skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, that sounds like a problem for cryptocurrency. Lots of people just put their wallet address on things and you can send them money.
Some technical details:

https://www.hertrich.photo/innovative-music-experience-kebu-...
ad populum or no, the original post "E Pur Si Muove" struck me as some kind of dog-whistle for eugenics-lite, along with a side of butthurt for being tsk-tsked about it, so I see where this dude is coming from--even if his argument could use a little work.

However, I am purely going off the tone of Sam's article. I know very little about Sam Altman. He could have been coming from a place of goodwill and sincerity. If he was, "E Pur Si Muove" also needs a little work, 'cause at face value... dog whistle.
>Rates of harm have decreased dramatically.

I question the measurements of harm, which I believe in the Portuguese case is in terms of diseases/hospitalizations/deaths. Everyone knows high-functioning people who have alcohol or drug problems, who will probably not show up in such measurements of harmful use, but who nonetheless suffer personal and family problems due to their habit.

Also, this article, though a little dated, seems to contradict your claim about drug use in the last 12 months.

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133086356/Mixed-Results-For-P...

>While people reporting drug use over the course of their lifetime has gone up, somewhat significantly in the last decade in Portugal, people reporting drug use over the last 12 months of their lives has actually gone up only slightly.

And again, Portugal didn't have much of a drug culture to begin with. Where drug use is a much greater and ubiquitous cultural phenomenon, like in the US, it is very plausible that decriminalization would lead to significantly increased use.
This requires paypal, can we pay without having to go through paypal?
Legality is just one reason. There are many.-

Reason 2: opiates poured into the population via healthcare system for some reason (because pain bad, lobbying good)

Reason 3: People who are drug addicts have universal healthcare, whereas I'm guessing a lot of drug addicts are lacking good insurance in the US. Not the people who have taken overdoses are rejected from the emergency room in the US - but preventive care, free treatment for addiction, regular health checkups etc. are probably less common among addicts where they don't have universal healthcare.
Actually I think the U.S. is ahead of Norway here, as cannabis has been decriminalized in several states in the U.S. As to the racial component — Norway is not as racially diverse as the U.S., but if you are black you will be routinely stopped by police and interrogated on the street in Norway. This will not happen if you are white. I know of a university professor from Africa that experiences this several times a year — he has just resigned to the fact.

On a diffrent note, Norway has a huge problem with drug-related deaths: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-19/which-european-nati...
If someone wrecks your professional reputation with a rumor, why don't you sue them?

Trivial but serious answer: You might not know. Harvey Weinstein got Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino blacklisted, and neither of them knew why they suddenly weren't getting roles.

It would be nice if we could build a gossip network which was immune to malicious gossip, but I don't know how one would go about doing that.
Robert Bigelow has been interested in aliens and UFOs for most of his life and has essentially dedicated his life to amassing the resources to start an aeronautical company.

Hiring him to do this is like hiring Robert Ballard to find the Titanic.
I've always made up my own error codes, which I embed in the 200 response since I end up having to map HTTP codes to what they mean anyway, and many libraries have their own behavior on how to handle various HTTP codes or cannot recognize anything other 200 and other (some LUA engines, for example).
I recently picked up knot-tying. I wouldn't necessarily call it a creative hobby but it's a nice challenge and pretty satisfying/useful. Costs about nothing, can do it at your desk.
Tldr: a lot of people disagree so you're inarguably wrong
It's never higher quality.
The distinction isn't pronounced. Few sites are, distinctly, only "apps" or "documents." So how would one define an "app" in this case, in a way that wouldn't encompass most of the existing web as "apps?"
Uh, generally locking people up just for doing politics is considered a malady - the term "political prisoner" never sounds great.
Part of the problem is all the crazy mythology around the subject. But strip that off and it has always seemed to me that there is an interesting residue of facts. It's not enough to prove anything but it's enough to be intriguing.

One possible answer to the Fermi paradox is that they are here but are just not making overt obvious contact. If this were true we'd probably be talking about a "post-singularity" super intelligence. It would be nearly immortal and thus very patient. Contact protocols might take thousands of years.
any old excuse to link this excerpt from adam curtis' hypernormalisation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQX08u9PGPA
Similar reasons are why I don't like employment anti-discrimination laws. They were really designed for manual labor jobs and the like.
Engineering can be creative but most of the time it is not. We are mostly applying existing solutions to well known problems.
AoT is still experimental and we don't have a wide array of nodes installed across the city.

The majority of the consumers of the data thus far have been researchers at Argonne and UChicago. The City of Chicago is, obviously, our main partner in this and they are looking forward to building applications for residents and internal teams to work with the data.
I have come across a need for this in typescript and have used similar approaches as the author. Maybe this is a bad outlook of mine, but I am tending more and more to trusting my tooling over some of my fellow developers.
"Too drunk to meaningfully consent". It is ludicrous on its face to claim you didn't know someone was that drunk.

And, anyway, in the jurisdictions I'm talking about, it doesn't matter if you knew or not; if she was that drunk, it's rape. That's what "statutorily" means.
For me just starting to get into Ethereum Dapp programming and still being a lot of new concepts to me, working for an exchange seems more within my reach as it crosses into my experience as a web developer.

What I'm curious about these larger crypto exchanges is if any of them has tried to acquire talent from more traditional trading websites (eToro, etc.) Though it's still the wild west in comparison so they would need to offer some very good incentives.
Obviously it's appropriate to remove the citations from someone's work then, right? No bias there :^)
I've counseled many younger people, HR is not there to help you - their primary mission is to help the company at all times. The same thing goes with college campus police.

She should have called the nearest city's police. If there was proof of a rape from her hospital visit they probably would have charged the guy.

On a side note it absolutely flabbergasts me that Microsoft offered a job to the alleged rapist! Surely it can't be that hard for them to find good employees.
Your analysis is one of the more obvious explanations and as such it has been considered thoroughly before for the cases that remain unexplained. Typically these cases include radar signatures or other corroborating evidence.
It was just a totally different type of online conversation ("convo") which doesn't exist anymore. You always initiated with a "hey" or "sup." It was considered rude to not say "gtg, bye" before signing off or even "brb" when stepping away for 5 mins.

I will never know if the glory of my AIM days was due to being a teenager or just being a part of online chat during that special window of its history.

WhatsApp group chat with my closest friends is definitely incredible, but a different experience.
>> Global minimum is usually overfitting so what is needed is getting close enough.

If the global minimum is overfitting, then what are local minima doing, exactly? Generalising well? I find that very hard to believe.

Also- we're talking about overfitting in the context of a particular training dataset, right? Because we all know that it doesn't matter how well your model validates against your out-of-sample data, its performance is going to fall by 10% to 20% once it hits the real world and has to deal with truly unseen data.
When I spot a resume I like, I then read/look for the cover letter. I imagine you do the same. So there is probably some value in writing a decent cover letter at the very least.
I'm not sure but I think privately run prisons are only a thing in the UK and US (at least among developed countries). Happy to be corrected here.
> the Brendan Eich story unfortunately shows that pitchfork mob tactics work on Mozilla.

Yes. If anyone wants to do a git bisect to find when the Mozilla Corporation lost its integrity, we can say it was definitely "bad" by the time they forced out Eich in April 2014.
That was a factor, but the core was more choice. Broadcast used to be about quality.

It's quantity now, with "just goos enough" translating to what people will tolerate.

Thought experiment for you:

Which do you prefer?

Low quality, but compelling. Or high quality, not so compelling?

That answer is what drives everything. People will take compelling every time. Very few will take quality as a primary factor.

More choice = more opportunity to be more compelling = higher AD rates = more revenue per bit.
I don't think we have any states where it has been decriminalized. It has been outright legalized in some, but most still have it illegal - and possession often results in prison time, not just fines. Of course, it's still illegal on the federal level regardless of the state, and you can run afoul of that (e.g. at an internal border control checkpoint).
It is probably difficult to voice an unpopular opinion and have it be met with so much derision by people whose opinions on business matters you respect so deeply. Unfortunately it is quite common for a pragmatic and reasonable professionals to have less than reasonable personal beliefs. Sam cares about what people think about him which is healthy and separates him from the sociopaths of the world.
> claiming in effect that the malware they silently injected into people's browsers

It's not malware - please stop calling it that.
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You can still receive jail time for possession of e.g. 1g of marijuana for personal use in states where it is decriminalized. "Decriminalized" just means it's a misdemeanor and not a felony under certain conditions and in certain quantities, but misdemeanors still carry significant penalties.
Sorry, this was not intended as religious flamebait. It was to illustrate a point that is, I believe, quite pertinant to the issue sama is discussing. And I think it's worth noting that the discussion it engendered was completely civil by all participants, which is what I was hoping for, rather than getting flamed.

But I'll defer to your judgement, and not respond again on this thread.
The Esperanto presentation video from the recent risc-v conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-b4QOzMyfU
Branding my friend... it's all in the branding :)

If you're interested in the project, feel free to contact me (info in profile).
The racial component in the US is such a hot-button issue not just because of the degree of racial discrimination, but also because the size and non-immigrant status of the black minority here.
It's much easier to catch someone smuggling drugs through an airport than it is stopping someone from walking over an imaginary line that's thousands of kilometres long. So less drugs in circulation, which would have an effect on death rates.
> I would worry that the versions of libraries in the container are just the generic packages that ship with the OS, compiled with -march=i686 or whatever the modern equivalent is, where they don't try to take advantage of e.g. AVX512 instructions if they're available.

That was essentially my worry, yes. Thanks for clarifying.
> Do we really need an update to a web browser every 6 weeks?

considering how overly complicated and insecure browsers have become, probably yeah
He means notes.
This could explain some (even many) cases of being unable to capture evidence, but it would not explain no one ever being able to capture any meaningful decisive evidence.
Suppose it does - why does it matter? Why should society be in the business of policing what people put into their bodies, in their own homes?
You might not know about a huge number of different kinds of destructive rumors. Anyone who has ever worked with you could spread false rumors about what you were like to work with, or how your job performance was. On the more lurid end of the spectrum, people could spread rumors that you were involved in child pornography (this happened to me once!). Somehow, we manage not to get ourselves tied up in knots about the fact that we're all vulnerable in some sense to rumors --- but when women accuse men of rape, in our industry where men outnumber women by 4-1, we freak out and rush to frankly childish notions about due process.

I don't have an answer. Clearly, it is problematic that you can have your career derailed by a bogus accusation. The real world is complicated and judging the feed of incoming information we get is a hard problem.

But two things I'm pretty sure of:

* The fundamental concern the "due process" people are articulating isn't unique to gender relations, but has its most powerful emotional impact for dudes in those kinds of controversies. Something is broken about that.

* "The police should resolve it" is clearly not the answer; in fact, that's a conclusion foreclosed by logic, since the standard of proof the police and prosecutors work on is so much higher than any standard used by people in their ordinary lives.
Analyzing tweets using Cloud Dataflow pipeline templates
Agreed. I was frowning at the editing error: NASA instead of NSA. Kind a massive miss on that one.
There's a fine line between cautioning someone on how best to protect themselves, and victim-blaming. I don't think you're doing the latter, but people who (demonstrably) have less nuanced opinions on this kind of thing probably aren't going to be able to see that distinction.

That said, I also think there's a bright-line distinction between using intoxication to explain an assault, versus using it to excuse one. People tend not to see that line, either, though.
I think there's a feedback effect. As more people are vocal and unapologetic, other people view this as acceptable and maybe even desirable behavior. Social media has made being outraged very easy and low effort.
Here are the two failure modes. Say you believe Alice, but she’s lying. Then Bob gets fired or moved despite being innocent. Or, you believe Bob but he’s lying. So Alice has to either leave (the exact same result as Bob), or continue to work with her rapist (arguably a worse result). The two failure modes are equally bad. From the point of view of minimizing social harm, you want to minimize the sum of the two failure cases.

Now, let’s look at the statistics. Rape is much more common than false accusations of rape. Now, you run a simulation using these statistics. What happens? The rule of believing Alice results in vastly more cases where you make the right decision than the rule where you believe Bob. And it results in vastly less social harm overall.

So what’s fair? I’d assume that you’d say it’s to believe Bob, since you have no “hard evidence” to the contrary. (To nitpick: a sworn statement by a witness, Alice, is evidence admissible in court.) But that means that 10-20 women are forced to leave their jobs or work with their rapists for every one man who is spared from wrongly being fired due to a false accusation. From the point of view of minimizing social harm, you’ve failed.

Of course, in reality, you’re usually going to have some other evidence to go on. Bob might say, “Alice is lying I was at the bar with my friends when the alleged rape happened.” If so then you should believe Bob, of course. The idea of shifting the burden of proof might not work in a criminal case, but for the reasons explained above, the considerations in a work place scenario are very different: false negatives are just as bad as false positives.
It is not; it actually looks like a very well-written paper, for a review, with references to all the latest developments. Your particular quibble is answered in a section along with references.
> in many jurisdictions it is statutorily rape to have intercourse with someone who's too intoxicated to meaningfully consent.

Can you point to a jurisdiction where this rule doesn't require direct evidence? Re-quoting parent's ask here:

>Do we have video of the event? Do we have eye witnesses who saw the sexual encounter? Do we know for sure what happened between two people when most likely no one else was around?
It's really pretty simple: you let people figure this out.

The kind of stuff that deserves to be regulated, is the stuff that has known health issues (including strong physical addiction, as e.g. opiates do).
>Simply asking your employees: "Is this a good idea?" would have yielded a clear "Fuck no". That they did not do that (or did, but chose to ignore it) is a terrible sign, open source or not.

Running a company by polling random employees is not an established successful management style. Its only you who is suggesting it, and then claiming that because they didn't do it, its a bad sign.
I don't understand "No Platforming" as a verb here... I infer you mean something like calling for the removal of Nazis from Twitter?

I think there are some authoritarian leftist activists, but I doubt it's a particularly representative sample of the overall category you're thinking of when you mention leftist activists. I think you're just drawing the wrong conclusions from whatever you've read of Mill. Section 44 from the essay:

Undoubtedly the manner of asserting an opinion, even though it be a true one, may be
very objectionable, and may justly incur severe censure. But the principal offences of the
kind are such as it is mostly impossible, unless by accidental self-betrayal, to bring home
to conviction. The gravest of them is, to argue sophistically, to suppress facts or
arguments, to misstate the elements of the case, or misrepresent the opposite opinion.

This also comes after Mill has walked a fine line in section 38 describing how Christian morality must be both questioned, and augmented as some kind of intersectional morality along with other faiths. Whatever reading of Mill you have that makes you think leftists would disagree with it...
The argument from freedom of agency isn't very convincing when drug addiction deprives you of free will itself.
Yes. We already have a silent score we give to people in our minds based on how much conformity is shared. It’s instinctually hardwired in to us.
Alaska for decades.
Idiomatic will probably entail a lot of objects for the pixel data, I'm assuming? I've seen some raytracers written with arrays of simple "bags" of numbers, which would increase performance.

I wrote a real-time 3D polygonal rasterizer in JS that supports texture mapping. After switching from regular arrays to Float32array to store coordinates, it got a huge (~50%) jump in performance.
There's a strong implication that Sesame Credit and the Social Credit System idea follow the example of FICO scores. Has anybody in the Chinese government explicitly stated this?
I am quite skeptical of this having to do anything with aliens, but the "they wouldn't need to hide angle" confounds me. It acts like the only motivation in an interspecies relationship would be minimizing vulnerability. The more vulnerable species would need to hide, the less vulnerable one wouldn't.

Is this genuinely the only motivation possible? I'd say that's a lack of imagination.

Scientists exploring animal species also often don't want to disturb their research subject, to avoid changing their behavior. An alien species might have a nonintervention clause akin to Starfleet.

Perhaps even, a certain property of one of our technologies or our culture is somehow dangerous to another species, who might have a philosophical disinclination towards conflict and thus they do not want to disturb us.

Perhaps their gear doesn't have much of a defense system given someone decided to cut some budget somewhere.

Employ a little imagination! It's probably all bunk but it's way more fun to look at news like this that way.
Access the DOM and Call into JavaScript from Rust Compiled to WebAssembly
If they want to diversify they can work on other projects making money instead of fucking up their current userbase.

IMO coding missile software to pay for those projects would be a lot more ethical than what they're doing. Yeah I consider the ad industry and its privacy crushing consequences worse than weapons almost never fired.
Eremy Wagner’s Web Performance in Action: Building Faster Web Pages Book
PDF.js performs quite well for me and works fine in tabs. It has always been a better experience for me than PDFium, for example.
Linux them, and enjoy the rest.
You've cracked the case!
The fact that the military is not concerned is the most telling sign. In many ways the military would rather you believe in flying saucers instead of looking for black projects and it's suspected that the original UFO myths were perpetrated by the government to cover up top secret aircraft development.

Had someone seen the SR-71 in the 70s, it would have been considered a UFO or "alien technology" because it was so ahead of its time.

Many maneuvers "impossible for a plane" are impossible due to the pilot being human, not due to the plane not being capable. The F35 is capable of flight that would legitimately kill the pilot. No pilot, and suddenly you have lots more room to try crazy stuff including extremely high G speeds and turns, wingless designs or just crazy ideas.
Yep. Pretext is everything.
My current earbud benchmark is the Panasonic ErgoFit line. [1]

To be fair, I don't use an external DAC or source high quality sound on the road.

But for $10 and tolerable, good enough for travel.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00E4LGVUO/
I discovered this yesterday in this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931495
Hetzner has a single 1080 for 99 EUR a month:
https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu
Some merchants do offer discounts for going the debit/cash route. It’s usually in the 3% range and negating the 2% cash back popular credit cards provide, the 1% is rarely worth it to lose the consumer protection.
I've read several well-reasoned comments of yours today that I agree with completely, but given that I don't want to become an expert on the Rohingya, it would be helpful if you all (i.e. in this entire subthread) were to lay out the specific facts upon which you are making these judgements.

Yes, everyone could read that entire Wikipedia page, look through its edit history, check the talk page, and check out the cited links. Most of us probably will not.

There are other well-reasoned arguments in this subthread and it seems like there is some disagreement on some fundamental facts.
> you need a corporation backing you to maintain one of the most critical pieces of web software

My understanding is that Mozilla is supposed to be a nonprofit first and foremost: the Mozilla Foundation. The for-profit Mozilla Corporation is a subsidiary which is owned by the Foundation. I don't know whether this is still reflected in practice nowadays, but this is how it's supposed to be structured...