skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In selecting for intelligence a harm is acquired: the risk of sevre autism.

Not sure what you mean here. You can have simultaneous selection for and against 'autism spectrum disorder', if it is heterogeneous. If for example it is a mix of actual social dysfunctionality/brain damage and greater intelligence/abstracting/systematizing, you could have selection against the former and selection for the former, and the net measured effect on the mixture could go either way.

(This is not as odd as it sounds. We seem to see something very similar with the Neuroticism trait: the overall trait appear bad for you, which makes sense since it's usually seen as not very good to have a lot of, but if you break it down into its 'facets', some of them are good for you: "Genetic contribution to two factors of neuroticism is associated with affluence, better health, and longer life" http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/06/146787 , Hill et al 2017. It's analogous to how there are minimal sex differences on Big Five personality when examined at the Big Five factor level, but when broken down to their sub-factors, sex differences jump out at you.)
I like the comparison of the economy with an optimizing AI, but the value function isn't max(paperclips), but whatever people will pay for. So it's not really the fault of the AI that people have fucked up priorities - the AI itself is value neutral.

If you can get a large enough group to say: "Enough, the AI doesn't represent our values, let's change it!", it will already have happened because the same people will have already changed their buying habits.
Would have to say for most technology products, there are not much you can do. It is better if you keep your heads down and try to improve different aspects of your apps.

And try best not to compete directly with big players
Sources of Intuitions and Data on Artificial General Intelligence
AI Weekly 23 Feb 2018
...and other criminal activity.
You have my upvote.

My point is not that Americans being surveilled is worse than Afghans being killed. It's that the disregard for the norms of liberal democracies (generally accepted during wars) seems to be bleeding into civilian life, and I worry that it points to an increasing authoritarian tendency in Western governments.

It's terrifying to me in the same way that it's terrifying to see policemen dressed up as soldiers during civil unrest, waving assault rifles around and barking commands like they're invading their own country.
Build and Release All Branches in TFS 2018 and VSTS
There overwhelming evidence that labor mobility has decreased drastically over recent decades, that this is a tremendous drag on economic growth, and that local land use restrictions are a primary cause of it.

http://neighborhoodeffects.mercatus.org/2017/01/26/why-the-l...

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/06/the-other-side-of-har...
Not sending a written paper trail should be covered in Criminal Surivial Strategies 101. Whether it's telegraph, snail mail, email or WhatsApp, this is just sloppy criminal work. For example Steven Cohen avoided an insider trading conviction by making sure nothing bad ever had his name on it. If you needed to discuss something secret, you talked to him in person.

Background: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/efda2ca2-ec6...
I believe it was either the last MICRO* or the one before that when Dally addressed this point. The specialized hardware for graphics ends up comprising such a small portion of the overall chip that it wasn't worth it to remove it. The "GPUs were made for graphics thus aren't good for DL" argument really doesn't hold a lot of water IMO.

* It might've been a difference conference now that I think of it.
Oil rigs are a similar situation today - high pay, relatively high risk, and you'll be away from family living on the ocean for weeks or months at a time.
Yes, you're correct. R7RS at least explicitly reserves brackets and braces, and only acknowledges parenthesis in its syntax.
Even if the content of this article is 99% my opinion, it's written in a trashy way and makes me want to disagree with it.

I'm going to educate the public to avoid macro.org
All good points but I would add that you should never make it easy for people to copy valuable things from you if you depend on being unique.

Unfortunately what’s easiest for programmers is pretty easy to copy. For example, any ordinary file in an app bundle is dead simple to copy (and unfortunately the most straightforward APIs for using data from code will assume that files are plainly located in the bundle, which I always felt was a bit of a design oversight).

One fairly low-effort defense against copying is to use your program to reassemble valuable data from parts. For example, instead of having easily-stolen complete files in your bundle, store a variety of bits and pieces that only the program knows how to assemble correctly. You can even create a technically-corrupt/invalid binary file and then have your program restore the bits that you know you removed. Obviously this is an extra pain to do but if you really need to reduce the chance of losing to a competitor then it may be worth the trouble. (Note that this isn’t foolproof either, as clever people can still figure out what a program actually does; it’s just way better than doing nothing.)
>Whether those with "certain ASD risk alleles" tend to have more or fewer children than those without is an empirical question, but I certainly wouldn't be shocked to find that the fitness benefits to "neurogenesis and cognitive ability" have declined.

Getting very near indisputable now:https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/selection/2017-kong.pdf

The decline is actually quicker than you would think, TBH. Cognitive ability decreases reproductive fitness in this environment in women but not in men, so I imagine the decline will halt once we reach some sort of equilibrium, assuming dimorphism isn't possible quickly. I imagine selecting for dimorphism in this trait, though it would happen eventually, would take too long to matter.

Not too worried as "unnatural selection" will overwhelm this small effect shortly.
Chewing means mashing it up repeatedly until it becomes a fine paste. The guy means just break it up into large chunks and let them sit on your tongue until they dissolve, without further maceration.
I used to work at Amazon (in a different area, but collaborated with people in the video business) and I now work for a company that competes with Amazon's transactional video service.

The world of physical rental - at least in the US, not commenting globally - can rely on the First Sale Doctrine, which dramatically alters the economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
> How do you break something into small pieces with your teeth without chewing?

Simple, you merely palp it with your teeth.

/s
These idiots have no idea about quality. It is conspicuous consumption. [0]

[0] https://www.eater.com/2015/12/23/10657022/what-the-mast-brot...
FBI investigating if Russian money went to NRA’s campaign to help elect Trump
Regarding https://unop.uk/build-and-release-all-branches-in-tfs-2018-a... I know several developers that would love to have the TFS / VSTS build status system tray notification app, as they setup email filters to ignore most TFS email notifications. Please consider publishing it for others to use. Thanks!
You've never seen someone pass a stopped school bus on the shoulder?
That regulation sounded outlandish, so I read the article. The article is obviously anti-regulation, but even in context it's obvious that a) this is possible not a license to close a business but instead b) is quite possibly a regulation intended to prevent stores from having fake "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS" sales every couple of quarters, misleading consumers into making suboptimal decisions.

Based solely on what's in the article, it wouldn't apply to businesses that don't carry inventory, notably services businesses.
I read:

whyknow thing like word"and"sentence to write and plural and capitalization comma dot semicolon space question mark need write spaces between them wordamabobs

why don't fix notation???
Needs a (2013) tag in the title.
That's a surprise for me, I'm not a native speaker and in both French and English, it has done a great job at understanding my accents.
Keeping it lower in earth's orbit exposes it to less solar radiation

Not to say I wouldn't be on board with moving it up and keeping it around as a space museum
As usual, Radley hits all the points here in a convincing and easy-to-digest way. If you came straight to the comments, do yourself and click to the article at least to see the image that was literally printed on t-shirts for a SRO union. It's horrifically vulgar.

Radley also points out:

> ...we first need to acknowledge something before delving into this discussion: a classroom is just about the safest place a kid can be in America.

> The odds of a given child getting killed in a mass school shooting — or any school shooting — are literally less than 1 in 1 million. The criminologist James Alan Fox points out that since 1990, there have been 22 shootings at schools in which two or more people were shot, or well less than one incident per year. That’s less than one incident per year out of 100,000 public schools and 33,000 private schools. This means that the average elementary, middle, or high school can expect to see a mass shooting about once every 150,000 years.

Maybe it's just my isolation from the matter, but I think that the safety of the classroom is still fairly widely understood. Issues like bullying and over-medication seem to be more widely viewed as concerns re: classroom safety, at least among those in my parenting circles.

Nevertheless, it's refreshing to be reminded of how rare (mass- and other) shootings are.

> Cops are authorized to use force in a way that teachers and school administrators are not. This is because cops are trained to use force. Administrators are trained to counsel, de-escalate and discipline in other ways. If administrators increasingly turn to on-site police officers to discipline students, that means more kids will be handcuffed, Tased and beaten. There have been a number of incidents over the years that made national headlines, particularly once video cameras in cellphones became common. Though SROs exist in every state, only 12 states require specialized training for officers who are assigned to schools.

Crazy. Having otherwise unspecialized police officers in schools seems almost designed to make students feel less, rather than more secure. What are these other 38 states thinking?

> Black students were 16 percent of the total student enrollment in the 2011-12 school year but 27 percent of students referred to law enforcement and 31 percent of students involved in a school-related arrest, according to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights data.

> Students with disabilities represented about 12 percent of the total student population but accounted for a quarter of those arrested and referred to law enforcement, 75 percent of those who were physically restrained at school and 58 percent of those placed in seclusion or involuntary confinement.

Sadly, no surprises there. It's certainly disturbing though, and a strong case for keeping cops out of schools as we work out the plaguing bigotry and institutional discrimination at work here.
The fact that Dropbox DOESN'T throw the data away makes the point that they are taking your data hostage as leverage to get you to pay, and maybe even pay more over time.

As for your own analogy, if you abandon your property during an eviction the landlord's only option would be to dump it as there is no incentive to take the property as a means to recoup losses. Dropbox should just do the same or provide some mechanism for permanent deletion on cancelation or else the data hostage stigma will remain.

Edit: I also agree that this is one of the worse forms of dark patterns that subpar marketing teams force their engineers to implement.
So, consciousness is a hologram of the universe? I can imagine it like that.

I often describe consciousness/me/you/entities/etc as dynamic lenses of the universe. Something (like information) goes in from all directions and the lens transform that into reaction. I think you could actually extend that view to entities like atoms. Hm, every point is a lens in itself?
It is all very doable until you have...kids.
Watch Airbus' drone taxi take to the skies for the first time
Or perhaps UBI can set people free to live as they see fit, cultivate themselves spiritually, artistically, and communally without needing to consume nearly as useless garbage.
Speed limits are to tax tourists and provide an excuse to harass blacks. /s
> Specifically, if it were true, we would see all sorts of genetic correlations where one good trait systematically boosts a bad trait.

And what if it's true for a short period of time until a new mutation arises that eliminates the double edged sword? Most of our adaptations are really really old. They've had enough time to "perfect" themselves.

What if evolution isn't clean or pretty? What if it's a messy business where a gene arises that gives a small edge, but brings with it a host of problems. It'll still spread because of that edge and it may take millions of years to sort out and eliminate the side-effects.
I'm guessing the argument is that if the cost that the customer bears for such regulated audits is greater than the refund they get from it then the customer actually lost money.
I don't see your point. Do you disagree that things can be named badly?
I've seen it in at least one grocery store (I believe HEB, a Texas grocer)
Symantec no longer offers discounts to NRA members
Wow, dropbox made it long and annoying to give them less money. Verdict : I love it!
Want to learn CSS Variables? I've created a free 8-part course
Java Grinder: Compile Java bytecode to microcontroller assembly
I don't get it; your scripts generate a bunch of extra promises because typescript and the 'problem' is faster than your solution?
This is not about using lambdas everywhere all the time. This is about recognizing that those who create programming languages are not omniscient. I'm not sure why you're so adamant about misrepresenting my point.
Same here. I find the Google Assistant's voice recognition very near perfect. I'm not a native english speaker but I would think that would make it harder than easier.
To respond to the same question twice:

You clearly imagine he/she gave that example in an effort to "rile people up", or are at least alluding to that as a strong possibility that others should consider. How you can come to that conclusion (out of an infinitude of hypotheticals) from the given information, I do not know.

But to me, it may be a sign that you're looking for things that aren't there. I urge you to consider how in touch with reality you are.
"In most cases, canceling your Plus or Professional subscription before it expires means you'll finish your current subscription without receiving money back. Once the subscription expires, your Dropbox will revert to a Basic account, and you will no longer have the additional storage quota or features granted by the Plus upgrade."

https://www.dropbox.com/help/billing/plus-refund
"think logically and systematically" is a rather bizarre way of describing all the symptoms of ASD, which are behaviors that are definitely not what we would think of as intelligent behavior.
This is why folks like JBP are flourishing, for better or worse (He recognizes the problem).
The whole point of a PDF is that it's an artifact that isn't meant to be edited. You edit the source document that the PDF was generated from, then generate a new PDF from that. In this case, Manafort specifically couldn't do that because he was up to something shady. If people were using the electronic signatures properly, his modifications would've stuck out like a sore thumb.
We are building a lot of tools to simplify run/build move [1][2][3]:

[1]: Run within Kubernetes: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o
[2]: Run Standalone: https://github.com/projectatomic/libpod/blob/master/docs/pod...
[3]: Build: https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2017/11/getting-started-wi...
[4]: Move: https://rhelblog.redhat.com/2017/05/11/skopeo-copy-to-the-re...
Google needs to give the AirPods better competition
In the worst case cocoa butter (expensive) is replaced with something like PGPR (cheap).
If I understand the paper correctly, this is a very poor technology for "normal" photography in its current state.

On the pixel level, there are no shades of grey. You get fully black or fully white pixels only. You have to calculate an average from a bunch of neighbouring pixels and blend together multiple "exposures" to get more data.

Because each pixel can only count at most one photon every millisecond, even the dimmest candlelit room at night would completely blind the sensor.

If you could have like a thousand times more pixels and a thousand times more samples per second, maybe it could be developed into a camera. I guess that would be way too expensive and wouldn't offer a significant benefit to most buyers.
Point is: Lispers obviously don't care about what you care about. That is why they don't fix it: it's not broken for them.
Well, google why it's not good - there are tons of resources. Anyway, we humans have been drinking water not only because of its H2O but also because of the plethora of electrolytes in it.
Yeah, after a few minutes of playing and figuring it all out, it's become super easy to do a 15x15.

A timer would be really great to see just how well you can do and to push yourself for better times. I think I've gotten 15x15 to always under 25-30 seconds
Closest ordinance i could find from a cursory search: https://library.municode.com/wi/wauwatosa/codes/code_of_ordi...

> Every person shall obtain a closing-out license before conducting a closing-out sale
Don't blame kids. This is a defeatist attitude.
You can also click-drag to set water, which isn't mentioned.
Dude, where's my jetpack? Jetpacks, flying cars, and government regulations
I wonder how much infowars is worth to google.
Actually that's one example where lack of privacy accidentally leads to a good outcome for society.

Also he was not failed by a piece of software. They recovered the document from his email. How would his email strip the document of identifying information?
I firmly believe that PE in high school is the most important class you'll ever take. Getting to know the limits of your body and learning to push and exhaust yourself is probably one of the most important lessons in life. PE teachers face a big challenge in making this as fun and rewarding as possible. But if they succeed their students will be rewarded with lower mortality, higher mental fitness and lower chances of serious injuries for the rest of their lives.
Sure, you picked the simplest possible case for a configuration management system. Now, in this very simple case:

- What happens when "/the/path" changes depending on the distribution? How do you specify that?

- What should happen if the "/the/path/name" already exists? Should the system touch it or something?

- What if it exists but is not a directory? Should it delete whatever exists and create a directory instead?

There is no way to define that stuff using POSIX semantics, because POSIX is inherently imperative. "mkdir" means "make a directory", not "on this path there must be a directory".

That mismatch in semantics is real, and each configuration management system tries to close that gap in the simplest, most user-friendly way they can figure out. Most have flocked towards defining their own, as declarative as possible, API. For instance, ansible defines this as:

- name: Ensure name's base folder exists
file:
path: /the/path/name
state: directory
recurse: no
owner: pid/name
group: gid/name

I do think that, like that snippet above demonstrates, none of them do an astounding job at defining that API. However, I blame their failure to the hardness of the task, not to the incompetence of the developers of ansible/salt/puppet/etc.
Not sure what the 'typical' HN person looks like. But I have lived in 8 countries, have had bank accounts in all of them, have had companies in 2 of them, projects in 3 (including countries in Africa where transfers are a nightmare) ... so yes, some of us do international transfers all the time. And MoneyGram / WesternUnion / your usual bank often sucks (takes a couple of days to clear / fees are crazy).
More than just the invite, I think they really soured a larger portion of their market than they thought.

The impression seemed to be that they would kill buzz/reader/wave, and the folks would just naturally turn to what they then offered. The reality seemed as much that many of us were unwilling to try anything else from them until it was clear it was good and going to stick around.
I feel some nostalgia for the days when I visited individual blogs and web sites, but I think there are practical reasons they aren't a focal point for community any more.

First, stability: Blogging and maintaining a web site are big time commitments, and most people who make a great site or a great blog fade as their interests and commitments change. Sites like Reddit or Hacker News tend to have a longer useful life than sites built by an individual or a handful of individuals.

Diversity: A blog can have guest contributors, but if you want real dissent, you have to go to the comments, and that's something blogs don't do well. Reddit and Hacker News have their orthodoxies and groupthink, but various opposing viewpoints are present as well. In addition, there are diversities of perspective, back end versus front end, social media startup versus Wall Street finance, that increase the range of discussion.

Efficiency: A successful blogger or website creator knows that they have to give their visitors a complete experience, as well as regular updates. That can translate into a lot of fluff. You can't just say the new thing you learned. You have to create context, make a few jokes, draw out your point so it has time to sink in before your readers move on. On Reddit or Hacker News, effort goes towards the opposite: boiling down your point to make it quickly understandable in the context of the discussion. This comes naturally to most people — it's a lot like oral conversation in groups - so you don't need to have special writing skills (or the time, taste, and expertise to insert stock photos and periodically refresh your site design) like you do for blogging. That reduced barrier attracts participation from people who don't have the time or inclination to make a blog post but might drop a quick experience bomb in a comment.

Different tools for different purposes: A blog or niche web site used to be a platform for publishing short writing, a place for readers to discover new things, and a forum for community discussion. Now, Twitter and sites like Reddit and HN are where we discover things, and Reddit and Hacker News are where we discuss them. As a result, you don't even need a consistent place to publish your thoughts. You can publish them anywhere that can render them in a readable way to people who follow links from Twitter or HN. People who used to use a blog as a way of cultivating a durable identity on the web have various social media platforms to choose from.

I think blogs and niche web sites will continue to exist, because people will still have needs that they meet best, but I think overall we benefit by letting them be replaced by a loose collection of specialized services.