skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The battery swap thing I think is based on the idea that to be successful electric cars have to be an exact match of gasoline one.

I think battery swap doesn't make sense for passenger cars because as the guy said once you hit 200 miles of range charging isn't an issue. And having to stop and charge for an hour and a half every three hours on a long distance trip isn't the end of the world. Especially since you could roll those into lunch and dinner stops.

But likely makes some sense for large trucks.
Having your vehicle's energy come from an efficient natural gas plant is much more preferable than burning gasoline and spewing PM 2.5 into city centers.
This is also helpful if you are a spendthrift. Simply set %X to money that you are going to save. Put it someplace which will take at least a few days to access.
We have lots of crows here in Norway where I live but not the problem that Japan has. I suspect that part of the reason is that we do not leave rubbish in plastic bags on the street. Food waste goes into a solid plastic wheelie bin with a substantial lid.
how is interpretation of the law not a problem with any law that was in effect before GDPR. It didn't stop anybody from starting businesses before and will not after.
How hazardous would igniting the fuel-shell be? How much larger do the engines have to be, if they have to be at all, to consume two different types of fuel?
> that Clean PowerSF program? not voluntary in the sense you can opt out of it.

It's opt-in-by-default for new accounts as they're rolling it out neighborhood by neighborhood, but you can still opt-out of it.
Yes, and baseline power plants will be burning fuel no matter what. Might as well put them to some use.
Why isn't Facebook competing more actively in this market? It seems that the data they have access to is better suited for this scenario.
First of all, censorship is censorship. It's not an exploit or a bug, it's a purposeful set of laws, policies or regulations meant to restrict the use of something. DNS over HTTPS "improving security" in a censorship context is the same as saying that when a corporate web proxy prevents you from going to PornHub, circumventing that proxy is "improving security". And btw, circumventing censorship may be illegal, or at the very least against official policies.

It's also not a security feature because you don't need this to protect against cache poisoning, as DNSSEC already does that.
Can you name an example of a Google product that you invested time in and then was later deprecated, without saying Google Reader?
Academic research. Or prototyping where you want higher performance than Python.

For anything else that requires long-term maintainability and has a business or someone's job depending on it, Julia is a risky choice to make. Few, if any, large organizations have done so yet, and usually don't want to go first.

Well after 1.0, if Julia Computing (who employ almost all of the core developers) is on sustainable financial footing and any large organizations have made investments into adopting and supporting Julia, it might make some sense for non-academic use cases.
You're talking about different types of promotion. `Int32 + Int32` did once upon a time give an `Int64` on 64-bit systems. However, that was true regardless of the values of those integers—it was entirely predictable from their types alone. The type of promotion that's being talked about here is promoting `Int + Int` to `BigInt` but only when the
values being added are too big to be stored in an `Int`. Julia has never done that.
I use it daily for all of my development work (Ocaml, Python, LaTeX, vim, emacs, and a host of other tools, including X11 apps). It is the single biggest reason I was able to ditch my 2017 MacBook Pro a year ago for a Surface Book 2 after ~20 years of mac laptops and Lenovos running linux. I couldn't work with the terrible clacky keyboard they introduced - it didn't malfunction for me, I just loathed how it felt and sounded. Occasional friction when bouncing between apps on the Linux side and the Windows side sharing files, but as long as I work in /mnt/c/Users/USERNAME/ from the Linux side it isn't too bad.

I don't buy the "I've used OSX for so long I can't possibly adapt my workflow to Windows" argument. It took me a few days to get used to the new idioms, but it wasn't that bad. Then again, I've been pretty OS agnostic for my career - Irix, SunOS/Solaris, Linux, OSX, and now Windows+WSL. Other than the part of my career when I was doing systems research and had to care about OS-specific details (e.g., writing Linux kernel modules), I haven't really found it hard to adapt to new environments and be happily productive.
I posted this above, but the old maximum fine from the ICO was £500k which was never used. The same people worried about being put out of business by the $20M max I guess were okay with close to the ~$750k max? For a lone website operator the new maximum is effectively no different than before.

https://government.diginomica.com/2017/08/10/ico-maximum-fin...
Linkedin is the same. Skype kind of sucks.
Presidential elections can't be proportional, true, but they could be made less polarizing. The goal should be consensus, the election of a candidate acceptable to the vast majority of the population, not someone loved by 51% but loathed by the other 49%.
California bans state workers from traveling to yet another state (9 in total)
Culture can persist despite replacing all employees over time.
Wouldn't all these investors be considered accredited investors and thus be expected to make their own assessments and take their own risks?
I'm not enthused about the idea of Github being bought. But on what grounds do you suspect that the Microsoft of the 90s is just lurking, like a conscious spirit, to reveal itself after a decade?

CEO Nadella started working at Microsoft in 1992, but the executives who coined and lived the EEE phrase are all out. Is Nadella a sleeper agent? If not, what entity at Microsoft will subvert his leadership?
I think this is a bit far fetched, but I like the idea of something similar. Have rental stations with trailer hitch gas generators that I can pull along for longer rides. Turns every EV into a Chevy Volt.
You could define it by volume or weight of package.

Package-carrying bikes can take a surprising amount. https://www.carvelo.ch/de/private/modelle/data/51.php

Anything that can be carried by a bicycle courier, must be. Anything else, <6am or >9pm (for example).
You can use an ironing board as a standing desk. It is useful for hotels!
Facebook, Uber, and Wells Fargo are playing "I'm sorry, we're trying to be better now" ads on TV. During one playoff game they all played in the same ad segment! Is this the first big wave of apology ads? I can't recall ever seeing ads like these before.
i don't think it's nonsense exactly. i think it merits some funding, and we'll probably be glad we did it even if it turns out there never was a risk of an unfriendly superintelligence.

but I have misgivings. in particular, the idea that marginal charitable dollars ought to be used to fund philosophers to think abstract thoughts is very counterintuitive!

(every argument that it's THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD seems to have the same form. first give me a bunch of weird historical and metaphysical assumptions, then make me admit I'd assign them a finite probability of being true, then multiply by a kajillion future simulated lives or whatever.)

most of the philosophers who research this stuff, and most of the people involved in Effective Altruism, are part of the same niche subculture. i don't think this is a grift, I think they are quite honest in their convictions. but it makes me go "hmmmmm".
I hope they don't innovate that much. It seems everytime they do, the designs gets worse and worse.
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A refinement of this idea: every voter gets to vote once for one candidate on their birthday. Any candidate with >=N unexpired votes maintains a seat.
What about not buying a new car? My wife bought a pretty decent one for 5k.

But public transportation is better of course. Make it electric while you are at it.
Wonder if it'll get content like https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor

Nextdoor is a hive of NIMBYism.
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We use a blend of Elixir/OTP, Scala/Akka, Ruby/Rails (API, migrations), and Ember, alongside Kafka, Postgres, and Redis to build a Manufacturing Execution System which listens to signals from machines used in manufacturing, and writes back to them to track parts and control manufacturing processes. There are many interesting features to tackle, and a good start on the v2 architecture with many small elixir apps interacting through kafka (via command and event topics). Scala is used for individual part tracking on a model of the physical process route.

The domain is physical, and is a great fit for event driven systems and domain driven design. We talk about things in terms of aggregates, commands and events more or less daily. The code is well covered. It is a small company so we have a few opportunities in terms of process maturity but generally the technical approaches are reasonable.

The company is young but bootstrapped and profitable and growing with substantial equity available for really strong hires. We have some very smart people kicking around as is common in my experience in startups that end up turning out pretty well. I was working at Google for a bit - I'm trying to bring examples from my experiences there into the culture here as we grow.

I worked here on contract and flipped to full time on seeing the equity package, problem space, and rate of growth. It's a good opportunity with smart people in an interesting technical space.

I'm currently hoping to fill a spot for one of those ember/ruby/elixir people (any 2 would be good). I come from a more functional background with scala but I think with the current technology having 2 of 3 of ember/ruby/elixir would be good.

Strong Scala or FP candidates would also be welcome to come if they're alright trying on dynamic typing in elixir as there is a lot of work to be done squarely in elixir and scala right now. You'd be able to pick up rails easily enough for what it's used for.

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And in the end, it's still going to be used.
Interesting that ~30,000 was also the number of Athenian citizens. The US framers aimed to avoid some of the problems of their system, but this is also evidence that that number is not unworkable.
>It is more natural to talk about primality as a test that can be done independent of any assumptions about other primes, but rather as a matter of whether it can be expressed as the multiple of some number other than 1 and itself

This is clearly not what I was doing. I clearly referred to having no smaller prime factors. Anyway this aside is tiresome, it's like poking me for saying "every positive integer has a prime factorization" and then asking, okay, so what about 1 or something. I think my proof is fine and I'm not going to defend it anymore.
Telemetry is bad, forced updates is not.
How Much Redundancy Is Too Much Redundancy? [pdf] (2017)
> All in all, I felt like it was a good trade.

Well, it's a good trade until Frontier decides to use that additional room to cram in more rows of seats. Which they will do, sooner or later. And then you'll have just as little leg room as before and a less comfortable seat. Gotta love the race to the bottom.
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I get your point, and somewhat agree, but I think it's important to remember that the two (feature updates to Terminal and Notes vs. stability/performance/etc.) aren't typically mutually exclusive; the developer that would implement Markdown support in Notes isn't likely the same developer that would be implementing performance/stability enhancements to the core of the OS.
Huh? How does that affect the argument for effective altruism (which is essentially just mean-variance optimization applied to charity, and says nothing about what expected value you ought to believe about any given charity, nor what personal tolerance for risk you should have, apart from summaries of how certain other groups have come to believe about those topics)?

The original comment was the one that brought up "morally repugnant" choices in investing. That's what brought in relative value judgments. I was trying to ask how it differs from simply disagree with someone else's assessment of the evidence.

If Person A evaluated the evidence and sincerely believe you should give $3 to X and $2 to Y, based on empirical outcome optimization, they are using the EA framework.

Person B might look at the same evidence and believe you should give $5 to X and $0 to Y, but that hardly makes Person A "morally repugnant" (which might be Person B's unrelated moral judgment) nor does it make their choices fall outside the scope of the EA framework of decision-making.

As far as people disagreeing with posterior distribution over the goal-maximizing choices after seeing the same evidence, this would ideally fall under something like Aumann's Agreement Theorem (of course with the exception that people are not fully rational, Bayesian agents).

Given that, there is some expectation that if both parties are really rational and have the same value of goals, then they ought to come to the same conclusions given the same evidence.

But if they don't have the same goals (e.g. maybe you just happen to care more about animal welfare than me), then the EA framework doesn't say anything about you and I having the same investment priorities.

Really, popular EA press is mostly just saying, "Look, we take value judgment X on issues A, B, and C. If you agree and you start from the same value judgment we do, then based on the following evidence, we believe it's optimal to invest in foo, etc."

It seems like you're saying that it's not possible for two different people, *both making decisions in the effective altruism framework" could come to different beliefs about what to invest money into.

But there's no part of EA that requires that for two agents with different value judgments at the start.
The guilty flee where none pursueth. You'll note my original post was carefully non-partisan. Your rush to bring conservative talking points into the discussion suggests some kind of bias, or perhaps a guilty conscience.
Absolutely right - imagine the streets with walkways, gardens, kiosks, playgrounds, etc. The NY Highline concept could spread throughout the city.
Yes, this is a common complaint from relay operators. Running relays at home, or on work networks, is risky.
How to read source code without ripping your hair out
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I don't think there's much of a problem with that. The thing is, the danger from AI weapons is that they will be dumb as bricks and cause unprecedented levels of collateral damage- not that they will somehow take over the world for their evil overlord owners.
Polyethylene is more or less inert under atmospheric conditions.
But as an employee why should I like what the management wants, I think is your duty to speak if you consider that management does something bad and resign if you don't want to participate. My goal is not to make money for my boss/company, I personally get satisfaction when our customers are happy. If Google management does not like developers with this kind of ideals they should say it in their recruitment announcement that you should be OK with working with the military and spy agencies.
I watched a debate involving William Macaskill last summer and he poses the hypothetical question:

"You are outside a burning building and are told that inside one room is a child and inside another is a painting by Picasso. You can save one of them. To do the most good, which do you choose?"

The point he's trying to illustrate is that, if you knew for certain that you could turn around and sell the Picaso for millions and use that money to purchase malaria bed nets, the expected number of lives saved by using the Picaso could be hundreds, and so there's a moral dilemma present.

Like many hypothetical questions, this one feels a bit "off" or "unrealistic", but if you don't get hung up on the oddities, I think one can sense the essence of his question, and it reminded me of the point you're making here as well as a responder's question asking you why you think the way you do.

I do think these questions are hard for us to wrap our heads around -- how to value high probability immediacy against somewhat uncertain non-proximal/non-immediate things that might be "much higher value". Part of my human brain goes splat when I try to weigh these things.

In terms of the moral dilemma with the painting, I do have quite a bit of sympathy for the argument that one should do what they feel will produce the most good, which might be to save the painting and purchase malaria nets. My father on the other hand seemed to believe that to be absolutely morally wrong, which seems to be siding with your sentiments. Practically speaking, I think I'd almost certainly save the child's life, because one's human impulses would be so strong that they would override any high-and-lofty-rationality, and one wouldn't have time anyway to do deep analysis. But the question in a hypothetical sense does seem quite valid and hard.
They used to allow far more data portability/access and that's exactly what got them in trouble (Cambridge Analytica).
They can stop updating the Github web interface and put all development efforts on a new Github for Windows Store UWP app.
Then we'll have fewer weapons at our disposal for fighting our many fruitless and stupid proxy wars around the world.
That's an interesting idea. Someone could get a subscription of $30/month for unlimited access to portalable batteries. Along the route if the car runs low just pick one up at a convicent location, put it in the back and keep on driving. Once the car is charged simply return the portable battery at another drop off location.
My comment is going to be unpopular, and I'll admit my bias upfront: I think Yudkowsky is a crank, and is neither a psychology nor an AI expert (he's a self-proclaimed expert, but he's not actually engaged in academic research on AI, because of reasons).

His "experiment" is hard to control or reproduce, its goals are ill-defined, its results are hidden (really, which sort of experiment hides its results and merely asks us to have faith the result was positive?). He makes a lot of unwarranted assumptions, like "a transhuman mind will likely be able to convince a human mind" (why? where is the scientific or psychological evidence that a superior mind must necessarily be able to convince inferior minds of arbitrary things? This is a huge, unwarranted assumption right there).

This kind of psychological experiments -- because this is what they really are, rather than about AI -- are really hard to conduct properly, its results hard to interpret and difficult to reproduce even for subject matter experts, which Yudkowsky isn't. This one looks like it was designed by an amateur who happens to be a fan of sci-fi.
And if you should receive a call that a member of your family was in an accident and at the hospital in critical condition... "Sure ok I'll be there this evening."
If the Department of Defense primarily concerned itself with national defense, as opposed to political games on the other side of the world, that 'cabal' would probably have fewer members.

Two oceans, a navy, and thousands of nuclear weapons are the national defense of the United States. The rest is empire-building.
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I had tried 2 different routers and got the same result, including bypassing the router at one point, and I even ran my router's WAN through a wireless hotspot on my phone at one point and saw the problem stop.
Well, fuel also has an efficiency loss. You have to transport it. In most cases, this requires trucks. They are less efficient the farther they have to go.
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Can you just include a little checkbox in the mouse settings that lets me reverse mouse scroll independently from the touch pad's two-finger scroll without having to pay for an app?

That'd be swell.
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We are also a founder-led team generating millions of dollars in revenue and "control our destiny" from a VC point of view, while growing well. We have recently hired a fantastic new CTO and are building up our engineering and product teams to further innovate and drive the value and utility of Burner to our users, while also exploring other opportunities. We are hiring a Senior Android Developer (Java/Kotlin) and a Senior Mobile Product Manager focused on Growth to join our team. We will also review strong candidates from other disciplines warmly.

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