skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the term "ethics" has had its meaning warped lately, ironically for the purposes of "ethics-washing" which is what this article is claiming is happening when big corporations engage in AI ethics. When I worked at a FAANG company in the machine learning field, there was a group of people interested in ethics, but they never seemed to discuss different views on ethics. They often seemed to use the word as a tool to hide behind their collective action to force the company to change course.

For example this article says the following: "Members of Google’s Ethical AI team sent additional demands to Pichai, calling for policy changes, among other things.". If you look at these demands it includes the following:

* The dismissal of the company vice president.

* The reinstatement of Gebru at a higher level than she previously had.

The question as to whether these demands are ethical is not clear at all to me.

Another case in point, anecdotally I saw this a lot at the place I used to work, was the call for regulation to control AI research, and indeed this article talks about this in the section: "Scrap self-regulation". Taken from a different political perspective, someone might argue that giving more control to the state for the purpose of pursuing legitimised violence against AI researchers is unethical (note this is not my view it is an example). I saw people air views like this in the ethics discussions and given very unfavourable treatment, bordering on unethical.

It would be great if AI ethics was a field that produced solutions to problems such as verified datasets, best codes of practice and testing tools. Instead it just seems to be a way to highlight issues and advocate for political positions, which isn't in itself worthless but it feels like the first step in what should be a journey. Unfortunately highlighting problems is really easy, fixing them is the challenging part.

I often got the feeling that the people interested in this just cared about directing the labour of other people for their own interests, e.g. leading from behind rather than leading from the front. All seemed rather unethical to me.
Debunked? I’d always been told that this one man had stopped the column of tanks. Where had you heard that he had been run over?
Could Texas Replace Silicon Valley as the Major Tech Hub?
Really?! I thought it was cliché after cliché after cliché.

I was definitely entertained, but intellectually? No way. The time travel bits make no sense whatsoever if you think about them for more than a few seconds.

It’s definitely a show where a super heavy dose of belief suspension is needed, and I would be ok with that if the clichés weren’t sooo pervasive.
If you need to understand derivatives then start with Hull: Options, Futures and Other Derivatives. Then read Björk: Arbitrage Theory in Continuous Time. Both excellent books in their own ways.

But it depends completely on what kind of finance you’ll be doing!
The DoD (or the NRO) had this tech in the 80s? Wasn’t this SAR originally in the form of ground penetrating radar invention for finding nukes in ground siloes?
Exactly!

The author assumes the reader doesn't know what a terminal is, and goes from a "hello world" to a cross-platform graphical "hello world" using GTK-3 without explanation.

"Trust me, I don't have time to explain!"
In relatively free and somewhat uncorrupt nations, yes that makes sense, but I'm actually largely talking about entertainment. In the UK, the BBC makes all sorts of fantastic tv shows and documentaries that have no reliance on advertising or corporate sponsors
Word of mouth doesn't work for super niche services/products where e.g. there's a good chance no one who's recommendations you trust would be interested in the same type of service/product

It also favours more established businesses that are more known, making it harder for new businesses to gain any traction.

I'm not keen on advertising (I use adblockers on all my devices etc.), but there are definitely some (in my opinion) some compelling arguments on both sides.
India: Communist leader’s arrest shows conspiracy behind Wistron plant vandalism
It being fake isn't the same as manipulation.

Right, it’s the difference between an item being a prop, and being a paid-for product placement.
Another trick is to start with podcasts. I still remember stumbling upon hardcore history podcast. It was so good that I just walked hours randomly listening to the series on Mongols.

Generally podcasts are lighter than books. And generally fiction books are lighter than non fiction.
It does allow you to exit the boundaries of the application though, and e.g. extract the application's database.

That said, is it possible to disable superuser access entirely in a container? Can't login as root if there is no root.
Looks like a very good tool!

Shame it doesn't support Fedora. I all be definitely checking it out.
Flunked for returning 0 from main() in C? Not sure that's a competent shop.
> The economy will also collapse if climate change keeps going, the oceans are empty, topsoil is gone, aquifers depleted, insect populations decimated...

Yeah, there's a tension here it seems. But it's harder to fix a pension system with technology, and the system is much more socially fragile. There are policy approaches available in the US that might not be available elsewhere (e.g., lifting income caps on social security and medicare taxes) that will kick the can a bit further down the road, but it's challenging to make diverse societies peaceful and cohesive.

On the other hand, private enterprise and technology have a bevy of tools that aren't as readily available to policy makers. Government in principle can encourage more environmentally-friendly energy and food production, but they're not in the business of actually innovating.
What about javascript code on a harmfull website that does requests to localhost?

It used to be possible to easily scan what sites are running locally, even if js code was from a public website. [0]

[0] https://defuse.ca/in-browser-port-scanning.htm
I read quite a lot of books, probably about 2 per week. However I also have a bad case of tsundoku: there are 5 or 6 unfinished books on my nightstand (I probably should give up on some of those). There are about 100 books waiting to be read in my bedroom alone. Some have waited for more than 5 years :)
When I first saw the images I thought the tanks killed him/ran over him. That's what the first impression was.

Then saw the video.

Anyways, HN is not the place for geopolitical talk like this. And I dislike the trend of polluting the place with geopolitical rivalries.
Not wanting to get 50% of your savings stolen by the state/cantillonaire-class through dollar/fiat debasement every 5-10 years isn't greed. It is actually the opposite of greed.
Can you link?
We have used swappa.com to buy used phones for the last purchases. Let someone else pay the depreciation on the new phone and then get it cheaper. This also means you own the phone outright and switch carriers on a whim. We have iphones and they are 7 plus, 7, 7 and 11. The reason for the 11 is because switching providers gave us a discount. I was thinking about upgrading but it does what it needs to and the only feature I might take advantage of is better camera.

In my mind the cool new tech phase of phones has been over for a long while. They are like refrigerators now - any new features (TV in fridge) are mostly just gimmicks. There might be minor advancements in various features but they don't seem like reasons to upgrade. If people choose to put their disposable income into new phones every year, have at it, I'd rather spend it on hobbies.
One Weird Trick security camera manufacturers don't want you to know
Until WSL2 gets native support for audio, you can run Windows PulseAudio yourself - there are various guides listed in the comments of this issue:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5816
What's wrong with "FROM scratch"? As in, if you do not want the dependency resolution, file system layout and backported fixes a distribution gives you - what do you want "FROM scratch" to do? Docker already provides an init - is there something else missing? Libc perhaps?
If you've got root on a container, depending on how it's configured, you can gain access to the host in some situations (eg. Using volumes)
I wish there were a way to save comments on HN, because this is exactly how I feel about the movie / TV show industry down to a T.
SpaceX Is Launching a Fleet of Pirate-Hunting Satellites
Is there any evidence that targeted advertising is actually more effective? People were buying goods before targeted ads, and they are still buying goods.
Pandemic hit everyone, including us, that is why we cannot afford to subsidize free users anymore.

The new paid tier is ~$1.6 monthly or about 5 cents a day, which is affordable in every corner of the planet. We also never refused to help those that by some chance cannot afford it.
But non-root users within the container can also access mounted volumes, no? Is there some kind of exploit that only works if running as root?
Device ID
> "although in some cases, the fraudsters gave the appearance they were customers who were accessing their accounts from new phones"

SMS
> "... report doesn’t explain how the crooks managed to steal SMS messages and device IDs"

GPS
> "spoofed GPS locations the device was known to use."

If you can gather all 3, is there any way to stop you? They probably have some hardcore malware (potentially using zero-day vulnerabilities).
The only solution might be to ban certain phone models (usually the cheap ones...)
It includes binaries for VcXsrv[1], which is an X11 server for Windows. This project itself seems to be glue code that helps you set up and manage VcXsrv and it's connection with your WSL instances.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
Docker has a user namespacing feature which can be used to harden container images and also a newer way to run rootless altogether - https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/
You gave the vendor RCE when you installed their software in the first place.

Automatic updates are overall a huge net positive for security, despite this hack.
After experimenting a bit, the harmony appears not to be a simple function of the note you play. Perhaps it's taking into account previous notes, and putting harmony in the context of a 'piece'? (that would be cool) Or maybe it's more simply random.
The world would be immeasurably better if Facebook vanished. What a cancer on humanity.
> “Search while writing” reminds me of an idea I’ve had passing fanciful interest in: a device that universally ingests all the content I’ve read, words I’ve typed or said, and topics I’ve heard.

You could build a limited version of this with a browser extension, but the greatest problem with it would be that note taking also helps prioritize, and for everything you've ever read to show up in ThinkType would distract from your own notes. You would have to have priorities, with automatically added notes having a lower priority then manually added notes.

But for now I'm going to focus on making it easier to save notes, maybe build a browser extension that makes it really easy to select text and save it as a note.

> I think it’d be clearer if a quick summary sentence of ThinkType’s functionality came in a block before the inspiration-monologue part. Reading that while searching for the gist of ThinkType sapped at my curiosity a bit.

I'll try think of something, but I find it hard to explain.

> This helps assuage my concern that I might miss something when searching for it later, eg if I don’t choose the correct term to search for, or had a typo in the original note.

I thought about this problem, but I worry that having two spell corrections, one from the browser and one from ThinkType would be irritating.

> If there was a separate desktop app where all this functionality was first class, I would use it, because then I could use CMD+Tab to switch to that app, while keeping my VSCode windows for my coding.

This reminds me a bit of emacs vs vim: With emacs (and roam and notion etc.) the idea is to have one instance of the program always open. But ThinkType loads so fast then you can use it like vim: Open it in a new tab whenever you want to write something down. And that has the advantage that it's easy to work on several notes at the same time.
Toxicological analysis of George’s marvellous medicine: literature review
click on the timestamp, click "favorite" (note the lists of favorited submissions and comments are public in your profile)
Without Norms, Societies Fall Apart
Deepmind swallows £1.6bn as losses continue
Nvidia Isaac Gym: End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
Wow, that's unbelievable! Much of the dialogue in the screenshots is extreme cringe. Do wokes ever interact with actual human beings, not to mention high school kids? And I still don't know how we're supposed to pronounce "Mx" like in the developer's handle. "Mix?" "Mux?" (Would a male be "Demux" in this scheme?)

The saddest part are the glowing reviews in Vice Motherboard and The Verge.
Mr. Ed, please. We have standards.
> it gets harder and harder to enjoy many movies and TV shows

Well it’s not like they didn’t warn you! [0]

[0]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuin...
There's that too, and the US political system ensures that that is kept in place - companies hire lobbyists, lobbyists cozy up to politicians, money is funneled to said politicians' election funds, and politicians are either formerly business leaders, or have a cushy high paying job waiting for them after their term if they play their cards right.

I think with all this (and the cases vs FB, Apple, etc), the tech sector didn't manage to pay and influence the politicians enough. Which is quite telling for the US' political systems.
What a shitty concept. Typical Linux NIH (learn from zones jails lpar...no we need to reinvent the wheel in square format)
> until stakeholders eventually saw the value

What's the value if it's gone in 2 years? I wish they'd put similar effort into preserving the app/servers (simple life support) instead of shutting them down.
This paper is fascinating and probably the basis of the article (I can’t tell since it’s paywalled):

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046

I think the really sad part is the increased burden of rules supposedly to protect kids that are useless, such as booster seat laws.
I've been using Clojure for about 12 years now. I don't have any specific pointers, but the Clojure web site is a great starting point. There are plenty of talks from conferences, as well as several good books.
Secure your containers with advice from Liz Rice
Stores of value early in their lives have volatility that subsides eventually. Losing 50% of your USD savings every 5-10 years thanks to dollar debasement isn't a "flight to safety"
Maybe. But boy did they kill quite a few others. Not that we know for sure where he is.
Amazon Has Turned a Middle-Class Warehouse Career into a McJob
Prove that hyper targeting is more effective.
I don’t think this will happen at all. I don’t think Apple wants to be in the ad business. I think their goal is to create a premium experience. Ads aren’t premium and risks damaging their brand.

I think they think of it like this: Why should someone else make money off of their users? Why should they help Google and Facebook anymore than they have to?

They have also positioned privacy as a premium feature. And it is a big differentiator from Google who can’t ever say that. Google’s whole business is centered on collecting data and renting it out to advertisers.
> I like the analogy that English writers don't have to be at Shakespeare's level; even being able to write a shopping list is a very useful. Hence it's a good idea to teach everyone reading and writing at school.

Language "skills" are strongly social. Literary acclaim falls squarely within celebritydom. Your ability cannot be too far off from the mean or else few will understand you. Though there may be some unmeasurable internal utility as a thinking tool.

We learn to read and write to do it as well as our peers do. This covers 99% of the utility.

There may be a social argument for programming, software is eating the world and having some shared understanding may be useful. But clearly technical ability is much less socially bound. The point at which you stop getting extra utility is very far from the mean.
Which is why dictatorship is the absolutely worst form of government. If dictators were always awful, then at least their nations would be united against them. The better the dictator, the more power they and legitimacy they accrue, the more intense the civil war when they are succeeded by a bad dictator.
No, a universe in which Google exists but wasn't committing fraud as monopolistic mobster middleman, handling both delivery and measurement of delivery. Google did and does what any mobster does- claim the vast majority of the value and let a trickle flow back to the producer, striking deals ordinarily understood to be illegal to maintain their position, while creating reports for producers that conveyed a false view of their role in the middle. Few producers survive with the mob as their distribution.
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/09/25/rootless-conta...
According to their report [1], "critical vulnerabilities" include:

* coin miners, including images designed to mine coins, eg. kannix/monero-miner

* images for "Hacking Tools"

These two categories account for 64% of the 51%.

[1] https://prevasio.com/static/Red_Kangaroo.pdf
What Is the Diameter of a Square?
Nice discussion and comparison of techniques. I just bookmarked this for something I expect to be working on next year. Thanks to the author.
This is the most comprehensive discussion on this topic, which also deals with the fallout on Twitter. Includes (anonymous) comments by Google employees:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...

Otherwise this search will cover most of the HN debate:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gebru
I wondered that too and then saw this from tfa:

“ "If you recall the Wankel," says Schkolnik, "they have a triangular rotor inside a peanut-shaped housing. We have the opposite, a peanut-shaped rotor in a tri-lobed housing. So take everything you know about the Wankel and turn it literally inside out. They have a long, skinny, moving combustion chamber, we have a stationary combustion chamber that's nice and round. You can drive it to a high compression, just by making the chamber smaller. And because it's stationary, we can directly inject fuel where the Wankel could not. So those are the two key advantages of the diesel: high compression ratio and direct injection.”
Huawei reportedly tested ‘Uighur alarms’ to help China track Muslims
So from what I understand an important part of microwave operation is food soaking up the waves. Never heard any other faraday cages use absorption. Kinda wonder why not.
Issue their own hardware tokens to customers? A FIDO NFC key can be pretty cheap, though I guess the really low-end phones might not have NFC.
Personally it's simple and all the important shortcuts are displayed on the screen.

If I ssh into a machine to change a config value I prefer it to vim/vi.

I'm not going to write anything using it, but for quick edits it's perfect.
So human rights are just a geopolitical issue?
Even if you are happy with Audible it is worth trying to cancel every few months because it is highly likely they will offer you a substantial discount every time.
In the US at least, the bank is responsible for losses right? At what point do they begin to secure all this? I have a number of accounts and not one is true 2FA: only one is SMS, the rest are user/password only.
Both Windows and Mac OS run Linux apps better than Linux does now. No greater testament to the humiliating defeat of open source than this.
Every now and again this pops up on a different forum. I wonder how much is actually hand soldered any more vs. pick and place machines with SMT.
Warren Zevon said "We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them" and I mostly agree. Most book acquisitions are an aspiration to experience and a desire to flower in some particular direction, to pass a little afternoon in enjoyment, or even to master a concept.

I look at my unread, unwatched, and unheard media and I think it's a window into who I would like to be, even if only something so shallow as the years free to enjoy them.
Server-concern-less.

I.e. you don't need to concern yourself with provisioning, nor maintaining, a server as that part of the process has been abstracted away from you.
Bitcoin has "unlimited upside" because USD/fiat has unlimited downside. Infinite debasement is normal in fiat, until the currency is destroyed at least.
VcXsrv with SSH forwarding can work quite well in my experience. It also supports OpenGL so it is worth giving a shot.
If you have seen any Ad on Web, Mobile or "smart" TV, most probably they are from Google.
More information on the plant disturbance at Olkiluoto 2
That's how I do it- mostly to run urxvt.

Off-Topic: I'm setting up a new machine, and wondering whether I should use WSL 1 or 2 (or both?). Is there a clear path forward for these systems? WSL 1 has served me pretty well. Most of the inter-filesystem interaction amounts to using rsync to back up directories. Otherwise it's just sshing into servers. I use virtualbox for off-line development.
We're really just telling the compiler to find a file called stdio.h and act as though its contents were included at that part in our program.

Whether the full function is there or linked later is a matter of implementation (some headers have full functions, typically trivial "inline" functions).

I can't remember what the standard says via the stdlib, but in general a library you load later on may not have all/some of those functions, but as long as you didn't use them you'll be fine (just as with a redundant forward declaration you yourself did).

And finally the whole "linking" part of C is mostly just a widespread convention, not something that the standard really dictates. See section 6.2.2 [1] for the brief words on it mainly to do with "static"/"extern". But the whole "compile" -> "link" (to some existing .so/.a) -> "program" is all implementation defined.

1. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
What is an "H/T"?
Hyper-realistic is probably exaggerated a bit, but it looks realistic enough to not really notice in the street if you're not paying attention, and to not be detectable at all for a camera (unless they're IR cameras, the heat will be wrong)
Performance Regression Testing
It depends on the type of the book though. Harder books are better on paper. If we don't understand a sentence or a paragraph, it can be quite annoying to constantly rewind. But on paper, we can read the paragraph ten times if we want to. And make notes on the margin.

Audio books are awesome for fiction, biography etc
Here's all the specs I could find for the satellite itself.
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/capella-2.htm
We have a guide for it in microsoft/vscode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Selfhosting-on-Wind...
> Wonder what all the redacted is.

My guess it's related to the page rank algorithm.
Financing cars is a poverty trap. There are cars in the 1-2k range that work perfectly fine and will reliably work with minimal maintenance, and there are sub 1k cars that run ok enough that you can use as a bridge to save enough for a slightly better car.

Financing a car is a double whammy because you pay interest and have a deprecating asset. At the low end cars really don't deprecate much. The act of not having a car payment is a great first step to building wealth.
In what way do Windows and Mac run Linux software better than Linux?
I believe the general investment community looks at the Bitcoin price as a signal for overall interest in the crypto space.
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf says coronavirus approach 'has failed'