skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let me debunk that for you.

Then why not debunk something I said instead of going off on a weird tangent that is orthogonal to it?

> We want a system optimized for transportation. We do not want a system optimized for wealth extraction.

Agreed.

> Say someone is buying a house. He will look for the stuff he needs. If they have kids that have to go to school or if they cant drive for some reason they look at the bus and train schedule and kinda expect that service to be there the next month.

Agreed.

> How you imagine it actually doesn't happen. You don't get a substantial number of people with kids, old and disabled people moving to an area without public transport so that you can move in for the killer profits. Even if there is a bus it would be unreliable if profit rather than transportation is the goal.

Who spoke anything about killer profits? To put it simply, in my proposal any place that could be a competitive market would be one (so profits are driven as low as possible), while any place that could not be would be subsidized. Regardless, this is entirely orthogonal to my point.

What I railed against was the idea that public transport in areas with lots of demand should subsidize public transport in areas with low demand. This is an absolutely terrible idea, whether your public transport system is private or government-ran. It's bad, because it drives the cost of public transport up, and unless you ban private cars, it therefore also drives the incentive to use public transport down and the incentive to use a car up.

Instead, since we want to optimize for transportation, we should drive the cost of public transport as low as possible. Especially in areas with high demand, simply because as they have more people, they matter more in reducing emissions and traffic. And do note that as low as possible will be lower in areas of high demand than in areas of low demand. For this task, I propose using an open, competitive market. You might like a government-ran system better. I think either approach might work, although I prefer my version because it is less fragile. The important part is that not a penny of the fare prices paid by people in high-demand areas should go to subsidizing service to people living in low-demand areas.

Because having public transport in those low-demand areas is also socially good, any areas where a competitive market cannot work should probably have subsidized public transport. However, that subsidy should not come from other public transport, because that makes public transport worse where it matters and makes people drive cars instead, making traffic and pollution worse. If you look at my original post, I proposed subsidizing it from taxation.

Have I now repeated my point enough times that you have understood it? I'd have repeated myself less, but I thought it necessary since if you actually had bothered to go read my original post, instead of ad-libbing your favorite strawman on it, this entire post would not have been necessary.
Pypy doesn't work well with cpython modules. That makes it a non-starter, sorry.
For a deeper look from the systems engineering side, check out http://mit.edu/psas, specifically the book-length treatment in “Engineering a Safer World”.

For applications of similar ideas to cloud software and devops-style environments, https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/02/10/each-necessary-but-on... is also helpful!
Tinnitus can become permanent. It's common in those who have abused their hearing with extended exposure to loud noise - be it at a loud workplace, rock concerts, or just blasting music through headphones. Because of that last one, it's quite common among those of us who grew up in the Walkman generation and later.
> Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of the GDPR.

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
This part:

“We pulled in the dates from his user contributions page and found that Cross had not had a single day off from editing the site in almost 5 years!”

Makes me think that this is an account shared by many people. Since we don’t know who this person is, there is a chance that this person is really a whole organization.
I'm not so sure. I haven't done the math but I think you can strategize here: pick your #1 preference as #1 on your list... But then put the most popular school as your #2 (instead of your personal actual second preference). Odds that you end up getting picked by the algorithm for a mutually beneficial trade is high.
> If you include an image (or a font!) from somewhere else in a web page, you are causing the user's IP address to be sent to the hosting party, are you liable for sending PII if the target can link IPs to names, because they (e.g. Google) have a DB?

As an end user, I want this—if you wouldn't send my IP address to these people otherwise, wanting to show me an image or a font is not a good reason to send it.

As a web developer, I am happy to have excuses to tell my teammates that we need to rehost every asset we depend upon. It's the right thing to do for so many other reasons.

I know this makes things hard for people who have webfonts that don't allow rehosting them etc. Being able to say "We can't use this font because of GDPR unless you change your policies" sounds pretty great honestly.
Describing a naturally occurring concept and explaining why it is reasonable both seem like key steps in the process.
> white males, christians

It's not equivalent. At HN (and in the U.S. and Europe), white males and christians are strong and secure; the threat they face from discrimination is very little. They aren't going to be lynched, enslaved, deported; they won't be denied education or other public services, or be denied jobs or power (the few jobs and little power they don't already have).

Consider a room with 40 people who can't leave. 36 are blue-eyed people and 4 are green-eyed. There is a long history of many blue-eyed people enslaving, oppressing, lynching, discriminating against, and hating green-eyed people. If a green-eyed person says, 'blue-eyed people are scum and we should kill them all', they might get some looks and some people might take a few steps away, but there isn't much threat. If a blue-eyed person says it about green-eyed people ...

Or they could just say, 'don't hire green people'. Again, it's much different if the powerful or the disempowered say the same thing. Another example is if you are a woman working in SV in an entry-level job. If you say, 'we shouldn't hire men', it's just odd. If the CEO says 'we shouldn't hire women', it's a serious threat to your job.
If the bus company is owned by the government many of the issues you point to does not exist
> the unwillingness to drop C API

What are you talking about? The article is about the Python core dev group rejecting speedups that preserve C module compatibility for the sake of, uh, readability or something?
My understanding is that you can refuse to comply with erasure if it's for a "legitimate business purpose." Every company has a legitimate business purpose for backups that aren't kept indefinitely.
This is exactly what Electron / CEF is, except the tooling already exists for CEF, and there’s already a large ecosystem of libraries.
I find it interesting that platforms are liable for hosting hate speech, but individual users are not liable for creating it.

It's also interesting that Human Rights Watch has come out against the German law: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/14/germany-flawed-social-me...
NeilN isn't the abusive or sinister one here. It is the fact that KalHolmann's posts were closed on the boards that is the issue.
An exciting game of programming and Artificial Intelligence
This reminds me of the expiration dates on supermarket salt.

Data which reflects its time of creation is nearly always better than that which does not.

Numbers do not expire.
I have found that most US people are brain washed by their government. It is something that looked to me quite familiar to North Korea but worked on a different way. People in North Korea/China are brain washed by censorship. People in the US are brain washed by bombardment of information.

This makes the US a credible "free" country while it can control the people. So it can say "but hey you can say anything you want here". Well, you can. But it is worthless if nobody is listening.

The US has figured out that the censorship system is weak. If someone tries to funnel information, your system collapses. The freedom system is strong, because in order to survive your bombardment of information has to be stronger than anyone else. So it is a superior system immune to enemy attacks as long as you can keep pace.

Russia has figured that and is actively trying to move opinions using armies of online guerillas. They are basically bombarding information with their writing on different online forums.
The admin who summarily closed the conflict-of-interest report explains his motivation as follows:

« You can't amass 130,000 edits, as Philip Cross has, without being reasonably
committed to Wikipedia. You'd be noticed if you were an agenda account with
that many edits. And being attacked by RT and George Galloway is a reasonably
reliable indicator that you are doing something right. »

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JzG )

This doesn't inspire much confidence in me, because obviously it _has_ been widely noticed that "Philip Cross" is an agenda account (and it seems it was noticed already almost a decade ago: http://neilclark66.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/wally-of-week-phil... )
Same here. I realised that many articles are watched over by obsessive editors that immediately revert edits for whatever reason. Makes it hard for occasional editors and newcomers.
Airbnb’s War on Porn Stars
Montréal needs this.
You can talk about MRIs, or genes, or serotonin all day, but that doesn't mean you know what depression (or other mental state) is - using the current tools you assume you know what it is and that is the problem.

One way to measure objectively is to look at whether someone is employable and maintains employment. But that is far too low resolution and non specific. People change their mood during a day and from one day to a next, and there must be physical correlates in principle.

There is a huge human cost to the fact that nobody knows what they are doing, because they cannot relate treatment to anything objective. Sometimes a drug seems to be not working well after several years, and the dosage is raised, and all the while the side effect of the drug is what's causing the problem, so it gets worse the higher the dosage goes. In the mean time, that person becomes unable to work, and is caught in a series of catch-22s.
Ok, look at the admin who closed it --- and their talk page, where they talk more about the reason they closed the COI notice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JzG

Also no apparent connection to the topic.

There over a thousand admins on Wikipedia; most of them don't know or have any connection to each other.
> I agree with Pearl that there's something deeply misguided about thinking that intelligence truly can be solved as a data optimization problem.

When all you have is a hammer... I think we’re really thinking about the whole thing backwards, as if intelligence only comes from the cortex of the brain. I think human level intelligence is fundamentally an emotional state of being - our core lizard brain values aren’t something to be swept aside - they’re a fundamental part of real intelligence. It’s like trying to build a car starting from the body and electronics rather than the motor.
They leave the Midwest because any company they'd want to work for in that region is run with a tech averse MBA mindset by people who don't understand how to turn software into a business. In the Midwest there is a culture of anti-innovation when it comes to high tech. So when it comes time to find a fun job there is just no comparison between there and SV.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. No magic is required, only sufficient desire by those in power.

That wasn't my point, though. It was that now only governments are allowed to gather and keep this data. Granted, the breadth of what's available to them may not be as great if they're mainly recording traffic with no access to corporate servers, but even that access can be periodically arranged given sufficient desire.
Pretty Much All Tech Demos Are Fake as Hell
The Guild’s 'I’m the One That’s Cool' is the world’s greatest geek anthem
> the government of Republic of China was founded in 1912

The Republic of China is the official name of Taiwan; mainland China is The People's Republic of China.

The last Imperial dynasty, the Qing, usually is dated to have ended in 1911. There was a period of intermittent civil war and various claims to government until the Communists defeated the Nationalists in 1949.

1949 is usually given as the date of the founding of the current Chinese state. (The Nationalists fled to Taiwan, which became the Republic of China.)
Is there a legitimate reason for D3D12 to exist? It seems like just a locked-down version of Vulkan to me intended to kill cross-platform gaming (textbook Microsoft Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). I haven't heard of any advantages in performance or ease of development. But I'm certainly no expert.

Unrelated note: there's something really funky going with the comparison between the desktop and the laptop. The desktop is pretty high-end and should just obliterate that Macbook. It's seriously weird that they're so close. I'm not sure I trust the results.
You misssed the fact that he took it to ANI and was shut down there too very quickly. Frustrated with the fact that no attempt was made to deal with the matter, he, quite sensibly, concludes that it appears they are trying to protect Cross.

I should also add that the people targeted by Cross all have a fairly large audiences on Twitter, and have been vocal about this issue. Jimmy Wales is aware (he's tweeted to them, as I say in another comment, but to dismiss the matter). I, too, would conclude they were trying to protect him if I was met with that kind of response.
This will definitely be abused.
> I'm referring to his Metal timings being more than 10x slower than D3D

In my case it's the difference in hardware. DX11 results are on GTX 1080 Ti, whereas Mac are on Iris Pro on 2013 MacBookPro. > 10x performance difference between these GPUs is entirely expected.
Who is "they" and why is it sensible that they're "protecting" some random WP admin?

What seems more likely to me is that people have very legitimate concerns about Cross's POV, but aren't following WP norms in raising those concerns, and are getting shut down as a result. That's an expected outcome, not a sign of something nefarious happening.
Boy, did you just compare an open source project to a AAA commercial title?
Good news! There are 4200 more pages where that came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time
It could start with a value system rather than raw emotions - at some point it might decide that it doesn’t really want to do some work. The idea of controllability in all senses I think complicates the issue, but it’s definitely a necessary safety net.
In the early 1990's, I picked up a complete with the bookcase 1957 Encyclopedia Britannica at a yard sale for $15. Over the next decade and more it was a useful resource for historical topics in the days before the internet became what it is today...the basic scholarship of the Roman Empire, Ming vases and Howe trusses has been pretty stable for a long time. On the other hand, social and political topics usually tended to an editorial bias long past expiration even twenty years ago...let's say the phrase "spinning in his grave" is particularly appropriate for many of those Britannica authors and editors given today's events when "today" is taken literally.

Wikipedia is like any other encyclopedia, human endeavor with shortcomings, biases, and failings. It should be taken with a grain of salt where warranted, trusted as canonical elsewhere, and constitute one among many sources in other cases. For me, at least there is the relatively high degree of transparency that allows people to independently research the claims of this article theirself should they choose. That's not the case with Google's search results and those probably have more a role in my ordinary decisions than Wikipedia.

None of which is to say that this is good. Only that for me, it is a corner case...contemporary politics is an area of Wikipedia where I expect political gerrymandering and biased reporting simply due to the size of the attack surface, the nature of politics and the stakes at stake.
I donated to a research foundation, and I believe it was mainly spent on pointless experiments with rats. At the time, I didn't have a strong preference for what to fund, so I went with what was suggested to me.

But at this point, I look back and see the most important thing they ever funded was some of the early development of optogenetics. So I'm coming to believe that basic tools and measurement should get most of the available funding.

I think there's a lot of research directed at trying things at random that is just wasted. Any IT geek surely knows the difference between trying to debug something by flailing around with random theories and really buckling down and analyzing it. The latter seems slower, but it's the only way you make progress at all.
I've seen corporate IT environments with memory and CPU utilization highly under utilized. People tend to order a lot more compute power than they need because of the bureaucracy involved with getting it from another department and getting it setup. Where I was before it took at least 6 weeks to get a VM, months if you had any decent sized disk requirements.

Do a proof of concept with your top talent Linux admins to see if there are apps they can reasonably fit into containers running Linux. You may find that the server footprint to actually run things is much smaller. Start with something easy they would recommend to put on Linux w/o development time.

There are probably cyclical applications in the environment that go under heavy load at certain times but then are mostly idle other times of the year (e.g. financial apps at quarter/year end). Prime candidates for this type of thing. If you can get some container orchestration framework running, it will make scaling apps up/down easier.

Through a POC you may find a business case that will save the company some money, or you may find it is a wash. Right now you're at a point where you don't know if there is an opportunity there. Worst case is your top talent Linux admins get to have a fun project to work on.
> A) Insist on seeing everything and everyone in your house before even telling you anything.

Your browser is instructed to give away this information. Better complain to your favourite browser vendor that their browser betrays your personal data to the ad network.
You don't even need to go for Google maps - there's plenty of space in OpenStreetMap, and the tech is apparently similar.
The claim in the article seems dubious. Why would an embassy operate a stingray? More likely it's US government agencies spying on the embassies.
"Consume" for media is a wrong word. After you consume something it should be gone. You can be consumed by disease, meaning you're becoming less due to it.

Movies, books, songs are not less when you enjoy them.

Instead of saying you "consume" art, you can say you "spend time with" art.
Once ML models are routinely provided time-based features; particularly deltas between events and the 3rd derivative rate-of-change; they are going to identify some amazing causal relationships that humans are incapable of today.
If anything, it seems like more of a reason to get more active and involved with Wikipedia. Otherwise, people like this will get more and more control over the site
"Or silence may open listeners up to the unknown reality of themselves: to a universe within as infinite as the stars. With good reason, that is what humankind may be afraid of. It has taken mystics to brave it: St John of the Cross venturing into the noche oscura in which the soul meets the Lover, or the writer of the Chandogya Upanishad, 'meditating on this visible world as beginning, ending and breathing in the brahman'. Like a deep dive, engaging with silence is an act of faith."

Beautiful.

There are some amazing western teachers who teach how to experience this, such as:

Eckhart Tolle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtuiEDBKgBU
Can we interpret have as can obtain?

Do a geolookup, you have my approximate location.

Do a Google search for my IP address and you'll have my name.
This seems closer to the truth, otherwise why sputnik and rt would care.
Citation? That wasn't mentioned in the WP29 draft guidance I read.
This is a really, really great article. Shame it didn't get on HN 2 years ago.

For anyone interested in the history of databases, as the author eluded to, it began with graph databases first (called Navigational Databases), and then SQL came in and actually ruined the approach and performance (despite people thinking SQL databases were designed for storage constraints, that didn't come until later after the relational model had been more developed). If you want to learn more about this history, I did a talk out in Italy (later recorded on a web cast) about it here: https://vimeo.com/208899228/b9bc9eaaa4
The expression is defining a type named func_type whose type value corresponds to the return type of the member function named func() in the given type.
What’s Missing in EUV?
Said admin also wrote «As long as you don't request community-imposed sanctions posting at WP:COIN is fine.», and I observe that the KaiHolmann's posting there did not request community-imposed sanctions.
Maybe that editor is Philip Cross?