skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I noted shortly after the election, "move fast and break things" is a fundamentally fascist philosophy.

Nov 23, 2016

I've been reading Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism" which has been circulating of late, as well as definitions of demagoguery, among them the idea that the demagogue is a leader who is relentlessly advocating action -- usually immediate, violent, and without deliberation.

Having just run across that at Wikipedia, I turned to Eco's essay and found his comment on futurism and fascism -- a possibly unlikely pairing as one of the "weak arts":

Take Futurism. One might think it would have been considered an instance of entartete Kunst, along with Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. But the early Italian Futurists were nationalist; they favored Italian participation in the First World War for aesthetic reasons; they celebrated speed, violence, and risk, all of which somehow seemed to connect with the fascist cult of youth. While fascism identified itself with the Roman Empire and rediscovered rural traditions, Marinetti (who proclaimed that a car was more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace, and wanted to kill even the moonlight) was nevertheless appointed as a member of the Italian Academy, which treated moonlight with great respect.

It's helpful to realise that Futurism here refers to the Italian artistic movement,[1] not the general concept of future-directed optimism. Though with the strongly similar features of both, this also raises some interesting concerns over techno-optimists, generally.

With Facebook's decision to provide censorship services to the Chinese government, having so ably demonstrated its capacity to influence and control political movements within the US, UK, and Arab worlds, I realised that this celebration of speed, violence, and risk was precisely embodied in Facebook's motto, "move fast and break things".

That is, Facebook's core design philosophy is fundamentally aligned with fascism.

Food for thought.

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Notes:

1. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/﻿

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> As for sheer numbers, ask yourself: are there any industries where there are considerably fewer men than women? The answer is, of course, yes. Look at nursing.

Do the men employed as nurses make less money on average than their women colleagues?
Yeah, it sounds like we're talking more about the difference between the limitations of open source and closed source than any particular failure on Microsoft's part to meet the expectations of its customers.

I don't think they're going to really square the circle in the way linux can, having everything available because everything is open source. On the other hand, it's not inconceivable they could end up with a server platform that does offer an awful lot of Microsoft stuff as open source, which also makes available all the linux userland stuff you'd want to have. Their handicap might be that not enough of their infrastructure software has made it to .net yet, but they've shown lately that they're willing to do some porting when it's appropriate. (Sql server!)
"Ad hominem" doesn't mean "argument that hurts someone's feelings".
The OPM data breach? Or something(s) else?
I've seen data local to my country that had showed it, but the problem was they grouped all IT workers together. Withe first level technical support being much more gender neutral you couldn't really read much into it.
This idea of not "normalizing" Trump is ridiculous. When 63 million people vote for you you're normalized. Sama talking to a reporter about him doesn't do anything those 63 million voters didn't. The only way to see it as abnormal is to believe that those 63 million voter's opinions shouldn't count in terms of what's normal and what's not.
It's not proof of a pay gap, but it's evidence of a pay gap.

Loads of other evidence of a pay gap is trivially available. I won't entertain the ignorance articulated here on that. You can Google. But I will add an aside that is less obvious.

It's entirely possible to have perfectly even pay between every member of your team and still have an overall pay gap if you don't have good diversity in the upper levels of your organization. Many otherwise very good and well-meaning organizations fall prey to this.

My position for example, as a distributed systems engineer, is very hard to get into. You don't learn about it in college, you don't find a ton of great books about it, and the field changes rapidly using terms and concepts that were only recently overturned. The way I got into it: a pair of very smart men decided to mentor me when I was younger.

But were it not for that apprenticeship/mentorship, I would not be in the field. Women claim they have fewer opportunities for this and that follows with my observations. Therefore, my (higher paying and more in-demand) position is more difficult for many women to acquire.
"I cannot fathom how Sam Altman thought that it would be a good idea to be a source for this article, let alone provide the specific quotes that he did. How does YC benefit from this?"

@tptacek follow the money. The key to understanding this [0] is the YC relationship with Thiel. It has long been my opinion that Thiel is a protected species with YC. It was obvious almost 100 days ago on ^Political Detox^ day. (message to HN, 'don't make waves for us when Thiel is meeting president) [1] A key test: Positive political stories like this one are supported, negative ones flagged.

Reference

[0] "Y Combinator has no problem with partner Peter Thiel funding Donald Trump" https://qz.com/810778/y-combinator-has-no-problem-with-partn...

[1] "Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
Ok that's why its all so familiar! I'm in Iowa too; have driven by there many times.
Ah, now it's much more clear. By the way, have you tested the model without parameterizing z the way you did? Different z's might be worth further exploration.
>I am far more disturbed by someone who claims to be in the opposition but rather than publicly opposing continues to give every sign of being in fact a quiet supporter of the administration. Why should I have to worry that that's true?

You're stating you believe Sam is a Trump administration supporter?
That said (nitpick) English IS a prerequesite for gaining naturalized citizenship, in most cases. IIRC it's required except for old age, disability, probably some other such exceptions, but most people who get naturalized _are_ required to show they know a certain amount of English
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>This is for 7.3.3+

v7.3.2 is the latest version without the cert check, and is thus the latest possibly vulnerable version.
Like I said - depends on who you are.

For me? Not really "easily" (tho a wifi pineapple in a coffee shop where FE Devs hang out attempting to MiTM them with the Charlesproxy root CA would be a fun experiment... Which, of course, I'd never do - because that'd be bad, right?)

For someone at the NSA or CIA or Mossad? Sure it's easy. For someone a little further down the LEO "cyber" chart like FBI, probably not "easy". For a local beat cop or council dog catcher - nah, definitely not "easy".

For a very-dark-grey pen tester or redteam who're prepared to phish your email password and use it to p0wn your dns registrar? They'd probably call that "easy"... (Hell, I've got a few pentesting friends who'd call that "fun"!)
If the law is very clear, then the court should not need to do any interpretation. In those cases it just applies it.

In the Aereo case, the law was clear. The court was supposed to uphold the law, but didn't.
I think you've nailed something profoundly rotten at the core of Silicon Valley, venture capital, and YC.

Though also note the final paragraph:

“I think all of this — the current start-up revolution, Trump and lots of other things — is largely a consequence of the internet breaking down traditional barriers,” Mr. Altman, the Y Combinator executive, wrote in an email. “This societal openness has some great consequences in my opinion, like the start-up boom of the last 20 years, and some bad ones, like Trump.”
Implementing defer
I despair for the state of discourse when even your extremely measured comment gets down voted without anyone offering a counter argument.
No, that's where you are fundamentally wrong. There is no comparison because we have more freedom than China or Iran. We can criticize the president. People in China and Iran can't - at least not without high risk.

I can say things in America that people deeply disagree with, including the government, and I still will won't go to jail. I can join the KKK or Neo-Nazis without repercussion. I can call for genocide or revolution on facebook or twitter, and the government will ignore me. That is the freedom we have in the USA.
It's not abandoned, we continue to maintain and contribute to it but sadly, it's not our business focus in the present. I really want to see it to win centerstage one day in the future.

Few orgs do use it in production. It's really cool but along with it the cloud needs to change. For instance, we wanted to have a 1-minute-granularity price scheme from the cloud vendors so it will resemble a container (just with hardware-based security..). This any many needs to happen for it.
Costco is on Instacart in my market (LA), how about yours?
I ran a similar experiment at home, albeit with a fern rather than potatoes and without simulating martian light.

My fern started to perish (and it was a well established plant). The biggest problem I'm facing at the moment is that Mars is extremely nitrogen deficient.

https://reprage.com/post/marsarium-9

https://www.reddit.com/r/Colonizemars/comments/5vi52v/inspir...
I think we are in rather violent agreement substantively here, and quibbling over details, but:

> I am far more disturbed by someone who claims to be in the opposition but rather than publicly opposing continues to give every sign of being in fact a quiet supporter of the administration.

Taking the quote at face value, Altman seems to endorsing Trump's approach to governing but not the ideological goals it is directed at; this isn't supporting Trump but in some ways it might be seen as worse—the usual anti-Trump message that unites liberal, moderate, and the notable conservative voices skeptical of the regime is that normal political ideological questions aside, Trump's approach is a danger to the viability of American democracy (obviously, as you move roughly toward the left, that process critique is leavened with increasing opposition to policy goals of the Trump Administration.)
The guy who created the parking fine chatbot did so because he kept getting parking tickets.

He could quite simply have stopped parking like a cunt.

Shameless self-publicity disguised as public service from an arrogant, self-entitled man.
The other belief is that these people live in lost provinces far from the all important metropolises and long for being able to move to a place with meaning-ignoring that most of existence that's how people lived in rural communities.
Political Detox Week had nothing to do with any of this. Leave Dan and Scott out of it. I was as hopeful about that experiment as they were.
I completely agree, being '2 minutes away' or so is absolutely life changing. Sure, I laugh with everybody else when I see a $10,000/month, 250 square foot apartment in the center of wherever, but there's a reason it's worth that much. Location really does matter.

My daily "commute" is a few hundred feet, and it's really changed my life. "Ugh, I've got to go to _x place_" suddenly sounds ridiculous when that place is a 3 minute walk away. You can wake up later, have more time for everything else in life... it's very nice. Sure, you might have to take a smaller place, but I'd rather have a small place that I can spend time in than a large place I never see.
I've been following both projects with quite some interest and it looks like gogs has become much more active, now a days. Here's a quick break down on both projects:

3 months of commits activity:

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea-analysis/commits-3months.png

6 months of commits activity that only unique commits between gitea and gogs.

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea-analysis/commits-6months-uni...

September was when things started to slowly deviate, between the two projects, and November was when gitea really went off on their own. At around January, gogs started to pick up steam and has continued on an upward trajectory ever since.

This is what it looks like, if you want to merge gitea, back to gogs.

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea-analysis/merge-gitea-to-gogs...

You are looking at 3,201 changes that needs to be resolved.

This is what moving gogs to gitea looks like.

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea-analysis/merge-gogs-to-gitea...

Going this way, you'll only have to resolve 1,244 changes.

These are the contributors to gogs, within the last 3 months.

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea-analysis/gogs-contributors-3...

Contributions to gitea, within the last 3 months.

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea-analysis/gitea-contributors-...

The contributions information, better highlights why gitea forked, since for gogs, virtually all changes, goes through u@gogs.io
I have used their service many times and am in general not satisfied. Items are missed, the quality of produce picked is not the best, items ordered are not found and replaced, same day delivery is almost gone as an option now, the service fee of 10% stinks of mal-intent. Also, I am not sure how they will compete with Amazon Pantry/Prime or Google Express. The investment and valuation seem bloated.
It's pretty much all Ruby, AFAIK.
Subheading: "A congressman, a billionaire movie director, and an unparalleled mission of discovery."

The billionaire is revealed near the end, to keep you reading: "For this mission, he has a secret weapon. During the briefings at JPL, Culberson brought a friend with him, the famed Director James Cameron."
I misremembered.
No mention of perchlorate.
perhaps you'd also be able to screw with the living habits of underwater life that relies of the earth's magnetic field
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Imagine if most popular comment threads were actually actively manipulated by the CIA - sophisticated social engineering applied here too. Most popular thread here is: CIA is pathetic they just use silly tech

(I miss John C. Dvorak)
I wonder if that's what people thought about Nixon during Watergate.
The evidence would suggest he's more a supporter of the style of populist authoritarianism embodied by Trump, but a dissenter from the policy goals which Trump is using that to advance.
Perhaps there are disparaging comments because people love to quote misleading statistics... kind of just like you did.

From the glassdoor wage gap study you mentioned in [2]:

> After taking into account differences in education and experience, men working at tech companies overall make 5.9 percent more than women do

From a brief scan of the study they didn't control for hours worked and they are already down to 5.9%

Since full-time men work 5% longer than full-time women[3] just adjusting for hours worked almost entirely eliminates the gap.

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/karinagness/2016/06/30/new-repo...

Edit: Sorry I put the overall adjusted US pay gap of 5.4% when I meant to put the adjusted tech pay gap of 5.9% from the glassdoor study.
I love the simplicity and speed of this. Its endearing. No fuss. Reminds me of Gogs, easy to setup, easy to use. Great job on that. Of course its early days but I do hope you make the right trade offs and retain the simplicity.

Those with the complex use cases should take the technical debt rather than now in a lot of software where every possible complex case is accommodated and the complexity is offloaded to all users.

And I hope you give credit to git for the fantastic piece of engineering it is. So many projects use Git as the central piece yet push it into the background.
You're misusing ad hominem.

Attacking, hypothetically, a president on account of his skin colour is an ad hom. It has no bearing on his governing capability.

Noting that a president is not in full possession of his mental capacities is a statement of fact. It bears directly on his governing ability.

http://www.skepdic.com/adhominem.html
You don't need a "visceral distaste towards anything conservative" to have issues with a president who gets his political news from a guy who literally thinks that alien lizards control the world. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-news-source-a...
Some cities it was legal to begin with, btw.
They did not read the part that McConnell objected to as that was already read by Warren.
Sure. I tend to keep my postprocessing of a model under version control. In particular, what features were most helpful for predictions.
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Email-Id?
Also the "real" fixed point wouldn't be necessarily ASCII

So you could have two types: one where the hash matches the input bytes, another where an hex string is inputed and that matches the hex representation of the hash
The HN comments on this are a lot more interesting than the article itself. Just a couple of platitudes we've all heard and repeated and lived by. "You can write more maintainable code if you think about making it easier to maintain!" OK, duh.
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It's been that way. I mean you might be realizing it now, but we've been in a propaganda state since even before WW2.

For people who still think we aren't, ask yourself why Americans think of breakfast when you say "Bacon and Eggs." That was an advertising campaign by Edward Bernays (Freud's nephew). He also helped the tobacco industry increase the number of women who smoked cigarettes (lookup "Torches of Freedom").

You might not think that product advertising relates to propaganda, but Bernays was the father of "Public Relations." The first public relations department was for the US government, and he chose that term because Propaganda had a bad connotation to it. Public Relations is literally a weasel word/phrase to replace Propaganda.

These are important things to consider when you think about voting and "free will." Advertising has been used to make people think quality diamonds are rare (they're not), bacon and eggs are a standard breakfast and that tobacco is a symbol of womens' liberation. If you acknowledge that, you also have to realize advertising has convinced much of America there are only two political parties worth voting for, and that they're different (even thought they universally enact the same foreign policy. Bush Jr = 2 wars, Obama = 5 wars, Trump/Hillary = both will/would bring more war. I ask you, when has a war protest or congress ever stopped any of these wars from happening?)

Finally, the CIA has admitted to having operatives in US magazines for decades, and they refuse to answer if they have operatives in US television (https://youtu.be/U1Qt6a-vaNM?t=2h30m35s).

We've been in 1984 for decades prior to 1984.
Hey, I co-founded Instacart and can offer some thoughts on this.

In most cases we are helping retailers create a new delivery experience for their customers, not replacing one that exists. It's actually quite complicated to operate our business and there are economies of scale that retailers benefit from by being part of a marketplace.

Also, when we talk to our customers about why they use Instacart, many of them do need groceries urgently, which is one of the reasons they use Instacart over alternatives. Most orders are delivered within 1-3 hours of being placed.
OK, now I have a Cowboy Mouth song stuck in my head. Is there any better live drummer than Fred LeBlanc?
Also because the issue essentially doesnt exist. A victim complex is a real thing and there are real victims. You must acknowledge both, not just the latter (or just the former for that matter.)

Sexism is real but severely overblown in my experience.
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Attacking the subject of an argument on account of their skin color is not an ad hominem argument. It's a dumb argument to be sure, but it's not ad hominem.

An ad hominem argument is one in which you attempt to dismiss someone else's argument (or their standing to rebut your own argument) based not on any attribute of the argument itself, but on an attribute of the person making the argument.

If we're arguing about whether Donald Trump is crazy, and you say he's not, and I say, "you wouldn't know whether he's crazy or not because you're crazy", that's an ad hominem.
I'm going to break my policy of avoiding commenting on downvotes, especially of my own posts, just to say that my experience is that discussions that touch on currently hot political issues see an unusually high volume of voting activity, and I wouldn't read a lot about the level of discourse from a comment that tocuhes on those kinds of issues getting a few early dowbvotes, even if you view them as unfair downvotes. (Now, if comments get unfairly buried and stay that way, that's a cause for concern.)
You're building a strawman. No one is calling for "a Utopia-esque society where there is perfect freedom of choice [and] perfectly equal distributions of any sort."

One does not need to call for that in order to find the current representation of women in engineering/CS lower than desirable.

Continuing on the theme of using the sources presented in this thread: do you find it more likely that Google's worldwide tech workforce is 83% male because A) there is "no causal influence, insidious or otherwise" and there is perfect freedom of choice or because B) there are systemic factors at play?

That is the only question.
I am surprised that you are using AWS. It's generally cheaper and faster when you are at massive scale to build your own. Why do you do it this way?

in-house data turking setup

Can you clarify: Are you are turking with customers inputs or with internal team members?

synthetically generating millions of example data points

Are you implementing this via GAN or hand tuned?
Yep. The only way to get a remote VPE or CTO role that pays well to find a fully remote company that's doing well via a CEO or exec that knows you and trusts you. Forbes had a list of fully remote companies - maybe you can start there and work your network. Or, find a semi remote role at a nearby company where you work onsite say 2 days a week and build up your network. Fully remote high paying jobs are very rare. Your best shot is your network...
..and you still see this exact phrase on trains and buses in both the US and UK.
It definitely was to me. It's subtractive synthesis with some fm iirc.

Audiokit is audiounit only but yes, yes it does.
...or you start looking out for it :)
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NYC. Ask anyone who's recently tried both yellow cabs and uber a bunch of times. Yellow cabbies tend to be more experienced, and it shows in their driving.

Xapata, you must really be a heck of a globetrotter to be able to so confidently ask a question like that!