skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because facebook recognizes how powerful a tool the site is to fuel hate and they don't want to destroy society.
Russian sanctions were passed by a split congress in a time that is widely regarded to be pretty much a deadlocked congress. The only roadblock to these sanctions was when Trump refused to implement them (though I guess the majority republican congress could do something else maybe? I don't know who's wheel house "enforcing" a sanction is).

Which is super convenient for the Russians, because previous sanctions have in fact seemed to hurt them, and the Magnitsky Act also seemed to have an effect
I'm not worrying about killing diversity.

Languages are not static, english would evolve local features, variations, incorporate things from other languages, and adapt to specialized needs and creativity.

Some alternative languages would survive anyway. Some new may develop.

How do you think we got those many languages in the first place ?

The important thing is that all people have a root base they can use to communicate. And official one that is formalized, used systematically and taught globally. Not that we seek to eradicate what's goes beyond the root.

The important thing is that all can fill the same administrative forms, understand each others laws, debate ideas with equal strength, share books, consume remote news, discover other countries, etc
Having a lot of trouble parsing this buzzword soup. What the heck even is this program? Very uncharacteristic of Stripe.
You can become a manager or SWE without a degree. Easiest way to get different role is to transfer within your company: go find some other team (or same team!) with people you know, convince them you'd make a good fit.
Facebook's brand is based on connecting real people. Fake trolls pollute their platform and tarnish their brand.
This comes after a rejection 3 weeks ago citing use of the Vulkan-on-Metal API.[1]

1: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-Re...
Please don't break the HN guidelines by taking threads off on generic ideological rabbit trails. Once you get this far, the resulting flamewars are all the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been breaking the guidelines by using HN primarily for political arguments. That's something we ban accounts for, because it's destructive of what this site exists for (i.e. intellectual curiosity). Can you please stop doing that?
Their problem is the huge infrastructure cost up front - this was built for cars as the interstate network...mostly during the Cold War, as a dual-use technology (military transports on railway are far more easily sabotaged).
> Oh then, is the subsidy for fossil fuels and roads driving increased intensity of hurricane storms?

I am unable to reply to this directly due to comment depth.

Public highways provide certain economic incentives. Land that would be of marginal utility due to transportation costs without public highways now has greater economic utility. This utility provides economic incentives to private automobiles to capitalize on that land. These public highways create traffic and pollution via suburban sprawl that would otherwise be much less. Public utilities also help subsidize suburban sprawl.

Increased economic destruction by hurricanes (whether worsened by fossil fuels or not) is due to government providing economic incentives to construct in coastal areas subject to hurricane damage. The federal government subsidizes flood insurance for properties in these areas, make the actual cost of ownership lower for the developers and higher for others (tax payers). Perhaps it's cheaper to not erect suburban neighborhoods in areas prone to flooding in the first place.

It's all interconnected. Government subsidies in their various forms impact economic decisions for better or for worse.

> If you think so then what should we do with the increased destruction of property who at perhaps only peripherally participated in that subsidy?

Don't subsidize the reconstruction of properties damaged by hurricanes and flooding. The market will equalize the situation by
1) Insurance will be more expensive
2) Property value will decrease due to increased insurance cost (total cost of ownership)
3) Builders will be highly incentivized to build more hurricane resistant buildings in order to obtain lower insurance rates
4) Hurricanes will have less economic impact due to the aforementioned facts
Keep in mind that Scott Aaronson is about as famous as CS professors come. He no longer can get anymore famous by doing great work himself. Instead, he gets more famous by having his students do great work and having them become famous as well. A more junior researcher (or a researcher outside the theory community), on the other hand, would have more incentive to claim research as their own to become more famous themselves.

That's not to diminish Aaronson's generosity here, just to put it in the context of his actual career motivations.
Bloomberg News is low quality news. Don't read them unless you want to be misinformed. They're copy paste jobs from other low quality news.
I imagine that soon any co-ordinated effort at political organisation is going to require you to openly identify as a legally registered entity, e.g. a PAC or association. But what really set Facebook off in this case was the organisation of an event that could lead to physical violence. I think they're going to start clamping down hard on these, not just suspicious ones but likely in general.
What big capital intensive businesses is Apple investing in? These days it seems like all of thier focus is on chip design and software. Most of the heavy lifting and capital intensive costs are outsourced.

I don’t think they can just throw more people at intellectual based innovation. There are only so many people in the world that they can hire and hiring more people brings its own issues - the whole Mythical Man Month.

I would imagine even prototyping and developing new hardware would be done by a relatively small team.
You should ask our president and his party why they support Russia more than Americans. That's what happened to patriotism. We got betrayed.
You will run into issues sending email to services that run very aggressive IP based spam filtering w/ white-lists. AT&T (att.net, bellsouth.net) is one example of a company that does this. They subscribe to the UCEPROTECT blacklists, which will sometimes include all of DO in a bad neighbor list. The only way to not get on this list is to pay UCEPROTECT. If you don't pay then you will need to contact mail admins at AT&T (and others) to get added to whitelists. When you move to a knew droplet and get a new IP you will have to do it all again.

I had looked into moving to a service where I could reserve and IP and assign it to an instance (vultr.com) in order to keep a consistent IP across instance migrations. I eventually decided it wasn't worth the time and signed up for a managed email account with runbox.com (they have the best family deal).
Questioning the authenticity of records (be they second hand accounts of events, paper documents or 1s and 0s) has been the norm since it became common for people other than royals and clergy to be able to read and write. Jefferson and Adams would not find the concept of "fake news" foreign at all. The sophistication of the authentication mechanism for a document usually has to do with the use case. Official letterhead was good enough for most important routine correspondence. Birth certificates get stamped. Money has fairly sophisticated anti-counterfeiting features.

We'll remember the late 20th and early 21st century as the exception to the rule because during that time period if there was an audio/video recording of something you could be reasonably assured that it was legit. That won't be the case going forward. Audio and video will become a free for all like every other medium.

I'm not worried.
> since you tend to get more products from the same manufacturer if you offer positive reviews vs negative ones.

Is this true?
I'd expect if Amazon had any integrity they'd take steps to prevent this via there position as an intermediary.
I overcame my fear of flying by accepting that if it's my time, it's my time. I too am in my early 40s and I feel I have lived a decent life. Unlike you however, I haven't traveled much, and it became more of a priority for me to face this fear.

On a side note, the best way to overcome any fear is to face it, repeatedly. In my fight with flying fear, I forced myself to fly often and longer and longer distances. Secondly, you need to stop negative thoughts in their tracks. Fear is exacerbated by an endless stream of "what if" thoughts that can spiral out of control. I learned to practice mindfulness and stop these thoughts. It takes practice and patience, but you'll find how free you can be from fear when you learn to reject these thoughts.
> Qualitative items such as the ones listed are important for customer focused environments, however, I'm not sure if AI can account for such factors.

One of the nice things you can do with optimization problems is plug humans into the loop as oracles. Often, 'we know it when we see it', and we can do pairwise comparisons of 2 possibilities. So you can train a ML model based on win/loss comparisons and it'll learn to take into account the softer qualitative aspects via preference learning.

A recent example you might remember from the press: "Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences" https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741 , Christiano et al 2017 https://deepmind.com/blog/learning-through-human-feedback/ https://blog.openai.com/deep-reinforcement-learning-from-hum...

But also "Deep TAMER: Interactive Agent Shaping in High-Dimensional State Spaces" https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10163 , Warnell et al 2017.

You can even pair it with EEG or brain scans for implicit ranking: "Towards personalized human AI interaction - adapting the behavior of AI agents using neural signatures of subjective interest" https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04574 , Shih et al 2017.
One of the biggest issues with further adoption of Blended Wind Body aircraft is that current FAA regs require demonstration that deplaning the aircraft in an emergency is possible at full seating capacity, including crewmembers, in 90 seconds or less [1], although studies and simulations have been done that continue to evaluate this [2]

BWB with their pax on the inside, make this very challenging.

[1] s7: http://fsims.faa.gov/WDocs/8300.10%20Airworthiness%20Insp%20...

[2] https://fseg.gre.ac.uk/fire/fseg_ped2010_bwb_paper_distrib_f...
Google is your friend.

In short: gerrymandering is the practice of redrawing voting district boundaries to ensure your victory in as many districts as possible.
Interesting to note that Amazon seems to have removed this book https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Geopolitics-Geopolitical-...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Less Wrong
>You claimed "in most places where [direct democracy] was practiced (ancient Athens... etc.) it was shown to be more benevolent and inclusive to 'true numerical minorities' than most representative democracies." I'm disagreeing with that claim.

You can disagree, but not because ancient Athens had slaves or women didn't vote. That were common places until millennia later across systems of government, and not some inherent product of direct democracy (as opposed to representative democracy).

If you want to disagree, let's stick to differences in how the citizenry included or excluded in both is treated.

By definition, something found in both types of democracy (such as slavery or women not voting) wont tells us anything about how they differ.

>I'm asking for a source for the the general claim because I'm confused about what separates "true numerical minorities" from other kinds of minorities.

Nothing. I didn't chose the term "true numerical minorities" -- I just used the grandparent's (ff317) term.
one of my favorite js libraries.

reveal.js is really good too.

someone thank them for me.
OpenAI’s robotic hand doesn’t need humans to teach it human behaviors
Fixed - thank you!
It's called free market.
LOL I'm from georgia
> exceptions, and consistent, universal use of monadic return types, are isomorphic and can have the same evaluation characteristics.

I feel like there is a small but important difference. Encoding exceptions in monadic return types allows the type system to guarantee that all exceptions are handled, or at least considered by the programmer. That is a very strong guarantee, especially as you put up layers and layers of foreign libraries and abstractions.
I know not everyone have the means for that, but here we go:

Why don't you try to take flying lessons ? Or at least the basics:

- Weather

- How a plane works, flies and such

- Wind, current, clouds, etc.
You must mean vector?
The one that comes to mind is the discussions of the two World Wars. When I left high school, I basically believe that both of them were basically good vs evil stories, where Europe was sucking at stuff and then America showed up and defeated the bad guys. My history classes basically ignore WWI only to say that a bunch of people died in trenches and then America showed up. WWII, the British and French were losing, and then America showed up. What's an Eastern front? Normandy. America is awesome. The end.
Because people don't like Donald Trump.
Good riddance. Tencent is closely associated with the corrupt Chinese government. Better that it fall and cripple the governments effort to censor all
Intel Embraces Full-Stack AI Imperative
Looks like they're actively changing the repo and removed the file I tried to access earlier.
Degrees are largely what you make out of them.

Agreed. I think a lot of people take CS to get a GPA, network, get a good list of impressive sounding internships, and work with buzzword-compliant libraries.
Surely him being very young impresses more.

Kylian Mbappe won the World Cup a couple of weeks ago. He was 19. That makes it a bigger deal.

Generally people are impressed by accomplishments made by younger people. I suppose there is also a similar effect at the other end, for a similar reason: you're disadvantaged in accomplishing stuff if you're at either end of the age spectrum. You either had a lot less time to get to the top, or your faculties are waning precipitously.
> What if instead of single-payer hospitals would take 'subscribers' locally, they'd pay 6% of their income. Make it a requirement that every American needs to signup with a hospital, and that all hospitals need to take anyone regardless of income or lack thereof.

Unrealistic ideas are easy to throw around. In Germany, health insurance premiums are a mandatory 15.5% of income. Are we ready to impose a new 15.5% tax on everyone?

> We'd no longer be wasting ANY money on insurance CEO's, etc...

> What if we capped politician benefits across America at what the average American's is?

Feel-good moves that would save little real money, because at the end of the day what costs money are the salaries for all the middle class people involved in the health care system (doctors, nurses, administrators).

> progressive income taxes for consumption/vat instead... a vat would be paid by anyone in the country regardless of legal status, citizen or immigrant.

Except the people who want universal healthcare want the tax system to be even more progressive.
This is really cool - love the look. I built something comparable to this for telegram a while ago - https://writt.glitch.me
Depends on where you are standing. The best metaphor I've seen for the world these days is Scott Adams' about us watching two different movies in parallel at the same time.

It's equally possible to look at the same world, and see that business is booming, the stock market is at record highs, employers are hiring and making investments at rates we haven't seen in years. Tension in areas of the world that have been problematic my entire life appear to be on the ebb at the moment. Maybe it's a regional thing... But things are looking pretty fricking awesome over on this side of the fence.
Writing a MVP for your back end with Kotlin
Exactly. Sooner or later alibaba is just gonna be another Chinese governments pawn anyways. The government already took over Wanda and hna effortlessly.
There was a tipping point out of nowhere that caused everyone to be deathly afraid of comments in the internet once they realized that evil Foreigners were ALSO making comments on the internet.
As California burns, many fear the future of extreme fire has arrived
An elaboration by Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAsrsMPftOI

TL;DR is that the standard is used for the most consistent tea, not most tasty/enjoyable tea
French, all in all, is a terrible language for ease of communication.

Don't get me wrong. It's a great language to write a novel in. Make an argument. Describe a country side.

But it's slow, convoluted and error prone.

All languages have weird stuff. Even English, while being incredibly easy, have many quirks, like in the joke: "Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

But french is more about learning exceptions among a few rules.
"Why doesn't the USA do the same"

Do you mean "Why doesn't the USA government do the same"? US government is slightly less omnipotent than Chinese.
Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia
Honestly, what did you expect for $10 a month? That's less than a single movie ticket. As soon as I saw the price I said: no way that's going to last...
PSP was and still is amazing. And while we are down the memories lane, one thing that strikes me as incredible was running Ventura Publisher (DOS) with that graphic UI on a 286.
My mid-2000s car has a CD player but no aux port. Instead of going out to buy CD-Rs I asked friends on social media for any spare CD-Rs they were willing to get rid of. Lo and behold I now have over 400 blank CD-Rs that I didn’t pay a single cent for!
Spam isn't (generally) illegal, and yet virtually everyone would argue all platforms should moderate spam because to not do so massively degrades the service quality for everyone.

I mention this because I think content moderation, as a debate, should not be framed as whether or not to do it at all -- but rather as a recognition that deciding to moderate a particular class of content carries a cost-benefit tradeoff.

It may ultimately be the case that we decide that a certain class of content is not worth moderating, because when doing so the costs outstrip the benefits, but let's keep that as a pragmatic discussion rather than a principled one about "all" speech.

Your instinct might be to respond with "of course, spam should be moderated, but besides that..." but I think the knowledge that there could be some series of enumerated exceptions suggests we should stop pretending they're exceptions at all.
Wikimedia Pageviews Analysis
Different vs. More
They do not like him so much, that they elected him the President.
On top of it, the Linux ecosystem has evolved in cloud space to be more like VMS with things like metering, more security restrictions, clustering, and so on. The "unnecessary" stuff that was integrated with VMS ground up got bolted onto Linux's later.
Factor 0.98 now available
Should images also not display by default?

What about short videos used as replacements for GIFS? Loading the gif would actually use more bandwidth.

All these restrictions on mobile browsers make web development a pain.
https://youtu.be/_2ZwhvIkgek
The Bullshit Web
> People are always going to make choices in their economic self-interest.

Why does 89 octane gasoline exist?

The magic of solar city is simple -- they figured out how to market easy monthly payments for a big capital investment. People decide to go solar for all sorts of reasons, and financial is usually not the driver. I live in the northeast, and it's marginal value, you save like $20/mo in electric bills and are stuck with a lease on your roof. Many of my neighbors with solar could save $50/month with a much a $4,000 investment windows, and a few hundred in chaulk and spray foam.
Here is one discussion that I was involved in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432191
Note that Aaronson also thought that a fast classical algorithm was impossible. Tang found the algorithm in spite of that false start.
Also, "The Russians" narrative contributes to the idea that there is singular state actor doing this. I'd wager that they're not even the most sophisticated one.
>If a product finds some customers (maybe ultimately unsatisfied, or disappointed, or gaslighted customers), there must be a need that the product is filling.

Well, I'm a believer in an objective world in which not all needs are equal.

I can accept that which need is important or not can be difficult to ascertain. But I also hold that in many, if not most, cases, it's very easy.

Despite the cult of the individual and the reverence with which subjective taste is held, I'd go on record to say that some (most) people have buy products that fulfill irrelevant non-needs.

For an easy to agree with (but real) example, heroin addicts ands Milli Vanilli listeners both buy products that "fill a need". The question is more whether they should.
"Primitive" structures and other structures engineered to avoid tension in the concrete. Concrete doesn't have zero tensile strength. Apparently it's a few MPa, so a fifth or a tenth of the compressive strength. http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/amp/concrete-properties-d_...

The large dome of the (Roman) Pantheon is unreinforced concrete. Most compressive structures built before the modern period (arches, domes, buttresses) were not reinforced with tension elements, just plain masonry.
Program Synthesis with TLA+
Android and YouTube most likely make a lot of profit for Google(altough Google tries to keep things quiet).

And they are totally different businesses from Google search, sharing only a similar monetization method(ads),but that's such a small part of the whole.
I suggest reviewing the lyrics to 1980's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_%C3%9Cber_Alles

for appropriate relevancy nearly 40 years later.
This project could easily use FileSaver.js to download the JSON locally. You could then easily read it back. This is how I do it for my site that runs locally only.
Pointlessness of banning a mere 32 pages aside, their stock is up 1% today so they'll box it up as a win internally.
Use Artificial Intelligence to Detect Messy/Clean Rooms
New Uses Vie for GDDR6 Supply
Read the article. Tencent grew 5% this quarter. That is extremely slow growth for them.

But if a company this size only grows 20% per year, they are still on the way to becoming a Trillion dollar company.
A2 Hosting Affiliate, Reviews and How to Make Money with Them
> Obviously a retailer like Amazon wouldn't outright edit user reviews because it would be incredibly easy to catch...

To be fair, you're also giving them the benefit of doubt on this, for which the dark patterns don't seem to justify. It could just be a scandal that hasn't broken, yet.
I'm with you on the analysis.

> There is likely next to nothing they can actually do to stop coordinated exploitation by highly skilled and intelligent state actors.

If they weren't so spineless, the solution is simple, at least in the time leading up to elections. Shut it down. Turn off ads. Disable non-profile pages. Allowing blatant manipulation of the platform deserves a blunt solution. Maybe let people think for themselves for once? Facebook is a convenience, not a necessity.
Generally, yes -- they are retired. See: https://www.rhinocarhire.com/Car-Hire-Blog/July-2014/Retired...
You can go a long way towards flipping between these parallel universes by logging in and logging out of social media.
Well, as you yourself admitted, your position is the default one, that few would disagree with.

That automatically implies that it doesn't take much experience or a very open mind. It would be the opposite position, the hard to accept one, that would require broader life experience and a more open mind.