skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's push to participate in AI ethics discussions has always been about controlling the narrative. The fact that it took them firing two people for ACM to notice is rather hilarious. Just read the papers they promote. The meta-narrative is rather clear. They want to present AI/ML as something that is dangerous in the hands of individuals or smaller companies and that requires constant and direct control from experts with tons of data and resources. So they're perfectly happy to talk about stuff like model bias, but the moment you start asking uncomfortable questions about ML in general you better watch out.

These topics should be handled by people without corporate ties. Period. The conflict of interests is so in-your-face, it's mind-boggling more people don't speak about it.
Isn't the edge being there's almost no delay in analog video transmission? While the best DJI can do is like 130 ms.
You have to miss the renewal and the redemption to lose a domain these days, don’t you?
How about a new Moto G7 Plus for say $185 with screen protector and case with $5 going to /e/ foundation to continue development. Here is the proposed /new/ hardware:

https://m.gsmarena.com/t_mobile_revvlry+-9764.php

I use one of these myself as a daily driver and have done several for friends and family so I have the flashing part down. I have toyed with the idea of turning this over to my grandson as a business for college spending money.

I replace some of the default apps with better non-tracking, privacy focused alternatives such as Brave browser and TwinMe for video calls and instant messaging. Note: Your iOS friends will like TwinMe too.

Any interest in going turn key "Google free" at this price point? The goal is for my grandson to net $50 per phone. Any less is not worth the time and effort required.
I had this problem as well until I learned to use `type time`, to help me decide whether I need `man time` or `help time` (documenting the built-in)
JS now has BigInt, an integer type with arbitrary precision.
New Features in Django 3.2
Fire code. in the US all bedrooms must have a window large enough that a human can use to get out in case of fire. You don't need to be able to get to the ground - it is enough that you can wave to the firemen who then bring a ladder to get you out. Firemen are also trained to check rooms with a window first for someone who might still be alive but too far gone to get to the window. Any room without a window is not a safe place to sleep.

Sometimes when you are buying real estate you will see "non-conforming bedroom) which means a room that looks like a bedroom and you might use as one at your own risk as you can't get out. (This might also mean it would be a bedroom if there was a closet as well - you have to figure out what it means)
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Legally, no. From a practical standpoint, people do whatever they think they can get away with.
I don’t think this is an example of “can’t viably be fired”. They don’t seem to be saying Google or its employees are banned from the conference; they just don’t want Google’s money. (And Gebru used to be on the executive committee for this conference, so it can’t be a surprise to Google that they might be on her side.)
Surfing web inside a terminal, because why not?
> you can make most diets healthy when adhering to rules of freshness, nutrient density, and a wide array of nutrients.

Let’s sing this from the rooftops. I deeply agree.
My impression is that a large amount of what we think as non-biological is in fact the product of life. Making the prediction that life will be unable keep the environment the same despite external factors seems like a bold predication; let's see how it plays out.
Earth will not host complex plants in 600 million years. So that’s also a problem - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
No (At least not yet: open research question). But neither can "repeated multiplication". How would you multiply 2 with itself "a half" times?
Number theorists work with integers, not naturals. And they too will agree with me, as they mostly work with polynomials, which show exactly that.

I also didn't say natural numbers are training wheels, just this metaphor, which to use HN lingo: doesn't scale.
Time enough to terraform Venus.
We will have built a Dyson sphere to mine Bitcoin until then.
Possible but would require a licensed broker to break the law. It's like check kiting but with the aid of a broker the broker would have to credit your account shares that do not exist.
Not sure what boilerplate in Rust or Scala you're talking about.

I admit Rust is much harder to learn initially, but once learned properly, the amount of code in both languages is very similar (as long as we're not comparing one program calling out to a library and another one doing everything from scratch). Both can be very high level.

Here is a study where they've found Python to be not much less verbose than Java actually, despite Java being generally considered a verbose language:

https://blog.wolfram.com/2012/11/14/code-length-measured-in-...

> I seriously doubt Rust will be anywhere near as easy to reason about.

I find Rust easier to reason about because there are certain constraints on sharing mutable state forcing developers to keep to very simple data flows (complex data flows / dependencies are getting hard very quickly and the compiler will fight that a lot with you). Python has none of these, so reasoning about data structures that can be freely shared and mutated anywhere can be hard. Python needs a lot of self-discipline to not end up with unmaintainable code.
>For the avoidance of doubt, an example of a site ACM authors may post all versions of their work to, with the exception of the final published "Version of Record", is ArXiv.

>Examples of sites ACM authors may not post their work to are ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley, or Sci-Hub, as these sites are all either commercial or in some instances utilize predatory practices that violate copyright

https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

Not exactly an onerous policy, nor one that makes content hard to obtain.
Citation needed, because there is a lot of unused land in the world.
Well, considering that all anyone got out of that lawsuit was 60$, I'm honestly not sure it matters if you can sue them or not. Unless you are a class action lawyer, at least.
I was very unlucky all the times I tried to get support from Google. I'm starting to think google is just an AI that doesn't have people working there.
Reasons to choose Electron for a desktop app
Few (none?) companies would be happy to pay someone to be publicly and loudly critical of their products. Especially if it wasn't constructive criticism that they could act on.
It looks exactly like scalar multiplication when your matrices are diagonal.
You already do. Oreos are technically vegan. Margarine is already a plant-based butter substitute.

The Impossible Whopper is no better or worse for you than a regular Whopper by any metric.

It is pretty easy to be a fat vegetarian today.
> I asked quite a few times very pragmatic questions: When am I allowed to be a member? Their answer: Can't say. So what's the problem with me being a member? Their answer: I could break the agreement!

> Many of the people working at ICANN are lawyers. ICANN is a very IP heavy organisation (domains are trademark territory) which means a lot of people has previously worked in other IP organisations such as movie and music studios. They're all located in Los Angeles, a small world.
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I claimed my own Knowledge Panel. It took quite a while after the initial submission (months).
> I design websites that are to be used with primarily desktop screens. If you want to use an unsupported configuration such as a tiny screen or with no screen then it is not my fault if it does not work well.

In lots of countries you are obliged to make the site accessible for what you call "unsupported configurations". E.g screen readers, heavily zoomed sites etc. So yes, it will be your fault, and you are liable for what you deliver. If you're a professional web developer, this should be known.
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There are ~750k people in that Reddit community, it wouldn't surprise me if by coincidence it happened to bunch of them the a domain was registered between when they searched it and decided to buy.
This one does:

> In Model 1, we estimated hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) adjusted for race, Townsend deprivation index [20], education, employment, smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity, and in women, we additionally adjusted for menopausal status, hormone replacement therapy, oral contraceptive pill use, and parity. In Model 2, we further adjusted for total fruit and vegetable intake, cereal fibre intake score (calculated by multiplying the frequency of consumption of bread and breakfast cereal by the fibre content of these foods [21]), oily fish intake, and non-oily fish intake. For Model 3, we added adjustment for body mass index (BMI).
Far-right pages that publish misinformation get the most interaction on Facebook
I had a boss who proudly told us that he likes to deal with work-related issues during his lucid dreams.

I thought that was a profound waste of a rare moment when you can do almost anything at all. Personally I like to fly.
Any kind of public criticism is embarrassing from a PR perspective.

Either you accept that, or you don't.

"Ethics researches" that can't publish public criticism , with minimal oversight restricted to preventing IP leaks, are a pointless exercise in fake responsibility posturing.
I ask every amazon delivery person that comes to my house how they like working for amazon, I've not got one single negative remark! Amazon delivers on time mostly and even through weather. USPS on the other hand which has multiple unions, don't delivery if there's a dusting of snow on my drive even though their motto says that doesn't stop them... I've also asked many usps employee's what they think of their job, and overwhelmingly they are bad reviews... ?_? I am curious the outcome of a unionized amazon will be, but I sure hope there's a competitor that can swoop in and still deliver to me in a timely fashion
I have a 2019 MBP with 32GB of RAM. I bought it thinking that I would be running a Windows VM under Parallels, on which I would then let my company install the execrable Microsoft "mobile iron" access control. (You know, the one where they can wipe the machine remotely.) But then they changed so that even machines with this enabled cannot access the company resources on Azure. It must be one of their own machines. (So what's the freaking point?) Anyway, if it would have worked out, that's definitely a use case for more than 16.
They give a lot of notice about renewals as well—unless you've nixed getting emails them.
We aren't looking at robots.txt - but that's a great suggestion. It leads to a bigger point about bad actors.

Unfortunately, people can build bots to do all kinds of bad things - this is something we have seen, considered and taken some steps to mitigate.

Right now, we have a low level query, with follow-up manual inspection, to prevent bad actors. (Shout-out to our YC batchmates who alert us https://beta.useavenue.com/).

For example, we detected bots being used for harassment on social media and stamped it out.

It's possible for us to scale this up for similar 'bad use-cases' like the one you've identified.
I wonder if the great filter is not one, but multiple coincidences brought upon by "intelligent" life and the natural lifetime of a planet and/or solar system.

If Mars had intelligent life and now it doesn't how does that bode for Earthlings? Can life really adapt given the lack of evidence anywhere?

I wonder how will space travel to the next possible habitable planets work. Shoot in all directions and hope that life spawns on a few of those possible habitable planets that are light years away.
I somehow fear I will be downvoted for this, but the article highlights how it's very easy for these goods to end up in our supply chains without our knowledge:

>The Huafu Textile Company is located on the edge of a grey industrial estate in the city of Huaibei, in China's eastern province of Anhui.

> It was to this factory that Buzaynap, featured in the state-TV report, was sent

> [...my own rather selective cut...]

> Amazon told the BBC that it does not tolerate the use of forced labour and that where it finds products that do not meet its supply chain standards, it removes them from sale.

I for one wish it were easier to not buy products from China as a whole. With some things -- food, for example -- it's very easy. With others -- electronics or consumer goods -- it is almost literally impossible. It's quite apparent that they've engaged in an ideologically driven purge of the Uighur culture (much like a concomitant "reforming" of Hong Kong's) -- there's just too much independent evidence to suppress that hypothesis.

If the coronavirus pandemic has shown us anything, it's that we need to be able to be a bit more self-sufficient and (for all nations!) having a national manufacturing base able to make certain goods is a sensible idea. I know that economics ultimately stopped the Soviet state machine from rolling over the civil rights of its populace to quite the extent that it once did; I don't know what that tells us here.
Some things are partially implemented:

- type BOOLEAN is (FALSE, TRUE);
- type VARCHAR2 is NEW CHAR_BASE;
- generic collections
- varargs

Unfortunately, they are only available for the PL/SQL team itself.
The gold standard to establish causation is the 2x blind random placebo-controlled study. There are many of them assessing various types of foods, from meat to lychee to soy and everything in between. Many biomarkers in the body can be studied such as stress hormones, markers of inflammation, lipid panels, arterial wall thickness, etc. If you poke around on youtube, you can find smart people presenting this research! Most of them are health influencers. Personally, I follow Drs. Gregor, Rhonda Patrick, Fung, Mike Hetzel Thoms Delauer and the rest of this particular cohort. They all have their separate biases and areas of interest, such as fasting, muscle gain, veganism, grass-fed beef, ketosis, etc, but if you find the intersection of their work, you'll have an excellent idea what is good and bad for you and how much you can get away with!

To distill two of the most valuable things I've learned:

1. The Mediterranean diet seems to be the healthiest and closest to the Western and American diets, although its actual form has some key differences from the received wisdom. In particular, its pasta is a whole-grain variety and the fish consumption is less than once per day.

2. Most people are not fat-adapted and their bodies do a poor job of metabolizing fat! Typically this requires fasting or other forms of intermittent ketosis to get the body producing fat-burning enzymes. This is likely the source of a lot of conflicting info on fat. It's perfectly excellent for you - if you are fat-adapted, you will use it for energy and won't experience 3pm brainfog. But if you're not, it will very quickly create adipose tissue (body fat!) that continuously emits cytokines (poison) that sabotage your health.

3. Stress alters our metabolism for the worse! Since so many of us are stressed we're not performing proper digestion and not getting the right benefits from what we eat! Breathing exercises, etc. can help improve this.
How can we make sure the products we're buying are Uighur labor free? I don't want to contribute to this.
VR versus pancake typically has nothing to do with disabilities. Display versus screen reader does. It's fine to exclude people who can choose to be included, but it's good to avoid exclusion when choice is not part of the equation.

If you're talking about building something that couldn't possibly be of any use to a blind person, that's one thing, but most websites do not fall into that category.
This.

Also, let's take a look at the regions of the world that live longer. What do we find? Regions of the world that, in almost all cases, consume less red/white meat, sugar and fats comparatively. These populations almost universally eat more plant based food. Look at places like Japan, Singapore, Monaco. Is it just food? No. Stress, access to healthcare and other things also compound into the results. But you can almost guarantee where you find old, lucid individuals you're not finding fast food, junk food, highly processed food and stress.

Is red and white meat akin to smoking? No. But overconsumption of something that doesn't provide many essential vitamins, minerals, and fibers doesn't positively increase overall health.
Algorithms are not finite. E.g. Newton's method.
I’m American and know of TPB, doesn’t mean I know who its founders are! The lawsuits were never particularly big news in my experience. I honestly don’t even specifically know what or when TPB was in active legal hot water nor do I have any idea on outcome. I have a vague idea that it probably happened at some point but only because I know that TPB enabled piracy. I remember more specifically individuals getting in trouble for using TPB than anyone creating TPB getting in trouble.

I’ve also heard of Pinterest for example but barely know the product and definitely don’t know the founders.

What’s more, you’re committing the same perspective but just at a slightly different scale. What I said originally about fractured internet experiences is also totally true if you restrict to American users! Plenty of American users of the internet are highly frequently so but don’t pirate, for example!
Hey `novjek`, would you be willing to let us know if this is still happening for you? We can't reproduce but would love to sort this out.
Eh, if the Sun is too hot for Earth, what makes you think Venus would be better?
Until you can't. And that's the parallel right there: in practical terms, it's a scam for rewarding those that are insiders.

Bottom line is there is no exit strategy for 'suckers' who are meant to be left holding the bag. When collapse is part of the curve and denial is part of the sales pitch, it might not literally be an exact Ponzi scheme, but you're meant to be one of the smart ones hyping and profiting off the dumb ones who chronologically come after you. That's the profit strategy.
The Casio Royale is brilliant, but suffers from planned/functional obsolescence: an inaccessible battery, a face which is susceptible to scratches and a plastic body which is painted.
Those keywords all appeared in the context of set theory long before category theory was thought of.

Even ignoring that as a historical accident (we invented set theory before category theory), those ideas are all natural, meaningful and interesting to examine in the context of sets even if one has never heard of a category.
Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
Or to move the planet further from the Sun.
The ins and outs of chaining comparison operators in Python
> the richest country the world

May be it's not a coincidence?
Sugar does not contain cholesterol, but consuming an inappropriate amount of it will most certainly have a negative impact on your blood lipid profile.
Rosetta being removed in some regions? Mac OS 11.3
You can teach (some intuition for) multiplication without numbers by multiplying lengths to get areas. Then show e.g. how the number of seats in a theater is the number of seats in a row * the number of rows.

Let the school teacher press the algorithms on him, teach him your hacker's sense of wonder.
While that's true, I tend to imagine it like a horde of mosquitoes, a bit like Paul Graham's idea[1], but applicable to social trends. I wrote a whole essay on trend movement that leads me to believe the pendulum is close to swinging.[2]

[1] https://observer.com/2011/06/paul-graham-outlines-the-mosqui... (and he also has an essay that I was too lazy to find about startups)
[2]https://gainedin.site/trends
Finally some support for building JSON Objects in Django! Can't wait to test it out soon.
Introducing Brave Search
GitOps at scale sucks. This equation roughly explains it P(gitopsfails)=1-p^n
> In May 2012, lawyers acting for Goldman accidentally released an unredacted document revealing compromising internal discussions regarding naked short selling. "Fuck the compliance area – procedures, schmecedures", Rolling Stone Magazine quoted Peter Melz, the former president of Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. as saying in the document.
The reality is that there is a difference between vegan/vegetarian and whole food plant based diets. I am sure if you eat beyond burgers (processed meatless patties) everyday, you aren't doing your health any favors.

I mean potato chips are vegan. French fries are vegan, etc.

The key is whole foods. Unprocessed foods.
Somewhat agree on the habit assertion. I say it's more of a regional culture habit issue than health habit issue. I changed my health habits to a more MMA diet strictly because I view that "body type" as more well rounded in capabilities. Good stamina, good strength and not overly stacked in one body aspect. Like, you need good upper body, lower body and core strength all around. You cant really focus on just one part. Their diets are mostly meat and veg based. Obviously there are a few exceptions, but most are pretty big meat eaters. But eating lots of meat doesn't mean they tend to be unhealthy in other aspects of their life.

The biggest problem, most people in the modern 1st world are lazy af. No change in diet is truly going to fix the lack of movement and lack of sun exposure. A 12 hour a day, everyday, call of duty gamer is equally unhealthy and useless whether herbivore, omnivore or carnivore in diet.
They get different content.

Nowhere on that streaming content is someone explaining the intricacies of speedrunning The Legend Of Zelda (as a simple example.) It turns out there may only be a couple thousand people in the world really that interested in that content, and only a few hundred willing to pay for it. The economy of scale thee changes the calculus of how much you are willing to pay.
We also won't have oceans by then - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth

And it's very hard to conceptualise what a billion of years in the future actually means.
TL;DR: It's basically just than speculation based on the sun being hotter in a Billion years.

So, two people ran one model described in one paper. Even if that was the whole issue, it would merit "may last only" rather than "will last only".

Additionally, the authors are making a variety of assumptions with little or no basis about the behavior and development of Earth Flora and Fauna; specifically, that it will be mostly static in most ways, with no adaptation in genetics, inter-species interaction, prevalence in different places on Earth etc.

Having said that - in 5 Billion years, Sol will become a Red Giant, so this planet is going South at some point between now and then.
Alternative interpretation: unionized employees feel more secure in their job and therefore will be more honest when random people ask them about it. Or maybe they didn't even know where to start. The only people I've ever heard have no complaints about their job were people who had so many complaints that they put on an easy-going front to avoid dumping their problems on someone who's trying to make small talk.

It's like when you're teaching and the students don't understand a thing you said, they'll have no questions. It's always the kids who understood 75% of what you said who has a question. One of the goals of every liberation movement (labor, feminism, racial justice, etc.) is making people aware of their shared struggle and it's causes. The Teamsters are far from radical but the fact that things can even be negotiated at all has a way of making people aware that decisions of management are not forces of nature.