jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yea this is really frustrating. I bought a box of 10 N-95s in January when I saw what was going on in China and figured they’d be good to have, since I have older people in my family who are in poor health (leukemia, diabetes, heart disease). Now since I’m shopping and cooking for them, I am trying really hard not to get sick so I wear a mask to the stores and I’m getting looks from people like I stole them from a hospital. How about we blame the government for not ramping up production of masks back in January when even I knew this was going to be a problem?
As a reader I think that distinction is more important than whether using a hyphen is correct, assuming the goal is to make oneself understood. That's all I meant.
Configure using larger stacks when building with ASAN since this is a known problem?

The sanitizers are useful enough that I’ve found adding small targeted changes to support those modes to be valuable vs the increased risk of not testing what you run.
If you have something to accuse him of just go ahead and say it. Regardless the recent firings and resignations were for "AI ethics" researchers who were hired for political reasons in the first place. Real engineers wont care.
maybe if it was proof of ownership, being large made it hard to steal
no, the government gets away with this stuff because they have power. people turn a blind eye because it doesn't matter if they don't, because they don't have power.
Yes, I'm well aware of the viral aspect; I was objecting specifically to the claim that a user could be restricted by the GPL.
I can't personally say with confidence that these big companies are not being influenced by political motivations.

I'm confident that if CBDs essentially die because of remote working it will be a financial apocalypse. There is so much wealth tied up in inflated inner city property that if it is suddenly not in demand anymore there will be a huge correction that is going to hurt a lot.
Let's review. Samy Bengio, co-founder of Google Brain and Google AI scientist of 14 years, unexpectedly resigns in the aftermath of Timnit Gebru and Margaret (Meg) Mitchell's firings. Gebru and Mitchell were the founders of Google's Ethical AI team, whose work on AI fairness was previously celebrated by Google AI leadership.

Furthermore, Samy Bengio was Timnit's direct manager, but was completely blindsided by Timnit's firing, saying "I was stunned by what just happened to Timnit Gebru, who was in my team until a few days ago ... I stand by you, Timnit". Timnit was notified of her termination by Megan Kacholia, the Vice President of Google Research, who has since been removed from overseeing the remaining members of the Ethical AI team.

Regarding the publication which precipitated Timnit's ousting, "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots ...", Samy Bengio granted publication approval for the submission. It was only after this approval that the Google Ethics AI researchers were told to rescind their names from the paper (they could not withdraw the paper entirely, since it was a collaboration with external academic researchers).

Mitchell was fired shortly thereafter for allegedly violating the company's code of conduct and security policies.

Now, only a few months after Gebru and Mitchell's firings, Samy Bengio has also resigned.

Considering the sequence of events reviewed above, it seems clear to me that Samy Bengio's resignation is directly the result of Google's mishandling of this situation. If Timnit had not been fired while away on vacation, and Google leadership had instead found a way to address her concerns, or even accept her resignation more tactfully, then this debacle would have never unfolded in this manner, and Samy Bengio would still be at Google.

I am not particularly surprised by Google's mishandling of this situation though, as it seems completely predictable and even cliche that such corporate behemoths often handle these situations in the most ham-handed ways.

What I do find astonishing is the willingness of some Hacker News commenters to read into Timnit's actions and motivations, often with the most negative interpretations, but when it comes to Samy Bengio's resignation, they seem completely unable to read between the lines, and instead raise their burden of proof, so that they can deny any connection between this chain of events. Resignation letters and company wide farewell emails almost never disclose the real reasons behind a departure. Just because Samy Bengio has not explicitly said something like, "I am resigning because I stand in solidarity with Timnit Gebru", does not mean that these events are not linked, despite the assertions of some comments in this thread. In fact, it's seems to me that one would need to willfully ignore the evidence so far to conclude that these events are not linked, at least to some degree.
From experience, its the boomer class of engineers stuck in middle management that are totally against, and want to sabotage it.
At least with IBM the documentation is freely available, but you're pretty SOL if you encounter non-IBM platform. Some have docs, some don't, but finding IBM is at least reasonably easy.
You make a good point - it's not necessarily going to make life easy - but I think it has its validity as a way to at least mask out some possibilities. Decisions are easier when there's less to choose from, so hopefully this can help!
"What we need to be encouraging isn't equity, home ownership, or income in any traditional sense. We spend too much time chasing silly things like SBA loans and home ownership/net worth pumping.

Social welfare isn't necessarily the answer, instead we need to encourage savings and stop incentivizing actions that increase their risk profile."

I think he is missing his own point. He says people are to fixated on "net worth pumping" but then advocates "savings" as the appropriate metric. Increasing savings is equal to increasing net worth by definition.

What he is really arguing against is crappy investment advice, which is what buying a house with an interest only loan is. It's speculating on housing prices and probably the only way a poor person could invest with such extreme leverage. In other words this post could be boiled down to saving, not gambling is the surest way to increase ones net worth.
Miss what forest, specifically?

I agree with you about demagogues being products of their times. In this case it seems the forest being missed is social media platforms allowing intolerant content and the organization of domestic terrorism.

If that is your point, then I agree. Social media companies need to do more to fight against the pressures that allow demagogues rise to power. Deplatforming them seems like a good place to start.
Would you mind sharing the URL? Thanks!
The Anchor Inn had the nice arcade. It had Ms PacMan, Defender, Burger Time, Tempest, Space Invaders, Time Pilot and a couple pinball machines including "Playboy," oh my! Oh and a decent jukebox, even.

The Sportsman's had Mario Brothers and Galaxian tucked into different corners.
Of course, what you really want to use to capture 42 German prisoners in WW2 is a broadsword:

http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/mad-jack-churchi...

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/churchill.html
http://fetching.io makes well over $1,000 / month but we're just getting started ;)
>What actually affects us is how many people may come to believe that this may be true, and adjust the way they act as a response.

Agreed, though it seems more likely that simple human carelessness will prove to be a far greater threat to AI safety than deeply-held beliefs involving esoteric fears.

>But you're already changing the argument when assuming a mature super-intelligence.

I was speaking strictly in a capability sense. It's probably safe to say that anything currently simulating our reality, at least in this context, ultimately stemmed from a mature superintelligence.

>Note that Roko's Basilisk even posits a Friendly AI. That is, one that is imbued with respect for human values, but that may simply consider "threatening the past" with torture a necessity in order to ensure it is created as a moral imperative to minimize human suffering.

One could argue that such an AI would not truly be friendly. Indeed, what you said resembles something of a cold, uncaring utility function run amok.

>Note that such a Friendly AI would have reason to carry out this threat even if it believes it exists and so has been created, because it will not know whether it is a "full version" running in reality, or a partial, restricted, time limited simulation by people trying to figure out whether or not Roko's Basilisk holds before deciding whether to let it loose in their reality.

This may be moot, assuming that the advent of superintelligence significantly predates, or at least is a prerequisite for, the simulation of entire realities. If people in an ancestor simulation are trying to see if the Basilisk holds via simulation of a child reality, then the ancestor reality almost certainly has a superintelligent agent present within to facilitate that.

As an aside, ontological issues that superintelligent agents may encounter are an interesting facet of the control problem. Especially when you consider that a superintelligence would likely figure out the secrets of the universe in short order, far beyond what humans have been capable of learning.

>Then again, there may very well be one or more fundamental flaws in the entire argument, ...

Lack of evidence. Without any, there's no reason to lend any more credence to Roko's basilisk than there is to the notion of space aliens living amongst us, perfectly manipulating our perceptions so as to conceal themselves.

Both scenarios are entirely possible. But we lack evidence for either. Hence, they should receive the same weight: zero.

>But it's fun to think about.

In a sort of soul-crushing kind of way, it sure is.
I'd surmise that forcing the FCC's hand on a common carrier ruling might be preemptive to loon or another mesh-networking based co. gaining ground in a regulatorally permissive space. Especially given longer range wifi tech is on the horizon.
HipMunk is doing something smart and focusing on the presentation layer to win. Design and presentation seems simple and just a "feature" to many, but that's because it's done well. In travel search and many other areas, all things are virtually the same + a commodity. By focusing on the presentation layer, they actually bring about a very very strong advantage, especially in a process that people hate.
> Where I’m at it’s mostly NIMBYs and small business owners.

It's business owners here too. There are many studies showing that bike lanes create more customers than parking spaces, but the owners don't believe it and consistently act against their own interest.
I listened to your source, but I'm afraid it wasn't very convincing.

The evidence they presented was an ambulance driver who had to go around a modal filter via side-streets to get to a patient who later died. We do not know if the patient died because of the LTN. I am aware of a case where Ealing council failed to delivery keys to an ambulance service - perhaps this was that? That error has now been rectified.

Needless to say, this is a tragedy. However, patients also die because emergency services get stuck in gridlock traffic. What needs to be show is that LTNs in general increase response times; but we were not presented with any data to support this. On the other side, there are examples of ambulances moving rapidly through LTNs, since they do not have to share the space with any other traffic. Remember, London's congestion is so bad that we have an air ambulance service. What we really need is data, and the limited amount we have so far is generally positive towards LTNs. One example we can look to is The Randstad, which is a huge urban area containing many connected LTNs, built from the 70s onwards. It doesn't seem to have problems with emergency service response times.

There's also the risk of missing the forest for the trees here. How many premature deaths occur from diseases of inactivity, toxic levels of air pollution and road accidents? Childhood obesity is around 20% in the UK and even higher in inner London boroughs. If you look at old photos of London, a striking difference to now is children playing safely on residential streets. Ambulance response times are not the only metric we need to keep an eye on.

The hosts like to make sweeping generalizations and talk about the "law of unintended consequences", but I wonder if they understand the law of induced demand?
How not to be taken seriously #5781:

Preach against Google while using Google crap on the website your are preaching on.
I know that Mono for i, at least, is the result of an IRC bet between a couple of hobbyists about whether it was technically possible. I wouldn't be surprised if the PHP port was similar
Wikipedia says the Great Purges had over a million and a half victims, with close to seven hundred thousand shot.

This was in the 1930s under Stalin. USSR has more history than that; when I lived there, no one I knew was shot, no one was exiled; nor was anyone afraid of being shot or exiled (I can tell you what they were afraid of, though). My great grandmother's generation certainly remembered those times though.

Your statement plays on the perception that I have seen in the US that the USSR was this terrible place and all of its citizens hated it. I don't know if you are from the US, so, I will not make any assumptions. I can tell you that the propaganda machine here in the US is at least as good as it was in the USSR.
My telco was charging $8/month for visual voicemail, so I opted to buy a Twilio number for $1/month, and set my phone to forward no answer/busy/unavailable to a simple Twilio app I wrote that handles voicemail.

When someone leaves me a message, I get an SMS with the message and caller details. I've been using OpenCNAM (https://www.opencnam.com) for the caller ID look-up.

I implemented something similar for our office so that each person has a proxy number that can be given out to clients. Voicemail is handled by a similar app, and each person also receives a Slack notification for an incoming call or voice message.

Lookup by Twilio is a bit different than OpenCNAM, but also pretty similar. They're both pretty affordable, though in the end, I'll likely create our own lookup database that we can customize.

For me, the most immediately useful info is the state/province as well as country of the incoming call. It appears that with Twilio Local, on the latter comes through. I did some tests of Lookup with a bunch of numbers, and the additional info that comes through for the paid portion of things doesn't seem that particularly useful. The (free) "national_format" is nice, but I'd say the most valuable part of the service is quickly identifying invalid and VoIP-based numbers.
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Nice site which really helps a community!
I'm a little curious - How are you planning to make money with this? Or do you have a different goal ?
I ran this on my parent's machine:

gem install sqlite3-ruby autotest rspec

And it installed everything. That wasn't hard was it? Granted, I didn't test the gems.

The only problem is with spork: gem install spork gave me an error. I plugged it into Google which gave me the resolution: delete rake.gemspec and gem install rake (the one click ruby installer on windows seems to come with a bad rake), then gem install spork. All of this, including installing Ruby took like 5 minutes.
I believe that part of the idea here is that Mozilla is more-or-less fed up with XUL (the foundation of Firefox's UI), and rather than reimplementing it to serve as the basis for Servo's UI would rather just leverage the stock web technologies that Servo already supports.
I've got a $100 tablet and $30 bluetooth keyboard running windows. This means that I have a small form factor machine that I can develop on, and with a usb otg cord, I can connect to near anything I want. Finally, it comes with a real bios, so I can install whatever operating system I want on it, without doing silly things like removing screws.
Yes. Currently it looks great, but nowhere does it actually explain what it does - in specific technical terms.
Why not just join a local writing group and ask them to try out your site?
Doubt being "horrified" on the animal cruelty. We're pretty good to dehumanize other animals except pets I believe.
that's a nice surprise. long ago i implemented my website as a text adventure with parchment.js - it's a bit more usable for non terminal users
The corporation doesn't have to pay for these things for you to recognize a massive tax benefit from a 0% corporate tax rate. If you can route your earnings through corporation in this scenario then you effectively pay zero taxes on the delta between your income earned minus your annual expenses.
If "corporate income tax" only refers to tax on profits, then there is still a tax on dividends, which you pay regardless - US taxes dividends "at source" ("withholding tax"), precisely to prevent individuals to relocating to low-tax jurisdictions and escaping capital income taxes.

https://ibkr.info/article/938
> Google copied these lines not because of their creativity or beauty but because they would allow programmers to bring their skills to a new smartphone computing environment.

I'm waiting for an ambitious attorney to figure out how to frame this as poaching talent from an ecosystem to bring to another.
Even if obtaining old tweets was theoretically always possible, actually facilitating this seems like a combination of poor judgment and obsessive hoarding.

If the "smattering of tweets" means everyone's tweets will be publicly available in perpetuity, then this is a downright inhumane policy, and should not be pursued by any organization worthy of respect.
A good reminder not to put things on other people's computers if you don't want these things to be on other people's computers.
That makes me think, has anyone tried to build a note taking app based on git? A tricky part for this kind of app is networking and synchronization of notes, and that's all taken care of by git. The "only" thing left would be to implement the mobile and desktop front ends.
Indeed, it's very important to match the structure to the problem.

I've seen real-world situations where the Charlie approach was clearly wrong - a maverick programmer that wrote a module on his own, only some light testing with end users, no peer-review, not even source control. The program was finished in record time (a month or so), looked good, apparently did what was required, users and management were delighted, he got a huge raise. "Charlie" went on holidays... and then disaster struck. He hadn't considered the impact on other systems, and a bug delayed the montly accouning closing process, costing thousands of man-hours correcting the errors. Other programmers had to go to his terminal to see the code... and found a huge hardcoded, unstructured mess.

OTOH, in the same company, they hired a Java Senior Architect "Alan" to lead a module, just a little more complex that what "Charlie" had done. "Alan" spent the first few months meeting with all possible stakeholders, writing process diagrams, selecting a 4-person team, then spent a few more months building a "perfect" software architecture, an entire ORM layer over the systems he had to connect to. Then they chose a complicated Javascript framework for the frontend which none had experience with. After a year and a half (over a year over budget), they finally launched a first version... which wasn't what users needed. A year and a half later (3 years total), they finally have a working system.

While he didn't get the credit "Charlie" got, everyone thinks "Alan" is some kind of guru and that he understands "hard" problems, and he's going to be given the lead (again) on an even larger project, which the company is betting several millions on.
You can write rules to find them in the dependency parse, although the parse tree won't necessarily be correct.

I've thought a lot about passive reduced relative clauses over the years --- they were a big part of my PhD thesis. So I happen to know that the first one in the WSJ data is wsj_0003.1. This isn't in the training or development data, but it's in the same data set --- so, this is a fair but optimistic spot-check. The sentence is:

> A form of asbestos once used to make Kent cigarette filters has caused a high percentage of cancer deaths among a group of workers exposed to it more than 30 years ago, researchers reported.

There are two reduced passives here --- "used" and "exposed", and a potential (but unlikely) false positive in "reported".

spaCy correctly attached "exposed" to "workers", but didn't attach "used" correctly --- it attached it to "reported" instead of "form". This doesn't really make syntactic sense, but that's what it did --- the system's entirely statistical; there's no grammar licensing certain attachments.

To see the parse, run:

from spacy.en import English
nlp = English()
tokens = nlp(u'A form of asbestos once used to make Kent cigarette filters has caused a high percentage of cancer deaths among a group of workers exposed to it more than 30 years ago, researchers reported.')
for word in tokens:
print word.orth_, word.tag_, word.dep_, word.head.orth_
LOIC also works under Mono on Linux. I tried it.
Would a company smaller than Harley Davidson get a "loan"? Maybe not. But if we're talking about commercial paper, we might not be talking about companies coming to the Fed hat-in-hand for a payoff; we may be talking about the Fed stepping in to fulfill a function that would under any ordinary circumstance be handled by the banking system. Remember, commercial paper apparently locked up solid during the crisis.
I totally got a "where is your god now?!"[1] vibe from this.

[1]: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/24/where-is-your-dog-n...
There is a fundamental difference: copying, in itself, renders no such harm as normal property infractions. Consider the underlying necessary facts. If you take a material object from me, you have deprived me. If you copy that object, you have done no such harm. The 'harm' of copying/infringement depends solely on the laws. If we didn't have the laws there wouldn't be the harm.

People know this unconsciously. A few million years of evolution have made us want to communicate. People copy because of the natural tendency to do something that is good for all of us.
I totally agree.

The problem is how do you make it possible for the best people making music (or whatever other internet good) to completely sustain themselves via things they put online.
There are so many project management apps. What made you choose this particular niche? How did you get your first customers?

Congrats. Your app looks beautiful.
Thank you for writing the blog post though. Yes, your irritation did come out, but it is useful to have articles like this to help change the perception in India.

The value that is generated by different roles in software is generally measured by the amount of money that the market sets for it. In India, in general the market value of a developer is still lot lesser than the market value of a "manager", mostly due to the low value work done in India by the outsourcing companies. I am sure there are exceptions, but that is the general trend. Your assertion that you make more money than the "manager" indicates that you are an exception. I wouldn't fault the manager for a making an assumption based on the general trend though.
In the same vein: Gibak.

http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-backup-system-introduction

http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-0.3.0

https://github.com/pangloss/gibak for an improved fork (last commit in 2008, but still...)