skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this coming :) It's not that bad. My parents just happen to live in farming territory a way outside a town of around 3,000. There's maybe three houses on their street and no one else really nearby so there's not a lot of financial incentive to run wires out there for providers. Like most places, the majority of the population lives in more densely populated areas and don't deal with these kind of issues.
> Is there anyone that wants to defend this blacklisting of the author by the Chicago Review for writing this article?

Well, first, “blacklisting” for an exclusionary practice is a poorly chosen term for an act by a single actor and not a coordinated action across a group of theoretically competing actors.

Second, are you looking for a defense of the act within Chicago Review’s “editorial and political agenda” (which is difficult for any outside actor since they haven't specified what it is) or are you looking for a debate on that agenda (again, difficult for any outside actor for the same reason) or an argument for why a similarly situated might be justified on the basis of some set of goals which may not be Chicago Review’s agenda or for defense of a set of goals which might justify it that may not be Chicago Review’s agenda?

Because the last two seem like a pure waste of time while the first two seem like a waste of time if you aren't specifically asking the Chicago Review editorial staff.
The issue is lying to shareholders about how much salary you're paying - particularly when it's to yourself. I'd draw an analogy with having fictitious employees on the books when the CEO is actually just trousering their salaries.
Animals can be and are routinely put down just because their owners happen to feel like it. They have no legal protection from the whims of their owners, as long as their lives and deaths are not considered unusually cruel. The worst criminals are human in the biological sense, undeniably. Is that all it takes for them to deserving of irrevocable human moral and legal status?

If it's true that you'd feel worse about the arbitrary execution of a beloved pet than that of a criminal, doesn't that contradict any intrinsic value the criminal has?
I agree with the thrust of your argument as I was learning Common Lisp around then but you make a factual mistake:

> Around 2004... There were two free, open source Lisps available (CMUCL, CLISP) and both were rather unloved and clunky at best.

SBCL and ECL existed and were quite usable.

The documentation was as you say, another story. There was the HyperSpec, copies of CLtL, and a number of out-of-print or hard to find books that described some kind of Lisp. It was hard to be a tyro without a guide.
“Anyone” is doing a lot of work in your sentence. Universities are given a huge amount of special dispensation by society because they of their commitment to free inquiry. A literary magazine at a university should embody those principles. If it doesn’t, then why give them a privileged place in society?

Back in the day conservatives alleged that “free inquiry” was a pretext and universities were a Trojan horse for radical leftism. This strain of thought vindicates those critics.
Hi there. I have social anxiety. There's a fucking huge difference between performing in front of someone more important in a job interview compared to talking to peers in a casual setting.
Yes, if basing your entire model on visible road markings that is broken by a light coating of crystallized water.
Yes. I feel i am not trusted by any OS vendor to be given access to all my system folders. I feel that my computers OS is like the proverbial, pushy "bodyguard" whose job is to stop you seeing too much and going places "they" don't want you to go.
I've seen plenty of shitty (sorry!) privatized toilets at various events and locations. They are rarely directly "paid" - more like the event holder rents them and provides them free of charge - but the privatization aspect hasn't guaranteed me some magical clean toilet experience.

Sometimes us Americans just reveal ourselves to be selfish and... again... shitty.
I don't want to seem too accusatory, but this just felt like an angry rant without much research.

I've been to a few places on this earth, and while I know there are some Europeans who'll proudly talk about how paying for toilets helps keep them clean, I haven't noticed them being any better than gas station bathrooms in the US. Some are okay, some are total disaster sites. The only difference is someone or a machine standing at the door taking your money.

Meanwhile, in East Asia, I've never encountered a pay toilet. I've also really only encountered truly dirty toilets in the middle of very remote parks. Japan, Taiwan, and Korea all have excellent free toilets. Even China does pretty decently. Parks and urban areas across the country have toilets that are well maintained, and I noticed public bathrooms even in the middle of residential areas around Beijing that were hosed down a few times a day.

So no, I don't agree that the only way to fix things is to revert to literal nickel and diming. Learn from the countries that manage their systems better instead of giving up and saying it's impossible.
Has someone gone and bulk downvoted everyone that disagrees with the premise that toilets must be paid? It seems every comment is at 0 or negative
Poor thing. Someone get her an electric blanket to warm up her ice cream.
Somewhat related: Playing the video game Mike Tyson's Punch Out while blindfolded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZT6JEOC3D8
I didn’t say that. The article touches on things that are happening in the far right, addition to the point being made.
I agree that privacy is a problem - and yes it is a first world problem.

The specific privacy problem espoused by this post is not just a first world problem, it's an HN problem. I am being disingenuous - this request is pure insanity and I absolutely promise you that this "computer you fully own" will have such a very small market that it doesn't have a chance of breaking even.
Here's an old song of mine. My main claim to fame as a songwriter is that before Suzanne Vega became famous, I was in a weekly songwriter's workshop that she was involved with (and co-founded); she liked this song when I presented it during one of those Monday night workshops at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyFXlW_p1Mw
> "What I never get about estimates is why people don't just reduce the granularity until they have some amount of accuracy they can work with."

I think you've kind of answered yourself here. Software development is fractal-like. The closer you get, the more complicated. If you want to estimate smaller chunks, you have to do a lot more work. At some point it's better to just start developing than to zoom in further, because at that point you're basically developing anyway.
So long as they are intentionally constraining themselves to well mapped places with good weather, what's the problem? Summer tires don't work in the snow either, but that's fine because they aren't expected to.
Oh shoot, sorry, I just realized I got confused. I misinterpreted the original comment (about the PDF) to mean that you're supposed to buy multiple physical copies too, and that nobody does that either. If that's not the case then that would explain it. Though then the question would be—is it not worth just buying the physical copy and passing it around?
You're gonna need a bunch of them. Cause one single developer cannot get through code review.
I might be making a jump, because I've followed a lot of these discussions over time.

To my understanding (and as a disclaimer, I advocate strongly for it), "inclusivity" in general means making an environment safe for people of marginalized backgrounds. So to me, his declaration that inclusivity as a value ought to be up for debate seems to indicate he doesn't think it's a top priority that students of marginalized backgrounds feel welcome in his classroom.

Is that a jump? A bit, but it's based on seeing similar situations play out in other areas.

But the choice of curriculum was to my second point: I think students deserve the chance to study a wide variety of history and literary viewpoints, including when feasible some from backgrounds similar to theirs. There has been tons of literature written by black authors, written by women, written by LGBTQ folx. Often times those works have been, in the past, deliberately destroyed (like the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) or not considered for publication (George Elliot choosing a pseudonym to publish outside romance), which is a significant component to why there are so many more white men authors historically.

If you teach a course where all the literature you choose is from white men, you really limit what history you are teaching, and you can subtly reinforce that others may not be welcome to succeed in literature. Inclusivity asks us to consider those implications and pick some variety of authors--there are many great writers of so many different backgrounds to choose from.
I think of this often, and generally call it the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox -- in addition to perceived absorbtion for stakeholders, I think the estimators too find more details the closer they look.
Curious about 2. I don't have these and I've never been in a car accident. Presumably the onboard sensors would tell the autonomous car what to avoid?
I'm confused who is the attacker in this scenario? The entity doing the computation? If the party doing the computation can only see the encrypted inputs and outputs, and the ciphertexts are not deterministic, how would they create a table out of that?
I do similar. Just use my previous Android (eg Pixel2) with the apps on it and my current phone (Pixel3) is trimmed (disable what you can, no apps but Firefox). I leave the 2 in a known safe location.

Not a 100% solution but is dead simple and better than 0%
I don't write too much, but I improvise on piano and sing.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVlEkuqoQMnsHzjy-DJWOnA

I also have an album out wherever you happen to listen:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/aarontagliaboschi/dmJw

Here's my other feeds, if you wish for them

https://aarontag.dev/feeds/
There's System76 and Purism:

https://system76.com, https://puri.sm

Can't speak to the quality, but I suspect those are the expensive models the author is referring to.
Skimming, I saw the author lives in India for about $150/month, and made about $200/month previously, maybe a little more now.

I guess its a great option if you live in a low COL country and sell to high COL places, but it won't even cover rent in Mumbai, forget US/EU.
The difference is, the BIOS and other firmware in early PCs did not spy on you.
Change cells in parallel, not in sequence.
Remember the VR hype? It's most certainly the same marketing experts saying game subscription services are going to be a big thing one day.

I see it this way. PlayStation to XBox, is like Apple to Android. On one side you pay for a product, on the other side you are the product. Sony runs the infrastructure, and provides bandwidth. You get two games for free every month (if you haven't bought them already) and you won't get into a Netflix situation where, when you have time to pick up a game it suddenly isn't available any more as part of the subscription.

This all might take a generation of kids who grow up with subscription services to ve successful, until they eventually find out it hasn't always veen this eay and then post on HN hoe grrat it would be to own your stuff again.
I think the point is that the actual emission are on the low side of the IPCC scenario bounds, and are tracking to exit completely the IPCC scenario bounds around 2021.

Full paper in PDF format here btw: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abcdd2/...
Kunin opposes blacklisting that resulted from others voting with their feet. He heaps scorn on the editors of the magazine, who have, I think, the best defense of their actions, namely that it was him or them, and they chose them so they could continue publishing.

Kunin's target is really the other contributors who effectively strongarmed the editors into ejecting him, and he later in his essay falls back on the old chestnut that the best response to terrible speech is better speech--an idea that the amplification argument is explicitly trying to reject.

So what's really being discussed here is whether the other contributors leaving is justified, and I think that this is the best form of freedom of expression. It's the most powerful form of expression to walk away from someone uttering something you find terrible to express. And when they sputter that you should engage them to demonstrate your own superiority of thinking, that's just demanding you amplify them as the price of showing off yourself. Sometimes, the better response is really to just walk away. This is the marketplace of ideas at its most effective.
By people giving you jobs and asking for your input?
You can also put the compute and the data on land, and do routing as a service. The decision bandwidth (i.e., ideal heading/route) is miniscule.
This is one of the reasons I built LibreStudio.
I love the mix of the ambience and the narrator. Those PSAs and old narrations really add an interesting dimension to it. Question, where do you find those voice samples?
From what I understand Amazon doesn't even look at the school you attended during hiring nor do they confirm that you've graduated. I was told this is do to the lack of correlation between your school and indicators of success at Amazon. I wonder if the tweeter would have an easier or harder time creating a black employee pipeline there.
It's definitely a motivation problem and not a technology problem.

But I will note that normal copper wires are not good for this. You can't get usable speeds past 2-3 miles on telephone wires.
Not too shabby looking! Thanks for the link
I'm not naming them because I'm not addressing any specific ideas, I'm saying something about the mechanism of amplification and why there's a moral case for cancelling some people. It works in all directions. It's the marketplace of ideas.
> I desperately want to get to a point where I'm able to quickly sketch out a statistical model for making a decision

What kind of decisions do you want to make? If you offer that up, others will be able to provide guidance to frameworks used to make those decisions.

The field of operations research uses topics from all sorts of fields to try to make better decisions. I would broadly classify modelling into two large categories deterministic (e.g., how to schedule a flight crew, or where to locate a warehouse) or stochastic (using probability models, e.g., how many people to staff in a bank). Of course there is no problem that will be strictly one form or the other. There will be points in a modelling problem where it's useful to apply tools from both categories.

A decision tree might be the simplest form. You map out the different decision points and can generate costs or profits and probabilities for the decision points. You take the one that has the highest expected value (sum of probability of outcome times value of outcome) of profit or lowest expected value of cost.

Sensitivity analysis may be another tool to use in decision making. You don't need to get three decimal accuracy. Come up with some upper and lower bounds and you'll have an idea of how good or how bad the outcome will be.

Determining the probabilities and bounds may be tough, and your decision will only be as good as the data your putting into the framework.
You serious? I’d take the “shame and dehumanisation” of being hired for my innate attributes rather than skill for a big tech company salary for sure. Wouldn’t even have to think about it.

Hell, I’m mostly learning software dev because it seems like the most straight forward to way to turn my above average intelligence in to money. I’d love to cut out the middle man and just receive a high iq allowance.
I did once, a few years ago. In a procrastination-fueled frenzy I banged out a harsh noise album in a single sitting. It's still kind of a blur.

https://1iu1iu.bandcamp.com/album/an-urban-summoning

There's a short film that goes along with it, but that'll probably stay in my head.
While this seems to give the impression that science is not functioning, I don't see this as the case. I will give an example from my field. Before Covid struck, I was at a conference in Japan. There was a talk about an interesting superconductor. Someone repeated some of the earlier measurements and determined that they were misinterpreted--that the measurement technique led to heating the material and thus the misinterpretation of the results and that the material wasn't so interesting after all. I think this was say 15-20 years after the original measurement. During the Q&A session, someone asked the original author what he thought. He stood up and said that the new measurement was correct. To me, that says science is working--it may work slowly, but over time, it does correct. Sure, there are people that take a long time convince (and sometimes they are never convinced), but science itself eventually corrects--but the challenge of new measurements that contradict the current consensus is that it's not that each one is correct--some are just measurement errors. For example, there was the case of a recent experiment that seemed to show faster than light travel of neutrinos. The authors presented it with the idea that there was a glitch somewhere that they couldn't find. After a flurry of papers (some with exotic new theories), they eventually were able to find the electronics glitch. It would have been exciting if they were correct--but they weren't--and science again worked.
On the Netflix, there's a documentary about an octopus. It's quite good. They're amazing creatures. I would never eat one after watching that film.
This reminds me of my stress in finding a high end TV without a major company watching my TV habits. It doesn't seem you can buy a high end TV without having Android or some other company watching what you are doing. Are there any high end TVs that have more open software? Or is profit such a high priority that we basically have to supplement tech companies through TVs?
We also have different people now from 20 years ago. And our understanding of how to handle diversity has evolved too.

But, yes, generally I think we're in agreement. I'm mostly just responding that "I'm colorblind", while possibly true, implicitly is distancing yourself from the problem. It's effectively saying "I don't recognize your skin color, so any experiences you ascribe to it will be alien to me". No, recognize color, accept that a person's experiences will be different from yours, especially those tied to skin color, and that your own experiences can't really touch that; a comment you find inoffensive they might find offensive, and you can't really adjudicate that. Etc.

But, yes, the best thing we can do is encounter those different than us and realize how similar they actually are.
You fail the principle of charity test on several levels.
According to his CV, he did get tenure.
Tell me more about this. What does this system do, and why can't we do anything about it?
You seem like you have a more detailed picture of the ground truth here, but that part you’ve basically said yourself (and I agree with, under the disclaimer that I found an “About” page and that’s the end of my knowledge):

AIBS appears to be a member of the ICC. The ICC appears to be an international lobby. In that context, AIBS (probably) lobbies the ABCB with some help from the ICC as do other chapter members their own respective government representatives or regulatory bodies. Or maybe they just enjoy the ICC newsletter emails. I was only pointing out that international here is not an really a presumptuous “the US is the world” misnomer.
More than 2^5 has already been demonstrated with GPU implementations, so they definitely do mean 10^5.
While the BIOS and VBIOS of a typical 286/386 machine was indeed a closed-source binary blob, there were several factors that helped keep this in check:

1. The underlying hardware interfaces (I/O ports, memory addresses, etc.) was considered part of the IBM PC "standard" and many programs would bypass the BIOS and talk directly to the hardware.

2. The software interface to the BIOS and VBIOS was also part of the IBM PC "standard", and so the firmware couldn't diverge too far from the expected behaviour without risking compatibility issues.

3. Once the PC entered protected mode, the BIOS essentially turns into a useless brick, and ceases to have any influence on the operation of the CPU. (That is, once in protected mode, the OS kernel in ring 0 had full control of the system, and none of the BIOS code remained active.)

The difference with modern systems is stark: binary blobs often provide the only means to operate the hardware devices, CPUs have special execution modes (such as SMM) which continue to execute binary firmware even after the OS has booted, and even the CPU itself holds binary blobs (such as microcode patches).
Like my neighbor is a curious person (perhaps more chatty than I would like)? Between acquaintances the above would be compassionate conversation. Of course in the wrong context many innocuous questions can come off as patronizing, and an employer should ask work-related questions over outside culture questions naturally. However, the plane-neighbor conversation doesn't seem belittling at face value.
Yes, the toilets in Taiwan are great —- and free. They have masses of public toilets in park, along with cleaning attendants. But here is the rub —- in the US, they would be overrun with homeless (I’m not saying this is bad; just that it would be the reality) while in TW the people who are attending to them would likely be homeless were they in the US. Is part of this cultural? Yep, probably. Is part of it structural? I think so —- because there are roles for people in TW, the “lowest rung” of society, while the only role stateside is along the side of the road or perhaps a MCD worker.
excel is a grandiose waste of human time, exactly because of that "well enough" feature set.
I’m Unlearning Writing-101
Firefox on Debian spies on me. (I mean, sure, a bare Linux probably doesn’t.)
yup, https://sail.so
I know a lot of people (mostly white, mostly men) don't think that's true, but these types of attitudes can easily allow harmful messages to fester in academic classrooms.

> 88 percent of students agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that “the climate on my campus prevents students/faculty from saying things they believe because others might find them offensive.” Sixty-three percent of faculty agreed or strongly agreed with the same statement.

No, it's not mostly white men, 88% is a figure large enough that it necessarily includes large swathes of other demographics.
> And FYI nobody is arguing that any real, material history should not be taught.

This is in the context of his literature courses. There are so many literary authors that aren't white men, that arguing that he should have the right to decide to only teach works from white men (if he deems them to be the best works), does seem to me like arguing that we shouldn't teach the history of marginalized people.

If you only mean non-literary history, the history of black people and LGBTQ people are both very under-taught in United States schools. That's a real thing that some people do want to continue, and argue for. (But this seems a bit outside the topic at hand)
Not anymore, but when I was younger I wanted to do a music program and get into video game music, wrote a few hundred pieces while I learned the basics: https://soundcloud.com/james-futhey/sets/latest
> How do we fix regulatory capture so these privacy issues are a non sequitur?

by making the general populous care more about it, and force the electorate's hands.