skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think the Oversight Board is a sham, it's interesting to examine the individuals who choose to accept an invitation to serve on it.

What drives these individuals? Would they agree it's a sham - a "plausible deniability shield", or might they believe it is something more virtuously independent and efficacious?

What does each individual gain or stand to achieve from their participation?

What do the answers to these questions tell us about Facebook's power?

What do the answers tell us about how society works?
Wearing Black Lives Matter apparels will lead to punishments
If the lower upfront cost is the only thing you want then there's no need for a subscription. Just have a financing option like businesses have been doing for decades. And if the person stops paying send it to sent recovery. It's a solved problem for a very long time.

The only reason why you would want a subscription is to keep charging people even after they have paid the full price and interests, which is a super annoying and bad policy to have in the first place.
Reduce your meat intake. It's bad all around, except maybe for taste (but you lose on variety).

These soybeans are probably used to feed cattle.
Mario Cerciello Rega: US students found guilty of killing Italian policeman
Nasa Spaceflight's stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPNvB5ComFw are also really good at explaining, answering viewer questions, and tracking the progress of the countdown.
A filter that makes you look like a dog does not encourage dangerous behavior the way a speedometer overlay does.
Even if there is such language in the EULA, courts sometimes rule that such language is not legally binding. Sometimes the courts use words like "unconscionable". IANAL, but I sure think that word fits...
My understanding is that it's the current administration that's the one demanding payment from the world in return for forgoing the economic growth that might be realized by deforestation.

Considering that the Amazon is pretty essential for the global environment, this strikes me as an aggressively reasonable approach.
How to get your baby to sleep all night without crying
Those aren't intrinsic properties. Those are the opposite of intrinsic properties. I'm not disagreeing that nurture has a greater impact than nature. The point is that if you remove nurture, sex (when thought of as a single variable, which is typical) is going to have an outsized influence compared to other intrinsic characteristics.

A man with a small penis and a man with a big penis will still have much more similar sexual experiences than either of them would with a woman. This in turn will influence the way they view the world, which snowballs onwards and onwards.

On average, the brain chemistry of two men will be more similar than the brain chemistry of two women, as hormones have a large impact on this and any two men will (on average) have more similar hormone levels than they would with a woman.

Is this really surprising? Men and women have fundamentally different chromosomes, always. Not so with two random men or two random women.
Yeah, our CS:GO site doesn't get any love, it has received a total of about 10 hours of attention - that's why I avoided using it as an example. Cheaters run rampant in CSGO, it's not a problem exclusive to our site unfortunately. We're exploring ways of automatically detecting cheaters across our network though.
No love for EverQuest? Any MMO I've played since hasn't held a candle to the world design and enduring sense of mystery and wonder EverQuest was able to spark in my fragile little boyhood heart.

I went back to play in a "static" group on the old school Project 1994 servers a couple years ago. Buncha strangers agreeing to meet online a couple times a week to play, drink some fancy beers and shoot the shit. No wonder lost. That thing is still a place of glory.

WoW was the beginning of the end for the genre, in my opinion. Everything about it was smoothed over in all the wrong places. The art design and worldbuilding were just not good, especially when you consider the lore was a hobbled together mess of inheritance. The Colosseum legionnaires of the Iksar in their jungle and swamped wilds or the truly monstrous trolls selling dwarf bits that could have been pulled straight from some Nordic fairytales: that's some love of the grim imagination.
Ouch. I suggest you learn to configure your autocomplete. Pretty much everything you say is incorrect except perhaps the last point. I've used context aware completion and with multiple options shown for over a decade!
> Humans need to be able to overrule anything, anytime.

This needs to be a guiding principle of anyone who builds any sort of software.
I've seen internal work at large companies like Amazon and my sense was that the financial impact was very meaningful. Deep Learning is in many ways a new economy of scale and a 5% reduction in say warehouse space or reduced fraud at Amazon scale is a LOT of money in comparison to the researchers and compute that went into building that model.

Not to mention the impact of completely new technologies like voice assistants, automated high-quality image modification, automated computer vision systems (ones that have produced real value like automated industrial maintenance notification systems).

> In many cases they are delivering 1-10% gains over prior techniques.

As a general statement, that is false. At least among the companies that are good at DL.

As for alphastar, I somewhat agree - it's very early and that tech hasn't left the lab yet AFAICT. But if you could build an agent that was human average at some common human task (e.g. driving) that is easily worth hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions.

It takes time to go from the lab to commercial usage. Older breakthroughs like CV and transcription/TTS has made that transition successfully. More recent breakthroughs like like RL agents, NLP, style transfer are still making that transition (at varying paces). And there continue to be new research breakthroughs like protein folding that are still many years from making their way into industry, but the continuous nature of these breakthroughs bode very well for the future of DL.
They know better that to risk the suspension of their account and deletion of their data by using a shit service provider.
Part of supporting justice means, yes, an admission that some lines of scientific inquiry should not be pursued if such research has a history of, or propensity toward, bias that leads to further injustice. We condemn scientists who decapitate monkeys to see if their heads will function on different bodies, irrespective of the knowledge gained, and are willing to sacrifice that knowledge in exchange for knowing our science is done humanely.

> we need to work hard to come up with good solutions to hard problems.

But until such solutions are forthcoming, putting the research out there runs the risk of strengthening or encouraging bigots. Maybe what we need is a policy of "responsible disclosure" wherein research results aren't widely disclosed until social solutions are already in place. But even that is fraught with difficulty and risk. Better to just not touch the radioactive topics of racial and gender differences that may lead to discrimination.
It's definitely complicated because most of these older men with stage 1/2 prostate cancer will not actually die from it since it's so slow. However, getting the treatment for it leaves a huge number with erectile dysfunction or other issues.

Is it really worth screening/treating a disease with a small chance to kill you if that treatment has a huge chance to make you impotent?
A little off topic, but if you are going with mostly managed services and you don't use k8s, what would you do to have decent tracing and observability? I'm currently using a combination of FaaS and cloud queues, for example.
Overwatch is a frustrating game to play because they almost have it right. It's almost there, if they could just tweak a couple things. A good example is the overtime system. One of the worst ideas in games I've run into. For one, it creates artificial and spiky emotions in players, which just burns people out. It's amazing they don't realize basic things like that, which means they actually haven't had the right talent for a long while.

The company also has a lot of hubris. They spend tons of effort on things like trying to make healers and tanks fun. There's many good reasons to do that and they gave it a good try, but the conclusion should have been: we aren't able to make healers and tanks fun, let's try something else. Instead, they forced people to play them.

Other mistakes include not understanding "the meta." Once they think the meta is balanced in a game, they get conservative and don't want to tweak things too much. They don't realize that the meta is an equilibrium state found by the players. Change the game, a new meta will be found. They don't seem to get this and just let their games run stale because they think the competitive scene drives the player base, instead of the other way around.

Overall the facepalm factor has been too high for too long. Blizzard has always understood the science of game design, but since at least SC2 they lost the art.
Wow, thats a bit much.

Think of your favorite site with the best experience possible. That is possible because people tested countless times what works, what didn't, what is the most efficient path to a rewarding UX, and so on.

Yes, there are a ton of garbage lazy marketers in the world. Saying that marketing shouldn't exist would immediately render every refined UX you have navigated, purchased from, and or loyally stream content from.

Throwing out the good because of the bad is too far of a reach IMO. Anywho, that's just little old me and my opinion doesn't mean much.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1389623777781239816
It’s probably also worth mentioning in the section about image performance:

1. The source element also accepts a media attribute with the same syntax as CSS media queries; the first match (media + type) wins, so typical usage is largest > smallest. If you enlarge the window it’ll automatically load larger images. (Annoyingly, this is not supported on video>source.)

- When styling picture elements in CSS, you actually need to select the img tag. This still trips me up time to time.
Why do calculators display 8 digits?
Looks like Salesforce and Heroku have decided to embrace the "Oracle approach".
Bitcoin is great for people who want to speculate, have no idea how cryptocurrency works and have no interest in using it for actual transactions. They can buy a number on an exchange and pray the exchange gives it back to them. Go nuts.

For normal transactions bitcoin fails miserably. No one sane would make every day transactions with a $60 transaction fee.
I do that. I buy the cheapest.
I used to hardly think about exception handling on the jvm, mostly let them bubble up and be centrally handled except in special cases. Now I'm always worried that I'll forgot to manually handle the error in Go.
Can't tell you how many times I've gotten panics as well, from nil objects.
It doesn't stop working while you're riding, that's just hyperbole stirred up by this headline. This is not a safety issue, nor is this unreasonable "usury".

Just like any financing plan in existence, the interest rate here is that the total cost of ownership is higher on the payment plan than on the alternative pay-up-front plan they offer. The benefit of the payment plan is you can start for less money. The unusual feature of this payment plan compared to your house, car, or credit cards is you get to pause and/or cancel it with no penalties.
Had to re read the title, thought this was about all those environmental impact commercials they keep running at first
Being repairable means a longer warranty isn’t necessary. 1 year is pretty standard on laptops. I’m not sure why you are focusing on the chassis or motherboard when they both are user replaceable.
Salesforce acquired Heroku 11 years ago—only 3 years after it was founded.
So if Klim’s security/build/release processes are imperfect, I’ll die??

I’m going to pass. This is fucking insane.
Solving half of the problem is still better than solving nothing.
I wasn't automating an advertising account with a bot, I created one MANUALLY. You really should improve your reading comprehension before leaving comments

The fact that it triggered lock out provided I have 2 factor auth which I am able to pass (to see a screen of death after entering the code) is laughable.
it's really hard to figure out which weapon is best just from looking at a page of attributes. consider the classic ak vs m4 dichotomy. ak kills in one headshot with or without armor, has higher damage per shot, and has higher DPS. the m4 has a much tighter recoil pattern though. in practice, most people will drop an m4 to pick up an ak, but they are closer than they look on paper.
I doubt it. Besides the EULA that has already been mentioned, the standard equipment is a padded jacket with abrasion resistant fabric.

They could probably argue that their product is adding protection above current standards, and a deactivated vest would merely reduce the rider back to the safety level considered standard.

I dislike a subscription based airbag vest, but I really don't think they'll get sued over that.
Race means you forced people to inbreed, thus creating a "race". Let bastard dogs breed with each other and you will get the most stable staple of what a dog really is in size and comportment. And also understand that dogs are not as dumb as the pure raced element of the species show.

Are those people of really different income levels? Class trumps ethnicity, and gender self-segregate within the class.

Note that maybe gender segregate since a long time and this is indeed a genetic code. But this is impossible to test against. So it is not really interesting, and a more philosophical debate right now.
This is not true at all. There are entire, large sections of the industry devoted to creating safety-critical software. These areas of the industry are well disciplined and highly regulated. This software is designed in such a way to make collateral damage impossible in all but the most exceptional scenarios. This popular silly web programming stuff is truly only the tip of the software engineering iceberg.
It appears their bet was that by having the upfront cost be discounted and making the money back in "service" payments, they increase access to those that might otherwise not be comfortable footing the high upfront cost. The product isn't a motorcycle jacket, it's a financial instrument with life-and-death usury rates. In some sense, it's probably impossible to market a product like this well.
My understanding is the pay adjustment is based on local market rate, so in your case, whatever is market rate for your role in Miami.

What you probably need to be aware of is of potential bimodal/trimodal salary distributions. There's a ex-uber guy on youtube[0] that talks about such things existing in Netherlands. Assuming you're in a similar class of companies, that might be something you might want to watch out for, and potentially bring up in salary negotiations.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Xpapy6I9E
Which CS is this? 1.6 or GO?
Sleek and loads fast.

What I want more than anything is a dynamic diagram showing the bullet spread depending on how fast I shoot. Maybe even let me click for shots.
That's neat! Just searching for lazy I get all the relevant options, like bottom margin. I'll be tweaking those (when I page down, which I use a lot with spacebar, I go down about 1100px, so no wonder that the default of 300 isn't working for me) and only disable it altogether if this stuff still happens. Thanks!
This is fantastic, well done! A very useful service, and I loved it when it was Firefox Send. I'll be sure to use this now.
Agreed, communism does usually turn into a corrupt brutal police state dictatorship that institutes programs of genocide and atrocities against its own people, in which the means of production are most assuredly not owned by the people. Marx doesn't tell you that.

In China's case, the turn towards capitalism in its economic policy is about the only good thing going for the regime! Their previous central planning resulted in the starvation of tens of millions of people.
If instead of disabling the airbag, they simply repossessed the whole jacket, nobody would give a rat's ass. That's called a rental and it's a legitimate business model (though not one that I'd ever take for lifesaving equipment).

Instead, they intentionally added failure modes to their equipment - Making it worse even for customers that bought it up front, because now that code is hanging out and may be accidentally activated.
Right-wing bodybuilders on Twitter are still the best predictive tool since augery and haruspicy went out of style.
This is just a financing option, they even call it a "lease plan" on the web page. The unusual and positive benefit here is it doesn't go to recovery, you get to keep it and just pick up and continue your payments later as if nothing happened. I wish all my financing plans offered that option!

* I'm totally and utterly baffled by all the downvoting. It seems like many people did not check out the product's web page and are left with Vice's misleading interpretation.

Here's the description I'm talking about, right from the product page: https://klimsitecontent.s3.amazonaws.com/contentblocks/2021%...

It says "Membership: Lease or Buy (No Subscription!)"

Maybe they goofed by using the word "service" in the description, but this is just a financing plan. And it's not some kind of crazy safety issue where they shut it off while you ride, they appear to have designed it to prevent that.

And it is, in fact, more lenient than my mortgage, my car payments, or my credit cards. I don't get to pause or cancel any of those without pretty severe repercussions.
They're refunding every affected treadmill and they can't sell treadmills until they design a new model. It doesn't matter what "anyone considering a PTON" thinks.

About 125,000 units at $4,000 each plus the overhead costs of dealing with the whole issue. So $500 million just on the recall, not to mention the liability on any suits for existing injuries and deaths, the brand damage, the delay before they can sell a new product, the loss of content subscriptions from people who no longer have a unit... Those subscriptions are really where they planned on making money.

It's a good chunk of change. It's on the order of a six months to a year of revenue. Any company that suddenly loses a year of revenue is going to see a big hit.
I believe the idea of micro dosing is that you don't get high, you end up being more focused and perceptive.

Seems like he picked a bad time to try it out.
The French move is not sufficient, but that doesn't mean it's not necessary.

We will never solve our environment issues until we get over the fear of taking steps first.
The Math of Mafia
The same goes for all social medias. They're all-user generated content.
counterpoints:

- HS is strong on mobile

- OW is arguably a MOBA/FPS hybrid

- CoD/warzone is the most streamed battle royale on twitch
Yeah, those files are for https://projectfluent.org/
Well, IoT is just an amplifier and enabler of the rich people's desires. If they were good, their goodness would radiate thru this new IoT channel, but our society is still immature, it promotes sociopaths to the top and so their greed and evilness floods over the IoT gates.
>It's bad all around
Even experts don't have a consensus on this... If your source is the game changers documentary on Netflix, it may seem like this.
Valorant!
> That includes memory and storage, which are increasingly soldered down on new laptops

This is a sad day, when replaceable memory and storage has to be highlighted in a product.

I applaud the initiative. Getting future motherboards in the same form factor would definitely be a novelty in the laptop market, AFAIK. I wish I could just buy an upgraded motherboard for my 13-year n130, for instance.

The next step would be to adopt the EOMA68 form-factor, but that laptop is a more progressive approach. Have you tried to get closer to fairphone?
Let's extend the headline to "As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy in consideration of climate change."

Now, let's take the headline and put it into a magical machine that turn what the idealistic well-meaning activists and politicians wanted to happen to the immediate practical outcome of the action.

The magical machine that replaces the intention with the practical outcome of the action is simply replacing "climate change" with "the western nations must consume less because China needs cheap commodities and needs to have a competitive advantage over the west to become the dominant global power". Climate change activism in its practical aspect seems to be a never-ending "prisoners dilemma" where the west always cooperates and China always defects.

Let's try some more common headlines:

"Western nations must reduce their gasoline consumption because of climate change"

"We should stop having children because of climate change"

"We should stop eating meat because of climate change"

Meanwhile China built 3x more coal plants last year than the rest of the world combined.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/02/03/china...
I did my own research and came to the conclusion that what you said is a cliche that is not based in reality.

If you make a claim, don't tell someone to "do their own research" instead of backing it up. I'm not going to go on a wild chase to find something that backs up your nonsense when you can't be bothered to source something yourself.
Some simple authentication would be fantastic, so I can run my own instance and only allow myself to upload things.
it varies.. a lot of our users look at say 50kb files for quick small and targeted visual sessions , but when doing something like a log dump analysis, we are working on TB files and 1-2 GB per streaming part is good. CPU arrow people like to do say 10KB-1MB per record batch, but GPU land is a lot faster by thinking in terms of bandwidth, and so 500MB-10GB per contiguous part, depending on GPU memory and working set size. likewise, depends on how compressed it is, as you ultimately care how much it uncompresses into for the downstream memory pressure. hope that makes sense!
There's a sweet spot when it comes to power and efficiency. A car that only has enough power to go 70 mph will likely be very inefficient at it, not to mention that it would take a very long time to get there. On the other side of the spectrum, a 600+ horsepower monster than can go 200+ mph is pretty inefficient at 70 mph, too.

But somewhere in the 150-200 horsepower range will end up with a car that is very efficient at 70 mph, and a top speed around 130-150 mph depending on gearing an aerodynamics.

Of course, rather than designing cars with lower power, they could simply add a governor, so the car computer does not allow travel above a certain speed, but that would be an incredibly unpopular option, even among people that don't go significantly over the limit.
I think we're aggressively in agreement about one thing: the OB is actually not the US Supreme Court, it's the Iranian Assembly of Experts.

I think where we are in disagreement is whether this remotely can be considered an independent judiciary (Iran is below average: http://reports.weforum.org/pdf/gci-2017-2018-scorecard/WEF_G...).

As long as the OB functions in the way that you just described, it is not that. It is quite literally "One department of the megacorp confirms a decision made by the other department", and the fact that it's comprised of academics and experts (per the GP commenter) is just lipstick on a pig.
France is already not importing Brazilian beef:
http://www.journees3r.fr/IMG/pdf/Texte_1_Economie_V-Chatelli...