skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh boy! I'm going to say some unpopular things here, so please remember you asked for feedback.

I immediately click on Funds->Animal Welfare since my company, Pembient, deals in wildlife and I've had a lot of (negative) interactions with the conservation industry. I see that the fund targets "farmed animals" and even then carries a warning:

"Risk-averse donors might choose not to focus on animal welfare because the evidence base for the most effective interventions is not yet as strong as in areas like global health and development."

Excellent! But then I look at the manager's background. It seems he has extensive dealings with The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Further, at least one of the grants from the fund goes towards a HSUS project on broiler chicken welfare. OK, that's fine; however, digging deeper I find that at least 5% of the grant covers administrative costs (i.e., $50k). Now, money being fungible, that means money has been freed up for other activities. From my perspective, that would include HSUS's interference in The Black Rhino Genome Project:

https://experiment.com/u/yHldOQ

And that's the problem with donating to large non-profits! They have so much going on that it is hard to track all the externalities.

Let me add that this issue, to me, is the biggest problem with Effective Altruism (EA). It says, "You're 'smart,' go out and become a wealthy hedge fund manager. That's the best use of your time, and then donate the proceeds to things that matter." I would counter and say that if you're truly 'smart,' you should be directly working on problems that matter. Doing something ancillary and then giving to a group of people who might be viewed as less 'smart' because they didn't follow the EA path is internally inconsistent. I think it reveals what EA is: A moral salve to justify forgoing work on hard problems to accumulate wealth for selfish purposes. Not that there is anything wrong with that per se, I just don't like the marketing on top of it.

I said I would be harsh. Apologies, if I've been too harsh.
Kurzweil's prediction of human-level AI is not the same as his Singularity prediction, which he measures as a machine having processing power greater than the combined processing power of all human brains on Earth. For that date, he has given 2045.
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Dragnet surveillance. Cops have access to EVERYONES data while looking for ONE bad guy.
Decide what for yourself?

There would be a point if there was a possible actionable response that most people wouldn't want to do, but that would be up to them to decide.

However, if it doesn't have an actionable response, then there's nothing to decide, except whether to experience useless and unproductive worrying or not.

There may be some problems that are not solvable by you but need an organized intervention from a government, but they generally have a clear, actionable response, i.e. act to get elected representatives that will try to solve the problem. However, something that truly doesn't have an actionable response - i.e. "someone slaughtered a dozen schoolkids halfway across the globe" is a viable headline, but not really a problem that can be solved nor (generally) even a useful source of information about risks, as the likely inferred knowledge from titles like these generally has no correlation with reality.
Reinforcement (including positive reinforcement) training for adult humans works especially poorly and attempts to implement it often have perverse, demotivating effects.

Regulation is more about creating incentives than conditioning.
I'm not sure what you mean—who are you saying is doing the wrong thing here?
Let's burn all books! Blind people can't read them!!
This is super awesome! Thank you for mentioning about them because their announcement did not show up on my feed on HN. Even being somewhat comfortable with Tensorflow, I always find some of Google's announcements kind of overwhelming and convoluted. There's something about packages like spaCy that seems comforting and less intimating.
It's time to change how we build startups
Google Drive on Windows Self-Updating to 'Backup and Sync'
That doesn't change the fact that the outcome here is illogical. If you want to make things accessible, you need to penalize the institutions that don't make things accessible. Instead, we gave them the option to take it down. So the general public got penalized and UC Berkeley's incentives didn't change at all. Now they just won't make their lectures public.
Does it support 12-bit jpeg?
You're 32 now, right? Have you had some kids and a wife and stuff? Elders in my life seem to imply that the feeling of home will come back when you make it come back. A big part of losing "home" is aging out of it.
> Better solution: pay target-site.com to start building an API for you.

I'd add to this:

Do you really need continuing access? Or just their data occasionally?

Pay them to just get a db dump in some format. For large amounts of data, creating an API then having people scan and run through it is just a massive pain. Having someone paginate through 200M records regularly is a recipe for pain, on both sides.

A supported API might take a significant amount of time to develop, and has on-going support requirements, extra machines, etc. Then you have to have all your infrastructure or long running processes to hammer it and get the data as fast as you can, with network errors and all other kinds of intermittent problems to handle.

A pg_dump > s3 dump might take an engineer an afternoon and will take minutes to download, requiring getting approval from a significantly lower level and having a much easier to estimate cost of providing.
This reminds me of a 4chan greentext story, but I can't seem to put my finger on which one.
Start with the mitm. You'd be surprised how many apps have no certificate pinning. If there's pinning, you just need a jailbreak so you can override the https method to ignore certificate pinning. See: iseclabs ssl killswitch

Some apps use private keys baked into the app, but you can usually recover those from memory. Do this using lldb and a remote debug server on a jailbroken iPhone over USB.

Or you can treat the app as a black box and use a phone (or multiple) as a "signing server" to sign API requests before sending them via, e.g. curl or python. To do this you install the app on a jailbroken phone, tweak it to expose an http server on the phone that listens for API requests, feeds them to the "sign API client request" method, and then returns the signed request. This method has the benefit of being resilient to frequent app updates.
Buy an Nvidia GPU with 8Gb of ram and you are good to go by now. Or you can use amazon instances or google cloud. For toy things I wouldn't bother to suffer the hell that is to compile it (I do it for my job and it is a pain to suffer its unstability everytime I need to compile it)
So I never really got too deep into math, once I decided I wasn't going into physics as a career I backed off, but this throws me back into 12th grade AP Physics exams. I'll never forget refusing to take a bad grade on a matrix problem(?) and skipping the next few classes to spend hours trying to do it the long way... I didn't get credit for that question.

That being said, now that I'm on the other side of college and in a steady career, I'm really interested in diving deeper into math. Does anyone have any recommendations on resources for learning from Calculus on? I could probably do with a Calc refresher as well. Thanks!
You personally have less control over habitat sizes, perhaps, beyond subtle effects from consumption choices (e.g., using a car will, in expectation, convert some nature to parking spaces; beef consumption converts forests to graze land). Collectively we may have more choices (such as conducting research).
That's a very lofty goal indeed. They will definitely have to come down in price
These videos already existed and are still being produced, and if you live in CA your tax dollars are being used to produce them whether or not they're made public. They're being created for Berkeley students first, made ADA-accessible as needed by the student body. Since they already exist, wouldn't Berkeley be doing a disservice to many disabled people by just keeping them private? And, because its a public school, couldn't one argue that the videos should be publicly available too?
I have been rabidly downloading and archiving my favorite podcasts that post on soundcloud. I have two fears. The first is that they may become lost forever due to lack of interest/awareness of the creators. The second is that the creators take this opportunity to lock old episodes behind a paywall.

I would love to see the Internet Archive put some muscle behind saving all the wonderful content on soundcloud.
Wait a second - I thought a year ago I had an email from Google telling me this is last chance to opt out of them collecting my search queries. I remember clicking and google page told me thanks we won't collect your searches.

Is that not the case anymore?
Better run an EXPLAIN on that... :/
But the OP explains why that's already a lost cause.

Google's entire business revolves around looking at people's searches, email, web browsing history, etc. and providing that information to advertisers. It's not private at all.
Bayesian statistics says the opposite. By looking at the history of an entire city, you're giving yourself a highly uninformative prior. This means that it's very difficult to actually draw conclusions from the results. You have to reduce your population size first, and then perform your "test" (looking at search history) on the subset of the population who actually has a reasonable chance of committing the crime even without the search evidence.
Well I was thinking of personal experiences and maybe others like to read emergency signs in buildings when power may be out, menus, or read a book outside by the lake. I would not want to rely on electricity to be able to read, it doesn't have to do with poverty.
PostGIS is the first extension listed on Google's page.
> It's horrible that these were taken down, but it's far more horrible that disadvantaged populations are ignored, and put at further disadvantage.

What about blind people? Or people who cannot afford internet access? Or people who don't speak English?

If you take your reasoning to its ultimate conclusion, nobody can give anything away for free, because there will always be some minority that is put at a disadvantage.
Started happening at around noon EST. Here's the service outage update:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=4&iid=d9...
I think you misread the article. Foucault's point is that there are many ways of seeing power. "Foucault sought to unburden philosophy of its icy gaze of capturing essences."
For us the ECS autoscaling feature is way too naive. We need to do our own controller on some more responsive metrics. The customization support is pretty bad.
You can't use dynamic libraries on iOS because they fail iTunes Connect validation. The only dylibs it allows are the Swift standard library. You can, however, use clang to take a static library and throw it into anything you want (framework, dylib, executable).
Chimpanzee 'mortuary rites' observed
This article: https://www.google.pl/amp/s/mrepidemiology.com/2011/09/07/us...

And an amazing podcast, "This week in virology":
http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-7-viruses-in-video-games/
is lisp older than C?
This is one of my greatest fears.
If you swipe a card and their backend errors out or is unreachable, it does prompt you to switch to offline mode (as long as you're already logged in and have taken online transactions recently).

If a customer knows the payment processor is offline, they can use an invalid card and it will appear to go through. Merchant will be stuck with the liability after the transaction is later sent and declined.
More discussion on the Google Drive help forum:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/Km-e-xR...
Sounds like you need to get to the U.S, bud.
Yes, it is relevant. For example, Guile powers an entire GNU/Linux distribution[0] where Guile is used for the init system, initial ram disk, and package manager.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
MySQL is actually seeing a resurgence as people realize that ACID is valuable and performance is just fine for 99.9% of use-cases.

And Java is seeing a bit of a resurgence as well as people get fed up with shitty PHP and other dynamically typed languages. Java has some frameworks like Dropwizard and Spring Boot that make it not as terrible anymore.
> The exam and the dictionary are completely unrelated.

No, this article is specifically about them working together.
Haha, this is what the YC partners ask us as well!

We see this service as a public good, we want anyone to be able to donate effectively, no matter whether they are donating $10 or $10 million. We prefer to offer our service completely free of charge, but let people optionally tip us, or donate to us directly, if they find the work we do valuable. Right now, we have sufficient funding for our operations to support us until the end of the year, this will let us grow and attract top talent. If this product really does take off, we might play around with different funding models, including asking for an optional 'tip'.

As well as building EA Funds, we run local Effective Altruism community groups and conferences. Many of our members give back to us to support our activities because historically, we've been able to generate returns on their donation of between $10 and $100 for every dollar we spend on our operations. I should also note that there is some chance that donations to the EA Community Fund may be regranted to us if Nick Beckstead decides that we are a good giving opportunity. One way to support us it to allocate some of your donation to the EA Community Fund. We like this funding model because it incentivises us to focus on high impact activities. If the community evaluates the work we do positively, we'll get funding, and if not, we'll be forced to reassess our priorities.
>Then there's a next time, and a next time, and a next time. And eventually the deaf are at a measurable informational disadvantage to those who can hear. That's why these laws exist.

Maybe the laws should specify a tax-funded department to go around close-captioning everything then.

The fact that that people writing the law had good intentions doesn't change the fact that they're morons who wrote a demonstrably terrible law. With due apology due all deaf people, I'd rather repeal the law and leave deaf people at a disadvantage than leave it in place and throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Simply put, the US health care system has become a rent seeking system to funnel wealth to the top 1%. When viewed in that way, Ryan's plan makes perfect sense.
Enumerating ways of seeing power can lead to an obsession with it. The fact that he has been cited by so many underscores this. When people are preoccupied with whether they are one-down or one-up you end up with perpetual status seeking among individuals and groups, where one's worth is perceived as tied to that status. Does that seem familiar?
Hey no worries, you guys are doing great!

To be fair to Rust, it does perfectly what it's supposed to do as a language on iOS/Android. I have a fully multithreaded toy Rust+Swift app that works fine, and the performance is pretty good. Most of the problems I described are due to the differences in the paradigms between Swift/Java and Rust. (OOP vs Functional), and I'm sure things will be fine with time.
Apparently most of society gains 20,000 free lectures on YouTube.

In all seriousness, you're arguing a false position because nobody is arguing we live in a society of optional laws. I think most people are lamenting the consequences of this particular law for this particular circumstance.

Both sides have legitimate grievances. Hearing impaired people should have access to free lectures if a university is offering them. It puts hearing impaired students at a disadvantage when they don't have access to the same resources as hearing impaired. On the other hand, we want to live in a world where it's not prohibitively expensive to post lectures that are accessible to everybody.

So, what do we do?

Can we solve this problem so both parties have good solutions? Could we raise money on Kickstarter and post the transcription jobs on Amazon's Mechanical Turk? Is this a good opportunity to start a voice recognition moonshot effort where schools can compete to transcribe audio for esoteric subjects?
I understand that Bill Joy designed vi to work well over slow terminals because in the '70s Berkeley had a much smaller budget than, say, MIT (where emacs originated).
> Have you tried Loopers for Android to update main thread from NDK BG thread?

Not really, but I am aware of that pattern as it is the approach taken by SDL.

Thanks.
Within 12 years? Maybe.

I think reaching the singularity will require a few more optimization tricks, as we saw with pretraining many layer networks, and also a breakthrough or two in fast hardware, associative memory, etc.

I have been working in the field of AI since 1982, and I find it easy to both admit how much I don't know and that I have a lot to be modest about. With these caveats, I predict that AGIs to be hybrids of deep learning neural networks and more conventional AI systems.
The first page of "Discipline and Punish" is a very clear description of the drawing and quartering of a regicide. I am not sure what nuggets you are referring to. Citations, please. I think he is arguing against "whittling... down to their core common sense origins," because such origins are illusory.
I think you're getting downvoted because your comment sounds like rambling.

Perhaps you have some good ideas, but the form is terrible.
Ironically, your conveyance of your opinion in this dismissive register with no substance, just the affect of smug certainty, is a perfect example of why the relationship between language and power deserves attention today. Your post is a pervasive and automatic mental pattern, common in a population that has been raised to uncritically worship abstract philosophical notions like "objective truths", notions which no decent self-critical scientist would accept. Your post's voice assumes the appearance of a disciplinary authority without actually engaging substantively with the ideas under discussion. So, in effect you've provided the best possible support for the article's argument.
I make a habit of writing any sequence of two or more commands as a shell file, no matter how simple. This way if I need to reference it later I don't need to grep through my history on every box.
Thanks. Seems like most TypeScript projects creates as index.ts file that just exports whatever is needed and the the compiled index.js is exposed in the "main" option. And if I understand correctly that will give you a index.d.ts that you can refer in the "typings" option in package.json.
I happen to think that requiring a producer to put specific features into a work is a bad thing, actually.
>The law didn't force UCB to take the videos down

It totally did, it's an unreasonable cost, and thus a fake choice.
Webstorm (and all IDEA-family IDEs, as well as most IDEs in general) has a fantastic Vim plugin that allows you to use vim bindings within the text-editor of the IDE. That's what I use and it saves me so much pain.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/164-ideavim
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> Only way I'll get to the debt free nirvana is if I get rich somehow. It's not a real choice. So the entire premise of the article is pretty weak.

No, that certainly is not the case. Slow and steady saving and investing is the way to become wealthy. Check out www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance or www.mrmoneymustache.com as examples of this.
The popular vote wasn't that far away; it never is, or else the election would have gone the other way. The Electoral College gives extra weight to votes in smaller states, but only so much.

That's why I pointed out that the people voted for this Congress, not just this Administration. They voted GOP not only for the House, but for the Senate too, so you can't even make any claims about "gerrymandering". They even voted GOP for governorships and local elections. The bottom line: outside of a few particular places (namely California), the people of this country want the GOP and its policies.

As for your "balanced proposal" idea, things don't work like that. When one party has total power in both Congress and the White House, they can do pretty much whatever they want. If the people had wanted more balance, they would have voted for a more balanced Congress. They didn't. They overwhelmingly filled the seats with GOP candidates.
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Cars without seatbelt affect everyone. Subtitle-less videos only affect a minority.

People pay for cars with seatbelt. Free videos don't earn income.
Did IBM and Deep Blue cheat Kasparov?
Hi! Indeed, just changed it. Thank you so much :)
Breeding from good stock
For most cities, the tech boom is a bust
Google hopes to improve search quality with 'offensive' flag
This is a pretty huge deal. I really like square and I do hope they come back soon. Like another poster said, I'm at a coffee shop and they are frustrated as fuck; most patrons don't carry much cash around here.
>Surely you jest. As the parent noted, such reasoning is squarely on the path to insanity.

What's insane is people comparing the government drugging us to equalize our IQ to the enforcement of a law that requires a publicly funded institution to put closed captions on their videos if they're to be publicly available.

I'll bet a reasonable solution comes from this, sets a precedent for the future, and the huffing and puffing will be for naught.
Founder fatigue is a serious problem, so it's nice to see something -- anything -- being done about it.

I'm curious how the hyper-logical mindset of most founders will mix with the spiritual ethos of this calling. I think there's certainly potential, but also some controversy.

Good luck with it!
Someone has tried beating the loop. And more than a loop, but rather a more real-life-like test rendering multiple components and component trees, sets attributes etc. etc. and you can run it on your own computer in the browser

You can check it out yourself: https://localvoid.github.io/uibench/

I highly recommend the author's article about it: https://medium.com/@localvoid/how-to-win-in-web-framework-be...
Sounds like you can benefit from one of those bluetooth lost-item finding device (e.g. Tile or TrackR).
Once you get off a trail, it's very easy to get disoriented and lost, especially if you can't see major landmarks to orient yourself by.

Quite a few years ago, before smartphones and handheld GPSs, I went to take a walk from where I was staying to a relatively nearby lighthouse on the coast. I didn't take a compass with me and, as soon as I walked into some woods, I very quickly realized that I had gotten disoriented and wasn't sure which direction I had come from.

I did find my way out really quickly but it was really a "well, that was dumb" moment and a realization that if you step off a trail into the woods you could end up getting very lost very easily.
I use Swift, Rust, tokio and lwIP in an iOS app to proxy traffic through Tor and they work very nicely together: https://github.com/icepa/icepa
When the money is good enough :) . That is, usually not for startups, yes for established companies with money.
I use progressive JPEGs if they have a smaller filesize, which is true most of the time.
This is why Dropbox is the only sync client I run. If I have OneDrive running I have trouble starting office and saving files. Google cloud is so FUBAR it is just a joke.

I am starkly terrified of Google Drive trying to get a more intimate relationship with the filesystem because then I might lose data or not be able to log in.