skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Manhattan trade was unethical and the Dutch knew it[1]. The comparison is not apt, to update it:

Aliens land and offer exchange of a novel metal alloy for your house and its land. They demonstrate the metal alloy has incredible sci-fi properties and its value (monetarily for you and the discovery for all human kind) far outweighs the value of your house. You accept the trade.

What you didn't realize is that the production of the metal alloy is impossible by Earth civilization standards, its production requires the energy of several sun-like stars (this is a trivial amount of energy for the aliens). Also, there was a misunderstanding in the trade, the metal alloy wasn't for just your house and its land, it was for the entire Northern hemisphere of Earth! The aliens colonize the land backed up with the signed and legal trade deal. Its legality is of course disputed by Earth courts but the alien colonists carry novel viruses which eradicate 80-90% of the existing Earth population, governments and militaries crumble.

[1] 5th to last paragraph but all of it is informative http://newamsterdamhistorycenter.org/education/schaghen.html
Computers decide if you get a job (and access to a resource called "money", pretty important for living).

Computers decide if your Google accounts gets deleted, without warning.

Computers decide if you can get credit, or open a bank, or participate in society.

And there is 0, yup, 0 accountability. Computer doesn't like you? Tough shit, get fucked, nothing you can do. If you don't have an internet connection, you're fucked. If you don't have fast upload speeds and a capability to record video and are willing to store it on someone else's computer (where they will datamine it and use it against you in the future, or it'll be "leaked"/sold) then you're fucked.

So now, to get a job I need:

To participate in surveillance and trading of my data where it'll be data raped

A smart phone

A fast internet connection

So great, fuck you to all the poor people I guess who find technology hard, they can just go die.

I'm beginning to think computers were the biggest mistake humans ever made. We need regulation and fast against this sort of thing, to make the hiring process fair and accessible to everyone.
Yeah I have been pleasantly surprised with how good Amazon's customer support is. In contrast I've had a Google wifi and home device stop working on me, and it was nearly impossible to get in touch with a customer support rep from Google. At this point, I refuse to purchase Google device because I don't know what to do if I have a problem with it.
I just timed myself. 224 times. I wonder what that says about me?
Google was well known to have removed about 100k low rating reviews during the peak: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/1/22261178/robinhood-google-...
That is a question for the judge or jury. The statistician's job is to provide a probability distribution, and to argue for the statistical correctness of that distribution based on similar inferences made on validation data.
That would basically destroy user acquisition metrics. As a user, I don’t want to wait days to get access to something.
> gold hoarding caused the economy to collapse in 1929

You have a source for that?
Isn't this effectively a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935? It seems reasonable that links to the same Twitter thread would be considered dupes, rather as two separate submissions.
I'm really glad, thanks! My procedure was to Google, find an article lacking the answer, then go through IMDB.

Great suggestions, added to the list. Excited for these improvements.
(I'm simply sharing the awesome work of Golan Levin & Tega Brain.)

> The repository contains example solutions for the Exercises presented in Code as Creative Medium, pp.150-183, by Golan Levin and Tega Brain, MIT Press, 2021.

> These solutions were developed and/or ported by Golan Levin and Tega Brain with the assistance of Lingdong Huang, Tatyana Mustakos, Cassie Scheirer, and Xinyi (Joyce) Wang. In some cases and where indicated, solutions have been adapted from code by Dan Shiffman and others.

> Where possible, we have attempted to provide solutions in all of the following computer programming languages and toolkits. We welcome contributions, additional implementations, and ports to other languages and toolkits.

- Java (Processing)
- Python (Processing.py)
- JavaScript (p5.js)

## Acknowledgments

> This work was supported by grant #1855045–34–19 from the Media Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; by a grant from the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier, administered by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University; by support from the Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) program at CMU; and through graduate assistantships from the Integrated Digital Media program at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University.
"If there was a genetic cause for shortsightedness, why is it still around?" - because myopia doesn't significantly affect your chances to produce offsprings.

It seems reasonable that being gay does significantly reduce your ability to have children; therefore it is reasonable to expect that if it was an inheritable trait it would have been selected against.
Machine Learning Trend: Trustworthiness
Hidden posts include my own posts as well, so what you stated could also add to the problem but doesn't seem to be the only factor.
Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup About C++
I'll take a different approach than the other folks responding to you -

There are plenty of profit motives involved that have little to do with securing future contracts with police departments.

At the most basic - Source code reviews are expensive. They can often throw thousands of false flags that developers have to individually track down and verify are not problems.

Then there's the reputation hit of admitting a mistake - If you've had a bug for the last 5 years that makes you less reliable, that alone is likely to impact future contracts. So given the option of revealing this, admitting the mistake, and tackling the cases it impacted... OR... simply sweeping it under the rug and fixing it internally - some companies will take option number 2 (possibly most companies).
This is well outside of the practical capabilities of anyone but a nation state or large commercial entity. Even then, it's hard. It's more practical for a physical letter than for digital stuff. For a digital service, you'd have to go down to cabling infrastructure or take something like the SpaceX route and launch satellites. If you need something between a few nearby buildings, it's more practical to come up with a solution, but anything further out ... you're kind of stuck.

(Your ISP classifies as a middle man as well...)
Block 800 NYT reporters for the low price of $0
Fine. Let your children play with a loaded gun. It'll be mostly fine.
One more show to validate any testing with is High Maintenance (https://next-season-of.com/high-maintenance/ - that appears to be before HBO picked it up), as IMDB itself shows no ending year yet, and it gave me a little panic that it was already over, haha.
he's ded, you know it, right?
> An essential guide for teaching and learning computational art and design: exercises, assignments, interviews, and more than 170 illustrations of creative work.

> This book is an essential resource for arts educators and practitioners who want to explore code as a creative medium, and serves as a guide for computer scientists transitioning from STEM to STEAM in their syllabi or practice. It provides a collection of classic creative coding prompts and assignments, accompanied by annotated examples of both historic and contemporary projects. These are enriched by more than 170 illustrations of creative work and a set of interviews with leading educators. Picking up where standard programming guides leave off, the authors highlight alternative programming pedagogies suitable for the art- and design-oriented classroom, including teaching approaches, resources, and community support structures.

> The book first offers a collection of syllabus modules, each built around an open-ended assignment or prompt, and all tested, adapted, or observed by the authors over twenty years of practice and teaching. Examples have been selected for their explicability and for their representation of varied approaches. The book then presents brief programming exercises relevant to artists and designers, helping readers learn computational techniques to control elementary visual (or in some cases, auditory or textual) patterns and forms. Finally, a diverse group of educators—including Dan Shiffman, Lauren McCarthy, and Taeyoon Choi—discuss the challenges of teaching expressive and critical studio arts through the tools of software development.

MIT Press
regex != ML

They've applied ML to discern status updates from emails. They've applied ML to recognize speech fairly accurately... This kind of behavior seems far too unsophisticated for that. In the Twitter thread some people are suggesting it's something to do with politics. If that's so, then it likely means hands-on-keyboard-finger-on-scales thing a human would cause.
Overall I’m not in disagreement but:

> The poor generally have less cash in the bank than the rich.

The OP said the only assets some poorer people will have will be some cash [in the bank]. Is this not correct? I’ve been near broke before. The only assets I had besides a dying car was money in between Venmo, PayPal, bank account, and actual cash.
I'd rather not use the service if it has hCaptcha OR ReCaptcha.

hCaptcha has bad UX, their dataset is way harder to decipher and commonly takes me three or four tries to get around on Cloudflare, if it doesn't keep failing with a server error which I've had happen on multiple, distinct occasions.

At least for Google, I was done in one turn when lucky, if I had no other choice (e.g. banking).
I agree that we shouldn't assume ill intent, but we should recognize it is a very real possibility. Ill intent comes in when you realize the simple human error. Alone, in your office, poring over code or reviewing past files. Then you weigh the impact on your career and reputation of honestly fessing up, and put it off for a while, then a while longer.
Not really. Say I'm shortsighted, and still a potential mating partner due to a variety of other traits (being a billionaire, or looking suspiciously similar to Ryan Gosling). In that case, I would be able to transmit my genes to my eventual offspring.

The case with gay genes is different. Regardless of any other trait, I'm genetically prone to not have any offspring. Thus, eventually my genes would be less and less common.
I can certainly interpolate my personal experiences but I'm afraid I would miss something. Also, doing so would not explain this:

Why some people dress or act similar to opposite sex to appear attractive to someone of the same sex? I mean, voice gestures etc. Hm...I should not said act, it's likely their trait. Anyway, why would someone who is gay be attracted to that person rather than opposite sex. I think sexuality is quite more fluid and calling someone gay does not mean much beyond 'not straight'.
It's in the paper: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/csicloak
i dont get it. whats the problem with accepting that homosexuality might have traits other than where people want to put their genitalia. perhaps its about sending information down via genes and culture? seems homosexuals are amazingly beautiful at generating art and cracking nazi spy codes. maybe their families have other genes and we are just focusing on the whole where people put their genitalia thing vs the "wow maybe gays have a lot to contribute with, you know, just as women or men who are sterile." still find it hilarious that people have been obsessing about this since i was born and longer. accepting homosexuality took me like 1 minute. 45 seconds of laughing at two genitals of the same kind not fitting, and 15 thinking about i love my friend and i want her to be happy because she deserves to feel loved the way she needs too.
EU regulation 2019/1150 would seem to be the first real attempt I'm aware of at addressing this issue.

Article 4 covers suspension and termination, with intermediary platforms (i.e. Google, Facebook et al) "the opportunity to clarify the facts and circumstances in the framework of the internal complaint-handling process referred to in Article 11".

It also introduces a requirement to provide "a reference to the specific facts or circumstances, including contents of third party notifications, that led to the decision of the provider of online intermediation services, as well as a reference to the applicable grounds for that decision".

It seems these automated processes fall foul of several hurdles in Article 4.
I really detest this kind of attitude. Yes, the government is NOT restricting what you can say in an online space. But at the same time, there is no government platform I can speak from. They're not stopping me from saying what I want but they're also not giving me a platform.

Why are we giving corporate entities a pass on tyranny? It's not like restricting people's liberties is only something the government can do.
"It detaches property rights from the legal system and the monopoly on violence."

https://medium.com/@hasufly/bitcoin-and-the-promise-of-indep...
No one wants to pay taxes on half of what taxes are being spent on. Every one wants it spent on what they prefer. Your comment doesn’t change that.
I need more drugs!
> Here's the thing people need to realize: your email address, phone number, and any other digital identifier can be stripped and taken from you by whoever owns the service at any time.

Not only can they, for many companies disabling accounts is the only tool in the shed. There's no digital governance platform, no user rights, no process, no punishment at all besides this final cruelest kill: only this bit flip, from enabled, to disabled, alive to not alive.

it's unbelievable tha not a single big platform seems to have any system of justice or remediation in place. it's all vast uncaring corporate monoliths as far as the eye can see, no contact I do, no follow up possible.

these entities are monsters. they treat us like trash.
Federated Learning of Cohorts – Google’s cookie killer
Keep in mind, Sam has started just one business and it failed (Loopt).

I know what I'm about to write might sound like I'm trolling but hear me out because it comes from a genuine place ...

His essays typically come across as "if you personally are not BUILDING something massive, you're wasting your time" ... though it's ironic since he himself doesn't build anything at all.

Instead, he spends his day looking for wagers to bet using other peoples money in hopes he'll produce a positive return (and keep some of the proceeds). Much like going to a casino with someone elses money.

Using his own definition of how people should spend their time, I don't understand how his own activities fall into that category.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
Remember that heritability is a measure of a population, not an individual. So you're measuring the amount that genes vs environment contributes to a trait within that population. It's not an absolute number.
Twitter Giveaway Scammer Targeting Chamath via Hacked Verified Accounts
Yup, another one

https://twitter.com/Jules_Salvi/status/1358823100306063369

posted here

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1358822663079165954

landing page

https://chamath-events-btcs.blogspot.com/

lots of $ stolen

This has been going on forever. We need to hold Twitter accountable. This is not a hard problem to fix on twitter's end. if enough people complain, maybe something can be done. This is bordering on criminal negligence. Even if twitter cannot stop these scams completely, law makers in the US and EU need to implore twitter do more.
iSmell!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476460

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853659

>Losing your sense of smell and taste is a symptom of COVID-19!

>Too bad the iSmell never took off and became ubiquitous, or it could be used to screen for COVID-19 symptoms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell

https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/
This is true, they could hard-fork the chain and make that the new Bitcoin but this is where a bit of Game Theory comes in - why would the network collectively do something to harm it's own self? Bitcoin miners are incentivized to keep up the security AND stick to the 21 million limit laid down by the Bitcoin Whitepaper. If hypothetically the network decides to change the limit, I believe that would just destroy the Bitcoin narrative and so no miner would even agree to do that.
The Drovorub Mystery: Malware NSA Warned About Can't Be Found Anywhere
Discoverability is just as much an issue as feature including. If you have to go into a special QR mode (which a lot of cameras did), you’re never going to use the feature, and it’s hard to break those mental models if the feature gets silently added in later iterations; you’re always going to remember that first encounter where something didn’t work seamlessly.
I was confused by this comment as well. I think what it's saying is that google-closure-compiler-js (note -js) is no longer maintained, and that to explain why it's using the (still maintained) google-closure-compiler (note no -js).
>the SEC

The SEC only deals with securities. Bitcoin is not a security.
https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/974345-1
> While an adult guy like me doesn't care about the little rat bite, that's going to traumatize a little kid away from liking dogs.

Our neighbor has a "scraggly little white dog" as you describe.

It bit my (then three year old) daughter while she was riding her bike a year ago.

It certainly didn't do any favors for her trust of dogs.

Doesn't help that everyone and their mother seems to leave their dogs off leashes and then just say "oh don't worry, he's nice" as my kids are screaming their heads off while a creature roughly as big as they are sniffs and yips at them.
It is much more nuanced than that.

What they found was 5 areas of the genome that had predictive potential for people being gay or straight. Combined, they were able to predict about 25% of what makes someone gay. The other 75% is environmental.

Note that some "environmental factors" may still be genetic in nature. For example there is strong evidence in animals that the prenatal environment has an impact on homosexual behavior. Which means that a mother's genetics can be correlated with her children's sexuality. Therefore a gene could impact homosexuality through changing the environment in the mother's womb. In that case the child having that gene would be correlated with the child being homosexual and the gene would show up in this study. But the differences between the child's genetics and the mother's would be an environmental factor.
CIL – A High-Level IR for C/C++ implemented using MLIR
Reminder: Terraria Dev’s Google Story Is Not Unusual at All
Why the rich in expensive cities don't feel wealthy
> you can always create your own courier

It is illegal to compete with USPS to deliver letters.
Controller RequestMapping in Golang
yes, the risks here are tricky to think about, which is why conversations like this are more fruitful than partisan or ideologically-driven ones.

while guns are force levers, they're not really 'levelers', as differences of skill and perception still abound, to more serious consequence. what they definitely are, are risk multipliers. it's unclear that they are effective deterrents (that is, reduces the overall risk of a situation) in the various cases commonly believed, because those situations are rare (how rare is debatable), and, as you point out, the research is difficult (hard to prove a negative).

also, force escalation as represented by (offensive or defensive) gun proliferation is generally anti-social. hypocritical hollywood (and other media) certainly add fuel to that fire needlessly. whereas guns for hunting, farming, sport (which in many cases is basically advanced training), and even anti-oppression (from tyrannical government) are not generally anti-social. as such, i generally support the latter but not the former.
>That is in ADDITION to the taxes that will be levied.

Or inflation will be used to reduce inequalities now that taxes have been made unacceptable by the rich (who wouldn't pay taxes). It's more a replacement than a sum.

Elected officials don't have much of a a choice when the economy goes to trash and the poor becoming poorer to a point where violence becomes a good solution for the poor to have some control over the economy (who should serve society and not the other way around).

> The REAL problem is that most americans don't have enough money saved to take care of themselves during hard times. Why might that be?

Because they already went through economic crises than got them near bankruptcy?
FWIW the updated date doesn't necessarily mean anything, the app could be loading code remotely via some endpoint which the article does mention as a possibility in general.
Yes, yes they do. Prosecutors often campaign on being “tough on crime”, and even judges (where elected) are known to sentence more harshly during election season.

The ability for an expert witness to deliver more convictions, even if by lying, is a feature for prosecutors, not a bug.
> Its legality is of course disputed by Earth courts but the alien colonists carry novel viruses which eradicate 80-90% of the existing Earth population, governments and militaries crumble.

This indeed happened in America, but as the analogous example here tends to show, it kind of makes the contract issue moot.
Sorry about that. Thanks for putting it straight.
Most likely the people running sex-trafficking rings are not stupid enough to use something like Bitcoin as you don't want to have a public ledger with all your transactions fully visible on the internet if you're doing stuff like that.

Probably Zcash is a more likely contender for that, as it is the only cryptocurrency offering fully anonymous transfers together with normal, public transfers in the same wallet.
Why is there an assumption of injustice that has to be rectified only when certain jobs have skewed demographics, but not all?

Why is there no societal wide calls for racial re-balancing in the NBA or NFL, or olympic sprinting competitions? Or gender re-balancing for military combat roles or logging in the timber industry, or elementary school teacher or veterinarians?
I know. I live in such country. But even here it is better for the prosecutor’s career with many convictions.
Ohhhhhhhhhh. That's why I can't find the 'write review' button in the Play store.

I didn't know about Stadia. I had been thinking of getting it, partly out of curiosity. Now I won't bother.
Podcast on the Cult of Smart with Freddie DeBoer
If you want people to be treated equally, wouldn't you want their existence to be justified?

It's difficult to think of a PC analogy here, so maybe... super villain mind control device strapped to someone's head. Provably unjustified behaviors due to the mind control device implies the ethical thing to do is try to remove the device. Treating someone normally implies an implicit belief that they're normal. Sound biological evidence that being queer is just how some people are feels like the best way to reinforce that belief and remove requirements for heteronormativity.
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/336809-above-all-do-not-lose...
Congrats to everyone involved, I started learning rust on a bus 4 years ago and its amazing to see how far the language has come