skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100%. I have noticed this in a ton of contested topics. It will often make some kind of judgement on the topic nowadays, which is not what I want out of Wikipedia. It’s my biggest issue with mainstream media as well. I don’t need your opinion on what happened, just give me the facts. But at least articles in the NYT or other media outlets are attributed to the author. With Wikipedia, there is no author to attribute the opinion/bias to, which makes it far more nefarious in my opinion.

For the longest time, Wikipedia simply presented facts, with sources, and allowed the user to make their own judgments. Nowadays, many pages are so heavily and obviously biased in one direction.

A personal example I noticed is when I did research on Intelligent Design. The page for it is so heavily biased in one direction, the idea that it’s completely BS “pseudoscience.” That may be the case, but how about you let me read the article and come to that conclusion myself, rather than poison the well from the start, by attempting to bias me in one direction before I’ve even read anything beyond the summary.
Blockchain isn't anywhere near as useful as a hammer. If you were gullible enough to fall for the promises of the blockchain, then of course you're going to be disappointed that AI isn't a get-rich-quick pyramid scheme that will make you millions of dollars without any investment of time or energy or original thought, because if that's all you're looking for, you're going to be continuously disappointed (and deserve to be). There's a lot more to AI than to the blockchain, and comparing the two as equal shows you don't understand what either of them are.
Not the opposite. The full group referenced here is “US citizens and certain non-US citizens whose permission to live in and work in the United States does not expire," and they went after SpaceX for discrimination against the latter (refugees and asylees, specifically).
In the gentlest way possible, you're not normal. Most people crave social contract to a greater or lesser degree.
[dupe]

More discussion and updates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38197715
Crowdsourcing started out innocently, but now that so many companies are turning previously no charge services into subscription services, it's rather crazy how far they go in encouraging free complex labor out of users now... The very same people they charge to use their platforms at that.
Why the Dying DVD Business Could Be Headed for a Resurrection
Show HN: Vaulted, Unreleased Music Marketplace
Hello HackerNews, today I've officially launched my new website, Vaulted, which allows musicians and other creators to connect with their most diehard fans. The purpose of Vaulted is to provide a marketplace where musicians can take the demos and unreleased tracks that didn't make it onto any official project, and post them for their audiences to bid-on or buy. The program is written in TypeScript/JavaScript using the SvelteKit framework. The entire front-end and back-end were written by myself, and I plan on working on this pretty extensively for the foreseeable future. Please let me know what you think. And if you have any feature suggestions, or improvements, please let me know and I'll be happy to implement them
Sure, it's not the full cause of the fall in birth rates.

Somehow it had just never occurred to me that of course any family that has an "ideal size" is going to have fewer births if all the children survive than it will if one or more of them die, and now I'm trying to figure out what terms I would even look up to find out how much of the effect could be attributed to that.

In other words, how much of the decline in birth rate is due to parents reaching their ideal family size without the death of any children? I'm reasonably sure it's small, but are we talking <1% small or 10% small?

Edit: typo
I've only heard this anecdotally, and specifically for recipes, but I've heard it's for copyright (and yeah, probably SEO too). You can copyright your long-winded explanation of your recipe, but not the recipe itself.

A quick search seems to support the idea:

>Tips for Protecting Your Recipes

>1. Include Content Beyond the Ingredient List

https://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-protection-recipes/
The GP had a few misconceptions about Godel and halting problems and stuff, but one nitpick here:

>> Practically, this means that there will never be a compiler that will tell you whether you program has a bug.
>
> TLA+ and other "external" systems can evaluate whether a program has a bug.

The main TLA+ model checker is TLC. It's pretty easy to write a TLA+ spec with a bug that TLC can't find (ironically by exploiting unbound model spaces, which are the Does Not Halt of model checking)
The first paragraph implies that Apple takes down the website to promote new product launches - is that... correct?

Seems silly to take their website down for new products.
Yeah, but there's such a thing as suspension of disbelief.

The idea that we'd chill out while Russia invades Norway... I mean, you could come up with a way to make that sound plausible, but it would almost have to be the central theme of the whole show.
This is super interesting, and I appreciate the level of detail and thought that went into your response. Some I'm willing to accept, like hot/cold being distinct from pressure being distinct from pain. (Spinal cord injury, for instance, can impair pressure perception in a particular part of the body without affecting hot/cold. And lumping joint pain in with "touch" is just silly.)

On the other hand, in the context of the discussion, it's hard to support the argument that you can count each colour channel separately just because the biological mechanics differ. You can't actually triple the amount of human-perceptable information by going from a monochrome to full colour display.

The point remains that we've plucked the low-hanging fruit when it comes to high-bandwidth human senses (or meta-senses if you insist on being pedantic). No one will buy a PUI (pain user interface).
The whole thread: https://nitter.net/elamje/status/1677013676635611146
Fertility continues to fall even lower as the population ages out of prime working age, e.g., Japan.
> should the payers of bribes to government officials be punished as harshly as public officials who take them?

It depends.

If the bribe is coerced through threats of violence? That should be seen as an extenuating cirumstance.

If there are no such circumstances, then yes, they should absolutely be punished just as harshly. They had an opportunity to report the behavior and they passed on that to benefit themselves at the expense of others.

> Then, the incentive flips for everyone under pressure to pay bribes to instead become skillful 'sting' operatives against corrupt officials.

That's all very interesting. How about instead, we just hire law enforcement with specific skills in combating these crimes, and then let them work on it?
Bosch opened their battery ecosystem, branded as "Bosch AmpShare" together with Fein and Rothenberger, which covers now more than 25 brands:
https://www.ampshare.com/us/en/
The only person who can conclusively answer that would need a time machine to speak to you.
I hope this is not surprising to anyone. The dataset it was trained on is not bias-free, it was produced by a very much not bias-free society.

A headline like "human language has undeniable gender bias" wouldn't get much attention though.
This is about them pulling the update which is a new development.
my question is why hasn't the FBI seized every Amazon warehouse for knowingly selling counterfeit goods? They do this routinely for smaller businesses selling fake stuff
See https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/9/20687903/net-neutrality-wa..., a mere year after the repeal.

But I think it's really silly to to look at an industry with documented abuse in the absence of regulation and to essentially ignore that and say "but what about the abuses within this specific time period?"

We know that under current broadband rules absent Net Neutrality, the abuses described above are legal. We've seen companies engage in those abuses. To the extent that the worst of that behavior is still illegal, it's only because individual states like California have picked up the fight, which broadband providers have fought fiercely to prevent.

But there's no evidence that broadband providers wouldn't repeat the same behaviors given the opportunity. Broadband providers do engage in behavior today that would be in violation of Net Neutrality rules, particularly around video throttling and zero-rating. The ongoing fight over Net Neutrality and increased customer attention might be limiting that behavior, but if anything that's evidence that increased scrutiny is good for the market, not that it's unnecessary. Companies have in the absence of Net Neutrality, taken advantage of the lack of regulations about as much as was feasible for them to do so.

There's a weird pattern on HN I'm noticing where people are holding a wild dog at bay with a stick, and other people are standing behind them saying, "I thought you said if we unleashed this dog it was going to maul us, you sure have egg on your face. See, there's no reason to leash the dog."
sugar instead of HFCS, cocoa butter instead of palm oil. There's definitely better quality in some markets and products than others
Same in the sense of "discrimination"

Opposite in the sense of the direction of the discrimination.
Unclear, but they committed to certain changes in behavior as well as 3 years of DOJ monitoring, so the fine is not the whole story.
You are sort of correct, but my claim was putting a lot of its weight on "such" (bureaucracies). I particularly mean bureaucracies who have no expertise and little understanding of the actual work.

What happens is that they invent nonsensical metrics to measure performance. The high performers are hampered by these metrics, but the low performers just hack the metrics. For instance, my university's admins were fascinated by the average grade in a course, in a department, for a faculty. To be in their good graces, your students needed to have a 3.5 or higher.

Well, what do you think was happening. The bad faculty just had lots of easy assignments in their courses to ensure this. No extra work needed for faculty. Their courses were worse than if they were not subject to this pressure - they might have just stuck to giving a reasonable mix of the textbook problems. The high performers were stuck between a rock and a hard place. Reduce how much you teach your students by adding easy assignments or take the good salary increment at the end of the year.

To summarize: remember that the average and variance is for bad metrics that either don't measure what needs to be measured, or worse are anti-correlated with what needs to be measured (and improved).

Addendum: actually, I don't even agree with the above framework of metrics. Teaching is an art, and very much like no one runs any sort of metrics on music to decide that Mozart is among the greats, there aren't many real metrics that can be used to identify good teaching from bad.
For a moment there I thought it was going to be a company by one of HN's users: Candy Japan. Same business: Japanese candy subscription service. But the user profile says Candy Japan is no more. :-(
It's bound to happen eventually.
The DOJ wants them to allow electronic submission of applications to PERM jobs and to publish these jobs anywhere they publish other jobs. Apple agreed to this and to train their relevant employees about the issue for three years.

The article doesn't come right out and say it, but the case seems to have turned on PERM jobs being only available when there isn't a citizen/refugee/permanent-resident available to fill the position and that applying in paper was an unreasonable hurdle to these classes and that the positions should be advertised as widely as other jobs to ensure they aren't missing potential protected class workers who might like to apply.
[dupe] of a NYT article

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38195889
Because programming is an entirely different skill set to game design, art, music, marketing and all the other skills needed up make a game
Somewhere between Macintosh & iPod + iTunes and MacOS (was: OSX (Unix, Bash,)) I think Apple was saved.

And the white cabling with the silhouettes
What would one use an ontology editor for?
Probably refers to statistics that many philosophers in USA are moral realists. My pet theory is that they are afraid of cancellation, because layman realists have very negative reaction to criticism. Or it's inspired by Hollywood morality.
I mean, if population gets 'too low' then we'll likely just fall into some kind of authoritarianism where forced breeding occurs. I'm not saying this is a good outcome, I'm just saying it's the most likely one.

Also, UNIVERSE 25.
They didn't come across as particularly principled to me. Only the first of five really mentioned some greater issue (DEI). The rest sounded like normal career questions everyone has, e.g. wanting more money, less bureaucracy, more technical challenge, more time with family, more security, ect.
My dad used to say principles are like farts. You can only hold them for so long.
* in South Korea.
This is a situation I'll be facing soon - a few years back the "parent" company decided to merge 10 separate tech departments into one - resulting in 10 different ways of doing something, 10 different release processes, 10 different branching strategies, etc.

My role is to normalise the SDLC (from inception to sunsetting), whether it's IaC (TF, Ansible), Java, .NET or JavaScript - on Linux (DEB/RPM), Windows and containers.

Most likely I'll step on some toes, although my argument is I'll step on everyone's equally, for the benefit of all.
The force on the object is proportional to its mass. Acceleration, being (force/mass), is therefore not dependent on mass. (Ah least, for a small object being attracted to a much larger body)
Gimp, figma, Kdenlive, etc
Epic pays those Devs for timed exclusivity on EGS, with the profits from Fornite and Unreal.
Techdirt had a lot of good articles on the Aereo case:

https://www.techdirt.com/company/aereo/

At the time, I was appalled that the reason for ruling against Aereo was something like, "they worked too hard to stay inside the law".

I also think that some paid shills made a lot of comments on the Techdirt articles.
The code of nrsc5 (and my transmitter project, https://github.com/argilo/gr-nrsc5) would be the best source of information for the undocumented parts. I do have some private notes, but the useful information has already gone into the code.
"El Niño is creeping into “strong” territory, the National Weather Service’s latest advisory indicated Thursday, and the phenomenon is forecast to remain at least at this strength into the winter months. There is even a 35 percent chance that it becomes historically intense."
gotta toe the line! or just hire more robots, much easier.
People hated your business because you brought ticket scalping to the restaurant world. Many years ago, I went on a couple dates with a 'professional' ticket scalper; as soon as I found out what she did (which she tried to hide with several all-too-transparent euphemisms), I noped right out of there. These people are the worst of capitalism.

I don't think most people mind when a restaurant sells the moral equivalent of tickets to dining slots ahead of time. I've visited restaurants that do that, and had no problem with it.

The issue is that you were taking something that was free (open reservation slots), and then forcing people to pay for them if they wanted to dine there... when they could have just made a reservation -- perhaps farther in advance -- for free.

I agree that most people in the restaurant business aren't in it for the money (if they are, they've picked the wrong industry). But scalping reservations to their restaurants is making things worse, not better.
Well, stupid laws will get stupid compliance.

The idea that asking companies to fire their existing employer just to hire some "citizen" employee is dumb beyong measure. H1B visas should not exist in first place. Just give green card and let the person be citizen.

The problem is compounded by the racial quota for Indians in greencards. Indians are extremely good at hacking systems and longer they stay in that queue, they would totally destroy this sort of idiotic system. (This is a complement to Indians).
I think the GP was referring to "cancelling people" when he said "before it was cool".

But I do agree with your point ;)
Data Brokers and the Sale of Data on U.S. Military Personnel
Low-tech Magazine covered pigeon towers, as previously mentioned on HN:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/10/pigeon-towers-a-lo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31885525
Very low grade visibility too... If platforms make users popular for their original ideas and posts, it makes it harder for Ai to secretly co-opt and then re-present it's own data as original, authentic, and useful.

There are major conflicts of interest in social media data being used to train Ai in this manner off of uncompensated, unattributed, and scraped public user data.
It sounds like A Very British Democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzfNEF0e-y4
That is "total fertility rate"

>The total fertility rate in a specific year is defined as the total number of children that would be born to each woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years and give birth to children in alignment with the prevailing age-specific fertility rates. It is calculated by totalling the age-specific fertility rates as defined over five-year intervals. Assuming no net migration and unchanged mortality, a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman ensures a broadly stable population. Together with mortality and migration, fertility is an element of population growth, reflecting both the causes and effects of economic and social developments. The reasons for the dramatic decline in birth rates during the past few decades include postponed family formation and child-bearing and a decrease in desired family sizes. This indicator is measured in children per woman.
> > I began to do freelance consulting in 2019 during my second postdoc, to test the waters outside academia

> Testing the waters outside your specialty when you're in your second postdoc is not a bad idea. Presumably that means you've not been able to get a permanent job at least a couple times.

In my field 3-6 years of postdocs before applying for tenure track positions is the absolute norm. So it is really not an indication of anything.

There is this funny sentiment amongst a certain subset of HN readers, that an academic track is somehow a cushy path where you don't have to do anything just do some networking and somehow get into an easy job where you can just be lazy and let your graduate students do all the work and reap all the glory.

Realistically (as also somewhat alluded to in the article), an academic pathway is extremely stressful with significant uncertainty until you might achieve tenure.
And even once you achieve tenure the stress doesn't really stop. While graduate students are typically the ones doing the footwork in the lab, most head of labs/research groups continue to work a lot, in order to secure funding to keep the lab/research going.

I just transitioned from an academic role to industry and the stresslevel, even coming up to some deadlines atm, is no comparison.
The second thing you've heard is wrong.

If you give people resources conditional on them having children (e.g., free child care), they will of course on the margin have slightly more children. But it's a mistake to interpret this as "financial precarity" causing reduced fertility, because if you give them more unconditional money they have fewer children.
UN Environment Programme: Worldwide Real-Time Air Pollution Exposure
/*
* There's probably some smart way to do this, but I'll leave
* that to the smart and beautiful people. I'm simple and stupid.
*/

I love that this sort of thing still exists in enterprise software
Java is compiled to bytecode, for later compilation to machine code at runtime (JIT). Go is compiled AOT, straight to machine code. It makes no sense to compare them.

Unless you meant that Java's AOT compilation is faster than Go's?
> They are referring to it as “fine tune models with specific purposes and glue them together with normal code”.

> will be technically out competed by their competitors because fine tuned models are better.

I disagree that fine tuning is the way to go. We spent a large amount of effort on that path and found it to be untenable for our business cases - not from an academic standpoint, but from a practical data management/discipline standpoint. For better or worse, we don't have super clean, structured data about our business. We also aren't big enough to run a full-time data science team.

Picking targeted feature verticals and applying few-shot learning w/ narrowly-scoped, dynamic prompts seems to give us a lot more value per $$$ and unit time. For us, things like the function calling API are fine-tuning, because we can now insist that we get a certain shape of response.

I have a hard time squaring an implied, simultaneous agreement with "supermodels are generally not the right approach" and "fine tuned models are better". These ideas seem (to me) to be generally at odds with one another. Few-shot learning is still the real magic trick in my book.
This is a good video for answering that question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=830fVdBYJzc
This is exactly how I remember and have experienced it, in that order.

MacOS became big because of the included Unix. Developers flocked. And al ballman once said... developers, developers, developers!
Are you telling me all those job opportunities in the back of IEEE Spectrum where they give 1 line job descriptions and tell you to mail your resume to some anonymous post office box aren’t actual job opportunities? I can’t believe it!

In other words, professional societies are complicit in this too.
Most immigrant groups don't generate engineers and scientists at the same rate that western countries.
> It's also very interesting if Apple can manage to make this EU exclusive.

I imagine it will be configurable, since I would guess there will be region specific rules (for example China might only want to allow App Store apps, which they can completely control the distribution of).
Yup, try http://store.apple.com during the next WWDC keynote: "we'll be right back!". And it doesn't come back until the keynote is over.

I assume that in ye olde days they were actually switching the website over with new products, or had some other reasonable technical explanation. These days I have to believe it's just for nostalgia or something.
> I don't think many big, serious device manufacturers are willing to risk being the target of the first catastrophic IoT attack just to save some pennies on a dirt cheap Chinese design, with some poorly verified RISC-V core thrown in with a power hungry Bluetooth radio.

The small budget OEMs will save some pennies on a dirt cheap Chinese design. The big, serious device manufacturers will do the design themselves by starting with an open reference design and making some minor modifications that suit them, then pay someone to fab it because they're shipping millions of units. Who does that even leave?

> ARM TrustZone is not something the RISC-V ecosystem has a clear standardized answer to yet.

This has almost nothing to do with IoT security, if not being directly opposed to it as a thing used to prevent people from installing custom firmware on devices the OEM fails to support.

The #1 problem in IoT security is OEMs that release a device which they neither patch nor allow anyone else to patch. And the first can't be a solution for small OEMs because they go out of business, so the only way to actually fix it is to have devices that users can update with third party firmware. For which the lack of ARM TrustZone is an advantage, since it's often used to prevent this.
Ok I read it, what does declaring a state of emergency achieve if an eruption happens?