skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So every company that has internal audits expects a bunch of syncopants? WTF?

Internal audits ranging from a technical issue that impacted clients to sexual harassments investigations are all handled privately and details are shared AFTER the issue is handled. And the details shared are filtered to avoid legal liabilities/bad PR.

An ethics team can certainly coexist with this, the same paper that caused this chain of events could have been shared internally, get a team on board to try to improve on those issues and later publish both the Parrots paper at FAccT and fixes simultaneously in a technical conference.

Still the whole thing is sad because the research they were conducting is impactful
Stop rewarding sociopathic behaviour.

Friends don’t let friends use Facebook.
I can't edit and add to my comment... so new post.

Basically what I think we're dancing around, is that perhaps the current business of model of restaurants is busted and has to change, post covid. The old model is rent a large space for indoor dining, cook/serve the food, sell high margin alcoholic drinks ;), plan for a steady stream of events/holidays (valentine's day, mother's/father's day, etc), try to locate near other office workers for a steady lunch customer base, and so on.

Maybe that doesn't work as well post-covid due to work-from-home a large shift to ordering out. I mean rent alone has got to be eating restaurants alive, when they don't need as much space now.

As far as middlemen and delivery, restaurants themselves are middlemen if you look at meat/produce being the actual materials and me, the hungry customer, wanting the spend cash for a product - but now eating at home.

Perhaps the new restaurant future is the rent smaller work spaces, or team up with other restaurants and have a booth with shared/common space, and serve mostly with delivery in mind. There's a place like this in my local large city, with a dozen or so vendors that rotate a little bit, sharing a large common area. It was packed every time I went, in the before times... not sure how it is doing now (website says they are mostly doing delivery so I suppose it is still up and running).

In which case a restaurant factors in the delivery fee/cut as an expense. Basically juggle it so part of the fee comes from not having to pay as much rent, and perhaps this delivery need is part of the new business model. Folks can still come by in person to get out of the house and save a bit, but factor in the majority of customers will order delivery.

I don't actually work in this industry so I don't know what actual numbers look like, but I do listen to the Planet Money podcast and a recent episode was about a restaurant that had to close due to high rents! It ended with the former owners wanting to open a new restaurant, but only if they owned the building.
You don't see these problems in states where the the one major population center that happens to control the state government isn't seeking to exert strong control over the rural areas.
In 2008, when IE7 came out, I cried of joy. I turned 22 that year, so the 7 years with only IE6 and Firefox was a significant chunk of my life. Firefox showed us that the web wasn't finished and could still be improved, and then came Firebug which made Firefox first web dev the obvious choice. But the vast majority still used IE6, so there was always a miserable step in the project of fixing all the IE bugs. After doing it for years and knowing your foe, it was by then a relatively quick and manageable experience. The real pain was in knowing all the CSS2 features and other goodies that could never be used. Seeing Microsoft recognizing that, yes indeed, the web wasn't finished in 2001 was actually an emotional moment at that point.

So yeah, the situation is without doubt much better now. I think people tend to forget (or aren't aware) that Microsoft actively said "there's no more work to be done here" and stopped all progress for 7 years. There's been some progress on the web since 2014, as a point of comparison.
Should be out Monday, takes a while to transmit
It certainly isn't a live robot!
That's true, though it seems like storing a block offset for just the first block of a file would satisfy a lot of use cases. Then a trunc() from the front would only rewrite one block and some pointers.
Food is way worse quality wise. I even can't help but think that the average person had access to better quality food in the Soviet Union than in modern USA (granted, possibly not the same quantity, but still). Coming from a recent trip abroad, let's say the difference is striking.
Is it less efficient than no employment at all?
sorry about your backbone
They love regulations that help them and hate regulations that hurt them.

It's almost as if the absolute quantity of regulation is a wedge issue that has very little to do with the quality of governance.
That hasn't always been true. USGS topo maps, for example, were originally drawn and plotted on paper and had to be digitized. At one point, I think they had a way to request a digital scan, but there was a processing fee.

Now almost all of that data available online for free from their website, and they have ways to access it in bulk and via API.

I think the bigger problem nowadays is accessing GIS data from different cities and local governments. Many states and cities put the data online, but each one organizes it differently, possibly in different formats, with different methods for accessing it.
I've written one small open source library, which I publicized a little bit back when I first released it. Like you said, I wrote it mostly to scratch my own itch, but it was really nice to see it get some use out in the wild, and I have gotten a few emails about it over the years. Personally, I really enjoy getting any kind of emails about it from people who are using it or who have questions. (To be fair, I've never gotten the murdery emails abou it)
The upfront declaration is "I have not worked for a foreign intelligence service" or something as blunt. "spy" wouldn't be used because it's too specific - a good lawyer could drive a wedge in the distinction between "spy" and "employee, not a spy".

This isn't 4D chess, it's creating a reason you can detain someone once you know what they're upto without having to blow what you know about their real activities (which might lead to too many shutting down before you want them too).
I'm in favor of anything that makes advertisers waste money, since their entire endeavor is evil.
The difference between separate threads and separate machines should not be abstracted away, but managing them as part of the application through compile-time magic would be cool.
Can you please elaborate on specific principles behind Erlang operation model that other platforms can embrace?
The implication, that no other nation-state may use force to assert control of a strategic economic resource, is in contradiction with both history and common sense.

GP is ipso facto calling out lazy casual racism,
but framed constructively because they’re better at it than me.
I would agree, when you consciously step over the legal, you accepted the coming dismissal. Entitlement is a label. I think she knows cause exists. She "left" long before and her anger reflects the construction of events which led there. I doubt she really feels entitled, beyond the expectations of respect and recognition somebody in her pay grades would normally expect.
I spent a few hundred dollars, in $25 increments. I ran different ad copy, different visuals, different times of day.

The difference in effectiveness between different visuals and ad copy ranged from "no one clicked this" to "10% conversion after hitting my landing page."

For the right audience, with the right campaign, FB ads do work.

But you have to play around, and what does work might not be intuitive.

Also I found out that the ad copy that worked on FB didn't work on Reddit, and vis versa.
White House working with Facebook and Twitter to tackle anti-vaxxers
A behavioral component manifests itself as a chemical process within the brain. So it may be used to explain the cause of certain chemical processes, but it's still the chemical processes that have to be dealt with. Though it doesn't necessarily follow that a chemical intervention is necessary: If the cause of the chemical change was behavioral, the solution might be as well, such in the form of various type of therapy.
Her research does cast Google in a bad light. She writes about how language models (like Google's BERT which influences somewhere between 10% and 100% of searches) are environmentally unfriendly and encode hegemonic language making them subtly racist and sexist. Her solutions are to use smaller language models and more curated data sets, which are probably not palatable for Google.

Dr. Gebru was told the paper shouldn't be published with Google's name and some of the feedback on it that she received had to do with the paper not mentioning how Google was combating or leading on the problems with language models that she called out. In other words, if her paper had made Google look good, they probably would've been okay with her publishing it. Given that her paper made Google look bad, they wanted her to change it or not publish it. When she got that feedback she sent her intemperate email (in which she included her ultimatum to resign) and was terminated shortly after.

I think it's debatable, given that she did offer an ultimatum, whether she was fired or resigned - but I know she prefers the former and I think that's at least a coherent way to describe what happened (Google accepted one side of her ultimatum by firing her).
PowerShell for Solar system automation gogogo
> he amount of lip service paid to MLK in particular is astounding, especially by politicians who actively undermine his movement for racial and economic justice.

I half agree with you, but I think it's the side of the aisle you're probably not talking about that's paying "lip service".

MLK's entire philosophy was peaceful civil disobedience as contrasted with Malcolm X's approach of radicalism ("So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise"). Today, I'm afraid that we've lost sight of MLK's philosophy and have decided to try Malcolm X's approach to solving our social problems. Time will tell if that was a wise choice.

It's also not clear if MLK ever believed in enforced equality of outcomes (as opposed to just equality of opportunities). In some circles today, not judging people "by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" and not believing in strictly equal outcomes is insufficiently anti-racist.
Most of humanity lives in urban settings.

The UN in 2018 estimated 55% of humanity lives in urban settings. The EU estimated 76%.

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/how-our-planet-became-more-...
Google fires research leader amid diversity, research freedom controversies
One I sometimes have is needing to go the bathroom but all the bathrooms I can find have disgusting problems that send me looking for another bathroom instead of relieving myself there.

These always involve either bathrooms from my past (such as at schools I once attended or at places I once worked) or bathrooms in places that as far as I can tell are dream places.

I don't recall these dreams ever involving a real bathroom that I currently had or recently had access to.

When I wake up and remember one of these broken bathroom dreams, I inevitably am in fact in need of an urgent trip to the bathroom, so I suspect that the dream is my sleeping mind's way of telling me I need to wake up and go.

When the dream bathrooms are real bathrooms from my past, such as at a school, they are usually exaggerated. If the real bathroom had 3 stalls the dream version might be much bigger with several dozen stalls with the real 3 merely the 3 closest the door.
Fortunately MacOS users upgrade very quickly. High Serria which is slowly waning at 7% came out in 2017. Compared to windows where twice as many (16%) at still using Windows 7 and won't be able to download the Webview2 update which Microsoft kindly provides.

https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/macos/des...

Really depends on your market I guess and how much legacy webview browser support you need.

Or really how much you'd need to add polyfills like `@babel/preset-env` to keep the JS equal.
"If you want them to MAYBE change, talk to them directly. If you want them to get stabbed by management, put it in their performance review."

I'm pretty sure that happened to me in the past (and unwillingly done that to others). Having that said I really agree with the modus operandi that's necessary for the clown shows that "performance reviews" are, which are mostly an after the fact plausible justification in order to occlude a very simple thing: on whether a manager likes you or not and if you scratched his back properly.
Dead things remain dead things even when they are unrecognizable - if I state that oil is partially composed of dead dinosaurs most folks won't find that statement disagreeable.

I think it's pretty fair to describe the remains as dead robots similar to folks talking about their coke-bottle decks (recycled plastic) or even a sword forged from the remains of dead robots - I'd still consider that to be made of dead robots even though very little remains outside of the mineral composition.
I think you're right, but I'm not sure about "easy to use". It's only easy to use because everybody uses it, so as you point out there's a massive talent pool and massive resources.

As somebody who only started developing for the web a few years ago after a long time working with Qt, winforms, GTK and other "old school" native toolkits, I really don't find the web superior in terms of simplicity outside maybe of a few niches. You end up having to resort to dozens of external libraries to emulate the base functionality of something like Qt. And unless you want to go the transpiler way (which, admittedly, is incredibly common these days) you have to do it all is Javascript which is easy to pick up but a pretty huge liability in the long run IMO. It's just not a very good language, even if you stick to "the good parts".
Google’s Sky News Australia team-up will promote climate misinformation
Ask HN: Is the STIR/SHAKEN protocol going to stop spam phone calls?
STIR/SHAKEN [1] is a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat caller ID spoofing on public telephone networks. The FCC is requiring use of the protocol by June 30, 2021. Will it actually work? Will it render all the spam blocker apps useless?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
FYI, my ISP showed me a malware warning when I tried to access your site via HTTP.

When I was redirected to the HTTPS site, I got an SSL "protocol error".
I picked up a Kinesis Advantage2 this year and so far I am very happy with it. Now I can type much longer without any wrist pain. I'm still struggling to reprogram my brain for some keys, but part of that is due to years of bad habits that I'm trying to undo. It was hard to get used to at first but I really like the layout of the thumb clusters.
Wonder how Boomer Esiason is taking to “Hey Boomer”
And exert that control in subtle ways. "We know you, we watch you. You can do what you are doing because we permit it. When we come asking for a favor you won't think twice"
The operating system doesn’t handle malloc, realloc and free. That task is handled by the C library. All the operating system provides is a way for these functions to claim and release large areas of memory.

Applications use malloc to allocate some memory they then use to store a collection of data. Pointers often don’t point to the exact start of that memory area, which is what you need to do memory management. So from a pointer you can’t necessarily realloc or free.

And the problem is, if a buffer overruns for instance, you end up writing memory that is allocated and valid, just not for the thing the developer thought.

Alternative implementations of malloc exist that try to help with this, by encasing memory between guard pages.

Also, with for example glibc malloc you can use the MALLOC_TRACE environment variable to get a log of all allocations.
One could use something like Rust feature macros, plus a tool on top of Cargo that automatically picks the set of features required by each deployment.
Some shower thought: Mars is outside all jurisdictions. Crime on Mars is not possible at the moment. There are no governments on Mars. Meaning, no taxes either.

Mars may become some sort of tax haven, and companies will move their HQs to Mars to avoid taxes. But then, you won't be able to receive correspondence on Mars.

Then, extradition from Mars would be so expensive it would not be even feasible.
I feel attracted to this idea. Not its nice, but, intuitive sense says its probably got qualities.

Being fed at work, protected, to be a priesthood while lower orders serve you food and clean the gardens on a different deal.. that's the lords, the free tenant farmers and the serfs right there in mountain view.
This whole development of an art/creative ecosystem in coordination with a new financial innovation reminds me of how the development and adoption of double entry bookkeeping in Florence (and the rest of Italy) and the wealth created in that era helped fund and provide the foundation for the Renaissance. Artists such as Da Vinci worked for patrons.
Those are not the features of the protocol that are missing; that is an application that does not support it.

The features of the protocol that are missing are what made Wine developers indefinitely shelf their attempt to port it and as I read it, this port indeed is only a partial port for certain use cases that can't map the entirety of Window's windowing a.p.i. as Wine generally can.

The reason many people aren't using Wayland is not because their favorite application does not support it yet, but because at this stage the protocol on a fundamental level does not allow them to do what they need to.
The idea isn't entirely new. The TGR Alice is a popular board that has two b keys [0].

The more straightforward approach to get a full extra column would be to just grab a keyboard that already has 7+ columns per side (ie the chimera[1]) and repurpose those to be duplicate keys.

[0] https://i.redd.it/9kyeyht1eqy11.jpg

[1] https://github.com/GlenPickle/Chimera
I guess you lived mostly in US and/or Western Europe.

Ask people from former USSR or many countries in Africa about cash stability.
Fortunately he said that he has insurance that will pay for everything.
They don't say anything about what happens to the photos, but the site warns you to download your photo before closing the browser because the photo is part of your session. They then suggest if you want to share it publicly to use the hashtag #CountdownToMars with links to social media sites.
> If it's a store of value or a stock, then you should be absolutely worried about how it's distributed. Because based on that, it looks a lot like a ponzi scheme to me.

I don't follow this logic.

A ponzi scheme requires new entrants to pay out the previous ones at a higher rate so as to generate promised returns.

I'd expect this to spread out bitcoin ownership as previous whales ducked out while leaving the new entrants to holding the bag.

A high level of BTC concentration, then, would seem to be a counter-argument to the claim it's a ponzi.

What am I missing?

(BTW, I also think the basic analysis is incorrect--a large reason why BTC is concentrated in a small number of addresses is because most people don't hold their own BTC, but rather allow an exchange to hold it for them)
Oh, I was going from memory, so I guess that part's wrong.

But there are effective antidepressants that aren't strongly based on the serotonin effects SSRIs have, like trazodone (weakly increases it) and especially ketamine (doesn't do it, works better than most antidepressants, works near-instantly instead of taking weeks).
Totally doable as a first project, I'm midway through building my first keyboard with a large number of modifications and it's been a really fun project. The Dactyl Manuform is a great starting point https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform

And /r/ErgoMechKeyboards on Reddit is a great community for understanding what you're trying to achieve.
Jeff Immelt on the Humbling of GE
I think it's perfectly possible. The issue here is that we've been confusing activists for ethicists for some time.
What nefarious goal could there be for this medical research?

Are we at the point of zero-sum where a successful treatment in China is a loss for us?

Sure, deport her if she lied, but I'd stop way short of 'nefarious' myself.
So if the helicopter crashes or otherwise dies after its 30 days lifespan are we back to a single planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows?
i feel you generally on this issue, but that last question is easy to answer. a lot of these aren't out of the goodness of our hearts type things but are more CYA if needed, kind of like white collar crime training. "well, we did the best we could - we even had an ethical AI team." also is a nice recruiting bullet.

now, we don't know if this joint was one of those "haha, yeah, we'll get back to ya" things in management's eyes from the start, but it sure looked like its leadership either was not informed or intended to make it actually matter. praise ought to be given there, as this industry seems largely morally bankrupt. however - and i'm not intending to be super negative here - she may have known that her and G weren't gonna work out, and this was just the most spectacular way to set sail.
If it is possible to do so much evil that no amount of good can overcome it then it is not also possible to do so much good that no amount of evil deserves consequence?
Existing discussion of Dr. Mitchell’s tweet announcing her firing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198789
Stop with cancel culture please.
Because superlate wanted him to
Deregulation? It's a state owned electrical monopoly, could you explain why you think the Mexican energy market is deregulated?
It’s a nickname for toilet, I think that’s the bigger issue. But I know lots of Johns all ages, it’s not going away.

With the right last name, Richard can be carried with pride. I’ve met a Steele and a Hardin, they were perfectly happy to have their last name included.
Show HN: Validatum – build fluent validation functions in .NET
Build fluent validation functions of any complexity. Easy to use, customize and extend.
No need for validation attributes, no need to implement IValidatableObject interface or use Validator, no need for sub-classes.
Define success. Are cigarettes successful for their manufacturers? Yes, absolutely,they are swimming in money. Is it a success to other stakeholders? No, it's not. Bitcoin is a huge success to the speculators riding the wave or early adopters who held it long enough. If smaller groups benefit from it, that doesn't necessarily mean it is universally successful.
From what I understand the internals (aka the engine). That is a problem IMO. I understand it's to create a dependency on the maintainer in order to make money, but yeah... it's the reason I've stayed away thus far.
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Discussion Forum
Hey guys!

I've searched for a community tool for people interested in learning and talking about cryptos and blockchain but I haven't found it, so I built this tool, feel free to give feedbacks, I will do my best to support the community :)

(also I'm learning about this subject)
They'll find a yes-man eventually
> Mitchell has been locked out of the corporate email since last month after what a source says was her effort to search corporate correspondence for evidence to back up Gebru's claim of discrimination and harassment

It sounds like she dredged through her email, and sent emails she found to an ex-employee. That's probably going to get you fired.
+1 for the Monitor III. I remember being amazed to see the early Ultimas in color, because for me they’d always just had different “patterns”.