skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Society needs to create a payout/reward system, on top of a universal basic income (that society as a whole is serving and working towards using automation to increase everyone's quality of life exponentially) for breakthroughs in effort - following a chain and distributing pre-determined amounts to those who contributed (trickling into early research that's referenced) and perhaps taking into account the number of people that benefit from it -- and perhaps ongoing or future payments if the people who benefit, a royalty of sorts, increase or is a constant over time, perhaps with a cap.

Edit: To add, if everyone earns "$500,000" per year (the quality of life they have, based on what $500k of today's money could buy) and your life's work leads to rewards/payout of $5,000,000 ... the buying power of that $5M will buy you a lot more than 10 years worth of improvements to quality of life, etc.
They banned all the racist subreddits where they could find an excuse to do so, like doxxing.

It's just like the real world. It's not illegal to annoy a cop, but that cop is going to be trying real hard to find something else to pin on you.
FWIW from the few studies about human tetrachromacy that I've heard of it seems that the women do in fact just see some similar-looking colors as more obviously distinct.

AIUI In order to see any "new" colors (i.e. outside the "visible" spectrum) they'd need to be more sensitive to UV or IR light (which in addition to being able to perceive those in isolation would presumably also mean being able to perceive those in combination, which indeed would drastically extend the numbers of colors).
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If all the music you want to listen to is available via streaming services than great, but I have a bunch of MP3s that aren't (things ripped from old CDs, music from my friends, music from anti-streaming artists).
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>“In general we collect data on people who are not signed up for Facebook for security purposes,” Zuckerberg said Wednesday in a hearing about the social network’s privacy practices in Washington before the House Energy and Commerce Committee."

It was extremely unfortunate that he wasn't subsequently asked exactly how collecting data on non-FB users related to security. It's baffling how that could go unasked.

Of course this was just another "prepared" response, but can anyone say how the rest of this contrived response goes? How does keeping data on non-FB users relate to security?
Google is on the list, but I'm going to break away from the flock and say they shouldn't be next. Credit agencies and data brokers, who facilitate the worst kinds of third-party privacy violation and about whom most people know very little, should go next. Then the government itself. Then Google, and then Amazon.

BTW, if you want to have some fun, just try to imagine that the the government's interest in Facebook's data practices is not so much to regulate it as to copy it - either for the government itself or for election campaigns. IMO that makes a lot of their otherwise nonsensical or inconsistent behavior much more understandable. Creepy. They totally want to know more about us than Facebook and Google put together; they just don't know how.
Do we really need 150 pro and opposing studies to understand?

For instance if a society import a minority white population, enslave and oppress them for hundreds of years and then conduct IQ tests to declare they are somehow deficient. How would the rest of the world look at that? Would they simply look at the IQ test results, or have deeper questions?

First people are enslaved and segregated for hundreds of years and just when the courts start enforcing hard fought equality laws in society, economic discrimination takes over via 'free markets' that as an 'outcome' limits access to housing, education, employment, financial services to people who have not had an opportunity to build wealth over generations like the rest. And then resurrect quasi eugenics and go out of the way to try to prove with IQ tests they are somehow deficient.

There is something extremely malicious and insidious about this obsession which fails to recognize others as fully functioning human beings and simply ignores the entirety of history, actions and consequences. And the only reason this can continue uninterrupted for hundreds of years is because in any other context the World would have intervened to stop this kind of sustained assault.

We do not understand fully how the brain works or the dimensions of human intelligence yet many are so confident to build truths and definitive conclusions on top of it.

Even if we for arguments sake accept IQ as some sort of indicator it is dishonest to diminish the impact of environment in the same indicator. As if a seed will thrive whatever the environment. This seems to be a transparently ideological position.

The idea that a rich or middle class upbringing with access to excellent education and resources will somehow produce the same outcomes as a poor family that cannot provide a stable home, proper nutrition, nurturing environment, educational resources and good schools is not logical and cannot be made in good faith.

Yet people with seemingly high IQs continuously make this claim. Suggesting perhaps that IQ is not everything. And maybe we should include tests for prejudice and bigotry in IQ tests that seem to reduce intelligence and promote a irrational mindset.
As if Congress has any balls. James Clapper perjury case in point.
Interesting, I would agree with the conclusion without the intermediary.

I don’t trust the press to do a better job of this than anyone else. The press is made of people and subject to the same flaws and desire for power — both to campaign for the freedom to do certain things, and also to restrict other things (I’m thinking of UK issues like fox hunting and one particular moral panic about the drug MDMA that turned out to be a water overdose).

That said, like the two famous Churchil quotes on democracy, I’ll say both that the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter, yet also that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. I can see democracy’s flaws, but not how to fix them. I wouldn’t even want to be in a benevolent dictatorship if I was running it.
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I live in Florida. Only having three days of food during the Summer is irresponsible. A week of non-refrigerated is realistic. People who laugh about "prepping" haven't heard about hurricanes.
I can just see lumbergh coming over to some interns "workspace" since there aren't even cubes anymore and saying yah...I'm going to need you to attend this hackathon this weekend...it'll...ummm...be unpaid but.... you....yay...ummm... it'll be good for your career...

https://blog.jostle.me/blog/how-not-to-manage-like-bill-lumb...
Most variables are registers, so it would have no effect on cache since there is no memory used to store the data. Only if that variable is pushed onto the stack/heap would it then consume cache. However, the size of the stack is much smaller when compared to the size of the data structures in play, so only a small percentage of cache is used for this control data.
I don't think anyone's getting fooled here. These sessions get fed directly back into the legislative process and, unlike a court of law, Zuckerberg's intransigence is going to be treated as tacit admission of guilt and an indictment of the entire social media industry.

Now the legislative sausage has to get made. Social media's lobbyists are going to have a rough time of it, and the telecom industry, who has been nipping at their heels for a decade, are going to lay it on thick, trying to gut them so their data becomes more valuable to advertisers.

Expect any law that gets passed to marginally affect privacy, and maximally affect a few pocketbooks.
It comes from a profit-sharing agreement. Mine is roughly formulaic but not contractual (keep X% of profits). Contractual agreements can have X ranging from 10 to 50.
Price transparency is the crucial reason why markets can claim to propagate information quickly and lead to efficiency.

The opacity in the labor market and the drug market is not an accident.
battles, at most. wars are inevitably won by production and logistic.
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Not against free-market, just in favour of slapping some extra taxes here'n'there. Just like cigarettes. Would you like ciggies to be traded for normal value? Please no, we made so much progress...
Easy enough to fake your user agent. Or is it a native app with extra security / checks?
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Use of static in the context of that C snippet is deprecated in C++. One is supposed to use an unnamed namespace instead.

namespace {
int myfunc() {
return 5;
}

int x;
int y = 4;
int z = myfunc();
};

int main()
{}

In my opinion, his point is still valid.
They are regaining full autonomy and won't need to comply with directives coming from Brussels if you prefer.

There are plenty of countries way smaller than the UK that do just fine on their own, and don't feel the need to merge with their neighbors. There are pros and cons to forming alliances with other nations, but 1) they don't need to be as involved and permanent as the EU, 2) they don't need to be primarily based on geography.
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if the embryo belonged to parents are you sure the parents didn't leave it to the grandparents in a will or something. I mean as long as we are talking about embryos as property and all that.
It sounds like Pinterest to me.
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Would you be able to elaborate on that a bit?
It's strange, in all this anti-socialnetwork craze, I'm craving a social network.

As it stands, I love the concept of a social network. I want a platform that facilitates at arms length socialization, because I'm rarely that in-person social with most of the people I know. A social network fills that need nicely. Yet, with that said, I don't want centralization or obvious control over the information flow and ultimately how we think/interact.

I feel like a scuttlebutt[1]-like solution is the answer, but I think it needs a bit more features. Like editing, web usage from federated platforms, etc.

[1]: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz
But if the safety feature works almost all the time, and occasionally fails catestrophically, I would argue that it is actually more dangerous than having no safety feature, since people will depend on it working and not catch it when it fails.
> Type checkers don't.

Sure they do, unless your type checker is formally verified. Are you suggesting there exists a formally verified C++ compiler?

> Running the compiler is also a lot cheaper than having someone inspect every line of code carefully.

Except that's not what I suggested. You only need to audit lines that perform potentially undefined behaviour. The C type checker ensures the rest are fine. I think it's clear this problem is worse in C++ given all of the additional abstractions that interact in surprising ways.

Furthermore, C++ has no formal verification tools, so if you wanted real guarantees, you'd use something like Frama-C or a theorem prover like they did with seL4. Microkernels in C++ have been tried, and in every case they switched back to C for very good reasons.
I the same! Was it a pull-out from a magazine, or something, do you recall? I had it alongside a fold-out cross-section of 'the Chunnel' on my bedroom wall :.)

Exciting times. I'm particulary happy that they appear to be not just focusing on the space angle, rather global travel too, which seems a much more likely use, at least in the short term.
Well, he was ignorant, but a congressman gave him a copy of the constitution so he should be all up to speed now.
What’s an “almost” SAM hit? Is that a thing?
I respect your profit orientation, but it's disingenuous to suggest it's the only path.

Next door to you, the folks in what we're currently calling the FLOSS community were trying to arm and empower those same users, instead of constraining them.
I completely disagree with the article's assertion that 'knowledge professions like ... lawyers' will be relatively unaffected. 'DoNotPay' (the robot lawyer) has already helped overturn millions of dollars of parking fines. NPR article on the subject: https://www.npr.org/2017/01/16/510096767/robot-lawyer-makes-...

Also in reference to manufacturing processes, it appears that Toyota has learned some hard lessons in automation and is actually moving in the opposite direction:
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/02/toyota%E2%80%99s-se...
It doesn't take a lot of genius, time, or money to set a link w/ url parameters or use a standard html form for e.g. upvoting or comment submission, and then override that with javascript for fancier UI / AJAX / avoid redirects, etc -- i.e., extra polish, rather than it being the only option and the site just becomes nonfunctional instead of degrading gracefully.

This benefits more than just one tiny group of users: it might also aid disabled users and accessibility software (not to mention the developers of that software), security nuts, people who turn js off to improve performance on low-spec machines (it's 2018 here, but more than a few countries have a four (or even three!) figure GDP/capita, so their machines aren't going to be 2018 machines. This is just off the top of my head, how many other groups might there be that would benefit?
I have a bad habit of getting into something new, learning the fundamentals, and then moving on.

But as for why you might drop something easy for something harder, it might be as simple as that before you learned how to play the piano, it was hard. But as you learned the fundamentals of how to read music and play, it became easier and the guitar might be new territory that is hard because you haven't learned it yet- so it's exciting fresh territory.

Another situation where I might quit is if I reached something really hard and I don't think it's worth the effort to get over the hurdle. I think this is usually what makes people quit or avoid learning something new. I personally have learned that I am more likely to quit if I'm not at the right skill level. For example, I picked up The Intelligent Investor, skimmed the table of contents, found a topic I was interested in, flipped to page 300+, and I had no idea what the author was talking about, probably because I skipped the first 300 pages.

I think when people try to move too fast beyond their skill level (intentionally or unintentionally), they end up hitting a barrier because they're missing prerequisites. Then they're more likely to quit because they start to wonder if they're stupid rather than realizing they just didn't learn all the previous steps that were required. And no one likes to feel stupid so they quit and do something that makes them happy and feel smart.
Good question. While I do get the bias of society towards women for nanny jobs, I don't see why this would apply to cleaning people.
Not available for India.
Great.
Leave out the most populous country in the world which has a long history with Orkut.
I love this. (sarcasm)
Well, there are plenty of Android devices with OLED screens, but this is what truly got me

>The iPhone X is the first iPhone to use an OLED display

Shocking, actually.
I don't think these are the same thing, but please do provide a link discussing NT's use of handles.
Obsolete is a bit of an exaggeration. As far as I know, almost all programming (including for mobile devices) is still done with a keyboard and a mouse, and I honestly don't see this changing anytime soon (the only way I personally can see changing this is if voice recognition combined with enough AI to make dictating instructions to a computer a reality... or if a visual programming environment actually succeeds, despite its historically lousy track record except for certain niches).

This is also as far as I know still true for a lot of other productivity-type uses of computers -- even though mobile and tablets are also used in some of this space, they often seem more auxiliary. Most of the serious professional tools for, say, business (eg spreadsheets, accounting, inventory, etc.) or even artistic uses (music, photo editing, etc.) also are primarily keyboard / mouse oriented. Tablet oriented tools definitely exist (especially in the art space), but a lot of times its not a primary use case, except perhaps in communication tools.

Mobile space is a walled garden, designed more simply for limited real estate and touch, with more difficulty to poke around (there is no real equivalent in the mobile world to open a web site, hit F12, and poke around). That's fine -- PCs / laptops haven't disappeared, and if a kid showed an interest in programming, you'd get them one. :)

Now, the original poster may have been referring to the new world of social. I did more enjoy the long form of social (eg blogs) that popped up in the 00s. Versus the current social world, dominated by only a few firms that are highly motivated to manipulate your feed, tweak your emotions, and optimize the dispersion of ads (and other low-quality tabloid junk). It's my "old man yells at cloud" pet peeve, I suppose. Not exactly a mobile device problem, though.
I'm with you on the JS stuff, the redesign screams "I want to be an app!" so desperately, I'm seriously considering leaving after a good 8 years on the site as well. Everything has that Javascript-delay on it, like it takes 0.5 seconds to click anything, scroll anything, etc.

I gotta say though:

>increased censorship

That's ridiculous. They're "censoring" all kinds of bottom-of-the-barrel racist and disturbing shit which simply should not be on a mainstream website (which reddit simply is now). I don't see any idealistic reason to keep /r/fatpeoplehate. The "everything that's legal" ideal is cute for some edgy website you create out of college, but a platform of reddit's size simply gives too much room for content to fall on the wrong side of the line.
We need to own the means of production.

Once everything is automated, that means owning stock in those companies automating everything.
I expect we'll see some major leaks about Google by the end of the year, too.
So it's a mobile only, teen-centric social trinket that's also not available at all on my country according to the play store.

Fuck that.
If one isn’t careful, you end up with interdependency between static initializers. Since the order of static initialization is undefined, you get fun bugs like your program crashing because a minor change caused the objects to link in a different order.

For example, the dreaded singleton using a static variable inside a function:

Singleton& get_singleton() {
static Singleton instance;
return instance;
}

Having a couple of those referenced in static initializers is a recipe for disaster. It’s a bad practice, but people unfortunately do it all the time. Those that do this are equally unequipped to realize why their program suddenly started crashing after an innocuous change.
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And who doesn't wrap their text? Is this a joke? Do they really want to make it as unreadable as possible?
Steemit, upvote via tokens and make money by getting upvotes.

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troll. Orkut was a big thing before G+ came along; wouldn't be surprised if that one sucked up some of orkut's users, then lost interest and never returned to orkut, going to Facebook instead.
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Yep, fair enough, I was wrong Autopilot is level 2.

However I still disagree with your original comment:

> Sorry, but this is the exact wrong conclusion to make from the available data. Partially automated cars have been driven by average people on the public roads since 2006, when the Mercedes S class got active steering and ACC. There is no data that says that these systems, which are available on cars as affordable as e.g. a VW Polo, lead to more crashes. In fact the only data I have seen suggests that they reduce crashes and driver fatigue significantly.

Firstly, I don't see any examples of VW Polo claiming to have a steering assist, even the most recent 2017 edition [1] only has level 1 features [0]. Steering assist only came to the Mecedes S-Class in 2014 [2].

What I (and the parent comment you initially replied to) was tying to claim was that where as Level 1 features [0] (cruise control, automatic braking, and lane keeping) are great, level 2 (and level 3 according to Google/Waymo) is risky because humans cannot be trusted to be alert and ready to take over.

[0]: www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/Automated_Vehicles_Policy.pdf

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Polo#Sixth_generati...

[2]: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1080502_2014-mercedes-be...
and kut is Dutch for cunt.
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It's also as big as and heavier than an F-4 Phantom II, which for many countries was too big and expensive back in the 1970s.

Traditionally US allies could choose from the hi or lo options according to their budget; F-4 vs F-5, F-15 vs F-16.

But if a nation now wants to buy something US-compatible for the next 50 years they now have to stump up for the big F-35 since the lo tier has effectively been discontinued ( and the hi-hi tier is the unexportable F-22 ).

So we have the likes of Denmark buying 27, basing 7 in the USA for training and having about 10 operational out of maintenance. Why bother?
> Notice that the logic of the echo chamber depends on the order in which we encounter the evidence.

That proves it is in fact bad logic; the victims of the echo chamber are not rational to the point of behaving in a logically sound way.

In actual logic, the order among a set of prepositions makes no difference and they can be evaluated in parallel also to the extent that they are independent; there are no side-effects.

If two propositions A and B contradict each other, that one of them you heard first isn't necessarily the true one.

If everyone is working in good faith (mistakes are acknowledged and fixed) then rather chronologically later propositions should be more trustworthy. People who are not willing to replace old propositions with new ones that contradict them are making themselves impervious to the good-faith improvement in understanding.
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From reading Reddit threads about the redesign: pretty much everyone hates it, especially Reddit’s most passionate users, who have been very articulate, consistent, and aligned about exactly what they don’t like, and Reddit just keeps brushing them off and dismissing their point of view.

Maybe the purpose of the redesign is something like monetization? Or maybe they are just out of touch and by the time they really understood the community’s point of view, the decisions had been made, so the Reddit employees tasked with handling the community response can’t really say or do much.
There isn't one that's going to do everything that reddit does, honestly. You might want to consider breaking down everything you were getting out of reddit that you aren't anymore and pursuing ways to find those things again.

I recently realized that I was spending way too much time on Reddit, so I started only briefly scrolling through Reddit once per day without reading comments, and relying more on HN, twitter, and a few blogs for news. To feed that itch to belong to a community, I started commenting on HN more, and continue to go on JQBX and belong to a few slack channels.
Just use 4chan
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