skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think this is not just a sort of wild accusation... it's a really important point.

Why should I take the new rules seriously when the old rules were so, so very wrong?

I do not have an unmeetable standard... a clear, direct apology explicitly stating that the previous standard was the result of bad process, combined with clear statements of what is being done to improve the process and ensure this doesn't happen again would be fine.

In the meantime, though, I will not permit these people to just sort of tip-toe away from what they have (collectively) done to us, nor am I particularly impressed by efforts to change the consensus at a speed that to my eyes appears carefully calculated to ensure that nobody ever actually has to apologize, or even admit that they were wrong. In other words, at a speed that clearly indicates they're perfectly fine with millions more dying of preventable diseases rather than admit clearly that they were wrong.

Unsurprisingly, I'm not inclined to account that as "virtue", nor to pay very much attention to what they have to say now. If you care about your health, ignore the government standards and do the research to build your own consensus based on the latest science coming out, which is in ever-greater dissonance with the decades-old "official" consensus. Don't wait for our political leadership to calculate how they can move without ever having to admit fault!

(Yeah, I'm pissed about this. If the nutritional consensus forced on us for decades really is wrong and really is, as I rather suspect, the primary cause of the obesity epidemic, this is, fully literally, Nazi-scale evil unleashed on the world. Millions of lives cut short, millions upon millions more with their quality-of-life trashed. I can personally name names for both those categories; the latter category includes damned near my entire immediate family, and they're working pretty hard on getting moved into the first one, and I simply can't convince them of the real problems with the entire authority system for their entire lives telling them something else. It would put the US government right up there on the 20th century death toll list... and that is a hard list to get on to because the competition is quite stiff! Every day they dither around trying to figure out how not to have to admit fault is that much worse.)
I'm not sure how he makes the association to UI, but I agree that the minimalist and flat designs are way too far gone to be useful. Sure, I despise noisy and cluttered and fake leather bound UI too, but that doesn't mean we need to go full bi-polar swing and jettison everything.

Regarding noise and this post, I could see it as a metaphor against Google's tendency to significantly reduce the information density by adding white-space to every frigging things, everywhere, at all times. Take the bookmark boondoggle that they just backpedaled on; guess what Google, I would like to see more than 8 bookmarks per view and I don't see how a miniature thumbnail of the site really helps anyone. I want the "noise" in that case, which consists of density of information, which hopefully is of the relevant type. I want a quick overview with as much information as possible, but I also need it to be visually distinguishable. That is another big problem which this post maybe addresses, visual hierarchy, which is another one of those principles that has been jettisoned with the minimalist and flat design binge. The user should be able to pic out content and interactions in a relevant sequence without significant gaps in visual progression; each level of visual hierarchy should be an equal or relevantly spaced distance apart without significant gaps. /my2cent
The binary blob in question is hotword-x86-64.nexe with sha256sum 8530e7b11122c4bd7568856ac6e93f886bd34839bd91e79e28e8370ee8421d5a.

This is labelled as being a "hotword" implementation, ie, something that will monitor the microphone until someone says "OK google", then start listening and transmitting the following words for a search. However, there is no guarantee that it does what it says it does; in particular, it might instead accept instructions to transmit audio from particular parties that Google wants to spy on.

I understand there are likely to be many uninvolved engineers within Google who have access to the source code. It would do a lot to restore trust if a few such engineers could take a look through the source code and find out whether it has a remote trigger, and whether the source code in Google's repo matches the file that's being distributed.

This is not the first time Google has taken an open-source project and added closed-source components to it. They did the same thing to Android, twice: once with the "Play Service Framework", which is a collection of APIs added to Android but theoretically independent of it, and again with Google Glass, which ran an entirely closed-source fork. In the case of Glass, I did some reverse-engineering and found that it would send all photos taken with Glass, and all text messages stored on a paired phone, and transmit them to Google, with no feasible way to stop it even with root. This was not documented and I don't think this behavior was well understood even within Google.
Not to mention the situation in New Mexico, which is trivially suboptimal by the triangle inequality.

I think there was either some kind of rounding error getting data into the TSP solver, Concorde is just giving an approximate solution, or the data preparing code in python has a bug.
Suicide dropped from sociology lesson: are some topics too sensitive for school?
I wondered about my return trip while commuting on a bike and later used a device to track speed, location, etc while riding and found that it was actually about 6 minutes shorter because it was slightly downhill most of the way (but not noticeable) and I was travelling faster for the duration.
I think it's a shallow view on things. Hunting like many activities, is a way to tap into the thrill of survival without the price of death. Hunting is just that, a pompous exercise in fake survival. Actually, trying to catch a prey with your bare hands might prove superior by rule of minimalism.

The most superior trait in humans is how often they wonder in what way they are to other life forms.
The only real consumer benefit is that trans fats have properties that keep costs down. I don't have a great characterization of how much they do that, but I guess it is swamped by other costs, so it is probably better described as trans fats being slightly more profitable for producers, not in terms of them costing consumers less.
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> Google also has a gargantuan-scale dev team that
> includes the people behind Go. It's ridiculous to
> compare.

It's not ridiculous. There are probably reasonable arguments against using Go for things like this, but "insufficient developer capacity" isn't one of them. Becoming a Go expert is a task measured in weeks.
You're probably not a fan, (which is fine - different sports aren't for everyone. I actually find association football, basketball, and baseball to be excruciatingly boring, but love watching track and field) but there's more going on than the actual "play." When the ball is downed, there are 40 seconds for the following to happen:

1. Substitution of players. Doing this dramatically changes the face of the offense. For example, in a short yardage play, they might sub out 1-2 receivers and sub in linemen. This gives the offense more power in the run. Alternatively, they can sub out the tight end and bring in a fifth receiver for the opposite - less blocking, more options for the quarterback to throw to.

2. Planning the next play, which has to be communicated to the players. This is, of course, affected by the substitution. Misdirection is a key part of game planning; for example, they might sub in two more linemen and still pass the ball, as the defense is expecting a running play.

3. The defense sees the formation and reacts to it. They've also substituted their players to be in line with the offense's players, (for example, if the offense has extra linemen, the defense will sub in extra linebackers) and will craft a defense on the fly to react to how the offense is arranged.

4. The quarterback sees the defense's alignment and makes adjustments on the fly. The middle linebacker does the same thing on defense.

5. The quarterback signals for the center to snap the ball, beginning the play.

All of this is intricate and happens pretty quickly, and if you're smart and experienced, you can predict what's going to happen and follow the action. I find it to be exciting, especially when you see a mismatch and the losing team scrambling to figure out a way to adjust. There's suspense that gets created as the offense drives down the field. Can they keep it up? Will the defense adjust? What new things are they trying in order to succeed where their previous efforts have failed? All of this is dynamic and happens very quickly. You'll literally watch a small change in blocking scheme wreck havoc on the defense's run defense. You'll watch a single linebacker's edge rushing butcher an offense's passing game and the offense scrambling to figure out anything to slow him down.

Unfortunately, watching the game has gotten worse over the years because of more commercials and terminally banal commentary, but football itself is great. I'll watch a shitty D3 college game and enjoy it as long as it's relatively competitive.

What really pisses me off is when this fast-paced, intricate game of chess is being played on the field and they're looking at goddamn people in the stands or cheerleaders or coaches or whatever. There's stuff going on, and we're missing literally half of the action because they want to show some shirtless drunk jackasses in the nosebleed seats.

On the bright side, the Chinese stream of the NFL is fantastic. No commercials.
I am not talking about a single AI. I am talking about AI as a species. A specific AI could have any drive, but ultimately (at least at current stage) what determines its survival is us. Just like how natural select the most "fit" species during evolution, we select AI that fit our needs the most. The nature selection is relatively simple: "not get killed and reproduce yourself." So only species who strongly don't want get killed and strongly want to reproduce get to survive.

The AI evolution is completely different - "nobody is going to kill you except human and you don't need to reproduce yourself, , that's usually human's job." I believe the result is a completely different inner drive for the AI - which is more likely to be more useful to human, that's how you get selected.
I use Keepassx and the only thing I use the cloud for is to store the password file which is encrypted by either a pass phrase or key file. LastPass always struck me as a dumb thing to use.

The investigation has shown, however, that LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication hashes were compromised.

Great so maybe you can't attack the stolen hashes (at least not all of them) but you can use this information for social engineering which narrows things down.

In my case, you'd have to break into SpiderOak and steal the passwords.kdb file and attack the hash, but at least that would only attack my passwords; you wouldn't have a target-rich environment.
Bread is simultaneously healthy and not healthy.
> I could also point to countless papers.

Nope (unless they are papers of the sort I found on a Christian website "proving" the creation of life contradicts the second law of thermodynamics).

> What about boys being left behind in education, men dying ...

What does that have to do with anything? The reality of heart disease doesn't take away from that of cancer.

> Your opinion won't be swayed...

Probably. Except my opinion is actually backed by science while yours is plain-and-simple science denial, just as there's no symmetry between people who know evolution to be true and those who deny it -- these are not two opinions, but truth and fantasy. Your personal beliefs won't make the reality of our sexist society disappear, just as they can't make the sun and the stars revolve around the earth (though in this case, I wish they could). In your case -- as in that of geocentrists -- the false belief stems from a very powerful subjective feeling that the scientific findings are wrong (the earth doesn't feel to be moving), but that doesn't make it any less false.

Of course, you can go on and on as science denialists do ("but where is the evidence?", "why, it's right here", "but where?" etc.), but I'll leave you there.
That is a clever way to try to pin the PC craze on conservatives but it doesn't hold water. PC nonsense is wholly owned by the left.
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I'm sure you get harsh reactions to your opinion, but seems like your attitude towards drinkers is a little harsh as well.

> People love being emotionally numbed

> I guess people have a right to depress their emotions with drinking

Blanket statements like this are unfair. I'd wager most drinkers do so moderately, and are not doing so to numb their emotions.
I think OP meant you'd be at a disadvantage academically, not romantically.
Regardless of if I do or do not understand how destructive being on the wrong end of a false rape charge is, generalizing this as a downside for males is utterly offensive.
In UK, you have a right to privacy. As long as you are a high profile pedophile, that is.
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The answer is money and greed [1].

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Healing-Suppression-Manipulat...
To be fair, WhatWG does say in https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#rel-ic...

« If multiple icons are provided, the user agent must select the most appropriate icon according to the type, media, and sizes attributes. If there are multiple equally appropriate icons, user agents must use the last one declared in tree order at the time that the user agent collected the list of icons. »

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>Not too long ago Carl Sagan and others were on TV breathlessly begging people to worry about global cooling.

No he wasn't: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/07/28/if-you-wish-to-make-...

There was never a widespread consensus about global cooling:

>A 2008 paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society actually reviewed the climate research published in the 70s and concluded that "global cooling was never more than a minor aspect of the scientific climate change literature of the era, let alone the scientific consensus" and "emphasis on greenhouse warming dominated the scientific literature even then."

WUWT is a climate change denial site run by conspiracy theorists. It's not a good place to get facts about anything.
It might not be that every man is falsely accused of rape, but that the false positive rate might be high. Which would mean that the existence of an accusation provides little predictive power regarding the guilt of the accused.

If 90% of rape allegations resulted in convictions then the existence of an accusation would usually be meaningful. If only 10% of accusations result in convictions, the existence of an accusation would not be very meaningful statistically for the guilt or innocence of any one alleged perpetrator.

What makes the situation even more difficult is that there's often little hard evidence of a crime. There can be evidence of sexual contact, but that doesn't ipso facto make the accusation true, because statistically sexual contact in overwhelmingly consensual.

When police find a body that's been shot or stabbed that's generally hard evidence that a crime has taken place. There's often no question as to the existence of the crime (except when suicide is a possibility) and it's their job to figure out who did it and bring them to justice.

But many rape cases start with the identity of the perpetrator known, and the objective is to figure out who is telling the truth in a situation with no hard evidence to back up either party. It's very different from a murder, but with just as much import. And since prosecutors don't like to lose cases (their job is to win them, and they are judged on their conviction rate) they often don't prosecute unless they have a strong case.

So what happens is that it's very difficult to tell if most accusations are false, or merely not provable-enough to win in court. And because there are conflicting motivations by a number of parties in the legal process it's very difficult to suss out the actual truth and then measure the error from the actual truth that the legal system achieves, and then use that to reform the process.

Because of all this, it's entirely possible that people who are accused are "often" the victims of trumped up charges while at the same time, only a very few people are accused.
Schrödinger's bread.
A bike helmet is not designed to protect your head if you are hit by a car at 60 mph.

The best way to protect yourself for the 60-mph-auto-collision is to not get hit by a car at 60 mph.
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Will your self-driving car kill you if it means saving more strangers?
That's how I start to view the SJW movement. Our parents and grandparents were outraged by people violating morality as described by religion. Our generation gets outraged by people violating whatever random moral sensitivities are popular nowadays (often opposite to the religious ones). Nothing has changed, people are people.
My experience is they don't wash as well as dry-erase markers.

Propbably the best approach is just to carry two sets of dry-erase markers everywhere, one always sealed.
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Oh I agree that would definitely have a good effect for increasing knowledge of what one is actually consuming, but I think uncertainty comes into play at some point.

In any event I don't think that banning trans fat was the only way to solve the problems I listed. Though I do detest trans fat and it annoys me when I can't consume or purchase a product because I noticed there is a non-trivial amount of trans fat in it. In this way, banning trans fats is definitely a convenient solution for me and I don't see many downsides to supporting it.
I wouldn't be surprised if every company that wants to is able to produce "data" which "proves" that their use isn't harmful...
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I have nothing against Cursive, and in fact, have been eying it from afar. But this kind of comment is just needlessly dismissive with little in the way of substance, as far as I can tell. Would you like to expand on what these features that Cursive has that are "Categorically better" than Emacs'?

I'm not saying there isn't any, and certainly I've used better refactoring tools than https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el in other languages. But what on earth is wrong with the navigation? The main advantage I've seen form a colleague is the highlighting automatically of usages, but I'm pretty sure I can set that up in Emacs too.
Go is a simpler language and as such it is a better language.
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Compare and contrast how women are treated when accused of rape with men treated when accused of rape. Guilty until proven innocent.

Google is your friend this happens a lot more than you realize.
You're right, but what really gets me is that the internet was supposed to be the great equalizer, revealing that the emperor had no clothes, but it's almost as if as the corruption becomes more apparent, the more they have to push it to stay on top of the proletariat. It's worrisome where this trend will end up.
> So does any Linux distro if you don't compile from sources yourself.

Yes, that's a good start. You just didn't go far enough.

Endpoint security is a messy problem, where everything is expressed in shades of gray. Yet, spying on your computer when it's powered, and backdooring your disk encryption for when it's off do not differ in luminosity enough to be called different colors.

By the way, yes, Microsoft was already caught spying on their users. More than once.
The food police were wrong and killed a lot of people with trans fats. Can we have our lard back now? Oreo cookies taste like crap with whatever they've replaced the trans fats with.
The gov just cherry picks/jumps on the bandwagon for certain things and calls that progress, while at the same time subsidizing industries promoting bad health and the obesity epidemic. Real change won't come from authoritarian bans but from a cultural shift and people caring more about their health.
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> Fellow academic here. I'm shocked a member of faculty would suggest that is a realistic option. You of all people know how difficult it is to find a tenure-track position. Yet you are suggesting voluntary career suicide for a consensual relationship between two adults? This is both unrealistic and complete overkill.

Fellow human being here...I'm shocked you think that true love is so easy to find :). I was being half-facetious...but yes, if you do happen to find your one-and-only, you should do the mature thing and pursue the relationship in a way that doesn't damage the academic potential of all the other students. Or at least wait until the student has graduated.

> You seem to believe that an adult is not able to differentiate between romantic feelings and objective grading criterion.

Sorry but this is a serious LOL to me. At many medical schools, staff doctors are forbidden to take even a $50 dinner from a pharmaceutical company. Much of that policy is grounded in the desire to avoid the appearance of impropriety...but you have to think of it from the perspective of the pharma company. They have up-to-the-day data on prescribing habits of doctors. They have the analytics that show that even casual visits by an attractive/charismatic pharma salesperson has a direct impact on the doctor's prescribing habits. I doubt that the pharma companies have data on what happens if such visits turn into sexual relationships, but I'm going to guess that the correlation only gets stronger.

So let's assume that grading policy is more objective, more sanctified than the process of objectively prescribing life-saving drugs...even if that were the case, the problem is not just about meting out grades, but priorities. You must have experienced the phenomenon in which students who take the time to go to office hours often do better than students who don't...because they've spent hours picking your brain about the right way to think about things. Well, when you've chosen a student (or even several) to have intimate relationships...the hours that you have to freely conduct your duties with non-significant-others is reduced. Maybe you're objective enough to give your lover a B instead of bumping him/her up to an A...but are you really going to ignore them when they ask for help on their papers and homework?

And again, the problem is not just the practical reduction in time that you have to carry out your duties, or the impact on your objectivity...the problem is also the appearance of impropriety. Maybe you are the stone-cold objective professor who manages to keep love and work completely separate (keep in mind that now we're really in fantasy land at this point)...but your students do not have a window to your soul. Their guess is that you are in the 99% of human beings that can't be objective in that situation, and their trust in the academic process is going to be somewhat jaded. And a university does not benefit from a reputation of faculty who freely pursue relationships with students; you can imagine that many parents do not see such relationships as a bonding between consenting, free-willed adults.