skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[1] Full disclosure: he banned me on Twitter years ago because I fucked up an integral he had posed as a question for followers. Make of this what you will.

This is why I quit caring to follow him. Interesting ideas, but huge ego. More interested in peddling books and image rather than trying to reach out and inform.

Not to say he doesn't also produce novel math. Personally, I just have a hard time connecting to a persons message, no matter what it is, when they're "right" all the time.
It may be wrong to focus solely on my PI's ethics. This phenomenon is implicitly understood all throughout the research community, and by targeting her lab you wouldn't be really changing anything. Word would certainly get out that the lab is "uncooperative", and a company like Monsanto can simply call up the next struggling, underfunded lab who will be happy to comply and take the money.

The only way to get "justice" is if you change the market so that the researchers have power, and this can only happen if researchers have enough stability and money to pick and choose research as they please. If you give them enough money, you hope that they make the right and ethical decisions (similar to why judges are paid so much).
This font gave me a headache
Why not write with white on white? It would be so stylish
It is people like you and parent that make "Don't Read the Comments"[0] relevant. This company just launched and it's perfectly fine to introduce and "advertise" the products you make even on Hacker News -- particularly newly launched startups addressing a common need.

You seem to know nothing about the problem this company is trying to solve, or at least you chose not to share any usable information. You both read somewhere between 1-2 lines of this post and decided to chime in with your completely unsubstantial opinions.

You contributed nothing and did nothing to help the founders improve.

[0] http://blog.samaltman.com/dont-read-the-comments
Please note I am truly rooting for you guys to make the web a better place.

But it's not just the blog I linked to above that's slow, it's even the blog post of this very HN post.

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/KdCXA8bB

54 http request (26 of which are JS) just seems kind of nuts for a blog post.

Not trying to make you guys look bad.

But clearly asset merging and image optimization are needed.
Yes I did read it. You can check my comment history where I've even linked to that exact section you cite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14953398

I asked for empirical evidence that these initiatives had led to bad results at Google. If the biological research so directly contradicts Google's aims with these diversity initiatives, then we should be able to measure the negative impact, no? That Google has had these initiatives for years and still has ratios nowhere near the 50% that the author fears is a harmful goal, belies the notion that Google is conducting its recruitment in a reckless, diversity-at-all-costs way.

Of course having read the memo, I know that the author does not cite any such empirical evidence, besides begging-the-question anecdata such as "I've gotten many personal messages from fellow Googlers expressing their gratitude for bringing up these very important issues". While I believe the author to be smart and am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt about being sincere, I question how he can fill 10 pages with observations and boilerplate (including a trite table of what he thinks "left" and "right" biases are) and not be able to mention actual observed consequences of Google's hiring practices having gone awry. It suggests to me that he hasn't really been openminded or willing to investigate both sides of the issue.
You've somehow managed to put down the hard work of community leaders from your hind-sight high horse, and at the same time, disown responsibility for the choice of library/language your software was built on. Implying the fault is on them for doing their best to push the community forward, rather than on you for shipping software built on presumably new, unproven, and highly volatile foundations. Impressive, sir.
I don't think that matters. The iOS Swift community is large enough that there's lots of example code. I've got almost 7000 urls in my database of Swift blogs:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=90 - Last 90 days

Take a look at a weekly view: http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?week=0

Most topics get sufficient coverage. If you don't mind paying a small monthly fee, Ray Wenderlich's site has lots of tutorials that are well maintained. Plenty of free examples too:

https://www.raywenderlich.com

Another pay site that is be useful if you want to come up to speed quickly is http://nsscreencast.com
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Not my article and I don't know any theoretical physics.

In case that point happens to be false, I think his other argument still works:

- "data centers ... are spread out on the two-dimensional surface of the earth"

- if we tightly pack these data centers on the surface it will form a circle with area O(N) so distance to furthest data center is O(sqrt(N)). (sky scraper height is negligible)

Anyway, it's more of an interesting thought experiment than of any practical use. Nobody sane would estimate cost of generic "information retrieval" that mixes cost of ram/disk/network.
A minor nitpick, I would say that the main difference between what's happening now and the Orwellian model is that the coercive pressure for maintaining ideological conformity is mostly not government power (yet, in the US). Instead, it's corporate and similar organization power (such the organizing board of a popular conference).
Ive filed before but they still send back the same docs about coreLocation, funniest is when the update is for Swift but they just send me the Apple docs with Obj-C (only has Obj-C, no swift for years), a swift beginner would never understand, I can because I can translate but its pretty frustrating still because you're still guessing thats the right way.
Another cynical view is that it's a febrile fantasy to put all of your retirement eggs in the basket of an organization continuing to pay you over your entire lifetime.
The data:

https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-65.htm

In most well-developed countries, life expectancy of women at 65 is around 22 remaining years. I.e. once you have reached the age of 65, on the average you live until the age of 87, give or take a couple of years depending on country. Longest lives in Japan and France.

So depending on retirement age, people spend well over 20 years in retirement on average, but as the previous commenter said, many of them will be in retirement for 30 years.
Do we really need SQL any more? Is it okay to use python?
Implementing the permutation would be even better, because other stuff like Strobe, Keyak, Ketje, etc... could use it.
Scientist Cited by Google Memo Refutes Damore's Conclusion
Yeah I was more interested in just the interpretation of the statement. It goes to follow that if one of the claims isn't all-encompassing, the other isn't either.

But yeah I don't think it's a scientific claim, of course it depends on how you define "science". If you consider politically-motivated sociology to be science, then yeah I guess you could count privilege as a scientific concept...
FYI: Not for Windows
It was the word I could think of that expressed the sentiment. Would you prefer "Moderate centrist Republicans"?

Or... you know, the term everyone knows. Republican in Name Only. There's also DINO as well.
How a Penny helped ship a Billion dollar Product
Agreed. I'd happily trade the whole disney catalog for a new coen brother movie any day of the week.
>That's empirically not as true as it intuitively seems; induced traffic is a thing.

It's definitely empirically true. I've watched it happen for decades. There are certainly new cars on the road, but they would have been there anyway, for the most part. If you have a growing economy people immigrate in search of jobs whether the infrastructure is ready or not.

Now, I'd rather we had enough rail to handle all those people and more, but the problem with rail is before your network is built out completely it's not very useful.

>But, the HSR project is spending money on regional light rail and conventional rail between metro areas.

Great. Then all we need to cancel is the HSR itself.
United Kingdom to criminalize reidentification of anonymised data
Taleb holds that essentially all journalists are fools, and the articles they publish are "noise". He says "to cure yourself of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers". There's wisdom in this: the importance of the news of the day can't be immediately apprehended. What seems important at the time can quickly fade into irrelevance. Larger stories are often completely missed or gotten totally wrong.

Buuuuuut apparently what Taleb means is that no one but him can figure out the importance of things immediately. The guy tweets, apparently believing that he understands the lasting importance of what he's tweeting about. And hey, maybe he does... except, among other things, he's in (or was in) a twitter war with JK Rowling!

The guy is a loon who has figured a lot of things out, and now believes he knows everything.
I evaluated react native and I really like what I saw and was on the edge to use it. BUT, I am still afraid that it will bite me somewhere in time where it will hurt much. For example, I want to build an app with 50% standard interface stuff and about 50% custom, with some animations throughout the interface. From what I gathered reading other people experiences it would be a bit of a pain in react native.
And the other smaller reason is that I want to build native macOS app that goes along with it and as far as I can tell from my own experience, only natively written apps feel good on osx. And just don`t mention Electron, I hate it.
Ask HN: How exactly will AI be Dangerous?
Okay, I admit I'm probably missing the point here. But assuming a super intelligent AI comes into existence, how exactly will it physically threaten humanity?

How will it get from a program in a computer system to an actual threat to the human race and Earth as a whole?

I assume it wouldn't work like Skynet in the Terminator series, since military tools wouldn't be connected to the internet.

So how does your paperclip maximiser physically turn stuff into paperclips? Or your AI cope with world politics, armies and the world population?

How does your AI go from irrelevant internet troll to antagonist of a dystopian movie franchise?
First, see Jordan Peterson's interview with James Damore, where he goes through the memo almost line-by-line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU&spfreload=10

Second, he doesn't say that "female attributes/desires are not as compatible with tech jobs", at least not as you define them.

These are his suggestions for improving diversity:

"Women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things
○ We can make software engineering more people-oriented with pair programming
and more collaboration. Unfortunately, there may be limits to how people-oriented certain roles at Google can be and we shouldn't deceive ourselves or students into thinking otherwise (some of our programs to get female students into coding might be doing this).
● Women on average are more cooperative
○ Allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive. Recent updates to Perf may
be doing this to an extent, but maybe there's more we can do.
"

You are saying this is already the case at your workplace. Awesome, you already have what he suggests. Why is what he suggest wrong-headed??
Great to see chris still contributing - https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...
Not like you gave me much to work with. It was a single sentence of bland sarcasm.
Although you may be right I hope you are not. I like the semi open source nature and high levelness of JavaScript. It's not perfect but it beats dissembling things. Yes I know there are obfuscators.
FWIW, it's a column by Ross Douthat, regarded as one of the NYT's conservative opinion writers: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12douthat.h...

(Not that columns can't be well-reported stories in their own right)
"It has nothing to do with Schelling point or bounded rationality, because that suggests you can tell that a block is a "forked block" the moment it's created, but you can't." - if you mine an invalid block you can tell that it will not be part of the main chain. In this sense mining a valid block is a Schelling point - because it is what you expect others expect.
How to be a blowhard...
Can you show a pricing chart (beyond free tier) before asking for potential customer to sign up for the free trial? It's not worth it signing up otherwise.
The SCAI bots I've seen are more hardcoded tactics engines rather than machine learning models. They're still impressive, but their logic isn't quite 'learned' it's hand coded which is a crucial difference.
Not so much when you need a feature not included in free. And free is always subject to change.
I'm the original author of the linked post you refer to.

Perhaps the title is click bait, but at the time I was meeting with a lot of users looking for someone else's problems.

5TB could still easily be single server territory. It depends more on the queries.

My point is just that some workloads are better solved with (some) vertical scaling first.
Fix link so it points to article top, instead of comments (?)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/maybe...
New York Times once again demonstrates its alt-right philosophy by assuming a there are merely two gender (https://apath.org/63-genders/), _in the first sentence_.
lmao idk where u come from but no evidence means no ground for argument. even if you made a point that you cant find evidence. If you accept that lack of evidence is evidence, then a i have a proposal for you that begins with r and ends with eligion.
Screenreaders do work, but document navigation gets crippled above and beyond, SPA's tend to alienate visually impaired people.
The Chinese were not thrashed by the British in the early 19th C. - they were thrashed by the East India Company who had embraced meritocracy long before then (they actually copied the Chinese system).

Napoleon is a classic example of the success of meritocracy - it took the combined effort of the whole European nobility to defeat France and even then it was a close run thing.
This NYT reporter filed the first article on the topic:

https://twitter.com/daiwaka/

His report (and tweeting) was so partisan that I got really concerned with the integrity of the NYT as a whole. This new piece restores some of my confidence in them, even though it is just an opinion piece.'

Btw - is it just me, or is he way too friendly with the people running the company he is assigned to report on?
> His repeated references to women as childbearers

Pardon me, but this is in(s)ane.

WHO ELSE BUT WOMEN BEARS CHILDREN?

Apologies, but I had to get that out of my system.
>"IOS sdk, on the other hand, has become a bit of a mess, due largely to the pace at which the field is moving ( although not as bad as android)."

Could you elaborate on whats messy with these SDKs?
Best way to handle unwanted telemarketers?
For the past few weeks I've received at least 3 calls daily from the same telemarketing company. This company is trying to exchange $100 gift cards for $2.95 shipping/handling. I've asked multiple times to be placed on the Do Not Call list. When I mentioned this to the representative today, I was informed in a very arrogant tone, "Oh sir, we are a very large company with phone numbers from every state. That isn't going to work." The company refuses to disclose its name.

Any clever suggestions to report and/or combat this issue? I've filed multiple FCC complaints, but I'm not confident this will lead to a resolution.
There's no connection really. Patenting seed has been around long, long before GMO technology (around 80 years or so in the US, around 50 years in my country).
Netlify as a service doesn't really affect how you do things as a front-end developer, but we do help make sure that all those assets get to your browser as fast as can be.

But yes, we all agree that we should do a better job of making our website leaner and we do have a bunch of changes planned around that (and we're hiring!).
"The days of pure/basic research are dead, especially with funding from the public sector drying up."

I take issue with that statement, there is still a lot of basic research done that is publicly funded or funded via organisations like the Wellcome trust. My wife is in cancer research and there is no way anyone can influence her results. I also know her colleagues and two of them are also members of the Royal Society, and same thing goes for them.

With regards to privately funded research and applied science, yeah i do agree that there are serious issues but I think it also depends on the regulatory environment. As a counterexample, look at the recent study done in Europe that showed that neonics did have some harmful effects on bees in the wild. The research was paid for by Bayer and Syngenta and those results where published (Although Bayer and Syngenta disagreed with the conclusions, as one would expect).

Forgot to say: I also agree with you that funding situation is still not great but we're not yet at the point where there is NO public funded research
When people say "orwellian", they're often thinking "1984".

I'm thinking "Animal Farm". It's a process, a takeover of the mind. It doesn't start with government and doesn't end at government.

To be fair, it's not "orwellian" in literally every sense of the word, that was just a figure of speech.
He really talks in extremes. I see all his points but it doesn't make these things pure garbage.
I think that you underestimate the US Government... they are not a regular consumer...
Your are right, traveling to much, all the time, you end up having no bonds. This is not good.
How does your music map work? Not too clear on how related artists are picked.

Also, I'm guessing that the nyt got some sort of special dataset from YouTube. Geo located streams are priveleged to the content owner, per the YouTube API.
Looks clear & readable on my computer (Mac/Firefox) Perhaps you are missing the font and the page has a bad fallback font?
I did not say that you're a "hateful, dogmatic, sexist racist". I said that postmodernism and feminism are.

Very few people subscribe to all of the beliefs of a particular ideological and philosophical framework. But the tenets of an ideology are there, even if a particular adherent is unaware of them.

An ideology manifests itself in its effects on the world. In postmodernism and feminism, we see that in the completely dogmatic and anti-science reaction to the memo. Here was a memo that was produced in good faith, stayed fully within the realm of established science in its assertions, and within the realm of the reasonable in its opinion, and yet we have absolute lies being trotted out by its critics about its content, and an ideologically motivated firing of its author.

This is not an accident. It's a result of an anti-science dogma that frames the world as a power struggle between identity group, and where facts are only acceptable when they aid in the fulfilment of the postmodernist/feminist agenda: which is to flatten the social dominance hierarchy that, according to the postmodernist/feminist framework, is formed by various identity groups. This is inspired by Marxism (as the historical record shows), whether or not you personally identify as a Marxist yourself.
Ruby internals: “This is some roflscale crazy stuff”
(following are purely my own opinions, nothing more )

I think it's good to do humanities studies but naive to latch on to one or two. Humanities is a messy field from a scientific perspective. But nevertheless there is plenty of signal there.

The issue I have is starting with something like 50/50 and then trying to optimize for that. This is invariably what happens. This leads to all kinds of weird, bizzare practices like being discriminatory in hiring based on (largely) immutable attributes like race and gender. The concept of gender itself is so in flux these days that it seems premature to start with 50/50.

This above approach I think is known as equality of outcome. I am not a big fan of that.

I personally think a better system is based on equality of opportunity where the optimization function should be trying to improve people's starting points. This is much harder but much better for the long term health of the society (in my opinion ).

In equality of opportunity, the hiring will be blind to gender. But work will be done to encourage more girls to participate in the sciences from an early age. Liberals wont be able to pat themselves on their backs immediately as they won't be fulfilling quotas quickly to show faux diversity. Corporations won't be able to bandage bad PR events quickly (like Google's gender paygap thing ) but this is in my opinion alot healthier over time.

Now, over time, I would expect the ratio to improve, but then settle at whatever is natural without any top down pressure to fulfill prescribed quotas. It might be the case that the mean of the distribution of women is closer to things like raising families or educating kids as teachers (the most important job in the world in my opinion ) instead of toiling away in front of a screen for crap money to make more money for a big corporation (compared to men).

In the first case (equality of outcome) we take two different distributions, men and women, and push them into a 50 50 split. In the second case (equality of opportunity), we try to move the means closer bottom up. I prefer the second approach. Slower, harder but much better for the long term health of society.
Did you read the thing? You have the greatest gender balance in comp sci in the least egalitarian societies. There's a body of scientific literature you could consult if you wanted the diversity you claim to want.
Based on Peter's blog post[0] a few years ago, I was under the impression they wrote their own.

Maybe steipete can chime in?

[0]https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2016/a-pragmatic-approach-to-cross...
The features not included in free are not typically things you can't do without for personal projects (ie, password protection, role based access control, role management for team members, etc...)
Firefox's BrowserID/Persona used to do something similar. If you were logged into an email account (which supported it) and you signed up for a site (which supported it), it would auto-confirm your email. I never saw it in the wild, but the demo was awesome.

I wish browsers found an easy, secure way to bake this into the product. I'd much rather a confirmation modal than having to go to your email and click a link.
I'm saying that IMO, the very nature of the job is compatible with the traits that he says are more common in women. I don't think that my company is an outlier here.
I concur. The Android SDK seems to violate SOLID principles and fails to capitalize on OOP at all.
Shame on me for not looking more closely!

So when you look at the per-operation cost (t/s in my model) then what emerges is, indeed, logarithmic (r2 ~ .96 for lm(t/s ~ s + log(s)). Bounded, for sure, but if you walk in with a vector-indexing-bound but array-size-independent algorithm expecting that the performance for 1e3 elements will be representative of the behavior for 1e6, you're in for a surprise.
He totally lost me when he started talking about Michael Flynn being one of the great military minds or praising The Mooch's rant and "being direct, natural, and nononsense".

Seems like a smart guy but...