skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Undocumented immigrants" are not citizens being oppressed

They're not citizens being oppressed, but they are human beings being oppressed. They're often fleeing war-torn countries and, by definition, have taken a proactive action to try to escape their circumstances and the poverty that they were born into. Your lack of compassion for them whilst simultaneously descrying people's lack of compassion for similarly impoverished groups of citizens is hypocritical and borders on sociopathic. Citizenship and race are not a distinctions that have any moral standing. Suffering is suffering and either we have an moral obligation to help or we don't.
I see plenty of people making that argument, so I don't think you could really call it a strawman.
> I think it’s a little absurd that we would make the leap to machine super-intelligence without going through the step of machine low or medium intelligence.

I have the same feelings about socialism...

If we can draw any lesson from the history of our biological existence from which we expect machine intelligence to spring from it will likely be a series of smaller pieces that will join together to form like Voltron. Combined will be the best of our ability.

I highly doubt there will ever be some centralized system/organization that has 'figured out' intelligence. Although that doesn't have to necessarily mean we will forever be limited to niche/vertical intelligent systems in the long run either.
Yet another unclosable pop-up window.
I think the storyline should include that no one wanted to shut it down and despite the fact that it broke their hearts they couldn't justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on the electricity that it cost to keep Omega-1 running. It was simply unable to sustain itself like 90% of startups.
> The list will include Pakistan because ... (some India rah rah rah stuff) ... I predict that will stop.

Hmm, did you just read some of Orson Card's books and started believing that you are the Hegemon or something?

Have you communicated your proclamation/prediction to the Chinese, so that they know what to do in the near future, to avoid you having egg on your face?

> The rest of your post is nothing more than moral absolutism.

Torture is torture. Kidnapping is kidnapping. Deliberately targeting and killing civilians is murder. Campaigns of mass bombing of civilian targets (without any declaration of war on said localities) is terrorism, whether its done by those in uniform or not, or whether its done from the ground or the air.

Thats not "moral absolutism" taken to an extreme.

Its what you're left with when you strip away the whiny excuses, coverups and propaganda (from all sides), and just at look at things for what they are.

The term for that is not "moral absolutism", its "common sense".

> It is wrong.

Read the above, grab a mirror, go find a quiet corner, sit down, and take a good long hard look at yourself.

(and if you are going to reply, please spare us all the amateur philosophy-for-dummies garbage. Thanks much!)
Right. You just need to redefine what "freedom of speech" or "freedom of press" means.

For example, "freedom of press" doesn't cover publishing whats defined as "information of non-public interest" (see Gawker). I'm not defending or accusing Gawker, just providing an example that "freedom of press" comes with a lot of exceptions and new ones are continuously added.
Not to take away from your point but people have different strengths. Zuckerberg is bad at social skills but (evidently) a great hacker and amazing at business strategy. It took Jobs a long time to master business management that allowed Apple to become a hugely successful company. Zuckerberg (and others, e.g. Bill Gates) got it right away.
While trust can be helpful, I don't see that trust is in any way a "prerequisite."

One can apply the principle of charity, without developing trust with another.

One can strive for objectivity, without trust.

One can allow that they might be wrong, without trust.

One can be aware of their biological responses to their own thoughts and feelings, and the consequences these have, without trusting another.

Edit: Trust may (?) be a sufficient condition, but is not a necessary condition.
But there are flavors of free speech. I, for one, don't believe that violent threats fall under free speech. I don't believe that makes me against free speech.
Machine Learning (Google Event, 2017)
Because it smells from 10 kilometres away like bullshit only management/sales people would dare to write?

Truth is, most technical projects are failures or are thrashed for other reasons. So if everyone starts claiming a series of well-determined successes, then in all likeliness they are lying.
It’s not really practical to combat ideas with reason, after a while.
.r00, .r01, .r02, ..., .rar? :)
They thought the high temperatures of fission could ignite fusion in the surrounding nitrogen. That could start a chain reaction that eats the whole atmosphere. Basically turning the surface of the Earth into a star. Turns out that the math showed that this was highly unlikely. Perhaps the designers of the hydrogen bomb drew some inspiration from this fear.
People were sufficiently terrorized by terrorists.
IIRC Gilbert Gottfried made a 9/11 joke very soon after it happened (though that was generally agreed to be in poor taste).

[edit] It was 18 days after 9/11 at the Friars club roast of Hugh Hefner

Also, I recall a celebrity had a dead crocodile hunter costume for Halloween (Irwin died in September).

[edit] It was Bill Maher.
That's why we have QA, no?

A developer can only test up to the point that their code works as they thought it should work. QA takes over from that point.
These articles where people use an acronym and never explain it drive me crazy.

There is a lot of good material here which is general as to project difficulties in general, but I never found an explanation of the acronym.
It makes it significantly harder.

Ie: try getting a firearm in most of Europe. Possible, but extremely hard, which is a major reason why there is so little gun violence compared to US.
I agree, but we must remove all government social programs as well to make that dream come true. You can't have one group experimenting at the expense of another.
The diff tool that comes with Perforce is pretty decent. I also like another tool called Meld. IntelliJ has a great diff tool.
More is always better when we are talking interplanetary travel. But the Falcon Heavy is adequate, esp. if you can do in-orbit assembly.

If NASA needs a bigger rocket, they can buy the SpaceX BFR, which has a substantially greater cargo capacity than the SLS, and if they offered SpaceX a fixed price contract at $200M a launch I'd bet Musk would jump at it.
Excellent point. Thank you for making me think about this.

Zuckerberg did some things to achieve success.

Jobs did some things to achieve success, one of which was speaking well.
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/smog

Some states (mostly costal states) have rules that vehicles have to be inspected regularly. Some states inspect vehicles for safety reasons, other states inspect vehicles for emissions compliance, and a few states look for both.

It's well intentioned, but the checks leave something to be desired. In some states, a check engine light is an automatic fail regardless of whether or not the rest of the car is okay to drive. As the parent comment mentioned, it can be really expensive to fix check engine lights.

I have a car hobby and one guy I know spent like 30 hours diagnosing / repairing his 2000 Honda minivan to fix the check engine light. He tried to get a waiver, his car was producing a legal amount of emissions, but he couldn't get the check engine light to clear until he replaced a fuel pressure regulator - it's a total crock of crap. He's an older guy who only used the van to pick up his grandkids after school.

He couldn't get the minivan certified, so he had to pick up his kids in his pre-emissions car or else run the risk of a ticket he couldn't afford.

In this case, the law coerced him to drive kids in a car without seat belts or any emissions equipment than a safe car with a check engine light. IMO the laws are total failures.
> Jobs: Computers are actually pretty simple. We’re sitting here on a bench in this café [for this part of the Interview]. Let’s assume that you understood only the most rudimentary of directions and you asked how to find the rest room. I would have to describe it to you in very specific and precise instructions. I might say, “Scoot sideways two meters off the bench. Stand erect. Lift left foot. Bend left knee until it is horizontal. Extend left foot and shift weight 300 centimeters forward…” and on and on. If you could interpret all those instructions 100 times faster than any other person in this café, you would appear to be a magician: You could run over and grab a milk shake and bring it back and set it on the table and snap your fingers, and I’d think you made the milk shake appear, because it was so fast relative to my perception. That’s exactly what a computer does. It takes these very, very simple-minded instructions—“Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number”—but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Wow, I don't know why but this explanation blows me away. So simple and yet so accurate.
I rewatched the original Blade Runner earlier this week in preparation for the new movie and the love scene between Deckard and Rachael is surprisingly rapey (he overpowers her). It doesn't hold up well over time, and wouldn't be written like that today.

Totally agreed that societal mores change over time and you can retroactively realize that something wasn't OK.
> Pththththt

I've been trying to figure out what this is supposed to sound like.
DotT holds up, played it a few months ago. Grim Fandango, too!
The following is anecdotal evidence:

Magnesium helps w/ lockjaw/teeth grinding.

I sometimes take a tums as well to help w/ the minor upset stomach.
The efficiency gap is just a measure of the actual effect of gerrymandering in an election, it doesn't say anything about how to draw a district for future elections.

Compactness tells us nothing about the effects of gerrymandering. Less compact districts correlate with more gerrymandering but that doesn't tell us whether that gerrymandering was effective. Compactness could be a useful tool to limit the effects of gerrymandering when drawing districts.
MtGox had the same bug
Norm Macdonald is one of my favorite comics, and you're right, a lot of his older material hasn't aged well. He doesn't do that kind of material anymore either, so he's making progress along with everyone else.
Yep. Total waste of time.

I'd be soooo happy though if phones and keyboard numpads had the same layout (rather than being inverted horizontally. No preference for either, just want them to be the same.)

Alas.
Well, it's not meaningful to compare Jobs to Zuck in any way than that they were founders of large, powerful companies.

I think the more interesting things is that Jobs embodies what Apple did best: being able to explain/present technology in a very understandable way. I felt that he didn't make you come to him, he brought it to you.

He was very intelligent, confident and opinionated. But what made him great was his salesmanship combined with the above. I have yet to see/hear another tech CEO/founder that made as much sense as Jobs for the things he cared about.
DNA is the opposite of immutable
I blame the poor who continue to vote republican.

They deserve every hardship that gets them. Get screwed out of health care. Deserve it. Billionaires pocket tax breaks and then still get rid of jobs. Totally deserve it. Shitty schools for your kid, and you can't afford the nice private school even with the vouchers. I feel sorry for the kid, but the blame lies with the parents. Get fired for no reason and your union is gone. Well you wanted that right?

There is a lot of people who didn't choose this, and that is sad. The rest, they can shut up and enjoy the world they built.
Coding Challenge as an Attack Vector
And yet Reporters Without Borders rates the US down at #43 when it comes to press freedom, marginally below the UK at #40.

https://rsf.org/en/united-states

An example of why it rates so low: https://rsf.org/en/news/us-rsf-concerned-second-wave-journal...

Also, while the First Amendment is good to have, it's not as absolute as its fans make out. There are plenty of restrictions on free speech in the US - libel/slander, obscenity, official and military secrets, insider trading, incitement, 'fighting words', intellectual property violations (a big one, thanks Disney), National Security Letters (yay 'warrant canaries')... and then there's things like 'free speech zones' (aka "time, place, and manner restrictions" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...). Some of those are good things to have, but nevertheless, not all of them are, and they're still 'government restrictions on speech'.

Again, the First Amendment is good to have, but people need to stop quoting it like it's a vaccine against loss of freedom of speech. The actual situation is a lot more complex.
[video] But What *Is* a Neural Network (3blue1brown)
Not according to the study. Psychoactive drugs don't just change how you're feeling for a period of time - they also change how your brain is wired. That's what addiction is: drugs altering the brain into one that more wants to take that drug.

Now, MDMA isn't particularly prone to causing addiction. It is prone to causing lasting changes in how people relate to themselves and others, and a combination of personal anecdotes and studies suggest it's for the better.
I always get this feeling as an excel power user
The problem with WebExtensions has been Mozilla not providing APIs, not extension developers dragging their feet.
From disasters to freight, this driverless fuel cell platform has it covered
I love Adventure games. I was more of a Lucas Arts fan, I believe both for the richer narrative (as in Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion and Indiana Jones), but also because for a non-english speaker point and click was easier than writing.

But I was always fascinated by the potential of writing anything in King's Quest. The problem is that I never could play it properly. The frustration from the "find the synonym" game for english speakers is a complete block for non-english speakers. That with the Sierra game choices where you could die or get permanently stuck, made it impossible for me to play it. I remember me taking days of trial to find out how to "pick up a cup" on one of the first scenes because I only knew about take or get things.

But specifically LSL never was more than a curiosity to me. Maybe because I got to know it before puberty. The objective of getting laid did not look as interesting for a full game as facing a dead pirate or finding Atlantis. The nuances the author points out were all lost to me.

In the end it was just a curious game to know about like X-Man, the Atari's porn game
Personally I wouldn't call taking MDMA tripping.

Also, those don't really seem like the effects that I have observed others experience which are:

- Hypersensitivity to others' emotions

- Euphoria

- Relaxation and reduced anxiety

- Sense of inner peace
"... the Omegas had pushed hard to make it extraordinary at one particular task: programming AI systems"

This single line puts the whole article into the realm of pure science fiction: no technology capable of working such an ill-defined task like "programming AI systems" exists, not even as a work in progress, not even as an idea about how it could be done.

And as science fiction, it's kind of a waste of time, but that's of course my own taste and opinion.
From what I heard it is/was $5-$10 per 1000 if your video is eligible for the high value video pre-roll ads. If you only get text AdSense ads then it is about $1 per 1000.

Either way, my point is that a 35 million view YouTube video generates a lot more than $200 dollars for someone. Even if you take the minimum of $1 per 1000 you are still looking at $35,000 of ad revenue. That ad money must be going somewhere, even if creators don't get it. So YouTube isn't to blame, its the people who are skimming off so much money that only $200 is left for the writer
There's a long-running Holocaust denial joke in most episodes of Norm Macdonald Live that's hilarious. You're just not watching enough comedy if you don't think anyone makes Holocaust jokes.
My steam gaming account is my oldest account. I'm 24 years old and created it in 2005 when I was 12.
and here i am with a 4.6" Z5 Compact [1] feeling sorry for those with phablets. btw, the XZ1 Compact [2] just came out :)

these phones have monster battery life, and the same flagship specs of their bigger brothers, less the high-res display. but at 4.6", 720p is plenty good and also great for battery life.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z5_compact-7535.php

[2] https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_xz1_compact-8610.php
For what it's worth, L0 absolutely expects, but does not require, that source will be available, and development will continue with many of the same tools and platforms as MIT- or BSD-licensed code. It also expects _distribution_ to work much the same way. The terms for redistribution of L0 code are more or less the same as BSD.

Long story short, L0 code belongs on GitHub, and L0 packages belong on npm. It won't be hard to extend to other open languages, package systems, and platforms.
Yeah. Maciej wrote a pretty good piece rebutting AI alarmism and kind of alludes to that as one of several points.

http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

> With no way to define intelligence (except just pointing to ourselves), we don't even know if it's a quantity that can be maximized. For all we know, human-level intelligence could be a tradeoff. Maybe any entity significantly smarter than a human being would be crippled by existential despair, or spend all its time in Buddha-like contemplation.

and

> But the hard takeoff scenario requires that there be a feature of the AI algorithm that can be repeatedly optimized to make the AI better at self-improvement.

And so on. It's a good read.
Chrome and Firefox both use seccomp by default on Linux.
Apocryphally it was Don Arden (Sharon Osbourne's Father) did this to Tommy Steel
Did you mean "sense" of time?

Lots and lots of seemingly benign things have a serious effect on a person's sense of time. Some examples:

* Sleep

* Travel

* Cannabis

* Caffeine

* Turkey and red wine

* Video games or other intense visual engagement

* Scuba diving

* Intense cardio workouts
> I'm pretty sure medical science would say she is smoking because she's addicted.

Maybe. How many cigarettes a week would be needed for that assessment? Because I'm pretty sure she's not nursing a pack-a-day habit.

I suspect that avoiding heavy labor is just as likely to reduce her heart attack chances. For that matter, a healthy balanced diet would likely do even more to help.

And where is she supposed to work? Let's see, poor education, limited access to bathing facilities, history of health problems, well into the age range where the college educated tech industry folks on HN complain about ageism and the difficulty of getting hired. Oh, and in a region of the country that's suffered from massive job and industry loss. I'm sure things will improve as soon as she stops smoking.
If you decide to attempt the process in a place where you can't be guaranteed 100% pure MDMA, I suggest you look into Marquis reagents.
Find a domain expert and ask them to walk you through their day or shadow them. Also, ask them what sucks. I could literally throw ten ideas at you right now of fixable things of various complexity in my domain (academic bioengineering).

Another strategy is to look for large problems in your industry that have been solved and then try to find analogous problems in other industries where the same or a similar solution could work.

For our startup, my co-founder and I went and talked to friends and contacts of mine in medicine and generated a list of 15 or so things we thought were everyday pain points for many individuals. We then shelled out some money and went to an industry conference to field test them. It turns out that all of them were being actively worked on, but while we were exploring them we stumbled upon another idea which is now the basis for our startup.
I have not read the article. I have never taken MDMA.

But, during my divorce, I was on boatloads of prescription drugs for a medical crisis. I basically used that as an excuse to do things I would not have done stone cold sober and to learn how to get my needs met and put down my childhood baggage. It was more effective than the therapy I did years earlier.

Based on that, the general idea seems sound to me and is not necessarily specific to MDMA.
>Expecting 20s RTT for email is a modern phenomenon, when you could expect replies on the timescale of days before.

I think the whole point of having email is for communication where you'd expect responses on this timescale (for reasons outside of communication protocol used). Some questions just take time. The immediacy of instant messaging puts pressure to respond quickly.

Even for personal communication, if I want to write a longer letter, I don't get to do it every day.

On that note, none of the current IM clients are suitable for long messages. Even your comment is too long to be comfortably sent in an IM. There's a whole infrastructure around emails that make them suitable for long messages: drafts (so you can work on an email over the span of days), editing/formatting, and so on.

Then there's flexibility of the message being a unit of communication, rather than the chatroom. Your response can selectively quote parts of a message, being sent to a a part of the group, be forwarded. It's not easy to do with IM's.

But in the end, I do think that the non-instantaneous nature of email is the reason why people use it: IM's for short, fast responses, and emails for "...I'll answer it tomorrow".
On the flip side, such a vulnerability repository may not have incentives aligned with either the bug reporter or the software owner. See https://palant.de/2017/10/04/observations-on-managed-bug-bou... for a recent post about that sort of problem.
> [the information] revolution will dwarf the petrochemical revolution.

I remember people thinking this was a crazy idea, but his forecast was largely correct:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?source=frontpage-immediat...
Right, but unless you're an expert on gun safety (which in turn implies being an expert on guns), you're probably not going to be qualified to determine if someone is above or below average in terms of gun safety.
Care to share some details on which books you consider better and why? Thanks!
Agreed. Some may opt for the reciprocal public license for that reason, since it allows unmodified use for commercial purposes.

Leaving the terms behind for a moment, to focus on context: Many users, both individual and business, don't have any money to sue for. They're judgment proof. But if they make it to cash flow, they should pay. They'll almost certainly have paid for other goods and services, like AWS or SaaS, before then.
> and specifically it was obvious after first use what was happening.

Sure, it's obvious after the first use, but if somebody is taking a screenshot of sensitive information, is the best way for them to find this out to show them that they've already uploaded said sensitive information to Mozilla's servers?
How do the real estate prices compare?

But yes, in general the answer may be that they wouldn't put such a thing in WV.
Xperia X compact is good as well. The plastic may feel cheaper and thicker than other phones, but I view it as a cushioning integrated case.
You want to know how many spins a day some of my code does?
I feel we need to stop complaining and begin playing this game as the others do. A community such as HN alone could raise this much in a matter of minutes.