skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way I see of alleviating some of the problems you mention is by controlling for them and doing further experiments.

My experiment was not intended to measure evilness but rather to give an example of a general approach to the problem, and was for measuring malicious intent. Regardless, given time I'm sure we could come up with much better experiments for studying both.

You're right though at what you are getting at, and I think the underlying idea here is that there is a continuous scale from bad (0) to good (1) for any given action/policy, where given additional context our internal moral barometer can move across this domain as well as an independent societal human flourishing barometer which measures the broader repercussions of the action/policy.

Honestly, I do not know enough about ethics or research in this general area to have a truly insightful conversation on this topic.

I'd just like to add that 1) I think good and evil are so broad in their scope that we'd be virtually forced to break them into separate definitions and measurements and study these constituent parts if we wanted to understand the general concepts and 2) we'd need to make a clear distinction between what humans perceive as good/evil in each context vs. what has good/evil repercussions at different levels (individual/familial/societal) based on measurements of brain states, pain/suffering, and human flourishing.
That is a blatant lie. No malicious online seed generator has EVER been in the sidebar on /r/IOTA. In fact, the lead moderator warned months ago not to use the iotaseed generator.
Back when online auctions were a new thing I got me a 1932 second printing (traditionally the first printing was cheap paper and pasted on walls while later runs were for subscription clubs and whatnot) French advertising poster for something stupid like $79 off yahoo auctions.

Sometimes a deal is just too good to pass up.
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That may be, but Mozilla has decided not to pay for development on Thunderbird any more. If we don't contribute to keep it alive, and the project whithers and dies, I guess we can console ourselves with the satisfaction that we proved a point to those bean-counters at Mozilla.
I've always disliked BEM code looks-wise. Maybe it's a shallow reason to avoid it ...
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Same here. Our network is heavy on MS Active Directory authorization, so really the only way to run Linux at all is to host it on a Windows/Virtualbox VM.
Related tweet https://twitter.com/fransrosen/status/962709013329670145

"Same attack as described here: https://labs.detectify.com/2017/07/13/a-deep-dive-into-aws-s... … it's scripts hosted in a S3-bucket without proper access controls"

Edit. Also see https://scotthelme.co.uk/protect-site-from-cyrptojacking-csp...
A technical deep dive on Meltdown and does it work?
I'm sure self driving will have a MUCH bigger impact on our lives than 3D printing. But it could take a pretty long time (really curious to see how long).
Being a retail customer on Wall Street is a fool's game. The large finds have access to legal data and insights that you don't have. Just invest in an index fund or large mutual fund.
Same same, I'm similar in that I tested very high and have been unwilling to apply it to a single area, so I've always been a bit of a jack of all trades (phd in chemical engineering, genomics researcher, published poet, theater costume director, grant-funded artist, etc). What has played well to my strengths is finding an interdisciplinary field (in my case data science) that requires synthesizing knowledge from many different areas and working with a variety of domain experts. I'm also much more interested in practical application than in basic research, so I'll probably never make a great scientific discovery, but I'm confident I'm making a meaningful impact on the world.
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Why? You don't have Gtk+ installed?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/7sxgx0/bosch_ama_janu...
“Likes” have always been anonymized for non-paying users. You’re right that this shift will cause more notifications, but they made other changes to messaging that I think make the service better for its popular users (mostly women).

The way it works now is that a message you send to someone who hasn’t liked you back appears on your profile page (if they they view it) instead of their inbox. In addition, I believe once you’ve sent a message, that user’s profile is hidden from you unless they choose to respond. So for the receiving user, they don’t have to take any action to pass on a mountain of “sup girl”s, and their inbox will only contain the people they’re actively messaging.

I don’t know if there’s an indicator that someone has sent you a message which you can see from the profile thumbnails, but if there is it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s for paying users only. They could have skipped the “like” requirement and just implemented the other messaging changes, but I think it’s a pretty good balance of free vs paid features overall.
Even more fun, I learned from Bruce Schneier's blog post [1] that it takes a minimum 4.4E-16 ergs of energy for an ideal computer running at 4.4K to "flip a bit" in an ideal setting.

Wolfram says there are roughly 2E76 ergs of mass-energy in the universe. [2]

So even if all matter and energy in the universe were put together to power a computer that did nothing but count upwards from zero, there's only enough matter and energy in our universe for the computer to count to about 10^91, or roughly 2^304 [3]. That's not even counting trying to use each resulting set of bits for anything.

So I don't think we'd be able to design too many useful computers by flipping bits until a useful algorithm comes out (at least not in this universe.)

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_...

[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass-energy+in+the+know...

[3] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=log2(mass-energy+of+the...)
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> The whole point of backups is to protect against hardware failures and unforeseen software bugs/defects.

And to then restore to a point in time before the software or hardware bugs occurred, no?

> A single machine/database with all your business data on it mixed with personal data and the only record of requests from subjects is criminally irresponsible.

Um what? There are ton of good reasons to stick to a single DB, it’s not unreasonable at all. The main one being that it massively simplifies ensuring data integrity compared to a distributed system. Also it’s just easier for a small team to manage.
Contact me, with logs, please. :)
I too develop Node.js apps on Windows 10 and I'm with you - there is no reason to go out of my way to make it more Linux-like because everything just works.

I use Cmd over PowerShell though since PowerShell can't process commands separated by "&&", which are used extensively in package.json scripts. I'm happy with this setup though since I don't think the CLI is a good interface at all (I prefer GUIs with lots of keyboard acceleration), so I tend to minimize CLI use as much as possible by automating everything down to single, simple commands.

With VSCode, I can run my package scripts in the built-in terminal as well. Also, if I do have to edit some code on my Mac or Linux boxes (which I usually reserve for just compiling and testing things), VSCode gives me the same experience everywhere. I like that a lot!
Ah, I should have mentioned that I was talking about Telegram in my original comment, too. Can't edit it anymore :/
I get the impression that most commenters negatively reacting to these comments (where they bear on the frustrated blue collar ethic of 'interior' America) are not terribly interested in deliberate and honest analysis or motivations of unpopular personalities.

My own memory of pre-corporate businesses from the 70s and 80s aligns closely with your points.

The rationale of many commenters on HN is simple defense of their best bottom line and/or pushing the social agenda.
Rarely do I find honest analysis or, at least, historically conscious analysis.
What a b_ll_x reply to a sensible comment.

Mate, the personal website url you list in your HN profile don't work.

Funny that this is about frontend.
This is also one reason why bitcoin price went up too too much https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/bitcoin/usd

The expectation for a proper scaling solution to open up bigger possibilities. Ofcourses privided this is best course of action against bigger blocks only
Isn’t that Vanguards Rule?
I am very surprised this actually works. I would guess that somebody would have figured this out earlier if it's always been this easy.

Maybe it's a new development in widevine/netflix and they were getting it ready for release?
> I’m not talking about being stuck in traffic, which is often a issue with poor planning and lack of infrastructure investment rather than an issue with cars themselves

I disagree with this statement. I believe that cars are not a transportation solution that scales like public transportation, for instance, does.

For these same reasons I believe Musk's Boring Company's plans are exactly the wrong kind of urban planning ideas that will just create a "fast lane" for those who can pay, instead of a solution that works for all.

Maybe cars could come with this romanticized "freedom" and "pleasure" when they're not prevalent enough to cause the issues that make driving undesirable. But I think the last time that happened was when cars were luxury items, reserved for the rich suburban white America and I don't want the future to involve making transportation more under-democratized.
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I am quite sure that people who will want to drive cars will still be able to - but not necessarily on the same streets as self driving cars. Isn't it the same now with horses and carriages?
1) use the keys, but I'll have a look to give a better way

2) disable this in preferences.
Two unrelated thoughts:

1) While degrading sound quality the dynamic range compression actually helps with sound damage since you can hear quiet parts of a record without turning volume to eleven. Sure, it is nice to listen sometimes to Deep Purple or Beethoven 9th with proper dynamic range but it is rather taxing on ears in the louder parts then and probably not advisable in long run.

2) It looks like every singe headphone user I've encountered listens on insanely loud volume. Whenever I listen to someones work/home setup or stand near a listener in a bus/subway etc. in exactly 100% of cases the volume is too much for me (and I use headphones for two decades already). Tl;dr - turn volume down if you care about your ears.
> There’s been a serious epidemic in the last decade or so of mistaking solving the low hanging fruit for being “almost there.”

Wonder how much can be blamed on 24/7 news cycles, and how much can be blamed on pump and dump VCs (And now i noticed how close VC is to WC...).
Being stuck in traffic is a problem with cars.
Driving can be a liberating and pleasurable experience. I do enjoy driving on empty country roads. I don't enjoy driving to and from work every day. If the time comes and driving by humans will be banned, I will happily accept that deal. But I don't think that day will come in the next at least 20-30 years.
Biking (without any engine) is also a liberating and pleasurable experience.
What about noise cancelling earphones? They should allow to listen to music much less loud - any adverse effect is known?
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> How the wayland server and the shell are going to share (or agree to) that file descriptors or secrets in the first place?

I read that GNOME just implements both in the same program (and calls it "shell").

> Or how can you ensure that the shell is not a rogue one?

I'm confused. Do you mean this kind of attack would become somewhat more probable or more dangerous if the original shell had some mechanism of allowing certain apps to pick colors?
> My complaint has always been intrinsic to the medium, it lets people bug you Right Not for very low cost. "Hi, I see you're currently triple-booked with meetings, but I'm bored and I want you to chat with me and I'm much too lazy to think about my problem long enough to type a one-paragraph email and then wait for you to reply when you have free time." No.

Still easier to ignore on a chat than if it entered the inbox or if they call you in the middle of a meeting?
I'd add this one: can you explain how you are going to make exact number operations on the website, e.g. for calculating an invoice according to the law, when you have only float type in JS? Any answer "I don't care" would automatically fail any interview, as any programmer who doesn't care for the program correctness or working according to the business rules should be automatically fired.
> unmodified left/right for short hops, up/down for volume

Fixed in 3.0
Classic case of a playground bully relying on fear and intimidation to steal lunch money. The EFF is doing a great job of showing instances where people stand up to he bully and more often than not win, which in turn empowers others to do the same. People become less intimidated, and the bully begins to lose his key weapon.
And if you remember to massage the arm at the injection site throughout the day, you’ll vastly reduce the residual soreness. Honestly, I get the flu shot each year not for myself, but for everyone else in society that might otherwise die if herd immunity is low.
Every and each of the proposed benefits of vast public policy initiatives supported by a generous public purse in support of autonomous cars could be as easily derived from a similar public policy initiative to create public transit infrastructure.
In Safari in macOS, Netflix uses about 10% CPU showing 1080p. With Chrome, it uses 40% playing 720p. With Firefox, it uses about 75% CPU and my fan turns on. I'm guessing it's higher on 1080p.

I don't think Netflix has any interest in you using a proprietary client. They don't gain money if you watch one way or another. They gain money if you keep paying them your monthly fee.

EDIT: Installing this extension took Chrome CPU usage to 75% for me.

Also, I'm not saying that users shouldn't be given the choice to use their CPU resources to run Netflix. Maybe it would be better if Netflix were just more transparent about it. "By default, we only display video with 720p in Chrome due to high processor usage. Click here to change that preference or watch with Safari whose direct rendering means 1080p video using less processor resources." That way, users understand the problem and can decide they don't mind other programs becoming sluggish or the fan running or whatnot. Of course, companies generally don't like giving users details.
Wikipedia has jumped the shark.
This is a pretty good comparison, especially of Vuex/Redux, which is helpful. I had been wondering what the tradeoffs are. Thanks!
One click for download will be done in next major release.

As for the sync subtitles, it's already possible in VLC.
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You could have used VLC in 1999 or 2000 on BeOS, before it was open source.

Because, indeed, VLC was out on BeOS before Linux and Windows.
I think that point is that using current methods, future archeologists will think there was a cult that worshiped snowmen.
A transcriber on the Isle of Man can decipher almost anything
But...that's still the case with the founders too, no?

Having a business puts you in a good position to get funding or customers for a new venture. The same labor market for your employees benefits you if you yourself have any technical skills worth mentioning.

And your employees might care if they actually had a profit share in how the company did, or saw some direct upside when they did their job better or worse--which is usually not the case. Why break their back for an entitled owner resents them for knowing the value of their labor?

You sound like somebody with the typical founder hubris.
I always assumed the requirement was forced by MPAA or its equivalent bodies. I don't see what benefit Netflix could gain by forcing one browser or another, but this sort of nonsense is pretty consistent with what the DRM-happy, piracy-paranoid content owners have done in the past to "prevent piracy."
Not sure why he/she hates webpack or any sort of web bundler. It’s one of the most nicest things. I can use es6 modules and declare dependencies upfront.

Also I don’t get the hype about vue over react or any virtual dom based framework.

Vue just doesn’t feel like you’re dealing with functions. It’s too much spaghetti.

I want to be able to hot replace templates, it’s controller logic and styles without a page refresh. I also want great type checking and intelligent refactors of props and states

Typescript with React is a godsend.
How? We already have means to get from point a to point b without driving ourselves. Sure, technology would be amazing, but besides that?
I agree, yet I still don't understand how WebGPU is going to get buy-in from Apple and Microsoft if previous attempts at defining cross-platform APIs could not. Any web API will be open and cross-platform. If WebGPU is well-designed, it could very well be adopted as the next OpenGL.

I would rather target WebGPU and write my program once rather than implement my logic three times in Metal, DirectX and Vulkan. But, Apple and Microsoft don't want me doing that, so why would they support WebGPU?
Yes, this is a selfish opinion. Traffic kills a lot of people, and it's not just the ones doing the driving. Traffic is terrible for the environment, causes noise pollution and respiratory illness.

I can understand that some people need to drive. But driving for pleasure is not something that should ever happen.
The description of the second paper’s conclusions don’t seem particularly damning. Large active investors have a huge incentive to acquire relevant information prior to big announcements. That’s why they have expensive research departments.
> React let's you focus on how the component should behave instead of doing mental gymnastics trying to manipulate the DOM

Agreed - a huge benefit of Vue is exactly that - it's declarative. You describe what you want with a (more or less) plain ol' Javascript object, instead of how you want something to work. It's almost like writing JSON - and is just as readable.
It is a ton of hardwork that demands a wide variety of skills that often do not directly contribute to what you want to be changing. That is not to say it cannot be done, but it can feel like such a grind between selling your vision and constant fundraising.
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This will come for 4.0
I'd go so far to say that, at least for senior staff, you have a job precisely because the founders lack experise or wisdom in many topics. Their decisions are not guaranteed to be correct at all.
or "obtain" a remux.
> in order to goad you into using their proprietary clients.

Does Netflix make a proprietary client for Windows and OS X?
You can never really be sure of your co-founders personal goals or priorities until there is a crisis situation that forces them to be surfaced.

100% accurate and I would say is probably the root of most founder breakups. It is easy to say you are "in it together" and your interests are aligned when everything is going well. But the minute something happens that has even the slightest potential to impact someone's personal goals or priorities, the spirit of being in it together can easily fly out the window. I believe that human nature makes this piece inevitable to some extent. People can naturally grow defensive when their goals or priorities are threatened. I think the bigger problem comes when that person hides that from the other founder(s). They continue to put up a front by saying that everything is ok, but their actions tell a different story.
I agree, more roads are not the solution. That said, there are definitely poorly thought out roads in cities all over the world that actively create traffic because they unnecessarily disrupt traffic flow.

But, more generally I believe the solution to traffic is to provide compelling alternatives. It’s all about creating a balance. In London we have the opposite issue, there are too many people trying to take the tube and mainline rail, leading to massive overcrowding.

Now, is waiting 20 minutes to get on a Northern Line train, because the last four have been packed to the doors, a problem with people, or is it a problem with planning and infrastructure?
After dealing with angular complexity, vue is great.

But the simplicity of react/preact can’t be beaten.

Vue does have nicer bells and whistles though.
Frankly HDTV, much like 3DTV, has been a bust from day one. And i expect 4K to go the same way.

The only people that "notice" are those with a private movie theater room.
"The enthusiasm and interest that he [Musk] generates more than offsets the infinitesimally small 'littering' of the cosmos."
> The new drugs for Hep C have a pretty high cure rate and cost less than $100,000.

And yet what percentage of the prison population has it? Last time I checked, treating everyone would be so expensive that it isn’t even on the table.
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Cheap 3D printers produce only useless plastic trinkets. There isn't a big market for replacement parts that can't take any load, because those things don't break very often. Very few people need to print cases or the like in exotic forms. Buying traditionally manufactured stuff is cheaper than printing it yourself.

However, 3D printers are used in the industry. Not only for prototyping but also for producing parts that can't be machined easily.

So I'd say 3D printers are pretty successful.
My intuition is that the approach Gamalon is using has more potential than deep learning.

I've been playing with the concept for a while however failing to get any good results. Debugging probabilistic programs is so damn long and difficult since bugs can show as subtle biases in output instead of clear cut deviations. (I described my approach here: https://www.quora.com/What-deep-learning-ideas-have-you-trie... ) For me, this is just a hobby.

Joshua B. Tenenbaum et al.'s group seem to name their approach program induction, I had called mine Bayesian Auto Programming. I see you are calling yours Bayesian Program Synthesis. Clearly we have similar intuition about the essence of the solution to AI.

I wish you better luck than me.
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Fixed point libraries tend to be better because good ones can cleanly identify when they're unable to continue and often tell you why.

Floating point libraries can't even do this.