Too many variables! Nerds will calculate and re-calculate such things, with the result jumping all over the place, swearing that they've gotten it right--this time! No humility, in spite of the odds.
Does anyone use Skrill? I want to donate 14 euro before closing my account
Hi everybody,

I have 14 euro on my Skrill account I created a day or two ago and I can't use them in any way but transferring to someone's account. I had enough with these scammers and I want to close my account.

Beware, my funds were deposited from MasterCard and they say recipient may have troubles using them.

I looked at FSF, at FreeBSD, - they don't accept Skrill. So, please recommend any charity or free software fund or your own project if you think it deserves this donation.

I don't want to harvest any of your info so don't leave your wallets here. Just comments with link or reason.
Native US here, in my mind burger means minced meat.
Name the specific true facts about reality you think these models are capturing that are at risk of being 'purified' by AI ethicists. List them.
I tried the Closed Captions but I found that it is quite slow (5-10 second Lag) and prone to errors when watching live broadcasts.

Maybe a ML application for live captioning is a more attainable solution, I wonder if it would be possible to use my gaming laptop and a quality mic to generate faster and more accurate captions than the ones being provided.
On a scale of 1 - 10, how angry do you get at the thought of a black person arguing with you? You can be honest. How hard does it get your forehead vein throbbing? What if she's also a woman? I'm betting the very thought makes you turn tomato red.
Japanese selvedge jeans are very durable but expensive. The fabric is made on traditional looms, sometimes the actual looms from 1950s and earlier (those are mostly wooden contraptions, which can be repaired and kept in working order indefinitely) and can be incredibly dense to the point when you can actually make new jeans stand on their own (only possible because jeans are starched during production, you are supposed to soak them before wearing). But even light-weight 10-12 oz selvedge denim is still on a different level from a department store jeans.

The problem with the most department store jeans, no matter the price, is that they use fabric made on high-speed wide looms. These looms use light and smooth thread so they can weave fast. The fabric comes out very light (because of the thin thread) and does not hold together quite well (because the fabric is held together by friction, reduced by the smoothness of the thread).

Of course, it makes no sense to buy expensive jeans for durability. $400 24oz jeans probably will last for 20-30 years but so will 10 pairs of $40 jeans from Target.
They were. Most tech people I knew had a 19 or 20 inch monitor, at 1600x1200 in the late 90s/early 2000s. 2048x1536 was available too. Early LCDs were usually 1280x1024 and by around 2005, larger sizes and 1080p LCDs were available. It was hard to find anything approaching the pixel density of an old, common CRT until around 2010 if I recall correctly.
It's not about features or performance for most of the population, who are light users. Most users of anything are not power users and modern smartphones are good enough for casual usage, since 2016 or so. Even mid range Android phones.

In the US iPhones are entrenched because of network effects (iMessage or whatever it's called) plus the Apple ecosystem. In the rest of the world where this is less the case, iPhones are a status symbol. Not even expensive Android phones have the halo iPhones have, especially in poorer countries.

Yes, people will enjoy the extra performance or extended software support, but that's not why they will buy them. I doubt 99% of regular users even know about those aspects.
Probably the best intro to machine learning 100 page machine learning book
Don't miss Jewel's elegy[1]. She's the one one who sent the letter in August. What a beautiful and heartbreaking gesture.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxqeOwVl0IQ
> I was little disappointed in the quality of this research

But the research is not even published yet
I’ve asked this but not heard a good response. What is holding apple back from building its own discrete video cards / eGPUs?

Could it be competitive in this area?
Most of these estimates exclude primary residence or the primary residence isn't a huge portion anyway.
> Whether or not you believe the 2 week deadline is a hard and fast rule followed 100% of the time, Jeff never made that claim

His words were, and I quote "we require two weeks for this sort of review". That is an absolutely false statement, and Jeff knows it. I see no other characterization than a lie. I take no solace in that fact, priors were that Jeff Dean was an above average executive and ran a more ethical then average org. I'm disappointed to see my trust was misplaced and that Jeff was willing to endorse that document, but I'm not going to not hold someone accountable when I see them do something obviously wrong, even if we work for the same employer. Ethics extend beyond that.

> 1 day is certainly unreasonable.

It is not though. It's the norm.

> We were told specifically they _were_ given an opportunity to revise

This is not true (if you believe this to be true, can you cite said statement?). I'd be more than happy to discuss this with you privately, my username should be obvious ;)
Long before the term "AJAX" was coined, we used hidden iframes to do the same thing.
The kinds of politicians these uneducated, white, rural people are voting for are surely not the kind to push for compassionate, evidence-based solutions to the addictions ruining their communities. They have only themselves to blame for their towns' blight.
France is now unable to build new nuclear centrals and intents to close 14 of them by 2035 - replaced by gas (mainly) and wind (when possible).

Paris also is one of the most congested city in Europe - which this move is actually trying to fix.
https://www.npr.org/2009/07/27/111091624/homeless-man-leaves...

They are few, but some people do choose that lifestyle. I also wonder, when people bemoan the number of people with PhDs working as janitors, how many of them have simply decided to play a different game.
I know you're joking, but the key difference is that OP's "controversial opinions" are high impact, whereas yours are not (e.g. spaces vs. tabs, 1-based vs. 0-based indexing). I don't think most of the opinions in the post are that controversial. Everyone who has ever worked for a fast-growing business knows it's OK to write garbage code sometimes, that some engineers 10x others, that unit tests are good, that SQL is to be treated as code, etc.
I find it very interesting that the sources and "further readings" are more often than not SO or stack exchange links. It is just a recognition that the collective knowledge, as informal as it is on forums, is often used as reference material like one of those dusty algorithm textbooks or a software engineering design book.
> Heroin addiction is a public health problem, ... The fact that you have to pay for treatment in parts of the US is unbelievable to me.

> Having access to naloxone and injection kits for free surely saved me from getting a blood-borne infection, and the counselling from the charity really helped.

Naloxone and Suboxone are so tightly controlled in the US that many addicts who want to get clean go back to heroin to self medicate (and many die). Why? The DEA bars any kind of relaxation and the private prison companies and the prison guard and police unions fund candidates that oppose any sympathy for addicts.

It’s capitalism all the way down.
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Dumping is only a problem when it's used to create a monopoly.

Producing something efficiently for cheap is not dumping.
Wow you knew that then? You must be rich off the stock you bought knowing how big they would get!
My controversial opinions:

- Good abstractions are hardware instructions on layers of steroids. Bad abstractions are tabula rasa models that don't acknowledge the nature of the operations that the hardware is doing.

- "var id: type" syntax is both ugly and impractical.

- "inconsequential syntax details" like my last opinion are actually important aspects of a programming language and not just bike-shedding.

- If a programming language includes a package manager that points to a repository by default, then it's a not a serious programming language.

- Drivers don't belong in the kernel. The kernel should just define an interface for you/manufacturers to write drivers for.
Be careful, or the ghost of Korzybski might come looking for you! (I just learned today that the Institute of General Semantics he started in 1938 still exists!)
Dumping is selling stuff below cost.
Hmm. Not related to the issue you mention, but also on that page, when I click a "Load more comments" link, it takes me to https://teddit.net/r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_th... , a webpage that just says "Cannot GET /r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_the_eternal_duel/genbcos/genr9x6".
> This has a "crush dissent" kind of vibe.

Yeah, and whether intended or not, a "fire anyone who gives you an ultimatum" strategy absolutely creates that vibe.

If you have a top down management style where you employees do not question anything you say, that might be the way to go, but I find in the software business what you want is the opposite. You want all the criticism and feedback you can get from your skilled and knowledgeable work force. If you don't get that, you're wasting the majority of that money in their pay check.

The irony here is that if you have a manager firing someone who presents an ultimatum, then tat in itself is effectively an ultimatum that you are supporting. ;-)

That of course also doesn't mean you accede to every ultimatum. I mean, if your business plan is to do X, you want employees that will help you to do X. If they are getting in the way of X, then you need different employees anyway. Usually though, you and they have already worked out that they want to work with you to help you do X before you hire them.

So the main reason you get ultimatums is because they didn't anticipate and do not like the approach you are taking to get to X. Assuming they are smart and have good judgement (and again, if not, why did you hire them? why are you paying them?), there's a very good chance that there are some problems with your approach and you'd be wise to at least consider that possibility and their perspective. They may be trying to save you from making a terrible mistake, and feel like it is incumbent on them to stop working for you because allowing you to proceed would be working against that goal you hired them for.

It's not uncommon for two people to have very different perspectives on what helps to achieve a company's objective. It's also not uncommon for one of those people to be horribly, horribly wrong. Sure, if you've got an employee who has presented an ultimatum based on horribly wrong judgement, it may make no sense be their employer.

I'll tell you though... just because their a subordinate doesn't automatically mean they are the ones exercising horrible judgement... and the farther you go up the food chain, the more severe the consequences from supporting someone's horrible misjudgement. So having a policy of summarily firing subordinates who present ultimatums both creates the wrong environment to get the best out of your team and terribly harmful for the leadership of your organization.
> But in the eighth grade she developed a crush on a boy a year older, and he asked her to take a naked video of herself. She sent it to him, and this changed her life.

Shouldn’t she also be charged with distributing CP?
>If you want "evidence" that billionaires fundamentally must provide some degree of real value...

Counterexample, the children of billionaires provide no degree of real value.
Thanks to the farming mentioned in the article (plus continued economic stagnation), prices in Japan have come down noticeably over the past 10-20 years. You can now find meals for under 5000 yen, and lesser fugu parts (eg hirezake, sake with toasted fugu fins) can be under 1000.
Is this what esteemed PhD AI ethicists spend their time on? It sounds like a useless grad school paper. I think much less of everyone now.
> The average transmission risk in the household is further elevated when intense physical distancing is enforced

How is this possible? Distancing _elevates_ within-household risk?
It's costly, but some people are willing to pay the cost, so there could be a viable market for it.
Let's not jump to conclusions. Yes, there have been numerous cases of "misses." But to evaluate the value of peer review for science, we need to know the "correct rejection" rates as well. Also note that we now know of these cases because science self-corrected, presumably via peer-reviewed replication / validation.
Okay, that's not decline, and not all of those figures are facts. Also, you seem obsessed with quantity of infrastructure built, which isn't really a great metric for measuring what you're claiming is happening.

The other poster with the analogy about a child's height is 100% accurate.
Leia is chained up in a skimpy metal bikini, while Han Solo & Chewy are thrown into the dungeon with their clothes on. Wonder why?
Tests, linting, and code review are all tools that we use to find mistakes before they get into production code.

A "dumbed-down" language is a tool that prevents one from being able to write certain classes of errors (e.g. some of the footguns from C).

Changing the language doesn't mean you make less mistakes, but it means that you make different kind of mistakes. I'm rather unlikely to make an error related to memory allocation in Python or Java, for example.
Switch to DuckDuckGo and don’t get AMP pages again. You can also use !g at the start of your search to try Google’s results. Search quality is good and I only check Google occasionally when I know I’ve found the answer that way before but it’s not one of the top results on DDG. I haven’t measured but I think this saves me time.
In the US, men aren't considered marginalized, and therefore having Male, White, or Straight affinity groups is frowned upon. They are often seen as opposition to Gender/Racial justice movements. People who bring up these issues are often labeled fragile or racist.

In my opinion, this leads to division and contempt/hatred for the other group. I live in a super progressive US state, and the university near me got a lot of backlash for hosting White affinity groups.