skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good advice here. I have done it twice. The first time around I grew fast and was happy. This second time I am unhappy as the organization is slower, less nimble and very little room to grow and learn. I hope you will have luck with your choice!
The truth is probably that they're both right.

Musk is right in that we probably need to be careful about autonomous weapons, which are very possible.

But the expert in the article is right that we don't have to worry about sentient AI.

WW3 will probably be a drone war vs a human army.

Drones give a power multiplier. Planes that fly themselves to the hot spots mean pilots can control 10 planes at once.

10 robot sentries can watch the front lines and shoot anything that moves on the command of one person.

You get the idea, robots as a human multiplier are the future of warfare. It's not the robots we need to worry about, it's who controls the robots.
Because cancer patients, at the difference of car accident victims, are legally fully capable of consent. In addition, many people will try anything to live longer.

Some patients are genuinely willing to contribute as research subjects in the hope of helping others, and this is a good reason to participate. What many people embarking on studies for new treatments do not realize, is that studies are not designed to benefit them personally (random assignation to placebo group, etc.). It is a common perception that people embarking on a clinical trial hoping for a miraculous cure have the wrong attitude, as there is little chance that you will be cured, and it will be a collateral effect even if it does happen.

PS: the above is a widely accepted opinion in current medical ethics.
You mean discontinued duds? That reinforces my point rather than negates it.
Pretty sure GP means the mass emigration of Europeans to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
They call it that because Kafka is a log-based datastore.
That's one reason I avoid public transit in San Francisco.

However, it hasn't been a problem in my use of taxis, rental cars, Uber, or Lyft, so I presume it won't be a problem with autonomous cars. They'll either drive themselves to the car wash when someone has an accident (spills, pees, vomits), or if for some reason a "wet" car arrives, then you'll report it, and get the next one.
Python is pretty much becoming the de facto language of academia (outside of CS). I wonder how much this is driving overall Python usage?
That was: ''_premature_ optimization is the root of all evil".
I do believe on the 100% confidence, but when you have full filter is that still meaningful?
As in - are there still any gains on using a bloom filter in this case?

I know that is sort of a corner case, but in that situation the 100% confidence case happens 0% of the times which makes the filter a bit useless - no?

Just trying to understand what are the limitations as been super curious about bloom filters for a long time
The US had a major role in creating the environment that lead to Putin gaining power, with a much heavier hand than anything Russia is accused of at this point. Matt Taibbi had a good article on this a little while ago:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-what-d...
Had to reparse "throw out ..." a few times before I understood what you saying.

Initially I thought you were withdrawing your former endorsement.
I think market forces will make it so that the one that inflates less quickly will be more volatile and the higher risk premium of holding it will make it often less attractive than the one that inflates more quickly but often it also will be the opposite.

Like most investments there will be a trade-off of risks vs returns but both currencies will in the long run, be poor investments compared to income generating assets tied to real production.
Thats the wrong way to look at it IMO.

The question is before you even start throwing the moral gauntlet on other people, what are you doing about it? Now you might be doing something but then the question is whether you are actually doing something about it.

There are plenty of arguments for why ex. doing NGO work or sponsoring a child is doing more harm than good and actually hurting. So I wouldn't be so fast to cast judgement.

I don't think you find many people who don't care about other people suffering intellectually. The question is whether they are choosing to suffer more others to suffer less.
I run mostly direct response campaigns, so conversion focused. Take it for what it's worth.

I would never trust the numbers reported in any ad interface to accurately reflect reality. But, why should I care if it reflects objective reality? I'm only trying to get X conversions for $Y.

For me, building the "fraud" or poor accounting into my economic model is how you play the game. I don't care if FB sends me 500 visits at $1 each, with 20% bots. I just care that I spent $500, for $conversion_result.

People who do branding campaigns may feel differently because they're reporting on how many humans saw their message. I don't think that's a big deal, but I also think branding campaigns are a waste of money anyhow.
> But the author does make a critical conservative assumption by implying that economic output is a proxy for "value".

I think she made a critical assumption that "ability to create economic output" is a proxy for "ability to lift people out of poverty". I consider that statement to be much more reasonable than its negation.
what in the world is a "traditional vs. secular-rational values" axis? Why is it in linear units between -2.5 and 2.5?

I have no idea how to interpret this graph.
Once the first colony dies on Mars I think we'll forget about that distraction for a while. Near term future of humanity is on this planet and there won't be any long term future if we fuck things up here
Look at Pipenv: http://docs.pipenv.org/en/latest/

Packaging/distribution is certainly a mess.
Cars are also unused for over %90 of the time, taking up space in some parking spot on premium land close to people's workspaces and homes. On almost every road in america, 2 lanes of traffic are taken up by car parking. In a self driving car future, we can free up those lanes and put excess cars in parking / maintenance towers. The software system managing can predictively dispatch them based on previous demand curves to prevent traffic jams.

The amount of cars we would need as a society will equal the peak demand curve, much like electricity demand today. It will also be very likely that those cars will have multiple people in them since a large part of the cost savings will come from car sharing. In the future, we will probably have 1 motor vehicle serving 10 households, vs the almost 1:1 to 1:0.5 ratio we have here in the US today.
It really didn't matter if they were morally justified or not by any philosophy. The point was is that they were opposed to the hegemony and that's all that mattered.

Wait...you're saying that they pursue their own interests?! How dare they!
I wrote myself a compiler extension to check this for me:

https://github.com/abjennings/EnumAnalyzer
Cars are major polluters, right? Or is my life a lie?
Aka "we are using SSL and not persisting the code to disk once we have it". Not all that reassuring, other than maybe protecting them from someone stealing a hard drive...
My prediction is they will continue the decline that's been going on for a long time.

I'm not convinced they were wrong about chess either.
I've always been curious on how this change in 3.3 impacts the C/C++ interface. I don't really know where to look it up, and since I haven't yet had to code a C++ library for Python I've had no burning need to answer the question.
Created a compiler extension to help me:

https://github.com/abjennings/EnumAnalyzer
Sorry, but I fail to see the difference between your contrived examples. And I'm amused that you think people are being pretentious for bringing up "whataboutism," when the term itself is arguably a colloquialism.
Full Genomes Corporation will do a 30x coverage full genome for $1150; I'm a customer and purchased mine back when it was $1850. They sequence through Novogene in China. They also gave me my BAM files and raw FASTQ reads (~300gb of data). I have not found anyone else who will do that.

https://www.fullgenomes.com/
Amazon is under fire for reported Hurricane Irma price gouging
Google Sheets Query function: The most powerful function in Google Sheets
I have not read Amy Wax's original letter but my understand is that she made the claim that people in the lower social-economic classes have been rejecting the "Bourgeois" culture. She then went on to say that this rejection has and will have negative affects on those groups.

Would someone be willing to point out how that claim is offensive? Or is it how she made the claim that is the issue?
As someone who has contributed a bit to the Linux kernel, I agree with you that the use of goto in these two functions is... unusual. They do seem to fall into a few patterns, however.

On a first look at the first function (tls_sw_sendmsg), we appear to have:

- send_end is the normal cleanup target at the end of the function, that's common and found almost everywhere;

- alloc_encrypted, alloc_plaintext, push_record seem to be "retry" labels, where the code goes back and tries again;

- fallback_to_reg_send is the "then" case of an if, could be removed by inverting the sense of the test;

- wait_for_sndbuf, wait_for_memory are in the style of a cleanup target, but they end by jumping to one of the "retry" labels above;

- trim_sgl is... well, it seems an attempt to avoid code duplication, or something like that, the "goto trim_sgl;" could be replaced by "trim_both_sgl(sk, orig_size); goto send_end;"

Yeah, this code looks more like assembly than C. That appears to be the kind of hand-optimized code usually reserved for hot functions, where the "normal" case encounters as few branches as possible; the fallback_to_reg_send case points to that (the normal case would be the one without the goto). So the way to understand the control flow of these functions would be: ignore the gotos on first reading, since that would be the normal case, and after that look at each goto and understand what it does.
Not mutually exclusive. Evacuations are typically due to imminent risk, not necessarily that the housing is unlivable once that risk passes. An evacuation can even be ordered when the house sustains no damage, as a precautionary measure. Evacuation != condemned property.
The first drugs designed to fight aging are ready for human testing
"Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said."

Excuse my ignorance but isn't $100K chicken feed?
At least there will be lots of factual and camera evidence from the self driving car computer to make a case against the arseholes who do this.
The whole point is if this (or something similar) was well known then you wouldn't have to use shitty typeless stuff like JSON...
> It can't logically be the foreign nationals who are attempting to help a campaign. They're not under the jurisdiction of US federal law.

Criminal violations of US laws whose prohibition is not expressly territorially restricted that occur outside of the US are successfully prosecuted in US courts with some frequency. Bringing people before the court for prosecution may be challenging where extradition isn't an option, but outright kidnapping from a foreign country or even full-scale military military invasion to do so have occurred.
You may be right, but it's clear that the _level_ of the addiction, and its ubiquity, are more powerful than anything before. It's basically everyone is doing a minimum of a couple hours a day (but spread out, so without any prolonged cessation), with the average now like 4-5 hours I believe. Television is probably the closest competitor, but that was typically confined to blocks of after-work hours.
A little googling:

TANF (the last vestige of single-mother welfare) is ~$30bn/yr for the whole US, state & federal contribution.

SSDI (a mix of people with severe medical problems and the work-shy) is $150bn/yr.

OASI (I'm old - gimmie money) is $813bn/yr

Medicare (I'm old - gimmie healthcare) is $709bn/yr

Single mother welfare is a rounding error in the budget compared to other subsidies and welfare, which is mostly diverted towards older and wealthier people.

I'm not just talking about cash welfare -- try holding down a job while raising a kid by your own and see how much our society will bend over backwards to accommodate any lifestyle choice other than single child-rearing.

I don't have a dog in this fight - I'm a middle-aged, childless single guy. But I have eyes to see and it doesn't take much research to figure out who's getting the short end of the stick in our social order.
I think it's the intermodalation distortion or as I call it "the room sound" that your non-conscious mind perceives. The best example of this I've heard is when listening to identical masters on SACD/DSD vs PCM audio. Notably different sound when reproduced via loudspeakers.
Yeah, the "goto retry" (jump back to the beginning of the function or the loop) is also common.
DC/OS is a distribution of Mesos similar to how Red Hat is a distribution of Linux.

It includes additional open-source and closed-source components that make running/managing a Mesos cluster and Mesos frameworks (such as Marathon, Spark, Cassandra, etc) easier.

The community edition is free to use.
I spent some time looking at this recently. I'm focussed on throughput, not high TPS. The quality of blog posts is absolutely atrocious. There's a lot of blog posts that amount to "Set this setting to this value" but no real explanation why, or what the setting actually does. Some of what I've seen are actually downright dangerous.
Airlines are capping ticket prices after furious customers took to Twitter
I got confused because I was clicking the boxes and nothing was happening. They should definitely put a demo button towards the top. But yes this was cool!
This seems like an extremely ignorant comment to me. There is a ton of black culture in the South that is uniquely American.
Hurricanes lower your credit score
I wrote MLJAR (https://mljar.com) that is doing model and parameters search - and it helps me a lot with ML projects.
I wrote a compiler extension to help me:

https://github.com/abjennings/EnumAnalyzer

It doesn't analyze the control flow or anything like that. It just looks for places where I throw a certain exception, then checks the surrounding code block to make sure all the defined enum values are mentioned at least once.

It definitely doesn't handle all the corner cases. But I think it's 90% of the benefit for 10% of the cost. Also, I learned to write compiler extensions...
This is my philosophy on the future. Feel free to adopt or reject it as you see fit.

Trying to reason about the future on cosmic scales is beyond our current and any foreseeable capabilities so let's discount that right away; we don't quite know if the universe will end in heat death (though we have some hints). We don't know if it is possible to create or move to other universes or even whether such a concept makes sense. As long as such things haven't been ruled out we can assume they're true: if life survives to the end of this universe it will have accumulated enough knowledge and technology to create or move to a new one.

Back in the present every species on earth is doomed. Whether an asteroid strike or the sun turning into a red giant eventually this planet will become uninhabitable.

It is not known whether intelligent life is a common result of evolution or we're a fluke. We do know it takes a very long time if it happens at all. It is possible we are the only highly intelligent species that will ever appear on this planet.

The primary responsibility of humanity then is to balance resource consumption with the creation of an interplanetary society first, then eventually an interstellar one. We must protect the earth's resources and preserve as many species as we can reasonably preserve... but we must also preserve modern technology and pursue the establishment of permanent self-sufficient colonies on other worlds in the solar system. Once we do so we must take and spread as many species from earth as we can. In the medium term (next million years) this isn't so important but once we can achieve some form of interstellar movement spreading life to other systems is key to ensuring it isn't wiped out (or reset back to single-cell organisms).

We are the only natural process capable of preserving life and so far as we are aware ours may be the only instance of life (or intelligent life) in the universe. What future iterations of life will make of such an opportunity we can only guess, but if we don't do it in all likelihood no one else ever will.

If no intelligent life survives then our existence is pointless and will be erased when the sun's red-giant phase scours every last trace that any living thing has ever existed from the face of the earth.
I have a related question that most would probably consider relevant but which this article (quite rightly) doesn't answer (as it's not relevant for Netflix).

Let's say I want to prepare a server to respond quickly to HTTP requests, from all over the world.

How do I optimize where I put it?

Generally there are three ways I can tackle this:

1. I configure/install my own server somewhere

2. Or rent a preconfigured dedicated server I can only do so much with

3. I rent Xen/KVM on a hopefully not-overcrowded/oversold host

Obviously the 1st is the most expensive (I must own my own hardware; failures mean a trip to the DC or smart hands), the 2nd will remove some flexibility, and the 3rd will impose the most restrictions but be the cheapest.

For reference, knowing how to pick a good network (#1) would be interesting to learn about. I've always been curious about that, although I don't exactly have anything to rack right now. Are there any physical locations in the world that will offer the lowest latency to the highest number of users? Do some providers have connections to better backbones? Etc.

#2 is not impossible - https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/dedicated-servers/&step=0 currently lists a HP SL170s with dual L5360s, 24GB, 2TB and 20TB bandwidth @ 1Gbit for $50/mo. It's cool to know this kind of thing exists. But I don't know how good Delimiter's network(s) is/are (this is in Atlanta FWIW).

#3 is what I'm the most interested in at this point, although this option does present the biggest challenge. Overselling is a tricky proposition.

Hosting seems to be typically sold on the basis of how fast `dd` finishes (which is an atrocious and utterly wrong benchmark - most tests dd /dev/zero to a disk file, which will go through the disk cache). Not many people seem to setup a tuned Web server and then run ab or httperf on it from a remote with known-excellent networking. That's incredibly sad!

Handling gaming or voice traffic is probably a good idea for the target I'd like to be able to hit - I don't want to do precisely that, but if my server's latency is good enough to handle that I'd be very happy.
All versions of learning, not just playing outside. Didn't think this was very hard to understand. Then again I went to school...
The fact that huge number of people couldnt get past the syntax is why I liked efforts such as Dylan:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)

A bit better. Then, the approach closest to mine of mixing 3GL syntax with LISP was Julia language. It was femtolisp underneath with a syntax more like a traditional language. You get the power without the ugliness. Dylan I havent seen in a long time but Julia is taking off. Look into it if you havent.

https://julialang.org
I see a theory, not a translation, am I alone in this?
Yes the package is available but as far as I can see not open source yet.
If Juicero hadn't already existed we would have had to make it up?
For the love of God, please tell me what your company does
The first question that came to my mind is if burnout and depression are the same (your comment made me assume that you think they are the same). A quick google search surfaced this - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072470/

According to the article, they are different and have some overlapping symptoms which makes diagnosis difficult. The article seems to suggest that the path to recovery is different for both which makes it very important to be sure that the diagnosis is correct in the first place.
> As much as America would like to think their laws apply across the globe, they don't actually have jurisdiction over you.

You might want to check with Humberto Álvarez-Machaín (acquitted, sure, but not because the law didn't apply to him) or Manuel Noriega about that.
The US alone? Or every major political power in human history?

And if you don't believe Russia is actively running interference in other countries via "little green men" etc then I'd encourage you to read more about the current political affairs of nation states like Ukraine or Georgia. Or about a little historical event called the iron curtain and it's associated revolutions.

Many horrible things have been done in the name of Western hegemony but let's not pretend these actions occur without provocation from other geopolitical actors or without context. Can and should we do better - absolutely. But the real world isn't always as nice as our morality would like it to be.

As for your second point, are political opponents of Western leaders being beaten to death in prison? Or banned from voicing their views? Or disappeared in the night? We've got a long way to go before we're comparable to Russia in terms of how dissent is stifled.
Russia does not have actual meaningful elections. That's a fairly fundamental difference.
How Alex GB earned millions for charity within years by working in quant trading
It seems far more "problematic" to infer a racist statement when none was actually made. It's disingenuous to put words in people's mouths.

Let's not forget a persons reputation is at stake here, and casually calling them a racist because you extrapolated something that they may or may not agree with can be extremely damaging.

If someone is truly a racist you don't really need to "out" them -- they'll do it themselves over time.
I don't think the rest of the planet would need to worry much about the future of the planet (not that they do anyway) if it wasn't for humanity.

Arguably humans make life on earth worse for most other types of life we are in contact with
Pretty near exactly how I did mine also, and we've raised almost the exact same amount. Surprisingly good post.
It's not an opinion, it's a conjecture. Opinions are emotional responses to facts, not arguments about their veracity.

Examples of opinions include:

The color red is beautiful.
I'm sad that sharks are being hunted.
I hate poor people.

None of the following are opinions:

This rose is red.
My landlord poisoned my dog.
Poor people do more drugs than rich people.

In particular, a statement is not an opinion simply because it is presented without evidence. It is only an opinion if it can't possess any in the first place.
You make a poor point.

First, your definition of whataboutism doesn't jibe with ones in common use, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism.

Second, your "NOT" example only works if A and B are equivalent, which, obviously they are not for several reasons. (the tactics and secrecy are different as are the elections.

Actually, you make a very poor point, when I consider the the insult you hurled at someone for daring to bring up whataboutism -- a term apparently invented to describe the tactic of deflecting criticism of Russian actions, which is exactly this situation.

Poor show.
Hypocrisy is still not a fallacy.