skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the devaluation of the actually existing people and the putting on a pedestal of images (not just in the literal sense) are two sides of the same coin really. People turn themselves into machines and worship machines. Nobody wins, because nobody remains. The End.

> The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound.

[..]

> She knew the whole drivelling song by heart, it seemed. Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of happy melancholy. One had the feeling that she would have been perfectly content, if the June evening had been endless and the supply of clothes inexhaustible, to remain there for a thousand years, pegging out diapers and singing rubbish. It struck him as a curious fact that he had never heard a member of the Party singing alone and spontaneously. It would even have seemed slightly unorthodox, a dangerous eccentricity, like talking to oneself. Perhaps it was only when people were somewhere near the starvation level that they had anything to sing about.

-- George Orwell, "Nineteen-Eightyfour"
I suppose I am a “pro” user and I like the touch bar. Do I love it? No, but I appreciate the customizability of it. This is something which is pretty rare in Apple’s ecosystem.
> So we would make a medical record “bank”, which is federated sensibly, and require everyone to use it. And eventually we end up with a similar system that we have now.

Except accessing your encrypted records require the presentation a doctor's key and your key, which might be a standardized health card with a chip. So not entirely similar to what we have now, it could be considerably safer.
> ... there's almost always somebody more unscrupulous, devout, or patriotic than you who knows or is willing to learn what it takes to finish the job ...

If you believe that doing something is wrong, the idea that someone more unscrupulous will do it if you do not must not be used as an excuse for doing that thing yourself. Giving in to this notion will prove yourself to be the one who is unscrupulous.
I'm curious what you saw it doing. Cyc has been a vaporware product for many many years. It's had corporate backing on and off for a long time and produced next to nothing.
Well I didn't say anything like "solely for followers". They can be created out of passion and still posted on Twitter instead of somewhere else for a reason.
You're exactly the kind of scum that caused Trump to be elected.
Its purely a PR flip flop, people didnt like their message yesterday and advertisers money concerns is a strong invisible hand.
Twitter is a better way to reach customers, because they specifically "opt-in" by following a business. No complaints about spamming people.
I wonder if some sort of clipboard tool to detect and warn of sneaky looking things might be even more convenient.
> You’ve made 17 comments on this thread, or 17% of all of the comments here as of this writing.

Because I hate innumeracy.
I keep seeing the argument "More accurate weapons would kill fewer people". By that logic, it would be perfectly okay for Google to sell this technology to the enemy states so those guys could kill fewer Americans. This sounds ridiculous to me but it's likely I am missing something.
Not enough people understand (b). Email providers have firm policies (i.e., robots) because they themselves are at the mercy of inbox provider robots.
He is arguing that the government of Michigan's laws are bad because the Nazis had bad laws.
There's dishonesty for you.

Yes, you’re being dishonest.

If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed.

He spelled it out in the post you’re aggressively misinterpreting and it’s decidedly not the fiction you’re peddling. So are you really losing track of what’s been said, in which case it’s time to step back, or are you being dishonest? You don’t seem like you’re losing track, so...
At $2500 this will own the business class market, assuming 1x1 seating, even if they were just economy seats with business class service. At minimum a corp traveler is going to cost $1-2k/day to put in London or NYC if based in the other city (and probably more, in forgone productivity), so this might shave one or two days off a short trip.
Dramatic shift in location accuracy distribution starting February 15
It's almost certain one developer generates more CO2 than any reasonable number of servers that run their code.

I'm not so sure. Let's do a back-of-the-envelope estimate.

Assume a single really hefty server that consumes 1 kilowatt. Over one year, this is about 10,000 kw hr. 1 kw hr of electricity produced by a coal fired plant generates about 1 kg of CO2 (https://carbonpositivelife.com/co2-per-kwh-of-electricity/). Thus that big server running for a year produces about 10 metric tons of CO2.

An average American lifestyle (all in, total country production divided by population, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02...) involves the production about about 20 tons of CO2 per year. So if you write code that full-time on more than 2 really big servers per year, your code might be producing more CO2 than the rest of your lifestyle.

I'm guessing that most of the errors in this are probably overestimating the code's CO2 (probably not coal fired, probably less than 1 kw, a year is less than 10,000 hours), so more realistically maybe it's 4-8 servers to be break-even? Still, I think it's fair to say that there are some participants in this forum whose running code probably generates more CO2 than the rest of their lifestyle.
Digital Life: creating accurate 3d models of life on earth
> spring water isn't used to make Budweiser

Citation needed.
I am from the UK, typically visit the US once or twice per year, have visited every country in the EU and am currently spending 12 months traveling the world (3 months in at the moment, having visited India, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand). I have a website/blog about this for those that are interested: http://ourbigplanet.com

In various parts of the world, previous to this trip, I encountered trash cans (or bins as we call them) in bathrooms for toilet tissue (Turkey is an example). I also encountered "bum guns" (the hoses with a sort of shower head that you can fire at yourself after bowl movements). What I typically did was ignore both and continue my business the way I knew how.

Since starting this year long trip, I have been forcing myself to try more things. And all the countries I have visited so far have requested toilet paper isn't flushed and they have the bum gun. So I tried it, and shockingly found it works really well. No matter how bad the movement is (eating street food, often heavily spiced, etc) the bum gun does a splendid job of completely cleaning you, and you don't have to get your hands particularly close to the zone you are cleaning. It is far less abrasive, environmentally better, and leaves you cleaner (it is like if you have a muddy arm, and attempt to clean it by wiping it with tissues vs having a shower).

After using the bum gun, typically I will use a couple of sheets of toilet paper, initially to make sure I was clean, but I so found this wasn't necessary, but I still use a couple just to get dry. Sometimes there isn't any available, and I don't have any, so I leave the bathroom with a slight amount of wetness which quickly dries in the hot countries.

The toilet paper goes into the bin, but unlike in Turkey where it was used toilet paper (used without bum gunning) which stunk the whole room out, now the toilet paper is inoffensive and without smell).

So overall, I feel the way things are done over here have a lot of positives. I am certainly glad I embraced it.

On a tangent, I believe people who wipe typically do it one of two ways:

1. Whilst sitting on the toilet, do some sort of lean and wipe manoeuvre

2. Stand up, squat a tiny bit and wipe.

I have been taught to do 2 as a child, but find some toilets aren't designed for this, as they have a sensor which flushes when you stand (even if you are standing to wipe). I find these sensors are much more common in the US than other places I have visited. It is almost like the designer doesn't know about all the people who use method 2.
Nope.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/xxd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16759428

Following that through, you clearly hate being backed into a corner, and don’t mind engaging in “innacuracy” when it suits you.
Don't wonder, see for yourself:

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+D...

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Touch+Ba...

Not a lot has changed in the past few years. Macbook Pros are NOT easy to mod/change or swap parts. This is very clearly the intention of Apple.
There have been some third party services [1] that allow a data dump of your Instagram photos... which probably just lost their functionality in the API deprecation.

(Though I think they were really _just_ the photos without the other data like your stories, drafts, comments, followers and followings graph, etc.)

Perhaps locking it down puts pressure on IG to provide an official solution since others can't.

Or... one could write some code to run a headless browser and scrape everything that can be loaded on desktop.

[1]: https://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/07/01/instaport-download-yo...
> But in this case I think it’s 100% fine, even expected in order to stop bad content (porn, abuse etc) from going through

I was pretty shocked when FB filtered out a pornhub link I tried to send to my then-girlfriend on Messenger. I thought it was very inappropriate of them to police our relationship like that. We were both adults...
...and the commercial version, which is still in production:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmos_clock

Not cheap (few k$), but not as expensive as some other high-end timepieces either.
If there are natural human rights, what does that mean for, e.g., prisoners? Is the right to personal freedom not a natural right? If it is, can natural rights be taken away? Under what conditions? Or is imprisonment a breach of natural rights, and what does that imply?

It's pretty hard to pin down what natural rights are. That a society ought to consider the limits of normal human behaviour I don't dispute, but that just informs the rights a society grants its members. Rights are still a human social construct.
Nazis gave us Volkswagen. I don't have to support Nazis to own a Porsche in 2018.
> a normal non-neural-net benchmark shows a total performance improvement of... 3x

because they aren't intended to run non-neural-net workloads. you don't judge a dishwasher by it's ability to wash your clothes, do you?
You're missing the point. What if the Google union decides to put their weight behind Trump, because he gives tax incentives to search engine companies? And if you're vehemently against Trump and his policies, then where does that leave you? Your tax dues are now being spent on supporting a political campaign that you firmly don't support.

And that's the point. Unions are nothing but friction, especially for industries such as tech. I bet the employees of Google can self-organize much more efficiently without a union than with a union, and will be much more effective as well.

And as I mention below, Silicon Valley is awash with employee wealth. How exactly could unions have made things better for employees than what has already been accomplished without the help of a single union?
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Which will cause blockages in sewers.
Mail chimp campaigns are also opt in for the most part.
I hear this point frequently, but never really understood it. Can you explain? Here's the flow as I understand it.

1) Advertiser tells tech company "please show this ad to people you think are interested in X"

2) Tech company uses its private data to figure out who to show the ad to.

3) If you don't click the ad, end of story. No data leaves the tech companies servers to tell anyone anything about you.

4) If you click the ad, the place that ad directs to will know the ad you came from. Åt most, they can use referral source to infer some data about you.

To me, data is sold means that large amounts of personal data are shared about me without my consent. What am I misunderstanding?
I didn't suggest mingling at the park. I suggest being in online places that aren't the hyper-segmented social media sites. Even here, there's a big sorted bag of articles, each with a big sorted bag of comments. Everybody engages with the same bag of stuff. We don't all have our individual view of the world; we see the entire world of HN together, depending on the time of day we visit. That's healthier for diverse discourse and diverse exposure than a pigeon-holed, AI-enforced separation of only your "targeted interests". Of course, you can argue the mob selection bias of articles here, but it's just 1 mob, not a system which enables an unbounded set of mini-mobs to slice at every discernable difference. We're all in HN together, and that has a striking effect on the style of discourse here in comparison.

(As an aside, I have zero problem with using social media for communication with actual friends, relatives, and activities you're a part of. It's all the extra crap they shovel on to chase that unbounded revenue growth that ultimately feeds the problem.)

Regarding the group manipulation, individuals are always at least legally held to their own actions even under manipulative circumstances (distinguished from coerced ones).

Group manipulation only lasts for so long as people don't recognize what's going on and how it's negatively affecting them, which is much harder to keep under wraps these days. There are movements against using Facebook now, which is the proper response to seeing how manipulative and literally unhealthy its ecosystem has become; whereas I don't consider it a reasonable response to call for wide censorship and scanning of personal information and "private" exchanges that happen there, in a big ol' ball of establishing precedent. If manipulators broke laws by posting or accessing stuff, it's a matter of jurisdiction as to who penalizes them, which is always a problem online, but that legal process seems to be properly progressing against CA.
CockroachDB uses the same PostgreSQL wire protocol and SQL dialect so it just looks and works like a pg database. There are some minor differences but DDL and data types are already included in the syntax: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/porting-postgres.h...

It's great if you want to contribute though but I'd recommend just working on the PG EF Core provider which already has some work towards CRDB specific features: https://github.com/npgsql/Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.Postgre...
That's the problem though. Models are people just as much as you or I, or actors. You can justify manipulating anybody for a singular purpose in that way.

"My job is to make my company money, so I have to act exactly like they want me to. Soon I will have to look how they want me to. Say what they want me to. Be who they want me to be. To convey a specific message that is not my own."

At the end of the day, the fake person has more power than the real one, because it is backed by corporate interests.
No one can pull you down (if you are doing these four things)
I thought it was so that the occupant had warning in case the lock wasn't properly engaged.
Trade spat with China has farmers in Trump country “very, very concerned”
The useful feature that's missing if the network isn't large is being able to easily friend a new person. The extra friction of convincing a new acquaintance to join your social network means that it doesn't happen in a lot of situations.
Where I started might not be useful to you
Humour is allowed, and so is downvoting. In practice, the humour has to be to be really good to avoid being mercilessly downvoted. Meta-humour based on usernames and TV shows usually doesn't cut it. Many of us view this as a good thing.
Your last sentence directly contradicts the one right before it.

Value creation is not the same thing as value extraction.
I'd love to make that female chef sit through a yellow status, and explain to her that she has an unsavory look and a creepy vibe. I'm sure she'd be perfectly happy being served by a manager, knowing that being served by one means you have offended the server by doing absolutely nothing apart from looking a certain way, or triggering bad feelings in her just by existing.

Because women never, ever expect these systems to affect them. If some guy refused to serve women because they looked like bitches, he'd be fired. If some women refuses to serve men because they look unsavory and have a creepy vibe, well, you get a nice article in the wapo and knowing nods.
VS does have that functionality, although it was only added in VS 2015:

https://johnkoerner.com/csharp/the-c-interactive-window-in-v...

Previously there was the Immediate window but it is limited:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f177hahy%28v=vs.110...
There is no proof that unions actually contribute to the common welfare for a labor force such as tech. In fact, it's the opposite. Silicon Valley has been doing so well and enriched so many people that everyone else believes that tech workers have changed cities such as San Francisco for the worse. This was accomplished without a single union in Silicon Valley. It doesn't exist and yet hundreds of thousands of employees around here are disproportionately better off than everyone else.

Can you please explain how unions would make things better? Would we be making even more money? Or would they simply enrich themselves from union dues and create friction in every single process that makes this area great?
If that were all it was, then why are the investigators surprised by his decision-making?
Are you really stalking me to get me to respond to a thread I participated in two days ago? That’s odd.
I am against war and violence but even a cursory review of the last 10k years of human history make it abundantly clear that the threat Iran, North Korea or Russia pose to the Western World is real. I hate many of the things the US has done but I'm glad the world is not controlled by even worse actors. The sole reason for US and UN dominance is military power. If we ignore this the West will be overrun.
Didn't Tesla do that for cars near evacuation zones?
Hah or maybe I’m just a fan of the framework? There are quite a few of us out there, and growing (https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=sails&from=2015-04-...)

I find your comments suspicious. Perhaps you’re part of a Russian campaign to sow discord in the open-source community? My sincere apologies if I'm wrong about this, but from your comment history it sure seems like it.

Either way, I prefer to encourage the fine people that contribute to our ecosystem instead of degrading their contributions. But to each their own I guess.
Send an email or text.

Social media is what is replacing our town square, and the potential for someone to walk by and say "Nah, mate, that's fuckin stupid, and here's why" will be sorely missed in the environment that bubble-ists desire.
Ah, Oracle - where good frameworks and open source products go to die.
Very interesting observation. I wonder if there is a corelation between how one feels about privacy in general and how one feels about privacy in the bathroom. If americans dont care about privacy in the bathroom, they must not care abouy privacy at all.
>incredibly valid for Silicon Valley engineers these days

If one could engineer a solution to save lives, but instead uses his/her talents to build the nth iteration of, say, a food delivery app, does he/she bear any ethical culpability?

Because it seems the bigger challenge for engineers is not avoiding overt evil, but in the opportunity cost of spending their time on work of significantly lesser consequence than their talents might allow.
You say solidified, but it was a 5-4 ruling. To determine if handguns could be banned by the city. And an 'arm' that has been used by infantry forces for generations.

Which I find just insane. People say no one wants to take Americans guns rights away, but we were literally one vote from effectively doing so.
I'm sort of surprised that data from a source like that is used. Have you ever seen the weather data that airline captains use? It looks like this:

KORD 050251Z 26006KT 10SM SCT110 M02/M09 A3019 RMK AO2 SLP232 T10171089 53009

That's the current weather conditions for Chicago O'Hare.

Looks like gibberish to you and me but airline captains know what it means and they know how old the observation is. Captain has ultimate authority on the ship, but also ultimate responsibility. It was his job to know what that weather report meant. And surprising to me if he didn't, since by other accounts he was experienced, organized, and safety-conscious.
Who can project force like the U.S. military? No one. For the most part it's used to enable people to have more say in how they're governed, modulo certain constraints. That's not to say we do it perfectly but we shouldn't underestimate how positively influential that military power is.
Gender and Restaurant Work in Shanghai (2016)
> If you believe that doing something is wrong, the idea that someone more unscrupulous will do it if you do not must not be used as an excuse for doing that thing yourself.

By involving yourself, you gain the opportunity to do the right thing (for the given the circumstances). If quitting accomplishes the same thing as sabotage or internal lobbying, then by all means.
I'm not "misinterpreting" anything, aggressively or otherwise.
He is lumping all states together as "the state", giving an example of some unethical states, and arguing from that that no state is ethical, or pays any attention to ethical concerns.

That argument is pure garbage.
It will neither be fixed or replaced
> This scale is far greater than the average size of any Facebook users group of friends.

Yes, but only an individual Facebook user. The problem is that my friends' friends' friends' friends' friends' friends encompass the entire human race: at some point, as I invite people who invite people who invite people, the underlying technology has to be able to support all mankind.

Indeed, I suspect that this — not some momentary privacy-failure flash-in-the-pan will be what leads to Facebook's actual downfall. It's ultimately building a proprietary Internet (in the sense of a fabric which connects people), and that's extraordinarily expensive. At the end of the day, the actual Internet is able to do that far more cheaply.

I imagine that the replacement for Facebook will be something like email: something under the control of its users, something anyone will be able to add himself to and anyone will be able to block.
There are a specific set of internal things at Amazon that public discussion of would be detrimental to your career. Saying what you think of Odin isn't quite the same as mentioning the release date of the next Kindle.
That was a thoroughly depressing read, but a most excellent one as such. Thanks.
Aren't those things an environmental catastrophe though?
That's totally different. He chose to kill the people and did it intentionally out of hate / pride for his country. This thread and the posted link are discussing whether something is immoral or not. He knew it would kill a ton of people and designed it to on purpose. That situation is totally black and white.

Mass intentional killing is wrong, pretty much everyone agrees with that.