skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody who truly participated in or contributed to the "complete" rewriting of Office in JS would be capable of expressing the positive emotions the subject of OP does...their soul would have been drained of the capacity to express joy long before the project would be completed. The tone smacks of the delusional cluelessness that MSFT's culture seems to uniquely foster.
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> Every single advice that Sam Altman gives has survivorship bias written all over it.

Every VC will talk like that, for a reason: they benefit from the view that your startup will be successful if you are smart and work hard. A VC doesn't care about the fate of the individual founder. They make money by spreading their risk and having many founders trying hard.
Even just scrolling is laggy in Excel to the point where it makes it hard to scan through data. LibreOffice does not have this problem.
> It's the same if you tried to access a[0] or a[90000] (in an array that doesn't have 90000 elements).

It's not the same: `a[90000]` would be `NA` (which is a 1-element vector, not an empty vector).
"We take these issues incredibly seriously"

By passively wringing their hands. Filtering text, data mining... so difficult! Google has no experience in those areas.
The thesis statement of this essay is buried fairly far into the essay, but it seems this paragraph is the heart of their argument:

"The lesson to be learned from quantitative easing, zero-interest rate policy, and the bubble advance of recent years is simple: one must accept that there is no limit at all to the myopic speculation and self-interested amnesia of Wall Street. Bubbles and crashes will repeat again and again, and nothing will be learned from them. However, that does not mean abandoning the information from valuations or market internals. It means refraining from a negative market outlook, even amid extreme valuations and reckless speculation, until dispersion and divergences emerge in market internals (signaling a shift in investor psychology from speculation to risk-aversion). A neutral outlook is fine if conditions are sufficiently overextended, but defer a negative market outlook until market internals deteriorate."

Basically, this can be read as a complaint about how distorted the financial markets become when we rely on the Fed to protect us from recessions. If Congress would do its job, and provide sufficiently large deficits to absorb the productive capacity of the modern economy, then there would be no need for the Fed to engage in such extreme behaviors, and we would not see this kind of distortion in the financial markets.
Those make good reasons under most circumstances, especially in civilized societies.

In other societies, the conditions can be the opposite. In societies without an effective police force, the norm is that an honor culture develops, where avenging a murder with another murder is not only a right but in fact a duty.

In such societies, the first murder can actually be considered heroic, if there is no effective retribution, and the second murder is essentially always heroic.

Morality is much more dependant on our society than many think. If anarchist actually get their way, an honor society will emerge from the chaos fairly quickly.

(Examples: Current clan societies, such as northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, histoircal clan societies (vikings etc), hunter-gatherers, criminal gangs, etc,etc).
Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15410531
Which is why we use "rustlang" and "golang" for keywords, tags, and search terms everywhere.

Maybe they should start using Rlang. Although it's going to be annoyingly close to erlang
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If I negate everything in my sentence this is what I get:

> Lowering salaries will turn talented people into non-talented people.

Am I doing capitalism right? :o)
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> anything that says anything negative about d.

Hardly, or half the posts would be gone :-)

What we do moderate is posts where one person harasses another. This happens only rarely, except we had a recent large volume of such coming from a Tor node. So posts coming from the Tor node need approval from one of the moderators for the time being (until that person goes away).

You can also use the NNTP interface to access the forums, which doesn't moderate in advance (that only happens if you use the web interface to post).

The web forum software is a shell around the NNTP interface. It's a bit difficult to make a HackerNews/Reddit style moderation system work on it because of the way NNTP works.
I realize this, but I can picture a bare minimum store of heatmap generated data that would be extremely difficult to use for anything other than knowing what people on the website clicked on. Indeed, the more info collected, the more likely someone can combine it with other data to make broader conclusions.

Such as, any time you store a precise time in connection with user actions that has privacy implications. I picture simply not recording the time or exact URL.
If the system is designed without any sort of privacy in mind, and just records whatever data is convenient and too much, that's easier to abuse than one that intentionally records a minimum with privacy in mind. I agree it's amazing the way all of this can be subverted, and yes, I realize that HN is stocked with data scientists who are more knowledgeable about this than I am.
> Can intelligence even be artificial?

Well, yes. "Artificial" first and foremost means "man-made". The point of terming intelligence as artificial is to explicitly differentiate between the intelligence/cognitive modules developed over millennia of natural evolution and, well, man-made attempts at mimicking this.

Moreover, as another comment mentions, ML is a subset of AI.

The term "Artificial intelligence" is not what drives people up a wall. It's actually the fact that it is _sold_ as capable of more than reality is what angers people.
I used a very simple unsupervised ML built in scikit-learn to find good matches on OK Cupid. Worked very well, it found definite boundaries between the clusters of women.

One of the features was a subjective rating of how much I liked some of the women, and scikit-learn then suggested to me other women in the clusters that had my best ratings. It turns out that I like vegetarians, redheads, and left-wingers. Which happens to be true, even though I eat meat and do not identify as left-wing. But those traits correlate with _other_ traits that are more difficult to measure objectively, such as caring about children, liking to hike, and preferring an evening of sex to an evening of television.
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> if you had a typo, and wrote "camelcase" instead of "camelCase" in just one place out of a hundred

There are already formatter tools that check for that.

Also, any editor with completion will suggest the right form every time preventing the bug.
> If the interest rate is 0% then it means that money is worthless

Essentially all debt has a maturity (there are rare exceptions). What you're saying is only true if interest rates are 0%, and will be forever more. If someone borrows a lot of money at 0%, they face the risk that eventually they're going to have to refinance at a higher rate.
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Every racist position I have ever heard of has been defanged by the truth, and proof. Racism is not bad because it makes you feel bad, it is bad because it is demonstrably untrue and basing your society on the bedrock of racist lies is simply shooting yourself in the foot.

I don't know why you disagree.

Do you think racist views are true, but we should ignore them out of political correctness?
Or Netflix buys Verizon if you find it more likely, or they combine anyhow in a TimeWarner/AOL kind of peak-insanity deal. The point is that Netflix or Amazon are not cable/internet companies that could use their content to sell connections.
It is quite possible that they have found that people who use disposable email accounts never buy anything. My company also blocks disposable email address because we found that people using them were just abusing our service and our sales went up after doing so.

The funny thing is apart from emailing the free code we almost never contact anyone since we know 99% of our free users are not potential paying customers and so there is no point wasting our time on them. We only know this because they give us their real email address which allows us to screen them out.
See also:
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297264
It looks like this article has been posted many times:
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297264
> When Brunel was making the Great Western Railway, he decided to survey the route himself because he felt the existing surveyors were slow, expensive and crap. He did this on horseback. During the process he concluded that the horses he was hiring were slow, expensive and crap, so he started his own horse hire company. Somehow, despite this insanity...

Was he wrong on those counts?
This is the impression they want you to have. There are a few caveats:

* You need a direct connection with a limit in length. This means effectively you can't have wifi, mobile internet or anything like that. You also probably can't use it to have a connection between the US and Europe. Calling that a "quantum internet" is... only possible if you have no idea what the term "internet" means.

* You need an existing authenticated channel or be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. The quantum key distribution schemes always assume this already exists, but never care to explain where they got it from.
For perspective. I had horrible health that plagued me until I was about 20. Whether that's got anything to do with the butchering, I have no idea.
The research paper this article is based on: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03208

Other posts of the same article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310365
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309996
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17305632

Can they be combined?
You're making a few assumption that don't hold true in my culture/philosophy:

1. a specific type of success
2. the need for such type of success

I personally don't value any of them, and in my culture they're not pushed hard, either.

If I would be in that culture and philosophy, definitely, that would be a very troublesome situation, as it would put lots of achievement pressure on the children (and likely failure to meet the "success" of the parent.

I guess there is literature about the relationship between genius parents (in a strict sense, so not my case) and children, since probably, very similar mechanics develop.
Umatrix (same guy) + privacy badger (eff)

Have been using it since it was called HTTPS switchboard. Uorigin is my go to install on all of my customers fresh installs or people who don't want to break their web experience. Works great.
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> Public transport doesn't scale well

Much better than individual transport. Just compare the space taken up by a bus with 40 seats, with 20 individual cars (I'm generously assuming an average two persons per car).

> doesn't completely replace individual transport

That was never the intention of public transport. It aims to supply the majority of rides.

> is uncomfortable for everyone.

Aaah, I get it. You're from the US.
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I tried loading over HTTPS and got the following error:

This server could not prove that it is
worldcup.sfg.io; its security certificate
is from *.herokuapp.com. This may be
caused by a misconfiguration or an
attacker intercepting your connection.
Sorry to hear you're going through this. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be. Are you concerned about side effects from all these interventions? Do you have a hypothetical point at which you would simply choose to accept your child's hearing impairment?
I like Zig as a C replacement for systems programming.

[1] ziglang.org
I agree that R shouldn't be used in production, but R is great for prototyping different analytical models before porting them over to Python or another language.
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Salt is mostly there to prevent attackers that control program input from exploiting the hashing algorithm to construct pathological worse case datasets (e.g. ensuring every input hashes to same bucket).
Perhaps then its high time we encrypt all personal computers as well by default.
That is one of the most important facts about flying; it is also one of the most misunderstood.

When I read it as a student pilot, I found the book to be oddly written, but so applicable. That one sentence will do wonders for final approach and landings!
There is a way to find great pleasure in Joyce, it does require effort and education, but so do many other pleasures. Terence McKenna's "Surfing Finnegan's Wake" is a good way in, especially if you enjoy McKenna's weirdly-similar-to-George-Bush's voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpeq91hK1Gk
As it's evident from NAT they can track even behind a single IPv4. As long they know your prefix the privacy extensions don't really help. Of course one could have a dynamic prefix similar to dynamic IPs residential ISPs use. It's funny, in the past a static IP was considered a valuable feature for a residential internet connection. Nowadays, I'm wondering if dynamic IPs are more viable from a privacy perspective.
Do you think this is worse than having it all in one cloud provider?

The number of providers doesn't matter, actually. It could be just one, as long as it is easy to switch whenever you need. See GitHub.
> You have almost no control over who will be assigned your freshman dormmate, your instructors, or even your boss

You can, however, randomly go up to people and say “hi”. Most people don’t do this. (Which is why it works.)
Not on a personal computer, no, but the vast majority of managed systems won't let you install anything outside of your home directory. Of course you could install using `pip install --user` but you will inevitably run into problems when something you install locally needs an updated version of something installed on the system.
Analysis paralysis is arguably as dangerous as survivorship bias.

Of course winning the genetic lottery bestows tremendous advantage. And of course luck is a huge variable.

But the intersection of luck, preparation, and willingness is serendipity. And every successful entrepreneur has that in spades in the end, regardless of where they started.

Sure that sounds like another empty platitude, but the fact of the matter is there is no formula or one simple trick.
You've piqued my curiosity. Why would a preschool have an oil vaporizer?
Hey, if you want this to become widespread you can just add optional support for it in your stateless apps, like I did with https://templates.alhur.es/, for example (you won't find anything simpler and more stateless than this).
> Spotify actually does have a very large number of songs

Large is relative. They have a larger number of Songs, but the actual choice is quite small. It's limited by age and countrys, and even types. They Catalog consists mostly of popular western music and music from the last 10-15 years it seems. Non-Western music or less popular music from the 20th century is quite hard to find on spotify, or any other music-streaming-service. Youtube is a better source for this and they have limitations too. Spotify used to have also audiobooks, but I think they disappeared in the meanwhile because of competing commercial audiobook-streamingservices.

We live in a great world today with all the information and entertainment cheaply available for everyone...as long as you just follow the local mainstream and have not much demand on specific details. It's great and sad at the same time.
Unsupervised works, but your ability to measure "does it work or not" is much more dependent on a case by case evaluation rather than a score.

(Because if you know a priori what is it that you want to measure - it's supervised)
> you also need to take into account all the folks who lost their jobs permanently

Another group that needs to be taken into account is the younger generation that is having problems even starting a career.

My sister graduated from university a few years ago, and - like almost everybody else she knows in her generation - is bouncing between unemployment and terrible minimum wage jobs (some are de facto lower than minimum wage due to wage theft).
Not at all - I released a customer support on Twitter dataset there specifically focused on unsupervised tasks! I think the focus on supervision in what people do with the data shows that there are still a lot of people poking around with the easier supervised tasks.

[0]: https://www.kaggle.com/thoughtvector/customer-support-on-twi...
I'm more than sure that python plugins are allowed to add panels and buttons and whatnot to the interface. I suppose you just ran into the wrong person to ask questions.

OTOH I'm afraid I don't know specifics either so I guess I'm the wrong person to ask as well.
Reminds me of the bug in Solaris where you could get root by essentially pressing entering a username and mashing the keyboard a bit:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/muc.lists.bugtraq/5zYU...
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Timezones look wrong. This is the stamp for today's match:

2018-06-14T17:00:00.000-05:00

Moscow is GMT+3, and kick-off is 18h local time (i.e. 15h GMT). Not sure what combination of stuff has gone wrong there!
Instead of including the vendor folder into projects you may use satis [0] to "mirror" all of your dependencies. That means you will not have any broken stuff if packagist is down or any of your dependencies are missing.

[0]: https://github.com/composer/satis
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Why is the Tor protocol broken?
My brief encounter with R led me to the exact same conclusion - that the R culture does not value correctness. That is not a characteristic I value in a development culture.

Case in point, the bug I raised about TZ handling (which is also an example of silent failure):

https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16412
> Aaah, I get it. You're from the US.

I was born in a smaller city in the Czech Republic and now I live in Prague, Czech Republic, a capital city (±2.8m people in the metro area) with advanced and well functioning public transport that I use regularly. And while today it functions well enough, it has many shortcomings, especially problems connected to more people coming into the city (the metro population has doubled over last 30 years).

> That was never the intention of public transport. It aims to supply the majority of rides.

Yes, and the problem is that it won't, because it doesn't scale well, because it has so few use cases for so many people and is used out of necessity, not desire.

> Much better than individual transport. Just compare the space taken up by a bus with 40 seats, with 20 individual cars (I'm generously assuming an average two persons per car).

I never said that I agree with the current state of things. I actually despise it.

I'm in favor of a decentralized self-managed system of individual self-driving vehicles where usage of a road would cost money per time unit. Sharing rides would be encouraged and parking unused vehicles on the street would be expensive - carsharing and carpooling would be the best option.

Even buses could (and most certainly would) give shared rides, solving the inefficiency you've described. The difference is that this system would be much more flexible.
Sheesh, do I really have to spell this out? No, I never talked about "preventing each and every single case of homelessness." Yeah, there's people on the street here in Vienna as well. There's enough harsh situations, of course.

But rest assured (and this not some "feel good feeling", but first hand knowledge of social workers in the field), there's not a single case of "a family that wouldn't have been homeless if the earner just had the opportunity of a second "gig economy" job".

And the systems in place here do work rather well (as long as you stay realistic - and I do know quite some harsh cases). People that really manage to fall through all the cracks have almost all the status of being unemployable/unfit for work (and I don't mean "sorry, but you're too old"-unemployable, but usually because of severe mental health issues and/or substance abuse).

I have to admit though: Looking at what our current government does at the moment, chances are I'll chime in with you in a few years...
In C# where you have something similar with Linq it makes sense. The runtime translates Linq to expression trees and the Linq provider translates the expression tree at runtime to a native query. That native query can be anything - sql, mongoquery, or can be an in memory collection, etc.

You can use the same strongly typed Linq expression with anything.
- I tried Umatrix but it was too much configuration for me. ublock provides me with a sane out of the box experience.

- I am not sure whether privacy badger and decentraleyes are mutually exclusive.
Anyone got a lambda based slack bot for WC?
Makes sense. A bit sad that this has to be on paper and officially enforced.
No, they can still fire you for incompetance, discipline, or if they can't afford you

https://facultyhandbook.stanford.edu/handbooks/faculty-handb...

Tenure simply means 'without limit of time'. That's all it means.

https://facultyhandbook.stanford.edu/handbooks/faculty-handb...
The sector before solely consisted of a few government agencies. He showed that a private company can operate successfully in that space, which many doubted before. That he can be cheaper is then not much of a surprise, government agencies have little incentive to be as efficient as possible.

Tunnels are different, it's already done solely by private companies and there is some competition. Beating a Swiss company will be harder than a EU or US government agency.
I guess it depends on just what size vehicles we're talking about. I agree that having tiny one or few person pods would probably not be efficient. But a "10-person cars on rails", type of scenario might not be as insane as you make it sound. Since it neatly side-steps the most complex parts of automated driving, we could have the reality of a well orchestrated fleet of smaller units. These could link up for efficiency on demand (maybe even while in motion), then separate again if they are operating in a complex web. Having a cheaper way of making tunnels feeds back again into the loop. Without doing any rigorous analysis, I can't comment much, but I wouldn't dismiss it offhand.
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Is a romantic point of view but also a biased one. Yes, I agree that Native People were victims of diseases and suffered a lot of abuses.

But would would be unfair not to mention that they received also some in exchange. They benefit of a new universe of human knowledge, around four thousand years of philosophy, technology and science and incredible advances on medicine and surgery that the native people couldn't even dream.

The grandsons of the Natives from American continent own also now three languages, English, Spanish and Portuguese that are a blessing and a world of new opportunities.

This is not being mentally punished, is being mentally boosted and rewarded with the keys of the planet.
And no one before thought of that? The reason tunnels have become larger over past decades is because of additional requirements (safety, electricity, larger rolling stock). That small tunnels are easier and faster is known at least since the 1890 when much of the London underground (deep underground, not cut and cover) was built.
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I am not aware of a single piece of software written by Microsoft that I would call efficient, apart from maybe Notepad or MSPaint.