skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a manifestation of Maslow's hierarchy of needs among a certain cohort that's allied with targets of discrimination and feeling politically cornered by the opposition's shift to the right. They see that the Overton window about certain types of discourse being mainstream has shifted because the opposition has moved further right -- both in terms of leadership and the views of the membership. They see radical positions working for their opponents, and escalate in turn.

There's a lack of nuance about whether they wish to push certain viewpoints underground and out of the mainstream, or if they wish to silence them altogether. Some probably don't care, which is troubling, but not altogether hard to understand. The effort is internally justified by invoking the 'paradox of tolerance', where they propose that the discourse of their opponents is fundamentally intolerant and presents a clear and present existential threat to society at large, and must be reactively suppressed for the health of diverse and open discourse to continue.
> Management fees in this case were $200 million

"Toys 'R' Us does say in its SEC filings that $47 million in transaction fees that it owed KKR, Bain and Vornado, have been waived. The advisory fees were also voluntarily reduced by the investment firms in recent years" [1].

(Toys 'R' Us did pay the PE consortium "$470 million in fees and interest" [2], but the vast bulk of that goes to the fund, i.e. the people who just lost a billion dollars.)

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2017/09/19/the-big-...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/bain-kkr-...
It has gatekeeper for spotting malicuous downloads.
Billions of dollars might not be enough... I don't really see ways of detecting sufficiently realistic fake videos. The best we could do might be to find the original unaltered video, given that we have access to such video (which is unlikely if the fake video is meant to be an attack). Even then, it's not sufficient evidence to say the new one is fake (one can argue that the original is fake).
Culture is the issue. The long standing Internet tradition of "I didn't intend to be offensive, so it's fine that I was, and I should continue to be" is at the root of the entire problem.

Most people don't care for that kind of environment. And so we splinter, and wall off. We're using technological restrictions as a substitute for cultural norms. And so, my original statement still stands - if you want to change the situations, change what your norms are, and influence global norms that way.
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Depends on the cause of failure. When long hair became fashionable in the 60's a lot of barber ships closed down, but the demand never hit zero. A company in that situation with 100 locations might scale down to 10 locations without ever losing money as the industry collapsed and consolidated.

I am not saying a company should continue past profitability, but huge amounts of debt shift the line and kill off many salvageable companies while destroying a great deal of wealth.
>But in the case of climate change anyone over thirty-five or so knows damn well the weather has gone funny.

A very similar logic leads people to conclude "it was cold last week, so global warming is nonsense". Being able to understand the scientific case for climate change requires a level of scientific literacy and critical thinking that most people could readily develop, but isn't taught in schools.
The article isn't about lucid dreaming. It's about the liminal state.

It can take months of active practice to have lucid dreaming.

The liminal state takes about five minutes to learn. The article has a story about Thomas Edison dropping balls on the floor; this works well.
Not sure if relevant, but it looked like the difference between most Toys 'R' Us products and centuries in a landfill were about a minute of smile followed by boredom.

Bright, colorful, and passive. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=toys+r+us+shelves&bext=lcl&atb=v11...
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In case it gets stolen. But you're right if I'm worried about that I should be worried about getting a virus that steals my files.
Kiva is not quite what you seem to think it is. Those robots navigate in specially constructed, human-free, spaces with QR codes on the floor to keep them positioned right. It is a highly developed system, but not one designed for anything remotely like a human home.

And I would separate your #3 into two items: recognizing household objects (a very significant bit of work), and then interacting with individual objects. Single instances of each of those are tasks that whole companies are devoted to. General-case systems are just not in the cards at this point.
It's not a zero sum game at all. It's much more akin to prisoner's dilemma (which is not zero sum).
>No, I don't have it backwards. Blockchain solutions offer decentralized, trustless alternatives to existing centralized, trust-based solutions.

The problem is that the more we look at potential use cases, the more we found that trust relations are necessary to handle a load of basic process requirements that cannot be solved by blockchains alone, thus requiring the addition of trusted actors, thus removing the need of blockchains to begin with.

Blockchains proponents tend to see trustlessness as a benefit by itself. In their view, Blockchains are better than traditional databases because trustlessness is better than traditional client-server models.

System designers see trustlessness as a constrain. If you are in a bad situation where no single actor can be trusted by everyone else, then you can implement a decentralized database using blockchains. It's going to cost a lot in term of performance and efficiencies, but it's doable. But as soon as this constraint of truslessness is removed, why the hell would you bother with something like blockchains? And experience show us that, well, there's actually not a lot of contexts where trustlessness is an absolute requirement.
Not everyone's threat model includes actors out there bypassing AV. Most people need AV to be able to protect themselves against accidentally opening a spammy, script-kiddie level spam mail.
If I could pick only one it would be communication skills. Writing and speaking clearly and being able to explain things well, especially to non-technical stakeholders.
And it's already a service for eldercare[1]. If the caregivers could pilot a small 'bot remotely it'd be even more useful, presumably.

1: https://www.wired.com/story/digital-puppy-seniors-nursing-ho...
"Out of the ordinary" does not and should not immediately mean "suspicious". I think that's a difference that should not be forgotten.
Don't we get some version of this effect with fictional movies and TV shows? Your brain parses it as real, so you accept it at some deep level, even when you know it's fake.
Coal power plants can ramp up and down pretty quickly in response to demand. Not quite as quickly as gas, but generally quick enough to respond to changes in renewables supply when operated as "spinning reserve". Nuclear plants, of course, can not.
There's nothing inherently scummy about money itself. It's just a tool for human organization.
+1 been using sanic for a couple years, it's an awesome easily grokable micro framework. Sanic is flask-like in a lot of places where a quick perusal of the quart code makes it look like they go an extra mile on the flask scale, but maybe take up some complexity in that process. Up to the consumer on which trade off they pick. I tend to think that since there is no WSGI equivalent for asyncio (something people are thinking about https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/issues/761) you want a slightly different model than flask anyway.
Great material for a movie, however I'm afraid Hollywood would butcher it.
Weird. I've tried the 'flip a light switch on and off' in my dreams -- and the lights do go off and on. Every time.

I use reading and re-reading to test whether I'm in a dream.
No, they didn't. The sad part is people apparently believing that minorities being subjected to a bunch of hate speech directed toward them are "challenging ideas."
I'd bring it a little further and would write:

SELECT * FROM Person as P INNER JOIN TeamMember as TM on TM.PersonId = P.Id

I have:

- Aliased each table and prefixed every field names with their table alias in my join conditions.

- Explicited the JOIN type.

The above:

- Reduces mistakes due to ambiguities that tend to generate unwanted duplicates rows in SQL.

- Increases the likelihood of getting an error at parse time, instead of run-time or analysis-time, thanks to added scoping.

- Works in any schema, no matter what naming conventions are followed.

- Keeps working as the query becomes more complex with multiples table aliases or self-joins, and similar field names appearing in the set.

- Better expresses intent. Sure JOIN defaults to INNER JOIN, but writing "INNER JOIN" shows that you genuinely expect any row not matching your condition to be removed from the result set.
What has your experience been with lucid dreaming? What tasks were you testing with and what improvement did you see?
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Roughly $140 billion in GE stock-market wealth was lost in the past year

GE has lost a substantial percent of its market cap this year. I wouldn't count on that pension sticking around for 30 years without being 'restructured'.

And in 30 years it'll be worth $40k a year anyway.
As another comment pointed out in the thread, Germany's aluminum manufacturers are already taking advantage of negative energy prices and scaling production up and down at least 25% during peak energy producing hours.

Residential users and smaller companies will eventually find ways to make use of such energy in a similar way.
Yeah, about that:

> For instance, Twenge argues that young people have become increasingly self-absorbed since the advent of the Internet. One piece of evidence she uses is a search she ran through Google's Ngram (which searches through printed books) for the phrase "I love me." She found a sharp spike in the phrase in the last few decades. But "I love me" sounds slightly off — surely most people say "I love myself." And lo, if you search "I love myself" (as I would guess Twenge did first), you find that the phrase fluctuated with much less satisfying results, and in fact occurred at a higher frequency in, for instance, the 1770s, than in the early 2000s. So, Twenge discovered a grammatical shift and disguised it as a cultural one.

> It's a small example, but the book is dizzying with this brand of deceptive spin.

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/17/548664627/move-over-millennia...

I'm not arguing that the book is without merit, but I really don't think it comprehensively and inarguably states that the "younger generation" are as damaged as the "older generation" might suspect (and "the coming generation are wrong about all the things!" is a trope as old as time)
You're overstating the markup, and they've price matched (including Amazon) for a while.
I don't agree with that. Once you understand the basics of building performant databases/queries, that knowledge will persist across databases. There are small differences in syntax and features, but any remotely competent person should be able to pick those up while they go, provided they understand what happens under the hood when they execute SQL.
Thanks for the detailed explanations. I had a few questions about what you wrote:

>"Has a "dignified" register (the accumulator) and most computations only happen in/out of the accumulator."

I was curious about your use of the word dignified in quotes. Are you just conveying its importance or with this or something else?

>"Many DSP architectures are very highly "accumulator based". "

Is there something about DSP and their workloads that make accumulator based architectures a good fit?

>"All temporary data is stored on the stack, and all computation instructions involve computing with data items at the top of the stack "

So are computation limited to the top two positions of the stack then? As in the operands can be obtain by two pop operations and not arbitrary positions in the stack?
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> (e.g., consuming Y is safe only to find out it causes birth defects, cancer,etc.) Science blames the customer/consumer.

It feels like there's a conflation of science and science reporting in here somewhere. Most of the actual research output makes measured claims but the journalism around it ends up being sensationalised (yes, some researchers also participate in that but not as a rule).
If you're using promises and async/await then you don't have any of those problems anyway :)
That's an entirely reasonable assignment that I would accept doing. Unfortunately, there are definitely way more time consuming projects being handed out regularly.
In the words of Macklemore, "One man's trash is another man's come up"
do you know how creditors protect themselves from abusive owners generally? like if i was loaning a business a large amount of money like 80/20 in this case then i would be worried the owners might find a way to siphon the money i loaned them out of the business in a way that benefited them personally.
I strongly agree. Text is just much more efficient in so many ways.

A tangent, this is related to why so many people - myself included - love the paradigm of Emacs as an OS, i.e. moving as much of their workflow and non-work tasks into the editor. It's because of - severely underexplored elsewhere - the power of the abstractions around text Emacs provides. When everything is text - including the UI - but the text isn't transient, like typically used in Unix, but at rest, like in text editors, you get to employ the same set of editing, navigation and search commands to do vastly different tasks. Combine with how so many things can be represented by text, and you get a very powerful tool.
I believe the parent was intentionally mirroring the grandparent comment to make the argument that Linux is a good counterexample.
The two skills that have been really helpful for me:

1. User interface design. There are many programmers who "hate UI" to their detriment. Your software doesn't do anything until a human can use it, and use it correctly. Having a little UI background means my solo software is easier to use, I work more effectively with UI designers, and I design better APIs (because API design is also UI design).

2. Writing. If you measure the number of characters you type every day and which applications they go into, you'll probably discover you spend more time writing email, chat, code review comments, design documents, etc. than actual code. Even when writing code, a good fraction of it goes into naming, comments, and doc comments.

Writing improves all of those directly. It also taught me to invest in editing even more than I do in writing, which is a useful mindset to have for code. It helps me organize my thoughts more clearly, and choose better metaphors and names.
No kidding, at a 4% safe withdrawal rate, that's the same as a $2+ million nest egg.

That said, I think he's concerned that, given GE's trajectory, the pension will evaporate. What then?
Here is a great guide to growth: https://www.julian.com/learn/growth/intro

Its section on Landing Pages is an awesome resource for getting some low hanging fruits right on your landing page. Very actionable advice that will most certainly improve your redesign.
that is not what inflation means in an economic sense.
By Narayana R. Kocherlakota, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Testing bullshit conventional startup wisdom
>I still keep about 20% in company stock. It has done very well and pays a good dividend. To think that we were almost bought by GE years ago.

I'm curious why you keep so much in Honeywell stock? For a very long time GE was a great company to have that would routinely give nice returns and dividends, and then things went downhill. Layoffs happened, and those people were faced with much lower portfolio valuations if they were heavily weighted in the company they work for.
Im aware of the research p0 did on AV -- its very important, and their findings were fed back to the vendors, to improve their products.
AV is not the low hanging fruit, there has never been a discovered malware that exploits an AV bug. It might happen, but you are a million times more likely to find a garden variety malware that all AV detects.

(of course i am ignoring APT/nation state 0day, as it is not specifically about AV, all software is vulnerable against an adversary of this skill). If you worry is APT attacking your AV, you best to be looking at your Operating Systems first.
This is what I have been trending towards as a matter of practicality. I want all of my devices to be thin clients.
LabVIEW isn't a "codeless" tool. It's a programming language. It's very different from C (dataflow instead of imperative) and requires a different way of thinking.
The author linked to Tweets from said individuals who were mentioning the tool. So it's relevant, however a bit odd they chose those specific examples when I'm sure they're are other "celebrities" who also linked to the tool. Maybe the author thought of these people as those most interested in data privacy?
The danger here is that you have to make sure Honey Badger's manager doesn't see him/her seemingly making no progress toward a solution. Honey Badgers might be solitary animals, but software engineers are social creatures.
Negative price signals encourage people to use that excess energy as they are paid to do so at exactly the times that solar or wind are overproducing.

They are the solution to that problem, not part of the problem.

As for batteries, there needs to be an economic incentive for people to invest in deploying batteries (or any other type of storage). Negative prices are that incentive. Negative prices don't need batteries, batteries need negative pricing.
That is one explanation. The alternative explanation is that someone found something cool and decided to write a blog post. How many front-page posts have there been on some algorithm or bloom filters or seemingly "advanced cool stuff" that people have already figured out decades ago?
"The Investigation" was a somewhat flawed experiment on Lem's part.

However, the much later "The Chain of Chance" (I had to look up the English title - the original is named "Katar", or "Rhinitis") is a captivating read. Lem himself called it a better version of "The Investigation".

It's also of the "detective story" type that he'd take up every now and then, but more dynamic and not as spooky.
Every time you load a web page they can see your IP address, and IP addresses can be mapped back to rough locations. Sometimes people use "GPS" to also include things like your phone figuring out where it is based on what WiFi names it can see, but I don't think I've ever seen it for IP-based geolocation.

(Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Google)
Not following. There were billions to be made by Google in China and they decided giving up their user data was a bridge too far. So basically chose to not sell their user data.

Versus Apple handed over all there user data to make a buck. Plus this is actual data not a targeted ad.

Do I have this correct?
I'm assuming he was going from the OP article:

>Bain, KKR, and Vornado will have to write off their investment, of course. But they did suck around $200 million in fees out of Toys 'R' Us over the course of their ownership.
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>It seems like fake video can be handled the same way we handle fake text. We're just not used to doing that yet.

What happens when someone synthesizes fake anchors in fake news segments and posts them on fb/twitter?

You're severely underestimating how news propagates.
This is a great collection of comments! because it exposes a deep bias in the readers, who are mainly coders and dev-culture.

Guess what ? perfectly machine-readable data is called a DATABASE, and it works well in its scope.. and if you think that all of human knowledge, history, arts and culture are perfectly represented in a DATABASE, then congratulations, you are already more computer than human in your preconceptions.

There are several important layers to this onion.. lets call one "participation by non-specialists" .. a second "human factors, aesthetics and publishing arts" .. another is "imperfect intermediate products enable evolution" .. yet another is "taking rules before content" ..

Each topic might be an essay in itself.. Generally, I am happy to see XML essentially proposed as the answer to all human information challenges, because it takes less time to blink than to refute it, for me.
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It's not just what they collect with a single service. It's the amount of clarity that comes from a linkage with their other collected data sets.
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Except almost nobody does that.
There’s nothing new here.

That is ad hominem against a straw man, so I’m applying grains of salt heavily to your commitment to logical and rhetorical integrity.

Is the first thing I said. Meanwhile I stand by it, but it seemed prudent to break it down point by point until you had nowhere left to go. “All of these people I must invented haven’t even read the books!” Is still just what I said it was.
Most people forgets IT is the same as any other industry with marketing plots, promotions pretending to be articles, etc. Before AI/ML and big data, we had cloud (which is basically a server), web2.0 (it does not even make any kind of sense technologically), ajax (how was that a new thing in any way?) or really long time ago NETWORK COMPUTER (this one kinda hilarious, oracle tried to sell dumb terminals as future - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer, and nowadays Google tried the same thing with chromebook). I feel it's the same thing as in every 5 years, healthy food is different. Do you remember those days when fat was deadly poison?
OK, what are you looking for? Rich people get one shot at doing something, and if they fail, the government comes riding in and takes all their stuff?

You have to be careful when you get vindictive at rich people; they're also the employers, and it's hard to build a system where such people aren't "the rich".

(If you hard-core leveled everyone in the world to equal wealth, nobody would be able to employ anybody else in the current sense of the term. People would have to pool their money and give it to somebody or set of somebodies to manage. And lo, watch "the rich" appear again as the people who successfully employ others get a return, and those who fail do not. It's really hard to avoid "the rich" also being "the employers".)

I can pretty much guarantee someone, probably multiple someones, were called on the carpet at these firms, and did not get the "Oh well, just try again good buddy!" treatment.
There's no one forcing those food stamp recipients to work at Amazon. I do believe that there are other, better paying jobs they can get.

And if they can qualify for food stamps, I'm sure they could qualify for student loans/grants that would put them out of the low-skill job arena...

Edit: ...Unless they wasted their education on some worthless degree.
Most people don't worry about ML models or anything like that. They just want something that works, and works well. And, at least in the case of FB, something that their friends/relatives are also available on. You don't need open source devs working on the technical side; you need open source work done on the interface side. You need things that non-technically inclined people can pick up and use.
> I've never been able to do it, nor have I tried much, as I don't see the difference in my life between controlling my dreams or simply allowing them to happen.

Talk to the grand parent. They seem to think its this easy thing that people have been doing for thousands of years. I'd love to know the easy way too..