skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn’t agree more. To share a little bit of my experience in this area:

I’m a social robotics researcher and our group has spent several years working in this area, looking at the effectiveness, ethics, and protections (or harms) involved in using different emerging technologies for conducting forensic interviews with children. As a result I’ve become very familiar with the different forensic interviewing techniques used with kids.

One thing I can say is historically some horrible approaches have been common, but there’s tremendous effort today to reform this. However, even with these well designed techniques the research shows forensic interviewers fall back to using problematic methods if they aren’t regularly refreshed on proper techniques. Our research is focused on eliminating the biases and leading interviewers are vulnerable to by using software and even using tightly controlled social robotic interviewers to totally control expressions, body language, etc. during these interviews.

The general progression is ask an open ended question, then if that’s unsuccessful offer multiple choice, then yes-no. Our protocols strictly forbid adding information apart from repeating what a child says in open ended responses for clarification. But even that can be tricky, even through a robot. In summary it’s not an easy thing and it seems most police/social services in the US have relatively few resources dedicated to improving it. Here’s hoping we can improve this soon!
Indeed - there's been research that backs up your position, but I'm afraid feels don't care about the facts.
Do you mind me asking what it costs to run a main net validator?

Also how do you know the number of validators is correct? In other words can’t that be Sybiled?
I think your diatribe here is misplaced. We're talking about failing spinning backup drives. They spin thousands of times per minute and move with micrometer precision. They're not stationary lumps of metal or stationary lumps of glass. And they're replaceable without much effort by newer technology that has no moving parts.

> with a pair of large SSDs

Great! So replace the drive in your time capsule with an SSD exactly like the article proposes too! Holy moly.
> Begs the question of what we would ever need from another civ, and furthermore what a similar civilization would ever want from a bunch of squatting troglodytes such as ourselves.

The need to fight loneliness and to find a kindred spirit?
Why? The obligations of USDT and USDC are unrelated to what system hosts them.
Does "Loose Change" count as "misleading content"?

The original has been replaced with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0skCyy7TObQ but it is still possible to find copies such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEZAXFbAnbA

It seems to me people that a lot of people around me who are all up and arms about "Covid-19 misinformation" actively promoted this "documentary".

Last year, I tried to put up something that had a rational discussion of the problems inherent in constant testing of asymptomatic people[1]. It took three months to get all sorts of automatic bans removed. By that time, I had lost all motivation.

[1]: https://www.covid2020.icu/false-positive-false-negative-simu...
Doesn't matter, you can still download APKs.
Maybe the bar should be set to reasonable ongoing “effort”. It’s probably easier got a jury to judge at least an attempt equal the the stewardship of data they possess.

But valid point on “proper”.
Sort of “interesting” to watch how East German swallow west Germany and how a liberal place (it is most free economy for how many years) transform into a totalitarian police state.

Cry my beloved Hong Kong.
afaik the aim is to provide enough warning to protect transformers, I guess by powering them down in some way?

Not sure it answers your question but in case interesting here's a link to a UK document describing 'space weather preparedness strategy'

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
it is not money in the US because they charge you taxes every time you sell bitcoins... they need to reverse that stupid ass law
Entrapment generally requires coercion. The term you mentioned, inducement, is key.

> The key aspect of entrapment is this: Government agents do not entrap defendants simply by offering them an opportunity to commit a crime. Judges expect people to resist any ordinary temptation to violate the law. An entrapment defense arises when government agents resort to repugnant behavior such as the use of threats, harassment, fraud, or even flattery to induce defendants to commit crimes. [1]

[1] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/entrapment-basics-33...
Good thing android let's users install whatever they want. I'm happily using fdroid and AdBlock.

Just downloaded fakespot.
You’re upset that you have to make healthy choices?
How much time of audio or data do you need on average to train up something? I guess I'm wondering if I only had a few minutes of someone speaking, would that be enough?
There are similar possibilities for error handling as in C. The definition and implementation of the Oberon+ standard library is work in progress. Also the Blackbox framework, of which I already migrated a lot of modules, has some interesting approaches which I study. The Json parser you mention is part of the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite which apparently doesn't need much error handling.

EDIT: Btw. there are quite some notable C libraries which for certain error conditions just call a panic function or print a message to stderr and then call exit().
Yes I was referring to calculating BB(n) for arbitrary n. But certainly these numbers exist even if they’re independent of ZFC (?)
It is up to the consensus. If enough people opposed a release and were able to coordinate their own fork then they are still free to do so.

> The leadership can decide the rules of a new fork unless everyone else coordinate to oppose it?

You are 100% free to not install the latest upgrade on your node(s). Unless you have enough people who agree with you and coordinate their refusal to upgrade you will be a network of one that goes entirely unused. This is exactly how decentralization is supposed to work. You have to obtain some level of consensus to get anything done. This isn't a situation where "everyone" has too coordinate to oppose something, just "enough" people to form a fork that has enough hashpower/security to attract users. Even if a large enough minority of miners were able to coordinate a new chain, fork the code, make the necessary code changes and start their own version of Ethereum they still have to get people to use their network.
One of Fakespot's indicators is number of reviews removed by Amazon. Amazon is weak on trust for me.
Don't you know that you must be motivated by ANYTHING except money? For some reason, money is the only thing that people say that you're not supposed to be motivated by. (being sarcastic)

Yes, you can be motivated solely by money. This is not to say that you can't be motivated by other things, too.

As a matter of fact, besides the elite in a society, most people are motivated solely by money. Example: You live in some crappy little town in the midwest. You have a high school diploma and that's it. There's only one decent employer within 200 miles that has decent jobs and wages. Somehow, you find yourself as a general manager and make $120,000 per year. You have a family with 5 children, in a 5 bedroom home with 5 acres, and you can't move because your wife's parents live nearby and have Alzheimers, so wife needs to stay in that town. You hate your job, can't stand it. But you stay there, at that job, because of the money. And, what are you going to do, move to the Bay Area and pay the $500K you sold your house for and buy a 1 bedroom condo that all 7 family members and the parents are going to live in?

And that's people who are doing well in a situation like that. There's all kinds of people working at McDonalds and Walmart solely for the money. Probably most of the USA.

Being happy in your job and motivated by it and fulfilled by it: first world problems of the elite in the first world.

So, yes, it is ok to be motivated only by money.

And I tell you what. If you work in a business that is fulfilling and you make $25K per year, but start selling cookware, which is, eh, average in your opinion, but start making $10 million per year, somehow, most people are going to start liking cookware a lot more and really get into it. For some mysterious reason.

And remember, you never want to be the CEO of a company. No you do not. You might have to start off that way, but eventually you should always hire a CEO or general manager if it is a smaller company. You want to be the Chair of the Board. Like Warren Buffet. He's not at Geico every day answering the phones or doing the actuarial tables. He just owns the stocks. I know a LOT of business owners that only come in for an hour or two each week, and let their GM do the grind.
Have your read p.1 in the message you are replying to? Red does not support static linking, that's true, but you can link to a dynamic runtime library instead, without slow recompilation times... or use the interpreter, or encap the script, or fallback on Red/System. There are options to compensate for the lack of your preferred workflow.
Equal time for TV hasn’t been a thing for decades. And it was justified because TVs used the public airwaves. I don’t know how you could write a law that would pass constitutional muster. And it seems very unlikely that you could get a constitutional amendment through on this topic.
There’s been a lot of work over the decades on analogical reasoning (though as others have pointed out, not a lot of concrete progress) so it seems unfair that the editors ruined a good article by calling her “the” scientist as opposed to “a” scientist doing this kind of work
And they are from china … great to replacing a superpower that goes to senate and court and the one basically not?
Ask HN: What structures exist to financially reward "investors" in non-profits?
Inspired by this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27859607

I'm worried that binary thinking between free market for-profits solving a challenge v. compelling government regulation is keeping us blinded to other potential solutions, but I'm having a hard time thinking of what solutions exist to incentivize "investment" in non-profits. I put "investment" in quotes because I'm not aware of how returns could be structured while maintaining any form of non-profit status given that the returns would likely be profits anyway, but I admit this is far out of my depth.

Basically, is it even possible to "invest" in a non-profit and see upside without violating the very concept of a non-profit? Do such structures exist? If not, how might such a thing look?
How does a large company with million if images make sure there aren't very similar copies in not the training set and validation set? Seems like you could be accidentally over training if there's a lot of copies of very similar images. (For example, there's going to be a lot more pictures of the Taco Bell Chihuahua compared to other Chihuahuas, and possibly some of those pictures have enough similarity to make over fitting possible.
This doesn't even make sense. Even with a civilsational collapse like the fall of the Western Roman Empire or the various Germanic invasions people remember things. The Turks of Turkey knew their ancestors came from the East and conquered the lands of Christians. The Japanese knew that their high culture came from China. The Egyptians knew that there was a time when they were not Arabs. There are Irish legends about when the Celts invaded.
RIP Biz Markie
CDC warns Covid-19 vaccines may not have been effective for immunocompromised
Not just transistors--we could basically shut down the entire power grid for the time it takes the event to pass and disconnect enough connections to protect key components like the transformers. It would be a few hours of no power in order to avoid damage that could cause outages of weeks or months or years.
The 80s called and and want their subject matter training back
It'd certainly lead to deaths and injury if it were implemented today, but after police get the idea that anyone they pick up might be innocent and that they'll be held meaningfully accountable for shooting first and asking questions later that would change. I think in our current system it's totally unrealistic and not worth the risks but in a place where police weren't routinely abusive it'd probably be fine.
The ‘Freedom Phone’ far-right leaders are hawking is a cheap security nightmare
Amazon is behaving like a mafia. There is no way they are not able to spot fake reviews and scams in 2021.

They are either highly incompetent or unethical. Or both.
Sounds like 'you are in your right to opt out of our policies if you disagree with an upgrade, it will immediately terminate all of your mining'

And then saying that most people support you because only small percent of people opted-out
Yeah if I remember correctly, I read that the solar panels required to ISRU make enough methane on Mars for a starship return flight would be two football fields worth and it would take them a few years to do it.
When I worked in defense they made us watch “ethics” videos.

One of the senarios was a software developer was moonlighting as a game dev and was using algorithms and parameters from his day job in the game.

We thought far fetched and crazy…

Apparently not.
Conspiracy theorists have spent the last few years literally using the term "the good guys" to describe the federal government, and were clamoring for a military coup up until earlier this year.
> How do people even come up with this idea?

You obviously have an opinion on it which of course you're entitled to, but unless I'm misreading, the tone of your message is that the CPI is obviously calculated correctly and there's no controversy surrounding it.

From what I have seen there definitely is, here is just one example from Forbes, but if you're interested in digging there are a lot of qualified opinions on this out there.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/06/24/the-m...
"A content delivery network, or content distribution network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially relative to end users." That accurately describes Drive's infrastructure. It has additional bidirectional support, but seamlessly transitions to unidirectional distributed broadcast if many people connect to the same file.

> We're talking about a file sharing service used for collaboration

That's one way to use it. Another way is to cheaply host content and then post the link to Facebook or Twitter. It seems Google is reserving the right to not support that use case.

> It would be like AT&T disconnecting calls

Private calls are a different model from a public & shared link. It's a bit more more like a television station cutting a live broadcast if the person on screen starts sweating a blue streak. Though that analogy is also not perfect... Hosted publicly-accessible documents are kind of their own thing. It's not regulated as a common carrier and it's also not a newspaper.
New Study Suggests Cannabis’ Wild Ancestors Likely Came from China
Nah, I just had a bad day for metaphors. What I was getting at was that in corporate-conscience situations, the corporation doesn't perceive itself as even being in a battle; if they did, they wouldn't get involved, because it would be bad for business.
The consequence of this would be heating, which is how radiation safety is already established. I'd be curious to see how the absorption of EM into DNA differs from other tissue (or I guess molecules) more than the specific observation that it can absorb EM over a broad band. That's all "fractal antenna" really means in this context (broadband absorbtion and therefore potential for heating), it is not some special feature

I remember many years ago there was a bit of a fractal craze, in signal processing and antenna design. The idea for antennas was that self similarity gave a broad resonance because there was always some fractal element that was the right size. In practice I never saw any indications they were better than other antennas.

I'd be much more concerned if DNA had a resonance somewhere in common radio bands where it absorbed a lot of EM, that would be much more likely to be dangerous.
For this entire argument I will be operating under the assumption that ¬Con(ZFC) is independent of ZFC.

ZFC+¬Con(ZFC) proves "there EXISTS a natural number x such that x is an encoding of a proof in ZFC of 0=1".

Now suppose there is actually a numeral n, i.e. a specific written term written using symbols, e.g. (+,*,1), such that
ZFC+¬Con(ZFC) proves that "n is an encoding of a proof in ZFC of 0=1". We can mechanically decode such a n and check if it is indeed a proof that that ZFC proves "0=1" or not.

There are two possibilities: (a) the check is successful and thus we have found proof of a contradiction in ZFC. But if ZFC is inconsistent, then it proves everything. In particular ZFC proves ¬Con(ZFC), which violates our assumption that ¬Con(ZFC) is independent of ZFC.

Alternatively (b) our check fails and n does not encode a proof in ZFC of 0=1. But that statement "n does not encode a proof in ZFC of 0=1" is a true Delta_0 statement, and we can prove by induction that ZFC proves every true Delta_0 statement. Thus we can prove that ZFC proves "n does not encode a proof 0=1", and hence ZFC+¬Con(ZFC) proves "n does not encode a proof 0=1". But now we have found a statement Q such that ZFC+¬Con(ZFC) proves both Q and also ¬Q. This means that ZFC+¬Con(ZFC) is inconsistent. But if ZFC+¬Con(ZFC) is inconsistent, by the deduction theorem, ZFC proves ¬¬Con(ZFC), or equivalently ZFC proves Con(ZFC). This contradicts our assumption that ¬Con(ZFC) is independent of ZFC (it also implies that ZFC is inconsistent).

Thus we are left with the conclusion that there is no such numeral n. However it is still the case that ZFC+¬Con(ZFC) proves "there EXISTS a natural number x such that x is an encoding of a proof in ZFC of 0=1", and the only way this can be the case is any such x is a "natural number" which has no numeral that denotes it.
"Take WhatsApp: the technology behind it is ridiculously simple. "

No it is not, when you serve over 100 billion e2e encrspted messages everyday all around the world, and groups and chat, ... and all of it in a way that people think it is instant.

Thats a problem with Signal. It is really really sluggish compared to whatsapp or telegram.
The first amendment is going to be a problem. According to the Supreme Court, those companies have the same first amendment rights that you do. Compelled speech is frowned upon.
>Within the law

Within the law from which jurisdiction? :-)
You can run a validator on a regular laptop or even a phone. You need to have 32 ETH minimum though, which is around $60,000.
and people who want static compile have to wait 30 seconds to recompile, even if its one line code change
Fascinating, thanks for the explanation.
Wow, very trippy in a good way. This is really grasping at straws analogy wise, but this almost reminds me of the style of Xavier Renegade Angel [1]. Any place I can sign up to beta test it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier:_Renegade_Angel
There are other evm compatible chains out there that people use: bsc, matic and avalanche c-chain come to mind.

They all on some level opted out of some of the assumptions in go-ethereum.
Aren't most universities public companies even in USA? I know some of them are private, but there must be way more than 17 public ones. Add all the public schools, police departments etc, and you get quite a lot of them.
Good point. I suppose I'd say I'm comfortable with some combination of appropriately compensating the heirs/estate and some sort of 'respect for the dead'.
> yes a lot of writing is lazy and stupid these days

This is backwards; if you want to see characters taking entirely unmotivated actions, Grimm's Fairy Tales is a great place to look. Modern writing is a lot more concerned with justifying what the characters do than traditional stories are.

That said...

> Stories [...] can teach us about how some actions may turn out

True stories can. Fiction feels exactly the same, but it doesn't tell you how the action turns out - it tells you how the narrator decided the action should turn out. This is often unrelated to what would happen in reality.
> I live in a relatively new house for my neighborhood, it was built in 1972.

Sooo... how does that support your argument?
We do this to locally distribute our javascript… from our main rails app we publish out to each region in aws where we have a cluster of redis and nginx and a little bit of lua to grab and render data out… it’s super fast and very easy to maintain … you get your nice normalized database with all its complex queries and then on the client side you get your nice big blob of context all precomputed and perfect for rendering exactly what the client needs… bonus you cache the context data for a shorter time in each local nginx worker for even faster response times then serving from disk…
Much thanks for post
Of course they can. Where did you get this idea? Do you think Fox News doesn’t give preferential treatment to certain candidates?
Ask HN: What are the most fun general purpose simulation builders?
I'm really interested in communicating with simulations.

I learned monte carlos in Excel circa twenty years ago and spreadsheets are still my goto for building sims.

What am I missing?

I'm looking for something simple, more visual, agent based, more shareable.

Something where I can get a decent shareable sim going in 10 minutes, and maybe something worth publishing in a day.

I can build games in Unity, but that's a bit heavy.

What are the lightweight sim tools?

I'm excited about https://hash.ai/. Are there other things out there?
Posting this because there were many reports of Internet disruptions in Cuba and HN likes stuff about underwater cables.

What many may not know is that there's one major high speed link to the world through ALBA-1. This article is about the ARCOS-1 cable network in the Carribean. An extension was supposed to be added to Cuba but mysteriously was dropped around the last US presidential election. As far as I can tell this is the only recentish article about the application being withdrawn.

I'm not looking to fuel partisan strife, I genuinely want to shine light on this and hope some of the HN community might know more of the story.
What do you lose by not being able to post or upload files on a Google-owned server?

People act like being banned is a life threatening event.
You might find these videos interesting as they analyze interrogations and the subject's behavior. Sometimes the lying is part of eliciting responses that can be analyzed.

https://www.youtube.com/c/jcscriminalpsychology

I'm not particular fond of the lying though and the asymmetry ... You can't lie to law enforcement but they can lie to you.
Metrics/KPIs. They're probably judged on how many people they manage to get on the phone.
>> It also includes incorrect claims that a political figure or government official has died, been involved in an accident, or is suffering from a sudden serious illness.

> In other words, it bans correct claims...that Joe Biden has dementia.

Do you have a source for that that isn't blatant uninformed speculation, hopes and wishes, or a doctored video [1]? Preferably one that is well known and has enough credibility to not be banned from Wikipedia.

Also, which of these is dementia?

1. death

2. an accident

3. a sudden, serious illness

[1] IIRC, during the election there was one pushed by the Trump campaign that was misleadingly edited and slowed down to create the false impression that Biden had dementia.