skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still is. Just because it includes physical signifiers that can be measured doesn't mean it isn't still a social construct.

To give a contrived example; if I say people with ring fingers over 3 inches long are Longfings and people wkth ring fingers 3 inches or less are Shortfings, and then out society treats people differently based on being Longfing or Shortfing, this is a social construct that is causing problems for people based on a contrived criteria that has no real meaning. The same is true of race.
I'm in Dynalist camp!
Ontario uses exactly this system in it's standard rental agreement contracts.
What about Sim City?
Oh man. I remember when MS DOS 5 came out. I actually went to the store and bought it. To this day I still have the original box and disks somewhere sitting with my windows 3 disks and 30 disk Borland C box.
> If you wanna believe that your hours on COD have made you a genius, go ahead, I won't stop you. Just don't imagine that this research proves it.

Video games, like all things, should not all be treated equal. I could certainly see problem solving skills developing from world building or highly complex games (Civ, PoE, etc.). In fact, most (but not all) highly successful games have depth, which requires time investment and problem solving. The difference in games can be as varied as comparing a marketing pamphlet to Asimov's novels.

I don't dispute your take on the quality of the research though. I would even go further and speculate it would be really really hard to come up with meaningful tests due to game variance. So most anything on the subject is likely fluff.
If you’re interested in “hard to describe features that can be learned with enough expiration”, look up chick sexing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing#Vent_sexing
What!? how is there a TOS on a coin? Maybe TOS on a gateway site?
Open source tools are already built this way. If it weren't for the pathological attack on users that are mobile OSes this would hardly even be a discussion.
Agreed. The constant dopamine hit with sounds and flashing colors set a horrible precedence. It's bad enough television advertisements hit all the right spots, now video games are a minefield their selves.
My daughter is transitioning from children's games to pre-teen games, and I can't find a single acceptable game on the tablet.

Until now I hadn't realized how sensible Apple's rules around children's games had been, notably: no internet connection required, and no ads.
This type of thinking is exactly what led to mass starvation in the Soviet economy.

It turns out, markets are really good at figuring a LOT of that out. Planned economies are probably computationally infeasible even with vastly simplifying assumptions.
Indeed, I do think LinkedIn is the new FB. Replace FB's "happy vacation photos" with "raised $100M seed investment" and you have LinkedIn. I am constantly surprised how much time people spend posting and liking stuff on LinkedIn, makes me wonder how they get any work done.
SEC charges company for not disclosing trade secret. What a shame.
This is possibly one of those rare cases when knowing a bit less is actually helpful.

Any "stablecoin" not based on 100% hard asset redemption is a financial perpetual motion machine in proportion to how much of its market cap is not backed by hard assets. It can work for a while but it is fundamentally unstable and fundamentally guaranteed to collapse after a certain point. Knowing "too much" about the cryptocurrency mechanics and this algorithm and that detail of how they redeem and all the other mechanical details really reminds me of people who put forth very complicated mechanical perpetual motion machines and basically meet all objections about how perpetual motion is not possible by pointing at their machine and saying (in essense) "But look how complicated that is! You can't prove it doesn't work, it's too complicated!"

But I don't have to. I don't need to learn the details of the exact obscure magnetic effect you're using or delve deeply into your exotic dark-matter-catalyzed fusion or theory about how your machine captures zero point energy or take out my crystals to examine your machine's chi. All I need to see is that energy is conserved and/or your machine is not actually putting out any power across long terms.

Stablecoins are not possible in the long term. I don't need to know the exact financial machinations of this or that stablecoin to know that. They are fundamentally castles in the sky.

The other problem "stablecoins" have is that there is very little incentive for anyone to create a coin that is actually hard-backed by 100% assets. In that situation, all the backer is doing is signing up to lose the assets once the market burps, the stablecoin appreciates even a bit, and everyone redeems them. There's this fundamental mismatch between incentives, a fundamental inability to peg one asset to another by fiat, a number of fundamental impossibilities, really.

I find myself wondering if it comes back to the fundamental misapprehension shared by so many crypto advocates that money's value is just completely arbitrary, and easily changed. If so, why not just arbitrarily declare that this stable coin is worth one dollar? We shouldn't even need any backing to that claim at all, since money's value is so arbitrary, so 10% backing in dollars and 30% backing in other cryptocurrencies should be more than enough, right? Well, even if money's value is an "opinion", it turns out the collective opinion of millions of people and numerous governments still provides the system rather a lot of mass, and it doesn't move around easily as they think and isn't as arbitrary as they think. Certainly it isn't infinitely strong; I'm rather a dollar skeptic myself lately. But there's a big difference between the concepts of a completely arbitrary value of low mass and any value with the mass of millions or billions of people and governments behind it.
Not actually subjective. Massively superior to avoid all that unnatural wrist movement, and trackpads enable multi-finger gestures of all kinds that a mouse can't do. Meanwhile you have more precision with much less motion.

And for this particular application, it should be quite easy to see that a mouse requires a mouse pad, and relies on being used in the wrong plane, because of gravity, whereas a trackpad can be anchored, takes up a lot less space, and can be used in any plane.

Not subjective and not weird. Objective.
> The abortion debate is, and has always been, a question of whether fetuses are alive enough for the term "murder" to apply to them.

In many countries, if a mother kills her baby in the first few months after birth, this is illegal, the liveliness of the baby is not in doubt, and yet the killing is not considered murder, but rather the lesser homicide of infanticide.

Likewise, while the Old Testament prescribes severe penalities for violence that causes a woman to miscarry, it has nothing to say about expectant mothers pursuing abortions. The illegalisation of abortion seems to date back to the Emperor Constantine.

It is a false dichotmoy, that either the fetus is not considered yet alive, or the state should treat the mother as a murderer.
> Do you think you could add support for pandoc to export to other formats and import things?

Maybe, but not likely soon. Bike does already provide read/write support for .bike (html subset), .opml, and .txt. I think best route is to work from those file formats.

> Another option --- possible to set it up so that each node is a text file (or other file format, see pandoc above) and they are grouped using file directories?

I've long wanted to try something like that. It would be very fun, but I don't expect Bike will do this.
This law is not limited to Whole Foods
what's this enormous risk they're talking about? racial bias in x-ray reading? race can be a risk factor in plenty of diseases, why should we actively try to remove this information from medical images?
Right but the existence of confusion cuts against your argument it’s more understandable. What you really mean is your brain works differently than everyone else’s, and you find something straightforward which they find confusing, therefore they are just thinking wrongly and it turns out your brain is the one with the correct worldview.

That’s certainly a perspective.
> Do you consider browser extension as an important feature when you choose a product?

I'm an extension minimalist. I don't want yet another extension when an app will suffice.
Do you ever feel guilty the money you give them for entertainment could be going to a hungry mother?

I don't lose sleep over the blockbuster superhero movie that is geared towards the Chinese market changing because something I did. If I had that power I would shut it down and not spend 100 million.
It would be nice to see more genuine, enthusiastic scientific curiosity to understand how the ML algorithms are doing this, rather than just abject terror and alarm.
One of the reasons certain communities were hit harder with Covid was vit D deficiency as a consequence of skin color.
Very very honestly, my experience with people who watch Disney too much is much much better then with excessive gamers. Only one of those groups yells, swears and is vent their anger at people around when they loose the match.

For the record, my kids do play games, I never did complete ban. But, the gaming does not seem to be superior, does not zombify them less nor leads to more inventive play after session finished.
Ever more complicated attempts to bridge the gap by muddying the waters.

Frankly, even a freshly arrived alien from Mars or Titan could easily tell Icelanders, Mongols and Xhosa apart, without knowing anything about our culture. The fact that there has been a lot of interbreeding/admixture since the Age of Sail began, does not mean that there aren't meaningful biological differences between the original groups, which still obviously exist.

An analogy: much like the existence of twilight does not render the concept of night and day a 'social construct' either. We attach certain social meanings to those natural phenomena, and a 'working day' can easily stretch into 'astronomical night' (all too often!), but that does not mean that 'night' and 'day' do not exist outside of our cultural reference framework.

There is a social concept of 'race' which corresponds to the 'working day' concept in this analogy, e.g. 'BIPOC', claiming Asians as 'white adjacent' or classifying North Africans or Jews as 'white', even though they may not necessarily look white. But this is almost certainly not what the AI identified. This social concept of race would confuse a Martian alien unless he started to study the social and racial history of the U.S., and possibly even afterwards. It definitely confuses me, a random observer from Central Europe.
The "entire point"? What, in your mind, does redemption mean for an algo stable?

Obviously, as we've seen, algo stables are subject to their own engineered ponzinomics, but I don't think redemption is "the entire point", or even a cognizable concept.
Seems unlikely, given how heavily they are relying on Usenet.
Well you can argue semantics, it doesn't change the fact that it is possible to implement the same concepts in Go with generics.

That line of code could be Scala, or something else.

In any case, the point is that there are compiled languages that offer similar productivity like Ruby, with AOT/JIT compilers out of the box, and great IDE experiences.
Out of curiosity, how does one even begin to address such a question? Because it seems to me that the answer turns entirely on your choice of a quality metric, which is entirely subjective. If you are a consumer, you would come up with one answer, and if you are a shareholder you would come up with a different one. On what principled basis could one possibly resolve this?
Nice No True Scotsman fallacy.
"documentary" is an interesting way to describe the plot of Idiocracy (2006)...
I think this is in a class of what could be called “woke laws” or laws that sounds great, maybe have great intentions, but no thought was given to what happens after. The lightbulb ban, plastic bags, straws, it all sounds like things we should do, then what? I think The argument that “let the market figure it out“ has been bastardized to excuse these woke laws. The market is going to push their cost down, and that means onto the consumer. So really the only people who get hurt by these laws are the consumers, because they end up having to pay and be inconvenienced by them.
"our finding that AI can accurately predict self-reported race, even from corrupted, cropped, and noised medical images"

It doesn't seem like noise in the images is a factor
Not in Germany, so I'm confused what you're playing at.
part of the supply chain is your source forge and builders. On GitHub, you can point the builders to your own infra.. and then maybe check cryptographically that all source code that lands on the builder is correctly signed and trusted.

But it's nearly impossible to do that for the forge itself (GitHub).

I recommend https://slsa.dev (vendor-neutral effort from the Linux Foundation) for a better picture of a secure supply chain.
While I agree with you that “social construct” isn’t the right way to think about it, the authors in this very paper say that it is.
In limited capacity, in regular life, yes.

In social media, the constant highlights of the successes of other people makes you miserable for yourself, whether you feel happy for others too or not.

Besides an experience many can verify, it's also quite well studied, including in the linked article.
Not sure you know about it, but I'm a frequent visitor of /asknew[0] where I try to help people out with their problems.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew
They mostly accounted for this:

>Race prediction performance was also robust across models trained on single equipment and single hospital location on the chest x-ray and mammogram datasets

Sure, it’s possible that bias due to the radiographer is the culprit, but this seems unlikely.
"This issue creates an enormous risk for all model deployments in medical imaging: if an AI model relies on its ability to detect racial identity to make medical decisions, but in doing so produced race-specific errors, clinical radiologists would not be able to tell, thereby possibly leading to errors in health-care decision processes."

Why would a model rely on its ability to detect racial identity to make decisions?

What kind of errors are race-specific?
What's a cheap backup plan here?
I think the point is we can have both, but it requires more expensive hardware to be able to do the handshake fast enough that it doesn't cause accidental failures and ultimately irritation for the user.
If there were indeed government secrets about UFOs I would bet they are mostly about mismanagement, incompetence and misuse of funds during UFO "research" and cover-ups.
It's utterly ridiculous what news outlets expect from companies with tens of thousands of concurrent streams from all walks of life.

To quote:

> Twitch removed the livestream less than two minutes after the violence began

Do you think they would have been happy if it was under 60 seconds instead? Personally I think they would have written the exact same article.

Really hard to take journalists saying this stuff seriously.
The article is pretty fascinating and I recommend that you actually read it. For example:

>"We found that deep learning models effectively predicted patient race even when the bone density information was removed for both MXR (AUC value for Black patients: 0·960 [CI 0·958–0·963]) and CXP (AUC value for Black patients: 0·945 [CI 0·94–0·949]) datasets. The average pixel thresholds for different tissues did not produce any usable signal to detect race (AUC 0·5). These findings suggest that race information was not localised within the brightest pixels within the image (eg, in the bone)."
Is the joke/sarcasm in your comment that poor people already can't afford Whole Foods, so them adding regressive costs is ok?
Sometimes you can't even buy (or rent) the content because of georestrictions. At least I often encounter TV shows and movies that are available in some US streaming service, but are not available in our version of the same service, or the entire service is not available.
It's a news forum. Only loosely does it fit in "social media". Would you call reddit.com/r/technews or alike a "social media"?
>Is it possible (just for example) to exchange fiat for crypto, or crypto for fiat, or indeed one crypto for another, without having to involve an "off-chain"* counterparty which comes with no guarantees?

Fiat exists inherently off-chain, so you can't not involve an off-chain as you put it, unless you count stablecoins (government or non-government issued) as fiat. Crypto for crypto or crypto for stablecoins you can exchange purely on-chain via DEXs.

>In the fiat world it would appear one can do an exchange "old school" by going to a physical bank branch and exchanging [physical] fiat for fiat (USD to EUR or whatever) and not have to worry that the transaction is going to be halted half way through due to "temporary restrictions" leaving you unable to access your capital.

When you involve a bank or brokerage or paypal you do face those same risks (but possibly to a lesser extent) with fiat.
BEING overweight doesn't, I'll give you that. Failing to take responsibility for it and blaming other people instead of fixing it? We are in moral territory now.
I had a method around... 700-800 lines. I extracted a bunch of things in to smaller bits, and the resulting block was around 140 lines, with generally understandable names. It's 'doing a lot' because... well, we have a complex block of data with many bits that need to be pulled in based on some logic.

Someone new started and... within 10 minutes commented in the code "150 lines is way too long, we need to understand why this is so bad and how to refactor this to be good - you should never do so much in a method".

Could I break it up even more? And have one method that composes 4 then each compose 4 that each compose 3? Possibly. But there's a tradeoff, and... what annoyed me more was that there was 1) no questions asked, 2) no view of the history of how it went from 800 down to 150, 3) no review of the tests in place which document and demonstrate that it does, in fact, work.

Pursuing brevity at all costs has a higher price than some people understand. Worked with the person a while longer, and they eschewed tests because... "hey, everything I write is already so small and understandable, there's no need for tests", demonstrating a pretty basic misunderstanding of tests (imo).
How so? I don't see the connection between generating more trash, and punishing the less fortunate.

If anything, banning plastic bags would be a better fit for the narrative. Plastic bags are water resistant, and used to be more resilient and thus more reusable than paper bags. In some Asian countries, plastic bags are used to carry food, even soup, replacing more expensive containers.
Crypto Gaming Is Broken. How Do We Fix It?
Interested in how much content you have on those drives. Are you storing full bluray backups (40-100gb each), or are you doing like 10-15gb movies or the 2-6gb versions?
This was definitely not 5 years ago. This was 12 months ago.

And yes you can definitely win $80 from a $5 lotto ticket I promise you.
Finally! So many outliners think of each node as a separate text field and add node movements on top. This one gets it. Great work, Jesse!
It’s very sad that new SSL sites just don’t work on older computers that work just fine still. We’re not talking about complicated sites that wouldn’t work anyway without new browsers. Just basic HTML.
Listen, I don't like stablecoins either.

But what's the sudden obsession on HN with collateralization of blockchain assets?

Algorithmic pegs are far more interesting and democratic. That scammers have discovered they can push ponzinomics out the door as well does not change this.
Like others have said this probably isn't a good general solution imho. A solution I don't see mentioned much, if at all, is a draughtsman's chair [1] - they're a tall ergonomic chair that are used by draughtsman. This along with a stand up desk made from ikea bits and pieces is a solution thats lasted me for years.

[1] https://latestchairs.com/draughtsman-chair-features-benefits...
Cabbage moths are the worst... The other things seem pretty avoidable though...
That's an interesting confounding variable. I think it's disproven by the fact that the AUC is too high given your hypothesis.
In any case, using CoD as an example does not exactly show good will.

I personally believe in huge gains from gaming, based on personal experience (so obviously n = 1, read further accordingly).

Platformers train hand-eye coordination and pattern recognition, strategies teach resource management, RPGs about optimization and adopting growth mindset, racing games require long-time concentration, puzzlers and adventure games test your logic.

In general, games require you to:
- learn a set of tools
- master them
- conquer objective

while also prevailing in face of adversity.

I never regretted the hours I spent gaming and I feel they contributed very much to my softeng career (not directly though).
For many of us, that's a positive.
I wish I could set an artificial limit on browser tabs (like, max 5 tabs.) If I open another tab, I have to pick one to close first.
> Models trained on low-pass filtered images maintained high performance even for highly degraded images. More strikingly, models that were trained on high-pass filtered images maintained performance well beyond the point that the degraded images contained no recognisable structures; to the human coauthors and radiologists it was not clear that the image was an x-ray at all.

What voodoo have they unearthed?
If you need to run it on something other than a Mac, you wouldn't.
One of the advantages of local storage is that internet outages don't necessarily affect your ability to watch some shows. One of the main advantages that streaming has for me over live TV is the ability to watch things when I want to, without restrictions.

Don't even get me started about commercials. Amazon Prime has been putting up movies without commercials, and then adding commercials later. This has bit our movie group a few times lately. Very frustrating.
The last sentence definitely hits home
The bloomberg article provides no source for the claim. It even says neither twitter nor Musk's camp commented. Your second link is paywalled. And the last two only mention it as though it is fact but also provide zero sources.

I don't care if every news outlet is saying it, where is the source of this? Sadaam also had WMD's according to every news outlet. I know Musk moves quick and frantically sometimes, but it's hard to believe he waived DD. And if he did, why would he be doing any DD now?
Women almost twice as likely to be trapped in crashed vehicle, study finds
It's obvious that this law is not good for the environment, consumers or grocers and is deeply unpopular. Which begs the question, where are these laws coming from? They don't even bother making simple exceptions for practicality. It's terrifying not knowing the underlying forces that are causing such a perversion to democracy.
Then problem is that human experts sometimes can't tell the difference while the model can.
Antisocial media makes people antisocial - news at 11!
Collecting the media can be almost 100% automated with sonarr and radarr. Getting content can be even easier than messaging an admin.
How did you figure out our plan.
Also quite possibly not a legal purpose for a nonprofit. There are different sorts of US non-profits, state (various) and federal, and I'm not sure which ones Google means to accept, but "providing email services to one family" is not a valid purpose for many of them.

If it's a 501-c-3, "sending donations to whatever my family wants to" may also not be valid, and may be considered a tax dodge.

(I am not a lawyer).