skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think I'm trying to discover something then you've completely missed my point. I was never looking to discover some new concept, but to find an existing model of looking at computability and implement it as software. I know its possible to decide computability for at least some subset of programs because we can do it by eye, I'm just looking to do the same thing programmatically in a way that is theoretically sound.
I'd love to hear what sort of job a UK new grad would get at Google that would pay them more than their US equivalent. Every data point I've ever seen has shown Google UK employees are paid a lot less.
>Netflix has raw, unfiltered data directly from their customers. Keeping both of those shows running must make sense to them when taking the data into account.

I mean, yes there is probably a long tail of fans that will follow a show til it's dying breath.

I guess I just feel there's an intangible effect on a property when it's run into the ground.

For example, the second and third matrix movies should have no effect on my enjoyment of the first, but they do - it makes the entire property feel cheapened.
Though interestingly the beginning of the discussion of 'Zen':

> This might seem unfair, so I’ll give a very specific but pervasive instance of this sort of meaningless flavor. Many parts of the book invoke Zen, which is a school of Buddhism that originated in China and has spread to several other Asian countries but, in the Western mind, is usually associated with Japan. (We do, after all, know this school by its Japanese name Zen and not by its Chinese name Chán, its Korean name Sean, or its Vietnamese name Thiền.)

seems to miss the fact that Buddhism originated in India and that not only the Japanese word Zen but also Chinese Chán are adaptations of the Sanskrit dhān(a) (meaning originally something like 'concentration' or 'contemplation').

(Obviously philosophy is not static, and surely there were Chinese developments in it, but by the same token there were also Japanese developments and to point out that Zen Buddhism did not originate in Japan and fail to mention the anterior roots seems rather odd to me.)
> “In my formative time in fandom [before Tumblr], learning the rules and etiquette of the space was not optional, it was baked into the entire structure of fandom,” Danielle said. “There was a hurdle of entry to fandom; it was organized into moderated communities and kinkmemes and other places that had rules, and even more than that had real live people who ran stuff and would prevent drama from boiling over.”

I'd argue that this is overblown. Way back in the '90s, most organized online fandom was on Usenet. Usenet had no formal rules. Sure, there was a ton of cultural norms, but there was no enforcement. If you were really tired of somebody, you could put their name into something called a "killfile" which would hide their posts from you (killfiles were entirely client-side). And ultimately despite the "Eternal September", Usenet worked well enough. Trolls came and went. Every once in a while a group would be dragged into the Meow Wars. But it was still less toxic than LiveJournal.

I mostly remember the LiveJournal age (and the UBB/vBulletin/phpBB age that existed alongside it) as something that was dominated by moderators who cared more about bikeshedding and wielding power than actually keeping awful people out. Rules enforcement was more like "You didn't format your post exactly the way I want it, this is your only warning, next time you're banned!". And in the meantime toxic people would just run rampant with concern trolling and/or attacking other fans for every little thing and the mods would just sit there and do nothing.

On UBB/vBulletin/phpBB boards, it wouldn't be uncommon for half the threads on the front page to be locked often with the threads ending with snarky moderator comments like "Use the search function next time dumbass". Or for all discussion on a particular subject to be shoved into a "megathread" with no threaded comments (god, I hated those forums; I miss WWWBoard).

Fandom has always been toxic.

Edit: Though I'll say that Tumblr's software and organization is godawful. The fact that until very recently the only way to comment on someone else's post was to reblog their post and add your comment at the bottom is just bizarre, nonsensical, and not conducive to any kind of productive discussion. And how reblogs and likes all got shoved under the "notes" category. You see a post gets 700 notes: you have no idea if it's a good post that got 700 likes or a shitty post that got 700 reblog-comments calling it out. And straight reblogs are treated the same way as reblog-comments too, so "soandso reblogged this post" is worthless. Are they sharing your post or replying to it? Gah.
Can confirm this experience
Using Tumblr is a challenge.

When I first started reading Tumblr blogs I was confused about the themes people used. Depending on the layout, the far side of quote pyramids often becomes so ridiculously narrow that all characters are stacked on top of each other. Conversations become unreadable.

Some other, modern themes use a different layout that doesn't have that problem.

I wondered why people put up with the old style until I found out that the usual way participants look at conversations is on their dashboard, which discards themes and uses the modern layout. People don't look at their own blogs. Blog themes aren't designed for reading. Only people without accounts have to deal with that, but they can't complain because they don't have accounts.

The whole reblogging system is a disaster. It's like a comment tree, but you can only look at one branch at a time.
He prefers to live where people actually are tolerant.
I don't feel like you're really engaging with any of these ideas.

> Simple teleology defeats it, in the sense that everyone who holds this view will probably die childless, and will not be very successful at spreading their views generationally.

This seems like a particularly raw invocation of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

The same reasoning would seem to suggest that religions that successfully encourage people to have many children are most likely to be correct because they provide one method for spreading their views (that is, having children and then teaching them to believe in the religions' doctrines). This is one way that religious views do get spread in the world and one demographic factor in religious belief, but it's hard to see the connection between this and the correctness of each belief as we might otherwise understand correctness.
I read it as "of the moon in the article"
You've done a lot of reasoning and deriving and explaining, but the fundamental conclusion you reach through all that work:

> I wonder if Douglass had... blamed others... instead of learning to read, educating himself, and becoming resolutely determined to gain freedom, [we would not] even be talking about him right now

has as its counter-example the very discussion in which you're taking part...

Douglass is a perfect example of two facts that cut agains the thesis of your comments in this thread. His work demonstrates that 1) critique is necessary; and 2) placing blame where it is due is NOT, as your question insinuates, mutually exclusive with action or self-improvement.
> "One one side you have plentiful cheap low skilled labor. On the other you have lasers, fast computers, graphics cards, cameras, and the associated programming inspection and maintenance costs.
Why do we think the latter side is going to be cheaper in anything remotely like the near term?"

That's a weird thought to have. Humans need on the order of ~15K a year in the US. On the other hand, even an ultra high end SDC computer costs only around ~12K in production and much, much less to actually make since Waymo will no doubt use their own TPUs. Lasers are cheap, compact and efficient fiber lasers. Cameras are mass produced in immense volume and are dirt cheap for very high quality. The only other factor is software development costs which is mostly a fixed cost.
Check this out, as one example, in the History section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia

>The influence could have gone the other way

Can be, sure. My saying that there was influence in one direction did not rule out it happening the other way as well Good point.

>often influences are very indirect, such as Sanskrit's influence on European languages - it wasn't due to lots of Sanskrit speakers vacationing in France.

Sure. I did not claim that. In fact, I've read a bit about the common features of Indian and European languages, etc. - and you can detect it too, if you listen to, or read, stuff in both Indian and European languages - e.g. mater (Latin) ~ mata (Sanskrit), pater (Latin) ~ pita (Sanskrit), hundreds more words that seem to sound similar or have a common root which historians say is due to the common Proto-Indo-European roots of both, which is the topic of a descendant (but really ancestor :) link of the one you posted: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Indo-European-languages

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans

Not sure how true all of that is, though. I have a healthy skepticism about historians, particularly when they cross-quote each other, and make claims about the past that almost sound like they were present there at the time :) And another reason is how the heck can they know all that they claim to, about things so long ago.
It meant trans content disproportionately faced a barrier to access. It hurts trans youth in particular, who are less likely to stumble on content, but could really have used seeing it there.
You shouldn’t be able to hide when you’re assisting with the dismantling of democracy.

If you’re fearful of your name being public, associated with this line of work, you should probably reevaluate your actions.

If you support or participate in the further tightening of copyright (when considering how extreme copyright law already is), you are the enemy, and citizens are well within their rights to publicly document your actions.
But you can wait until the season is over, subscribe for one month and binge. 10-13 episodes for $10.
This is also my main concern.
It's the reason (non autonomous) car sharing is failing in France: the people behave like pigs and the cars are disgusting.

One solution would be to add censors to check after each ride if the interior of the car has been degraded.
> Writing a web application? Not sure it really matters much if you use Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, Java/Spring. Just use what you (or the developers) are most comfortable with.

It might matter if you used COBOL, though. Or even C++.
Uber currently pays these "low skilled people" ~75% of the fare which leaves a lot of headroom to lower prices and still pay for vehicles and cleaning.

Rental car companies show how few people it takes to maintain a very large fleet of vehicles and it will take even fewer if they can drive themselves (an autonomous car can go through a wash on its own, charge itself, show up at a detailing station on demand, etc).
I'm not sure what decades of research you're referring to, but after my own search the literature seems suspiciously sparse on the effects of endorser to perceived quality of the product. I agree that celebrity endorsements are effective generally, just not for this reason. I would be interested in seeing some of these studies you're referring to.
When is such an awesome company like GitLab going to get serious about compensation and actually fix their calculator for regions outside of SF? I know firsthand that this is preventing many experienced people from even bothering to pursue opportunities there.
TBH, Reddit has always been considerably less toxic than Tumblr when it comes to trans stuff.

Sadly, the some of the larger trans subs have taken a turn for the toxic in the last couple of years or so, but 2013-2014 was a golden age, and even the current state of the trans subs is better than Tumblr ever was.
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You’re taking about intent, we’re talking about the very real consequences of inaction. The difference between apathy and neutrality is irrelevant.
Most RDBMS's got a well deserved reputation for "scary and complex" because they are enterprise grade software serious enough to have an entire career named after their administration. Much of the resources you'll find about these databases is written with the assumption that the reader is in that career track, which often isn't true.

This of course has nothing to do with the relational model, and teaching a newbie to use sqlite is a good way of demonstrating that.
>Eventually at Google US you get 5 weeks PTO, which is the same as in Google London. Plus Google has four more holidays in the US than in the UK.

How many engineers do you know who made full use of their five weeks every year and were able to be promoted?
> you could clearly change "x is even" to any "x is wholly divisible by <integer>"

Or...

"x is a prime number"

"x is a counterexample to the Goldbach conjecture"

"x is an encoding of a planar map that cannot be four-colored"

"x is the encoding of an algorithm that solves the traveling salesman problem in polynomial time"

"x is the encoding of a formal proof of the Riemann hypothesis"
The imminent insects-as-food transition has been "just around the corner" at least since I was reading Popular Science magazine in middle school.

Always with the same scare-pretext of "whelp, we'll have no choice! get ready to knock back some crickets whether you like it or not ;)". Then it plots out how much meat Americans eat and shows how it's unsustainable.

It just doesn't follow logically to me.

What seems more likely is that we will ween off of the idea that we need meat in every single meal. And once you also factor in the possibility of pricing in externalities, meat will become – at least – a dinner treat.

Meat is already subsidized by animal neglect, sketchy tactics, and mass pollution. I wouldn't mind if we were paying the honest price of meat at the market today. We'd get this cultural change on the roll, and we'd probably have something better already. And it won't be bugs.
Leaving aside the fact that talking "informally" about infinities easily leads to wrong conclusions, the OP wasn't even talking about a strict subset relationship. The comparison was between a set of proofs and a set of facts, which are sets of different mathematical objects. So at best you can say that each proof proves a fact (a fact can have several proofs) and the set of facts that have a proof is a strict subset of all facts. Or, informally, there are more facts than facts which can be proved. Oh, wait, this just restates the theorem we're trying to prove in the first place and doesn't give any insight into why it's correct.
I completely and totally disagree with you.

I have a serious medical condition. I was sexually abused as a child. I spent nearly 6 years homeless.

The last thing I want is someone trying to "rescue" me. I've spent enormous amounts of time trying to figure out how to solve some really hard problems without approaching it as charity and rescuing other people.

For example, I am trying to start a program to help homeless people and others with barriers to regular employment start making money online, even if it is only in dribs and drabs. I do what I can to advocate for more development of market-rate, inexpensive housing rather than "homeless programs" per se. I want to see the fabric of society change such that we have less homelessness. I absolutely don't want to see more Big Feels (TM) efforts to Help The Homeless because that almost always means giving them temporary relief that often actively helps keep them stuck and then expecting them to grovel in gratitude.

Having thought about this a whole, whole lot, I think good business models are the single best way to make the kind of civilizing impact I desire to see.

We need more Ghandis, who taught India financial self sufficiency as the antidote to being Britain's bitch, not more Jesus Christ Superstars, who at this point is a meme of "the only good man is a dead man who died a martyr." I assume that was what the world needed 2000 years ago. But I would like to see less charity and more healthy fabric of society that makes the lives of ordinary people work better without them having to prove they have some problem that merits positive intervention of some sort.

I"m fine if people feeling like their vision will "change the world" is the motivation they need to put themselves through the hell that starting a company can be. I'm extra fine if that framing has them thinking in terms of "How does this genuinely improve the lives of people and not just milk them for money to line our pockets?"
It's not a big topic because systemic racism and political and social neglect have made it normal.

The simplest way to look at it is this. Some minorities in this country have been forced to be poor due to a combination of social and state-sanctioned actions accumulated for a century or two. People in poverty often end up associated with crime and drug use. As a massive amount of cheap, highly addictive illegal drugs pours into poor areas, crime and drug use climbs.

The political system decides that the solution is to punish people more, the thinking apparently being that punishing them harsher will somehow alleviate the source of the crime and drugs: poverty. So the minorities targeted by racist policies, mainly poor black people, get locked up 6x more than anyone else. When they get out of jail, they have even fewer opportunities to make a living. The end result is a cycle of poverty, crime, prison, poverty, crime, prison.

To address this, you basically have to state that 1) America is deeply affected by systemic racism, 2) Politicians sentenced poor people to languish in prison rather than help them rise out of poverty, 3) Our citizens don't care much about each other.

It's very easy to ignore a big problem like our insane prison problem when the people affected don't live in your community or they're locked up in prison. The poor black communities who are affected have become completely normalized to it; every black person I know has a member of their family who has been to or is in prison.

Even though keeping people in prison costs us tens of billions of dollars, and continues a revolving door of poor people, new prisoners, crime, illegal drugs, and racism, we refuse to address the problem. We will continue to do so as long as we refuse to look hard at our own complicity.
I have a trackpad for gestures on my left and a mouse for point and click on my right. I am certifiably weird.
The winner will be the one who gets to pick the task for the programming challenge.
"The question is: how should one react to learning that life is unfair and full of adversity against them?"

The answer: Get incredibly lucky; Douglass learned to read with help from his master's wife when such was significantly frowned on and (IIRC) illegal. Respond to disagreeable situations violently ("After Douglass won a physical confrontation, Covey [a poor farmer who had a reputation as a "slave-breaker"] never tried to beat him again"). Commit crimes; Douglass attempted to escape repeatedly.

After that, all you have to do is become one of the most successful writers of your age. This step is trivial.
Tumblr was mostly a free porn-stash portal in the beginning, and even though David Karp denied it[1] it's still the case even today. Just do a site:tumblr.com <porn_keywords_here> and you'll find plenty of NSFW tumblogs...

[1] Source: 2011 What Is Responsible For Tumblr’s Recent Explosive Growth? => http://oobly.com/2011/01/30/are-the-p0rn-blogs-cloacked-as-n...
Whenever I get a new Windows laptop, the first four or five hours are spent reinstalling software that I use on a daily basis.

I can just leave a new phone next to the router. With windows, I have to sit and monitor a lot of things for those four hours along with hunting down the most updated executables and setup files.

I feel that mobile got software distribution correct. Thanks a ton, Scott Forstall.
As someone who was eating insects long before cricket protein bars became in vogue, I don't see entomophagy becoming anything more than a fad in the west, especially America.

The taste of insects simply does not compare to meat and poultry. Granted, this has a lot to do with cultural expectations, but that's exactly why I don't think that people are going to gradually shift to consuming a very different flavor.

Also, as someone who used to be heavily into protein, I don't buy the notion that people need more protein than what they are currently getting. A human body really doesn't need that much protein, and even body builders don't need as much protein as they often consume. If someone is telling you that you need to consume protein, it's probably because they're trying to sell you something. Even more so if they are calling it a "super-food".

Maybe things will actually change. I dunno. The insects that I thought were the most tasty(moth caterpillars) are the ones that people are least likely to want to eat. People might be fine with dried crickets and meal worms, but I challenge them to eat something more substantial.

Every "bug person" I used to follow on social media warns us of a looming food crisis and that insects will save the world. I thought it no coincidence that most of them either give paid lectures, sell books, or are associated with a "bug startup".
It's still getting faster too, e.g. engines are starting to use trap-based bounds checking which greatly reduces overhead when running on 64-bit platforms.
Presumably, because it's humiliating? If you're talking about a perfectly normal problem that is in no way NSFW (I'm not familiar enough with this space to give an example, I'm sorry) but it is marked as NSFW because it has something to do with being trans... I would assume that the feeling one would develop would be "my existence is NSFW" and eventually you disengage because nobody wants to feel they aren't accepted. To me, it would really just be "this thing is calling me as different when all I want is to find a community that accepts me".

But if someone with more experience in this wants to correct/expand on this I'd be grateful for the opportunity to understand better.
Your logic sounds right, which takes me back to my original question - is there an App Store policy that Developers have to maintain that Ad-free version or provide some form of compensation to those who paid if the developer decides to pull the Ad-free version
I used to read random people's tumblr, some gamedevs and whatnot had posts there.

What tumblr did was that suddenly all "NFSW" things to US standards (that are different from say... Japan standards), was hidden, not showing anymore on google searches, and when trying to click random hyperlinks ending on blocked content fairly often.

After this happened, I stopped reading tumblr, since I am not a poster, and have no intention of ever writing in tumblr, I don't feel like going through all the trouble of creating an account, and finding where they put the opt-in for NFSW posts, and keep logging on every time I click on a random link that tumblr moderation bot decided was NFSW.

I have a degree in digital animation, so I had for example tumblr block me from a blog that contained some references about character movements, because it featured "naked" characters (more like characters without texture genitals and clothes, but since women boobs you can't 'delete' from a model without changing how it works, they are always there, evne if without nipples, but in US culture that is frowned upon and get tagged NFSW).

Or some christian blogs talking about what is sinful or not, and so on. Tumblr differently than say... "Medium", is self styled less seriously, where people are more casual, not a place to find academic essays, so when the content is hidden, you can assume maybe is not worth your time going out of your way to register in the service that you have no intention of actually using.