skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Combatting Vaccine Misinformation in the Age of the Internet
Watching shows can be enjoyable but when you observe someone else watching a show, you suddenly realize how contrived and zombie-like the experience is and how grating the tropes and sound choices are.

A friend introduced me to an experiment[0] to reevaluate my relationship with television and I've been spooked enough to not watch a show since

[0]https://micro.tedchoward.com/2009/12/17/the-zen-tv.html
Apologies - after revisiting the email thread you did indeed reply saying you’d take a look. My bad!

Meant to say that I didn’t get an update on fixes (nor did I expect / need one). Great to hear you’re addressing some of the systemic issues though. Makes me feel good that using Stripe will get back to being a joy to use.

And btw I know you care. The fact that you’re here anytime there’s a Stripe thread and that we engaged on Twitter shows that. The hard part seems to be ensuring others in your org care the way you do as you scale. Happy to see that still is the case at Stripe.
Testing ML Incident Detection using a cloud native microservices demo app
If you start with the second edition (C89 / "ANSI C"), you'll discover that C has barely changed.
World Economic Forum: Crypto, what is it good for? [pdf]
I was talking about notifying the authorities. The plant started emergency procedures but somehow informing the authorities wasn't part of it at first. Nuclear power is allowed to operate only because of official oversight and it should not be up to the operating company to decide whether the officials should hear of an exceptional situation and after which delay.
The gig workers taking legal action to regain control of their data
It was another failed attempt at communism.
I'm seeing a lot of push towards Discord in the USA as well; it's a bit awkward in that kind of usage, but when basically everyone is already using Discord on PC it's not hard to convince people to use the phone app.
Generally, I advise people not to look for "AI" ideas, look for problems that people have that might be improved or solved using machine learning. Unless you are specifically talking about problems that ML researchers and engineers have, in which case, you should work as one and build solutions like they would today, and see what problems you run into that can be improved.
America Should Stand with France Against Radical Islam
I saw this answered somewhere: the certification is only concerned with if your game bricks the console and not at all about the quality of the game itself.

Having said that, surely someone from the certification process would have commented on it: hey guys, your game doesn't brick the base PS4, but come on, its a buggy mess!
have you ever even heard of hindsight bias?

Yeah, Rockstar received all of the same criticism for a few weeks, then people stopped talking about it and forgot. Give it a month or two and people will stop talking about this one too.

> It overwhelmingly refers to the practices by Charles Lynch punishing loyalist supporters of the British during the American Revolutionary war

No, it doesn't, that's just some pedantry you learned on Wikipedia. Literally nobody uses the word "lynching" in that way. Language changes.
Thanks for the explanation. Single clicking on a panel and then clicking open on an image wasn't working for me.

This is awesome! I wanted a way to make a photo collage of our dog for my girlfriend and this looks like a great way to do it. Thanks for sharing!
The conclusion I came to is that some people are willing to put up with hooks if it means that they don't need to learn how classes and prototypes work. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it looks to me. Not all reasons are good reasons.
I use Saka Keys for vimbindings. Config can be exported and shared with other machines.
It seems to me that big issue right now is that things inside of plant that are usually dry were exposed to water.

I also wonder if particles of dissolved filter can be filtered out or got stuck onto the walls of the plumbing system and could cause issues at later time with sensors or cause another radiation spike.
Before clicking the title I thought "Flanderization" referred to another phenomenon I've noticed.

Here comes a rant.

I'm a christian protestant, have been a christian protestant my whole life and I live in Mexico, where being a christian protestant is not the norm. So I am used to the media making fun of me, or people like me and my family.

At 40 it seems just normal, you know? "Ha! christians are so backward-thinking close-minded goofus people" is a recurring trope and even I will laugh if the joke is funny. I also recognize that a lot of the mocking is well deserved. People like that do exist and they do harm.

But, recently I've been noting how Hollywood and media in general is bent on not showing any kind of positive representation of christians.

Take the Tolkien biopic (2019) for example, where there's not even a passing mention of him being a Catholic and the great importance theology and religion had on his work and on his life. I'm now expecting the new Amazon LOTR series to tone-down or even subvert the obvious christian motifs of Tolkien own works.

Another example is A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), based on the life of Mr. Rogers. Like I said, I grew up in Mexico and I didn't know anything about Fred Rogers, but 15 minutes into the movie I was incredulous on how saintly the man was portrayed to be. Turns out he was not only a Christian but a presbyterian minister, something which the movie goes greats lengths to "hide".

I'm not saying people should not make negative portrayals of christians (or any other religious group), but come on, wouldn't be great to have a positive representation of a christian minister who is good and kind and very anti-racist? I guess we'll never know.
I guess a culture that is mature enough not to be emotionally overwhelmed by their lust is also one with fewer unplanned pregnancies, a lower population, and less able to compete with more lustful cultures.
I hope they stop doing it, but most likely these platforms will just get banned in those countries.
They'll need to manage their own app store as I can't imagine they'll have gapps//shims out of the box, but that works in their favor if they wanted to do another mobile play.

When the new EU fair market regulation is accepted, they will be able to compete with an app store op Android (or iOS):

allow the installation and effective use of third party software applications or software application stores using, or interoperating with, operating systems of that gatekeeper and allow these software applications or software application stores to be accessed by means other than the core platform services of that gatekeeper.

Since they already allow alternative app stores (e.g. Steam) on regular Windows, not much changes for them in this respect. But they will also be able to compete with the Play Store and iOS App Store with their own store.

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Five “Witness Trees” Were Present at Key Moments in America’s History
No, much more than $34M in misbehavior. Hurt customers by $34M over what they would have been charged if they had paid commissions.

So Robinhood took money from its customers to this extent: all the cash as if its customers were paying commissions, and also $34M, and for that they're being fined $65M, which will probably be negotiated down to $2M or something like that.
Let me address the issue from a slightly different angle. White progressives calling Latinos “Latinx” is in some respects a demand for assimilation into prevailing American ideas of gender-identity inclusivity. (I recognize that it’s not an exclusively American phenomenon, but the movement has more purchase in the United States than in say Guatemala.)

There is a long tradition of Americans saying “it’s fine if you’re Catholic or Polish so long as you believe the same things that Protestant Americans believe.” This continues to this day. Whites set the direction of the Democratic Party on social issues, and Black/Hispanic/Muslim people, who are much more conservative on social issues, follow. (Obviously there are many Black/Hispanic/Muslim people who are socially progressive. But on average they’re much more conservative: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/27/5-facts-abo.... For example, 55% of Black Democrats say “you must believe in God to be moral.” Just 11% of white Democrats say that.)

I’m not criticizing all that, I’m just noting that it’s a power dynamic that clearly exists. However, these days, nobody wants to come out and say “it’s okay if you’re a Muslim immigrant from a country where homosexuality is illegal, but you’re in America now and you’re going to have to get cool with LGBT rights.” What happens instead is social engineering of people’s’ identities by media, academia, and political leaders. Ilhan Omar and Linda Sarsour are amplified and become the face of Islam. Movies and TV are filled with socially progressive hijabis. Progressive Muslim academics and writers are amplified and given platforms.

To use another example: fully half of Black people still do not accept same-sex marriage. Just half say abortion is morally acceptable. When was the last time a socially conservative Black person got any mainstream media airtime? Same thing with Hispanic people opposed to abortion? A Muslim who holds social views held by nearly all of the world’s billion Muslims?

I’m not objecting to the sentiment. I agree Bangladeshis who come to America should leave Bangladeshi views of homosexuality in the old country. What’s creepy to me is the mechanics of how this works. Instead of telling people, “you’re in America now and here’s what we believe” we are redefining peoples’ identities. We selectively amplify Bangladeshi voices that happen to agree with white progressives.
Nothing you do or say is innocuous when you're in a regulated market.
Genode runs on a variety of microkernels, the nice thing about them is they only do a very few things, so adapting to a new one shouldn't be hard, nor dangerous.
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Those are with the default settings but can't you increase the compression ratio target of zstd to match xz and still be significantly faster?
When will Windows Linux happen?

I genuinely don't understand the point of Windows as it exists anymore.

* Games are developed on cross platform engines. I can't remember the last game I played that was Windows-exclusive.
* Business apps work in the browser or Electron, or are otherwise cross-platform. Things that aren't, could work with emulation
* Developers are using unix-like operating systems, and MS has leaned hard into that. Windows is incongruent with the rest of their developer strategy.
* The server ecosystem is almost entirely Linux based, apparently even on Azure
* By all appearances, Windows is now a service that upsells other services, and there won't be a Windows 11 as we would traditionally think of it
* The people who know what an OS is, prefer unix-like OSes by a vast margin. The people who don't, wouldn't notice the difference.
* x86 looks even less like the future than it did a month ago

So I don't understand what the holdup is?
The FCC doesn't really care unless someone complains about interference. Given that the range of this is so low, the signal is unlikely to even reach your neighbors much less interfere with anything.
Well, seems like other black people recognize her as black too, so I don't know what else can you expect. A person identifies as part of a group and the group agrees.

It's kind of like asking if Obama is really African American/Black. Races aren't sharply divided, it's a social grouping thing based on history, culture, etc.
+1. I'm not sure exactly what the issue is here being described, but pay-per-use, running of large scale ML training techniques across high end instances can be done today. Maybe it's not cheap enough for this person, but if that's the case, I don't really expect a startup to find ways to make it cheaper (unless they subsidize with VC money, but that's not sustainable).
We were using modified lz4 (very much molded over our data) that was actually faster than memcpy of data that we were compressing.
You can put a clause in your contract that prohibits someone from using specific legal action at your discretion? That sounds wild so I am interested. What is the justification for this? How could anyone basically preemptively and effectively exempt themselves from specific legal action regardless of wrongdoing? What would happen if the other party tried anyway?
> you just shut out good people who want to do good things but can't figure out rules

It's not really that complicated to not work for a lobbying firm for 2 years after leaving a chief of staff position for a Senator.

Nor do I particularly want people too dull to figure out those rules to be making laws for our entire country?
It's possible that the company's values or behaviour have changed, but, more importantly, the decision to work at a company is mutual: both sides want it (the company expects the value an employee will bring exceeds the cost of their employment; hiring someone is not a charity), and they enter into this relationship when neither side knows everything about the other, certainly not how they would behave in the future. Just as the company can and does exert pressure on employees to do something they might not want, so can the employees try and exert pressure on the company to change a decision.
I'm a data scientist for a large company. Educational backgroud - master's degree in data science after an unrelated bachelor's and a ton of self-studying. Tools - mostly Python at work, otherwise Julia/C++ and I also know R which I don't really use these days.

Work is mostly fun and the culture is quite relaxed. The biggest challenge right now (a couple of years of experience) is deciding whether to specialise more in some branch of statistics or get more experience in building stuff and be an ML engineer next. I really don't know which of these two paths to take.
Music is still impenetrable to me because each song induces its own emotional landscape that is distinct from every other song, even in the case of over-produced tracks.

Of course, the emotional landscape is often "what is this garbage, turn it off"...
Where did she make demand coupled with threats? In her own words, she announced that she'd like to discuss an end date for her employment if she wouldn't be given the chance to fix the paper up for publication. This would very much fly in Germany. Her other email to the public list telling people to stop doing what they are doing might not, but then in Germany you'd have the Betriebsrat and the union stepping in and giving validation to such a firing (or not).

Googles problem is that Timnit - who was hired to investigate the ethics of AI - refused to just retract a paper that might contain inconvenient statements about the ethics of AI and then refused to just roll over when fired. And they refuse to adress that, and can't just be open and transparent about it by e.g. sharing Timnits emails to prove she was making threats and being unreasonable, so some people are made and have opinions.

In Germany, this would start and end with the Betriebsrat either blocking the firing or approving it. This would provide due process, transparency and legitimacy in one go.
Considering that every online card transaction within Europe now requires the more complicated payment intents model (because of the SCA, Strong Customer Authentication, requirements) I would imagine that it's a fairly significant percentage.
I am stating it how it is, not as I think it should be.
No, the jump/push analogy is too contorted to be meaningful. Employers and employees have a relationship that has processes that have common meanings and names like "resigned" or "fired".

There's no accepted relationship if you push someone threatening to jump. You're just an a-hole committing assault and possibly murder.

Is there a link to the letter that she sent? That could help to clarify.
also works perfectly on firefox on macos.
Thanks for the kind words and the heads up - I'll take a look at that today.
The value of Windows is to run three decades of legacy Windows applications. (four decades of MS-DOS) Being able to run those still represents an actual (but declining) value.

Also the value of Intel is all that legacy software. Without the legacy software, Intel could be just another ARM or RISC V competitor.
No one defines journalism as "what a journalist does," so there is no cycle.

If you ask Google to define "journalism," you get, "the activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or preparing news to be broadcast." See, no use of the word "journalist" in that definition, so no circle.
>course

I used to work with a developer whose second job was with HP back in the 70s. He was hired as a technician building lab equipment and had to be prequalified from an educational and trades/skill perspective to be hired.

Then they taught him to solder again. Their standards were apparently incredibly high.
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This looks great!

How is revocation handled? Will a proxy using sharewith as an oidc provider hit the authz graph on every request?
The writer intended this tutorial for absolute beginners without any experience in programming - which is, to be honest, totally bonkers! It's not a bad guide for someone trying to learn C as their second/third language though, it teaches you how to prepare a build environment to use third-party libraries in C, which is seldomly documented this clearly compared to other random articles on the Internet.
For sure I mean the table on Wikipedia. If you look 2013 and 2015, there were as well upside variations. Bolsonaro started his term on 1. January, 2019. To somehow attribute anything to him in this regards, you should wait at least 50% of his term. Unless the focus isn't in his work as president but on him as person.
TW3 played perfectly fine on base PS4 for me. Sure, some very action-heavy segments have some frame drops, but overall, it performed acceptably. I played it six months after release, for over 150 hours and I only had one severe bug in that time (I fell through the world, but was able to get back out, so wasn't even game breaking).
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Those can be harder to source I've found. Cheaper to use two filters than one as well since you can replaced the prefilter more often.
No it was the continuation of the tsars under a different flag, and putin again is a continuation of the tsars under a different flag. It never had anything todo with communism.

Russia always had just Kings/Emperors:

The Tsar

The Party

The Putin
The future is bright. Bitcoin serves as a scarce asset with a fixed supply, tradable globally without any intermediary. It protects your capital from currency inflation, banks, and bureaucracy.

Both decentralized and centralized technologies (Lightning and Liquid) for instant payment are maturing, so in the future there will be more means to trade Bitcoin instantly off-chain.

Privacy improvements like CoinJoin continue to be implemented, so the future will provide more means to conduct private transactions.
The FAQ page is a legal document just like every other web page.
> Ethics is now inside the corp. fence so it has to be heard.

Do you believe this is a viable trend? This debacle seems to point to the death of 'Ethics research' inside of corporations. What do companies stand to gain from hiring ethics researchers who are a liability to the shareholders? My guess is that the model will go back to using CSR budget to invest in 'social good' non-profits and think tanks that stay at a safe distance while still mentioning you as a 'Platinum Sponsor' and bringing you in for fireside chats.

(this is not me advocating against ethics research, or against bringing ethics into AI research; I'm just trying to be as cynically realist as possible)
Perhaps it's inevitable that there is crossover between those passionate about ethics and those who are activists, but there is clearly then a danger that there will - ironically - be a bias in recruitment in ethics teams towards activists.

If they themselves are then recruiting others "that fit in" there is an even greater risk that activists of a particular stripe will be overrepresented on teams like this, which imbalance (especially with regard to corporate culture) will inevitably lead to these sorts of clashes and overreaches.

After this has blown over, Google will do well to look deeply at the potential biases within recruitment in this particular area to ensure diversity of opinion is reflected; and further, that these teams are not siloed (as teams often are) to counter the echo chamber effect that appears possibly to have jumped straight from social media into the working environment here.
> If Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't targetting PS4 and Xbox One, CDPR shouldn't have released it for them at all.

Exactly. If they release and advertise it for a platform, it better work. If it doesn't, don't release on that platform.
Some of my work looks like I was trying to use solder as a conformal coating.
For low volume, it can cost more to set up the P&P machine, deal with alignments, check first articles, etc. than just soldering a few (dozen) board by hand. And there are a lot of small companies in niche markets whose annual production of a PC board might be in the single digits.

That and, people who hand solder stuff all day are fast.
Maybe works like Faust have deep resonance with people because we all make deals with the devil and are conflicted and make choices that balance not good vs evil or even evil vs some other evil but a whole menu of ambiguous options against each other.

It's the self-righteous who are the real enemies, not the people who knowingly make the best of whatever resigned compromises they find themselves forced to make.
> vs getting hit when your vulnerable implementation becomes popular.

Which is not going to happen, because there's no point in publishing something that is tailored to your specific purpose.
Blacks of the tech liberal elite consider her black. That’s not representative.

Obama has clear facial features of a black person. This woman does not have them. She even looks like she got a perm just to look more black.

Let’s agree to disagree ;)
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I have the same thing with saving threads on HN/Reddit...
I hope this isn’t true.
You're raising an ethics concern. Strangely, no self-styled 'ethicist' lavishly employed by BigTech appears to be interested in such a topic. It's almost as if the answer to why BigTech hires a certain brand of loudmouth 'ethicists' is to DDOS the public space and keep questions about economic inequality levels that surpass even the Gilded Era from gaining any traction.

https://inequality.org/great-divide/america-2018-more-gilded...
Online Harms – UK Finalise Plan for Ofcom Internet Regulation
The dogme movies I've seen aren't like theater at all.
This is true. We used to take horses (miniature horses, but horses) in our minivan. They wouldn’t have been able to stand upright in our suburban. We got some really odd stares when people would see a horse with its head between the drivers and passengers seats, looking out the windshield.
Not from advertisements, that’s for sure.