skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bad law, but this is also frustratingly bad reporting. I understand that American media have to often translate foreign legal concepts into something closer to American ones, so they talk about "hate crimes" and "hate speech" (offenses that as such don't accurately reflect legal concepts as they exist in Germany), but in this case it's not even an accurate representation of the law.

The list of offenses that the law talks about includes a whole list of things that aren't remotely hate speech: they include things such as the creation of a criminal or terrorist organization or illegal distribution of pornography (pornography is not per se illegal, but you cannot, for example, sell it to minors).

The goal of the law is basically to enforce offenses that are commonly committed online by deputizing social media companies. And this is where the actual problem lies; the law does not regulate anything that isn't already an offense, after all.

1. Many of these social media companies do not even have a legal presence in Germany and it is questionable whether Germany even has jurisdiction under current EU law.

2. Even if Germany has jurisdiction, having social media companies adjudicate the legality of online content (even where there is a legitimate interest and we are not dealing with offenses that affect freedom of speech) is a bad idea in too many ways to count. The social media company is incentivized to err on the side of banning content; they generally do not have the resources and/or personnel with adequate legal training to properly adjudicate the issue in many cases; and if they get things wrong, there is often no practical way to appeal their misjudgment.

3. The law may (due to its crude mechanisms) have a chilling effect far beyond what any that current laws create, even though on paper we're talking about the same offenses. That's because the legal system generally subjects potential prosecution for many of these offenses to a high level of scrutiny in order to protect freedom of expression. It is unlikely that Facebook and Twitter are going to do the same.

4. As a result, the law is probably headed for a collision course with the Federal Constitutional Court at the earliest opportunity.
That is Federal but there are many exemptions, especially in the western states. For instance, Rocky Mountain doubles can go to 120,000 and certain other combinations even more.
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Do you have sources that detail the negative effects on people under 25? I ask because I have smoked almost every day for about 2 years, I'm 23, and I'm worried.
Please set up a gofundme so we can fund your adventure!
Thanks so much for the help! will try and build it!
You're misinformed about IQ tests. They're specifically designed not to test for retained "in-group" knowledge, but rather markers of general intelligence like analytical thinking and spatial recognition.

And no, anecdotes, cherry picking, conspiracy theories, and ad hominem attacks don't sway me.
That's too bad. I enjoyed my college ethics course. The professor had been in international business and worked with all kinds of countries whose people expected bribes to do everyday business. The case studies were therefore super interesting and thought provoking. It was taught pretty open ended and there was never really a right or wrong answer. Your success depended on the strength of your argument.
Best part is the woman who confronted the CEO about being a serial sexual-harrasser and ended up CEO.

Edit: Re-reading I can't tell what his title was, only that she was CEO after the fact.
Posits are actually quite reasonable, but there's a lot of either ignorance or disingenuousness in this article, which is really too bad. I wish that John would ditch the hyperbole and solicit feedback from other experts, because posits are not a bad idea, but the presentation continues to give him the trappings of a crank.

I'll unpack just the first example that jumped out at me:

> Currently, half-precision (16-bit) IEEE floats are often used for this purpose, but 8-bit posits have the potential to be 2−4× faster. An important function for neural network training is a sigmoid function, a function f(x) that is asymptotically 0 as x → −∞ and asymptotically 1 as x → ∞. A common sigmoid function is 1/(1 + e−x) which is expensive to compute, easily requiring over a hundred clock cycles because of the math library call to evaluate exp(x), and because of the divide.

"have the potential to be" 2-4x faster? Sure. But until we see an implementation, 1-2x is much more likely (closer to the 1x end of the spectrum). Commodity hardware runs 32b IEEE float multiplications with 3-4 cycles latency and single-cycle throughput (or better). 16b can be made faster if designers care to. There's simply not much "faster" available for posits to inhabit (2-4x faster than 16b float would be faster than small integer arithmetic).

Evaluating a sigmoid function requires "over a hundred clock cycles" only in the most naive possible implementation sitting on top of a lousy math library. Using 32b floats on a current generation phone or laptop with a decent math library, a naive scalar implementation of the sigmoid function has a latency of less than 50 cycles. But latency doesn't matter at all in a machine learning context; we're interested only in throughput. On a machine with AVX-512, a single core can evaluate a sigmoid function with a throughput of about 1.25 cycles / input. In full-precision 32b floating-point (i.e. a relative error of ~10^-7). John's proposed posit implementation has a relative error of about 10^-1. If we target that error threshold, we can trivially go below 1 cycle/input in 32b or 16b float on a phone. So IEEE floats are at least two orders of magnitude faster than he claims. You need to go back more than 15 years for the numbers that the paper tosses around to even be plausible.

There are several other examples like this in the paper. I don't want to be too antagonistic, because posits are not a bad idea (actually, I think they're a pretty good format), but this paper is either ignorant of the state of the art, or more marketing than science.
If you take into account ticketing and check in and security and boarding, the actual number is more like 9 or 10 hours.

Add to this the commute to and from the airports and you are looking at 12 hours.
I think it's only a good argument if, when you weigh your ability to travel like a 18th century writer and the ability of the poorest in society to avoid destitution, you find that they come out close. The best argument in favor of welfare continues to be the Rawlsian veil of ignorance and I'm pretty sure that behind that veil I would pick welfare programs over free travel.
Several comments in this thread almost appear to be constructed to prove the author right in how the debate derails.
It's not much of my concern, but still I couldn't help to notice something that felt like an unusual occurrence here on HN, or maybe I'm simply seeing ghosts. I am rather tired to be honest!

Anyway, my flawed observation:

Some sort of deadlock where instead of discussing how to improve the situation, the discourse get stuck in debating which is the correct reason for not doing anything, instead of trying to come up with improvements?

Several times arguments are made that a non existent technology will make current investment pointless in the future, so no investment should be made now. Isn't that the argument implied by the title of the article?

Obviously, it could be true that future inventions would make it pointless, but that certainly is not something you can calculate/know off the cuff, if it's even worth speculating about. Building a high speed rail network take long enough time that all those possible avenues can probably be explored in excruciating detail before the first shovel hits the dirt a decade from now if everything moves quickly.

People are sceptical towards hyperloop, which is understandable in many ways. But what if it would work? Wouldn't it be worth investing quite a lot of money simply to figure out if it could work?

Obviously it could potentially only solve a very specific part of the transportation puzzle, but one that could have quite some positive effects.

Positioning cars and aircraft as more-or-less the only viable ways of communication for the foreseeable future sounds like an awfully odd position to me, even for a very sparsely populated country. While, the correct solution might not be high-speed rail, some variation of it it could still be the best solution in several instances.

Maybe someone would come up with something like a tethered electrical ground effect aircraft/train which could take advantage of the sparse population if they knew there were money to be made. Instead of massive resistance and cartloads of red tape ?
“Birdhouse in Your Soul” and the revolution it signified
You mean his cofounder?
Frankly the lack of security frightens me. It's only cool til someone stands up on your car and pulls out an AR. Then suddenly it's "what were they thinking."

Happened in France, fortunately with no casualties...
Not sure what to say, or how to make things whole for his victims as there is a very wide spectrum of consequence between 'boys will be boys' and capital punishment.

I really encourage him to think in terms of 'next steps' to make amends when it comes to those affected by his behavior. Anything less, in my completely and totally unqualified opinion, is but self-serving lip service.
It depends.

I used to require a username on my site but I chose to take it away because it meant nothing since I was collecting emails anyway.

My heuristic is if they interact with other users: Username.

If not, email.
I don't know where you get that >200mi is infeasible.

shanghai - beijing HST is 819 miles/5 hours @ 220 mph with stops and carries 130 million a year and is insensitive to weather unlike planes.

its not easier to scale up planes. Have you tried building a new 777 capable airport in SF or LA lately?
Isn't there only a risk because you're a creep?

My best friends have been those that I've worked with and never once has that been a problem for me because I know how to be an appropriate human being.
> Your comments are full of snide comments against dynamic languages

They are not snide, nor are they "against" anything any more than saying "the sun is yellow" is "against" the color blue.

Half or more of the things you quoted aren't even about dynamic languages, and the other half are true (or do you care to refute them? For example, if you don't write tests to take the place of static typing, and you aren't praying, then you are either infallible (ha!) or you are lying).

> Which is categorically False

Believe what you want; it's clear you aren't interested in opening your eyes. So be it!

And that big list of companies has nothing to do with the discussion. Of course they use dynamic languages. Almost everyone does, because they are popular and because some tasks seem easier in them. But there are still quality issues that could have been prevented.
That requires knowing types at compile time, and expands to just the code with the specific types used in the instantiation. That doesn't work with a virtual method dispatch kind of scenario where the types in the target method are not known to the runtime.
Not commenting on this case, but Billy Graham, after seeing what happened to other well know preachers, was never alone with any woman except his wife Ruth. It is a pretty good strategy. Today, a powerful person could probably enhance his/her personal security by having an assistant with an always on camera like some police forces use.
I can't help it but I can't find any reason to consider this as having > 0 information. You are absolutely forced and 100% expected to do this in a situation now, right?

I, honestly, find this very disturbing (black mirror way), regardless of my opinion on the matter at hand.
> As I said in another comment we could slash Medicare spending by 40+% without reduicing care.

Concluding disingenuous is more than a stretch. I'm reading & responding to more than a dozen posts in this same thread.

Claiming we could reduce Medicare spending by 40% is a very, very dramatic claim. We could reduce general healthcare spending by a similar amount: the consequences of doing so are profound, involving vast job loss, pay cuts, and tax base loss. What's your near-term fix for that immense dislocation that would take decades to play out? Just tell the millions of people that will be negatively affected by it to suck it up and deal with it? Or do you plan to significantly boost welfare programs, unemployment benefits, retraining spending, etc. - and how do you plan to pay for that (cutting Medicare spending by 40% wouldn't even balance the budget deficit, which is set to balloon massively due to entitlement costs)?
I don't really understand socializing with co-workers outside of work under any circumstances, but especially with intoxicants involved. This includes company holiday parties, etc. Let work be work, and keep your social life separate. I've seen far more bad than good come out of such things.
Thanks a lot for the link, I didn't know it was open source.
> Isn't there only a risk because you're a creep?

No, blackmail is possible also. Obviously, you have to be worth blackmailing, but some people have some low standards for rewards.
That's just evidence that he needed to be a party member and SS member to protect himself and his team. Because he wasn't more cooperative with Himmler, he got arrested under charges that Himmler trumped up.
I do not have sources that directly detail the negative effects of smoking Marijuana on people under 25, but the prefrontal cortex of the brain does not fully develop until then. It would be possible to furiously Google supporting studies, but I have limited interest in doing so.

I apologize for alarming you, but that said (and with absolutely zero judgment or gratuitous negativity) I highly encourage you to reduce your consumption of Marijuana for your own sake.
ART is register based hybrid JIT/AOT runtime that was designed for memory constrained embedded devices. You cannot run Java applications on an Android device because ART is not compatible with the JVM and vice versa. Additionally, ART processes DEX bytecode and not Java bytecode.
I've been in a somewhat similar situation. Here's some hard advice to consider.

Your manager and HR had a duty to stand up for you and did not. The fact that you've been moved to a far corner away from your team will not be lost on anyone. Your accuser is either a mischief-maker or has significant mental health issues, and there's a good chance she's spreading gossip.

It's pointless to try to fight this or even to try to learn more about the false accusation.

If at all possible, you should leave immediately. You can't use them as a reference, so probably two-week notice is needless. Your reason is "personal reasons".

If the internship has been sufficiently brief and not very publicly known, scrub it from LinkedIn/etc., and proceed as if it didn't happen. Otherwise, come up with a plausible and not particularly verifiable cover story.

If you can't leave right away, keep your head down. Name, rank, and serial number only.

The timing of this in your career is actually pretty lucky. No one really cares about internships unless your boss is a Nobel Prize winner or something. Once you get your next job, this will be ancient history, and just a sad lesson. In the future, of course, take steps to protect yourself from such allegations.

Don't let this get you down! It's not that important, and in less time than you think, you'll realize that it's really had no real effect on your life at all.

Good luck.
After reading my ceremonial 1000th testimony about how HN user prefers sites with less CSS I'm about done with it though. We get it! Engineers are proud of how little they care for white space and colors! Can we talk about something else in the top comments of any page about website design?
Your daily reminder that anyone who uses the phrase 'hate speech' really means 'thoughtcrime', regardless of how disgusting, bigoted or ignorant the target.
Good article (yet to read the paper). I believe learning of software development is a glance at the future of education. Diverse paths for diverse people. A myriad of options: college, bootcamps, internet; free, cheap, expensive; lectures videos, tutorials, documentation, blog posts, coding in the browser; teachers, tutors, colleagues, coworkers; templates, boilerplates, open source.

I think all of it is wonderful. Knowledge about software development is much more accessible than, eg, architecture. And much more aknowledged without a degree.

But, with the myriad of paths, come more risks of one choosing the wrong path, both from honest mistakes or being mislead by dishonest people. And these mistakes can be very costly.

I have a hunch that sometime in the future almost all knowledge will be able to be learned like this. It is a good thing to study the advantages and disadvantages of this environment.
An account with an exchange is the only realistic way to convert your BTC assets to an actual currency (i.e. something that is actually, not just theoretically, accepted in exchange for goods and services).

If mixed coins can't move through exchanges, they're worthless. If merchant acceptance of BTC increases, they could have some value, but still less than the more useful exchangeable coins.

I think you're right that blacklisting people from exchanges based on the coins they've tried to exchange is a bad idea, but you could much more simply just blacklist the coins.
ICOs Will Create the Next Bernie Madoff
This nerd thought it's okay because he's rich now. Well at least now he knows his place lol.
Coding game for children using AR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline appears to be for real in Florida and the Acela now carries a majority of traffic on some parts of the Boston-NY corridor and service to Washington. Texas has much cheaper gas and stronger car culture than anywhere in Europe or Canada. It's really just California that's lagging behind expectations; the other two projects could be better. And Florida / Texas / California / Northeast wraps up all of the locations in the US that are viable for high-speed intercity passenger rail. The only truly underserved corridor in North America is Toronto - Detroit/Windsor - Chicago, but most people don't even recognize it as a possibility because it crosses a border.

So instead of "what's wrong with the US" we should ask "what went wrong with CA HSR?".
Is it just me, or is committing public seppuku like this really necessary? If what he did was illegal, he should face prosecution. If he's compelled to apologize and admit his guilt, he should reach out to the people he actually wronged. This kind of public self-flagellation ("I'm such a creep. Please forgive me, world.") feels really over the top, phony, and symbolic.
People are people. A true friendship can form between coworkers and there is no reason to forcefully undercut such a relationship just because it's "work". People willing to do that are very weird to me, and I am glad no such people work where I work, or have worked in the past.
There are many workplace cultures where it is expected of employees to socialize after hours if they want to get ahead. Individuals in those systems are generally following their self-interest.
Comparing same-sex marriage to private beaches for the ultra rich is fucking gross.
I disagree with you. Keeping mid-America populated is in long term interest of US. Mid-America is one of the most fertile landmass in the world. To farm this land, you need farmers and farm-hands. The farmers/farmhands need a support structure/community that is currently degrading as people move towards costs. Farmers are at the bottom of the totem pole in spouse selection and family formation. Nobody wants to move where farmers are and geographic area beyond reasonable driving distance inaccessible to farming communities. This leads to incest and inbreeding and all other ills that isolated communities experience. One solution, beyond farming automation, is to widen the geographical area accessible to farmers and their support structure. HSR can easily double or triple the distance covered currently by roads. HSR will bring distant communities in mid-America together.
The "principle" he's adhering to is property rights, with a healthy dose of welching on your agreements.

All we need here is 5,000 people to show up at the same time, 4,999 of them carrying beach towels, and one of them carrying bolt-cutters and a beach towel, and then they enjoy a day at the beach.

Or several days, resupplied occasionally with food and so forth by the GoFundMe campaign.
Have you been using normal Relay or one of the forks/modified versions that supports server-side rendering? The fact that Apollo Client supports server-side rendering out of the box was a big plus for me.

> the file size + performance improvements are worth the cost of admission in my mind.

Is this Relay Classic vs Relay Modern or Relay vs Apollo?
Yes, and I really want to read the actual pdf :(
It did read cringe-worthy to me. But then again, the allegations are much more so.
It was a light, cleanly designed front end to YT's content.
Does a campaign really accomplish anything? Campaigns just seem like a lot of virtue signaling without any actual substance.

How about organizations simply deal with the problem? When there is a complaint, investigate it. If it’s legitimate, discipline the perpetrator. If it’s an unfounded or malicious claim, discipline the accuser.

It’s interesting how SV makes the news for this but sexual harassment/sleeping to the top is standard operating procedure in Hollywood – the VC world makes The NY Times while the everyday stuff that happens in Hollywood would make your skin crawl.

While the SV problem exists, I can’t help but feel there is some agenda happening as other power-centric industries don’t seem to get the ink that SV does.
Unfortunately I feel that this type of example expresses what not to do with type systems -- favoring composition over inheritance goes a long way to not finding yourself in a brittle type hierarchy and especially in a JavaScript environment where composition is so easily used (and with typescript, still type checked)
Yup! GitHub's wrong too. We have media queries for a reason--because user agent sniffing and "mobile sites" leads to incorrect results. This is one.
Actually, she started the profanity.
Compare that to the 49+ million people in the northeast which would take about the same rail to cover and 17 million really is small. The problem is it's a triangle which means the maximum distance someone travels is minimized while still needing a lot of rail. You could make it a little shorter by making the trips take longer which kind of defeats the purpose. Further, there is not a lot to directly connect to it.

However, once the northeast networks expands eventually adding Texas would be reasonable, just not from day 1.
You can pretty easily convert "the rent is the same, just with a lot more space" to "the rent is cheaper" by having roommates.

Or to "the rent is the same, but I don't have to have roommates" by not having them.
when this happens it goes beyond just being a creep at work. the people you do this may fear retaliation for reporting the incident, work with you after (he still works at the company), and face down skeptics who can belittle what happened

this post shows some thoughtfulness, but my reaction is "stay far away from this person and this company"
I went to Japan for the first time recently, and holy crap, high speed rail is amazing. It's like flying business class, or better. You have so much leg room, free wifi and a powerpoint next to you. You don't have to check your bags in or go through security or any of that crap, you just turn up at the station 5 minutes before it leaves and then sit down in genuine comfort and hack away on your laptop for a couple of hours.

If it were an option in my country I'd definitely take it for any trip up to ~1,200km.