skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has always been showing captchas when using their search engine for quiet a long time (even for VPN users). In fact they were even straight blocking users from using that very same captcha: https://bugs.torproject.org/23840
One day to accept a job offer seems extremely short. If someone gives me one day to accept a job offer, chances are I'm still interviewing elsewhere and will decline unless it's my primary choice.
> I think it's absolutely morally repugnant to walk past them and not give them money, because instead you're paying people to sit around thinking about AI.

This is not a new argument. Sister Mary Jucunda, a Zambian nun, wrote to a NASA scientist (Ernst Stuhlinger) in the early 70's with a similar critique of funding for space research.

You can read Ernst's cogent reply here: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

My favorite excerpt follows:

> About 400 years ago, there lived a count in a small town in Germany. He was one of the benign counts, and he gave a large part of his income to the poor in his town. This was much appreciated, because poverty was abundant during medieval times, and there were epidemics of the plague which ravaged the country frequently. One day, the count met a strange man. He had a workbench and little laboratory in his house, and he labored hard during the daytime so that he could afford a few hours every evening to work in his laboratory. He ground small lenses from pieces of glass; he mounted the lenses in tubes, and he used these gadgets to look at very small objects. The count was particularly fascinated by the tiny creatures that could be observed with the strong magnification, and which he had never seen before. He invited the man to move with his laboratory to the castle, to become a member of the count's household, and to devote henceforth all his time to the development and perfection of his optical gadgets as a special employee of the count.

> The townspeople, however, became angry when they realized that the count was wasting his money, as they thought, on a stunt without purpose. "We are suffering from this plague," they said, "while he is paying that man for a useless hobby!" But the count remained firm. "I give you as much as I can afford," he said, "but I will also support this man and his work, because I know that someday something will come out of it!"

> Indeed, something very good came out of this work, and also out of similar work done by others at other places: the microscope. It is well known that the microscope has contributed more than any other invention to the progress of medicine, and that the elimination of the plague and many other contagious diseases from most parts of the world is largely a result of studies which the microscope made possible.

I think there are many parallels between AI/ML and the microscope, and I think safety research is a very reasonable inquisitive lens for developing these new technologies.
You're not obligated to be a jerk. There's absolutely nothing this person can do about the fact that they didn't address this before now, so why bring it up? Just to scold? Helpful.
You're absolutely right. It really is just a tax cut.

However, what you call something and how you structure impacts how people react to it. Call it wages and spread it over time and people react one way. Call it a bonus and hand it out once a year and people behave differently. So while it may be more correct to call it a negative income tax, this may work against the intended economic effects.
The problem is we don't all agree about what "outrageous prices" are, and courts are unlikely to conclude that anything that matches standard industry practices is "outrageous".

The cost of complying with the GDPR nightmare letter, for the average large company that's not designed around the ability to comply with it, is likely to involve multiple engineers for several months digging out the data - if not a large internal redesign to make it even possible to dig out the data. It is not outrageous that the cost of doing that work is objectively going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. And end users aren't going to pay for that.

So the question is whether we think that it's worth it to society to cause companies to figure it out anyway, or not. If we don't, we don't need a law at all; we just let companies carry on as they are now. If we do, then we should give incentives to design your company right from the start, to minimize data collected, etc.
The acceleration is very slow, annoyingly so IMHO, but you can augment it by pushing with your foot.
Segways go as fast as bikes, are about the same size as bikes, so it make sense to just apply the rules of bikes to segways.

Of course they are motorized, so if there are special rules for slow, motorized bikes, then those should apply to segways.
> The margins on the Model 3 must still pay for a cost structure that legacy carmakers don’t have, including planned factory expansions, new automation investments [...]

What kind of voodoo accounting theory is this? No, R&D costs don't "have to" be covered by profit, they're bets against future earnings. That's the whole notion behind the idea of "investment" securities, the stock market, venture finance, corporate bond sales...

I mean, it's possible to do an analysis such that the margin, expected sales growth and reasonable efficiency improvements combine to a product that's a net loss. It happens. But this isn't it.

The numbers as they are say the Model 3 is a profitable car (assuming they can get production ramped, of course).
Not immediately, but I feel that as those protocols become more ubiquitous, _maybe_ the base Tor transport protocol (for nodes which aren't bridges) might be able to benefit from some of the same upgrades by using them?

I don't know how much (if at all) it might help—but other, similar overlay networks have previously noticed that (intuitively) inefficiency in the transport protocol is likely to be (broadly speaking) multiplied by the number of hops; so any improvements in that might be useful in improving the user experience by using the same available resources more efficiently.

What that might mean for Tor's perceived speed is a somewhat murky issue, as that's a function of the complex interaction of latency and bandwidth and crypto and routing overhead of all the involved nodes in a tunnel put together; which of course is also shared with other tunnels; not to mention it will _also_ be particularly affected by exit node outproxy bandwidth; _and_ any possible packet loss and delay caused by both incidental _and_ deliberate adverse network conditions…
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Does a Segway really take more space than a bike? Bikes are big. Like really big. They're far longer than a human is long, they carry momentum and cannot start or stop quickly, and they have a very wide turning radius so they can't maneuver around obstacles easily, which just increases their actual size. Meanwhile Segways, being electric, can start and stop on a dime, and can rotate in place to maneuver around obstacles.

I think the problem with Segways isn't their size, its their difficulty of operation. People bumbling around on Segways is the problem, not their size. Their size isn't really any wider than a average person's shoulder width. The average male shoulder width is 18.5", Segway is 25", which coincidentally is the same width as the average bike handlebars. Meanwhile a bicycle is as long as an average human is tall.
But who has to opt in, the person taking the picture, the person uploading the picture, any and all people in the picture?
Well, you know, wherever your friends are, that's the one you need.
> Ok well thanks to a few recessions

I'm interested in this guy's[0][1] approach to take most of the downside risk out of recessions/bear markets/crashes compared to buy-and-hold. Basically, start with a diversified portfolio, and when any of them closes below their monthly 12mo moving average, sell it and buy treasuries.

I'm sure there are thousands of more sophisticated models out there, but the nice thing about this is its simplicity - minimal management, just rebalance once a month according to a single rule and forget about it. Looks like it works well, backtested against lots of historical market data sets.

[0] http://michaelritger.com/2017/10/19/tactical-asset-allocatio...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnNGuo5ywg
It’s also possible that there was a different adaptation that happened at the same time that was more important and that external testicles weren’t necessarily good enough to stick around, but rather not bad enough to ditch!
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They can, as can other pedestrians, and even a little chihuahua dog can trip someone and kill them... But bike-bike and bike-pedestrian deaths are so rare that they make front page news (and in SF, the Bucchere case from 15 years ago is always brought up when people want to point out how dangerous bikes are).

Yet cars kill about 20 people a year in SF, and people just shrug and ignore it.
Considering how diverse and complex the portfolio a politician has to decide on you can't really upfront know what you are voting for. I am fine if my rep deviates from party line if there is some thought behind it. Actually i prefer it that way,
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Your example is an example.

Seems silly to use a word in a sense opposite what it literally means for emphasis. But whatever you enjoy.
that's not a "dark pattern", there's always a shipping fee. it's how literally every e-commerce site works. have you ever used the internet before?

if you decided to assume that shipping would be free despite no evidence to suggest it would be, that's on you.
every time I go back to continental Europe and suddenly have to carry around huge amounts of cash with me. Because nobody accepts cards

You must be going to the wrong areas in Europe. Literally, everywhere I go (France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands in the past 6 months alone) cards are accepted.
"Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari", now streaming on Amazon Prime.

An interesting founder, a few false starts, business-minded people who successfully take things to the next level but don't understand the need to continuously make your own products obsolete, and the eventual fall as technology marches on.

Interviews with the main players, including talking about their mistakes and flaws.
While I think the parent was referring to how much a company would need to spend to buy off enough reps for their legislation, it is a valid point that increasing the current $100M or so we currently spend on these guys by 2 orders of magnitude would eat a lot of the national budget. Then again, it would also lower unemployment.
> I know many of my own frustrations came from the fork that is Tor.

What are your frustrations with the Tor Browser?
I had a personal impression that the PDF which was supposedly internal and then released into a publicly accessible host was more substantial than the book, which was disappointing. There were a couple of value-addeds that let me know that if Dalio's honest, then I'm going in the right direction - like using a cognitive assistant to coordinate my thinking. Yet there's a lot of implementation-level blanks to be filled which require some searching to find adequate procedural advice.

But you're right all around. There probably wouldn't be anything that will severely compromise a trade since to build up the model towards that trade, even if it follows some vaguely general learning procedure like Ray espouses, will have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars of labor costs and would have millions of dollars of opportunity costs on the line if people got in on the action. Why risk it?
I suspect, but don't know for sure, that most charities experience diminishing marginal utility for each dollar received after some point. Therefore if people give too much to a single charity, it's rank will fall. If there is not diminishing utility, you would have a utility monster[1], which would cause the problem you pointed out.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster
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They are not one and the same - there is still the _presumption_ of innocence when being found not guilty. Not guilty means that you were not _proven_ to be guilty, not that you have been proven to be innocent. You are equally not guilty even if it's pretty clear you did it but there is not quite enough prove, or if proven you didn't do it. You are free from liability under the law, but you are not necessarily factually innocent.

Incidentally, this is largely why Scots law verdicts of acquittal -- "not guilty" and "not proven" -- reflecting the two standards of not guilty. "Not proven" carries the implication that the jury is not convinced of the defendant's innocent, but there is not enough evidence for conviction.
Why does the CEO of Givewell need to live in SF?
Just use some cheap VPN service in front of your Tor/Firefox browser (which most people should do in any case) and you're good to go.
Let's rename JavaScript to JNOScript, as in "JNO's Not Oracle". Pronounced "JunoScript".
Linkedin is even worse, imo. Go to any random company page and it'll show you a page, asking you to login. Refresh it again and it'll show you the page, without asking you to login.
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As long as recruiters recognize it.
> communists, anarchists, facists, theocrats, and hippies

I would think all those groups together would only make what, max 20% of the US electorate? In a proportional system, they would still be a minority of the Parliament. And the internal disagreements within that minority of the representatives would prohibit them from joining forces and using even their 20% of the power. The rest 80% could mostly just ignore those fringe groups.
> But I thought Trump couldn't be bought

As it turns out, the surface area for attack is much greater.
What proportion of HN readers hold TSLA stock...
I think Mozilla should look at using Servo instead of Gecko in this mode along with a new JavaScript interpreter written in Rust, at least optionally, since perfect security is essential when using a Tor browser without a dedicated VM.
"A call for"..

How do you call for that on an unmoderated platform? Or do you think they should have a mod sit there and curate it for your tastes? Or automated software that keeps everything PC? I'm curious how "calling for " is in any way different than praying?
Why not just "JS"? It no longer stands for anything. It's just two letters.
survival of the fittest, the sexual dimorphism of humans and ingrained tribalism should make it fairly obvious that conflict between groups was common
This looks more like astronomy domain rather than astrology.
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I’d just dive in and place bets know how to learn from my experiences. I wrote about how to do that in my book, which is largely about how to convert mistakes into learned principles that work, and how to save these principles and use them in computers so that your thinking is not constrained by your brain’s capacity to juggle a lot of things at the same time.

There is no better learning than that which comes from experiences and quality reflections on those experiences. It doesn’t matter whether you do it at a hedge fund, or any other place, but I would recommend that you do it around other smart people who help you brainstorm on the best answer.
Once I had to work remotely over 2g cell phone. Using remote terminal was too painful due to huge latencies approaching 1s. What worked surprisingly well was to work on a local copy of files in a local editor and then to run command remotely I would prefix them with a script that I aliased like rc. The script rsyncs first the tree to the remote host and then run the command there. These days for much simpler setup I use lsyncd to sync file trees and then the rc command just runs the command over ssh.
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Wouldn't call assembly programming "highly verbose". If anything it's opposite - very little boilerplate, if at all.
Glad I'm not the only one, I noticed what felt like the same thing.

Mildly funny: http://instantshare.win/4l78fj71b0j5.png.
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To be fair, the majority of the stackoverflow questions on how to speed up julia are from people brand new to the language coming from Python or whatever. Its relatively easy to optimize julia code, but I think its understandable that someone fresh out of Python might struggle for a little while to get all the performance benefits one might expect.

Especially when you consider what would result from that same user spending that same amount of effort trying to learn C.
GDPR is trying to push a change in society's norms regarding privacy. The value of that change cannot be meaningfully measured by multiplying the "value" of one person's privacy by the number of people; there are effects that happen at scale that don't happen when you change privacy/data handling for an individual person for an individual company. And it's definitely unclear that the ability of any individual to pay for their data is a meaningful measure of that value; among other things, it can't be resold without destroying it.

Imagine if a city with no roads, with just human-width sidewalks between skyscrapers. The cost of moving all the skyscrapers to fit even a single road is enormous; no single driver would be willing to pay it for the incremental benefit of being able to drive. Would you say that this means that rationally the society should never build roads?