skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "What sorts of speech will get me banned on Twitter? Do you think you've done enough to turn Twitter around? Why is Facebook so successful while Twitter looks to be in trouble?"

Those seem like pretty awful questions imo. He's not going to waste time listing off things that will get you banned from Twitter. He'll tell you not to violate TOS (in other words don't harass people). This should be common sense. With your second question he's obviously not going to say no. He'll give a standard PR reply. Same goes for the third. He's not going to talk up a competitor.
edit: Boneheaded passion got ahead of me and I forgot that the Gym was intended originally to be cross functional. TO be fair I don't think that aspect of the gym has been well publicized. Original comment retained for context:

How about instead of wasting time on this stuff, they build an actual benchmark test for AGI. Something everyone in the community agrees needs to be built, and basically nobody is working on. I suggest they start with the "anytime intelligence test" from Hernandez-Oralloa as a stepping stone.

Oh wait, benchmarks aren't sexy. Nevermind.
1MDB: The inside story of the world’s biggest financial scandal
Scientists in Singapore grow functioning 'mini' midbrain tissue
Theses "ideas" sound like either they were written by a 14 year old kid or someone very high. I was hoping for real science.

Yes I know my comment is probably against HN guidelines but there ought to be an exception for making fun of uber rich Silicon Valley types. They parody themselves. It reminds me a lot of the show Silicon Valley.
That makes sense. It seems like when people I talked with were expressing dislike of the "mainstream media",but they meant establishment controlled media.

A lot of the people I talked to expressed disgust with vox, vice, slate, and salon as becoming establishment not just the washington post.
has JD done any writing (books or posts) that would put him in a tech visionary realm? If so I'd like to see it. Otherwise not sure why he's answering these questions
Writing kernels that boot with Qemu and Grub – a tutorial
Fantastic explanation. Thanks.

What are some promising open source efforts out there to create such a universal schema?
Creating a Functional Test Environment for TravisCI
Ask HN: Attention and Effort clause in employment contract
Hi HN,

I've recently received an offer from a large, well-known technology company. I'm pretty excited about it, but there's one clause in my NDA contract and offer letter that concerns me:

ATTENTION AND EFFORT. During employment, Employee will devote Employee’s entire productive time, ability, attention, and effort to furthering [company]’s best interests and will not (without [company]’s prior written consent) carry on any separate professional or other gainful employment, including self-
employment and contract work.

I think this clause is too broad. In an ideal scenario, I'd have the freedom to create technical projects in my spare time that could either make me a small passive income, or grow into something that I could work on full time. It sounds like this clause would prevent me from working on such things.

Is this something that's pretty standard in the industry, and do you think I can negotiate this out of my contract?
> The accent is a reflection of the British pronunciation; note the original French never had an accent either.

The French (which is referenced in that wiktionary article) does, in fact, have the same accent.
>A complex simulation with many long-lived agents.

No need to start a new one here, just download Dwarf Fortress.
Apple's stuck in an interesting place:

If Apple is going to produce cars, other car companies don't want to cooperate with them. CarPlay, sure, but not much else.

If Apple isn't going to produce cars, it's still a tough market for autonomous driving software. The biggest car companies are doing their own in-house, there are several independent companies already working on it, and car companies may end up just buying that software from the same vendors that they buy things like adaptive cruise control from.
I do take my business elsewhere... and I'm actively hoping for them to fail. If there's anything I can do to actively participate in them failing then I'll do that too.
If a company is bringing in child labor in dangerous factories, and employing prostitutes to gratify the upper management, while you're being whipped daily, would that, maybe be an excuse?

I know it's a really out there example, but there are times where outright rebellion, even destructively, is morally acceptable. I don't know the specifics of this example, however.
Really great to see native JSON support in MYSQL finally.

Also, "Random password generated by default on installation"

This has been a long time coming. I can't tell you how many mysql servers I've cracked into with "root"
Exactly[1].

The moment I saw this project start, the first thing I thought was, "Isn't this how all terrible things are created, by trying to avoid having them be created?".

I wonder if the long-term strategy will be called Mutually-Assured Obsolescence™.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
You have to watch that Windows IME like a hawk.
Layoffs suck, but in some cases they're necessary. It doesn't really have anything to do with being nice or mean.

The alternatives include treating people poorly and laying them off, or treating them well and not performing the tough part of your job as CEO. Neither is better.
I think the evidence is sort of mixed. Here's an article responding to the study that quote came from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984315...

As for explanations that could explain this particular case: Men are more likely to get another chance at a CEO job, so they can afford to turn down a crisis position.

When an organization is in crisis, they are likely to look for a candidate as different as possible from the CEO that caused that crisis, and hiring a woman tends to send a very visible signal that the organization is going in a different direction, even if that's sort of a sexist assumption.

I think there are more likely explanations than the directly sexist idea of "male board members don't respect women and use them as scapegoats".
making the refund automatic rather than based on who emails support and complains

It never occurred to me to only issue refunds to people who complained... quite aside from being utterly unfair, handling account credits individually would take a crazy amount of time.
I played a similar game on the Tandy computer in the 80s.
Based on a podcast: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/3-concrete/
Given the context of talking about AR, it's a bizarre way of saying that he wants to have less physical products in the world. I am not a Jack Dorsey fan and quotes like that just harden my assessment...
Screensaver was designed to literally save screens
So they're businesses in tailoring opinions?

Must be in the mission statement I missed.
I meant design discussions, etc. Not just a code monkey. I'm sorry you think it is funny that I actually want to participate in the development process. Don't worry, at my current job, I know my place. I make sure not overstep bounds, etc.

Also, maybe I haven't been an Enterprise Fizzbuzz Java Developer for 6 years, but I've been keeping busy by having personal projects that most enterprise developers would probably not be able to understand.
> ("Give your thumbs a rest: You just made food happen!")

Now where have I heard this before?

"Take a look at your fingers. Identify the ones we like to call thumbs. Give them a pat on the back (if you can find their backs) and thank them: up till now, they've been doing all the work."

--An instructional video for the Sega Activator

Come to think of it, maybe that's it. Maybe it's just a matter of today's marketroids having grown up with the twee faux-edginess of old commercials for Sega, Mountain Dew, Air Jordans, Bubble Tape, etc. and thinking that's just how you market to people, especially young people.
This is mostly consistent with what is posted on Glassdoor [1] and on this authoritative H1B website: http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=GOOGLE&job=SOFTWARE+ENGINEE...

Your figures are about $15k higher than what these sources report, which I think is close enough.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Software-Engineer-Sa...
lol fagget
Really? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coup%C3%A9#French
Well, start like "ghost". And end like "veni, vedi, vici". So I'd say more like "goati" than "goatee".
Perhaps Amazon has an attrition problem - at the company I'm talking about, it's just extremely rapid growth.
> Security:

> Every useless organisation and its dog currently claims to "take security very seriously"

already like them :D
If you look at her Inspirehep page, she has a citation count of 1193 only [1]. For someone who got a PhD in 1998, that's definitely below par. Also her major work is on causal dynamical approaches to quantum gravity - an endeavor not with many successes and currently not considered to be very fruitful by most high energy physicists. I don't think she would have been able to get tenure in any major research university.

[1] http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/F.Markopoulou.1
This is a complaint I have in most "___-Porn" instances... Why porn? It feels like the wrong context most of the time.

Porn is graphic, over stimulating and often without class or artistic direction.

Typography is an art. Great typography is subtle, often soothing and harmonious. It's not porn.

I get some earth-porn stuff because we in cities live so removed from nature that it's like BAM, Massive Earth In Your Face.

I don't know, it just feel gross to call good typography porn. Good typography is like an athlete in motion or a perfectly fitted outfit on a beautiful model.

Don't take the complaint personally, I get that it's "a thing".
You have that backward.
Haha it would be great to see a troubled company try that. One suspects that we'd hear it more than see it however, as the great wailing and gnashing of teeth by PHBs would be audible on other continents. It would have to be a completely vendor-driven company, however... er, excuse me, "a company that concentrated on its core competencies". After all, the paychecks still have to go out, for the peons left after the great firing, and you can't just give the bank accounts to some random person.
>> "He kicked popular libertarian Milo Y"

I've only come to know of that guy since he was banned. I watched a few things he was in on YouTube. He's a proud, self-confessed troll. I'm surprised he wasn't banned sooner. Also, how are his political views related to the ban? I haven't seen anyway in which they are.
"If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work. It's perfectly obvious. Great scientists have thought through, in a careful way, a number of important problems in their field, and they keep an eye on wondering how to attack them. Let me warn you, `important problem' must be phrased carefully. The three outstanding problems in physics, in a certain sense, were never worked on while I was at Bell Labs. By important I mean guaranteed a Nobel Prize and any sum of money you want to mention. We didn't work on (1) time travel, (2) teleportation, and (3) antigravity. They are not important problems because we do not have an attack. It's not the consequence that makes a problem important, it is that you have a reasonable attack. That is what makes a problem important."

Richard Hamming, "You and Your Resarch"

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Yes and no. The analogy of 'attack' and 'defense' in hacking comes from the military. So to extend that analogy, defensive missiles are still missiles, but they are unquestionably different from offensive missiles.
has JD done any writing (books or posts) that would put him in a tech visionary realm?

Building society-changing products and startups doesn't count anymore? Twitter seems like a pretty big deal.
Why would our creators want to avoid nested simulation?
It's definitely a reasonable explanation. Her only real opponent was a woman as well.
> Amazon seems like a meat grinder, where getting hired isn't as hard as it seems, and they just burn through young people who don't know better.

It's still like that. All of my friends who've worked for Amazon burned out within a year or two.
All Lisp systems basically work in a manner similar to this, by dumping their 'boot image' to disk so it can be loaded and worked with, as an interactive image. Even systems like Smalltalk do similar things. A setup like this is not particularly unusual in concept, although some of the exact specifics may be different than e.g. SBCL.

ASLR is also a weak defense by itself as I noted in that FreeBSD thread. Any ASLR-enabled application is, essentially, about 1 infoleak away from being no different than a non-ASLR application. If you want to stop exploits, invest in real mitigation tech, not cheap defenses, and suddenly you won't need to worry about this so much. (Feel free to add randomization on top of working defenses as an extra layer -- just not by itself.)

People always hem and haw over how this makes ASLR not work for XYZ, and thus is a 'security nightmare'. But then, very strangely, we still find that it's very possible to write all kinds of exploits that bypass usable ASLR anyway in a variety of applications, with only a single infoleak, coupled with a vulnerability, at only marginally higher work effort. ASLR does not actually eliminate a class of vulnerabilities, it only adds an extra step in the process of exploitation. It can only truly prevent a narrow class of exploits, under very specific constraints.

So, it does seem like there's a real security nightmare happening, but it's almost certainly not because random XYZ thing lacked ASLR at compile time. It's because we invest our 'faith' in stop-gap, mostly futile defense mechanisms that are obsoleted without much extra effort, normally.
It's nice when that works out but it's unfortunately not uncommon to have projects which don't attract volunteers, attract volunteers who have time/interest in fixing one particular thing but not maintaining it smoothly over time, or which simply cycle through people as the cycle of enthusiasm->overload->burnout->resignation repeats.

As a community we tend to neglect this side of things since it's neither a fun technical problem nor something a one-time effort can fix, but it deprives the open-source world of too many good developers.
care to elaborate why this isn't "real science"?
Bootstrap 4 Alpha 3
Many government arrangements that work exactly like this.
I recently accepted a job offer with Amazon and had fun with it.

I got a random email saying they were coming to my hometown, so I did the "2hr" coding test everyone is complaining about... which was actually really easy and more like 1hr.

then the day of, I biked down the river for coffee and lunch, then spent the afternoon coding on paper/laptop, and talking about past tech things I've done and why/how I did them. It was mostly a half and half split between the discussion and problem solving, then me trying to code one of my solutions in the last 10min of each interview, and mostly running out of time:P

The next day they invited me to move to seattle, and out for beers that evening.
Recent news on this: https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/nih-awards-55m-precisio...
But by doing so they could invoke the wrath of the grandparent simulation. Logic leads to an implicit understanding that all recursive simulations must be allowed.
#1 - reminded me of "Endgame: Singularity" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame%3A_Singularity)
I've replied to Amazon recruiters. I did one phone interview with them, and another time, I sent my resume to the recruiter as requested and never heard anything back. For me, at least, it seems that getting hired is hard.
I ported unexecute to GNU Make about ten years ago.

I was working in a project in which a "make" would load a huge tree full of rules scattered in sub-makefiles, and take a full 30 seconds to evaluate before kicking off the first incremental build, really putting a damper on the edit-compile-test incremental cycle.

I got sick of this and so took the unexecute code from GNU Emacs into GNU Make, and added an option to do "make --dump" to dump an image after loading the rules. The restarted make image would kick off a build recipe almost instantly.
I know. But look what she did to Yahoo, doesn't seem to me like a bunch of people losing their jobs did help anyone.
Computers are circuits. Those circuits don't change every second. They never change, unless there's a programmable logic embedded somewhere. Perhaps you're confusing "circuits" and "operations", e.g. "adder" and "addition"?

Of course CPU designers optimize those circuits for speed/power/etc. of the instructions. No one says the implementation of those instructions is inefficient. It's the way of performing high level tasks, dictated by available instructions in the ISA, which in turn is dictated by vNA, is inefficient.

Why would we care about how efficient are the instructions, if the tasks we are interested in, when performed with those instructions, are inefficient?
I think its tough to say... It's like I know it smells (real) bad, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is that stinks so much.

I guess I would say it is one thing to 'sell' public domain pictures in your database along with privately held photos - using a subscription model, Getty could say it is just creating a one stop shop and charging for that service. I am sure their lawyers thought about that long ago, when they first brought on the Public Domain photos.

But to go to the level of actually shaking people down for money when they are using a photo that is Public Domain leans toward organized crime, with copyright laws behaving as accessories to enforcement. It's like charging 'protection money' when you should naturally have freedom from harassment.

How many uncounted people have paid that shakedown fee for their Public Domain pictures, not knowing any better...

Proves the old adage - Knowledge is Power.
I intend to create a personal blog that analyses social and economical phonomena with the least influence of political ideologies of any kind.

My focus will be Brazil, but this does not mean I'll neglect data of other countries. On the contrary, data of other countries will be crucial to support my blog posts.

Some exemples of the phenomena I'll try to analyze are: i) the importance of interest rates in different countries; ii) models of metropolization across the globe; iii) models of public and private university level programs.

TKS for the information.
>It was not the domain that was included in the title but the authors name, they happen to be the same.

Yes I understand that that was the intention but let's suppose the process of detecting domain name in the title had been automated. The post would've been flagged.

>on HN they are posted so infrequently

I take it you don't browse HN's newest page, it's full of garbage links.
You should probably add that the company cannot let you opt-out of getting free food in exchange for more salary. Free food, in order for it to be tax exempt as a fringe benefit, must be offered to all employees. I agree, I'd rather be paid more money. All these goodies serve to make comparisons between employers more difficult.
I've been using the "Don't Fuck With Paste" Chrome extension for awhile now: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-pas...
I could completely understand that feeling. Right now im nowhere near her scale but I answer emails at 1 am on a sunday. For me now it is just how I am wired, I want to do it. I also see a difference between being a ceo/owner and "working". I can make decissions all day and answer questions, to me it doesnt feel like work. Now to sit down and design\illustrate for 15 hours straight every day forget it, I burn out. Its like no one who does hard physical labor for 10-12hours a day answers emails at 1 am on sunday lol. For me there is a difference in the "work" being done.
> It makes me angry and sad to see all the sniping about her $200M (or thereabouts) earnings over 4 years

Why? That is $50mil/year which is an insane amount of money for any one person to receive. Yes you can point to tons of examples of people earning even more, but that's still way more money than most people will ever see in their lifetimes per year to fail.

It's a total cop-out to say that "Well Yahoo was already failing when she came in and nobody could turn it around!" She was hired to turn it around. She did fail at the job she was hired to do. It doesn't matter if it was impossible, she took it on and she's getting tons of money despite failing. For me her compensation is one thing but the truly objectionable part is the $50mil golden parachute. And it's not just her, tons of execs that fail at their jobs get these golden parachutes and it's awful. She's just the latest high profile example.

If I take a developer position at a company with terrible project/team management, terrible culture, nasty legacy codebase, etc. and I do a bad job I'm still going to get fired. I'm not going to get a massive golden parachute. I might get two weeks severance. I'm not going to get a full year's severance.

Combine that cushy parachute with salary that is so out of sync with what the average person makes and yeah, people are going to go "What the fuck?" It shouldn't surprise you.
Twitter data still holds powerful insights for marketers everywhere
> they build an actual benchmark test for AGI

This is actually the project I'm currently leading (goal #1 here: https://openai.com/blog/openai-technical-goals/). We should have something interesting to share in a few months.
Science has always been to some extent political. However increasingly people e.g. Thiel are wondering if some of them are actually scientists or whether they are actually technicians slash bureaucrats in disguise.

Politics has a lot to do with the art of your Memeplex co-opting other unrelated topics or areas.

For instance why are leftists so thoroughly associated with the environmental movement. I could make a case for why that should be so, but I know I could also make a case for why right wing conservatives would feel passionate about conserving the environment from a context of nationalism.

You have got to deal with the fact that politics bleeds into everything, it is what makes moderating forums so difficult. Humans are intrinsically political animals and the internal social civil war between partisans is not about to end anytime soon. I'd be interested in understanding where this came from in an evolutionary context, because it must have been very important for survival (or it is a giant memetic parasite).
When you are uber rich and have no real technical skills you think that things get done by rich people demanding it and throwing money at it.
That's pretty cool how they coded up a interactive demo just for a article.
Using Design Patterns to Build Flexible and Extensible Software
Final / We’re live, thanks to you awesome people
All businesses end up tailoring opinions. Apple censors pornography from its app stores. Certain bakeries and florists refuse to serve gay marriages. None of this is necessary right, nor even legal, but it's a consequence of the fact that while businesses may be people, but people are not businesses, they will have biases that cause them to discriminate, even when it does not make economic sense.