skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in the last decade I have embraced a philosophy of 'small is better' and 'distributed is better than centralized.

I also feel this way, and as a result identify more and more as "conservative" in that sense, and my own work is almost entirely focused on building tools for smaller and smaller organizations. I put very little stock in new government solutions to social problems. But there is a HUGE caveat:

We have centralized systems right now that work sort of OK and people are relying on them to survive. We simply do NOT have the decentralized systems yet to replace them. For that reason I do not support the conservative platform of destroying centralized government. It's premature.

The tech for decentralized governance and survival is proceeding rapidly. Solar panels, 3d printing, blockchains, crowdfunding, same-day shipping... We are very close to not needing the welfare state and its monopoly utilities. But we are not there today, and to try to dismantle it first is dangerous.

I think the reason people want to destroy the welfare state first is that they think we won't have the motivation to build the decentralized infrastructure until we have the centralized infrastructure taken away. But I think that's wrong. Corporations like Amazon are not yet providing truly decentralized infrastructure. That stuff, things like Ethereum, are coming, but we barely understand them.

The same applies to housing, agriculture, etc. We have big agriculture, but little agriculture, that's truly independent from the big chemical companies, is just not a freestanding system yet.
I think there are more important causes than "reducing potential risks from advanced AI". Honest to god, $30M will go a long way in saving lives TODAY. Flint, MI anyone?
Write benchmarks, although the latest numbers are better still: https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-acid-transaction-performa...

Read benchmarks are coming soon.
Is this an early april fools joke?
Maybe we shouldn't have systems that are just a password away leak from creating the Apocalypse?

Actually, I am pretty sure we don't. Those codes come in pairs and are all subject to two person control. Also, those guys that turn the keys can use their own judgment to veto the launch. In the event a leak was known or an unknown reason to launch came through I suspect they wouldn't.

Those codes won't let them re-target the missiles either, we will be firing them at whatever the predesignated target is. I am not sure if anyone else is up to the task of firing back in the ten or so minutes before all of our cold war enemies are erased.

So how about back to the practical example about what information can go free in the event of government transparency. Surely there are some plausible examples that can also make your point.
The author won a competition with this paper, Colin Powell honored the author at the awards ceremony. I was an undergrad in polisci when this paper came out, and we took it semi-seriously. I'm pretty sure the class was about South American military juntas.
We should build and implement TrollTrace.com to use tracking and metadata to expose trolls on the Internet. Don't worry, it would only be used for trolls, not for regular "good" people.
They are certainly allowed to according to their TOS: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

"Google and its wholly owned subsidiaries may retain and use, subject to the terms of its privacy policy (located at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/), information collected in Your use of the Service"

Also read: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
FreeBSD got Capsicum only in 10.x and many projects started using them.
This looks like a Sunrise replacement and that's awesome. How can I get notified when it's ready?
I've seen this tweet a lot https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/769194327830585344 by the Washington Post reporter.

Apparently, he claimed on Fox News that he had something on Trump, but that it wasn't interesting enough to release it.

Not saying that this is a regular trend or something, but it seems like there is some evidence from Assange himself that they don't publish everything they have verified.
I'd be more than happy with 1997-era (20 year patent expiry) FPGAs if they were open. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone else would.
Android is (sortof) open source and anybody can install an app. What could Google do to stop this?
You can kind of do this now if you want. The SOCs like the Cyclone V or Zinq have an arm core or two surrounded by FPGA fabric. The only barrier right now would be the dynamic reloading of the FPGA which I haven't seen done, but would be simple in principle (as opposed to having a soft core that would likely have it's state interrupted if you re-flashed everything)
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Stability / UI Bug fixing / Apport UI

DESCRIPTION: Sorry, long rant :)

Have been admin at Uni for 30 Ubuntu workstations. All 16.04 so I don't know about 16.10 or 17.10 improvements but what's missing in Unity is polish.

- The "Ubuntu has experienced a problem" dialogue needs rework and needs to move to the tray or be queued - there should also at least be the name of the application on the modal.
I've seen situations where there are more than 50 of these modals layered on top.

- There are already bugs in launchpads for Unity, please consider them and work on making the experience more smooth. Especially focus on making Window management sane with other Apps that are not always Qt/GTK, like emacs, xterms and stuff. There bugs in the menu bar, window position is often broken - lot's of small stuff like that. The launcher tends to misbehave. Would really love if Ubuntu just did a sabattical year of fixing all the bugs in the Unity UI and thinking about good design.

- Menu bar is subtle broken for a lot of apps.

- Nautilus and gvfs should take a long look at some things dolphin and KDE are doing right and adopt some ideas.

- Also stability, stability, stability. Nautilus eating 10gb of memory due to a large folder, or handling of large files is all kind of broken. This is stuff that happens daily for a lot of users and investing some time to implement sane behavoir should not be so hard. Basically I wish that the Ubuntu Desktop team torture their UI and take notes how it breaks. Opening a 10Gbyte .tar.gz, having 10.000 files in a folder, over nfs, over sshfs. Stuff like this. Needs to work without hassle and provide feedback, not hangs.

- The small stuff matters, polish. Often when something does not work no UI feedback is provided. Torture your desktop, do stupid things and see how it breaks in strange ways. Fix that!

ROLE/AFFILIATION: Computer science student, Linux user, Admin for Ubuntu Desktops

Other than that: Good job, I like Ubuntu and Unity. But beeing stable and rock solid would make it not only okay, it would make it great.
If they reveal information about current operations.
Or maybe it was.

Were "Mad Magazine", and then "The Realist" Soviet propaganda? They certainly satirized American culture, and promoted understanding and peace. And we know about other such Soviet efforts. The US made comparable efforts. The CIA promoted modernism. Voice of America was very seductive.
Your feeling about outbound is correct, but inbound is more like:

1. Twilio gets a fax call coming in.

2. Twilio asks you if you want to receive it (based on src/dest numbers), and what URL you want Twilio to hit when it completes.

3. If yes, Twilio receives the fax, and hits the URL specified (with metadata and media URL).

4. You download the media from the URL.

Yes, you're correct that there's no good way to associate separate outbound/inbound faxes. Definitely something we'll consider as a feature to add.
Isn't life in Singapore _more_ expensive than the Bay area?
Reminds me of this Onion article from years back: http://www.theonion.com/article/84-million-new-yorkers-sudde...

>With audible murmurs of "This is no way to live," "What the hell am I doing here—I hate it here," and "Fuck this place. Fuck this horrible place," all 8.4 million citizens in each of the five boroughs packed up their belongings and told reporters they would rather blow their brains out with a shotgun than spend another waking moment in this festering cesspool of filth and scum and sadness.
If homelessness continues and we need temporary measures, should we be building public fresh water wells in key encampment areas?
1. 'Trolling' is not harassment. You can harass someone by trolling them incessantly, but harassing people is not 'trolling' them. Don't use them as synonyms.

2. They've never been the focus of a harassment campaign because they're not stupid enough to put their personal details out there on the internet and then be surprised that people will use that to harass them. They also don't feed the trolls in the first place.

>I've never experienced such harassment myself and used to sing the "ignore" mantra too, until I tried to imagine myself in the shoes of those who receive frequent harassment, and I'm not sure I would be able to ignore at the same level they are expected to.

99.9% of people that complain about being harassed would be well-served by just not using Twitter. Twitter sucks, and has always sucked. It's the epitome of short attention spans and soundbites. Don't use Twitter.

>Also, I'm not sure you are arguing whether a cause of the issue is identity being coupled to your internet presence, but I'm not sure we can go back to the internet of the early 2000's or late 90's, so we need to deal with the world as it exists now instead of thinking appeal to tradition will solve issues we have today.

Nobody is saying we have to go back to the internet of the late 90s. We just need to understand that there aren't more trolls now than there were then. There are more people in general, and when you are anonymous, they don't have anything to harass you with.
I'm curious; do you have any details on exactly why the existing implementations are too complicated to be usable, and on whether this looks likely to be just some specific design flaws or inherent in the concept?
And how'd you end up getting the long term visa with no job? (And please don't advise people to immigrate illegally to a country)
Looks like it might be injected by CloudFlare though, judging by the rest of the `<head>`. Does ICE change DNS for seizures?
Do you disagree with any research looking to prevent existential risk to our species, or do you believe AI cannot become an existential risk?
Yeah, I find re-frame a little clunky if I'm honest, e.g. extending/intercepting fx is hard, the balance of local ratoms vs global subs/handlers is difficult, there's no real enforcement of layering so you have to work hard to get your subs/events at the right level etc. I dunno, I understand the aims and I use it on a couple of things, I just think it loses the elegance of Reagent without really giving you the scalability of Om. I'd have to spend more time on a few greenfield projects to get a decent picture though.
> How do you impose a "robot" tax?

Step 1: tax all income equally (not flat rate, just not favoring particular forms), rather than having disfavorable taxation on labor (which basically amounts to a "robot tax subsidy".)

Step 2: if step 1 isn't enough, and you need to encourage hiring human labor more than eliminating the tax disincentive does, provide favorable tax treatment for labor income. (Which isn't exactly a robot tax, but has the same practical effect between robots and human labor.)
I'm concerned about this too. Do you mind sharing which town you were in?
Yeah the housing market really needs to cool off, it's getting pretty concerning.
Check out this chess programming wiki article [1] for a (still fairly hand-wavy) rationale for similar piece values, and the Wikipedia article on chess piece relative values [2] for a more in-depth look at various weightings. Some modern approaches use analysis of a huge corpus of master games to come up with piece values, but many of the systems are based on intuition and empirical evidence.

[1] https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Simplified+evaluatio...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_piece_relative_value
Given who and what the Panama Papers exposed (extensive ties to and involvment of Putin), that's a spectacularly cogent point.
(Which is why I rent.)
>I'd go learn FPGA dev then if there were things that needed accelerating and were personally lucrative to me

HFT
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server
HEADLINE: Continue supporting systemd alternatives
DESCRIPTION: Systemd is problematic in a number of ways for a number of environments. Please at least continue to support Upstart; I'll admit it isn't my favorite init, but is far less trouble in some contexts.
ROLE: Devops Engineer, not speaking for my day job
The point of highlighting whataboutism isn't that the "what about" claims are wrong, its that hypocracy is irrelivant to an arugement about something.
Whatever you or I think about exclusive supplier contracts, is there a single state that forbids them except for unions?

Seniority rules are something unions negotiate for. Contracting firms stick warm bodies on projects all the time. That's between the supplier and the customer, not imposed by the federal government.

I agree it would be better to fix that, but as you said, it's a stretch. Good luck getting Republicans or Democrats to go for it.
The trick is getting more EE's to spend their grants on open-source FPGA's and tooling:

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-...

http://opencircuitdesign.com/qflow/welcome.html
For scaling view counters on the pages of popular videos Youtube increments the counter by N views with 1/N probability for each actual view. Or so I've been told.
Trolls are a completely different thing than criminal harassment, and it is disingenuous to equate the two.

The primary danger is that by lumping people with legitimate criminal complaints in with people who are sad because someone said some mean words to them on the internet, you don't make others more concerned about rudeness, you make them less concerned when someone has a real problem.
> Switching FPGAs are incredibly power hungry since they run on much larger processes.

I don't think the comment about process is really true, from what I can tell, Xilinx is only a few months behind the biggest SoC makers in terms of its process adoption, and is shipping 14nm parts currently. Not sure about Altera, but they are on Intel's process, which is bit ahead of the competitors anyway.

In terms of switching power, you definitely pay a penalty to have the reconfigurability in hardware, but on the other hand you don't have all the unused logic that you would on a GPU. I'd guess the comparative efficiency depends on the specific problem and specific implementation, but I don't have any numbers to back that up.
It's about expected value. A 0.0001% chance of reducing an extreme risk will have a very high expected value.
Why is this Go faster than the equivalent Java?
>If the only way you can express your dislike of a black actress is to compare her to an ape, maybe just shut the fuck up.

??? You got me, yes, this is exactly what I do. There's a secret Nazi hiding in every bush and behind every corner ready to pounce and I'm part of the great Internet conspiracy of secret Nazis.

>And it's entirely too easy to ignore the problem of real trolling and harassment if you think it's just people with "differing opinions".

Harassment is totally the same thing. And if a hundred people show up to make fun of the dumb thing you said, it was an organized conspiracy to hurt your feelings and not myopia about potentially millions of people who normally see stuff and don't interact with it until it's too dumb to ignore.

If you've got people sending you death threats or violating TOS of sites, obviously report them. If they say rude things that have absolutely no value at all, ignore them. But if they're actually trying to pick an argument with you in good faith, they may not be a "troll" after all. There's FAR too much where people have slid into thinking that anyone who has a different opinion and expresses it in an unpleasant way is out to "troll" or "harass" them.

I mean, look, you just attacked me, a complete stranger, who has never done any of the things you brought up because I dare suggest that some belief you hold is wrong. How's that for proving a point?
If you attempt to recreate the most particularly American aspects of life, namely car ownership, home ownership, dining out, purchasing clothing, yes, you will pay out the nose. Singapore's government runs a budget surplus off of consumption tax.

And if you take illegal drugs, you'll pay with your life!

But if you live in an HDB outside of the downtown area, commute by bike foot or metro, cook in or eat hawker center, avoid consumerism, etc. Boy will you be rich and happy on this low tax, nice weather little island.

All about personal goals :)
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> I'm unsure if you are typically allowed to make your own agreements with the employer when there's union representation.

No, in closed shop contracts, this is expressly prohibited. Violating this and negotiating with your employer directly could be considered grounds for termination of union membership (ie, termination of employment). The employer would also face consequences as well.

> whatever has traditionally been agreed upon for steelworkers etc. may not be the best model for tech workers.

That's true - unfortunately, the NLRA (the law which regulates union operations) is very rigid, and it does not provide different stipulations for different industries.

There's a reason that virtually all NLRA-regulated unions in each state enact the same corporate policies for membership, the same contract structures, etc. - those are the ones which turn out to provide a stable (in the literal sense) balance of power under the laws.

It's very unlikely that an NLRA-regulated union in the tech industry would operate differently, in the long run, from the NLRA-regulated unions in every other industry.
Yeah, the meaning has shifted. It used to be that if people knew you were trolling, you weren't a good troll.

Now a troll is just an asshole on the internet.
Google Gnome: https://store.google.com/magazine/gnome
Ask HN: Establishments that offer free Wi-Fi, how do you protect yourselves?
How do establishments that offer free Wi-Fi protect themselves from illegal activities on the connection?
I just started with with RRULEs using pg_rrule in postgres. How do you guys handle overrides and exceptions in your schema for the sync engine?
Curious: are you living off of smsinbox? What do you estimate is the average weekly amount of hours you spend on it?
So this is it, right? Can we can use this for clothed -> naked? Or naked -> clothed, of course, for nswf filtering or for... clean movies, or something.
Well, if one looks at the quality of civic discourse in say, Israel, where service is mandatory, maybe that's not such a bad idea. I'll bet a lot of people would be in better shape, have more nuanced positions, and think a lot harder before sending shooters downrange.
fwiw http://ninjavideo.net/ & http://rockdizfile.com/ are examples of previous ICE takedowns
Although it is a bit of a stretch if there was no gender bias involved the husband would choose to stay at home (if the actual goal is one employed person, one home maker).
Go on? Postgresql does process per session / query, and it scales ridiculously well, especially with the hilariously multi-core systems we have today.

Although it doesn't handle unbounded concurrency, there are techniques (like manual locking, or pgbouncer) to deal with this.
Not my personal/professional experience. Even with heavy DSP usage with nodes >14nm you can still create designs with lower than 30 W power consumption, since you can control the frequency and use low power design techniques. There are vendors like Microsemi/Lattice that specialize in low power FPGAs where you can do even better
We actually started smallworks.com (LEGO compatible iPhone cases) for less, but went through a similar process.
There are always going to be more important causes, under any particular person's view of "more important", which depends very strongly on both subjective values and (in the case of AI alignment work) on precise probabilities of far-future outcomes. A dollar given to the Against Malaria Foundation will do a lot more good, in QALY terms, than the same dollar spent in Flint. And both dollars will do more (direct) good than a dollar given in funding to, say algebraic geometry research.

Yet somehow we think it's important to fund all these things, and articles announcing new NSF grants for math research are not typically met with this kind of whatabout-ism.
I think existential risks to our species of much higher magnitude exist today. Climate change and pollution for instance. I think a "possible existential threat in the future" is a weaker case for philanthropy than existing ones.
It's a couple things, process is a large part. You're also dealing with 4-LUT instead of transistors so you pay both in switching power and leakage since you can't get the same logic-to-transisitor density that's available on ASICs.

Also there's a ton of SRAM for the 4-LUT configuration so you're paying leakage costs there as well.
The tower pings are for many users just as damaging as all the paranoid fantasies people protect themselves from.

Like how many people with legitimate concerns about baseband tampering can safely carry a dumb phone?
One action that's been at least partially effective for combatting clear bias in the past and other contexts has to make clear that you are openly inviting contributions (or applications, involvement, etc.) from previously under-served or unaddressed quarters.

A current example would be STEM outreach to underrepresented groups: disadvantaged minorities and women in particular. Housing, employment, and educational opportunity efforts would be other examples that come to mind.

Can you point to any active solicitation Wikileaks have made, say, for materials specifically addressing political oppression within Russia or concerning its foreign policy?

Sincere question. I'm not, though I've not particularly looked.
Once upon a time, "troll" meant someone trying to provoke a reaction for fun, from a type of fishing called "trolling", which involves dragging baited hooks through the water.

Lately, as in this article, the term seems to be expanding into a general purpose insult for anyone whose posts annoy someone, sometimes only because they express a different opinion.

Under the old definition, bad faith was a requirement. Having an honest argument or even being an honest jerk wasn't the same as being a troll. That seems to be changing.
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I've always liked the thought of Singapore and I'm not really attached to owning a car. Add to that the interesting tax system, and I could be sold.

That all said, could you disclose how much you're spending per month? How much on rent, for example? It seems property prices are insane (from the basic research I've done), hence my concern.
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Even that "top" person might gain bargaining power by being part of a collective.
Definitely not alone, thanks for writing that.
And how exactly is it promotional?