skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "glaring and obvious" is a little hyperbole, in the sense that most of the decisions an engineer can make aren't really that influential, and more often than not if the odds are right, nothing will break.

An example would be: I know this different schedule can probably save the company $xxx money, but since it's my boss who proposed it I'll just let it pass.

It really takes a village. The culture of standing up against higer-ups is sometimes way out of the league for a single person to achieve.
Two points: I asked why you think there are people here who don't believe in climate changing killing the planet right now, but you went down an orthogonal path; that second paragraph also veers way off track from the original context.

You're a nice person and try to be nice, but i will not acceed to giving the HN userbase that kind of coddling, because the people posting here are not average. Not about an issue of life death for the entire human race. You care about someone feeling sad. I care about whether children 2-3 generations down the line from now get to die a natural death. Do you think the former is more important than the latter?
Hold on. I'm not a fan of Communism, but there's a pretty clear difference. The Soviet Union was a particular implementation of Communism which chose killing. Killing is not an inherent requirement to the ideology. Contemporary proponents of Communism or Socialism usually aren't claiming that the Soviet Union's implementation was good. In Neo-Nazism the ideology itself has the elimination of other races as its goal. The ideology itself is violence. Talk about false equivalence.
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Call climate change what it is: violence
Maybe his father. It's a little early to see if he's a long-term survivor. In the scheme of things, he's an authoritarian infant. Not to mention, North Korea is more likely being operated by a military cabal right now than by Kim Jong-un.
I know this is probably irrational but because ibm is associated with garbage Watson I don't take any of their links seriously anymore.
I must have missed the part where Antifa gets a free pass. Antifa, like nazies, is a label used like a bugbear. Most often it's seen by ideological opponents who use it to discredit gatherings of protestors: "Oh, there were $LABEL there, therefore everyone there is $LABEL". Every time Antifa is mentioned in the media, it's as a negative. No-one seriously gets an Antifa onto talk shows to discuss their views, and they're painted as thugs and professional miscreants.

The only difference with the way society treats neo-nazis and antifa is that libertarians don't run around saying "I defend antifa's right to freedom of expression". Referencing antifa here isn't much of a counterpoint, because they don't get treated any better.

> While Antifa is not exclusively Communist, a large portion describe themselves as such.

This is a categorisation error. When Antifa commits their violence, they're not doing it to promote communism, nor are they primarly communist.

And as I said above, communism is a broad ideology - you can be for communism and still despise the hammer-and-sickle flag. Not to mention that modern-day communists don't think that Stalin 'got it right', whereas modern-day nazis do think that Hitler 'got it right'.
Fractions have been thought. But, I understand what you are saying and will cover basic stuff. e.g. Print, variables, loops and so on.
Explain to me how universally devaluing the currency I pay you in doesn't help me? If my wealth is stored in land and owning market segments and you earn a salary which is entirely based on the value of a fiat currency. How do you get ahead by fiat currency being made freely available to everyone. Explain it to me.
FWIW I was referring to the abstract pure tuple, not the tuple as implemented in Python and some other languages where order is very useful.

"inessential" might be a better than "unimportant"
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Humans also didn't live in a lot of environments that were enabled by A/C.
I worked on a project with them, and had great experience. Very talented team, and also great to work with.
I'm curious what are the canonical references which state that a compiler does high-level to low-level transformations?
Everybody knows it, everybody talks about it, Google is the only one who really does it for now (afaik).
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I wonder if we'll start saying the same about refrigeration, electricity or reliably clean water?
> There is no way to answer your question in a way that will satisfy you.

Most startups answer this question quite well. I am hardly asking for something difficult. What's special about this one? Uber, despite the grey areas in it's business, is legally bound to it's investors. It's founders are not anonymous and can be held to their agreements.

> It's always a risk. But investors choose whether to take that risk.

Usually the risk is that you will lose money if the business fails and make your money back if it succeeds. In this case, the business has no rational reason to pay you anything even if it succeeds. Most startups fail, but for this one, none of it's founders has any skin in the game. They don't even suffer a hit to their reputation if they walk away, because they're anonymous!

> The best way to assuage your concerns is to hop on Slack and talk to him. He doesn't make himself hard to talk to.

Is this your standard? Jordon Belford would have passed this with flying colors. Anyone who is any good at sales knows how to sound honest despite the veracity of their sales pitch.
The yin and yang. I love it. :)
Thank you everyone for your feedback. I will keep everything simple and stop. Cover advanced stuff later on. I will follow links mentioned by Jemmeh.
and uppercase.
"It’s also a huge field. Try checking out security in your current discipline."

I'm actually 15 at the moment with basically no experience besides messing around with kali tools like a script kiddie.

Got any tips for programming languages to learn/where to learn?

I appreciate the post!
I might believe in the advent of AI once my phone alarm disables itself instead of ringing when I have been travelling at 75miles per hour for 30 minutes, obviously awake and going to work.
Those YouTube lectures are prof O'Donnell course. I don't know if they match.
Sure, how about Chinese communism under Mao? Or how about Vietnamese communism under pol pot, or Cuba, how Venezuelan socialism?

The list of communisms evils go on and on yet I still read apologists exposing its supposed virtues regularly.
This already happened in the 2003 Iraq invasion. It was wildly unpopular, so Cheney & Gang crafted a bullshit strategy around using very few troops and a lot more technology. It never made sense. They just wanted a war and knew they had to placate members of the military and people concerned about a Vietnam-style draft.

The next time their strategy might actually succeed. Once the U.S. military has a drone army capable of patrolling every street in Iraq 24/7/365.

> In a January 2003 CBS poll, 64% of Americans had approved of military action against Iraq; however, 63% wanted Bush to find a diplomatic solution rather than go to war, and 62% believed the threat of terrorism directed against the U.S. would increase due to war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
It would be interesting to know the coal miner cancer rate compared to smokers in the general population.
I suspect they will use AI to help teach AI:

"Seven-year-old Chen Jiahao has a problem sum he can’t solve and he can’t wait to get home from school to pose the question to his all-knowing maths tutor.

His tutor is amazing, the boy says. Just snap a photograph of the question and the tutor will provide every possible approach to solve the problem, step by step – all in a split second.

Jiahao’s tutor is inside his mother’s smartphone. It is, in fact, an app that draws on artificial intelligence (AI) technology to solve challenging maths problems for primary school children.

And it’s just one of many AI-enabled apps Jiahao uses daily on his mother’s phone. When the boy started primary school in Beijing, his teachers recommended that his parents install the apps on their phones. The software give out school assignments, grade pupils’ work and even generate unique sets of exercises for each child based on their areas of weakness.

“Jiahao likes his AI teachers,” said his mother, Yu Ting, adding that her son spends at least two hours on the AI apps every day. “He greets my phone as eagerly as he greets me.”"

Inside the AI revolution that’s reshaping Chinese society
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2100427/china...

Interestingly, it seems Jiahao is not allowed to bring a smartphone to school for now. That could change in the future.
My both grandfathers have fought Nazis during WWII, one was wounded and drove them out all the way back to Berlin. I've heard stories from a teacher about their childhood friend being raped and dismembered by German soldiers and other horrors. I find it disappointing when everyone today slaps "Nazi" label around an anything they disagree with. They are people alive who have concentration camp numbers tattooed on their arms and they are probably shaking their heads listening to a bunch of spoiled brats, sipping their $5 Starbucks lattes and tweeting on their latest iPhone 7s how they live in a fascist country and nazis are literally around every corner.
Indeed. Pair that with a beer at the BeerShoppe, and a burger at Burger and Brews.
It was Google's simplification and opening of Tensorflow that almost immediately sparked the boom that's occurring now. That is exactly where it began to broadly take hold.

You can trace it directly by counting AI stories on HN. There's a before TF and an after TF. I don't think it's subtle, there was a huge acceleration at exactly that time forward.
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> The only century routinely teach her citizen about how to do revolution, and is called to respect hierarchy

> Sure, but you learn that in a country you described as teaching to respect hierarchy, did you not find the contradictory?

I'm not sure where the contradictory is, because I certainly don't feel that overthrowing your superiors is an acceptable thing during my education, and this discussion is getting more political than I'm comfortable with on HN.

It doesn't take too much effort to acknowledge that China, or more so the entire eastern Asia's culture, favors respecting hierarchy, and I'm not sure why we're even debating this. I'm also not sure what about my statement is fabricated. You literally cannot fabricate an opinion.

I'll say this though: things are moving in the right direction, and I'm seeing the culture moving away from respecting hierarchy in all conditions. But you really can't fix the problem without acknowledging it.
You unwittingly discovered how much value $1k/mo will have if it's freely given to everyone.
Also, I think the majority of journalism harbors a liberal bias. So any basic analysis of aggregate news links would likely lean liberal.
Yes, things get very complicated when we as a society decide to ban thoughts and ideas. I would say it eventually gets so complicated that we would end up banning way more things than we should, out of a sense of fairness.
You remind me of Barrett from FF7. They killin' the planet, Cloud! Good memories.

I think it's very far from obvious that children 2-3 generations from now will die horribly due to climate change. It's clear that it's a real phenomenon, but the impact remains to be seen. People have also been predicting doomsday scenarios roughly since people were people, yet the planet finds a way around them and life goes on.

It's not really about being nice. It's more like, if there were evidence that climate change will absolutely lead to large-scale death and destruction, then it wouldn't be necessary to make it a moral imperative to care about it. As it stands, it's very hard to prove that it will. And without proof, the idea that people should be shamed for being skeptical doesn't really add up.
My central unit was out, I bought 2 window units for $400. AC was fixed in a couple of days. I could have gotten a hotel room cheaper, but I'm more than happy to just put those units in garage in case it happens again. It seems kinda silly to have an Apple Watch on my wrist, but no back up plan for staying cool. (Granted, I'm in Houston ....)
Or similarly, an informal debt economy. If I give Bob a pair of boots, he'll be more obliged to give me one of his pigs when I tell him how nice and fat they look a month later. Informal debt economies really only work within tribal communities where social pressure has more leverage, but it does solve the double coincidence of wants problem.
Googling "what is a compiler" returns this: "a program that converts instructions into a machine-code or lower-level form so that they can be read and executed by a computer." So, that's something.

It's hard to get more canonical than the Dragon Book. The Dragon Book (2nd Ed.) says this in section 1.2: "Up to this point we have treated a compiler as a single box that maps a source program into a semantically equivalent target program."

So, the most canonical source doesn't include an explicit mention of high-level to low-level (though there may be sources I'm missing). But in my experience, that's definitely the connotation. Otherwise, the term transpiler, which is connoted with not outputting low-level code, never would have arisen.
This is sufficiently well known that it doesn't need repeating every time a weather anomaly occurs. It seems to me that the post in question has come to be a rallying cry for climate change deniers. It has become coded language for a certain segment of the population.
It takes time for a new technology to penetrate to many detailed aspects of our lives. This is particularly true for 'horizontal' technologies like electricity and AI.
I'm sure if there was a post complaining about property values in Austin plenty of SF folks would chime in ...
It is a feature (only) if they send you a replacement for free (with free shipping and everything) if you sent them a picture of the expired packet.
My mistake in using memorization in a different sense.

Let me clarify; memory is intrinsic to learning. Everything we ever know is based on remembering things.

If you mean rote memorization, to repeat something over and over again until you remember it but not necessary understand, then that is only one strategy for learning. It works but it is rather inefficient and may cause one to miss things.

Similarly, we cannot overemphasize learning concepts over practice and facts. A programmer do not look up syntax unless one is learning a new language. An even better example; quick bugfixing required a deep knowledge of the codebase, lot of experience with tons of different bugs and knowledge of debugging strategies.

To me, it seems wrong to separate facts from the concepts, and skills from intellectual knowledge.
Really because I see people in Britain, France, and Germany being arrested for anti Islamic sentiment expressed on social Media. It isn't just nazi speech that's criminalised, more and more speech is added to the list of what cannot be said. Soon it will be any speech critical of the government, aka living in a totalitarian regeim.
Just bring back the rule of law. Tort law would mean that coal burning would be sued to extinction. Accepting the death of all tomorrow so that some may survive today is absurd. The church of pseudo-finance tells us that burning our forests down and poisoning all our rivers is 'growth'. Any child would laugh this away as insanity.
> Arguably, Nazism tends to ring more obvious to moderators.

Unfortunately, white nationalist (neo-nazi) groups learned a long time ago that PR matters. The average person starts to notice anything that actually looks similar to stereotypical Nazism. The Southern Strategy with Lee Atwater's use of dog whistle terms like "forced busing" and "state's rights" as indirect codes for racism demonstrated not only is public perception very important, but also how easy it is to make fascist beliefs palatable to the average citizen by wrapping it with carefully chosen euphemisms and coded language.

I highly encourage everyone to watch this[1] very well made overview of the current language and other propaganda techniques used by fascists. Unless you have been spending a lot of time over the last few years involved with "alt-right"/etc groups, it can be had to follow because confusion about facts is the goal.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4BVGPkdzk
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communis...

The highest death tolls that have been documented in communist states occurred in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong, and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. The estimates of the number of non-combatants killed by these three regimes alone range from a low of 21 million to a high of 70 million.
>The Soviet Union was a particular implementation of Communism which chose killing. Killing is not an inherent requirement to the ideology.

How could communism be implemented without killing people who refused to give up their property, or refused to stop trading with each other?
Is TensorFlow really that much better than Torch and the others, or is it just the Google brand that gave it the extra juice?
This is much smarter than I anticipated from the title, notwithstanding its default presumption of property ownership as a starting point - though in fairness, it discusses regulating artificial intelligence rather than artificial sentience or consciousness, thus avoiding that tricky ethical ground altogether in most people's view.
It's interesting the extent to which Americans didn't support going into Iraq and knocking over Saddam during the first Gulf War. The widely supported essentially what Bush did, in pushing their forces out of Kuwait and semi-crippling Iraq's military capabilities (no fly zones, sanctions, etc).

The American people had to be terrified into Iraq part 2. They had to be lied to constantly, abused with terrorism color codes on a weekly basis, constantly told their lives were in danger at the airport, lied to about the threat from WMDs, and the warhawks had to use 9/11 on a constant basis as a rallying cry to drive blind patriotism and to auto-silence anyone that would stand against it.

The authorities had to put on one helluva an aggressive propaganda effort to convince Americans to allow it.

Contrast that with the non-existent support for a large military action in Syria (invasion or otherwise), which Obama's Administration floated and quickly pulled away from. The American people are very war sick at this point, fortunately.
If it's unpleasantly hot for longer than a month, every year, that sounds like an air conditioner is extremely appropriate. The cost is what, half a month's rent to have many year's worth of comfortable Septembers?
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> without A/C

... and clothes, shoes, agriculture, metal, etc etc. A/C is a luxury, yes, but humans have been without pretty much all artificial things for most of their existence.
My tech dudes and dudettes in the Bay, I feel for you. Kind of. 95 degrees in 20% humidity...it could have been worse John. A lot worse. Try networking 8 connection machines and debugging 2 million lines of code in 95% humidity at 95 degrees in NYC.

But seriously. I get why it's a big deal and when someone isn't used to heat like this, it can overwhelm you. Just hydrate hydrate hydrate. And If you feel like making something this weekend to cool off, build an evaporative cooler. Check out: http://www.instructables.com/id/Swamp-Cooler-1/.
I'm sure he chats with Medvedev about his iPhone. This isn't "tech" so much as the very highest level of military strategy.

Putin has spent his entire life keeping tabs on the U.S. military's plans and actions. He knows definitely what the U.S. military is working on

When he raises the issue publicly, he's executing a strategy against that effort.
Neo-Nazism is not Nazism. That's also a false equivalence. Racial / tribal superiority has been with humanity in one form or another since before we were even human. Neo-Nazism is just a modern interpretation / flavor of that idea. Actual Nazism was far, far more destructive than a bunch of people clamoring about whatever they were clamoring about.

When Neo-Nazis are violent, the actual violence shouldn't be tolerated, but to ban thoughts is something completely different.

FWIW, I never understood why US citizens would carry a Nazi flag, when they know damn well people in their family were directly affected by it in one way or another.
Even assuming that the 100K doesn't include indirect costs, and is only for one-year (and I'm not convinced either one of those assumptions is correct)...yeah, that's basically "All projects"
> I think it's very far from obvious

I have nothing left to say to you then that i haven't said above.
They cut the research. So what? People are free to end their own robbery (paying taxes) to fund the research themselves. The taxes of five working people can finance a PhD.
I have A/C in the Portland area but the upstairs of my house never cools well. I added an ecobee thermostat with the room sensors and that's helped immensely. Now my bedroom upstairs can actually cool to 75 even though it might be 67 downstairs where the thermostat is. It hasn't saved me any money, but it has made this summer bearable at least.
I'd strongly suggest diving into compilers if you've never studied the subject. Learning a bit on the subject unlocks a ton of incredibly useful skills. That knowledge helps you implement stuff like autocomplete, linters, syntax highlighting, etc.

The Super Tiny Compiler [0] is a very gentle introduction to the subject. It's great because it helps you quickly develop an initial mental model.

To give an everyday usage example: I've used jscodeshift [1] many times to safely refactor large amounts of code. In one case, I quickly migrated a project's test assertion library to an alternative which the team agreed was superior. This tool is also typically used by the react team in order to provide a smooth migration path whenever they make changes to the public API.

[0] https://github.com/thejameskyle/the-super-tiny-compiler

[1] https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift
Making the world two degrees hotter has a lot of bad environmental and storm effects, but it's not the root cause of Texas being hot. Texas is hot because of where it is.
SFBA has a great climate.
> North Korea is more likely being operated by a military cabal

is there any evidence of this?
This might be true, but does not seem self evident to me.
I stopped reading when I saw that chart and came here to comment. Lo and behold what is the top comment..

It could have been worse though. It could have been a 3D donut chart.

Btw there are well studied reasons for why this particular chart is a terribly bad idea for displaying quantitative information [1].

[1] http://slideplayer.com/slide/5143061/16/images/9/Human+Visua...
Well, why do this? What's the point of alienating people for no reason? It's not realistic to show up with no evidence and claim that children will die horribly just to make your point.
I don't believe he will be removed but I also don't believe he will run again. He just doesn't seem to like the job and it's obvious the government doesn't run the way he imagined it did.