skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2 Million! Wow! Now that is a LOT of code. I can't imagine anyone being able to master all of that and then keep up with the changes. That would take a decade at least!

The people who'd I'd say mastered the core codebase were the people that wrote it. Over the last couple years, they've been laid off one by one, but most of them have been around for 15-18 years already (the prototypes were built around 1998, and I think that the current code descends from stuff written in 1999). I've been around it for about 8 years now, in total. I wrote most of the current build system, a lot of the packaging code, the initial version of two or three of the plugins, and individual features in a few of the others.

The Bible has a distinctly different kind of complexity, though. Social complexity, rather than technical. A line of code has an unambiguous meaning, with other lines of code, the OS, and the underlying hardware providing an unambiguous context. A verse of scripture can have multiple simultaneous meanings, and the context is provided both by surrounding text and by the millennia-old cultures that the verses were written in. I'm not sure how I'd make the comparison.
> Nobody wants to hear "bottom left corner of logo" or "rounded corner".

I would assume front-end guys care more about passing a Web Accessibility[0] audit than inconveniencing some users, thus good taste and wise discretion is spared for avoidance of litigation.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H37.html
Because I would think that they're currently making unsafe AI more likely rather than less likely, contradicting their stated goal.
If Rackspace has a decent patent portfolio, then that would be just as valuable as factories, tools, etc if not more valuable.
The game the target installed that is snitching GPS coordinates to an ad exchange near you.

How else did you think localized advertising works?

OpenRTB has supported GPS location since October 2012, proprietary exchanges longer than that.
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Study Suggests Inequality Can Be Fixed with Wealth Redistribution, Not Tax Cuts
Standing by? Since BLM started, police have pulled back patrols as was demanded of them. There has now been a massive spike in young black males being murdered, almost certainly linked to the lack of police presence.

"We" aren't standing by as those thousands are killed, "we"'re doing as those neighborhoods have demanded. If you've got some awesome solution, I suggest you contact Rahm Emanuel asap.
Well if you want to spend $4000 (media costs, campaign management, creative, etc.) to acquire a user, I guess. But you can already tailor ads to incredibly specific groups, no need to get to an individual level. For global-size campaigns or political campaigns this level of granularity is needlessly expensive.
It doesn't work for me on Firefox beta. Works on chrome. Cool idea.
Can you define BDD, please?
It paints a vivid picture of the media consistently doing the government's bidding by painting our mass murdering allies as heroes, while massively amplifying minor crimes committed by those we consider enemies (e.g. Communists).*

We don't have one media. It's more accurate to say that we have leftist media (Jacobin, Chomsky), establishment liberal media (NY Times), generic for profit media (NBC nightly news, etc ), conservative populist media (Fox, Breitbert), conservative high-brow media )(City Journal, Commentary) and that all of them will at times exaggerate the crimes of their enemies and whitewash the crimes of their allies or ideological compatriots. Chomsky for example was himself guilty of whitewashing the Khemer Rouge back in the mid-1970s when he should have known better (see http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/chomsky.htm )

Or read this New York Times obituary about Mao which totally whitewashes him -- http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1226.... The NY Times is hardly amplifying the crimes of communism!

Or going back further consider how the liberal mainstream press whitewashed the horrors of communist Russia (see this review of Malcolm Muggeridge's memoirs for example -- http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/11/book-review-chronicles-... )

At this point I have come to the belief that it is very hard to trust any media source unless you personally know something about the subject and can figure out which sources are credible about that topic.
Have you done the actual comparison? E.g. Native American Genocide vs Stalin's Purges as one example. What's the result?
Finally. I always wondered why wasn't it illegal in the first place.
Thanks for pointing that out! Usually aiming for non-gendered language, but sometimes assumptions get the better of me!
> In reality fb is not essential to anyone's life,

My past employers have in the past rejected candidates due to a FB profile (i.e., candidate had dangerous-looking pics in his/her public image).

Wouldn't you say FB as a cause for getting rejected for a job impacts one's life, non?

Of course the employer never said a thing about candidate's FB profile, just "declined to proceed".
> I'm not sure I'd be so polite, if I were mayor.

He was that polite because all the shops closed down before Walmart got there. The article glosses over the timeline (since it doesn't fit the narrative), but that's how it seemed to me reading between the lines.

The heyday of this place was 100 years ago, by 1962 there was only 1 store left - it has not gotten better since then.

As best as I can tell the Walmart opened at the location of the closed "Decatur Discount", they did not cause it (or the other stores) to close.
German study shows 75% decline of insect biomass
"Where even Wal-Mart failed"

I wonder how the new info that Wal-Mart is now outpricing (cheaper) that dg will affect this?
Are they still pushing Edge?
Build automation with C# and .NET Core
Chimps hunt down and kill monkeys for food. It's really hard for humans to watch but no chimp would ever even consider the ethics of this, even though they do have a level of ethics (e.g. fairness among themselves)

We're more intelligent than chimps, so we understand that monkeys are pretty evolved and suffer a lot when you eat them alive. Chimps aren't kept up at night by the screams of their victims.

A healthy human that tortures other intelligent lifeforms will often suffer severe mental anguish as a result. Only a human with a severe mental disorder can torture other lifeforms without remorse.

So what does that tell us about intelligence? That an intelligent understanding of a monkey's suffering leads to more ethical behavior.

But humans aren't that intelligent. We still let other people do unethical things on our behalf, like raising animals in terrible conditions for meat. The more intelligent (and knowledgeable) a human being, the more likely they are to have a problem with the suffering of factory farmed animals.
> sequential execution of instructions is a convenient lie at most

Could you expand? Obviously some processors reorder instructions and try to do things in parallel, although this isn't true everywhere and the model of sequential instructions is still valid.
The irony in your Minecraft example is that Notch originally set out to make a better Infiniminer.
> I recommend his book Manufacturing Consent.

This Wikipedia article is a good quick overview and introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
Actually I do work on a website that we do not want crawled. It would be handy to know which things to leave out to make it less likely your site will be crawled or show up high in a google result.
You would need to know what to buy. Helium balloons...$1. Greeting cards, $.50, there are certain things that are much cheaper at Dollar Tree than else where. There are some items that they get you to splurge on impulse on that have a higher profit...Some candy you can get for $.70 at Walmart is $1 at Dollar Tree.
So, can maybe Google finally push the w3schools out of their SERP? :)
I have always been on the side of Musk in terms treating AI's existential threat seriously, unlike other prominent AI experts of Silicon Valley tycoons, like Andrew Ng, Mark Zuckerberg. Now I wonder what would the responses be when they read this article? (Very likely they read WSJ right? If they don't, some one can tweet them maybe?)
Would be less of an issue if society valued research properly, and enabled scientists to refuse corporate funds
Shh! They don't need to know about Reny's. They're finally gone until skiing starts up, except for a few hunters.

There's a Dollar General in Farmington and they always have cars in the parking lot. I've never been in there but they appear busy. There's another one over in the mall thing, across from Burger King.

Also, Big Al's. I've been in there. They have the strangest of stuff, almost. Marden's is a bit stranger.
"If we don't have it, you don't need it." manager or w. Paris ME DG told me.

DG was closest anything 17 minutes from vacation home
I think it's a bit uncool to "turn off the flags" here. I flagged this specifically because I am tired of the incessant flamewar that will surely happen in here.
Good god. What do you work on?
I think we're discussing the same topic twice, so I answered above. Thanks for the discussion. Lunch break over, back to work!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502178
In university, if you were going to go and get some serious work done, it was generally accepted that you went and hid in the stacks in the bowels of the library, or some other hidey-hole where it was quiet and people wouldn't find you or bother you.

One of the best perks of having a work-study job doing maintenance and AV stuff was having a set of keys that allowed getting into out-of-the-way places so you could post up with your tote bag of sources and grind out term papers.
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I was surprised that there where a large number of extra judicial killings of Belgians in ww1 as I had thought it was all propaganda.
> They're trying to be a support company for other cloud providers. I'm sure there is a market for that kind of service but not sure how much margin there is to be made.

I’ve seen that happen at one more big dedicated/colo hosting provider. Once the cloud started catching on with enterprises, they couldn’t resist the consultancy money of helping them in the migrations, and now they’re stuck being dependent on those types of contracts.

It takes a strong spine to resist this type of money, but when you do, make sure to invest it wisely.
MDN resources are written for web developers (ie. consumers of the already implemented language spec). The W3 spec has to be written for its implementors and is necessarily much more complicated.
If you read your own link you will realize that the highest rate of sterilization for eugenic reasons where during the second world war.

This point is _unusual_ in Swedish 20th century history as a time when the socialists where _not_ ruling by them self but instead ruled in coalition with the right wing. The minister of justice was for example _not_ socialist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansson_III_Cabinet

And the peak, some where around 1500 sterilizations a year, for eugenic reasons (if I read your diagram correctly) is _damn ugly_, but it is not extermination. It does not compare to Soviet, Chinese or American killing of their own populations (which is hard to call exterminations either even if we are talking about millions; genocide I guess is better term).

Ugly things happens in socialist democratic countries like Sweden. In general they get much uglier in powerful communist (Soviet, China) or powerful right wing countries (USA). The killing of native Indians in America by non-socialists is strikingly bad for your argument.
It's been a while, but I thought that MRI basically slept during IO and released the GIL so that other threads could do work. In that case, you'd still be handling more requests while the IO was performed. I could be wrong. This kind of thing: http://ablogaboutcode.com/2012/02/06/the-ruby-global-interpr...
Regarding the pool size for facebook, it wasn’t always like this. The half amusing half creepy story here shows what it was like before the change was made :http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
At the point where you said "and likely alpha < 5, because that's starting to look too much like Communism", we're back on politics.

This is a blind-spot I see in a lot of technically-minded folks: politics as an evil to be avoided via technological solutions, as opposed to politics as the natural side-effect of needing two or more people to come to consensus on combined action. You can definitely improve the space of possible solutions if you have technology at your disposal, but you can't remove the human from the equation if you're solving human problems.
Exactly my observation! JSON became famous as a revolt against the complex XML ecosystem, but it reinvented a square wheel. YAML is no different - its specification and feature set is quite overwhelming.

There's so much quality work done with XML that all this effort is a complete waste. From streaming parsers to the XQuery, and great projects such as VTD-XML [0], it's sad to see us spinning wheels. I see TOML as another wasteful attempt at something that's only slightly better but requiring a new toolchain and an ecosystem.

[0]: https://vtd-xml.sourceforge.io/
> redirecting

Cool!
I would be willing to spend an entire lifetime to perfectly understand how this algorithm works. Currently I can barely write Djikstra's algorithm.
How so? What should they do differently?
was just thinking this. it's one of the bigger problems facing any potential mars colony.
I certainly wouldn't say that! [1]

In any case, there was only one discussion and it was 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991800. So a repost is fine (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=What%20every%20programmer%20sh... comes to mind as a standby. Also these: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=beej%27s%20guide&sort=byPopula.... And Mel of course: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=story%20of%20mel&sort=byPopula....
Revelations like this are why I'm skeptical about the current science on eggs. The existence of a huge, well-funded egg lobby makes me wonder whether we'll find out in 20 years that dietary cholesterol is actually bad for you after all.
What do you mean by voiced? I put the stress differently, but otherwise I would pronounce Alexa as Alexander cut short. I can imagine the vowels being pronounced differently in various accents, but I can't imagine an accent where the 'x' in those two names are different.
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In some ways it is, but the main difference is that adversarial learning (usually) produces a second neural network whose purpose is to exploit weakness is the first. Whereas reinforcement learning does not produce a second neural network to beat the first, it uses what it learned to solely improve the original.

As a side note, the main application I have seen with adversarial learning research is with photo recognition, but I guess you could have an adversarial network exist to help help improve an object recognition network. At that point it would probably become something between adversarial and reinforcement learning. However, with game based reinforcement learning, it doesn't require a second specific network as the adversary, it can easily just be paired against itself.

It isn't a dumb question, they are very similar in some ways. They mainly differ in what exactly the goal of the opponent is. In this case, it is to help improve itself, however in typical adversarial situations it is solely to exploit (become its adversary).
This is the risk that a narrow intelligent machine will go nuts. A super intelligence would know not to do stupid stuff, by definition.
Better bibliographic metadata and links, recording authorship, funding and affiliation. This is what organisations like Crossref (where I work), DataCite, ORCID etc are trying to do. Setting standards for, collecting and making available this information makes joining the dots and scrutiny easier.

If you're interested in this kind of thing I recommend PIDapaloooza conference. https://pidapalooza.org

(Posting in a personal capacity)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_decision_diagram
I don't see why JavaScript is antithetical to linked data. If it's because the web page can't be statically analyzed, that's a solvable problem---you dynamically execute the page in a JavaScript sandbox.

Google had to solve a similar problem to successfully index Flash content. [https://searchengineland.com/google-now-crawling-and-indexin...]
What is a TPU?
Runnable Code Snippets=Hello worlds

566 of them (not runnable in browser):
https://helloworldcollection.github.io/

Previous post (to give context):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14980764
can this be extended to other kind of testing? like unit tests?
I think it says exactly the opposite.

> Wait, what? Make no mistake: This vegan avocado chocolate bar is candy. With nearly 600 calories and 43 grams of fat per 100-gram serving, the bar packs more fat and calories than Cadbury Dairy Milk, and just a little less sugar.

> So how in the world could a chocolate bar be convincingly sold as a health food? You can thank a decades-long effort by the chocolate industry.

I say candy (some, not stuff with lots of refined sugar) & fat can be healthy (in moderate doses, obviously).
As one of the siblings notes, there are Boom and a number of other efforts that may or may not ever (sorry) get off the ground. But they're mostly focused on smaller planes--business jet up to about regional jet size in the case of Boom.

One question is whether you can get noise to the level where you could go supersonic over land.

The bigger question is the economic one. Can you operate profitably at price levels that people would be willing to buy sufficient tickets. You're talking about a plane that is basically designed for only first class flyers to use because subsonic is always going to be cheaper. So how many people will fly at a probable premium over current lay-flat business/first for a faster ride in likely less comfortable seating?
Yet here I am and still have to fight flexbox bugs in IE 11 they were too lazy to fix for 2 years and then closed the ticket because IE 11 was legacy at that point.
That sounds a bit rough for an org. How was their interviewing process? Did they ask for an implementation of merge sort? Other strange signals of workplace value?
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Friendly reminder that jblow's language still isn't named, and "jai" is just the file extension currently being used.
> The goal is to narrow the gender wage gap. If a woman is paid less than a man doing the same job and a new employer bases her pay on her prior salary, gender discrimination can be perpetuated, the bill’s backers say.

Hmm, I'd never thought about that angle,but I guess it makes sense.

No word on if they are allowed to use Equifax, etc to pull salary data from?

EDIT: looking at the bill it looks like querying Equifax is probably also prohibited

> (b) An employer shall not, orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, seek salary history information, including compensation and benefits, about an applicant for employment.

As a side note one of the biggest issues macro economists have is that its very hard to prove their theories as you often can't run huge macro economic experiments.....

> Delaware, Massachusetts and Oregon have passed similar laws that take effect later this year or next, said attorney Ben Ebbink of Fisher & Phillips in Sacramento. Philadelphia passed one that was supposed to take effect in May but is being challenged in court. New York City and San Francisco have similar ordinances that take effect Oct. 31 and July 1, respectively.

With the number of states introducing legislation like this it will be interesting to see if you can tease out any state or city based GDP growth/shrinking based on these laws.
I'm not sure why we didn't at least adopt JSON5 [0] or Hjson [1]!

[0]: http://json5.org/

[1]: http://hjson.org/
Every bigger web application will start caching at some point. This is nothing new in either python or ruby. It's even well integrated into SQL access libs: python sqlalchemy http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/examples.html#modul... or just using the in memory memcache.
Not really a dark chocolate connoisseur, but your post got me wondering. Hershey's Special Dark (which a lot of people are probably familiar with and is way better than regular Hershey's milk chocolate) is 45%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey%27s_Special_Dark

Can't imagine 80%, but it's easy to get on Amazon. Thanks for the extra weight.
Yes, they pretty much already blew it.
Note that you don't actually need the head or body tags in your page. The browser already knows what is allowed in the head. It looks weird at first, but you can write your html like so:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<title>My Title</title>
<div id="main"></div>

Also note that the html tag can also be omitted, unless you need to set the language. Don't worry about closing it either.
> If creating that and getting it bought by Apple is failing, I hope I'm lucky enough to fail like that.

I think the parent is referring to performance. FoundationDB had a fast key-value store, but they supposedly weren't able to get good performance out of their SQL layer.
>The important thing is that they're ethical

And, non-tautologically, where do you think the ethical knowledge and motivation come from?
Keep in mind providing access to photos does the same via geotagging.
Haha, I never imagined I'd find somebody on HN that knew where Farmington was, except as the last vestiges of civilization before they hit Sugarloaf...

Also home to the cheapest, and best movie theater I've ever been to. Still has $4 matinees, the last time I was up to visit my folks.
Right. And for those already willing/able to forgo the cheaper for more comfort (but not much speed), there are already well-established options including lay-flat seating for international routes and even private plane rental.
:D I knew that. I'm not that noobish.

Let's see. If we use an image that doesn't add anything to the content, one would normally use background-attachment to add an image to say, the hero section.

(It seems you edited your comment?)

Good to know that the screen reader would try to read the file name if there isn't any alt text in it, I didn't know that. So, in the cases we do need to place an img in the document, then we simple place an empty alt text as in my above comment to tell the screen reader not to read the file name since it is only used for decorative purposes...?

Edit: I confused your comment with another one.
DG has pivoted to focus much more heavily on brand name common use items. They still carry extremely cheap stuff, but the vast majority of their sales comes from everyday items like toothpaste, medicine, snacks, etc...
> If creating that and getting it bought by Apple is failing, I hope I'm lucky enough to fail like that.

Careful, though, because one has to consider life after the acquisition if one loves the technology.
>So what does that tell us about intelligence? That your understanding of a monkey's suffering leads you to more ethical behavior.

Rubbish. We don't empathize because we're intelligent. We empathize because we're empathetic. That's a specific mental capacity, separate from causal inference.
If 95% really was evil, not merely terrorized themselves or unaware and there was no better way to oppose the 95% then 5% would be unfortunate but perfectly acceptable collateral damage. I would be surprised if any large scale conflict was less damaging.