skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are arguing against time.

Advancements in intelligence and technology will push us towards a thorougher scientific understanding of the brain and the mechanics of intelligence itself.

There is no reason to believe that the brain so complex as to be impossible to understand. Not to mention that we may not need to have a completed neuroscience in order to develop some true intelligence (no matter how primitive) that can improve itself.
Blueprints can be used with source control, so your comment is highly misleading. Merging and diffing blueprints is possible as well, as they are serialized in text format and there are tools to assist with that, but merging is unrelible. In practice Unity scenes and prefabs have the same issue. Professional teams, including Epic of course, use Blueprints heavily and always use source control...
The fun images may have seemed like a way to lighten things up, but here they're a distraction from the content.. even as still images, every section break doesn't need a happy monkey or Poison Ivy.
I caved and added a "toggle pointless gifs" button, history will judge me well
Even so ...
You should PR the mistakes.

I am looking for a few and uh, I mean modulo the fact that it's in python so there are some odd limitatoins, the search and sort didn't have any obvious bugs. As soon as I sit down I'll run them through some test cases. Ofc, my Python is weak (or rather, my tolerance for Python is weak), so I'll check later.

Seriously, it's github. This is an education effort, and even if the author made some mistakes (sounds like the data structures section in particular needs some cleanup?) it has didactic value for folks involved to correct this.
The first example (tree represented in Japanese) seemed a bit misleading, because the "alphabet" has not been kept as a constant. Since the Japanese alphabet is much larger, it may be argued that the number of bits actually occupied in storage by "本" and "tree" are about the same. Could someone clarify if this is correct reasoning?
Reminds of this story from a while ago: the head writer for Call of Duty switched to working at a think tank, given his experience imagining the future of warfare. http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/09/22/call-of-duty-star-video-...
In other words an extension of the fake news which has been plaguing us for months now. The truth will set you free.
We used ML and assumptions like: "Group photos are an indicator of happiness" to guess if a person is depressed.

God help the millennials. The only winning move is not to play.
Here's a google spreadsheet[1] that i used a few times. This will give you a general idea of where you would be based on mortgage etc, but you need to know the area, possible daily rent value, minimum occupancy etc

[1] - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rCz54o_8Z_9fMkPQyTTZ...
Did you actually read the article or it’s just antibodies working?

Actually I didn’t, but they provide with more sources to supplant their narrative than any other “legitimate news source” that I have encountered.
Are you annoyed that they're selling commercial exceptions to the GPL or that they're not listing the price on the page?
The bug report is just prosa. No simple test case is attached to reproduce his problem. I think he did not even start a debugger. So what does the guy expect. Maybe it is just some broken string conversion. But without a bit investigation on his side he will never find out. Only well paid support will waste time with that kind of horrible report.
I must have missed the parts where he explained that women were held to a lower bar or that biological differences were holding back productivity. Perhaps you could quote them, or refer to the specific sections of the document, I'll reread and then be able to have an informed response.
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I did share my thoughts (CEO has other problems, good luck to people impacted), and HN doesn't allow posting images so I posted a link to the article. Inc. Magazine https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/google-manifesto-blacklists.h... looks like they are verifying them although they did not print any.
That's because, as I was shocked to find out, most POS in the US don't ask for a PIN! Convenient indeed, until someone gets ahold of your card.
> However, believing that a 90 degree angle is perfect doesn’t have much impact on the job performance of a senior polygon and there are lots of other questions that don’t predict job performance.

So, I think this is not a meritocracy if polygons are being promoted based on non merit related qualities. It feels like they're attacking Meritocracy as being institutionalized, but then claiming that there are other biases not merit related. Ultimately, it's almost like they're defending meritocracy, saying it's not fair that an equally skilled man would be preferred over a woman based on gender.

I am fascinated by this, does anyone know what alternate system is proposed? In their article they make a few merit based judgements of who should be promoted.

Also this seems bit much:
> "Successful venture capitalists claim that they have “pattern matching” powers. The evidence for this is that they have been successful." [...] "I am saying that this is a terrible argument. It has the same intellectual rigor of a casino lounge lizard explaining their magical rabbit’s foot. “I haven’t lost yet!”"
Now that's a perk. Way better than free kale chips.
As a user of N26, sure I always choose cash. They always require typing stupid 6 digit pin (even for paypass). I can't switch it off.
...Quartz discovers own label and private label brands. It's not like Costco trumpets that Kirkland is Costco owned, or 365 Everyday Value is Whole Foods, or all of these Target brands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Corporation#Private_lab...
A quick reminder why Bitcoin was created in the first place
> Keep politics/religion out of work.

I agree with this. But given how political google is ( remember google's arab spring movement, it's lgbt stance, etc ), maybe google should also be political/religious neutral. Every July, google changes it's frontpage to state their pro-lgbt political stance.

> its another to broadcast it to co workers.

He didn't broadcast it to his coworkers. It was an internal discussion.

> Both left/right are extremists these days and will never change.

Except that leftists extremism is rather normalized in media/corporations.

At google and in the media, you can say there are too many men or too many whites in technology. What would be deemed hateful if only the "genders/races" were switched in the statement is considered "progressive" by the media/corporations.

> All you will do is alienate and anger a bunch of co workers for a few pats on back from "your" side.

Google's stance on lgbt, diversity, etc also alienates people.

The problem I have here is that only one side gets to speak while the other side is censored and attack.

I'm pro-lgbt and pro-diversity. But I also don't want censorship, intimidation and oppression.
Muggings rarely cross anyone's mind, except maybe when carrying an exceptionally large sum for e.g. buying a used car (which i the biggest transaction customarily done in cash, by a wide margin). Concerns about muggings are usually consolidated with the more general though of "what if I somehow lost my wallet" and that is dominated by concerns about the credit, debit, ATM and ID cards that also reside there (yes, credit cards are not terribly rate, but many are rarely used in face to face transactions). Losing a few days worth of cash transactions isn't high on the list of annoyances that would come with a lost wallet.

By the way, the big costs of daily life, like rent, insurance and the like are not settled using credit cards, cheques or cash, this stuff is all done by bank transfer and has been done by bank transfer since long before credit cards became somewhat established (for occasional use).
I believe there are even laws against charging more for paying with a credit card

Yes, in nine states and DC. It was also part of the contract, but the courts struck that down after a big lawsuit.
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He isn't saying they would be suited with something smaller or they should move.

Just stating the fact that from purely arithmetic reasons it's not optimal for retired people to live in big houses with bunch of empty unused bedrooms. That is indeed factually inefficient use of the space.

It doesn't mean they are somehow wrong to want to stay in their houses they paid for fair and square. Just pointing out the problematic situation in real estate market as there is very low supply of new property.
Large animal vs. small animal. Rural vets are typically harder to find, and Australia is a very big country.
It's actually simple, no one wastes so much time on digging a 2000 to 3000 bc evidence to attack the roots of Hindu beliefs other than the one who has a personal agenda attached to it. Did the author actually an archaeologist and dug the proof himself? Or he's merely mentioning some remote to unknown evidence only he magically came across when the whole world is believing the opposite till now?1
>I believe there are even laws against charging more for paying with a credit card

not really "laws", more like merchant agreements. also, there's nothing preventing shops from offering a cash discount, which is effectively the same thing.
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They didn't use that as an indicator of depression. All they did was pass into the model the number of faces in the frame. The analysis afterwards suggested that depressed people tend to not have group photos.
It's a misunderstanding of DRY that leads to most of the nonsense. The original formulation, in the Pragmatic Programmer, was: "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system."

This very much requires "understanding underlying patterns" - what knowledge does your program encode? How can that be broken apart and localized?

Obsession with repetition of surface syntax isn't DRY and isn't useful. It goes wrong in two ways. First, knowledge can be repeated without repetition of syntax. If I'm telling my HTML "there is a button here", and my CSS "there is a button here", and my javascript "there is a button here", those three statements may look nothing alike but that's not DRY.

Second, if two pieces of code happen to look identical, but each is the way they are for different reasons, they encode different pieces of knowledge and collapsing them is not DRYer. As I've said before, in that case you're not improving your code, you're compressing it. I like to call that kind of overzealous misapplication of DRY "Huffman Coding".
That they are dogfooding a private beta makes me think that this has leapfrogged what Google had been shooting for previously, and where Uber is now. I don't know what other options there are on the ground as I'm not based there.

It does seem though that there's a real opportunity for GM to sneak past Uber and Google into a first-mover advantage with this.

I'd no idea they were anywhere near this close to a working AV fleet.
Oh gotcha. No, your remote code wouldn't need to be released just because your IoT code is GPLed.
It seems a bit colder here. HN is content oriented. No profile pics, no rep. It matters more what you say than who you are.
In my experience, especially the US south, that specific narrative ("did you know that Marxist intellectuals started promoting gender and racial theory after their attempts at class warfare failed to overthrow the US?") has usually indicated that somebody's about to start going on at the very least about Alex Jones nonsense, perhaps about how George Soros controls the world. Online people tend to take off the mask and you get actual Holocaust denial.

If someone says "the left, including Marxists, is concerned with gender and race in a way it wasn't previously" then I agree totally. Likewise if someone mentions that various Marxist intellectuals have contributed to political theory around gender, race, etc., that's just a fact. If someone says "I'm a conservative, the politics around race and gender are harmful", I'll disagree strongly, but that's it.

It's this specific story or narrative that Marxist intellectuals were trying to use class warfare to gain power, and when it failed they shifted to promoting race and gender based politics to gain power, that is very troubling for me due to repeated experience. Citing it offhand as a commonplace makes me wonder whether he shares the same intellectual influences as the other people I've heard say it.
Freedom of speech (which Germany does not have) is a core tenet of democracy. If the government can police what we say then it follows that they can prevent those from being elected that they do not agree with. For example: what if we made liberal values into hatespeech, how likely do you think it would be for the democrats to win the next election? Any country without true freedom of speech is autocracy in disguise.
This is definitely the best response to the memo that I've read. He clearly says which parts of the "manifesto" are an acceptable expression of opinion in the workplace and which aren't. I am very relieved that he didn't jump on the bashing bandwagon and dismissed the memo as a whole just because it contained some questionable and inappropriate parts.

This makes it very credible that he's actually read the whole thing and thought about it. Something that I miss dearly with 99% of the other discussion contributers (e.g. [1] which is IMO just hate speech of a worse kind than the memo it responds to).

I really thought I wouldn't write this but kudos and thanks to Sundar for such a balanced and well thought-out response.

[1] https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
This post has been shared widely but I found it offering zero substance but lots of moral preaching. The only thing what this piece had going for it was that it was published early and spoke to the ideological crowd that was unwilling to even factually and constructively engage with the content from the memo.

I found this post to be the only one I saw that actually managed to rebut some of the memo author's conclusions. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/differences-between-men-women...
Looking at the response in this friend it is worringly normal to let you ever get most easily offended define what is reasonable.

This only leads to people getting increasingly sensitive over increasingly minor things and it's a vicious circle.

So how do we break it? How do we re-establish open discourse?
Meritocracy has never worked because the thinkers submit to 'higher authority': in this case $$.

The only real revolution is when the thinkers stop taking orders.
That is only practicable when every political|business system fails.
There was a time when IT was merit guided and based..it took a long time for the idiots to catch up but they are here now and dictating.

Every thing I deal with this these days is idiot oriented.
And you can use that to buy goods online? Direct debit is usually used for recurrent billing. In Portugal there's a way to use a similar system for online purchases by generating a code that you then have to use in an ATM or online banking. It makes for a pretty poor customer experience when purchasing and I doubt it's actually cheaper these days than debit/credit payment processing.
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Straight outta Black Mirror
I want to agree that languages are squishy and hard to define things. Some things are well known, but undefinable. I have yet to read a satisfactory definition of "cookie", I mean the little (except when they are big) baked good (except when they aren't baked) that are generally round (except when they aren't) and not the things web browsers store. Most definitions leave out one or more things on common grocery store shelves.

I disagree that we can't strive for precision in technical discourse. Programming languages have precise meaning and are executed precisely by a machine. As an industry we are still working to define what these machine can really do to help along precise definitions can aid in communication complex topics. We could not have loops or recursion if simpler construct like conditions, jumps, gotos, variables and others did not have precise definitions.

It does seem that this, how humans approach problems with these two kinds of problem decomposition, is close to the boundary of natural and machine language. This might rule it out from precise definition, but it seems to be worth a try to me.
There are people who live their entire lives without that bubble ever popping.
It would be interesting to focus on only e.g. English-speaking countries, and see how great the variance is within this group.

It’s also interesting to see that the countries which are often invaded/occupied by Western nations are much more willing to fight, whereas the occupiers/invading nations seem less willing. Could it be that Westerners answer “no” because their idea of “fighting for your country” is starting a war somewhere else, whereas to the people of Vietnam (89% willingness) the same question conjures up an image of being invaded by a foreign nation, and defending themselves against that?
Shit, I don't have group photos :(
We just launched an AR shopping app. Thoughts?
This is a neat learning tool. Will recommend to those starting out. A couple of suggestions if you have the time or will try to send a pull (!) ..
1) A built in dataset (numbers, chars, wordlist)
2) a single step mode
Adam Ruins Everything - Hospitals -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDOQpfaUc8

Its an eye opener.
That's a good point. It could be the author of the manifesto thought merit was pure coding ability and others might define it as the ability to work well in a team to achieve a collective goal.
Just like all of the jewlery stores in the mall are owned by the same company - Sterling

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Counter citation: http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

This part in particular is worth considering:

"..if minds differ across sexes and races enough to justify diversity as an instrumental business goal, then they must differ enough in some specific skills, interests, and motivations that hiring and promotion will sometimes produce unequal outcomes in some company roles. In other words, if demographic diversity yields any competitive advantages due to psychological differences between groups, then demographic equality of outcome cannot be achieved in all jobs and all levels within a company."
One could argue that in information theory terms, there is more information encoded in a single "本" than a single "T".

However, this article is dealing with the concept of compression in terms of a simple symbolic representation of data.
The truth is, in most states, you can be fired for holding any opinion your boss doesn't like. Full stop.
Let's break down the reality of this situation as it currently stands:

1) You can't say what you want at work, period (there are no first amendment protections at work, just from the government). The person who posted the memo was naive and this memo from the CEO is corporate bullspeak to look good for outside PR. That's all this is, and if you take it for anything more you're also naive. For all intents and purposes it means nothing.

2) The company might be trying to make women feel more welcome by having the statement from the new diversity officer and the CEO, but I can tell you as a woman the LAST place I'd want to get a job right now is Google -- everyone is going to look at you like you only got your job because you're female; it's going to be extremely hard to get people to take you seriously. That's why, if you're going to hire only for diversity (not that I recommend it), do it in silence, don't tell the world, as it only backfires against those same employees you're bringing in.

3) If Google really wanted to get more females and minorities in its rank it should be looking at why it focuses so highly on only top rank schools (IF TRUE: MAY NOT BE-- SEE DISCUSSION BELOW) -- there's plenty of great, smart people constantly overlooked by Google because they can't see past their own biases in this area, which some would argue is a bigger barrier to diversity at Google than straight hiring by gender and race alone.
Reminds me of a quote from Alan Kay: "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
With proper citation, there's no violation, right?
Amex is exempt from that regulation, although the exemption doesn't last much longer -- until the end of 2017 or 2018, I don't remember which.
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Geezus, is that really the reason for co-pays?

The co-pays for some drugs can get pretty steep for people on fixed incomes like social security. If the only reason is to keep people from nagging the doctor, you'd think that the co-pays would be fixed instead of varying wildly depending on the drug.
It's not beyond the pale, but typically when I hear something like "we must eliminate the Department of Education", it is attached more to a philosophical reasoning (eg: "government has no business in education" / Constitutional arguments / individual freedom arguments) versus arguments over what the DoE actually does.

As far as I can tell, the Department of Education's role (https://www2.ed.gov/about/what-we-do.html) is largely limited to certain funding (eg: student loans), statistics, certain anti-discrimination legal enforcement that is applicable at the national level, and "[identifying] major issues" (eg advocacy). Plus some items related to the No Child Left Behind act.

A lot of that seems okay to me. In particular, I think having a centralized statistical department (what this department's role largely was before elevation to cabinet level) is absolutely worthwhile. Student loans would in my opinion be the most interesting topic to explore of the above, but it's more or less worth a debate over it... not "eliminate department due to Reasons".
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Sure, but a jury doesn't have to follow the logical chain of events. Look at the recent talcum powder lawsuits. No solid evidence it causes cancer, yet multiple million dollar lawsuits against J&J saying that it did.
Say hello to contactless https://www.visa.co.uk/products/visa-contactless/

Standard on most bank cards in the UK. No pin or anything. Tap it on the machine and you go. Takes 2 seconds at most.

Still, I do hold cash sometimes, you do need it in some cases.
The magazines were all together in a single magazine rack.

I'm not saying there's not gendered influences, I'm saying my personal life story doesn't have positive-reinforcing gendered elements that I can tell.
Not the greatest story but it delivered exactly what was promised - which is brands that are known but not known as belonging to Amazon. That's what was secret.

Also who cares if there are affiliate links? It's a nice way for the publisher to make money and makes absolutely no difference to you. Do you use an adblocker too? Why the outrage?
I use a more personally relevant fork of Spatie's checklist

https://github.com/spatie/checklist-going-live

I have not automated anything yet, but there are tools in that checklist that automate some of the process (HTTPS mixed content checks, dead link checks, etc)