skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I don't make the rules!

I disagree with little of the above, but I wonder how much of it is due to 'Liz 2 in particular. I can imagine a different monarch exerting a great deal more influence. They'd be perfectly able to do so. The UK's armed forces are loyal only to the monarch and not the government, for example.
A lot of people need to use Facebook to stay in touch with family members and friends they otherwise would not be able to communicate with due to distance, past, or what have you. This is a problem of "not enough good competition." Facebook has a de facto monopoly on social networking. Google tried in vain, but they lost miserably. Until someone can step up to Zuckerberg, Facebook will do what they want when it comes to shitty news, annoying notifications, and over-bloated web design. I've used Facebook since the day it was released. It used to be really, really good. Now it's just crap. I hope a new competitor shows them what's up.
This is more specific to deepmind actually, Facebook and others have been pretty good about publishing code.
I'm aware that the author wants us to leverage Facebook to dismantle it, and that might be a fine suggestion. But leaving that as the only advice on what the author considers to be an existential threat to the Internet is almost satire. (And especially in the way they wrote it, which basically boils down to "idle passive aggressively on Facebook".) I genuinely wondered for a moment if the author was controlled opposition.
This seems very similar to OMeta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta that has been ported to a lot of languages
http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/

OMeta really changed my view on how to prototype languages. TL;DR, OMeta let's you map patterns in your language to patterns in another language (say python) and thereby, you can implement a whole language roughly as easily as defining a BNF.
It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of freedom of course.
Oh wow, thank you so much for this.
Surviving the holidays when its hard
> Most jobs aren’t created by private, corporate investment, so raising taxes on corporate income won’t affect employment.

But won't raising taxes on corporate income drive corporation to other jurisdiction? So employment in that company then won't just slowly trail off, but will look like a cliff, dropping to 0.

So isn't that idea ignoring the fact that companies don't have to stick into one place and so we arbitrarily tax them and then provide basic income to everyone in that community?

It goes the other way as well. In some places like West Virginia they've bent backward to accommodate coal mines, easing EPA regulation, destroying the environment and so on. Just to keep companies around. It is like a bad abusive relationship.

Other states for example know the game so they would court and offer incentive for companies to move to their state. I've seen that happen and it was painful for the original community to lose all those jobs.

I agree that we need something like basic income and the accounting is not the only problem, the social and moral aspect is a just as big.

The pessimist in me says we couldn't even meaningfully have a decent health insurance system like other civilized countries. We are a long way from any kind of distributism.

It is good there is talk and discussion about this. The ideological re-framing of this might have to be done very carefully.

One quick example I can think off the top of my head is how in Alaska there was redistribution of income from natural resources. People there probably don't think in terms of "socialism" or "handouts". Well at least the people I know there didn't a few years ago...

Wonder if basic income can be advocated in those terms - "You deserve this because we've created the automation / robots to work for all of us..." or "We want to free people's time so they can volunteer and help their own communities...". Some will play video games and consume drugs perhaps all day, some will decide maybe they want to visit some lonely elderly person in a nursing home or help in the hospital or soup kitchen some more.
If an application is making a request it hasn't marked as being one it is going to make, then chances are, there is a big problem that needs dealt with. In such a situation, crashing as soon as possible means that there's a better chance that all of the relevant data is there to pore through. If you just deny the call, then it could be many hundred of functions later, possibly with relevant data being freed up, and your job of picking through your program's entrails becomes all the more difficult.
> Unfortunately, deleting your Facebook account won’t help.

Yes, it will. In fact, it may be the only thing that will help.

Facebook has shown willingness to make unpopular changes if it can get away with it--and it always gets away with it. The fact that an informed and visible critic like the author can't even manage to give it up is a case study in why Facebook can and will keep calling bluffs. Complaints mean nothing if you are giving the site the same eyeball time. Facebook's success is due to the size of its social network. The network effect works both ways, though; if enough people leave then those remaining will have less incentive to stay on board, and the network will unravel inversely to how it was built. Only when the eyeball count starts declining will Facebook take users' wishes seriously.
You don't understand what I'm saying. A 40 mpg Prius will always be a 40 mpg Prius. It's tied to the pump. It has to burn gas.

A Tesla will get more efficient as the grid gets more efficient because it only uses electricity. That also means when it runs on solar it will be impossible to beat against gas cars. Make sense? This is why we shouldn't settle for hybrids.
I don't understand how you're calculating this. I think you missed a couple of zeroes?

If you take that $260k/minute number and assume it's true for the whole day (clearly it won't be overnight, but bear with me), that's (260,000 * 60 * 24 =) $374M. A third of a billion, a far cry from 1/300.
Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJD-Ip1meuE
>Because they are using millions of lines of kernel and library code written in C or C++ to access my web application, which again is hosted on millions of lines of kernel, daemon and library code (including all the crypto) written in C or C++.

And which were proven to be unsecure time and time again.

>And the hypothetical alternative language would likely be implemented in C or C++.

Isn't rust self hosted now ?

>And it would be translated to assembly or machine code, a horribly unsafe language.

Not on a Lisp Machine ! ;)

But you are right. Not using C only suppress a class of vulnerabilities, not all of them (and not the most trivial to exploit ones). Unless you are prepared to go all the way and do formal verification, model checking, and NASA style development, your application will be unsecure, and it will be hacked. The question is what is (are ?) your plan to recover when it happens ?
Recyling could mean never letting it out into the atmosphere in the first place. Or maybe would, since there is no water cycle to talk of on Mars. Think closed-loop aquaponics systems etc.
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The reason he removed the post was because he was being called a paedophile for killing off the pizzagate subreddit.

There is a ton of drama and conspiracy nonsense tied up in this. Frankly /r/the_donald should have been removed as well for the libelous and disgraceful comments.
I read the title and thought, oh God, not another one, the second was bad enough and I like to pretend that the third never happened...
> Our abundance is increased by specialization not a lack of it. Specialization and trade allow for higher-order goods to be used as inputs to produce lower-order goods. Farming doesn't just require a tractor and some land. You need fuel to run the tractor, other industries to come together to make the tractor, a merchant to purchase the tractor from, and on and on.

Agree with this. And, as jobs are replaced by computers/automation, there will be other jobs created through specialization; however those new jobs will be new niches that will require people to learn new skills or be trained, and unless the money is there for that retraining, then you have a risk of years of unemployment.
Are you implying that people have had to struggle less to achieve or retain financial security in the past? During what time period and in what country? Can you share some specific data substantiating the claim?

Average wealth has increased in America over the last 50 years, and real family income has been rising overall since the 1950s. Wealth concentration today is lower than it was in the 1930s. Poverty has fallen since the 1960s. I excerpted these facts from (1). While it is also true that income and wealth inequality has been rising during this time as well, the fact of the rich being well off doesn't necessarily hurt the non-rich, especially if both groups are becoming richer over time, which the data shows is happening in the US.

People are becoming better off over time. Why is our economic system failing us?

Note as well that the average person today has a better quality of life than medieval kings did. Near the official government poverty level, most Americans live quite comfortably (2), and have amenities such as housing, air conditioning, cable TV, mobile phones, etc.

> government surveys show that most of the persons whom the government defines as “in poverty” are not poor in any ordinary sense of the term. The overwhelming majority of the poor have air conditioning, cable TV, and a host of other modern amenities. They are well housed, have an adequate and reasonably steady supply of food, and have met their other basic needs, including medical care. (2)

(1) http://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-...

(2) http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-pov...
I was the technical architect for an internet-based commodity trading system that was also hosted at Exodus in Austin before the .com bust. As I recall we spent $6 million on our two Sun clusters "Coke" and "Pepsi" but that was almost 15 years ago so they might have been $6 million each. Then the bottom fell out of energy trading thanks to Enron and others and that was that. Those systems were probably sold for pennies on the dollar and would easily be replaced today with a small AWS presence for even less.

Frankly that's part of what makes working now such fun: the fact these systems just keep getting better and better.
A non-zero number of businesses already do this. For example, where I presently work I don't get paid for overtime or public holidays in spite of the law requiring that I do.

I complained, and I was told that if I don't like it I can quit. I said that I would be going to the regulatory body, and I was outright threatened with physical harm: "Bad things happen to people who do that."
Two thoughts:

(1) It's always been standard practice in the publishing industry to provide free Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) to reviewers, and I've noticed that many independent ebook authors on Amazon have adopted this practice. Am I to understand that Amazon will now disallow providing ARCs to book reviewers? Because that would fly in the face of standard industry practice -- a practice that I think very few people have ever complained about over the years.

(2) Isn't this exactly what the Amazon Vine program does? I.e., provide free products to people so they can review them? Are they stopping Vine? (Maybe they already did.) Are they admitting that the Vine program led to inflated reviews?
WW3 SEEMS TO BE AGAINST POOR AND DISABLED, HM GOVERNMENT TO HAND ITSELF IN TO
Nice, now let's do it with the Strassen's algorithm
It's not a bug. HSB is just a particular way to represent RGB colors, but it's not how the colors are stored. If you create an NSColor/UIColor with HSB, you end up with an RGB color (typically in the sRGB color space), so if you create a color with a saturation of zero, the resulting RGB color has no hue at all, which means you've lost the hue component entirely (and in fact, with the way HSB is defined, you try to get HSB values back out of a grayscale RGB color, the hue value is undefined, though I believe NSColor/UIColor will just report it as zero). Or to put it another way, there's no one-to-one correspondence between all RGB and all HSB values.

So basically, if you're writing an application that exposes HSB colors to the user, you should be storing the HSB values yourself rather than relying on UIColor/NSColor to preserve them, because it won't.
Why the double negative? Are you that pessimistic? Edit: Make that a triple.
New 15" MBPs run at 100C under load. Similar with older ones. Apple runs those too hot and they die, easy as that.
Exactly. Experts have been describing for some time that, especially down the curve, maintenance costs for electric cars will be substantially less and lifetimes (less untolerated obsolescence) longer.

Switch to composite construction and other corrosion resistant materials, and...

Another reason not to let DRM dominate this emerging market; so that we are not faced with profit-driven forced obsolescence.
Pithy.

The obvious rebuttal being that "laws" allow for the military draft, which is also slavery, or jury duty, which is an admittedly much milder form of the same thing, or the internment of the Japanese, or the infinite detention in Guantanamo, but since you probably already know that libertarians wouldn't be on board with slavery in the first place and are just positing up strawman after strawman, I think it's fair to assume that your arguments aren't being made in good faith, so I'll leave you to it.
Wells Fargo Asks Court to Force Customers to Arbitration in Fake Accounts Cases
> fulltime labor for everyone is simply not going to happen. We just don't need it.

and from the article

> there’s not enough work to go around

I disagree.

There's not enough paid employment to go around, but there is an enormous amount of work that needs to be done!

Our entire society needs to be weaned off its carbon dependence if we want humans to survive the next century. This will involve at the very least the wholesale transformation of our transport and energy systems, and probably construction too. We should be putting massive numbers of people to work on solving and fixing this, and there's no point leaving people unemployed while there's still work that needs to be done. Whether we can organise society in time to achieve this is the real question. Once we've fixed the environment and created a truly sustainable civilization, then we can talk about labor that is surplus.

Other work that will be in increasing demand is healthcare and elderly care (especially given the aging populations of most countries). I don't see robots replacing humans for this any time soon, and we are far from the point where we have enough health / personal care for everyone. Plenty more examples of work that's needed but not currently being done can be found with a bit of creative thought...
FBN1, the gene also behind Marfan syndrome[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfan_syndrome
Unfortunately storage dogma still seems to be a thing for EMC shops. Just try suggesting Ceph over Scale I/O. :-)
50% at least. I've worked at a few startups and all you need at the beginning is engineers. To be honest I probably wouldn't take the position at all unless you already had funding.

Would you start a restaurant without ever working in one? A bank with no finance knowledge? If you're not a tech cofounder become one. The reality is that a company with a handful of people needs to have every one of those working on their product or they will be at a massive disadvantage to anyone else that does.
Practically everyone can plug in their car at night, and with nothing more sophisticated than a $10 outlet timer, fuel up the fleet no problem.

Even that expense should disappear. My Fiat 500e lets me set a timer to start its charge.
Old observation: "The difference between two headlights & one headlight is a whole lot less than the difference between one headlight & no headlights."

A hybrid may sip a fraction of the gas a V8 consumes, but a pure EV doesn't need any of the gasoline infrastructure at all. (My casual calculations indicate you can run an EV off home solar for half the price of the car.)
You don't get points for internet pedantry. Especially when it should be obvious that you're choosing to use a definition of "significant" that doesn't match what I was using in my comment.
Are you saying that a fragmented society in itself necessarily motivates censorship, that diversity causes repression? What is the engine of this desire?
Most (all?) bad economic policies come from denial of economics 101. For example, fixed currency exchange rates. And, of course, wage and price controls.
This seems like an extremely silly move.

Reddit can broadly be partitioned into a small number of very popular "front page" subs, such as /r/TIL, /r/AskReddit, and /r/news, where drama and toxicity abound, and a vast number of topical subs (such as /r/golang), where discussion is focused on a specific topic, and generally friendly, civil, and useful.

I'm not a fan of the front page myself, although usually for reasons unrelated to the recent drama. But with a nicely curated set of subreddit subscriptions, I find the site to be a nice collection of news and discussion that interests me.

Hopefully the golang community shows some maturity and doesn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
It shouldn't be possible. There is certainly a reason for the ability to edit user posts to exist, but in an age where governments can and do demand details of a users activity, such a permission needs to be tightly controlled and properly audited.

He's the CEO. He has absolutely no need for that level of access to end user accounts, any more than the CEO of a bank needs permission to silently skim money out of customers accounts.
It's just history, no?

Although the "Just saying" part (from the GP) irritates me. You're not "just saying," because if you were there would be no need to explain that to us. It's little more than an underscoring of the passive-aggressive intent of a statement.
> Why should the power of your vote depend on where you choose to lay your head down at night?

Should that same philosophy apply globally? Should you be able to vote in a country where you don't live?

You may live in the United States, but if each state were a different country, wouldn't it make more sense that your vote carry more weight in your own country than others?

Obviously, we think of countries as being on a completely different level, but the Unites States was originally set up to be a group of states with a great deal of autonomy, united only by a relatively weak federal government. In that context, the president of the United States should be regarded as a president of the states, not a president of the people.

It certainly matters globally where you choose to lay your head down at night, just as it matters in which state you lay your head down at night, and that's by design. If you don't care for your state's laws, you should be able to find a state the matches your ideals without having to leave the country.

The president's power should therefore be removed by a layer of geographical abstraction from the people - it serves only to make limited decisions that affect all the states in a very limited way.
> That's the artifact of electoral college.

"Artifact" implies that this is an unexpected, or unwanted result—a bug, if you will.

But the inability of just a few big states to dictate national policy to everyone is the entire purpose of the electoral college. It's entire existence is to produce this "artifact".

For example, Clinton is winning the popular vote—in California, by ~3 million votes. If you exclude CA and instead look at the other 49 states (plus DC), Trump is winning the popular vote by around 1 million people (and the electoral college, too—CA or not).

That's just one reason we don't have a popular vote for the presidency: one state can absolutely dominate the rest of the country—effectively making their votes irrelevant.

I live and vote in CA, so while it would make my vote for president a lot more valuable to do away with the electoral college, I'd much rather let everyone else have a say, too, and keep the Republic intact—even if occasionally other states don't vote the way I'd like.
This is self righteous, moralising nonsense. You are free to say whatever you want on the internet. Set up a blog or website and go nuts.

You aren't free to dictate the behaviour of companies who don't want content on their site that is objectionable or factually baseless.

Likewise it is just hypocritical and hilarious to complain about conformity just because your opinions don't correspond with theirs. Those people have the right to say and think what they want just like you do.
Their votes to comments ratio is much, much higher than other subreddits, which is very suspect.

Another suspect thing is that time when the Reddit algorthm broke and the first 50 pages of r/all were turned into /r/the_donald post. Apparently what happened is that the sorting broke and they were ordering posts by activity, revealing that /r/the_donald posts were being upvoted at a rate that dwarfed other subreddits.
My first bash’s bug debugging
You can already buy a portable box that lets you combine the power from two different circuits that are out of phase with each other, to get twice the power. I saw a post by a Tesla owner who uses it to get effective Level-2 charging from friend's country homes.
I mean, there is a 2017 Bettle: http://www.vw.com/models/beetle . But that's not what you see in rural areas (or even, cities other than the capital[1], in Mexico). Maybe not many from 1974, but 80's for sure. As for importing, I don't know the rules for Mexico, but that's not what I am talking about, there are old cars in the country already and the people that own them don't have the income to replace them unless they are at the point at which they are 100% not worth repairing, which is often more than the 30 years mark.

[1] The capital has super strict emission verification requirements on account of being in a former lake basin surrounded by mountains and boasting a 20-30 million population depending how you count...
Your account appears to be dead. I vouched for your comments in the thread so they would show up. Not sure why they were dead, but you might want to contact the staff to get that cleared up.
Not the parent, but you could literally get off your high horse and google "laptop gtx 1060"

I did that and had several options within 10 sec
I've tried that too, and still no luck! I've got three different Google recruiters, and I've messaged about roles in different areas before, and no bite.

It's really weird. I get at least 5 emails a day from recruiters in general, and the occasional email from a larger company, but Google clearly don't want me.
> but I see a lot of negative reviews by people who just didn't spend time reading the manual.

One star - Amazon screwed up the delivery.
I mean that water if going to be the least of your problems, unless you've mastered terraforming (we haven't) or you're okay with living under a huge dome (that we don't even have technology to build, either). Liquid water cannot exist on Mars, and liquid blood can't either, so you would die horribly if you went on Martian sole without a spacesuit. Apart from having gravity, living on Mars would be like living on the ISS, minus the food they bring to the station from Earth...
Maybe think about it this way: President Zuckerberg.
I don't think there is a factual disagreement here, just a terminology issue. Mathematical jargon is not quite the same language as plain English. In the former, 'solved' by default means you have found the mathematically perfect solution. In the latter, 'solved' by default just means you have found a solution good enough for practical purposes.