skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I disagree with the notion that the novelty of a component of language can be best assessed by when it was first used.

I think novelty is a bad choice of word here, as that has a connotation of being related to time and exposure, which makes your statement seem somewhat contradictory... I think the word "controversial" that Thomas uses is more appropriate. I'll continue as if you had used that instead.

I do agree, that length of attestation does not necessarily mean a feature is non-controversial. But I do think it is likely a prerequisite for being non-controversial, precisely because it allows the usage to be non-novel.
but it does still exist
What does "haystacked" mean in this context?
I had a weird feeling reading that example, for the reason you mention. Good point.
Grid delivery. You cannot easily move power from the desert into urban centers.
I'm paying 30% more each month to use a local ISP that's dedicated to Net Neutrality and online privacy (sonic.net) instead of Comcast/xfinity, because Comcast, along with the other large telecom companies, are actively undermining competitive markets, consumer freedom, and in a sense, our democracy.

An extra $20-30/month is a small price to pay to keep what little competition they have alive. I'd encourage everyone else to examine their choices here if they have any (which I realize for many is 'bad' or 'bad').
I agree with his proposition that there is no linear "better or worse"

That being said there is no evidence that an AI that is fundamentally different (and potentially inferior) from humans could not be much more effective at controlling human behaviors, thoughts, viewpoints or actions.

Furthermore it may be the case that an AI can sense or understand information we cannot simply because we do not have the "sensors" to understand such information. The actual "intelligence" does not need to be very high if the data is that much richer.

From another perspective: the AI may not be as intelligent but may have more control over the environment than humans (e.g controlling the smart grid, traffic routing etc.) because of this its ability to influence human behavior is larger.

Either of these two cases could be deemed as "greater intelligence" ... just intelligence of a different kind. We need to look at intelligence less in terms of human constructs and more in terms of "ability to manipulate human behavior" -- this would be a human centric definition.
I mean actual scientific evidence, not self-reporting studies which are not in any way scientific or psychological studies, which are almost universally bogus.

Take a look at this article. It goes into specifics about neurochemical pathways and the D4DR gene: https://musingsonmormonism.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/easily-t...

> If it's resulting in career limiting behaviour, it's probably worth therapy

Once again, we disagree. I've only seen anxiety disorders get worse through so called "therapy". There are ways to deal with it on your own, which is pretty much your only option anyway, unless you want to take benzos, which will irrevocably screw up your brain chemistry.
Open telnet servers are a solved problem (taking the solution off the rack is a question of time and, effectively, the willingness to be negligent). The automation exists.

It's the hard stuff that is context- and environment-dependent to a degree that it resists automation.
Kops 101- the Kubernetes Deployment Game-Changer
IBM Quantum Computing Primer
Sniffing (Firefox http website) traffic with Wireshark on Ubuntu vs OSX and you'll notice there's extra null flags unique to OSX.

Can't imagine why..?
Still no ascii heart or emoji. This will never succeed :P
> Right from the very first sentence the author seems to muddle the two, so I don't think there's much of cogent analysis in here.

If you read past the first sentence, it's quite obvious that the article is mostly concerned with claims of your type 2). Also I'm not sure why it would be so important to carefully separate the two categories of claims - they both rely on the assumption that AI can perform a wide variety of cognitive tasks better and cheaper than humans, which is addressed at length and cogently in the article. Also I believe that the economists you mention are concerned more about robotics than about AI per se, so I'm not even sure why you've brought in that point.
I use Apple Notes and store all my notes on my own server
The article gives no direct indication that Uber was different from any other high-stress job, other than the fact that Thomas committed suicide.

Right, it gives indirect indications. Given the seriousness of the issue (and the fact that a father of 2 children may have died as a result) -- along with Uber's by now well-established track record for malfeasance (and all-around asshole-ery in general) it's certainly worth looking into what the direct causal factors may have been.

Can you account for a person being put under a "life-threatening" amount of stress, but choosing not to quit?

It's the very nature of high-stress situations that (1) they appear to have "no way out" and (2) people not embedded in those situations have difficulty identifying with the experience of those who are.

And if I my paraphrase your last sentence:

There is no indication [in the article] that working conditions at Uber where unreasonably stressful.

You keep repeating that, but the statements in the article from the deceased's family members strongly suggest otherwise.
Seconding this. Arena is a great tool with a really interesting community.
The article also touches on the case where the person is not legally qualified to understand that what they have done is criminal. Or even to understand that what the company is doing is criminal. Unfortunately it's a smaller part in the article and I think it makes a stronger case. What makes an even stronger case is that you can be prosecuted not only without wrongdoing but without any knowledge of wrongdoing.

A better case is: you are a healthcare worker. A federal agent asks you about your ex-employer. You always had a bad feeling about that company but you put in your 40 hours for your paycheck and kids' health insurance. Perfectly willing to help the investigation, you answer truthfully. You are asked about a co-worker you slept with after you had met your girlfriend, but before you started dating. Your girlfriend is in the room. Thinking it doesn't matter and not wanting to discuss it with a stranger in front of your girlfriend, you lie. Turns out the co-worker was involved. If the prosecutor decides he doesn't like you, congratulations you are now a federal felon. You don't even need a fun story about a personal relationship: say you misremember something. Or someone else does, and contradicts your truthful story but the feds think you're the one who's lying.

Also I'm not sure the label "criminal" is a useful one. It's almost certainly the case that every adult US citizen is a criminal. They simply haven't been caught yet. Every modern US president has admitted in public to being a criminal (drugs). The expanse of laws is so vast, vague, complex, interpretable and arbitrary it's impossible to not break one. If there were consequences for every lawbreaking act, everyone would be in jail and there would be no-one left to prosecute or to do the prosecuting.
Road Rage Cases with Guns More Than Double in 3 Years, Report Says
Ruby’s puts is not atomic
This is why I disable javascript on my laptop and block ads on my iphone. I shouldn't have to chase around advert-closing buttons that's jinking like a high-performance fighter aircraft.
Because that can't make you more money. The only reason why doing that would make sense if you want to purposely do harm at the cost of making profits.

If UPS slows the packages of Amazon down because they're accepting money from Jet.com then they would be violating their consumer agreement with Amazon.

If UPS provides faster delivery for Jet.com for higher fee, then Amazon's products would be delivered slower but cheaper, but Jet.com's products would be more expensive.

Remember, speed isn't the only thing people care about on the Internet. Features and costs matter too.

In a non-net neutrality world, faster == expensive, and there is no business model for ISPs where they can provide cheaper services AND provide faster delivery.
Nope. Still mystified.
>> In many places there is no connection between 'germs' and illness because germs are not a concrete concept to them.

> People understand just fine what "illness" is. Every culture has a long tradition of medical practice since long before anyone knew what a germ was, and people in many civilizations (this isn't some eurocentric western-world thing) have known for hundreds or thousands of years to keep feces away from their food and water.

The germ theory is relatively recent and was not readily accepted in Europe. And for that matter Europe was very late to adopt a theory of keeping faeces away from their food and water.

Traditional Brahmanism in India is extremely fastidious. Sadly by connecting the practices to caste they did not become widespread among others.

Your sense of obviousness is inconsistent with the investigations of history or sociology.
I ran a large online community with tens of thousands of users that existed for nearly 19 years. When it came time to close it down, I left a notice on the site for several months before i made it read only...

then the helpful guys at archive team[1] helped me create a complete archive of the site on archive.org with their irc bot.

once that was complete, i replaced the site with a notice and linked to the archives from there.

As an aside, one of the old domains that we used for a while lapsed at some point, and some spammer put up a copy of the pages from the internet archives with ads injected into the content. That eventually went to an SEO landing page a few months later.

[1] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Check for instance the 'Paperclip maximizer' thought experiment, https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
Go on protest marches, meet people, consider going on strike. You have economic power, just develop the will and skill to use it in coordination with others. The objective of bullshit policies like this is to lower your morale as much as to change the strategic landscape. You'll discover that venting your anger is not draining but empowering.
The "better" version is (and has been for quite a while) Designspiration[0]. A ffffound account, for a while, was just a dick-measuring unit for designers around 2010 +/- a few years. I found through some Google-fu type means a prolific inviter via Reddit and got an account for like $35, but it turned out hardly be worth it.

0. http://designspiration.net/
I challenge you to find anywhere in the ITER facility or NIF facility where you can insert, leave, or remove any amount of natural or depleted uranium oxide at all, much less where it could be exposed to neutron flux. There is a wealth of information on the iter site you can read to understand just how difficult it would be.
Brian from Backblaze here.

> they've shaved every other cost in their system to the bone to achieve a low cost product for the consumer

In addition to making sure you have a backup you can restore from, we always want Backblaze to be: 1) fast (low impact on your system performance), 2) easy, 3) inexpensive. You only focused on the inexpensive part. To be super easy, we need to be as easy as it is to sign into your Gmail account -> username and password and that is it. Then for the more security conscious (just like Gmail) we offer two factor authentication, and go even further than Gmail goes by providing the ability to set a private passphrase.

> their average customer is backing up data that's on the same drive that the keys would be on

This is correct. We could require the customers to remember their own private encryption key on a USB thumb drive and store it at their bank in a safety deposit box, but that would SEVERELY decrease the number of customers Backblaze has.

> this is defective by design in order to support surveillance requests.

Backblaze has never had a surveillance request. Plus, if you set a private passphrase we literally could not comply because we simply could not decrypt your data. We really, REALLY don't want to know what is in your backup and we take great pains to not know. Seriously, it is a liability to us to know what is in your backup. It is a liability to have the ability to decrypt your backup.

You can also check out our team at https://www.backblaze.com/company/team.html and ask around about us. We have been in the same 30 mile radius in Silicon Valley for 25 years (working at Apple computer, Silicon Graphics, HP, Oracle, GE, etc), and we have been doing online backup for ten years now. We take our customer privacy VERY seriously, and our personal reputations are extremely important to us. We are the good guys and we try our best to do right by our customers.
Relevant source code:

https://github.com/bitmaintech/bmminer/blob/b5de92908498590d...

Edit: Nobody cares about the vulnerability until it has a name and a logo :-)
that link kills the back button. also, you can't make money so why bother
We actually have a video showing how it works. It will be up on the site soon! I promise!
The Wikipedia article you linked says that the lotus flower shape was rejected as well.
Yeah, I think that's what I was saying?
You can also choose them through the Amazon Smile program:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/homepage/ref=smi_se_ssr_src...
> In retrospect, I probably still should have hedged, said "let me see if he's in" and got his okay first. Even if they do mean well, it costs nothing to be cautious.

Yeah, I wouldn't put it past a cop to lie to you about returning his wallet.
And they will be having their care bills paid in 10 years time by ... the same teenagers going through school now.

What goes around should come around.
I don't know about "seemingly boring", that's a pretty famous building in Shinjuku.

http://www.hiddenarchitecture.net/2015/05/new-sky-building-3...

It's in the post-war Metabolist style. If you want more of that stuff specifically, go where architecture students hang out. Ideally IRL...

There's also (again, specific to that style) a good recent book of interviews on Metabolism by Rem Koolhaas et al.
Having read your explanation of channels/tracks - I get it, you have to serialize your storage into something and it's neat that it's representable through url. I was a little confused at first. I agree with others that the organization seems a little bit too forceful or opinionated for the primary use case of a "notes app" which is jotting down a quick note.

Maybe you could have an "unsorted" channel by default, and then split out the context dropdown into little icons? Simplify the work flow to be: 1. Click "new markdown" button, 2. Write some markdown. 3. Save.

If you defer asking the user to name a file up front, you can auto generate a filename based on the contents of the document (like parse 1st line for # My Title -> my-title.md). The only sacrifice you pay is making them click "save" the first time; but IMO that is a lot less friction than having to name documents before I even start writing. Plus even if your parsing fails - you're no worse off than where you started by asking the user for a filename.
I'm so glad to see this comment high up.
I have a hard time separating the argument you are attempting to make from the "just following orders" argument. That is, that immoral behavior is excusable or at least less-immoral as long as the actor is just following orders for their own self-preservation. Of course, this viewpoint has not been very well regarded, especially when used by actors of militaristic war crimes.

Is there a difference that you can elaborate for me?
In 2011 the UK had a referendum on whether to change from FPTP to The Alternative Vote[0].

The people voted No overwhelmingly (68% No, 32% Yes).

As with the Brexit referendum, those that lost complained afterward that the public was mislead, weren't given appropriate choices in the election etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot...
> Look at humans. Humanity didn't become a superintelligent whole.

But: look at humans. We are each a vast empire of trillions of cells which, for the most part, work together for the survival of the whole, and which certainly possesses intelligence beyond the capabilities of the cleverest single-celled organism.
In past I've seen comments and incendiary language like this be given warning from the mods.

I come to this site because despite of being more liberal leaning, I can have calm conversations with people.
They're from Toronto! That makes it even weirder that they have some pretty rough ESL issues.
> We'll boost competition and choice, by giving the existing entrenched players more control and power!

Pai's position is that there is a healthy amount of competition in the isp space(he points to things like mobile competition and network development as evidence) and net neutrality is at best not needed and at worse harmful to innovation.
They make their money from bad routing rules. No such thing as zero fee.
It's worth noting that outside the US, things are different. Here in Australia, you can't have 'not talking to the police' held against you... unless you were already talking to the police and shut up when they started asking questions. If you were being friendly and shooting the breeze with them, then they starting questions and you shut up, that change in manner can be held against you, for example.

If you're not in the US, it's worth checking out what your own local jurisdiction expects - all the items in the Don't Talk to the Police video still stand (because they're about human psychology, not points of law), so it's worth knowing how much you can just shut up around police.
ask the archive team guys on irc

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
I don't think this is uncommon. I have attended 1 or 2 conferences every year for the past 15 years or so, and there are always lots of people who want to keep to themselves, spending time between talks reading or working on their laptops.
simple traffic analysis will tell you if it's sending video

This is not super-useful; it could locally cache "bad" video and send it later when you think it is only sending "good" video.
I agree, which is why I used the word "mitigation", as in: not a solution.

Probabilistic programming is a theoretical possibility, but not really practical.
There has been a historical lack of representation for women, people of colour, and LGBTQ people in the workplace. Some of the social strata you point to are covered in these brackets, and some aren't. Certainly it would be nice to see a company indicating that they take concerns about ageism seriously, along with providing support to ESL persons and/or indicating that their hiring process doesn't unfairly exclude people without a post-secondary education, but I'm not sure coming from a rural background or having a particular political affiliation is correlated with employment discrimination or exclusion in the workplace (with the obvious caveats for being a neo-Nazi or a jihadist or something).

In the aggregate, though, as a visible minority and a political 'ugly duckling' in my current workplace, I like that companies are being somewhat transparent about how they support diversity. I would imagine they'd welcome feedback such as yours.
I think Utah's success is not only due to the willingness of the Utah population, but also to their proactive pragmatic disposition.

And let's be honest here, the Mormon influence is a major factor both in instilling the willingness to do something and in creating a pragmatic, solutions-oriented culture.

I'm not a Mormon, in fact, I'm a staunch atheist, but I can't deny the positive effects some religions seem to have when it comes to encouraging community involvement.

So I think part of the answer to the question of
"how do we rebuild community" has to do with religion.

Unfortunately, as an atheist, I'm probably part of the problem here.
Archive Team
I did flag it, per the explanation above.
In the (very) short run, yes what you say makes sense. How does it make sense in the long run? "Business" can't exist without "the people", right? If I don't have money to buy shit then I can't be a good consumer, what are they going to sell to me then? Replace I with millions of people, then what?
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> Incentives to encourage competition do little good when regulations prevent competition.

Well then why introduce more regulation like 'Net Neutrality'?
Hmm, funny, because a little googling on that gene turned up this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_receptor_D4

Despite early findings of an association between the DRD4 48bp VNTR and novelty seeking (a normal characteristic of exploratory and excitable people),[24][25] a 2008 meta-analysis compared 36 published studies of novelty seeking and the polymorphism and found no effect.

and goes on to say:

Novelty-seeking behavior is probably mediated by several genes, and the variance attributable to DRD4 by itself is not particularly large.

All that does is prove my point. If novelty-seeking, which let's all assume is a proxy for extraversion for the moment, is mediated by multiple genes, then of course there will be a spectrum of variation depending on the combination a particular person possesses.

Care to try cherrypicking again? :)
You would need to be MiTM to exploit that. This "backdoor" will have probably almost no effect, it's interesting that someone made special site just for it..
And another answer: Do you really want to live in a society where only the wealthy have any sort of basic education?
good experience. The app is extremely smooth and attractive and it makes it easy to buy and sell.
Thanks, I will check it out
Hey! I'll have you know I made a powerpoint over lunch today. I got to put a meme in it to keep people's attention. Its hardly mundane!
I'm not trying to argue whether or not the API is well designed (the designers can do that if they so wish). My point is a pragmatic one: Saying the API lets you shoot yourself in the foot makes people believe that if they just use the right incantation everything will be fine and easy. YAML is just not that kind of format.

If I was designing the API today, I would name YAML::load something like YAML::unsafe_load because loading YAML is dangerous. Guiding naive users to a high-restricted subset of YAML is good. Making them think that they just need to avoid "easy foot-guns" is not.
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I'm not sure I follow your example but I'm sure it's better than the one given in the article, where an employee knowingly and deliberately facilitates fraud, begrudgingly, in order to collect a paycheck.

I agree that the labels aren't helpful, but it's vitally important to society that employees don't kid themselves about their responsibility (and culpability). Many employees are paid and treated abusively by their employers. Nonetheless, they cannot allow themselves to become instruments of crimes.
Hinduism is a big problem. The Ganges is literally a river of shit - it has 120 times the safe level of fecal matter. Yet Hindus regard it as purifying and it's considered holy to have a dip in it.

When you have a culture like that, it's going to be hard to persuade people to not shit in the water they drink.