skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...or they can have the option to "unsubscribe"
from the actions of moderators they disagree with

This is a really interesting idea. Another would be to make moderation opt-in, e.g. you select the curated filters you want to apply to forum X based on their reputation for fairness and pleasantness. These might in fact be the personal filter settings of upstanding members, or a vote between a few such members.

Anyway, thanks for the yummy food for thought.
What I mean is that there must exist an elemental relationship (min-max limits) between population size and the depth of the division of labour (how complex production can become).

Pairing population to production optimally is a synchronization problem. Cybernetics I suppose, not usually how economists think.

Economic growth and recession could be modulated if there were enough people when we needed them, and there were not, when we did not. Recessions won't go away but they wouldn't be compounded by demographic issues.

Currently this is solved in a haphazard way e.g. using illegal immigration of people like fruit pickers (deporting them when inconvenient) or by green belt zoning and class siloing. That can't be efficient. It couldn't possibly make humans happier. Most actually adopted solutions appear to be quite damaging to humans. How much of this is consciously orchestrated is also hard to ascertain. I suspect it is mostly Scott Alexander's Moloch at work. Every central banker ought to read that poetry because it's quite recognizable.

Since it is unethical to force children to exist (Ceausescu) and also wrong to murder people or prevent them having offspring when demographic issues arise, we need a plausible solution to allow for a world in which people have a realistic chance of having sustenance and purpose in their lives.

Most people really don't like this topic! It is understandable. We prefer not to think of ourselves as elements of production and supply. Of course we are, we're just a special case of it.

All of the problems are ultimately rectified by markets, or failing them, mother Nature. You know what they say about Nature being a mother. My point is that we don't necessarily need to let it get to market corrections if we think ahead.

Suppose you were a Communist official in charge of the One Child policy who anticipated the female infanticide rate. You'd have solved for a good deal of human suffering decades later on with perhaps an afternoon's work. Right place, right time.

Monetary policy tools work on a similar lever principal to this which is a large part of the reason I'm talking about them in the same vein. I'm not confident I know what to do, only that it is a factor. And now; tell me how I'm wrong!
The spelling errors confuse Watson.
> Go is very simple (many people say too simple) and writing a web app in it doesn't really require a very good understanding of the language.

But you do have to know to how to use the standard libraries well to write anything beyond a Hello World web app in Go.

Just because the Go language itself is simple, it does not mean web development is easy in Go. Quite the opposite, you have to write a lot of boilerplate code in Go (even with Go frameworks) to do things that would seem trivial in other frameworks.
You're talking about a $60k+ (realistically probably more like $80k) vehicle. Aluminum body panels for luxury cars in that class have long been similarly priced. If you bought an all aluminum Audi A8 in 1999 for a similar price, you'd be in a similar situation. If you balk at that kind of repair bill, you shouldn't be considering a car in that price range.

Your comparison of the used Ferrari hood is hardly applicable at all. First it's a used part, second it's a carbon fiber part, not aluminum.

Additionally, why would you expect to pay the price for the part yourself? That's what insurance is for. In reality, Tesla is doing you a favor by making their body panels so expensive because that means it's easier for your car to get declared a total write off in an accident and you can get a new car instead of a busted up repaired car that will never be the same (as anyone who's had a car repaired from a major accident can tell you.)

Lastly, I'd imagine the cost of Tesla body parts has a lot to do with the fact that they are in extremely high demand right now because there's still a waiting list. Any body panel Tesla sells you can't be used to build a car.
He did long enough to read and organize all them per interviews. All tgat's needed to filter it down to only illegal stuff withoug blowing ops.

Further, argument falls apart when he hands it over to journalists clearly unable to stop nation-state opponents per the very leaks. Of course someone hacked into them or bribed/coerced a copy. It should be assumed even without evidence given what we know.
1. When a television employee is censoring according to the rules of the state, they are operating as an agent of the state.

2. No, I'm not. I'm preceding from a definition of censorship as "the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts." Getting into "the dictionary say..." arguments is mostly boring, but most of the definitions do include some element of official imprimatur. Someone removing comments from their personal site fails to meet that official element.
No first hand experience, but I've everything I've heard seems consistent with what you said. Several engineers I've spoken to at companies using Watson/IBM had very few positive things to say and suggested that any usage was primarily for marketing reasons.
Not to be funny, but considering its location and surrounding, I don't think it's attractive as recreational facility. Maybe obesity camp, internet addiction detox camp, or perhaps isolationist religious cults.
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There's someone in Halifax researching Sodium Batteries, which would be a fair bit easier to find than lithium, though less effective.
>>Also censorship has a specific denotation, i.e. that is is performed by an agent of the state

Uh, no. Censorship means the suppression of speech or information. Said suppression does not require involvement from an agent of the state to qualify as censorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
I keep telling people to accomplish this by encapsulating the query in a DB view, and using a read only active record model in front of it. You can then query the table through the AR interface, and use has_many and friends. Unlike using execute_sql where everything is a string, type coercion works as you'd expect.

This solves the problem if you know ahead of time the format of the query, e.g. The example you gave would probably fit well. But if you're offering some kind of query building interface, well god help you.

No one has told me I'm wrong yet with this approach and it's been working great for years.
Have you put it through any rigorous development? Any pain points?
I'm wondering why, as a company, IBM doesn't seem to be doing good in their core business, yet somehow they want us to believe they are at the forefront of the latest darling new technology in ML research and cognitive computing?

If they are unable to attract talent and innovate in their core business, how are they supposedly pursuing sophisticated AI, and the biggest question, is why?

What other products or innovations have come out of IBM Research? What is their overall reputation, and why should we believe them? Why don't they release Watson to the world, like Microsoft did with their twitter bot?

If I were a recent grad or even mid level in my career and wanted to work on as interesting projects as I could, I wouldn't be going to IBM. My first priority would be access to interesting and varied datasets, such as what can be obtained at Facebook, Google, Amazon, or another such company. A close second would be any of the players in the hardware ML industry such as Nvidia.

I don't understand what's so special about Watson, it all seems like marketing BS to me for a company in the death throws.
> Right now, electrics comprise a tiny part of the automobile market share. Yet Tesla is already running into supply issues, particularly with lithium as there are only 3 companies in the world that do industrial-scale lithium mining, that too in a handful of mines around the world.

Why would any consumer have to care at all about this? If it really becomes a problem the price of EVs will go up and then people won't buy them. You're letting details you needn't worry about influence your possible purchase now? That makes no sense. Do you worry about how Ford is going to source their parts when they run into supply chain issues (which they do)? Do you worry about any other company's supply chain issues? You are repeating anti-EV FUD.

> I suppose we're currently in the honeymoon period for electrics. But what will happen 5-8 years down the line, when all the early mainstream adopters of electrics will have to replace their batteries? Is it feasible to recycle all those batteries?

A) All manufacturers have buyback/replacement programs in place that they have to uphold with the customer. Again, you needn't worry about the details as a consumer beyond that.

B) If you really insist on worrying about the details, look at some actual historic data instead of FUD; the price of EV batteries has been dropping dramatically over the last 10 years. All real signs (the fact that manufacturers keep opening new plants and increasing capacity, and that there is no real shortage of Lithium in the world despite the "3 companies" baloney) point to them continuing to drop.

The only REAL reason to consider not buying an EV right now is the dramatic pace at which they are improving. But to me that just points to leasing instead of buying one.
Nitpick: the unit you mean is kWh, not kW, which is a different, though related, unit of merit for batteries. (kWh measures capacity; kW measures output.)
well, it turns out that it's not that small !

http://scroll.in/article/664305/dhaka-has-a-question-what-ab...

As for the cow smugglers, you can find gazzilions of exact the opposite stories elsewhere. Also looks like india has Rs 12,000-crore of beef industry, only targeted to bangladesh.

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/bang...

let me give you a small example, those crappy TATA cars/trucks only sell in bangladesh, nepal and bhutan (may be?), and no where in the world.
The investigations by the SEC and the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco were reported in this article, which was extensively discussed here ten days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11687483
processing seawater for minerals (uranium is another which might be extracted) is expensive in the sense of requiring a lot of energy (arguably the ultimate definition of cost is energy requirements).

But it has to be done only once when the battery is produced, right?
Not the same, but there was an article about file system fuzzing recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11469535

The presentation is focused on how the fuzzing technique works rather than individual file system performance, but the "time to first bug" is quite telling. Copied here:

ext4 (2h)
XFS (1h45)
GFS2 (8m)
NTFS (4m)
NILFS2 (1m)
HFS (30s)
HFS+ (25s)
ReiserFS (25s)
OCFS2 (15s)
F2FS (10s)
BTRFS (5s)

I've had miscellaneous failures with the bottom three, but XFS and ext4 have been rock solid. Unfortunately ZFS and CephFS were not included.

Would love to see a Jepsen-style analysis of the various file systems too.
It is not solely about weight. It is the ratio between weight and surface area. Surface area tends to go as the square of the size whereas mass tends to go as the cube. For objects of the same density (all people are about the same), smaller and thus lighter ones have a greater surface area to mass ratio, and thus a lower terminal velocity.
If you want to figure out what Watson can do and bypass all the marketing hype, you can just try all the services available at http://ibm.com/watsondevelopercloud.

I won't argue that the PR goes often too far, and that's a big debate we have internally (I work for Watson). But it's a pity that most of the negative opinions expressed here come from people who haven't even bothered to try any of the services we put out there or read any of the scientific papers that have been published by our team.
Both articles refer to the same person Tamaki Matsuoka, which is known to be writing books based on logically mistaken interviews.
For example, there is a book written by her about 102 "anonymous" ex-soldiers, which she claimed that an 11 years old boy was sent to Nanking as a soldier and raped many women.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E6%88%A6-%E9%96%8...

There were no Japanese soldiers of such a young age.
> I would say that Japan has mostly behaved in a similar manner to Germany on the topic

Are you sure on that? I doubt Japan's neighboring nations would agree on that.
The more interesting for me was Recycled Traps.
Often you want to reactivate old users and companies have legitimate reason/access to do so. This part is the more grey area and interesting to see the ISP inactivity rules.
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Media censors take the rules of the state into account, but they are primarily concerned with pressure groups, not the state. They are most definitely not state agents; that would violate the constitution.

The publisher of a website removing comments from it meets the same soft officialness standard as a newspaper declining to run articles on a particular topic, or a television network refusing to air episodes in which someone disagrees with the group but doesn't end up suffering for it (not an invented example, by the way -- that was a real element of a code governing children's cartoons).
All platforms now have enough hardware to run a bloated OS. Even the dinky machines. Thus, we now have Windows and Linux everywhere, endlessly being patched because some feature completely irrelevant to the application has a problem.
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I mean, I'm sure a 16-bit integer for the port number didn't seem ridiculous when TCP was invented in 1974 or whenever.
That's terrible, for sure.

The parent comment is talking about one person who could be viewed as a hero and a victim, depending on the story teller.

I don't see why the East Timor story serves as a reminder, except that it's another example of an atrocity in war.

No war is nicer than any other and you can find many, many examples of atrocities like this throughout history across the world.
It's a brand, not a technology. IBM will pitch it for everything from help desks to curing cancer.
> This is partially because it is much, much, easier to pirate premium games on Android than it is on iOS.

While that's true, that's no different from PC games and they still make considerably more than android games do. There's definitely an X factor here.
I agree machine learning isn't going anywhere - and yes the big companies are going to solve increasingly complex problems using increasingly complex methods using their data and resources.

The trend I'm seeing is medium sized companies (think 10's of millions to low billions market cap) not solving simple, highly impactful problems using potentially simple machine learning techniques. A basic regression model that was state of the art 75 years ago can often add millions of dollars in immediate value if applied to the right problems. Instead, these companies often prefer to do what they know best, which is hire people to perform repeatable-but-not-easily-scriptable tasks.

The moment machine learning-illiterate executives start getting burned (one CEO to the other: "oh yeah, we spent X dollars on <insert hyped machine learning platform here> and it was useless"), is the moment that the hype can start destroying value.
Ask HN: Should I switch jobs for a modest base bump, but with a larger bonus?
HN has helped me make career decisions in the past, so I wanted to try again with my current situation.

I currently make $135k + ~$5k cash bonus, with 3% 401k matching as a Software Team Lead. I've been with this company a little over 3 years.

Another company has been recruiting me pretty hard to be their "Application Architect" for a new team they are spinning up. Their offer is for $141k + ~15-20% cash bonus (based on company performance), with 6% 401k.

I live in the midwest and I feel I am pretty highly paid for this area. There are only so many major companies in my city that would even approach offers like these.

Current Company:
* Great work-life balance
* Flexible WFH policy (3 days per week is normal)
* My manager is a good guy
* Slowish career trajectory.
* Stable. Old company, no layoffs.
* Projects have slowed down. When I joined, I initially made a name for myself shipping our major apps, but that work has since dried up. Things have gotten slow.
* 15 minute commute

Offering Company:
* Good compensation. The 15% bonus will equate to an additional $20k, plus double the 401k match.
* Generally is listed as having worse work-life balance than my current company.
* Higher title/position of responsibility
* Company feels riskier. Have had layoffs in the past. Doesn't have a stellar reputation, but it seems like they are working on this.
* New team with lots of new project work.
* Less flexible work schedule. Working from home 1 day per week has been discussed but nothing official.
* 45min commute

Do I make the jump for the additional money and title, and take the higher risk job and longer commute? Or do I continue to work at my current company which has a short commute and is stable/safe, but the work has gone a little dry?

Both companies pay well. Especially for my area. I'm just trying to figure out what the best path forward is for my career long-term.
Thanks for the correction! Comment updated!
Aww they missed an opportunity to print a red shell, or a blue one. Wonder how an animal like a tortoise living with others would react to if it had a different colour shell.
Suppressing speech requires the power to make you stop. Deleting a comment on my site isn't suppressing your speech, because you can still speak where you want to except for on my site.
Fair enough, I removed the last sentence, but I stand by the snideness nonetheless.

If nihonde wants to contrast Japan's pacifism with America's violence, they would do well to remember how much easier it is to remain pacifist when someone else has to take the bullets for you.
Meh.

I'm no fan of Watson-the-marketing-term, but this sounds like the bitter remarks of a symbolic AI defender who is so sure that their way of doing AI is the only way that anything else is fraud.

Watson-the-Jeopardy-winner did "cognition" (which he implies means following chains of logical reasoning) as well as any other system that has been built.

See for example "Structured data and inference in DeepQA" or "Fact-based question decomposition in DeepQA[2].

It's true that the the Watson image analysis services don't use this. I'm guessing that is because they don't actually work very well in that domain.

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/defdeny.jsp?url=http%3A%2F...

[2] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6177...
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More likely, the Yakusa can find 100 random people who they have some sort of leverage over and who know virtually nothing about anything of importance so it doesn't especially matter if they get arrested.
I couldn't concentrate on what the article was saying because there were so many grammatical errors; I kept catching myself re-reading sentences, replacing phrasing or inserting missing words.
The point I was trying to make was that you can't just say "immediately" and get away with it. And upvotes/downvote don't necessarily have to merely reorder. On many websites, large counts of downvote automatically hide and sometimes delete the post in question.
Very interesting project, since it combines an authoring tool for teachers, printable worksheet generator functionality, and "quiz tool" for students to use.

The random problem generation functionality in particular is very powerful. It reminds me to the random problem generation API in the khan-exercises framework, but with a different interface. Instead of requiring teachers to learn JavaScript to generate problems, they just have to learn how to use the problem generators for different type of problems. Generating generators for all kinds of math problems will be a lot of work, still, it's nice to see a new take on the problem.

Another promising project in the same space is https://ximera.osu.edu/ [latex --> (js,pdf) exercise generator]
I just signed up for their newsletter from a few spamtraps.
I'm a nice person.
Did they test proper landings or drop it randomly? That's a critical thing left out of many analysis. You learn its importance to preventing injury in both martial arts (esp relaxing or break falls) and military, jump school. The methods for high falls should be tested on each of those techniques given prior effectiveness.
Really? It seems as though that is how most online communities try to follow this logic.

I fully get that 'clear' and 'understandable' are very subjective, though.
Is it supposed to do more than hundreds of requests per second??
Why Aren't University Lectures Broadcasted to the World?
As others have noted, moderation is censorship, at least by action. Neither however fall under the legal protections of free speech, which don't apply.

The first question is: what is a given community for, and how should it accomplish those goals? Individual moderation, collaborative filtering, individual killfiles, expert ratings systems, etc., are all tools toward these ends. They're non-trivial.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28jfk4/content...

Community behavior is very strongly dependent on BOTH scale AND founder cohorts.

A group with one person (blog, winking in the dark) is different from one with two, or a small set of people engaged in discussion (say 3-30), or a larger group discussing common topics (say 30-100), etc. Part of this can be thought of as a cost function in which the positive contribution of members falls with scale, while the cost of each additional participant is rather more constant. Eventually, adding more participants makes the experience worse for all.

It's really difficult for any one conversation to have more than a few key participants. Two and a moderator, or perhaps 5-6 participants who know each other well and get along.

If you're trying to arrive at some truth or understanding, it's really difficult not to have a truth-based moderation criterion.

Individual killfiles are somewhat useful, except that the killfilee tends to see a great many one-sided discussions (others interacting with those they've filtered). Unless the system blots out both sides, this accomplishes little.

I've started looking more at discussion tools which foster both smaller and larger groups. "Warrens" and "plazas". The idea of creating persistent communities well below Dunbar's number (say 50-300 people) and promoting up material from those has some appeal (you'd also want to allow for lateral movement of individuals). A small set of tiers would easily accomodate the entire global population. (And yes, there's a social network set up on this basis though the name escapes me.)

A huge problem with allowing noisy participants is that they draw the oxygen out of the room, and tend to very strongly discourage high-quality particpants. There's a curiously persistent asymmetry between an individual's proclivity to participate in a group discussion and the interest in others in their doing so. Good designs balance this mismatch.
The majority of censors are working to prevent state censure; they are primarily concerned with the state. The primary work they do is removing profanities and indecent images at the behest of the state.
> Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Isn't this an absolute? So you tend to disagree with yourself or do you make exceptions for self-contradiction?