skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
strobe morphing advertisements that are trained to adapt to your unique reaction(s) until it detects the same facial response as the last time you made a purchase. botox, masks, camouflage tattoos, permanent smiling, IR obscurants. the arms race begins a new. benevolent dictatorship by self regulating machines is probably going to plague us for several thousand years. wouldn't that be interesting, if the last evolutionary bottleneck is getting smart enough to create an enclosed planetary system that fully satisfies your biological needs and suppresses all intangible ones so there is no reason to go any further up the chain of exploration.

stopping death means stopping life, every generation is more forgetful of the past than the last. the light ages will be far more destructive, what could possibly motivate you to stop a perpetual pleasure machine? how do you prevent the inevitable conflict between those who insist pain and suffering is an essential part of the human experiment and those who just force them to feel good and change their mind? what will happen to these toddlers in 10-15 years? they will have grown up interfacing with some electronic device for every single day of their young lives, a different type of consciousness shaped by destruction of self-confidence in their own knowledge and memories and a complete trust in the needle-finders of big hay.

this shift will be as important as pre-writing to post-writing, except the transformation won't take centuries and millennia to propagate itself across the planet. a post-memory world, with every human enslaved by their base sensations. the first US president who is an internet addict.

"[Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."

the future is a fate worse than death.
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Take a look at the good money does vs the negatives it brings about the world. Even if it does some good things, the negative consequences are orders of magnitudes larger. you wouldn't keep a poisonous house plant that gives you cancer just because it also provided you with menial amounts of oxygen or a pet that viciously attacks you constantly anytime you come home because sometimes its cute to look at from outside the safety of your window
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But when you have actual sales numbers and you already know what they're paying for fulfillment (fulfilled by Amazon) you can do way better math.

"He's selling 10k of these a day at 20 bucks, and he's giving us six bucks per sale. Can we sell the same thing at 15 bucks? Then it'll sell better and rank higher in the search results"
There are suffering animals in this video, if anyone cares to avoid that.
Bitcoin won't have any value beyond speculation until it loses its speculative value. That's what he's alluding to. Bitcoin is useless as a currency until it reaches stability.
How grounded is this in data?

It is very grounded in data.

I have had college classes on Intro to Psychology, Social Psychology and Negotiation and Conflict Management. I spent a lot of time in therapy and have done a lot of reading on social subjects and so forth. I was a military wife and history major and I have an AA in Humanities. The one urban planning conference I managed to attend, I went to all the social lectures rather than, say, design stuff.

I probably can't readily produce the kind of data you would like to see and I am sure I don't want to bother. Your remarks make it pretty clear to me that it would be a waste of my time. There would be no convincing you of anything.

I am leaving this remark here primarily for the benefit of other people, plus to give notice that if I don't reply further, it isn't some tacit acknowledgement that you are right. I just don't really want to play this game. That's all.

I will add for clarity's sake that the phrase willing to harm you in some way was carefully chosen. It doesn't assert violent intent. People can do you enormous harm without being violent and it is shockingly common for people to be willing to do some kind of material harm, even if they are disinclined to be violent. Marginalized peoples very much need to be leery of that fact.
This is incredibly important. When I worked at BigFinCorp, we always used vanilla Excel (VBA and ODBC to RDBMSs). So our sheets would always "just work".

Python would be great in this role, but to avoid separate configuration, you'd need to ship the runtime with the spreadsheet, right?

Or would this new Excel capability be built on .NET? In that case, C# (for the enterprise folks) and F# (for the bleeding edgers) would be fun, too.

Bottom line, the Developer mode of Excel should support more than VBA.
I have a hard time believing mosquitos aren't a significant food source for something. What takes their place? And anyway, why would we need to make them extinct everywhere, and not just places people live?
Then I remember David Lavender joining Parasolid in 1992 - not liking Teddy that much - a little bit of elisp later he had folds working in Emacs. *

So folds in Emacs date from at least 1992.

* It could occasionally create corrupt folded files though, which was annoying if he checked them in to the SCM.
I think Quanta had an article about that too: https://www.quantamagazine.org/puzzle-solution-are-genes-sel...

Without genetic diversity, no source of mutation, no evolution. Hence why non-selfish genes still exist.
It's definitely not weird to feel uncomfortable about all of this. In case I think the 'mob' was pointed in the right direction, but this sort of mass emotional hysteria is how very bad things also happen. How many people, actively involved in this issue, could accurately explain both sides' views? Both sides views of the future with/without net neutrality? I'm not sure of the answer, but it is going to be extremely low. And that is terrifying. It means that people are involved, often aggressively, primarily on an emotional level.

This hysteria is undoubtedly the reason you have things like bomb threats being called in on the FCC. Did the person who did that actually have any degree of understanding on the issue for which he probably was fantasizing about hurting or even killing people over? The safe guess there is probably not.
In this case Amazon promises the shorter url IS a permalink, it does not make the claim that the longer link will be permanent to the best of my knowledge, although it's a good guess they will also be retained.
Well, they don't have any currently well-selling model whose sales would get ruined by the Osborne effect, and the pre-announcement may keep a few customers from defecting to Windows, Linux, or Hackintoshes.
I hate to say it but why not ECMA Script (JS)? It’s everywhere and everyone knows enough to get by...
Or you know, be the slightest bit cautious instead of plunging ahead with doing things like building nuclear arsenals.
The downside is

i) reproducibility. In the academic/research world there is a big move towards reproducible research, the nature of the Excel interface is not conducive to that. A standard scripting language is fine that plays with Excel but you don't want Excel necessarily as the main access point and the menu driven approach isn't conducive to keeping a permanent record of what buttons you click on.
ii) In multi-cultural settings Excel defaults to the users system language, these days you simply jsut work with students laptops rather than using a standardized lab, so unlss you are polyglot working with Excel is just a really bad idea. Jupyter provides a standard interface and the default is always English, but supports multilingual content.
iii) Python modules provide a huge range of solutions for many different domain applications, it's hard to see how Excel as an interface would provide support for every one of these modules. What I mean is how would Excel work as an I/O interface to a Python script that was doing something other than working with data? Notebook solutions already do this quite well.
nope. if your code takes 5 minutes to rewrite, then who cares? if it takes longer, then you have a big, expensive, risky problem.
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Single file or whole project IntelliSense? That part was not clear to me
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> Burnable discs use an organic dye which oxidizes over time.

This is only true of DVDs and a rare variant of Blu-Ray called LTH. Even cheap shitty Blu-Rays from Chinese manufacturers use inorganic dyes these days.

Also, the French Archives did a test of a variety of DVDs for longevity in adverse conditions and found that M-DISC didn't last significantly longer than competitors, even those with inorganic dyes: https://documents.lne.fr/publications/guides-documents-techn...

The US DoD also did a similar test under different conditions and found it performed much better than the competition though: http://www.esystor.com/images/China_Lake_Full_Report.pdf

I suspect the difference between the French and US tests might be the French using a longer test duration and the Americans using light. The French went up to 1000h while the Americans only went to 24 as far as I can tell.

And unlike DVDs, I haven't seen any studies of longevity for M-DISC Blu-Rays.
Besides how you feel about it, how does your friend feel about it? Have his expectations been met?
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The thing is that nothing is good enough for keeping it for lifetime. A hardware might be broken, a supply might be discontinued and a software maintainer might disappear. You'll need to keep refreshing the data from one device to another, for the rest of your life. That said, I'm curious how easy this system can handle porting from one device or service to another, in varying formats and architectures. The only way to stay relevant is to constantly keep changing/adapting to new things.
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Thank you. Also just want to mention that as per AWS's recent announcement they are going to make Amazon RDS lambda like, i.e. You dont have to pay monthly for your Mysql server but query wise or Cpu consumption wise.
But also climate change, endocrinde disruption, soil acidification and oceans full of microplastics. I wonder how many times "progress" has to bite us in the ass before our culture realizes that the behavior of the complex systems our lives depend on really can't be predicted, and that it might actually be best to err on the side of caution.
Everything in this thread just sounds like releasing rabbits into Australia all over again. Complete with the "fix" of releasing foxes if something goes wrong.
> Amazon does something even more insidious.

> Basically, they're letting you validate the market and then jumping in once you've taken the risk and created the market.

I am not trying to defend Amazon but they also cut down the customer acquisition costs someone validating the market has to incur. So, it is now become a toss up between initial costs of finding and validating the market vs Amazon taking the sales data entering in direct competition. Which is better?
"If the machine is designed to do X, it will struggle at Y no matter how clever the people."

Not quite true as stated - unless this means that excellent people doing excellent work on unfavored Y are overwhelmingly likely to be transferred to a team working on X.

Many successful pivots were possible because the team assigned to do Y were unexpected stars and before they could be shifted to more central work, it became clear they had created a different and more viable business than the machine they were supposed to be a minor part of.
You are comparing a relatively new subway system with some quite old ones. A more apples to apples comparison would be with the Hong Kong MTR or the Taipei MRT, or even some of the Mass Transit Railways in Tier 1 cities in China.
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I've been keeping an eye on this project for years, because it seems well-designed, and the authors are very capable developers.

The biggest problem I found was getting documentation on replication. Having two+ servers mirror-each other, across the internet, seems like a good idea given that otherwise you have a single point of failure as you import all your media/files.
Beyond what 'scrollaway wrote, I'd add that even granting some degree of danger inherent to an idea, it's only because dangerous is synonymous with powerful, which - in case of science and technology - is usually synonymous with useful.

So the idea of atoms splitting leads to atomic bombs, which - when used on people - are evil, but it also leads to nuclear power plants (and by extension, to fixing current energy problems in an environmentally-friendly way), it leads to new scanning methods in medicine, it leads to improvements in agriculture, etc., and it leads to many similarly powerful spin-off ideas. Hell, it could open up the Solar System for us if people weren't scared shitless of it. Sure we got MAD, and we pointed a lot of nukes at each other, but we survived, and so far we're much better off with the idea of splitting atoms than without it.

And genetic engineering, while opening us up for new kinds of dangers, also has so much more potential than nuclear physics. It has the theoretical capacity of solving most of the problems of humanity, from food supply and environmental damage, to sickness, decay and death. I'd say that the biggest moral hazard here is not pursuing it.

And ultimately, let's not forget that scientific ideas are either good or bad models of the world, and whatever practical danger that comes of it is because of people who go apeshit and exploit achievements of science and technology to further their insanity. So maybe let's focus on restricting the impact of dangerous groups of people. As for the ideas themselves, to quote Eugene T. Gendlin:

What is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.
And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
While I agree that Uber has established itself as "the most unethical tech-company of our time", the difference is that Facebook's business model is kind of unethical - hoarding of personal data on its users to sell to advertisers.
While Uber's business model is merely providing people with utility.
Yeah I meant to put it in quotes. :) Hard to find B2C type SaaS companies doing that though (with the exception of Pinboard, who’s crazy :)

We actually haven’t had a hardware failure (apart from HDD that have all been replaced with SSD) in something like 7 years.

We don’t even pay big bucks for Dell, HP etc. Just cheap SuperMicro boxes.
You are correct about the contextual paragraph being at the end of the article and not the beginning.

I try to avoid reading Op-Eds for the most part, but I believe it is quite common (maybe even standard practice?) for them to come at the end of the article rather than the beginning. And if the contextual paragraph comes at the end of the article, then it follows that it would be behind a paywall that only shows the first paragraph to non-subscribers.
Yes, lets dismiss it altogether. Crypto is adverse to the core culture of software engineering. Keep shunning it and it will go away. Lets not be disrupted.
You can certainly talk about controversial social issues in America, you just have to be prepared for people to not like you.

I think you may be running into another facet of American culture and misinterpreting interactions through that lens. In America, you pick your tribe. If you don't like someone, don't hang out with them! Friendships tend to come and go based on your circumstances of the moment, and if they fade away, it's no big deal, you'll make new friends. While in China (and many other places in the world), you're born into a tribe, and people will make significant compromises to their individual happiness to maintain relationships. Many Asian families exhibit behavior that borders on child abuse by American standards and would result in a kid cutting that parent out of their life, while such a thing is basically unheard of in Chinese culture.

I've got one Chinese parent and my wife is full Taiwanese-American. This was an uncomfortable cultural difference for both of us to learn, and we still sometimes feel the loss of that social web. But American society makes more sense when you view relationships through the lens of "people only maintain them while it is mutually beneficial and fulfilling for both parties, and if one person doesn't feel like the relationship is worth it they'll end it, and so your actions better bring joy and fulfillment to those around you."
And you would forever cripple your students. As potential users of linear algebra, they would be mentally mutilated beyond all hope of regeneration.
Why do Americans believe trying to interpret the Founding Father's intent is a reasonable way to debate policy? If the opinions of 18th century wealthy men have merit today it should be because we believe their reasoning applies to current circumstances, not because they were the Founders of anything.

I'm not saying I necessarily disagree that "a small accountable republic driven to progress only on issues where there was minimal to no opposition" is desirable today, but you have put forward no valid argument for it.
It's still called that.

I access them on my phone now.
I wouldn’t be as miserably ashamed for this as I am, if it weren’t for the fact that the popular artists my country has produced since, oh... 1996? Aren’t worth defending from piracy.

You can harp on how there’s no accounting for taste, but the truth is that the industry this sort of thing protects certainly does account for taste, and only invests in the kind of lowest-common-denominator/mass-appeal trash that makes them the most money.

And so, we are left to suffer the guilt trip that because we don’t adhere to an honor system of donating funds for better artists (paying and not pirating, copying, stealing, sharing, music and movies), we get the artists we deserve. But that’s clearly not true, because the money made off the garbage produced today, doesn’t make it into any kind of honor system that benefits the interests of better artists.

How about producers of bad music and movies demonstrate that they are willing to donate into the honor system first?

The profits that the industry sees are not reinvested. The artists, mysteriously, continue to worsen.
Wouldn't other mosquito species start becoming vectors though? It's not like the niche the vector is occupying goes away.
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This is pretty common in retail and predates Amazon (or even online shopping in general)-- for example, Kroger has Kroger-branded groceries; Best Buy has Dynex, Rocketfish, and Insignia for consumer electronics; Costco has Kirkland Signature everything.

Generics and private label brands are big business, especially in industries where consumers aren't brand sensitive (does anyone actually buy on-brand Motrin or Advil?). It's completely understandable that Amazon would want on that particular gravy train.
Piracy is not stealing. If I make an exact copy of your car and drive off in the copy, did I just steal your car?
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Someone help me find better information on this. Regardless of how "good" the NN regulation is, I think it's a very fair point that this is a regulation for a preemptive and hypothetical scenario that had so far not occurred.

Are there enough proof that the scenario isn't hypothetical, and companies have already been doing something unfair?
I think you're missing a key distinction. The problem is not that merely that you hold a political belief-- as you say, this by itself is over-the-top and unreasonable.

The problem rather is that your particular political belief is viewed as being actively hostile towards people themselves or towards their friends or family or others. Voicing opposition towards gay marriage comes across as an attack on all gay people. That's where the reaction comes from.

A political belief that's not treated as openly hostile towards others (for example, supporting charter schools or something) doesn't get this reaction, of course. It's not merely that "you just can't say that you believe certain things are right/wrong if it goes against norms"; you're missing the nuance here.
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Starting with the fact that Intel has a Chief Medical Officer.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. If Google told me they’d match my pricing then sure, I’d probably look at doing that too.

Still a lot of issues on GCP for low latency DB deployments though (no permanent NVME, higher latency on the network backed block storage, etc).

Presumably you start looking at Spanner but that’s it’s own world of hurt (higher latency than MySQL/Postgres, a reeaaallyy basic query planner, the list goes on). You have to change the way you think about data with it and pretty much re-architect your data access.

Agreed re machine learning etc.
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