skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good comment I read here on HN was to the effect of: the minimum viable unit of humanity is not a single couple (two people), it is actually a village / tribe (more like 150 people).

>With regards to my sexuality, I owe "society" absolutely nothing.

This is incorrect. You actually owe society everything. You don't generate your own electricity. If you are robbed / assaulted you won't prosecute the offenders on your own. You don't feed yourself and on and on. You don't even ensure your own safety, mostly "the herd" accomplishes that for you.

The only reason you can exist at all is because of the thousands and millions of competent caring people around you who you can communicate with because you speak the same language. There are so many details and dependencies that you have and are taking for granted they can't even be enumerated accurately.

Even your health didn't just fall out of the sky, you owe your health to the fact that your parents passed on functioning genes to you, and that the environmental laws ensured you weren't poisoned, on and on and on. You literally DO owe society everything. Yet I would be good money that you only value your society to the extent it enables you to pursue your own desires and vices.
Wrong. You will have signed an Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement for anything like you mention to be enforceable. My advice: if you want to build something on the side and are presented with a legal doc like I mentioned above...walk away.
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It sounds like we (in this thread) are all on the same page about the future of AI-writ-large.

Regarding good faith, the quotation pattern you used didn't mention deep learning - you referred to either "the arms race" or "classifiers on large datasets" as fizzling out, and my reply resolved them to "AI" as a spanning term, since that was the context of the original post you quoted.

For what it's worth, I would have written the same response about deep learning specifically for the same reasons you point out later in the thread that AI will remain useful. The specific profile of opportunities opened by DL is finding plenty of valuable homes in corporate processes where other kinds of automation fill in the gaps between it and AI.

At this point, I'm not sure whether you disagree with that, or just think that some hype could afford to fade (no argument!).

Since you are a grad researcher, I'll throw in some of my context. I did my PhD focused on probabilistic graphical models, back when it was easy to ignore NNs (and when we expected to hit some of the same perceptual milestones). As a grad student, a big part of your job is to filter fads and find ideas that will stay true.

Because of that, I was slower than I could have been to recognize the feedback loops in what is "true" about applied AI. Deep learning's initial fit for some architectures and problems has attracted attention that made it much cheaper and easy to experiment, and therefore useful for more and more - even gobbling up adjacent techniques and giving them new names (over any manner of academic protest). That feedback loop isn't unbounded, but I guess I'm just sharing the perspective that hype, while annoying, isn't something that even a grad student can afford to disdain.
In Lua, symbols are just strings, all strings are immutable via internment, and the symbol rules constrain the parser, not the runtime. So obj.field is shorthand for obj["field"], you can have obj["="] if you want, it means obj.= but that is of course a syntax error.

I find this approach more comfortable and easy to reason about than a separate Symbol class.
Seems to work for me, including directions.
Because not all jobs are that valuable. This is essentially replacing welfare by minimum wage, and why should welfare be administered non-progressively through employers instead of the government tax and redistribution?

Should it be illegal do do low positive value work?
> I didn't know it was completed and operating.

A new transit line is usually pretty big news in any city, but like I said... everyone in Toronto that I asked about it didn't know about it either. So they've really blown it on awareness. Thankfully, that's actually a pretty easy thing to fix.
It's probably on the front page because a lot of people are deciding between PyTorch or Tensorflow for their company's production ML pipeline, and this is an article about making exactly that decision. Even if they didn't present any actual analysis, just the sentence "Twitter's ML team, which had previously used LuaTorch, recently evaluated PyTorch and Tensorflow and ultimately decided to standardize on Tensorflow" would be of interest to a lot of people.
> I just stole your idea.

i feel like this may be a category error; it's not clear that "idea" is something which can "be stolen".

at least not in a way that seems similar to (for example) having your car stolen.
Interactivity – The Core of Video Game Aesthetics (2015)
yep, seen several idiots whose work habits are destructive be promoted for gaming stats

seen stats make people discourage/delay income/work to avoid anomalies/spikes in stats because if there's a spike it makes it look like you are slacking the next month, or makes a manager think you should be able to constantly hit the spike
Would you name a country where 1% is taxed @ 90%? and what exactly would it acomplish so a google eng. would suddenly have 30-40K after tax income with 2 mil mortage that would really help make things right.
Symbols make it easier to parse when you read it. Also less keywords. You're right though, they're not essential and just a design choice.
> At what point do we collectively decide, you know what, this is ridiculous.

I would say things are at that point. So move to a different city. Success != The Valley
Skip Everest and go with Mt Kenya. It's equatorial location means that you are getting a nice delta-v boost, its shape is more suited to this purpose, and it is far more accessible.
> If you can't call it marriage, the group denied that right is second class, full stop.

People can use different terms to distinguish between different things, but that doesn't necessarily make any of those things "second class," full stop.
not really.

Prostitution has been regarded in VASTLY different manners depending on the time period and/or place you were in. Life was much different for a Greek Heteara than it was for a woman working in an Aztec Cihuacalli. (But both lives were pretty good truth be told. One was elite and rich, the other would be considered a soccer mom by today's standards. Not rich, but definitely upper middle.) And then life is different still for the average american streetwalker or escort. (Some can be rich, but majority are very poor. And they are all scorned by society. At least the holier than thou types in society.) In today's America, or even in ancient and contemporary China, prostitutes have nowhere near the status of the Hetaera, or even the women working in the Cihuacalli's. Life for contemporary American prostitutes is probably pretty hard at the mean.

So societal acceptance and society's treatment of prostitutes very much depended, not surprisingly, on which society or culture you were talking about.
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> So you have no idea if this alleged documentation even exist?

No, it exists and I saw the original link. I don't have it off-hand.

> But you still felt you needed to assert that those "not actual harassment" cases (e.g. women interpreting "lack of praise" as harassment etc.) do exist, and we need to be concerned about them.

'ythn did not more than question the methodology of the study, and point out that for non-overt events, the underlying assumption that something was harassment may be incorrect, and was brigaded into oblivion for this.

Something that was not mentioned, and is also a problem is intentionally false claims. Having been falsely accused of harassment in school, I know first hand it does occur and how damaging it can be.

Unfortunately it is people like you with a scared cow and agenda who cannot stand someone not toeing the party line.

You act as if all claims are legitimate and anyone who dares question the lynch mob is himself derided and attacked. Harassment is all too real, but we cannot lose sight of reality for a false utopia. Not all claims are rooted in fact, and some are actually meant to create harm.
Sorry to be pedantic, but it appears to be a bug in GPG, not the PGP spec.
Then name those massive deductions.

Edit: or just drive by downvote, I guess.
Good for you! A load of people struggle with this, and I think you're downplaying how hard it is for them.

It takes a load of energy to work a full-time job, then come home and work on your side gig. I used to come home from work and not have anything left in the tank. I couldn't imagine working on a project alongside my current startup without sacrificing growth.

It's also a big social sacrifice. People have families, friends, roommates, etc to come home to. That can cause loneliness, and sometimes you'd just rather hang out with people than work.

There's also a lot to learn as a software engineer launching a SaaS company. Sales and marketing is pretty foreign to most engineers. It's hard to learn that on your own, in your spare time, without spending years doing it.
25% the velocity but 1-.75^2 = 43.75% of the energy.

Further the rocket equation is a bitch so your saving even more fuel. The problem is you also end up with a lot of atmospheric drag and heat so the final savings are not as huge.
Engineers Leaving the War Machine Behind
I went back and forth between corporations and startups. The money and hours are way better when working for a corporation; especially if you manage to get a contract position with a high day rate.

But I've realized with time that I'm just not built for the corporate world so it's not even an option for me anymore. After 6 months working for a corporation, I feel like shit and I have to quit for my own mental health.

After working for startups for a while and taking risks all the time, I'm no longer the same kind of person as the typical corporate office worker and it's hard for me to fit in such environment.

If I didn't have better options, I would probably do contract job hopping from one corporation to another every 6 months... I did that for a while and it gave me a certain feeling of control over my life which made me feel kind of like a one-person startup.
Years ago I backed the Slingatron [0] on Kickstarter, but sadly it was not funded. At first I thought maybe SpinLaunch was a rebrand of HyperV, but that is not the case and its an entirely different group of people. Either way, I'm glad this is getting actual money behind it since it's a very interesting solution, and I hope it "takes off" (sorry).

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/391496725/the-slingatro...
“There's no evidence at all that these Asian Americans aren't boring cookie-cutter kids”

Ah yes, a classic case of proving the negative. What about extracurriculars? What’s your criterion?

There’s no evidence at all that other races “aren't boring cookie-cutter kids”, as you put it. Yet the fact that Asian Americans perform better academically implies you are claiming otherwise:

“Asian-Americans scored higher than applicants of any other racial or ethnic group on admissions measures like test scores, grades and extracurricular activities, according to the analysis commissioned by a group that opposes all race-based admissions criteria.”

So enlighten us.
Municipalities aren't like states of the Union. Municipalities have no power except that which is granted to them by the state. There is nothing legally stopping any state government from passing a law tomorrow to change how municipalities are run.
If you were shooting a still subject, you could put a filter that excluded other wavelengths and capture the RGB channels separately on mono film and then marge them in post. I've been tempted to convert my digital sensor to mono-only by removing the color filter array to see if it made any difference.

Also, I don't quite understand why ISO 40 would make anything difficult. I regularly shoot at ISO 50 on digital.
There’s one simple thing great communicators do…prompt talking
I seriously question this kind of system. The Cadillac system seems to work by using IR light and cameras to make sure your eyes are open.

I worked with a system like this many years ago in a transportation research firm. The way it worked was that it used bright IR LEDs at two different wavelengths, pointed at the driver's face, and then cameras tuned to both wavelengths, and then subtracting the images to see if the driver's eyes were open.

I sat in front of this system some, but not for any long drives, and even then I felt very uncomfortable after 10 seconds or so. While humans can't directly see IR light, I definitely felt something there, probably from the very near-IR LEDs.
And should Hertz or Enterprise be required to operate a police force for their rental cars that their rental drivers can leave any 'ole place?
The only couple I have seen that's open and it's working for them helps each other find a partner so that neither one goes home alone that night. They're a very unique couple it seems. I've known him for 24 years now and he's always been a bit different, but very open about everything like that.

Now I've seen a few open couples that had the exact issue you described. One side gets jealous because the other found someone to bang that night but they didn't / couldn't. It seems like they forget they're in a relationship and leave it up to the partner to fend for themselves.
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Having a paycheck and being an entrepreneur is not an either/or proposition. There are things in the middle.

You can find a well-financed co-founder and get a commitment for a paycheck for a fixed length of time (1-2 years). You will probably receive less equity in this situation, but you can still get enough equity to feel like a true co-founder along with enough of a paycheck to not be stressed about making ends meet.
To what extent do VCs and landlords overlap?
The "ridership of the entire Blue Line" number isn't particularly interesting here; very few of those people are going to the airport. A more interesting number is entries at the O'Hare Blue Line station, which is about 10,500 per weekday, or 440 per hour. So this design could accommodate something like a 5x increase in transit-to-ORD.
(skipping over legal and tech arguments for a moment)

Sadly, if your business is in software, then your corporate employer will own your IP, and the answer becomes "No".
I am not sure why nobody else mentioned this but there is a second layer called Lightning currently running very well ontop of Bitcoin. It enables basically instant transactions with fees at thousandths of a cent and people are using it Right Now to pay for VPNs and other goods online.
Wait, what? A large ecosystem of libraries that are not included by default but are available for you to use is somehow a bad thing (as "bloat" implies)?
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It just seems like this would serve a very narrow market. When I lived in Lincoln Park, I usually planned on the trip to O'Hare taking ~90 minutes (Red->Blue). This was to avoid a $40-$50 cab fare. Would I have been willing to pay an extra $25 to shave off 30 minutes? Probably not.

If I was a business traveler, I would almost certainly prefer taking a car from wherever I was directly to the airport unless I happened to be staying/working right near the stop. The convenience of not having to get to the station, privacy, not having the transfer, etc would outweigh the 20-30 minute savings. Unless traffic was completely backed up in which case having that option is nice.
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By that reasoning a frozen meal could say "made in the USA" meaning the cardboard box was made in the USA.
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Thanks!

Pretty sure you can get progressive versions of this type of behavior (where obj["field"] is equivalent to obj[:field] or obj.field) by using Ruby's HashWithIndifferentAccess and/or OpenStruct classes, but those are both obviously more obscure than something which is a built-in default language feature.
This thread really paints a bad picture for the mindset of a lot of people in the high-earning technology industry.

That someone would argue against every job being enough to afford a roof over your head just due to their own need for validation of their importance is frankly sickening.
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One of my favorite troll attempts was when someone 'fixed' [1] Frida Kahlo.

1. https://www.buzzfeed.com/kmallikarjuna/and-now-for-pretty-fr...
So then you add “size of customer base” to your metrics!
I was wondering the same. My understanding was that it ran at a level much lower than could be introspected with regular(non-proprietary)tooling.
> Do you have any examples of this incorrectly applied in modern times?

Not sure about "rightfully" but groups of people are definitely treated more leniently as to what they can do. Individual when he kills more than 20 people usually doesn't get away with just a fine like GM did.
> Why are we funneling most of our money to landlords?

Government policy:

https://www.amazon.com/Zoned-Out-Regulation-Transportation-M...

> Zoned Out forcefully argues that the debate about transportation and land-use planning in the United States has been distorted by a myth. The myth that urban sprawl is the result of a free market. According to this myth, low-density, auto-dependent development dominates U.S. metropolitan areas because that is what Americans prefer. Jonathan Levine confronts the free market myth by pointing out that land development is already one of the most regulated sectors of the U.S. economy. Noting that local governments use their regulatory powers to lower densities, segregate different types of land uses, and mandate large roadways and parking lots, he argues that the design template for urban sprawl is written into the land-use regulations of thousands of municipalities nationwide.
Did you link the right article?

Nothing in that article discusses interpersonal neurological response systems or anything relating to how mores and boundaries are created.

Seems like you're linking to something which may be on the track to narrow down consciousnesses which is a separate question - and one I also question the benefit of caring about.
Nathan Altice makes great presentation slides. Here on board wargames history: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uQJ5rI8fWEzAV1orIznpVDkL9o6...

I can also recommend his game studies book on the NES, I am Error.
There still are places you could. Skimming Zillow, you can get a 2br in Ohio for ~$450/mo.
4 months ago they surpassed 3.4 million concurrent players[1]. 100 players per server, at least 34,000 game instances (assuming 100 per game, which isn't always the case since games quickly fall down to ~50 players in a few minutes) which all report statistics of games to databases, etc. Sessions, logins, reports, kills, replays.... those add up.

[1] https://gamerant.com/fortnite-concurrent-player-record-playe...
"I don't think there are competent people available for auditing source code."

Probably not, but by requiring companies to disclose source code on request, effective independent audit of that code is merely improbable versus effectively impossible.
How do you identify individuals who are "most likely to do stuff that contributes positively to society"? How do you define "positively to society"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309987
Great to see some steps made towards supporting Windows! (i.e. "non-POSIX systems")

Now a pressing issue (though not for everyone) is that the compiler needs to escale from the current state because it takes too much memory and too much time to compile, but last time I checked it still wasn't crystal clear how to improve it.
Except landlords have tons of political capital to expend, most effectively at the state government level.
Nothing prevents you from doing both in all likelihood.

Enjoy working 2 jobs and making 1 income. If you quit, you'll still be working 2 jobs but with no income.
The circle of life.
When I watched documentary "The House I Live In" I was really shocked by the scale of the abuse towards citizens. It was in 2012, about six years later nothing has changed or it is going even worse. Now, when I share a link to this documentary, usual response is that I am a nutcase and that is some sort of conspiracy theory! This is insane...
I don't see how quitting your job to jump into something you've not even built is going to help any of those reasons. Sure you'll have more energy to devote to it, but now it will sapped away by the stress of having no choice except being successful in your venture. Steady paychecks are a good thing.
During the Vietnam War, it was body count. That turned out to be a great way of incentivizing the most murderous troops.
Actually everone uses it and you don`t even realize. Cellphones are all linux/bsd derivitives. All financial transactions will eventually be on a cyptocurrency but maybe nobody will realize it.
In Seattle rents are not as high as SF yet, but the growth rate is stunning. 2bd just shy of $3,000 on avg now. https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-seattle-rent-tren...
This. Yeah, I made that mistake. On one hand, working on building a company full-time was the best time of my career. But it failed, and I lost a lot of money in the process. And going back to the corporate world was... demoralizing.

(As an aside, I think the biggest problem I had was lack of a committed co-founder. I had help and support, but it's not the same. Later, I tried pushing again with potential co-founders, but they got distracted and lacked commitment when I really needed them.)

edit: I do plan to get back to it soon. I'm taking a forced six month hiatus to reset that concludes in July, and I'm kind of chomping at the bit for it. But only while doing my dayjob too! Not going to leave that again until I have paying customers.
Because not all jobs are that valuable.

No argument. But you seem to be making a value inference that low-value jobs aren't good enough to merit the worker a 2br place without two incomes. Why not? What level-sets what you "should" be able to get, for your low-value work?
I mean, I can answer those questions, but the OP comment was a critique of the policy, not the policy makers.

Yes, I understand that perhaps OP's comment might have been influenced by the policy maker, but nothing in their post makes any mention of anything beyond a simple policy critique, so this line of argumentation is, at best, putting words in their mouth.

If a policy is, to one's opinion, good or bad, then it should not matter whether or not the policy was proposed by someone we like or someone we hate, and to that end, it shouldn't matter one whit how popularly supported it is by our legislators, even where that popularity is enjoyed across partisan lines.

Arguing against a policy critique with a critique (or commendation) of the policy-makers is totally non-sequitur.
but still more than 100 discontinued services...
> I know that modern FreeBSD can bootI to a single user process with something like 32M RAM on 32-bit systems with a very stripped down kernel configuration.

Wow! My first BSD box (386BSD) had 8 megabytes of RAM and that was plenty! You could even compile moderately large programs without any swapping. But then, feeping creaturism has always been a BSD tradition! :)
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I am so terribly sorry for you. I have been through a few similar processes myself (although none as severe as yours, by the sounds of it) and it absolutely breaks you.

Thank you for writing about it. Even if it does not do much, a sense of commonality is sometimes all the little man needs.
How did that make them different than all the other vendors that had their own hardware and versions of UNIX at the time - HPUX, Solaris, DEC etc?