skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False signalling is an issue, but that's hardly novel. Mimicry, imitation, camoflage, and other forms of disguise and deception are found in nature.

There's the matter of taking what had been very strongly analogue, that is, analogous, forms of recordmaking and turning them into mediated forms: static images, audio, and video. But that is merely a regression to the status quo ante of preindustrial times. The magic of photography, tape, and film were that these, more or less, faithfully recorded what was before the lens or the microphone. We're returning to a period that bears more in common with the age of human testimony, at least in terms of its level of mediation. That is: you have to trust in the testifier. The distinction in the quantity (and detail) of the images presented is not as in earlier times.

It's the fact that communications cycles and volumes are so much greater though that reduces the reliance on trust, in ways I'm starting to suspect are more substantive than is generally appreciated.

There are several histories of corporate communications, where this trends appears, to an extent. James R. Beniger's The Control Revolution (1986 or thereabouts) and JoAnne Yates, Control Through Communciation (2005) are two of which I'm aware. The role of trust isn't central to either, but it's touched on.
The abstraction works well for everyone: communicate thoughtfully with deep intention and understanding. Do all you can to know the perspective and interpretations that your audience will have and work diligently to express things both clearly and compassionately.

For example, think about how much good could be achieved if the knowledge of people that the advertising industry holds were used exclusively to present only messages truly in the listeners' best interest and with real compassion.

To reword my abstraction: be mindful and compassionate in everything you communicate and always seek the best expert sources in improving your communication skills.
Pretty huge developments happen all the time. People generally want there to be jobs though, which I think is the bigger problem if you tried to do it in an undeveloped region.
That also shows why the "repeat the verb again" can be more confusing. At least it wasn't "Cancel this action?" "Cancel" "Cancel"

On the other hand, I think Yes or No are clearly an answer to "Cancel this action?"
When I was building a simple parser, realized I was making a state machine and used a regex instead. Generally, having some estimates of feasibility; I was once asked to solve an NP-complete problem.
Trump is a danger to America.

What is incredible is how transparent his motivations are. As a real-estate mogul, he no doubt stands to gain quite a lot from an official policy of looking the other way with regards to asbestos.
Amazon doesn't add the items to their inventory. Someone who has one to sell (a VENDOR) lists the item for sale with Amazon. If it is "Fulfilled by Amazon", that just means that the vendor sent the item to one of Amazon's warehouse, and then Amazon send the item to the buyer after the sale.

If it isn't "Fulfilled by Amazon", when the item is sold, the vendor ships the item directly to the customer.
Thank you! I was not looking for anything in particular. Julia's design is everything I've been craving from a language; good performance seemed too good to be true. Due to never having worked on large systems, my judgement is of limited use. Your feedback convinced me to take a serious look at Julia. Looking into the discussions regarding Julia's implementation (so cool that they are easily accessible on GitHub/Discourse) convinced me to commit to learning it.

EDIT: grammar
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Are people even bothered by the news that someone had drugs? It is not like the 90s, everyone has moved on and accepted that some people do drugs. Those raids only piss people off about how their tax money is being wasted. People get burglarized and police say there is no time to investigate and then you read that after months of operation police raided a home and found some weed. This is just not on.
"Microsoft makes much more money from Android than Windows Phone. Every time you buy an Android smartphone or tablet, Microsoft is likely receiving $5 to $15. They likely make at least $2 billion per year from Android."

https://www.howtogeek.com/183766/why-microsoft-makes-5-to-15...
Why Microsoft Makes $5 to $15 From Every Android Device Sold
Is it profitable to simply show up to public and semipublic advents and take a bunch of shots then email and mail them to related publications?
Slip Coaches: Back When British Express Trains Detached Passenger Cars at Speed
VSCode and the whole open source organization around it is super cool in my opinion.

TypeScript and C# are great tools too.
If someone reads an opinion piece and changes their mind, is that not thinking?

Also, what you're saying is your opinion, are you trying to get people on your side? Is your goal in writing a comment here today is to stop people from thinking?
When you say "culture backwater" are you referring the the fact that the Space Coast has the highest ratio of engineers to population in the US, or b/c it just not near a major city?
If you assume that people tend to consider all options before making a choice, putting the primary action on the right makes sense. If you put the primary action on the left, a user will see it first, but then read on to look at the other options. Once all options have been considered, the user has to go back to click the first option. If the primary action is last, the user can immediately click it once all options have been seen.
Canada using Excel function for immigration lottery
Summit node CPUs can access GPU memory coherently and unified memory allows for a single pointer across all processors. On most systems that involves page faults migrating pages, but summit has something called ATS that allows GPU to directly access all system memory.

https://vimeo.com/262870773/recommended
The article makes an oblique reference to it, but it's worth noting that Fred Rogers graduated from a theological Seminary and his television show was his Presbyterian ministry. Mr Rogers is at the same time a sort of stereotypical Christian character (imagine
The Simpsons' Flanders without the satirical comedy aspects) and also not the image of a Christian minister that we usually see in the mainstream media and popular culture.

Mr Rogers may be most intentionally-Christian cultural influence that wasn't widely noticed as "Christian", in the lives of millions of people -- for both many people who don't think Christianity is a part of their lives as well as for many people who do.

I write this not to proselytize or to suggest that you should become Christian if you respect Mr Rogers, but as a reminder that the image you have in your mind of an X (for whatever X that is a large weakly-connected community) should not generalize to all X, and some very X-ey people might not look X-ey at all.

The article also shows that there is often a lot of hard work and educated insight behind things that look very simple and basic.
But was he right? Was this best? A lot of research from the 50s turned out to be bad. The article doesn’t help us out here.
For what it's worth, the seats in my Model 3 are the most comfortable car seats I think I've ever sat on. The seats didn't really influence my decision to purchase, but they've sure influenced my satisfaction with the car.
> How many men cared about women having the vote?

> How many American citizens cared about freeing the slaves?

> How many people cared about the rights of black Americans in the 1950s?

How many?

From my understanding it was in most cases a significant minority. Significantly larger than the opposition.
Suicide by cop is not uncommon. Even if you're not seriously suicidal, just severely depressed, I suspect that it can be tempting. In my experience, I'm too ineffectual when severely depressed enough to consider suicide. But faced with someone with a gun, all it takes is threatening them. I recall relatively recent video of a young woman who was killed after she charged a cop. At the entrance of a university parking garage.
> Are these people born with "only allowed to work as a car driver" stamped on their forehead?

Did you see what I said about poverty traps? Once someone is stuck, it's very challenging to break out without outside help.

> The difficulties of moving between industries are real, I'll acknowledge them and say maybe there is a role for the government to facilitate this aspect. However, as a practical point, I don't think governments generally do. When we as a society decide who is responsible for employees moving between industries, we basically have to choose between this being the employers problem, this being the individuals problem or this being someone else's problem. I'm very happy to contend that, even though it is not very fair, the person who has the most control is the individual and they are the only one who is ultimately responsible for themselves.

Personally, I'd like to see free or heavily subsidized public adult education. There is no need to regulate unethical employment practices when laborers have the freedom to seek employment elsewhere - the market can sort it out. But we need freedom of horizontal movement first.
Sounds great! Titusville is super cheap.
It is correct that asbestos that is encapsulated and not releasing anything into the atmosphere is perfectly safe. It's not like it's radioactive. The problem is when you do any kind of renovations and break up and release the asbestos particles. Unfortunately, asbestos removal does exactly that. If it's not done properly it turns a safe situation into a health risk. And proper removal is expensive. A low-cost bid for asbestos removal is more than likely going to leave you with a bigger mess than you had to start with.
The problem is in the verbiage of the question. A person writing a dialog should consider "Cancel" something like a reserved word in a programming language.
>I realize that’s a totally subjective statement but I was surprised by some of the reactions I heard about it.

Agreed. I think a lot of it just came down to performance. Unity was ahead of it’s time, and a lot of people just didn’t have the hardware to handle it with zero lag.
No, I read the article. That's how I was able to directly quote an example of a dialog where not all of the buttons are verbs.
No. Genders could be reversed and it would work the same.
> It's a bit sad (at least for me) to admit, but I think some programs helped shaped me into the person I'm today,

Why is that sad? This the large purpose of culture, of art and literature.
As is apparent here, most (software) engineers can only understand things as linear models.
OpenGL was not removed. It was deprecated. These are very different things.
Found as users -- and Shuttleworth himself -- of the Linux desktop...

Good grief. Presumably that should be "Fond as users... are of the Linux desktop"...
That subsystem is too slow. It just feels kludgy. I want my things in my home directory, I don't want 2 or more locations to have files. That is why I will always run Linux.
Canada’s pin-up PM Justin Trudeau ‘was accused of groping a woman’
Why would a lottery be used at all for picking “winners” for immigration? On multiple levels that seems unfair and wrong.
For a small(ish) company good alternative to patents is trade secret. If you really invent something valuable, never publish it.

Companies like MS, Google, Amazon can justify free academic research because they have infrastructure that uses the research. They don't make their profits directly from the research.

Deep Mind can only get value from fundamental research using patents or trade secrets. Being just a consulting gig company does not generate enough profits to justify basic research.

Its the same in electronics I'm more familiar with. Small design company can from IP licensing, but if you want to keep working with some fundamental research that does not fall under a copyright, you must choose between patent or trade secret to benefit from the research.
I built something similar that would make the deletion process seamless. The uploaded files are stored in memory and never hit the disk. They then get automatically deleted when the user leaves the site.

Let me know what you think: https://tempd.link/
I have a feeling pulling the plug would cancel the action.
All to the benefit of Russia. Isn’t it curious that so many of Trump’s actions benefit Russia and China?
Usually when patent applications are made they are written up to be as general as possible and will then steadily be whittled down until they're accepted.

That said, I really don't see how a number of these will get even close to validation. Quite a few are describing an absolutely generic, everyday process with so much prior art it's insane (recurrent neural network?). If I'm missing anything here I'd love if someone could correct and inform me.
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IRL isn't the problem with asbestos limited to workers who come into contact with asbestos every day in an industrial setting? Busting up asbestos in the course of a remodel(or a dozen remodels) isn't enough exposure to cause any of the chronic problems asbestos is so famous for, IIRC.
I have no data for this, but I suspect an ethnographic study of gig workers would find their behaviors mirror that of entrepreneurs. If true, you can probably draw a lot of conclusions about gig work from all the other studies done.

In short, I suspect gig work is much more mentally taxing than typical work, since it isn't reliable or rooted in routine. I think that's why gig work is estimated at roughly the same percentage of the population as entrepreneurs.
I want to be able to know what my machine is actually running. It gives me some nice warm fuzzy feeling knowing that I have that option. I probably won't but still, I like having that option.
And as an example of someone who took this particular bull by the horns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16900938
This could be the point. Hopefully, they will be denied and we can all rest easy. The best defensive patent is something being declared unpatentable.
It is simply incredible how governments do never decided that banking is a public service and should be regulated as such (it's been what? 300 years? Maybe that's still too little)

A passport is enough to prove your identity isn't fake. But since it's not enough to give you a credit line, banks simply refuse the service. There are way too many people with no access to banks.
What if they let themselves be hacked, for fake/misleading data to be stolen?

It's good not to let yourself be hacked. It's better to let your enemies think you can be hacked.
Why is that wrong? How do you propose to select to pick who gets in and who doesn’t?
"The Liberals introduced a lottery in 2017 in an effort to make the system fairer – previously, applications were accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. The program receives roughly 100,000 applications each year and selects 10,000"
Sometime I think a game is too much like work, and it reflects poorly on the game. Too much grind, tedious...

Factorio for me is too much like work, except I think it's a fine game, I just already often spend my day making systems to put things on queues and take them off queues, trying to keep the queues from getting full or empty...
Its still better than using the place of birth as a determining factor.
> One possibility: that mindset of mediocrity doesn't produce excellence.

> Apple, for example, is famous for caring about things that rationally they shouldn't care, like the insides of their computers.

Except, by all accounts and opinions, there's a fair degree of interior "mediocrity". Whilst the screen is all flashy and showy, the dash, console are pretty "average". And by average I mean, creaking, flimsy-ish, plastic parts. Even on a $100,000+ Model S. My Altima has a comparable dash to the Model S. My Audi S class? Hugely better, objectively and subjectively.
GitHub's New CEO Promises to Save Atom Editor
Experts aren't wrong at all. The experts that Silicon Valley likes to favour and pour billions of dollars in are completely wrong, and it's funny how these best of the best are completely ignoring advancements that have taken place in niche fields over the past 50 years. Your so called 'experts' aren't even asking the right questions. They are all doing the exact same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

Luckily there are extremely bright experts in other fields that do know what they are doing. But because they don't have the 'Harvard', 'Stanford' or what ever elitist label, they get ignored, and remain obscure.

Traditionally, "science advances one funeral at a time".
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It would be super neat if anyone of the people who downvoted that could comment on... you know, why?

Please don't be so 1-dimensional.
I would imagine it's because there are a limited number of people that Canadians will allow to immigrate into their county?
Appetite grows for vegan products at UK supermarkets
Even in film the convention is that if you're character is going back, standing in the way of another character moving the plot forward, or just feeling weak or uncertain, they should face the left. When was the last platformer you saw where you moved left to progress? The right hand side conventionally portrays certainty, strength, and progress in all manner of western arts.
Virtue.
Man, people are picky today. This isn't a public webapp, this is a spreadsheet that is controlled by a trusted party. Yeah, it isn't the state-of-the-art RNG, but given that it is only picking 10000 numbers, I would say it doesn't need to be all that good.
All the other points about the unfairness makes sense, but the complaint about the poor random number generator does not make sense.

This isn't a multistep process that the "adversary" has access to. It doesn't matter how bad the random number generator is or even if it is predictable. Sure you could bribe the person putting it into excel I suppose, but you could do that anyway and just have them switch numbers around.

This is a silly complaint. Yes it is a bad random number generator, but predicability of the sequence isn't an attack surface in this use case.
Unfair to whom? That is going to be relative.
While it does seem wrong and silly, isn't a completely random lottery explicitly fair? No one involved is privileged by any metric (unless you believe in supernatural luck).
If they were actually accepting all applications that meet the criteria, that would make first come first serve more fair, but there are quotas so they have to reject N-1 applications regardless of their application.

Lottery systems are generally considered fairer than first come first serve because they don't advantage people who apply early. Especially in an immigration-related process where circumstances are likely to dictate when you can apply, not everyone will have an opportunity to 'get in early'.

If you have a way to make the process simultaneously non-random, fair, and not have a cap (which I personally would probably be fine with eliminating but is presumably a non-starter for various political reasons), I'm sure some people would love to hear about it.
I actually organize my creations by thinking about hardware architecture, too. To me, Factorio is just a pretty graphical CPU.
The option of spending a lifetime reading the Windows code in order to 'know what your machine is running'? it's such an old argument but no one ever talks about how fucking cumbersome is to read code, even in work itself, moreso outside of work, unpaid.
People (me) were just mad because seemingly in the blink of an eye they went from having a stable mature linux desktop, sometimes even approaching "it just works," to having that ripped away and replaced with a choice between [radical new desktop] or xfce. Unity or GNOME Shell might really be great, but that's a huge change to force on unsuspecting neckbeards.

Wish Canonical would have just created MATE themselves.
Often a patent will include background information to assist the reader in understanding the claimed invention. The text will usually also point out the shortcomings of prior inventions and how the present invention is an improvement. Neither of those are part of the invention being claimed.

To understand the scope of what is claimed, you always need to look at the claims. The claims will always specifically point out the scope of the invention. Note that all elements in a claim are necessary. If an accused infringer's activity is missing an element, then it does not infringe.

I think that if you look at the claims of the patent you reference, you'll find that the claims are limited to particular applications of sequence processing using particular neural network configurations.
The complexity of random-number generation is well-known to programmers, but the inability to generate random numbers for "real-life" selection algorithms has had major life-or-death implications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_lottery_(1969)https://en...

> People soon noticed that the lottery numbers were not distributed uniformly over the year. In particular, November and December births, or dates 306 to 366, were assigned mainly to lower draft numbers representing earlier calls to serve...Analysis of the procedure suggested that mixing 366 capsules in the shoe box did not mix them sufficiently before dumping them into the jar.
Not as much as you'd expect. It's easier and cheaper to get a design with windows (and their supporting structure), and not cut out the holes for the windows in the skin.
The resulting structure is going to be only marginally lighter, but also much more fatigue resistant. The savings would show up in the changed inspection intervals.
Absolutely agreed! A while back I gave a talk on why everybody should do support: https://vimeo.com/136270620
So much this. In order to 'attack' this, how would you go about that? Somehow control who applies for the program so you wind up with an expected number?

And the gambling comparison is particularly bad. Excel is presumably not picking the same seed every day, no matter how bad it is. It's probably using time() when it's loaded, which is not great but also not visible to an 'attacker' and not consistent.
What do you do when these mutations end up crashing constantly?
I can identify with being interested in each of those programs. However, any lessons must be in my subconscious as I can't relate any values, lessons or knowledge back to a memory of any of those shows even though they were aimed at education. I just know that I liked them at the time.
I'll admit, Proctor is no Terry Gross, but Terry Gross isn't interviewing Scott Wlaschin or Nikhil Swamy. I've learned about some really fascinating topics by listening.
yes, regret it you will. I've had it for a while and from time to time I see someone play it online and go "oh, I should go play that again".... just recently....

7pm: I think to myself, let's do some work on my side project... but first, lets play a little factorio

3am: FU#! :/
In what way MS buying GitHub is limiting the way you think?

Can't you do it without GitHub?
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Giving everyone a job is not, and should never be, the goal of a society. In the early twentieth century American workers were killed fighting for the right to support themselves working 40 hours a week but for much the population that option has evaporated. I know people in the bay area working 70 hours a week at dead end jobs barely making ends meet; a fact I consider unacceptable given the wealth they are surrounded by.
shaved full head >= shaved balding head