skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been shat on HN before for saying this but I stand by it: you're not a programmer/developer/"whatever it's called now" until you have done a parser for something at least as complicated as lisp in whatever the lex/yacc equivalent is in your language of choice.

The difference between people who get regular languages, pretty much everyone who codes, and the people who get context free grammars is more than $100k a year.
>If you think their actions don't match their words, you now have concrete terms and principles to critique and compare with.

What I think is that they will go forward with any project that has potential for good return if they don't think it will blow up in their faces, and that opinion is based on their past behavior.
I have rather the opposite impression of Facebook. They seem sort of tired and are moving onto the same level as Uber in terms of ethical conduct.
Look at the SentDex Python Programming Youtube channel.

The amount of crazy stuff he teaches with python is amazing. No other language can promise that calibre of idea expressing power coupled with ease of development.
Probably doesn't need self-driving cars: many higher-end cars nowadays have some kind of wireless interface and software control over speed and steering.
Oh, so they mean the boring technical definition that nobody reading the page cares about?

We can trust google will try to build tools that are effective for googles buisness goals without it being proclaimed in a statement of principles.
I've used the evaluation version
> Absolutely useless question

Sure

> and should not be asked.

None of your business.
> I try to scroll back to the top

Try tapping top middle of the screen.
One of the goals is to close the carbon loop (not the energy loop).

Quoting from the paper:

> An industrial process for large-scale capture of atmospheric CO2 (DAC) serves two roles. First, as a source of CO2 for making carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels, enabling carbon-free energy to be converted into high-energy-density fuels. Solar fuels, for example, may be produced at high-insolation low-cost locations from DAC-CO2 and electrolytic hydrogen using gas-to-liquids technology enabling decarbonization of difficult-to-electrify sectors such as aviation. And second, DAC with CO2 sequestration allows carbon removal.

So, to summarize their first role, they would produce hydrogen from water, combine it with CO2 extracted from the atmosphere, and then burn it. Thus no net carbon added to the atmosphere.

Essentially, instead of moving carbon from fossil fuels to the atmosphere, you would borrow carbon from the atmosphere, turn it into fuels, burn it, and return it to where you borrowed it from.
Where is your data on RoR being replaced by Python Seneca? Is it Anecdotal or? I am Actually curious.
For me, I worked at a company's office then transitioned to remote later. Makes it easier because you already have trust built up in the organization.
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I bet he does, but then again a lot of cigarette company executives smoke so it doesn't say much one way or another.
The system does not punish bad luck. Bad luck itself punishes. The system might or might not do something to alleviate that.
They’ve taken a big pile of VC funding, so the answer to
your first question is yes.

Meanwhile, the biggest player (by far) in the market just abandoned dreams of an IPO. Gitlab is a distant third place in that market, and has a revenue model that is best described as “like Github, but cheaper.”

IPOs are only viable if you have a business capable of supporting them.
Block international or out of state calls. Very unlikely that the calls are local.
The problem with that argument (just like "If you have nothing to hide...") is that the line for "illegal" moves over time. It's not entirely unreasonable to expect something that I do legally today will lead to prosecution (in certain countries) or heightened surveillance tomorrow. Them keeping any logs of what I do today is a risk, even if my conduct is legal.
I've always been surprised by how expensive Princeton is even though short drives in any direction can be much cheaper. Students seem to be mostly in student housing anyway, and anybody who lives there in any other capacity probably has a car, is it just prestige of being there that pumps up the rent?
Few questions that you may or may not want to answer on here.

Who is their telephony provider? Is this a landline or mobile?

What type of business? Could they afford to shutdown their phone number for a few days if they notified their customers? Could they change the number on their website for a brief period of time(Directing calls to a new number)? All depends on where they get their leads from. Maybe setup a quick IVR to deflect the robo calls? Press 1 for sales, press 2 for support, etc. could filter out the robots?

Unfortunately, anti-spam in telecom is limited, especially if they are spoofing the number and changing them up. A service like nomorobo.com might be helpful, but again, depends on their existing infrastructure.

Happy to help the situation. I've been in telecom on the engineering side and sales side for 10+ years. Email in profile.
We will make a blood test unit that's the side of a thumb nail and we will build an electric sedan for $35k are both lies. Tesla has no product, they have an expensive prototype.
I wonder what year it will be that CO₂ ppm in the atmosphere levels off and I wonder what level it will be at then? I wonder what the world will look like then.
Are you sure that VSTS will live more than two more years? I'd suspect that Microsoft will eventually want to integrate GitHub with their CI and get rid of TFS (of which VSTS is just a hosted version) entirely. I don't know if you've used TFS/VSTS but it's not exactly user-friendly and well designed. Especially their CI configuration is horrendous.
Would you say that the creation of the Atomic Bomb was over-hyped because...?

A) It didn't change the scientific paradigm. It was an extension of generally agreed on principles.

B) It didn't effect the day to day work of the majority of scientists.

That seems to be the criteria you are using, and they seem pretty strange to me in this case.
Mathematically true, ethically dubious.
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An architect has no business giving top down orders to anyone if they are not in the team as a productive member. A leader is right there doing the work, giving advice and support.
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Granted my experience is my own and shaped by the areas I've lived in, but I'd say the crash barrier is pretty standard by US standards.

A few reflectors, a crumple barrier or some barrels and you've got a highway divider start! Certainly not as lengthy or as well marked as the Dutch example. This one I used to drive by in KC almost daily looks similar to the Tesla accident one (granted, this example does have some friendly arrows in the gore): https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0387093,-94.6774548,3a,75y,1...

I have also seen so many people crash into this one that they put up yellow hazard lights: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0790636,-94.594365,3a,75y,17...
The point of my sentence you quoted was more in the part that said

> but are done in response to "not towing the line"

Like, your previous comment was about "towing the line" and I was asking about the connection between the "immutable properties" thing mentioned in the original comment I responded to, and the "towing the line" that you mentioned.

I wasn't asking "are people speaking against other people's immutable properties?" (which seems to be the question you responded to).

I was asking, "By talking about 'towing the line' when the context was 'immutable properties', did you mean that the treatment based on 'immutable properties' is targeted at those who don't 'tow the line'? If not, what is your meaning in bringing up 'towing the line' in the context of people speaking against others' 'immutable properties'?".

I am not trying to make a point about who is or is not treated badly. I'm trying to clear up what was meant to be communicated.
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I doubt I will be able to recover from mine. I'm paying $1700 per month in child support for two kids, even though I have custody of them 45% of the time. I have Smith-Ostler riders to collect 12% from any bonus, stock option sales, RSUs, etc. I basically have to restart from scratch on my 401k, as that was used to pay off the divorce costs and equalizations. I finished paying off spousal support, which was another $1800 per month, but now I am so far in the hole that I doubt I will ever dig out. It's been over two years since the divorce, but I am still struggling just to make my mortgage every month.

I don't know if people on HN (who I assume a majority of are high earners) realize just how much money you can be on the hook for if you have a motivated ex-spouse with an attorney. My ex was a stay-at-home mom with a side business as a photographer. Good luck getting a fair shake in court when you get a W-2 salary, and the other party runs their own business.

Edit: typo - I have 45% custody, not 55% custody.
It's a personal dilemma, not a societal one. My personal take of social media is similar to yours in that it's a popularity contest and allows people to distract themselves from community, local, or family involvement and from self-improvement.
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Based on the history of these things, it seems likely that the reported 14M number will grow over time once the initial furor has died down...
Serious question. Why do we spend so much time on Mars?

Are we planning for evacuation of Earth? I think it is clear that Mars is not suitable for mass migration.

Are we looking for evidence that Mars was Earth Version 1 and that we evacuated and came here?

Are we expecting to find minerals that we could ship to earth that do not exist here?

Is it just so we can say we did it? I am curious because we have barely explored Earth and many parts of our planet are still challenging to study. Is it cheaper to explore Mars?
This exactly. There is an epidemic of suicides and mental health problems in this country. While I love seeing that people are addressing these problems, lets not allow simple narratives to muddy the waters.
Yes. I can only refuse to play and hope the Russians et al come to their senses, the United Nations starts to work better, etc. If we go down that road, it will be the end of most of us, if not all of us. We really have no chance against a machine that's decided to shoot us. As a species we need to have zero tolerance for it - we won't be rendered extinct by snazzy terminators, we'll be killed by the 21st century version of a Victorian steam loom. Its truly a horrible problem, because the solution can't be creating autonomous systems to kill other autonomous systems. The rest of the distinction is just data. The only way to win is not to play.
If you size the market by revenue, not unit sales, I'd bet it's not very significant - especially in the EU.
Under "AI applications we will not pursue", its telling that the first rule basically allows them to override all the subsequent ones - "where we believe that the benefits substantially outweigh the risks". "We believe" gives them a lot of leeway.
Too good to be true I'd say… Still, I admire your hopefulness, me I'm just a bucket of inured cynicism.
Ah, yes, extrapolate directly to the holocaust.
> Sorry, are you referring to the Not True Socialism?
They start by asserting they understood. I am asserting they don't.

I'm not currently depressed nor suicidal. But if you think it is on the depressed or suicidal person to meet the social and emotional needs of some random internet stranger who wants to be all encouraging, please do the world a favor and stay very far away from such discussions. Your mental model is the kind of thing that absolutely can push someone over the edge, while you try to find justifications for how it isn't your fault.
Nobody here now who writes things like "engulfed by white folks" has any knowledge of or claim to any of the events you mentioned. Nobody was forced into the country, nobody is forced to stay here. Nobody is forced to be around white people.
> Microsoft bought GitHub for over seven billion dollars. You don't buy something for that kind of cash unless it has that kind of value.

That is NOT what happened. Microsoft is in the process of purchasing GitHub, which likely won't happen before the end of the year. The agreed price was $7.5B in stock not cash.
I don't understand. Checking accounts have much lower interest rates than savings (or money market) accounts, so why keep cash in a checking account?
There's no "story" here. The guy has written a real piece of software. You can download it and try it yourself. If you like his work (many of us do) you can tip him a small donation, barely even beer money, to show your appreciation. It's kind of silly to act like this is some sort of scam.
To quote Sam Seaborn,

"Because it's next"
It is relatively easy to define good or bad though. Telling black from white isn't hard. The problem is all the shades in between (where the majority of the colours are).
What about people who earn lots but choose not to consume much? Are they poor?
This is pretty weak tea. It seems to completely justify working on anything, as long as the tiny part that Google engineers touch is software, and they aren't personally pulling triggers.

> 1. Technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm. Where there is a material risk of harm, we will proceed only where we believe that the benefits substantially outweigh the risks, and will incorporate appropriate safety constraints.

Is this "We have solved the trolley problem"?

Benefits to who? US Consumers? Shareholders? Someone in Afghanistan with the wrong IMEI who's making a phone-call?

Without specifying this, this statement completely fails as a restraint on behavior. For an extrajudicial assassination via drone, is 'the technology' the re-purposed consumer software to aid target selection, or the bomb? Presumably the latter in every case.

> 2. Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people.

This leaves the vast majority of military applications in scope. By this definition, Project Maven (the cause of resignations/protests) meets the criteria of not "directly facilitat[ing] injury to people". It selects who and what to cause injury too at lower cost and accuracy, to scale up the total number of causable injuries per dollar.

> 3. Technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms.

Google set the norms for surveillance by being at the leading edge of it.
It's pretty clear from Google's positioning that they consider data stored with them for monetization and distribution to Goverments completely fine. Governments do, too. And of course, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."[0].

> 4. Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.

It's difficult to see how this could be anything but a circular argument that whatever the US military thinks is appropriate, is accepted as appropriate, because the US military thinks it is.

The most widely accepted definitions of human rights are the UN's, and the least controversial of those is the Right to Life. There are legal limits to this right, but by definition, extrajudicial assassinations via drone strike are in contravention of it. Even if they're Googley extrajudicial assassinations.

[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...
Is pouring more foundation next to existing foundation problematic and difficult, or is it just more expense to get the concrete guys back out to do more work?
I would have thought that maybe the other way around.
i.e. let me move my sourceforge project into github.

why would people want to use this ?
> we would have to expend just as much, if not more, than that total amount of energy we ever "gained", to essentially un-burn those same fossil fuels.

Ironically enough, our renewable electrification process is like a turbo coming up to speed. There is simply so much energy hitting the Earth from the Sun (if I recall off hand, about an hour of sunlight can power humanity for a year, or thereabouts) that if we continue to rapidly deploy solar and wind, we'll have orders of magnitude more energy than humanity currently requires for a first world lifestyle while also having enough energy to sequestor all of the original carbon burned through fossil fuel based industrialization.

"A long way around the block" if you will.

https://www.iea.org/publications/renewables2017/

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/4-charts-show-renewable...
Consider price point implications.
Try this shell script:

#! /bin/sh
# This is a bit hacky: we use the -i flag to force the interpreter into
# interactive mode after the initial commands are executed.
# The "proper" way to do this is probably to set up a PYTHONSTARTUP file
# and put the initial commands in there.
exec ipython3 --no-banner --no-confirm-exit -i -c '
from math import *
import random
import sys, os, platform
print("== IPython %s Calculator REPL ==" % platform.python_version())
'
yes. they metabolize differently and at different rates.

theobromine takes longer for your body to remove than caffeine. (also the main stimulant in chocolate, and the one that is bad for dogs, because they can't metabolize it).

mate has more theobromine than coffee, so it's effects should last longer. just measuring caffeine is not a good way to find out the total stimulant effect.

(see wikipedia)
Cool. Maybe next they can tackle subscriptions without ads.
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Field trips?

"Homeschooling" doesn't mean "never leave the house".
If I have understood it correctly in most self driving cars the actual AI/ML part is recognition of the scene/area, not deciding the action or outcome of such a situation.

Either way this is one of the reasons I'm not wild about the crazy self-driving race.
because it was 1991 and most people were probably seeing grey on the xterms in the ACC anyways.
Twitter started blocking links to some fake news sites
Yes anecdotal for my press operator job. It's not the only open one we have. Also throwing in the chicken processing plant. I've read countless other articles though basically saying the same thing about these production/manual labor jobs that require little formal education but a decent amount of on the job training.
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My suspicion is that its under the following constraints:

1) Site is cleared, maybe foundation complete (which means excavation done etc)
2) All prefab pieces are done
3) No restrictions of number of people on site (besides physical realities)

#3 is no small case. I've often noticed that construction companies in the west have very few people on site. Certainly not 50 people per floor, for example. IMO this is due to wages and contracts. a) wages are too high to risk idle people and b) contracts are insufficiently written to incentivize speed of delivery (probably in favor of cost).
No: Facebook can change the algo that picks the default setting of the visibility of your future posts.

Software changes are rather easy at Facebook (although that particular tool would surely have a ton of people monitoring it, including quantitative social scientists who don’t monitor a lot of pages). Changing the graph (stored information) is pretty much impossible without a lot of checks. That distinction is key to understand control at Facebook.
Or rather black on off-white with generous margins.
> It's the same with tech jobs, although if adopting a dog were really like getting a tech job, the dog shelter would give you a week to build a bespoke doghouse as part of the application process, evaluate it for safety and comfort, and still give the dog to someone else leaving you with no dog to put in the doghouse you built.

I smiled
Isn't it true that the only countable model of the natural numbers (including ordering) which is computable is the standard model of the naturals?
I don't think this is egregiously hyperbolic. "Ancient organic material" is exactly what they found. They go out of their way in the article to emphasize that organic molecules exist in many naturally occurring forms that are not indicative of life processes, but that life processes can not be ruled out either. The same applies to the methane finding.

I don't think it's fair to criticize the article itself. It's well-written, level-headed, and self-critical. I think it's fair to criticize their calling a press conference to announce it, rather than just releasing a notice or allowing the articles to be published in due course.

I'm inclined to cut them slack on the marketing style. NASA lives and dies by the whims of a fickle Congress, and they have few opportunities to make headlines. There's a bit of sensationalism or grandstanding at play here. The actual announcement is good science, and plays into their desire for funding to follow up.
The emails you're aware of framed it in those terms. Do you think a leaker might selectively leak with the intent to paint a particular picture?

As someone who has helped write policy, it is literally impossible to write up all policy in advance. You always end up weathering some angry insights in the comment section (we used to call it the peanut gallery). If you can write out all policy a priori, every CEO, economist, scientist, and psychologist can just go home now.
I think thats a distinction without a difference. Even if things like political positions, worldview, way of live, and religion aren't (completely) biological they aren't just opinions that people can change at the drop of a hat. E.g. (genuine) political beliefs aren't something someone explicitly chooses, they are based on their beliefs, experience, and background. In addition, whether a trait is immutable or not is irrelevant to whether or not its ok to hate a person for it for it.
Good point, I should clarify and add in those vehicles, such as the infamous Jeep Grand Cherokee that was hacked on a live highway.
This is pretty clearly an archival site. The links under "Current (more-or-less) Emerald information" point to a university site updated in 1998 and a mothballed Sourceforge repo with no activity since 2005.
This may surprise you, but half of the people don't live in cities like these. My city doesn't have any form of public transportation. And this isn't uncommon.
So... I didn't know what kerogens were so I looked it up. Classified as solid organic matter in sedimentary rock. It is formed by the degredation of living matter.

So wouldn't this discovery relating to Mars further hint that it may have supported life in its past?
I talk about this a bit in my book (https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/).

Basically, you want to demonstrate:

1. You can work independently.

2. Good communication skills.

Easiest way is, as dyeje says, get that first remote position at current job.

Lacking that, you can highlight both ability to work independently and communication skills in your resume and cover letter in a variety of ways. Previous remote work is easiest way, but there others. For example, "I contributed to open source project", "I worked with distributed team at work", "I taught this class", "I designed this project end-to-end", "I helped customers debug problems remotely", etc..

Make sure to call these things out explicitly near the top: readers won't necessarily see them if they're buried in third paragraph of second page.