skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Content moderation has been ~solved as well.

> I strongly disagree. Pornhub just purged 10 million videos because they couldn't moderate out child porn and rape videos.

PornHub is not a good example here. Reactive content moderation doesn't work for porn, because it's too hard to distinguish a positive from a negative. Content moderation for porn has probably been solved...by using a per-clearance model coupled with strong identity verification.

> There's terrible content all over Facebook

That's probably true, but the worst appears to be much harder to find. It's a lot easier to detect and ban all porn (especially if you can ban all nudity) than just certain heinous kinds of porn specifically.

> - Facebook’s improved AI isn’t preventing harmful content from spreading https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/19/facebooks-improved-ai-isn...

> - Despite Facebook ban on Holocaust denial, it’s still easy to find https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/despite-facebook-ban-on-holoc...

Facebook seems to have more problems with trickier things, like hate speech, holocaust denial, and mis/disinformation. We have pretty good technology now for recognizing things in images, but we don't nearly technology that good for understanding the meaning of speech and text.
Really enjoyed these water and swimming analogies, but I think air and flying analogies would be better, since it's just so damn hard to fly. You see the birds and dream, but to actually take off takes something else, and even then we stay relatively close to the ground (within our atmosphere). From someone who's not seen an airplane, to then keep going into the stars is pretty crazy. There's a saying that to become enlightened you have to be willing to fall upwards. I think there's an ingredient of that in exploring new frontiers.
The main point is the ideal night train scenario as per grandparent comment could be rare. Checked a number of possible 1000km routes [0], most were over 10h. Found just one that took 8h, Paris - Berlin. And these are not night trains. The night train for Paris Berlin seems to take 12 hours.

I traveled a relatively short distance by plane recently and the airport time+location overhead was just about 1 hour (got from one house to my other house in 2 hours with a 1h flight). And the train would have about 20 mins of overhead. So the effective overhead was more like 40 mins in this specific case. Of course it could be much worse for many routes. But probably mostly under 2h even under very unfavorable conditions. So you're looking at 3-4h by plane.

[0] and was being pretty generous by only checking western europe too. In many parts of Europe buses can be faster than trains.
> or would it have spawned enough copycats during its slow growth phase who would soon make it infeasible to scale up and hire the kind of engineers that a venture like ridesharing would need?

Would that be a problem? At least from the point of view of a customer, I don't want a single megacorp owning the market (and let's cut the marketing BS: Uber is not a startup, and hasn't been for a while; it's a multinational corporation). More "copycats" is usually better, as they compete (until they start racing to the bottom, but that's another issue entirely).
Facebook publicly launches its collaborative music video app, Collab
My point here is not to deny the achievement of creating your own chip design, but rather demystify how the M1 achieves its performance, and I believe it has mainly to do with TSMC's 5nm technology and the huge number of transistors.
If you look up here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
You'll see that the M1 is the first CPU/GPU (for computers) to use 5nm and one of the biggest by transistor count.
Considering those facts I think it is very unfair to claim that the M1 is faster only because of some Apple magic.
The Ryzen used in this test is also made by TSMC but using a 7nm process.
According to TSMC moving from 7nm to 5nm means 84% more transistors for the same chip size with a 15% speed improvement or a 30% lower power consumption.
You can set up filters. How am I ever supposed to reliably sift through the noise on Slack?
Direct Air Capture Is a Public Good for Climate Era
Neat! There isn’t much content there. I became interested in this topic when I saw Edmonton’s winter design guidelines a while back, there are lots of considerations in this document https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/documents/pdf/winter...
Always bed. I'm tall, so it was always too short :(
Did he also take part on Microsoft's attempts to prevent open graphics standards?
William Barr to Step Down as Attorney General Before Christmas
What can we do to battle such grotesque systemic racism in the valley? Mandatory class on critical race theory? Fine of $10B+ per company for racial equity fund? Mandatory firing of over-represented groups? There’s so much we can do yet we chose not to. Such a disgraceful racist country.
Twilio[0] is company with a communications API. They have an API that allows you to do phone calls, SMS, fax, video calls, email, etc. If you've every used an app that sends you SMS it was most likely powered by their API.

[0] https://www.twilio.com/
Wow, we recently had a scare with our five year old passed out in her room with a bottle full of Tylenol strewn about. Getting an artery stick on a five year old is one of the most awful things I’ve had to endure, but I wasn’t going to trust a five year old on whether she had taken the pills or not. Turned out she hadn’t taken any! But it was super scary, Tylenol poisoning is no joke, and we have lock boxes for all our medications now.
No it cannot. That method misses repeating characters, which makes it pretty useless unless your password is otherwise guessable. Also you have to hope that the order is right.

For credit card numbers that means that you’ll miss at least 4 digits and you won’t know their position among 16. I’m not gonna do the math but that’s a few times more than 10000 guesses necessary to find the final number.
I wonder if this opens the platforms to adversarial use cases, such as gate crashing the Q&A session with such keywords, eventually spoken out at some ultrasound frequencies so that humans can’t hear it, but machines will (if fed raw audio rather than meeting minutes, in an attempt to pick up emotions)... :-D

2025: CEO apologizes after barely audible cries of infant in the background of a WFH earnings call tanks stock price, as deep learning algorithms trained on misery detection interpret that to mean company is in dire straits.
One of my classmates died of Tylenol overdose when I was younger, so this lesson was imparted upon me rather quickly. She wasn't that close to me personally, but still, its a lesson I won't forget.

In that case, she got into a car accident and started taking Tylenol for some chronic pain related to the accident. A few months later, she was dead.
> Unfortunately, I'd imagine it exists, but that it basically says "the FTC can do whatever it wants if it thinks a company is being 'abusive' or 'misleading consumers'" with some vague definition of what that means.

Again, this is rather ironic given the nature of what Facebook et al are doing. Vague clauses in unreadable Privacy Policies don't really constitue an adequate defence in the mass harvesting of personal data, yet here we are.
There are a lot of trains I'd take in America if they were also had car carriages. There's only one East Coaster that does it. Pity, and I get why (no one else seems to want it) but if it were to happen, I'd be pretty happy. Imagine parking your car on the train, hanging out with your friends in a private room, sleeping on the train and then waking up in Denver and just hopping into your car to go up to Aspen. Nice.
> This year, Mr. Maril started an organization, the Knuckleheads’ Club (“because only a knucklehead would take on Google”), and a website to raise awareness about Google’s web-crawling monopoly.

https://knuckleheads.club/introduction/
> It has become clear to me that for young men of my generation that this type of video-gaming is very much the equivalent of 'doomscrolling' as mentioned in other comments, and is generally pretty harmful.

I'm not sure I agree.

I have always enjoyed games where there is payoff for grinding. Usually, I enjoy the grind element as well. It isn't too far off of the sensation I get when working on a personal project or learning new tech. I used to "doom scroll," but have eliminated my FB and Twitter and harshly curated my Reddit due to the significant stress it was placing on my life. I never really enjoyed seeing what was going on with Twitter, I guess I felt obligated to keep up with things that ultimately didn't matter.
A minimum of a duplex or triplex would mean a ton of redevelopment here. Main thing is that there's a massive oversupply of single family homes, with 4-5 people rooming up to fill them and make rent. If we had more 1-2 bedroom units a lot of people would be made a lot happier.
I drink plenty of water - rarely drink alcohol but diet on the other hand may not have been all that good in the past although now I am on a lean one and move around a lot - I will definitely check for gout if it happens again. Thanks for bringing this up - it was bugging me on and off that I had something happen that I don't know the root cause for!
Zoox a Vehicle Built for Riders
Perhaps the poster meant "vitality"
False dichotomy, they aren't threatening to exploit it, they simply won't give details of the exploit if they aren't paid.
> The friction was both a drag on productivity AND a safety mechanism to prevent mass spread of inaccurate or low quality content.

I don't think this is correct. I remember a bunch of outlets from the seventies and eighties which had all of: far reach, inaccurate and low quality content. It was just restricted to few influential people with enough money. I think this is the reason why social media are fought that hard: these people lose their influence (not that I am fond of social media). The past was not that rose as we like to paint it.
I heard that if Tylenol was released today as a new drug, the FDA would not approve it, which is kind of scary to think that it's on shelves now.
True - I was out changing my car battery in shorts and a t-shirt the other day when it was 5c out. As someone else pointed out, they take it to extremes in the north-east - I was in a park one christmas in Newcastle and despite being -1 and snowing, there were people in shorts and t-shirts.
What a wonderful article :)

From what I understand, she showed that for mice, gender-specific behavior is triggered mostly by pheromones and their processing in the nose. This is such a strong effect, that knocking out the gene will make male virgin mice behave like female mothers.

I wouldn't be surprised if something similar also exists in humans, because many languages have phrases like "fail the smell test" for an unsympathetic person.
Commissioner Phillips makes a pretty disingenuous argument. The purpose of FTC Act Section 6(b), as I'm sure Phillips well knows, is to collect information in order to inform the FTC's ability to propose policy and legislation. In fact reports written from 6(b) requests are often called "studies" or "policy research" in the media.

> These are different companies, some of which have strikingly different business models.

That's usually the goal when you're sampling how an industry operates.

And so disingenuous are the other points he makes that I honestly don't believe Phillips believes most of what he's written. But when I got to the sentence where he called the FTC's privacy staff "the most impactful privacy enforcers in the world" and the FTC's regulation of consumer privacy "an effective enforcement program" it's hard to take anything else he says seriously.

I'll admit I did get a kick out of him citing Executive Order 13892[1] which basically says government agencies must be "fair and transparent" when collecting information from regulated entities. How deliciously ironic he's willing to put his foot down in the name of unfair, confusing, and overly broad information gathering.

[1]https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/10/15/2019-22...
It's a pretty neat idea. For homepage content consider bringing some of your help page content over. Your help page is great, concise description about what it is and how to use it. The skateboarding heart person is neat, but I'd rather you tell me about the product.

Hows the audio quality? / Can I broadcast via the Internet instead of a voice call? One thing that always bugs me with classic, terrestrial talk radio is when a guest caller calls in with tinny, heavily compressed audio vs the hosts crisp clean audio. I suppose it wouldn't be as noticeable if the hosts have similar audio quality to the guests.
I thought we were talking about machine algorithms, but it doesn't really matter. We're talking about a simple statistical mapping between two boolean properties: skin tone and citizenship. You stipulated already that, for a given light-skinned person, the algorithm (machine or human) will return "non-citizen" with 99% confidence, and that that confidence interval is correct.

As far as I can tell, we can conclude from those facts that there is no bias (maybe I'm wrong, but I consider bias to be an errant belief); however, there are still potential issues:

* For what applications is 99% confidence acceptable? Can we do better by avoiding a statistical analysis altogether, e.g., by using citizenship records?

* Do we really believe/trust that humans are capable of 99% confidence (calling into question the fact that you established in your original post)?

* Are users of this algorithm rounding 99% up to 100%, thus disenfranchising one group 1% of the time (as opposed to distributing the error proportionately between the two groups)?
I think I know, too, and I differ from you.

I think the post people are asking about got downvoted because you are saying thinks like "Discomfitingly, 'the world' or 'society' is really just an idea in an individual's mind - these are just ideas that don't exist independently of individuals." And you're just stating it like it's true, with no justification.

More, you're saying "Discomfitingly", like this "truth" is obviously true but we don't want to hear it because we don't like it. If nothing else, that violates the site guideline of the principle of charity. But I think it's deeper than that. I suspect that you maybe actually think that - that you're actually, obviously right, and anyone who disagrees with you is deliberately blind. That kind of attitude draws downvotes any time it escapes into your words.

In particular, the parent post to this one. I'm surprised that it isn't downvoted. In fact, I did downvote it, purely for the "you're a bunch of whining crybabies with your heads in the sand because you downvoted me" that runs all through it.

And:

> Worst to me, is that HN facilitates teeny, tiny acts of violence against me.

If you think downvotes (or being rate limited) are violence, you need to separate your identity from your words.
That seems like a non-sequitur. How do "the intention is GC support" and "the C++ standard may remove concept" imply "these two are not the same concept"?

To my knowledge safely-derived pointers are entirely about the notion that the derivation of a pointer matters, not just its value. Which is why you can't legally subtract pointers belonging to different arrays, for example. Which is precisely what is the same concept that provenance refers too... right? I don't see any differences pointed out in my readings or in your comment.
So, then should Advil (ibuprofen) always be taken instead? When is it appropriate to take Tylenol over Advil?
> Free press and free speech doesn't mean you can force other people to publish your speech. It just means that government is not allowed to suppress it.

That's a fair point. This has been an interesting exchange. I'm still not sure if we've actually been agreeing with eachother without realizing it (due to me misinterpreting your meaning), but I've enjoyed the discussion. It's helpful to talk about this sort of thing if for nothing else than to reaffirm our own positions. I appreciate that you came back to the conversation to continue the engagement over the course of nearly a week, like a long game of chess. Your argument did cause me to reassess my own positions in a few cases, and that alone made the exchange worthwhile.
What do you mean by projections? Do you have another example?
Being a white colonialist in any form should be illegal!
Usually I'm mostly done after beating a Diablo game a couple of times at various difficulty levels, but I still find them fun to play periodically. I think the fact that they become tedious after a while is not a bad thing since otherwise you'd never stop playing! They are also fun and easy games to pick up and play with friends or family (especially D3 in couch co-op mode.)

Regarding game vs. IRL skills, I enjoy Guitar Hero quite a bit, but Rocksmith actually improves your ability to play a real guitar.

Rock Band drums are pretty close to electronic drums though, and vocals are actual vocals.

And as I've mentioned, Ring Fit Adventure (which I'm still playing) kind of levels you up. I found similar effects with Wii Fit, where years after stopping playing (and switching to non-balance based exercises) my sense of balance was surprisingly better than it had been before I started playing the game. I expect other physical games like Dance Dance Revolution are good for physical coordination, and I expect twitch games such as FPSs are good for eye-hand coordination and reaction time.
12-30 is a bit overkill.

Kraków, Poland with 780k inhabitants has "only" 10

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.06881/19.94768&laye...
I wonder if they use password managers. All the household-name corporations and small startups alike where I worked for the last decade used a password manager.

Selling a subscription to a government org should look like a tasty enough piece of revenue pie to attract multiple bidders, I assume.
Let me be cystal clear. I've worked in domestic violence. Cops will use various tools to stalk their ex'es despite your claims that back door or priveleged access will not be abused.

Jump over to healthcare, the worker with full access to the govt it system for cases WILL lookup their friend / family members / neighbors / famous person if they see them on site or realize they are in system.

I have one experience with a private health HMO. A close relative, senior doctor, absolutely knew they would be immediately fired if they looked up family records. It was crazy, they would not do ANYTHING related to family stuff even by request of person involved. Obviously this place had some type of audit trail, some type of monitoring team for non-assigned patient record lookups etc.

My govt IT job, to do billing you had to be able to see case notes, and the system was integrated across of a ton of agencies, so everyone basically had access to everything and because you had to share logins and passwords (it took like 6 months to get a new account setup) there wasn't any accountability (not that I think they monitored anyway).

I came away very unimpressed. We had to use outdated IE / Java combos etc. as well and block all system updates. The default landing page was an unregistered domain name.
Firstly, as others have pointed out, these companies collect information on people who have never opted in.

Secondly, they purposely set up a walled garden such that you can't see some things unless you make an account. Like say, the thousands of businesses with no website but only a Facebook presence. Or reading political discourse directly from politicians on Twitter. Or, as is very often noted, the easiest place to get support from companies seems to be on social media.

The latter isn't really easy to solve. One can say who cares, don't join then. But it can put you at certain disadvantages.
I'm in no special position to interpret Hacker News rules/guidelines, but I can say that I find pretty much all posts like this from Cockroach Labs to be super interesting and worth my time, if for no other reason than because CockroachDB is one of the most interesting things happening in the world of databases at the moment. I'd say much the same of its distant, MySQL-flavoured cousin, TiDB, but I don't see nearly as much written about that. I guess this mostly just reflects a lower emphasis on marketing by PingCAP... but if the equivalent content did exist I'd be up-voting it just the same.

So while the reason Cockroach Labs employees are paid to write these articles might ultimately be marketing, they're far from being what I'd consider marketing fluff pieces, and so it feels to me that they're at least as much "for curiosity" as they are "for promotion".

Again, I'm in no special position to interpret the rules, but I find it hard to object to the content itself, and I figure most articles like this are going to get posted here eventually anyway. Would proper Hacker News etiquette be to wait for someone not affiliated with Cockroach Labs to post it?
There were also the Tyelnol murders that are I think still unsolved? Did not seem to have stopped people from using it which is a surprise really.
And there was me thinking 'Tylenol' was ibuprofen.

I think it's so weird (different English speaking) countries having different names for drugs, you'd think it would be something worth standardising. Well, acetaminophen is the standard/medico name I believe (paracetamol to Britons), but why don't we just all use that? Weird.

While I'm at it, Advil = ibuprofen. The latter being both the common UK and 'standard' name I think.
I love the scuffed clubhouse clone vibe! I wanna try this!
Because American Express and Discover is lumped in there too? What happened to all of the other payment processors?
Personally i dont mind about people who believe in god or whatever it is. No intention to hurt anyone feelings.
But for sure would be good stop others telling them not verified news for the centuries. I.e. about life after death or any kind of magic's.. even santa claus story will be out of law..
Good, we will have fast progress from this moment onwards.
I think, just like with other addictions, it matters whether everything else is in place in your life. If you have friends and stable relationships, it's less of a risk. The most difficult part for me was while studying in a foreign country, especially after many (temporary) friends left for their home countries and I didn't know many other people.
Sorry, we will fix the CSS asap, until then if you are still interested you could look at the copy on Medium:
https://tinodelletna.medium.com/fractal-architectures-a-soft...
Yes, this is both true and somewhat unfortunate.

For tourism, and if you're young, the Interrail tickets are probably attractive (one or two months unlimited for XXX EUR).

There are also various methods of price discrimination now being used by rail companies, essentially modelled on airlines'. I. e. buying early, limited tickets sold in specific channels such as discount supermarkets etc.

Of course this negates one of the advantages of rail travel: that you can just hop on any train and buy your ticket after departure (for a small fee), or ten minutes before departure, using using your phone.
Empire of Fantasy
Barcelona - Seville did the same, as it went through the high speed rail network, and I couldn’t sleep during the stop because the absolute silence, meanwhile while it was moving I sleeped very well. shame that they closed the line, I recall boarding at 9, having a nice dinner on the restaurant, and sharing the bunk with my girlfriend. Then, waking up, taking a shower in the smallest posible bathroom and be ready to visit the city.
How little would it have to cost or how long would your vacation have to be to compete with a simple rental? Sometimes you can rent for $15/30 a day and I don’t think transporting a whole car would be particularly cheap, given the price of a train ticket in the US.