skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, look at it in the sense of offering an incomplete set of truths. It sounds like we have a rather similar political outlook, but I read a lot of statist and right-wing opinion because you often learn more from your antagonists than your allies.

A weak point in left thought to my mind is its widespread spontanaeism - the notion that once people just see how well other approaches work they'll naturally adopt them. While true to some extent I think it also rests on a sort of utilitarian rationalism and skates over the problem of incumbent actors operating in bad faith. So people either tend to avoid that question altogether (utopianism) or posit extreme solutions that take no account of tactical/strategic factors (ultras). If you delve into the work of statists like Bill Lind, in contrast, you don't have to look too far before coming on discussions of the practicalities of repression and how to implement it while maintaining strategic superiority.

The AI analysis is OK from that perspective - kinda like classical mechanics does a decent job of predicting local astronomical phenomena despite its explanatory limitations.

Also, claiming that communists tried to nurture a middle class is just plain wrong. Communists were, at least according to Communists, trying to abolish class entirely, and initially to uplift the proletariat, the working class.

Well, you could say lift them up into what? The middle class is in the middle between (stereotype warning) powerful idle elites and downtrodden industrial wage slaves/serfs. The Communist Manifesto sketches the idea of the future society out quite loosely, but it boils down to 'hey, we could actually provide a middle class lifestyle for everyone by rethinking property relations' - Marx talks about everyone putting in some work but also having meaningful amounts of leisure time . Presumably the heroes of a future communist society would be those who maximized consumer rather than producer surplus after externalities had been accounted for.

The goal wasn't to drag everyone down to the lowest pits of the working class, but to afford everyone the freedom from day-to-day economic insecurity and the dignity middle class people have historically enjoyed, without allowing new elites to coalesce. Think of post Kruschev Soviet media where there's a sort of technological and economic self-confidence on display.
I didn't miss that point, it was clearly stated as fighting subjective bias and making sure there is equal opportunity. Measuring performance is pretty objective, but yes it should also constantly be improved.

That has nothing to do with diversity based on appearance nor will those policies help.
That's shifting rapidly. Women are very close to 50% of medical school graduates as of 2015. [1]

[1] https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/medical-school-gra...
> the army is mostly clean.

That’s very much at odds with most of what I've seen, which is that both regional commands and the highest levels of authority in the army have shown corruption by and, especially at the regional level, direct intervention on behalf of cartels.
It's not a punishment, because...

1) having answers at your fingertips is not that great, and

2) said answers are surrounded in many cases by a sea of useless opportunistic crap deployed by people whose aims are literally hostile to you.

"Punishment" is being dramatic anyway, and sounds a tad narcissistic. No problem in the world is quite so outrageous and unjust as the minor inconvenience that happens to a narcissist. I mean how am I gonna read about all the genocides without my smartphone? IT'S SO UNFAIR!!

I spent four decades being punished by having no smartphone. Do I lament all the answers at my fingertips that I never got? Hardly. I brag about it just like I'm doing right now, because it made me into something better, someone who doesn't need a spell-checker, someone who knows a gerund from a participle, an integral from a derivative, a list from an array, AND my ass from my elbow. Someone who spent his childhood playing outside or studying and not worrying about what some distant asshole thought of me.

And instead of having cheap, instant, abundant answers, I was instead able to wonder first and guess and theorize about those answers. Practicing the act of inquiry. Maybe I'd look them up in a book later, or maybe just forget the hell out of them like the trivial and unnecessary mind-clutter that they were. Which is the beauty of idle questions sometimes. Regardless, it's the same outcome as a smartphone user after having looked it up. If asked again in 6 months they'll have to look it up again. Those answers are like the SUV you've never taken off-road that you only use to go to big-box stores in the suburbs. (To buy stuff that's only slightly less unneeded than the SUV.)

The more cheaply and easily things are available to you, the less special and valuable (or in the case of knowledge, memorable) they are.
These studies already are commissioned by the state. The problem is when they are ignored, like with ballot initiatives that implement rent control and tax control over the objections of nearly every working economist.
My girlfriend, otherwise non-technical, still maintains one of these.

There's this huge tribal knowledge built up around copy-paste CSS hacks to enable things like tab navigation all on one page with no JS. It's actually pretty wild some of the stuff these folks do, especially since almost none of them have any technical knowledge and it's all trial-and-error and sharing what works through the forums.

The amount of hackery they do for their forum guild pages (hosted as pet pages) and such almost blows my mind more than the fact that Neopets is still around and somewhat active after all these years.
You ready to deal with paying capital gains tax every time you purchase something?
I do not think fast typing is a requisite or even usually a "nice-to-have" skill for programming.

I'm a professional programmer who types over 100wpm, so maybe I'm overlooking something. I rarely ever find that typespeed is my limiting factor.
>This is what new rent control regulations in Toronto are doing...

*according to the landlord lobbying group based on unknown data that even the report says they cannot guarantee the accuracy of.
> How about popping up a thing where I confirm the purchase, even add a tip or sign for some purchases?

I may be wrong but as far as I know this simply isn't possible with the existing contactless payment protocol. That standard goes way beyond Google (and they don't command anywhere near enough of the market to make their own addition to it).
What hyperbole are you objecting to?

On net, do you think Rogan's political commentary favors the status quo or a more equal society?

Imagine you think fire trucks are an eyesore, so you start an advocacy campaign trying to ban them from the road. Someone might accuse you of not caring if people's houses burn down.

You might reply that deep in your heart you are 100% against houses burning down and you're just weighing in on the way fires should be fought.

And maybe you're being honest that in your heart of hearts you don't want houses to burn down. But that's only relevant to you. From everyone else's perspective, your politics are pro-houses-burning-down.
What device did you switch to? I tried making the same switch a couple years ago but couldn't stick to it, mainly due to missing GPS/maps (and secondly due to dumbphones making lousy mp3 players, and not being able to serve as wifi hotspots for mobile data on the rare occasions that I do want to do internet stuff on the go).
YouTube also caters to a shorter-attention-span viewer than TV. After getting hooked on YouTube, it's hard(er) for kids to sit through a 22 or 45 minute TV show.
It's easy to make measurements of literature. It just turns out that word length and sentence structure and number of chapters aren't that interesting. Most of what gets measured when it comes to code is similar, it's just that it is easy to automate the measurement.

The sorts of things that are hard to measure for literature, like impacts on the lives of individuals, are also hard to measure in code. So code measures what isn't hard rather than what is important (and tends to elevate what is easy to measure to importance as best industry practice). To put it another way, we don't go around measuring how much more emphatic I become after checking in on Yelp, snapchatting my BFF, or listening to fifteen minutes of Ginger Baker Radio on Pandora.

Maybe it is just because our expectations for code are so much lower. And maybe our expectations are so much lower because we don't treat code as literature. We accept code that doesn't change us and our view of the world as good code. Sorting an array quickly is held up as good code despite not having much impact on how we look at the world.
The solution is for local families to be muscled out.

Hi, let me introduce myself. I am SF's housing crisis. So are many of my friends. We're those "local families" who have been living in SF for 15+ years in rent-controlled apartments. We're still here because the rent is cheap. If our rent went up even moderately, we'd probably move to the suburbs; by the time you hit your 40s, you get tired of stepping over panhandlers and human feces.

If you really want to get angry, let me tell you about the multiple times I've moved away for extended periods and kept the apartment unoccupied as a pied-a-terre. Rent control makes it affordable!

There are a lot of us, enough to occupy a significant chunk of the housing stock. Because we've taken this stock off the market, the available float is smaller than it would otherwise be, so everyone's bidding up what's left.

Would average rents go up without rent control? Certainly. But it would force a lot of us "local families" to make long-overdue decisions, freeing up housing, and driving down the average "new rent".
I like how so many comments here are looking down on candy crush (or fb or whatever) but are totally ok with 'self improvement' / 'learning' etc.

IMO - The latter is also mental clutter: There is a limit to # of information that will be useful - it is best to collect information relevant to your current pursuits now and leave the rest of the world for later (to an extent: you probably want to keep tabs on the overall sitch though). Bingeing on HN or other useful sites all day instead of focussing on your current goals is almost the same - a different dopamine hit, that's all.
On Bonaire (no idea what the card is as I bought it on the basis of being supported by amdgpu and having right combination of outputs and nothing else) I don't get mess for split second, but after the switch to graphical mode first two lines are partialy replaced by randomly colored special characters.
Ask HN: Anything exciting to look forward to in 2018?
Is there any human achievements, interesting products, or informative conferences to look forward to in 2018? I am just curious and would be great to keep me motivated with all the negative politics happening.
“Pleased and slightly nervous” aptly describes my feelings as an audience member at an SRL event. Maybe not “slightly”. I remember one in downtown SF (next to the SFMOMA site?) with a V-1 buzz bomb engine. They were dropping what I guessed might be balloons of acetylene gas into it. I thought the audience would be showered with glass from the adjacent building, but that didn’t quite happen. (IIRC, there were also giant stumbling robots of some sort, but I was more focused on the loud explosions and subsonic rumblings.)
We are definitely not the target users. They definitely have a strong product that appeals to a large demographic.
>I'm just saying it's important to recognize that taking away something like a smartphone could be a punishing experience for a person.

So, if my kid is addicted to drugs and I restrict him from having them for a few hours to wean him off, I am punishing him?

I don't know what a "punishing experience" means. If it is a punishment, the actor (parent, school, etc) has to have the intent of punishing. Just because the recipient believes something is punishment does not make it so.
They could just publish a git repository. It'd be the same: it's not possible to edit the data without replacing the entire chain [of commits].
This is absolutely strictly correct but I think (in the Phaedrus) it's accepted that the injunction against writing thing is Socrates' idea (because Plato's work survives to this day in written form – Plato wrote stuff down) but that the injunction against art/theatre/drama (is it?) is all Plato's and is to be found in the Republic, the reason being that that which is representational is twice removed from the truth or something like that.

But you probably already know all this. So for the benefit of others.
The comment I was replying to seems to have been edited from what it originally said, apparently taking into account what I posted.
Affirmative action is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer or have suffered from discrimination within a culture[1]. Google is an affirmative action employer[2]. If women are favored over men, then wouldn't it make sense that a less skilled woman has the potential of being selected over a more skilled man?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action

[2] https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/
An article about a "growing body of evidence" that fails to link to a single study. Great.

"Smartphone use takes about the same cognitive toll as losing a full night's sleep"

Would love to see this study, since it sounds completely implausible (but really important if true). Without looking at the research, the only reasonable course of action is to assume it's false.
He means 80% of Americans probably, not 100% and that that is a lot more than in any other demographic in the western world.

Be aware, 60% of Republicans belie e that the earth really is only 6,000 years old.

By not understanding he means that, that they don't understand that they don't
understand that in distribution when traits are different on a average that that doesn't mean that in one group all individuals of one groups have stronger or weaker traits than individuals
of the other group.
> It would be equally absurd

Yes, that was my point. Your argument -- that a professor should be expected teach in classrooms a lot because they're called a professor -- is absurd :-)
Wholefoods and Walgreens are good for ApplePay
That's quite a blanket statement. There's a bunch of cases where companies trust each other enough to share the data for the benefit of the industry - credit reports being one example. Other industries have bad customer lists, etc.

So let's say you do set up a meeting with Experian, TransUnion and EquiFax and now need to prepare a slide deck to convince them to migrate their existing tech (let's say a master MySQL with a bunch of slaves, shared write access for trusted entities) to blockchain.

What's your selling point? Lower costs when deployed at the datacenter? Decreased hardware costs? Greatly increased TPS? Faster lookups? Easier to build applications on top compared to the existing stack?
photos of the course the Finnish forces invited the US squad to

https://imgur.com/gallery/Wc3P1
Christ. He isn't, and for the love of god, stop reading things that people on the internet tell you and immediately accepting them as fact.

Even what I just said, that he isn't, you should go look up, investigate, and see what YOU think.
> The limit to tolerance is being tolerant of intolerance.

This is nonsensical. Tolerance is the region between what you like and what you fight. There are lots of obviously bad things you shouldn't tolerate (like murder), and lots of mildly distasteful things you should.

Someone else being less tolerant of something than we think they should be isn't some special category of evil. As with anything else, you have to decide whether a particular case is bad enough that you must fight it, or ambiguous enough that it isn't worth the conflict.
Apple might streamline their offerings, simplify them dramatically, but they also aggressively update it. Where the Nomad came out and was incrementally improved the iPod got re-invented several times, often cannibalizing its own market share in the process.

Part fashion accessory, part music appliance, part computer, the purpose of the iPod was understood by Apple and poorly understood by their competitors.

Just like how the Walkman wasn't the first portable cassette player, or even technically the best, Sony relentlessly innovated on that form factor making smaller, lighter versions, waterproof ones, and ultimately owned that market. It wasn't until the iPod rolled around that someone displaced that position so completely.
Wow, that is pretty substantial difference between AWS and Azure. I’m pretty confident Microsoft is hard at work getting these numbers better, but it shows just how lonely AWS is at the top. I’m pretty deep into AWS-land but I’m rooting for the boys & girls in Redmond; more competition == better service.
> The way it is now, everything is geared towards "doing" things, and credit is received for "accomplishments"

Repealing a law is doing something, and people frequently point to it as an accomplishment (or goal, if not yet done) if they think the law is unpopular with their constituency.
James Damore sues Google for discriminating against white men
Jordan Peterson especially sounds like every traditionalist Catholic I know. Which is fine, but at least they wear their stripes proudly.
We can agree to disagree, but I think what he did was the smart play there.
Here's why I think so.
Who in the government should he have gone to?
We're talking about a lot of reps and senators, some of whom are either on intelligence committees (and possibly approving these actions, or at least the autonomy of those making those choices), or people who are beholden to those congressional members who are. Or he could have gone to people who have no experience with this or no influence to do anything.

Given what he knew of what happened to people who "work against" the US, do you really think the Bradley/Chelsea Manning option was one he wanted to risk?

I don't think our government is full of corrupt, evil and hateful people trying to kill as many people as they can.

Instead, I think it's full of hard working, well meaning people who succumb to the same pressures and tunnel vision that we all do.
And sometimes, those people, under pressure from us, the populace, make them try to find solutions that may inch towards tyranny without us knowing it.

Snowden is an idealist, but he needed to show that same populace what our desire for safety was leading to.

I don't believe the guy should be deified, but I don't think he actually matters other than as a part of history and someone who showed us a mirror.

And I don't think you should dump on the fact that he handed them to journalists.

They literally are one of our government's greatest resources in keeping it honest.
Not because it's an inherently noble profession, but specifically because our freedom of the press allowed them to have incentives in routing out corruption, whether that's money or fame, etc.
well no. You can write artistic code, people do that in coding all the time (in programming contests, sample code, your own code etc) but the real goal of writing code is to perform a certain task. The execution of those instructions is what matters, not the style of how the code written.

So yea not all code is art.
I don't know, Moscow upgraded its 3 airports in the last 10-15 years as well as opened a new one. You would imagine that everything left over from Soviet times needed a massive overhaul.

Maybe the difference is whether you really need an airport, or when it is second to having a big public project to sink costs into?
The market would speak anyway. If people are paid enough to pay $50k/year in rent, no landlord in his right mind will charge less.

Google or whatever doesn’t pay based on housing costs. They pay based on business value.
I agree that the person who leaked the memo against Damore's intent should be punished similarly (and I hope Google did).

However, the death threats and misrepresentations of his text were not simply a factor of it being published globally. From what I have heard, the discussion was already heated inside of Google before it even got leaked.

Also, I don't think Damore was ignorant to the fact that his content was divisive in nature. I think he knew exactly what he was trying to say and knew what kind of reaction it would provoke.

I really think he needs to own it, and the lawsuit just proves the point to me why he was fired. He's not a "team player"; can't own up to his mistakes. Sure, perhaps this lawsuit will make it easier for people to discuss politics in the workplace without being fired, but his actions telegraph his intent, at least to me.
> when those methods and formulas are available ubiquitously at the touch of a button

Many "formulas" are easy to read but hard to apply effectively.
Spectre Attack on SGX PoC
Surely you can agree that every student is an individual and just because they go to the same college does not mean they all have the same background?
Well I think those things are important and interesting. Your appreciation of "sounding like" is failing you and us on our road to inclusivity.
I tend to think hydrogen is going to be the winner.
Interesting that the article lists global warming from carbon dioxide as one "unnervingly close to the mark". The first public written record we have of that possibility dates to 1912: https://qz.com/817354/scientists-have-been-forecasting-that-...
I know several slumlords who have made a killing off of rent control. It rewards bad actors disproportionately more than bleeding hearts like GP's mother.

Because slumlords are better able to extract profits from rent controlled properties, they are willing to buy them for more than they are worth to bleeding hearts. All rent controlled properties will be managed by slumlords in the long run.
Maybe we need something deeper than that, you have 3/4 of your country that are almost a wasteland and you insist on cram all the people in 4 or 5 cities.
Maybe we need to start to incentive moving people to other more empty places...
Why Microsoft’s Cosmos DB may displace AWS’s cloud databases
Does it work for Brazilian merchants?
See Dr Seuss and Sneetches - he's spot on.
He should have made a better argument then.
Chase freedom is giving 5% back in Jan-Mar this year for using Android Pay. So, I'm going to use it for at least three months.
> Landlords do the absolute bare minimum to not get sued/fined.

IME, this is a pretty universal statement.

Hop across the bridge to cities without rent control and you'll see the same thing. The problem isn't any specific policy, it's the power balance between landlord and tenant created by a market with limited supply and ever-growing demand.
Google has caught MMD (Microsoft Marketing Disease)

Microsoft was exactly my first thought when I read this. "Are they pulling a SkyDrive here, and it's just rebranded Google Wallet?" And I use SkyDrive as an example because I lost count of how many times Microsoft renamed their online storage, to the point that I just gave up and used Dropbox.

It must work, or companies wouldn't do it. But it just alienates me. Is this the new boss, same as the old boss? Or a new product with new things I should take a look at? Does it work better than when I tried to use Google Wallet when I had Android? Aww, fuck it, I'll just keep using Apple Pay.
Melting glaciers are also causing the ocean floor to sink
I wanted to post this exact reply and saw you had already posted it. Highly recommended, I think about this podcast episode a lot.
> It's a very good argument.

In the best case, that argument only has a little utility. However, it's a pretty bad argument now, since political correctness only allows you to make those kinds of swaps in certain cases. Nowadays, it can only be use to amplify the outrage against an already-identified villain.
rg has been in OpenBSD packages since 6.1