skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't clear from the article - does Mastodon have the equivalent of Twitter lists in which I can group sets of handles into separate timelines that I can follow independently/parallelly?

The one timeline thing doesn't work for me too well... I prefer a few separate parallel timelines and tweetdeck is great to organize and follow such parallel timelines.
Favorites don't show up in any timeline other than your own favorite list. To my knowledge, others cannot see favorites but I might be wrong, I can't access my own instance atm due to a network filter.

The canonical way is to retweet (boost) a toot which shows up in the timeline of your followers and your profile (the boosted tweet will also show up on the federated timeline but not associated with you).
Actually "Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" - the Queen is apparently a Bill & Ted fan.
Some science fiction books do mention this issue, e.g. "A Gift of Time" by Jerry Merritt.
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I've seen a whole lot of tweets from Sarah Jeong throwing shit at white people. I've not seen any yet of white people throwing shit at her based on her race.

If there are tweets like that, I'd genuinely love to see them - I'd rather have my knowledge updated than continue being wrong.
You have to wonder what is possible when you see articles like this one when you collect enough data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17692447
Sometimes experience is the better teacher. I worked with a lot of programmers, some more talented than I am, and they dropped out of college or didn't go to college and learned by book or experience.

Anyone remember when the word Hacker used to stand for an amateur who didn't take classes but hacked away at the code and even learned how to do things college does not teach. Like double hires mode on the Apple // or speeding up the 1541 drive on the Commodore 64 by turning the display off or letting it randomize the color bars of the boarders.
Regarding the validity of supply and demand determining prices, check out this essay from an Economics professor: https://professorwerner.org/shifting-from-central-planning-t...

He argues that equilibrium conditions necessary for validity of the supply-demand curve almost never actually occur. So what Harari writes is by no means nonsensical, certainly it has respectable academic support.
Which parts of the Vice article do you believe make it a hit piece?
My biggest dream is a big epaper or pixel qi screen to do development on. The bazillion nits is killing my eyes...
Several propositions:

- HTTPS

- RSS feed (with full article joined)
Oh, absolutely. A good type system also makes unnecessary to write tests asserting that your implementation uses exact / concrete types. A good type system would allow you to have a clean and sane 'Eatable' concept (interface / trait / protocol) that you can use and assert instead.
I used to refer to them as American Embassies when traveling. If you're lost, tired, hot, thirsty, hungry, have to use the bathroom and don't have change for a public WC but you stumble on a McDonald's, they'll have all the amenities you mention and often a map of the surrounding area.
This post made my Monday better. I can relate to it so much and feel happy that there are more people out there and someone spoke about this, even wrote books! The slow thinking has been a cause of interiority complex since my childhood. I feel uncomfortable and weird when people compliment me for saying or doing something clever. I'm not used to it and this surprises me knowing that I have a potential of doing something smart and creative. But this post encouraged me to speak out all this like nothing else did. I think I'm not dumb anymore, haha! I hope I overcome this and make it my strength someday. Amen
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The UI/UX usually sucks a lot.

Bitcoin wallets for example, suffer a lot because the average user doesn't have much of an idea that they need a strong password or what these random numbers mean other that they might behave like bank accounts.

The ideal decentralized UI/UX will work largely by copy paste, with human readable names (@me@mastodon.social, for example) and doesn't have too many buttons that need more than an icon or single word to explain them.

On top of that it also needs to look modern and neat while being fast and snappy on mobile devices without sucking up battery or limiting how the users can interact (ie, not possible to share photos directly with the app is a no-go)

These design limitations are solved more easily by centralized services as they can just throw money at it.
Sergeant Brinn went to Stanford. Steve Jobs went to Reed. Can you articulate an even somewhat critical relation between these examples and the minimum wage? I’m just not seeing it, but open if someone can connect the dots.

I was unable to go to college without massive student loans and now I can’t afford to have children despite working obsessive hours.

> I am of the opinion that consumption is what drives the modern economy (for better or worse).

What about having a productive and efficient economy? I was looking at this recently:

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/labor-force-partic...

Our labor force participation rate is drastically lower than Europe’s. Not sure why but I remember a post on HN a few days ago where a homeless American programmer was asking for advice and more people than not recommended that he not take a minimum wage job because it would barely help and take all his time. True he had programming experience but this is a homeless person. If being homeless is not enough to justify a low-end job, it seems like a stretch to think this is an economy that can work. Again, what am a I missing? Are you not worried that you’re wrong? Economics is difficult stuff which is why i am asking.

> The production is then typically figured out from that.

Poor people consumer almost entirely cheap-labor made imports, often made in free-trade manufacturing zones (sweat shops) so this is not computing at all for me.

This is at least not the left I signed up for when I was in high school. We hated sweat shops.
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Seems like depreciation (assuming straight line over 20 years) is going to roughly double that figure.
> Can I not take women seriously when they dress like that? Why?

Sounds like you take her plenty seriously. However, she _does_ sexualize her appearance, and the majority of men are either conditioned or born to have a significant response to that. She's aware of that fact. I think you'd struggle as much as a gay man with the cast of the Chippendales running the same videos naked.
Dude, same here! And it's not easy to squeeze out some time to practice with my tight work schedule. I'm just sticking to practice, hoping that more practice is what I need.
Because humanity's experience with centralization of power has been abysmal--and unsurprisingly so.
Could you explain? What was bad before, and what has been solved by this website.
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I use KDE/X11 although I do not think that should be relevant.
During my engineering, among the eight semesters, I've been able to answer only 3 papers till the last question. And yet I passed in all of them. It was sort of frustrating, though.
Mutation testing is a good way to assess test quality. You ideally want every mutation to be caught be a very small number of tests.
The 4chan campaign against Wu was based around claiming she doesn't build her projects herself, driven by racism and sexism. I guess Wu couldn't even be bothered by people being racist and sexist towards here, but claiming she isn't authentic and doesn't have tech-skills awakes her tiger. She's a hacker, her tech-cred is everything.

The campaign against Jeong is some bs about old tweets where she mimicked the racism she gets back, recast as racism against white people.

Wu and all her followers would happily stand with Jeong against this bs (the same racist and sexist garbage Wu has to fight) - if she wouldn't have sided with the attackers when the same thing happened to Wu.
This isn't an answer to the question I asked, it's just huffing.
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The main reasons they don't do this are that it's a fairly known quantity from an ML perspective (going from sequences of images to representational features), so wouldn't be proving that much to be able to do (c.f. the various Atari benchmarks which adequately learned actions to achieve rewards working with pixel inputs)... but at the same time would consume a huge fraction of the computer resource they really want to be targeting at the core timing/tactics/strategy problems... which is where they're really going beyond what's been demonstrated elsewhere with RL.

I agree it'll be even cooler when it all justworkstm end to end, but in terms of incremental 'holyshiticantbelievethatworked' this is at least as big a step as it will be when they add in direct visual input.
I still remember how the female lead in Ang Lee’s 2007 “Lust, Caution”, was blacklisted (the film itself was banned from mainland China). Though Googling her just now out of curiousity, it looks like she’s been able to make a comeback:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-tang-we...
1. Infants are not automatically US citizen when born in the US
2. The US needs more highly qualified workers.

How is the birthright changing that?
(argument that every baby could be the next Einstein is not sufficient)
> Centralization is so useful that people will create it wherever it does not already exist.

Any evidence to back up that claim?

> Given that centralization is so useful, and people want it so much, it should not be resisted. We would be better off if the effort being put into decentralization was instead put into better centralized services that respect user privacy.

OK. So, given that centralization is so useful, and people want it so much, let's put a dictator in power. We would be better off if the effort being put into elections and parliaments was instead put into better dictatorship that respects human rights.

Humanity is doomed to repeat history.
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It (often) performs much better than python/matlab without giving up the ease of use of those languages for numerical/scientific work.
You can create multiple named lists and you can add people you follow to them.

I mostly post publicly, but I used this feature to create a list of friends who live in Japan.
"I know what Russians are like I can see them from my house" becomes, I know what Chinese are like, my parents are Korean.
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You’re thinking in what is known as “the big lump of employment” mode: i.e., that there is some fixed demand for total labour in a country and that it will be apportioned out according to the lowest salaries. This is generally countered with the idea that as population rises (including due to immigration) more support jobs are needed – for example, as population rises you need proportionally more healthcare, and those extra health workers will need more consumer goods which means there’ll be more stores to sell stuff to them and more cashiers & cetera.
Decentralization also includes federation, where you have dispersed, but individually independent servers cooperating to serve an application.

The ActivityPub specification is an example. Mastodon is based on this, and Pleroma. Because it is spec-based there are less walled gardens / vendor lock-in. With your Mastodon account, for instance you can comment on PeerTube (federated YouTube alternative) videos. There are discussions and project on creating e.g. Medium, Reddit, etc. alternatives. I guess SlashDot functionality is also very possible to recreate in federated fashion.
In Germany, people say "Na?" or "Na du?" to which the other person usually responds the same.

It's not easy to translate but I think it's quite similar to the greetings mentioned above. Literally it's something like: Well? You? (and not 'well' in the sense of goodness, but rather questioning)

It's an interesting greeting and as a foreigner seemed very odd at first.
As they say - where there's a will, and funding for the willing, there's a way.
Here is my shot at defining various terms in this context:

- Centralized: Centralized networks have one central point which controls the network. That doesn't have to be a single server sometimes it is just that there is just one company controlling the network (e.g. WhatsApp).

- Decentralized: Is the opposite of 'centralized' meaning there is more than one central point. So all following types are 'decentralized'.

- Distributed: In general terms, it means that the network is (more or less evenly) distributed upon all participants. All participants have the same role and responsibility. There are various kinds of distributed networks. Git for example stores a full copy of all information in every node. Distributed Hash Tables use a different approach where every node is responsible for one explicit part of the information to store.

- Peer-to-peer (p2p): Is one form of a distributed network, which works (in general) without servers. So all the participants connect directly to each another (Tox).

- Federated: Is sometimes called a 'distributed network of centralized networks'. Two popular examples are e-mail and XMPP. All participant use their own centralized server, but that server cooperates with other servers to transfer messages across the network. Sometimes their implementations make a distinction between client-to-server and server-to-server protocols.

In general, the more centralized a network is, the easier it is to control. This can be good when it comes to spam, but also bad when it comes to censorship.
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Alright, i know this guy from NYC - he would offer payment processing to companies who could not get payment processing in their own country.

Initially, everyone will be paid out on time and later he will refuse to pay holding 500-1M from each company.

He made 10s of millions doing that you'll be surprised that everyone threatened with a lawsuit but never reached the court.

Now, he has a lot of real estate in NYC.
Most saddening, perhaps, is the way in which the Web constrains the use of links. For example: although the link is the primary form of reference on the Web, underpinning the tangle of connections that make the system so useful, the ability to create new links is a privilege granted only to content producers. The vast majority of those interested in a piece of work are merely readers, unable to contribute, only to consume.

The sad part is, we already have the technical infrastructure in place to support those user contributions - it's the Comments section of any blog-shaped site.

So called "Web 2.0" was all about readers contributing feedback to whichever content was being published through a channel. But the shape it took was not the original hypermedia vision, but a conversation of loosely related comments that could potentially go off-topic.

To support the annotation feature described in the article, it would just require that common web platforms allowed their current comment systems to attach comments to paragraphs in the article, and show these comments as side notes. Current moderation functions could be used to separate the wheat from the chaff. But it would require readers to adapt and learn to tap this resource to its fullest potential.
Ahh, hm, according to this reddit comment (https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/89br5e/whats_...) you're right.

It still seems like she said, I don't want to discuss X, Vice said, let's discuss X anyway. Even though that happened prior to publishing the piece, the meta-discussion of X shouldn't have made it into the final piece. If someone says a topic is off-limits, and you continue bring it up anyway, that's kinda douchey. I'm not going to defend attacking Vice on Twitter before the article got published, but the final product is definitely still douchey.
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I think it was a mistake for them to market it as e-paper because it's clearly not as good as e-ink for the purpose "e-paper" evokes - reading books.

As a daylight-readable LCD it looks like it was great, but I guess not that many people need that.
If you read the Vice article though it's incredibly flattering to Wu. This isn't some hit piece. Yes, it does mention the online conspiracy theories, but it takes a pretty firm stand against them. It's confusing because Wu's reactions to the Vice article just don't seem proportional at all. Maybe there's something that hasn't yet been disclosed about the interview.
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Neural architecture is largely modular in many higher order organisms, like most mammals. I think Modular Neural nets, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_neural_network, with some sort of dynamic topological intermediary will probably be a better approach to more complex, hierarchical problems, and might be a decent shot at AGI, what do you think? Does anyone have further reading about this?
> Github's pull request and code review workflow has become pervasive in the industry.

Yeah, Github invented pull requests, Al Gore invented the internet, and I invented knives.
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Sorry we get lots of traffic and the server was not able to handle it well. As HN news wave has passed the site is more stable now :)
https://xkcd.com/1357/

This xkcd seems to fit here.
To each their own; ignorance is bliss I suppose. Me, I prefer my steaks rare and my information uncensored. We can co-exist of course; I respect your preference for well done and filtered content.
Which part/s of Germany did you hear that in?
The problem here is decentralized network relies on peers to self-enforce their decent behavior.
End users don't know how to, and their vendors have no skin in the game - then we get IoT botnets.
ISPs won't bother with egress filtering - then we get massive DoS attacks.
I'd say that's better than P2W games with lootboxes that target whales. I think's basically gambling.
Arguing immigration policy is usually better to do based on morality. Economic grounds is a hard proposition, since assuming the government budget is balanced we can split any given population in two groups; one which under a given time frame increases budget deficit when grown and the other which causes surplus when grown.

If we only look at the economical aspect then the question about immigration is simply a crass question about averages. If the average applicant with their dependents are in the later group for the defined time frame then its a good policy to allow and encourage growth, and if its not then its better to prohibit. Here in Sweden a researcher did such study and unsurprisingly the result showed that for the time frame of 20 years the state economics from immigration is a net negative. It is very possible that over an enough large time frame that result will change but their study could not make such predictions.

The averages for H1B applicants and their dependents could be different but the article here only cite a study that correlate economic growth for companies that hire skilled immigrants. Its a good incentive for doing more studies but I would focus the moral perspective of liberty and humanitarian aid when it comes to immigration policy. I have strong doubt that a rigorous economic study would fall in favor of immigration for any time frame less than 50-100 years, based on my own reasoning, guesses and historical knowledge.
I think this might be a result of "the only winning move is not to play", so to speak. If the game is, in the mind of the AI agents, unwinnable, not playing is not an option, therefore it begins to pick random actions instead.

I'm not sure if the AI can surrender (I only managed to watch the first two games as it was rather late at night) but it might be a path to explore; having the AI give up if the game cannot be won anymore.
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Thanks for the feedback I will try to improve it with your example.
Depreciation and utilization rates need to be incorporated.

If interest + depreciation is about $9K/yr, that's $25 a day, which means if you drive 8 hrs a day and have a 58% utilization rate, is $5.38/hr which is not all that far from what Uber drivers net. At 30 mph, it's 18 cents added per mile.

A self-driving car could perhaps operate more than 8 hours a day, but that doesn't mean that customers will be equally available at all hours.

I strongly suspect that when you do a proper analysis, self-driving cars are just competitive and not hugely cheaper.
If you work in software (not clear from your post) you should be able to easily find a job in the UK. Companies will usually take care of VISA sponsorship.

Otherwise, France now has a new VISA policy for talented engineers and similar profiles ("Passeport Talent"[0]).

[0] https://france-visas.gouv.fr/web/france-visas/passeport-tale...
The reduction to absurdity is tests that essentially parse the code they're testing and assert the AST.

Any unit test should really be from the point of view of checking what the code does, as opposed to checking what code was written.

Structural tests by definition don't check what the code does - they're way to parse the code and check the AST is structured a certain way.
Well, you should hear from “evil” scholars, because you can still learn from them. You probably shouldn’t follow them though. By contrast you can learn nothing from what joe had for dinner yesterday.

Not that scholars aren’t filling their Instagram profiles with pictures of food.
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I got banned from mastodon.social with no explanation or warning. Given that this is the "official" instance I remain sceptical to whether this is a project worth engaging in.
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Is there a similar tool that can run as a pre-commit hook and prevent it from happening in the first place / after this scan?
Compared to the current mode of a few centralized services, a federated social networking landscape will be harder for companies or institutions to control and contain, yes.

Depending on the world view that can be perceived as a bug or a feature.
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What does "macro perfectly" mean? If it does the same strategy over and over, you just scout, find its strategy, and go for the counter. Its macro will be useless if it has the wrong type of unit.

In a way, the built-in AIs "macro perfectly", but they are terrible at strategy and fighting (because even fights are not just a matter of gimmicks, you need to split units in a special way, send diversions, attack at the same time from multiple fronts, etc.)
The mere existence of Wu is an outlier in China (and possibly in rest of the world). As anyone that closely follows Chinese politics know, the CCP is not keen on outspoken/unique people. Rappers has been banned for rapping about money and women (!); women have been arrested for promoting awareness of sexual harassment. I think Wu is simply trying (and failing) to make herself not more controversial than already is.
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