jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> We have no evidence that "Hollywood AI" is nigh, no evidence it will "explode" and become super-human in a short period of time (and some very good counter-arguments against this scenario), and no evidence it would be intrinsically more dangerous than we are to each other. The whole fear mongering topic seems rooted in a tower of speculations that becomes increasingly precarious as you ascend.

Agreed.

> ... I realized that these fears might be rooted in the fear of disruption.

Yes, that might be part of it.

Another part is that ideas that are both interesting and plausible tend to be more visible. Lots of people will pay to hear Ray Kurzweil speak about how the next 20 years are going to be absolutely amazing. Not so many want to hear you or me saying, "Well, maybe not."

Ideas like those of RK have always been interesting. In 1960, when a computer was a mysterious machine in the back room, surrounded by white-coated technicians (and even they weren't too sure what it could do), such ideas were plausible, too. In 1990, when a computer was a machine for typing letters or playing lousy games -- not so much. But today we all have a box in our pocket that responds to voice commands, and we hear about self-driving cars. So this amazing future becomes plausible again.

This combination of interest and plausibility means we hear a lot more about the possibilities of strong AI than arguments against them. Even your own post contains 2 links for, and just 1 against. And guess which ones will be spread. No one says, "Hey! I just read this cool article about how computers aren't going to become intelligent any time soon!" So despite the relatively easy arguments against the radical futurists, the people making them are not heard much.

> Interesting food for thought, don't you think?

Indeed. Lots of thoughts. No time to write them all ....
This is a duplicate of an earlier submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999727

However, no comments there, one comment here.
You may be interested to learn more about the work of Dr Taddy Bleacher.

While he is not hitting every item on your list, his organization provided over 600k street children with a highly diverse education based on developing whe whole student and not just a scholastic portion.

Recent talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kvcgBOizjN0
The idea was to ban ads on public TV to augment the price of ads for the private channels by reducing the market size. But instead people watched the no-ads channels more, so the price of ads on the private channels didn't soar but fell instead.
This is my frustration with almost all tech sites. The AMD press deck included compilation benchmarks, but the only others to reliably provide them are Phoronix.
Memes are last decade. It s old technology nowadays tbh , i wonder how come kids still use it
Despite the loaded exploitation rhetoric in the article, if competitors can come into the market that is better for the workers, that’s great. And if it raises the standards for the privately owned apps, that’s even better. This seems like a win all around.
Bozo the clown had decent product market fit and great personal branding, so of that list, he would be the most valuable for YC acolytes to study.
Very nice product (not just the soups), it's interesting to get a "flavor map" like this , and brings back memories of places once visited!
>Trust in what we see is increasingly important in a world where image editing has become ubiquitous – fake content is a serious and increasingly pressing issue.

I keep on reading such statements, but still don't feel like this is a real (increasing) problem. Pictures could be faked is a believable way 100 years ago already, and I cannot recall a single instance where new, fancy AI-driven fakes were any more of an issue than classic photoshopping. In my opinion, it's all just FUD.
It was responding too slowly for me to notice that.
Because fingerprints have neve been used to identify anybody, and are also totally anonymous!

That's why the police never use them to solve crimes, of course.
No, it's not for all types of cancer. My advice relates only to those with terminal, metastatic cancer, and is not an admonition but rather a reflection on what I wish we had done.

>With that said, there are people who beat even the deadliest cancers, and that very small chance, is one worth thinking about.

I vividly recall looking at the 5-year survival rates for people diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. <5%. <. I don't know if I've ever stared at a single character on a screen for so long. That was about a year or so before he died, and I remember the mental gymnastics I went through trying to rationalize how he would be the exception. At the time, it seemed unthinkable that we would give up. Of course we would pursue every option.

I can't say what I would do if I were in that position again; I can only say what I wish I'd done at the time.

I wish the best of luck to you and your father.
I don't really care about ES6 or ES7. The point of my comment wasn't to compare anything. I (subjectively) liked working with Dart. I did like the "batteries included" approach of Dart vs JS, but that's not really a language think so much as it is an ecosystem/leadership difference.
Because of the WTO and binding open trade agreements
Definitely, which means that hospitals soak up a lot of uncompensated E.R. costs associated with people whose long term health issues are not being treated. Those hospitals are not required to actually provide that long-term care, e.g. chemotherapy regimens. (Unless you're saying they are, which would be happy news to me, since I understood the situation to be a lot bleaker than that for the uninsured.)
> Since it was created by Github they will be able to expose APIs to create features which are currently not possible.

You're probably right, but even if this is not the case, they will at least hopefully have a better understanding of how to use the APIs well, given how often they work on and with their own APIs.
i see people saying less context switches. but isn't this the exact opposite? it's way more context switches?

isn't this the same as having our mails popup up notifications every so often or your gmail aggregating twitter and Facebook, because people thought it would make them more productive
Oh what, it's not open source? The little interest I had in this just evaporated. I would definitely be interested in something like Emacs built on modern technologies, but Emacs is already there and quite good. I feel like something like this could be neat, just because far more people know HTML/JS than Elisp, but if it's not open source that kills my enthusiasm for the project.
And as I pointed out in another comment, these additions are mostly not aimed at C++ application developers.

That's often been true in other recent C++ standards, but looking at the linked page about C++20 in particular, quite a lot of those points might reasonably appear in application code.

If you don't need them (and you probably won't) then don't use them.

The trouble with this argument has always been that if your language provides a certain feature or syntax, even if you don't use it, there is no guarantee that everyone else whose code you depend on won't use it either.

Some language features are inherently contagious. If you are calling code that uses exceptions or const qualifiers or asynchronicity, you probably need to take that into account in your own code. I recognise that these aren't particularly esoteric as language features go, but I've still seen plenty of teams over the years that attempted to avoid using them in C++ based on some argument about making things too complicated, mostly with results that weren't great.

Even for new language features that are expected to be used mostly within libraries and not to be seen much in application code, you might still have to dig into the source code for a library to trace a bug or performance problem, which means in practice you still need enough awareness of the full language to do that.

Extra complexity in the design of a programming language always comes at a cost, whether or not you intend to use it. The important question is usually whether the price is worth paying.
But pointer arithmetic is not "obscure bits of history."
Depends upon what kind of contract you sign. But sure, any place small enough to only want one person is unlikely to be reasonable about it.
Why does the payment mechanism have to be a dodgy cryptocurrency?
"Many technologists viscerally felt yesterday’s announcement as a punch to the gut [...] our fellow technologists that we truly believed were advancing a cause many of us also believed in."

It can be painful when a belief system runs into reality.

"Just do one thing and do it well, be the trusted de facto platform for private messaging that empowers dissidents, journalists and grandma all to communicate freely with the same guarantees of privacy. Don’t become a dodgy money transmitter business."

Lol. Because that usually goes over well. Hey, just do what we tell you! We don't care what's involved, just get it done! Says the user of the free service.
Nice!

That is exactly how I would like children books to be presented.

I see that there are also some English language books. Does there exist a site in this format, with English books but with world-wide cultures?

I have been googling for it now and then but am still unable to find the 'perfect' presentation format.
It would only have been a net positive in terms of relative support for the political apparatus, and even then only in the short term. Retaining political control would still ultimately rely on infrastructure and military force driven by technical support & advancement. Then again it may very well have been such short term thinking that contributed to the ultimate collapse of Soviet Russia.
EDIT: I fixed my ad hominem by adding detail

As usual, Stephen's correct about the 42% and so mad about it that he's missing the 58%.

Stephen's understanding of blockchain is only skin-deep. If we keep lionizing his articles by upvoting them to #1, then HN's understanding of blockchain is only going to be skin-deep, too.

Here are some of the problems with Stephen's objections to Signal's use of cryptocurrency:

- in prior essays, Stephen's majority objection to blockchain has been proof of work and the environmental impact, but the blockchain chosen by Signal is not proof of work

- Signal would love to use US dollar payments instead of a new and volatile token. But, Signal was sprinting towards private payments. On Signal's timeline, there was no technology option for the payments to be USD-denominated because the blockchain they chose is optimized for semi-centralized private payments, not decentralization or programmability, and it takes extra work to peg a token's value to USD

I find it concerning that HN looks for blockchain wisdom from, eg., Stephen and Schneier (I love Bruce), because they honestly don't know what they are talking about, and I know that because I've been full-time on ethereum for three years.
This started as a way for me to learn RoR and angular a long while back but it ended up becoming my passion project... https://www.climbcation.com is basically a wiki style site that lets you filter through world-class climbing destinations. A lot of climbing destination catalogs don't have much structured data so Climbcation gives people a chance to filter through with parameters which are useful for planning trips.

It's not exactly the most useful site given the pandemic but hopefully people will derive some value out of it when this is all over.
I think you've just helped my case.
My approach to teaching Linux and programming leans heavily on using existing resources and ensuring students get a wide base of knowledge before beginning the "exploratory" stage of learning.

Start with installing a distro of your choice in a virtualization tool, I always recommend Ubuntu on VMWarePlayer because it was what I started with. Distro/Virtualization Software doesn't matter, what matters is that you use it.

Then I have students work through Linux Journey [1] one module at a time, while being available to answer questions as they go.

Once a student has finished the LJ modules I have them play the Bandit Over the Wire [2] game up to challenge 15.

After that I usually teach Hardware and Operating Systems, but if you are just looking for general ability to do things, skip to the CyberAces Linux modules. [3]

Once you have finished those, do the CyberAces Bash Scripting module and the CodeAcademy Python [4] course and you'll have enough scripting ability to be dangerous.

From there, just keep using Linux as your daily driver and you will continue to improve, especially if you take on programming projects.

All of this can be done by yourself, but I teach a free online course on Computing Fundamentals and Security if you are interested in it being more of a guided experience. [5]

[1] https://linuxjourney.com/
[2] http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
[3] https://tutorials.cyberaces.org/tutorials.html
[4] https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python
[5] https://www.hoppersroppers.org/course.html
Wants a universal vaccine.
I refused to be an FBI informant once. They threatened to make up false charges on me. I held my ground.

They harrassed me at home twice, talked to my employer and made a huge stink trying to create pressure.

I didn't cave and they eventually went away, because I committed no crimes and they knew it.

As a security researcher I sometimes make contact with controversial people in order to get information, like a journalist might. They wanted those contacts. Too bad.
I think Keycloak ticks all those boxed rather nicely. While it does support more than a few hundred users, I doubt that this will be a serious issue.

Perhaps you could enlighten us with a few key differentiators of your ideal solution to other common ones?
And with a prepaid debit card one can enter any cardholder name and billing address. I wonder if, perhaps, this is how such a donation was made in Apple's name... with the intention of then talking about it here.

Which reminds me: I think I'll go make some donations in the name of Richard Stallman...
Agreed, the link is anything but clear at this point in time.
Scaling theoretically is easy. Practically is a bit harder. What would have been interesting info (besides the ARR) is their growth rate and growth history. That would give insight into whether they are on the path you mention or the case is more like what GP said. (Skimming through the article, I didn't see any mention of this.)
The people in this community are more qualified than most people in my social circles for debating this topic, and tend to be less motivated toward bias. People here tend to be better at referencing source material, facts, and statistics that support their thoughts.

Although I don't usually seek out this topic in this community, I find these discussions here helpful from time to time.
> Opinions such as offense is not harmful? He's asking why you feel empowered to define someone being upset at some comment as something other than harm. As am I.

Being offended is an emotional reaction that has nothing to do with whether you're harmed or not. Being upset is not a constitutionally protected class or situation. It's just someone who thinks their emotions are more important than other people's ideas. Why do you feel empowered to pretend being upset means you've been harmed? It's a fiction that has nothing to do with reality.
The ability to edit the weekly post seems like it could remedy this. Would probably see folks embrace the journaling approach by using headers to timestamp them.
What happens when you assume the alter ego in perpetuity? Where does the "original ego" go?
Because im and places it is designed to catch you.
But I got a ticket in Zurich for doing 16 kph in a 15 kph zone.
In my experience with the ones in Seattle, people who are turning left use the wrong side of the mini roundabout to save 3 seconds of driving time.
> In the future, you won't just have to watch an overly long video or scroll three quarters of the way down a story to find a recipe, you'll have to travel through portals to different worlds!

And then one day Google will create little info cards that are snippets of the recipe VR sites. You'll still have to swoop and fly your way there but it'll be a smaller space.
It would be way cheaper to design the radar detector to have better RF isolation than to go towards an SDR solution.

A modern radar gun operates in the Ka-band, Google says between 33.4 and 36 GHz. Assuming 12 bit samples, your proposed solution needs to process a minimum 3.9 gigabits per second, or ~500 megabytes per second. To do this work in software would require a workstation.

Not to mention I'm not even sure if you can operate most ADCs above the 1st Nyquist zone like would be needed here.
I sometimes wonder whether our goal of making everything as convenient & frictionless as possible is part of our problem. By serving some of our short-term interests, are we jeopardizing our long-term interests?

I'm personally okay with seeing products that have well-intended friction built into them.
The increased speed is probably because of CloudFlare. I know it’s kind of cheating, but it was the only way to avoid the hug of death. The good news is that the 386 is still serving lots of incoming requests, just not every single one. If I can think of some more authentic way to keep the site up, I’ll try that.
Don’t blame the hens!
After looking at the code for a second it's quite comical that you're suggesting switching framework + language as a way to speed up development, since it would entail a complete rewrite which is almost always the worst thing you can do.

OPs code also looks clean and well documented so I see no reason to make such a recommendation other than PHPhobia.
> The problem with writing is that you usually do it by serializing your thoughts in one go. Programming on the other hand is an activity where you almost randomly jump from one point to the other.

It's startling how much I write the exact same way I code, namely by jumping around from place to place. It's more important that your written thoughts deserialize linearly than it is for you to serialize them that way.
I have not included CTE's because I wanted to show pure recursion queries without the use of this. I think CTE's will be faster though but I have yet to verify this.
Not an expert here, but isn't that how the task-managing board should look like? The first time I saw Trello I thought it looked very similar to the JIRA Agile boards by Atlassian....
Wow. Just wow. Two years ago we had an internal row about people using Trello and possibly exposing internal data (which we attempted to solve through various means).

Having this as a Docker container is _great_ for in-house use (although I haven't checked the internals and am not very enthusiastic about their using Node...)
What reason do you have for saying that the UK is much worse? The particular actions described in the article are not obviously things which the NSA would never do or hasn't done.
Should add "AWK in 20 minutes" to the AWK section which was posted on HN a few days ago:

http://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893302)
In my case, the founders owned 100% of the company--we never had any external investment or employees.

Just to clarify, I was only suggesting further rounds (beyond A) for when you're really swinging for the fences, i.e. gunning for an IPO or a really really big exit.

As for the dilution numbers, 30% is accurate if you raise a series A. For some data check out http://www.wsgr.com/publications/PDFSearch/entreport/Winter2... and scroll down to the graphs.

To quote a friend, "In an A round, VCs typically do an 'n on n' investment, e.g. $3M on a $3M pre-money, or $4M on $4M, or 5 on 5." That means they're taking 50%. Then you add in the option pool. You could get less if you have a lot of traction, but to get there you probably raised an angel round that had dilution, so you're about at the same place.

Play around with http://www.ownyourventure.com/equitySim.html to see the possibilities.
Sorry ojbyrne, accidental downmod. Meant to upmod this damned phone interface is horrible for HN.
My guess has more to do with sales and marketing than anything else. I've got more than a few textbooks from the 50's and 60's on a variety of subjects, and for the most part, they are a joy to read, because they assume the reader is intelligent enough to not try and eat the chalkboard erasers.

Big textbooks, with lots of diagrams, pictures, and colors, look impressive. They give the impression of a tome filled with knowledge and wisdom, whether or not they actually are. Which is why school districts and professors in charge of lower-division courses buy the damn things -- they get impressive-looking textbooks to wow the students and parents, and they don't have to think much about the choice.

It's just good marketing.
It sounds to me like you're a 2x engineer :P
It's really presumptuous to say that it's better to cheat the labor class out of its earnings than have them deal with job losses (which you don't even know would happen).
Your PII will be in their CRM and they will have access to their CRM. Literally all they need to do this is your name and linkedin. If you think sales people won't have access to names of potential leads then I am not sure what you think sales people do on outbound sales.
I'd argue it's still a little high, most of these companies are on the wane.

Guns in the US are near saturation from a market perspective and regulatory changes will eventually kick the floor out. Time to cash out... It's like when Phillip Morris bought Kraft and General Foods in the 80s to spin them off later when tobacco regulation came.
> You aren't booting from an external disk. You are booting from the internal SSD, with the root filesystem on the external disk.

So this means that the life of all M1 Macs is locked to the life of the internal storage, as the (inevitable) drive failure will render the whole computer unusable?
You have no idea how capitalist markets work apparently. If the DEA decided to buy up all the street drugs and burn them it would create a million new drug dealers overnight as the prices would spike. Less guns is not the solution. The solution is to round up all the humans and cut their thumbs off so they can’t use tools to kill each other.
Non-violent, therefore not newsworthy.
Absolutely. Android is really popular in Korea, a Korean-English pack would make a killing with all the english students and expats.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindn...

"Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama's political success and Oprah Winfrey's financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that [w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control (More African Americans are under correctional control today... than were enslaved in 1850). Alexander reviews American racial history from the colonies to the Clinton administration, delineating its transformation into the war on drugs. She offers an acute analysis of the effect of this mass incarceration upon former inmates who will be discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits. Most provocatively, she reveals how both the move toward colorblindness and affirmative action may blur our vision of injustice: most Americans know and don't know the truth about mass incarceration—but her carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable book should change that."
The lawsuit was reported in mid-November [0]. The AMA refers to it in the opening post.

> Unfortunately, Skiplagged is now facing a lawsuit for making it too easy for consumers to save money. Ask me almost anything!

0: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-18/united-orbitz-sue-t...