skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So will the models of today be as "off" in 20 years?

We've come a long way in being able to collect and rapidly analyze large data sets.

Doesn't seem like a proposition that holds.
We have a few people who are intelligent, and yet as a whole we constantly try to kill our fellow man and let people go hungry. The only difference is we know our eventual end is coming and the preceding creatures likely did not.
I’m afraid his comments on not because my customer focussed enough jibe with my experience of Google.

Google has done great UX, but two examples of dreadful customer apps are Google Groups and the Google Admin interface. I have to daily make routine changes to accounts and Google Admin is so unbelievably slow that I curse it every time I have to login to it (which is incredibly frequently). The UI is slow, non-intuitive and confusing. And for a search company, it’s ability to search for Group addresses is appalling. And don’t get me started on Collaborative Inboxes...

Google has innovated in the past, but it seems there is no polish and no attempt at fully developing products. They aren’t terribly great for enterprise management, which is sad for me because they have so much potential.
> We assume, too, that face swapping is the end game, but it’s clearly just the beginning.

Isn't the end game an endless stream of personalized content for everyone? Wherein the entire corpus of human-created media becomes a training set for our fantasies.

It is interesting how entertainment is again pushing the boundary of technology. Soon enough this push to make face editing tools for porn more accessible to everyone will allow anyone to:

1) Replace their ex-husband's face in their old family videos with their new husband's face.

2) Create a viral video of Donald Trump murdering someone.

3) Be the star of their favourite movie, porn or otherwise. (What's the effect this would have on people's memories, when they actively see themselves doing everything James Bond does, for instance? Shooting people, being generally powerful, and "getting the girl"?)
The sin of pride. In catholic theology, Satan is a fallen angel who fancies himself a god-like creature, without acknowledging, knowing or loving god.
In all countries that matter, governments are elected. And they do what they need to do to be elected for the next term.

Assuming they really swept global warming under the rug, they did it because accounting for it was unpopular. We prefer to vote for a candidate that won't reduce our comfort rather than one who decides to tackle a problem most people don't really understand.

We are the ones to blame, governments just gave us what we wanted.
Agree. I just don't really buy his "100% competitor focused" statement. Isn't Google X and moonshot projects serve as Google's innovation hub?
The Clathrate gun hypothesis and the thawing of the Arctic ecosystem are two of the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" that the US government investigates. These are possible scenarios for abrupt climate change (aka tipping points). The other two involve antarctic ice sheet instability and megadroughts in North America.

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2008/09/17/impacts-on-the-threshol...
You prefer mass death?
Google loves protection rackets. "It's too bad your competitor down the road is buying your trademarked business name in AdWords, so now all your idiot customers are driving to his business because their phone told them to. All you really have to do to fix this is bid more for your name than he's bidding, every day from now on."
> The leaders of the company got quite a bit, so no, it is not unreasonable to expect those that are actually doing the work to get something.

It is unreasonable to expect it, because that isn't how the law works. The employees can complain and file lawsuits all they want, but they'll probably lose. It's a fire sale with retention bonuses for the officers by the acquiring company. That is all very standard stuff that the courts of law will not overturn as unfair unless there was some fraud that goes beyond what was written in the story. A founder selling a very optimistic viewpoint of their company's future is not against the law.

But guess what, if you are buying that viewpoint and trusting the founders, that's on you. As an employee you have the power to do 2 things: not join companies run by sleazy people and quit companies that are going poorly. If you don't exercise either of those options, you are leaving yourself wide open to be screwed.

And look, if you want to sit back and tweet at how horrible these founders are, go for it. I do think bad behavior like this should be called out as a massive signal to any future employees not to work for companies started by these sleazeballs. But don't talk about how silicon valley is a rigged game that employees cannot win. Silicon valley right now is a fucking gold rush for employees. There are lots of great companies out there paying lots of money to software engineers who take the time to find them. This company was not one of them, and the employees gave up a lot of value working at some shit-ass company instead of finding a good one.
It would be interesting to have a comparison based on locally built binaries both with and without these features enabled.

Performing the tests on packing the actual 7-Zip source code (as shipped without extras) would be a valid reference suite.
Lucifer means "light bringer". Prometheus-like he conveyed forbidden knowledge to humanity, seeking to aggrandize himself. He's an alternate power base whose key feature is defiance of God.

At least, that's one take.
> Wouldn't selling protection from unknown threats IRL classify as something neither ethical nor legal?...

Hiring private security or bodyguards is not considered unethical or illegal. Installing alarm systems is not unethical. Am I misunderstanding this?

Google already sells consulting to cloud customers, this seems perfectly natural and I'm not sure how you avoid it.
Which is why you change up the blend. For example I recently got sick of toasted black mustard seeds, so I stopped putting them in my beans. I might leave out clove, or add some allspice, etc. etc.

You've really got to change it up to keep on top of your spice game.
We eat a lot of turmeric. If you go to an Indian grocery store, of which there are plenty in the Seattle area, you can buy it in bulk very cheaply. We are vegetarians, so we put it in lots of veggie based dishes, especially stir fries. Frankly, I'm not much of a cook, and adding turmeric and pepper to my meals has led me to experiment with lots of spices, and generally improve the taste of the food I eat. Yes, there have been low points, but overall, it works for us.

We cook in a Kirkland Cookware set which I believe is stainless steel. It is still the same color it was when we bought it. Our blender, on the other hand, is now a depressing yellowish green. But it works the same regardless of its color.
Burger King Has an Opinion on Net Neutrality
Here's a CNBC article about his reconsideration:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg...

And here's his statement about having done so:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170130025034/http://thegardeni...

OK?
Better pay for those lucky enough to work at the remaining 10% of restaurants. Not good for the remainder of employees.
Reducing inflammation is surprisingly easy, which is why most people just don't do it (they want an expensive magic pill instead of just using methods that actually work).

First, remove the largest inflammatory things from your diet: no grains, no refined sugars, no processed meat, no dairy (unless it is truly fermented, such as hard cheeses and true greek yogurt), and no legumes.

Second, walk about 2 miles a day (at least 5000 steps), and frequently (preferably every two days, but not everyone can do it this frequently) do lifting, preferring higher weight over higher reps.

Third, sleep properly. Enforce a proper sleep schedule as if it's the last thing you do, even if you have to wear sleep masks and avoid bright and/or blue artificial light like the plague.

Fourth, after the first one, still make sure you're getting the proper nutrition (focus on your minerals, you never get enough), and you may still have to supplement with a good vitamin. NOW Adam softgels is the least expensive one I know of that isn't garbage, and is a good base to build a supplement program around (if you choose to do that).
I feel there's a clear difference how people see unions in the US vs. in Europe. I don't have much insight in to the differences, but it would be nice to hear why that is so.

I'm a proponent of strong unions with generally binding collective agreements (= collective agreements defining legally binding minimum terms for the whole industry), but I suppose the model won't work everywhere for one reason or another.
Privacy and Security Risks for National Health Records Systems
Survey of Main Memory Database Systems (focusing on OLTP)
youtube dumbasses one-upping each other until they're literally eating poison

>meme
With LN there are less transactions on-chain which reduces fees. Also, finally the temper-tantrum throwing core-supporters are quickly realizing that a block size increase is absolutely necessary going forward
The "fallback to flexbox" part makes me feel like a dinosaur. It wasn't that long ago when we were falling back to tables and floats...
That's probably the most critical aspect of any YouTube replacement.

People idealize about a free-as-in-beer video platform but at the end of the day, those don't pay for quality content to be produced. The YouTube of today can only exist with proper income generation.

I have worked through some interesting models for a P2P video platform and a few ideas on how to actually go about implementing advertisements, but I have yet to come up with a solid way of convincing advertisers to play ball on videos whose content they don't like.

Currently experimenting with the idea of having two tiers of advertising, a cheap and "premium" tier, and only the premium tier allows you to be selective about which videos your ads run on. The cheap tier videos would have a chance of playing on "premium" (high-engagement) content, but would generally play on "regular" content.

The problem is this system still wouldn't likely wouldn't result in a worthwhile payout for more "controversial" producers even if it protects semi-popular non-leftist producers, so an integrated "Patreon"-style donation-subscription service might be something worth exploring.
After Trump won, I desperately wanted the "grassy knoll video" and "shadow government" stuff to actually be real.

Maybe they've just been really effective at making people think that they're all-powerful entities that make people disappear on a whim.
> "It seems like you have some security issues, it's great that I have this friend who can fix them for you before you get hacked" Isn't that some sort of conflict of interest for any other industry?

Quite the opposite, that's how most consulting & professional service companies do business.

Cloud services & security consulting are complimentary.

Conflict of interest would be if Google was doing the hacking and the securing.
> was born and brought up in south India and my grandma used to make me drink turmeric + ground black pepper milk every night

I grew up in a part of South India with a fairly high natural background radiation (thorium, mostly) and I did wonder if the practice boosted survival via accidental cancer protection from an alpha decay environment.

Natural selection is weird because the goal of taking turmeric might have nothing to do with the survival advantages.
Yes, I've chatted with several hardcore socialists who decry Venezuela failing because it is (they allege) a capitalist state.
Server side scripting languages were critical to the success of the web, before browser side JavaScript was available and matured.

Simple stateless perl cgi scripts forked from apache that talk to text databases or mysql were the first simplest step, but things got much more interesting with long running stateful application servers like Zope (Python), Java, Radio UserLand, HyperCard, node, etc.

My favorite thing about node is that it lets you use the same language and libraries and data on both the client and server side. That's an enormous advantage that far outweighs JavaScript's disadvantages. But some people just can't see or believe that, for whatever reason, and they're fine with flipping and flopping back and forth between different languages, and hiring different people to write multiple subtly divergent versions of everything in different languages.

Face it: for all its faults, JavaScript won. I will always have a place in my heart for FORTH, PostScript, MockLisp, ScriptX, TCL, Python, HyperTalk, UserTalk, CFML, Java, and all those other weird obsolete scripting languages, but it's soooo much easier to program in one language without switching context all the time, even if it's not the best language in the universe. And TypeScript is a pretty darn good way of writing JavaScript.

You're right, the web was held back until it was finally considered "ok" to use it for commercial activity!

I'd say JavaScript is just what got HTML closer to implementing any ideal you want, and there's no reason Xanadu couldn't be implemented on top of current web technologies (except that Ted doesn't want to). But I don't think extensibility and scripting itself was part of Ted's original vision or implementation.

Just as so much has happened since MVC was invented (yet it's still religiously applied by cargo-cult programmers), also so much has happened since Xanadu was invented (like distributed source code control, for example), which requires a total rethinking from basic principles. We also have the benefit of a lot of really terrible examples and disasterous experiments to learn from (wikipedia markup language, wordpress, etc). Many of Ted's principles should be among those basic principles considered, but they're not the only ones.
It's not a given that such events are necessary because human population growth has already slowed down and will continue doing so as more of the world becomes developed. Furthermore, technological advancement can increase the number of people the planet can support. So, while there is definitely some population strain, it's far from certain that human overpopulation will result in catastrophe without events like this.
Last I checked, QEMU does not run multiple cores concurrently. Similar to Python, it has a big lock that serializes execution (known as the "Big QEMU Lock", or BQL). So you should not expect speedups...

However, there is an effort to change this:

https://lwn.net/Articles/697265/

But I don't know if it has been merged yet.
For good overviews on what the climate change research actually says, I recommend the potholer54 YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/user/potholer54/videos
I'd say .NET is surprisingly immature considering it's age and it's popularity, at least compared to JVM and JS options.

Don't get me wrong I think .NET is great, and they've made some smart decisions that allow it to be competitive with much less engineering work on the VM.

As well as not having escape analysis it also lacks tiered compilation which is a much more pressing problem from my perspective, and is being actively tackled now.
I don't get their test case. They took it to the lab, and thawed it up to room temperature? That's not going to happen. It's going to get warmer, maybe just warm enough for the bacteria to thaw, and then immediately die. Did they do any realistic tests?
They make bulk capsule fillers that might help a little. It's still manual but not quite as fiddly. You can find them on amazon for ~$25
It's probably easier to innovate when you don't have the intellectual baggage Google has. You are more likely to think outside the box
It is not the most salient point. I personally know several folks that still voted for him in person after it happened. Getting a Republican into office was the number 1 priority and pushing down a reporter was hardly crossing a line when they already distrust the media.
Personally, I think dying by something as unique as climate change would be a spectacular way to go.

Think of all the other mundane ways people die everyday: disease, a bullet, or even just tripping off a sidewalk wrong and hitting your head on the curb. Is that really any better of a fate?
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> 200ml of hot (not boiling) milk

If you're lactose intolerant, you can do this with yoghurt with a little water & salt instead.

Since this usually happens when I do have a cold, my laziness translates into a coffee cup of yoghurt + water + 1 minute in a microwave to zap all the bacteria out of it.
Or Jack Vance's Lyonesse series? I've only just started it (finished Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden). But it's in a league all it's own, I think.
Amazing image showing the complexity of metal mathematical typesetting
> The major difficulty here is that in general, unsafe pieces of code cannot be safely composed, even if the unsafe pieces of code are individually safe. This allows you to bypass runtime safety checks without unsafe code just by composing "safe" modules that internally use unsafe code in their implementation.

This comment suggests you don't have much domain knowledge about how `unsafe` in Rust works, so I'm surprised you speak with such confidence. Your comment is flatly wrong: users using only safe code are not responsibility for guaranteeing the composed safety of the components they use (whether or not they are implemented with unsafe code).

Interfaces marked safe must uphold Rust's safety guarantees, or they are incorrect. They are just wrong if they have additional untyped invariants that need to be maintained to guarantee their safety; interfaces like this must be marked `unsafe`.

Because they cannot depend on untyped invariants, any correct implementation with a safe interface can be composed with any other. This ability to create safe abstractions over unsafe code which extend the reasoning ability of the type system is a fundamental value proposition of Rust.
Since I do not like government intervention in people’s lives, yes, a natural mass death would be better, especially if it leaves behind a stronger genetic pool.
Let's not kid ourselves either; Ycombinator and the startup fetish culture, and gadget fetishism, help fuel our approach to the edge.

The more neoliberalism continues to induce dopamine addiction, under some ridiculous premise everyone wants to be a celebrity, startup wunderkind, or hoodie wearing, macbook carrying hipster, the sooner the env is gonna fly right off the edge.

The global economy cannot keep fueling itself on disposable consumerism
Note that I wrote around 50, not after 50. Middle age is usually defined as the 40 to 60 range (or more recently held to be slightly later, 45-65). That is the period when people flourish. That is certainly not when people are "elderly." Interestingly the Ancient Greeks used to report the time when one flourished rather than their date of birth.

Neither extreme athletic performance nor ELO rating are measures of normal flourishing (I'm surprised one would bring up such abnormal elements; the lives of NBA players and elite chess players deviate very far from that of a normal human). I wonder how the kind of argument you offer, and that of the sibling "olympus" comment, feeds into reported ageism in SV and related tech companies.
The Volkswagen emissions scandal demonstrated that mitigating effects will be circumvented given the presence of a profit motive. Rather than construct an elaborate and exploitable maze of incentives, perhaps it would be simpler to remove the profit motive.
Authentication Still Sucks
Humans prior to modern times haven't ever exceeded the carrying capacity of our environment and haven't had a die out that substantially reduced our population in modern times.

Your thesis other than being fictional also is an emotional appeal to the concept that what is natural is desirable which is wholly unsound both on its face and because any die out sufficient to be effective is entirely likely to not only take civization with it but also reduce our ability to take effective measures to manage our environment as our technology dies with our civilaztion.

The way forward to a managable population size is through raising everyone up to a relaively modern level and the way forward to that population living sustainably is via education.

Edit: Your philosophy that its ok for the more developed nations to wreck the environment leading to mass death presumably among those you regard as your inferiors while relax and have a latte safe behind our metaphorical walls is pure insanity.
There are people working on decentralization of Health (Data) + AI like Synapse AI, Doc AI, Pandora, etc. State of Decentralized AI: https://imgur.com/mOWKrQE/
Well you can't just toss in a suggestion and hope that someone acts on it. Ideas by themselves are worthless. But anyone willing to be persistent and do the hard work of nailing down details can absolutely get their changes incorporated into the standards. I've done it several times, including when I worked for a very small vendor.

The various work groups aren't really controlled by vendors at all. Provider and payer organizations are also heavily represented.
> how savvy a user you are.

I strongly disagree with that caveat. As a savvy user, UAC behaves like a burglar alarm for me. I am not savvy enough to open a 7z, PDF, JPG or DOCX in a hex editor and determine whether it contains an exploit. Even if I were alone on the planet due to the ability to do so, I wouldn't have the time to do anything else. Because I have UAC enabled, if I open a zip file and get a UAC prompt I know that something is fishy.

There are known unknowns and your savvy is perfectly suitable for that; however, your savvy won't help at all for the unknown unknowns. Double-clicking an .exe isn't the only way to get pwnd.

> you have to just click "yes" to make it go away.

Exactly, UAC doesn't really work for non-savvy users. In which case, who is the target audience?
The difference is that civilization is a comparatively new development, and nobody really knows how that's going to fare in the face of all this. The human cost is likely to be staggering.
As for my coat, in the end, there was no real mystery to it. It was too cheap to be true, and no matter how much technology changes, you get what you pay for.

It can be an endeavor in and of itself to figure out where the "too cheap to be true" prices start for a given product. If you were accustomed to the HDMI cable prices at Best Buy you might suspect -- wrongly -- that Monoprice was full of too-cheap-to-be-good scam products. What's the labor and materials cost of making a decent camel coat? How low can prices go if the seller spends little on marketing and can live with modest profits? I have no idea. I don't know where "you could get a bargain coat by avoiding name-brand markup" prices end and where "you are guaranteed to get junk" prices begin.
Anecdotal but my grandfather with severe rheumatoid arthritis takes two glasses of of water with tumeric every day and has said he notices significant benefits.