skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't a better question: why would you want /any/ government involved in your marriage?

This argues for federal legislation that defines marriage simply as a compact between two consenting adults with some basic legal record keeping.

The /impact/ of that marriage can be both federal and state (e.g., federal vs. state tax laws).

Individual state laws defining marriage could mean your next of kin could change if you die in the wrong state. That way lies dragons.
At least one early DI evangelist thinks so,

https://paulhammant.com/2018/04/10/it-turns-out-we-didnt-nee...
Natural language makes it easier to understand a general concept. It is, however, more ambiguous.

Think about it has a general picture description vs a description pixel by pixel. Both have value depending on what you need.
If everyone (or no one) has legitimate power of violent aggression, it's pretty much impossible to run a democracy as the minority would either have legitimate use of force to stop the majority, or the majority would have no legitimate use of force to impose their vote on the minority.

Now I'm in agreement with you.... but the logical conclusion is basically some form of anarchism.
GeoWombat: Utilities for Geospatial Data
Wail Watching (2004)
Fake Navigation Apps on Google Play Store Misusing Google Maps (Android Alert)
From the fine article:

> Google has a lot of influence on hardware manufacturers
What’s the point here? I want my professors to be educated at the best universities.
I'm curious, I've seen a few sites like this which grab from the Stability Discord. Is there a way to quickly scrape this amount of data from a Discord server?
My bad, I used "castrated", it is not what I really wanted to say. I should have said a subset of opengl features. Namely, it is not a software GL implementation you can run an opengl4 3D game on (only those horrible c++ diarehas which are llvm with things like llvmpipe or the other one from intel are supposed to be able to do so).
Mostly because despite the massive growth in population and immigration, there isn't the equivalent in housing or jobs. Salaries still suck back in Canada, and if you're a White Collar Canadian citizen, it's better to just work in the Bay Area or Seattle indefinetly on a TN Visa (clearly you can see which part of Canada we used to live). The US can easily absorb the amount of immigration Canada is seeing, but a country that has around 10% of the US's population and a GDP that's around 5-10% of the US can't
Utilities and communication companies are natural monopoles because they require government easements on private property and a license to limited airways
If fewer jurisdictions = better, then just adopt the GDPR as-is.

That seems obviously bad to me, having more jurisdictions to work out what the best laws are seems like a better idea.
I'm doing machine learning over raster data and found this nice library with a lot of utility functions and a good looking workflow to integrate with sk-learn.

Didn't saw it poster before. Hope you like it.

PD: I'm in no way affiliated with the project.
What’s being implied here is that the endowments of these elite institutions were created through historical crimes, but activists won’t make an issue of that if the universities support diverse hiring initiatives.
Yeah, but it does not make it worthless at all...

Even broken logic board is worth quite a lot so this argument is really more of a wishfull thinking than a reality.
The subtitle of this article is "‘Jarring’ study reveals hiring bias at US institutions."

Trying to ascertain whether prestige leads to "hiring bias" is asking whether it has an independent effect on hiring. If prestige had zero effect -- if the observed correlation was actually measuring markers of researcher quality with which prestige is likely to be correlated -- then there would be zero bias.

The fact that those institutions did many horrible things historically does not provide evidence on that question. That's why I called it a non-sequitur.
At the same time - this one move might make Florida accidentally the most progressive state in America.
It would. I wonder how this compares with Kaldi, one of the two open source speech recognition engines that Dragonfly currently supports.
Sorry, misunderstanding. I should have specified it was about synthetics.
This question seems disingenuous. Your comment equates the U.S. Government attempting to suppress speech critical of their own decisions with dang moderating an internet forum. These are not the same.

The first amendment protects speech in the United States for good reason. There are bad people in the world. Those bad people can end up in government. The government wields incredible power. The three branches are meant to keep each other in check - but so are the citizens. The ability to vote in/out candidates is a balancing force. The humans in power being able to distort speech in the country to favor keeping them in power breaks that balancing force.

This article is asking "did the government attempt to suppress speech." That has nothing to do with moderation on HN.

dang is not a representative of a government. It's entirely reasonable (IMO) for the mods here to suppress speech critical of decisions a government is making - it's their site. It is entirely unreasonable for a government to suppress speech critical of decisions the government is making. Blurring that line is how you do a fascism.
The ‘surveillance advertising’ industry makes online news possible
Well, heresy and schism officially. But he was more of a populist than conservative and also weirdly sided with the invading French king which kind of pissed off the pope.
Love this, thanks for sharing!! Did you get to building out the analytics dashboard? Would love to check it out! :D
Comments explain why the code is there. That's different from translating code into English.
A phone call is enabled by easements on public land. Facebook Messenger is just one of many messaging programs. I bet you right now Google has 5 in the works.

I have at least 7 apps on my phone now that I can use to call someone over an app.
It's also possible to tell the client that you bill by the day. That way you won't need to keep track of every single minute.
I'm going to push back a little bit against "The Modern Luxury" set of magazines. It feels like (and I believe it is) those glossies you see in nice hotel rooms about the city where you are staying. The problem is that, while the pictures are usually nice, the content feels like the equivalent of an "SEO page" - that is, the content is extremely low quality in my opinion. These days it feels like there is not a lot of daylight between the "articles" in those types of magazines and AI-generated text.

This is in contrast to magazines like The Atlantic, The Economist, etc. where the actual articles are unique and not available elsewhere.

Totally accept that this could just be my bias and not a universal feeling.
yup! btw, if you want compressed generators you'll enjoy this discussion https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/decoding-latents-to-rgb-wit...
ok, jokes on me :) I did the read the article (and have bought both books).

but I've seen so much garbage about CICO that I took the response seriously..
> I’m not familiar with Tablet Magazine

It's a conservative[1] publication. It is not an unbiased news source.

1. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/tablet-magazine/
The South Asian aspect is false. Desi Canadians tend to be blue collar. Chinese Canadians tend to be way more white collar than us.
Note that the First Amendment prohibits the government from being able to mandate any moderation guidelines whatsoever, as moderation is inherently a content-based restriction on speech.
I just don't trust it, I've worked with GPT-3 before and it sure does a real good job of sounding convincing, but if you don't understand the code there's no way to know if what it's saying is accurate, or whether it's just regurgitating random nonsense that sounds plausible.

It knows how to create sentences that sound like something a human would write, and it's even good at understanding context. But that's it, it has no actual intelligence, it doesn't actually understand the code, and most importantly, it's not able to say "Sorry chief, I don't actually know what this doing, look it up yourself."
The vDSO is a normal .so file that gets built alongside the Linux kernel. The .so file is installed on the file system like any other library. When mapped into the process address space, it's just a normal ELF image. The functions all conform to the normal C ABI for the platform.

It's true that we don't need to load the vDSO into the address space of the process since the kernel does it for us. We do need to manually link the vDSO functions though: the kernel uses the auxiliary vector to pass the address of the vDSO ELF image to the process, allowing it to parse the ELF header and find the addresses of the functions. In most cases, the libc will do this while initializing itself prior to calling main.
I can't help but roll my eyes at the hypocrisy of the EU. One prime example is French websites forcing you to pay 3 euros when you refuse cookies.
It doesn't follow, it's a non-sequitur.

There's nothing about using prestige as a proxy for excellence that has any bearing on investigating what got them there in the first place.

It's akin to claiming that accepting financial success as a decent proxy for business acumen means no one is interested in knowing how they originally because financially successful. Not only does it not follow, it makes no sense as to why accepting one would even imply someone wasn't interested in the other.
MySpace added artists after it lost to FB and itself.
That's a great point, thanks for mentioning that! I'm gonna do some pricing research over the next couple of months to see what the optimal pricing is for a tool like this! :)
There's a Seinfeld episode about the latter.
Who cares that it’s legal though? You’re on their property, committed to abiding by their terms of service even.

If you’re hosting a garden party and one of the guests has become disruptive to everyone else, are you not allowed to demand they cease their behavior or leave your property just because their angry ranting is not illegal speech?

You’re totally within your right to say “I’m out, this party sucks anyway, you guys don’t want to have honest debate” but it’s a little absurd to force the property owner to allow you to stick around when you are no longer welcome.
I'm thinking of friends who graduated from econ PhD programs, typically at around 29-30, and made 180-250K, depending on where they were hired.

That's obviously not everyone, but the comment I'm responding to said that "Professor-level pay is not acceptable for people who attend the Ivies and MIT." I think that low six figures is "acceptable" for people who went to even the fanciest schools :)
> Suppose I get 1000 objects matching one attribute and another 1000 objects from another, I've now got to intersect those two sets. Right now I'm using sets, or in some cases, sorted lists that act as sets [1]. But intuitively, a bitwise "and" ought to be faster, due to SIMD etc.

I worked on this exact problem today.

This is probably super obvious and I bet you're already doing something similar (or smarter still), but I'm excited about it so I'm telling you anyway.

I was doing the naive O(m log n) algorithm where you fetch one set of items and then test them each against the other index one by one (both implemented as B-trees).

I got an enormous speedup[1] after I realized that you can get a discount on index look-ups by testing a sorted list of multiple items in the same tree traversal operation. Not only does each item tested allow you to reduce the search scope, you can often omit repeating several of the calculations closer to the root.

[1] Eventually 10x, but that's in part due to naively parallelizing the workload. The single threaded approach was still something like 4-5x compared to the original approach. 20k ops/s for thousands of items tested against a 800 Mb index.
> I am not seeing how schools' historical relationships with marginalized peoples bears on that question.

Though it wasn't one of their examples, alumni preference in admissions means that schools that formerly excluded based on race still have an element of that today.

And it means that older SATs that had stronger cultural bias in the reading comprehension parts etc. are still affecting admissions today, through the chain of alumni preference.
The comment I'm responding to said that professor salaries are "not acceptable" to ivy league and MIT grads. I think that's misinformed, and I provided anecdotal evidence to that effect ;)
I have worked as a researcher in one of the most prestigious labs in Switzerland and the world, and I have not seen any correlation at all between how bright are people and where they studied.

We had visiting researchers from anywhere and I failed to see any correlation between the two things in years.

I can tell you none of the brightest came from cambridge uk or harvard us but universities you never heard of in southern italy or india.

Your entire argument that follows is delusional.

Nothing about going to Harvard makes you more qualified in maths, e.g. than going to any European public university you have not heard of. Education depends on the quality of teaching and learning, and most great professors in important universities excel at funding, not teaching.

Even when it comes to learning, especially in stem, you will likely learn more on books and internet and your course mates than your lectures. Hell, internet is filled with all the lectures you want from Harvard, MIT and more elite universities. As for any university in the world there are good and bad courses.
Webhooks Alternative
also a function of becoming a middle aged company.... reorg after reorg after reorg
Ask HN: Interviewing – how to think like an investor?
I've been thinking about interviewing for a new role. It's become increasingly clear that given how much compensation is tied to equity, I should evaluate my opportunity [in part] like an investor.

- What are the critical dynamics and metrics you use to judge the value of the equity at a startup?
- Are there any software tools you use as part of this journey?
Having a large, healthy ecosystem of well maintained 3rd party packages is a delight.
You cannot overstate the importance of "social proof" in terms of your access to education, work opportunities and even social status in American life.

This is really why you go to elite universities: to open doors. It's not just the people you meet and build relationships with while at those august institutions, it's the preferential treatment you'll get from former alumni as well as the perception of you being more capable by just having that name on your CV. You've gotten admitted to such an institution and graduated.

The tech world prides itself on being a meritocracy but "social proof" is just as prevalent. Going to an elite school will get you better access to internships, which will get you better access to jobs and so on.

Academia is just a more extreme version of this. A friend (who did manage to secure a tenure track position in the humanities against all odds as a non-Harvard graduate) once told me "you'll never be without a job with Harvard on your CV". Academic departments view prestige by how many Harvard graduates you have on staff.

The scandals in academic publishing are just symptomatic of this: trading on prestige, trading on connections, not wanting to rock the boat, etc.

It would be nice if this was because a few elite universities are so good at training academics but I think we all know that isn't entirely the case.
I was looking at wealth, not income, sorry. Can't edit anymore. Then US is 26th

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...
I find it kind of exhausting, but maybe it's a symptom of my full time job.

I enjoy the predictability in that six months or even six years from now, if I choose to, I can still be here.

I don't want to continuously negotiate or whatever, I just want to work with cool stuff for fair money
https://archive.ph/42wfD
Somewhere deep in China: "Challenge accepted!"
Agreed. Seems like a miscast. Feels like any of the protagonists of Silicon Valley could have played the character better. Well, maybe not Kumail Nanjiani, for the same reason as McHale.
That's a bad day at the office when you have to go and say "hey remember all that data we painstakingly collected and maybe even billed clients for?"
I think there's a potential argument against this.

1. Network effects mean that there's only space for one platform in a particular niche.

2. There are reports (are they reliable?) that people who are more left wing are more habitually online and post much more.

If the above two are true, then left-wing social networks will naturally dominate.
The same Florida that passed a law specifically to punish Disney because they spoke out against the “Don’t Say Gay” law and passed the “Stop Woke” act?
This is the norm in Australia. You cannot fire people except for misconduct. Here they abolish your role or department due to business restructuring which is legal. Since your role is gone the company has to provide a redeployment opportunity to the impacted employees to other possible roles in the company. In a honest restructuring this works and some people do get other roles, some managers like to retain staff they like or are buddy with and are "appointed" to other role. After a specified period like 30 days if there is no suitable role for you the company will make you redundant and your will leave the company.
Been using Lexica quite a bit for prompt analysis, thanks for the work.

General browsing is heavily dominated by portraits though. I was wondering if it would be worth having a face detected flag on images so you could filter portraits.
I am a one-issue voter (whenever it's on the ballot) and my issue is voting reform because, in my view, the two party system America (and almost Canada!) is stuck with is just making inter-party discussions on policies impossible. Once the political class has stratified like it has in America and can box out anyone who doesn't pass a litmus test of dozens of issues (Oh, you're pro-gun rights but also pro-abortion access? Sorry, neither us nor the other guys want you) then the political system will quickly break down.

We desperately need elections where more than just the two dominant parties can compete without a spoiler effect.

This is happening, just FYI, up in Canada right now - there are four parties worth talking about - Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Bloc Quebecois - the last two are essentially just regional parties which do occasionally win surprise seats but mostly just exist within a localized area. That is enough, in our parliamentary system to force cooperation at a federal level - but without serious action I can't see any ending in sight other than slowly devolving to American politics.
https://archive.ph/a5PXU
> It means that the education you'll receive at any university (I myself am a UVM grad which is a wonderful but definitely not elite school) is likely being taught by adroit professors

Except that professors at research universities are hired for their research and not for their teaching.

Some are good teachers. Others are... not good. In any case, teaching is not what hiring committees value.
Yes, you are noble and altruistic and people who disagree with you are stupid and evil. Come on.

Downplaying, denial, misinformation, exaggeration, victim complexes, persecution complexes, every stop was pulled out, every tactic was tried.

Like when Ron DeSantis was called a murderer for opening Florida's beaches (when it was well established that outside activities were extremely safe), or when parents advocating for schools to open were called white supremacists (when the predictable result of closing schools was that poor and minority students suffered most)?

The scariest thing I learned during the last two years is how many people are willing to throw me, you, and everyone (including themselves!) under the bus in order to avoid even mild, temporary inconvenience

Meanwhile, I learned how many people are willing to have governments literally lock everyone in their homes because of their inability to do any sort of rational risk assessment or cost-benefit analysis.
Soviets Exposed Vice President Nixon to Radiation During Famous 1959 Trip
Is this another American thing?

I don't know anyone who ever dreams about school (non-US obviously)
Backstage is a well-known entertainment-industry site and publication. What's the motivation for trying to duplicate it?
I worked at a custom millwork firm and had a knack for value engineering projects. After making the switch to SWE, where I assumed everyone knew how to do this, I've realized that there only seems to be two kinds of SWEs as well, exactly as you've described. It turns out that value creation is hard.

There are plenty of contractors who know how to deliver an optimal solution and who make incredible money.
It's terrible that something that should have been wonderful was so painful for you. I've completed 11 years of post secondary spread pretty evenly over 30+ years of adulthood and loved it more and more as I've continued. Thinking about starting a PhD in year 50!
What is an article ? Is that the top comment you see below the title when you open an HN post ?
I suppose I should've added some more overt humor markers on the above statement.
Commercially, I'd agree someone should have compensation for use of their likenesses, but what people choose to draw, imagine, photoshop, or deepfake for non-commercial use is their business and any state that regulates that would be a dystopian nightmare.
What's struck me as weird about this is that I don't recall a single teacher ever mentioning their spouse, or their personal weekend plans.

The idea that a teacher wants to talk to their students about their personal lives is utterly foreign to me.

Maybe it's just a sign of times changing?

Edit: this thought came to me in the context of a quote I saw from a teacher upset he couldn't talk about going surfing with his husband.

There was a wide enough income gap in our school that teachers talking about vacations was frowned upon, since you never really knew which kids didn't actually ever get to go on vacations, etc.
Oh, yeah because students from other countries don’t have them at all…. Anxiety is just an American thing, /s

I went to an American high school and a former commie one (Albania), and I can tell you the American HS was a walk in the park in comparison to the one back home.

My take is that this is a pretty universal occurrence.
I want this in a Portal Turret case! Voice is optional.
Check out the SQL example I posted below. If you're interested, I'd be happy to post more. To me, this is not about "is the machine accurate enough already". Maybe it isn't and it needs to mature. But the door has been opened now, and it's only up to "technical details" now.

And I'm not saying this can replace developers, as it clearly isn't capable of building complete codebases and reasoning about the system as a whole. But writing self-contained code snippets seems like a solved problem to me, and I think that's the biggest thing that happened in our field since a long time ago.