skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's going to be depressing if we get to a point where the next generation is vastly superior both in intelligence and physical fitness. Mind you, still great for humanity, but depressing to have missed out on that. We may be considered primitive compared to humanity in a few centuries.
This! I spent the first half of my career in QA. This second half in dev. Coming from QA I'm very meticulous about everything and yet as soon as it leaves my hands something comes up. This is why I'm a big proponent of QA. I had a chat with someone who was pretty much dismissing QA because they had the mindset of I'll just test it or my cofounder will help. It's terribly surprising what goes down outside the confines.
Perhaps they are thinking of Aston Martin, who have fairly recently entered into an engine deal with Mercedes.
The wanted the current standards to seem normative. This makes it much harder to roll them back.
This is a great model that scales very well to the largest projects and most complicated refactors. In fact, it forces you to think about your refactors differently, and that is actually great. You learn to boil the ocean incrementally more.

We got the decentralized workflows alongside concepts like pull requests... but there's no real reason why you can't use your decentralized workflows with trunk based development. The secret, is combining the two: decentralized workflow for local development, with modern CI and code review, that all lead into the trunk.

I've personally been veering toward this model for a while, and it's also somewhat similar to what Google is doing[1], and it works great across a lot of different circumstances.

[1]: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
The most recent cortex had some interesting ideas: https://www.relay.fm/cortex/75

I just made one for launching safari. It prompts me to nap, walk, go to google with a 3 min timer, or go to hacker news with a 10 min timer.

Basically, I shouldn’t be on safari on my phone in most cases: it’s my #1 time sink. I’m hoping this will make me more intentional about use. The walk and nap options lead to notes I wrote to myself.

I’ll eventually start having it log time and number of opens.

This person has example shortcuts and other interesting ideas: https://angrybunnyman.com/blog

Personally, I found it hard to get started with shortcuts, because it’s such a blank canvas. A more fruitful way to start might be to ask “what frustrates me about my phone” or “what do I do repeatedly”. Then see if it can be automated - a surprising number of things can be now. The subreddit for shortcuts is a great help. Seeing what cgpgrey in cortex did really opened my mind to the potential.
I think as far as current tech goes, even if somebody gets 100% cloned, their mind (data in the brain) would still be different. That of course is when The 6th Day[0] (Brain data copy + clone) will never become a reality.

Here is a video about cloning dogs you may interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmHYUvmiXQI

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216216/
> [In the 90s] most people rejected it as unethical.

I don't understand this. If a clone is given the same rights as a non-clone, I can't see how cloning is unethical. It's not like non-clones get a choice in whether or not they want to exist. Why would we treat clones differently, anyway?

> I am guessing that cloning maybe a real chance for humans to become immortal

Sounds like you are confusing classes with instances. If every human is a different class, the class gets to potentially live forever, but each instance of the class still goes through the lifecycle. It's not like the consciousness of a previous instance is copied to a later instance. Each instance presumably gets its own state.
Not sure I understand the downvotes with no comment...? Maybe a video is more convincing... https://youtu.be/JelhR2iPuw0?t=17s

Or this from BMW....https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/15/bmws-holoactive-touch-in-c...

Or Ultrahaptics... https://www.ultrahaptics.com/
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I fully support this as long as they get rid of neckbeards.
A manager that cannot communicate what they need clearly is not a good manager.
Is academia the best place to do important research?
I’m glad that governments are cautiously allowing progress in gene editing even in human embryos instead of taking a hardline stance or outright banning the practice. Gene editing in human embyros is controversial to say the least but it has shown great promise in the last couple of years. It would be great to see the US get on board and allow the use of public funds for this research.
If you use Fitbit then you deserve everything bad that happens to you.
Using polarized sunglasses to darken distracting screens
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One of the nice and quite innovative features of IOS 12 update, however I can’t feel good about this update because it has completely ruined Apple News.
Apple News used to be a very nice slick news browser - I used it a lot, until some retard UI designer, decided to steal 1/3 of my precious screen estate - why?? for a horrible ugly useless navigation bar, with no way of collapsing it in landscape mode - I NEVER use Portrait mode on iPad.
In that case...

I think the world actually moved from C/C++ to Java 15 years ago. Then a segment of developers realized it still needed C++ and went back to it.

C++ development feels more popular now than it was 10 years ago. And the language is certainly better than it was.

Slow and 'productive' languages like Python and Ruby fill another niche and are not in direct competition.

Only now with the popularity of Rust and go, there's something that C++ developers can move to, but somehow there's no clear answer.

I personally prefer D instead of Rust. And I prefer C++ to Java.
Unless you've noticed, the article is dated in the future - Oct 30 :D
This is, of course, an anti open-source move. So, Cloudera Manager will win, there. The stack will go largely proprietary, as this is a defensive move - AWS are just killing them in the cloud. They need to prevent AWS just repackaging the Hadoop core and reselling it - what better way than by making your new platform AGPL-v3 or something, so you're still open-source, but AWS can't just resell it as EMR.
I mean.. I really like TypeScript and nodejs as an every language that I can use and promote without too much push back but "Does it better" isn't a qualifier that comes to mind. Sure I can come up with specific areas that I enjoy more about nodejs/TypeScript, but I can also come up with just as many for C#/.Net:

* Async/Await implementation is pretty much superior

* Real threading; great for task pools as well

* Task local storage; something the nodejs community is
very interested in but thus far only lives in hacks on obscure run-time features

* Speed?

* Integers?; come on man

* Linq/Entity Framework(though these should mostly be possible to implement in TypeScript now)

If I had my druthers I'd be using F# though, TBH.
How do we know he was murdered and it wasn’t suicide?
Indeed but it's funny that most SUVs are (what I'd call) fake SUVs. They look beefy and big but they have a 1.6 liter engine and can still only pull 1200-1400 kg (like the Hyundai ix35). And then there are the real ones that may at first glance look the same but easily pull up to or over 2400 kg (Volvo xc90 versions).
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Supposed they have used a pneumatic cannon with bird carcasses for testing purposes and Mythbusters tried it with a frozen and non frozen IIRC, though this says clay works just as well.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/catapoultry/
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If you ask Siri “Who’s phone is this?” while the phone is locked, it will disable biometric authentication.
It would take extreme idiocy to think that this is morally sound. There is no defensible argument for treating a human clone as anything less than human.
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This reminds me of the situation with regards to the unreal engine source code. It’s “open”, you can browse and contribute, but only after you agree to the terms which include agreeing to pay them when the time comes that you make money with it. The club in this case is everyone who agreed to their contractual terms.
IMHO that next generation is going to seriously need it; the world has grown very dense with information and distractions - much more than when we were younger or our parents. They're going to need that extra concentration to filter out all the garbage..and I sure hope they can discern fake information from real information because it will be everywhere by the time they come of age.

If anything, we're the lucky ones to see these problems grow from the start. The ones after us will be in the deep end right from the start.
> Traffic stops are more hazardous for the police in the US compared to other countries where guns are not as common.

I’m curious, do you have data that support that assertion?

A quick search shows less than 50 police officer killed per year by gunfire in the US: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36748136

This article claims “10 to 15” officers in the UK are shot and killed per year. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-19634164

Given that the population of the UK is 65 million, that’s one shooting death per 4.3 to 6.5 million citizens. The US population is 325 million, which comes out to one death per 6.5 million citizens.

That doesn’t break down by type of interaction, but if your assertion were true I’d expect to see a more apparent difference.
If you're interested in seeing how a GraphQL client might look in .NET, over at GitHub we've been working on an experimental LINQ-like GraphQL client for our APIs:

https://github.com/octokit/octokit.graphql.net/

It only supports the GitHub GraphQL API right now, but everything is generated from the schema so it should be possible to make it support other APIs.
We're the last dumb gemeration. Has a nice ring to it, I like it.
If they hashed and cashed the resource files, then they could be found locally most of the time.
This is an interesting statement, because while I agree that it might be good to name it something else, the name 'autopilot' is not inaccurate. An autopilot system in an aircraft does not stop for pedestrians or stop signs. Nor does it completely fly the plane itself.

The problem is that people don't understand what an autopilot does. But that's not something that should be argued around, when it wouldn't be a big exercise to name it something else.
Javascript still doesn't have 64-bit numbers or real multithreading or serious async or proper namespaces and modules.

C# the language is also not the same as the .NET runtime and framework, but Microsoft is the best organization in the world when it comes to backwards compatibility and the C# code you wrote a decade ago will still work flawlessly today.

I don't understand how you're switching to Node.js and shell scripts(?!) to take over all that functionality.
Concurred.
In people's minds, cloning = a person walks into a machine and two exact copies walk out. If you instead framed it as birthing a child who was exactly like you, I'm sure the perception would be a lot different.
I'm on about solely electric vehicles: EVs. Honda is more interested in Hydrogen than EVs. They have some underpowered hybrids, but few, overpriced models on the global market.

Lots of EVs are on their way and Honda and Mazda aren't announcing any future plans to enter that market.
It is interesting to note that Japanese popular fiction (especially various anime) often has human genetic modification as a central theme. Non-Japanese popular fiction does as well, but my perception is that it's not to the same extent and quantity. I am curious how much popular fiction influences people's comfort level with the concept. Or is there more prevalence of these themes in popular fiction because the people are more comfortable with it? Does life imitate art, or is it the other way around?

Or my perception could be completely off. It happens. :)
You can call it a library, but for LINQ to work at least four major features had to be added to the language or runtime:

-anonymous types
-implicitly typed variables
-object initializers
-lambda expressions

It's interesting that all of these features are very widely used (except maybe for anonymous types) outside of LINQ, but LINQ was the driving force for adding them to the language.

Anonymous types were needed to do the equivalent of "select field1, field2" that are familiar to SQL programmers, or to have intermediate values in a chain of Select/Where/Select operators. Implicitly typed variables (var) were needed to refer to the above types. Object initializers are needed so you could create the anonymous types, and non-anynymous ones too without breaking the LINQ chain. Lambda expressions of course were needed. All of the above are used outside of LINQ.

This was done in 2007. Java got streams and lambda expressions in 2014. JavaScript got it in 2015.

The SQL like syntax - well it exists. I think many people don't realize it's there. Everyone uses the method/lambda syntax.
> How do you git bisect a codebase where every 6th commit doesn’t build because it was jammed into the middle of a Pull Request?

This I think is the main problem with pull requests. A better default would be squashing the commits into a single one after review.
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Or your printers admin interface. Or your NAS.
Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (2009)
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Well, for some perspective, it's not just the police in the USA that shoot people is it:

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistic...

"The US has one of the highest rates of death by firearm in the developed world, according to World Health Organization data. Our calculations based on OECD data from 2010 show that Americans are 51 times more likely to be killed by gunfire than people in the United Kingdom."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/06/5558618...

"The U.S. gun violence death rate is also higher than nearly all countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including many that are among the world's poorest."
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"The needs of many outweigh the needs of few?"

I've heard such rhetoric before; it did not end well.
Yeah, I mostly use the methods to do LINQ and rarely use the linq syntax -- but -- it's actually quite powerful and if you have to do a reasonably complex query it's much easier to compose and read in that syntax than the alternative mess of method calls and lambdas.
The US spans a continent and is hard to easily generalize. Local and state laws are highly variable and complicate the equation. Based on where you live geographically and your ethnicity, you may have pleasant or completely horrible experiences. Since each state is almost like a european country in many regards, laws governing police can change just by crossing state lines.

The vast majority of "bad cop" stories come from the corrupt good old southern boys or inner city issues. Your average American isn't terribly worried about getting shot or money being confiscated.
Disruption. Begging for forgiveness instead of asking for permission. You can see it in many major players that got their start by going around regulations.

Once you are onto something, the regulations can be satisfied by backers who see a business plan, cashflow from the side of the business, or perhaps new regulations will form around the new company's business model.
If this leads to "enhanced" humans, I wonder how countries will react to competition from modified humans that can better compete.

The human race is in the unfortunate position of needing global regulation, and having a push back against globalization.

I don't know if the path of corporate globalization we are on can help either. We need a non-profit approach to global regulation of technologies like genetic engineering, self driving vehicles, and AI deployment because each of these has the potential to completely reshape the human condition.

I wonder if countries could cooperate on issues like this in a meaningful way. Can we come up with a sufficient momentum without drivers like profit or fear? Both of these drivers should ideally drive rational people to take action on these issues, but I think the perceived difficulty is what makes us ignore it. We need to clarify a path to profit and security for people to see taking action on this as an option they can take.

I'm an intern at a software company, what can I do? I'm struggling with choosing between the long term and the short term. The wide view and the narrow focus. For now, I'm building the scaffolding of my life, so that when I see an option that has better tradeofs between these I can take it and build something.
> The hoaxers writeup is, I think, pretty misleading. Their work tended to get rejected from high-impact journals.

What's your evidence for that? A number of their papers got accepted into decently high impact journals, including Hypatia.

> They submitted multiple stories to some journals (notably, to Hypatia, which they brag about getting accepted in) and leave a clear impression that their most ridiculous work was what made it in, rather than a much more banal paper

The thesis of the paper that got accepted was that "criticizing feminist theory is unethical". That doesn't seem particularly banal to me.

> They quote almost entirely favorable feedback --- including, in their earlier writeup, from papers that were ultimately rejected!

Who cares if the feedback was on papers that were ultimately rejected? Does that change the fact that they received favorable feedback on an absurd hypothesis?

> They submit approximately the same paper to multiple journals and are rejected by all but the very most marginal.

This is simply not true. They got accepted by high impact journals, including Hypatia. You seem to think that the papers that got accepted were 'banal', but that doesn't change the fact that they were accepted.

> In at least one case, they cite the same reviewer multiple times, leaving the impression of a consensus.

Are you saying that they do not cite a diverse sample of reviewers? Because that is empirically false. What you seem to be doing is latching a single instance where they cited the same reviewer twice, and trying to use that to insinuate that they didn't cite feedback from lots of distinct individuals, which is patently false.

> 1. Peer review isn't replication and never could have been. Peer reviewers get, at best, a couple hours, unpaid; submitting researchers get many months, and are often grant-funded. The hoaxers took ten months to get a few papers accepted in marginal journals. The pop understanding of what peer review is is, simply, broken: peer review depends on good faith, and it was never realistic to believe otherwise.

Is that so? So, you'd have no problem getting a nonsense paper accepted into a math, computer science, physics or even economics journal? I would be extremely surprised if you could pass of work of such low quality in journals of comparable impact factor in any of these disciplines.
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Cold? Factual, maybe. Are you saying you buy ugly food?
You just do it
Another reason to hate software patents.
In principle, I couldn't agree more. I get this from time to time, someone is stumped on an exception and after seeing it, I usually go "well, it's a null pointer exception in this method, so from looking at the code, it could come from these 3 places".

The pattern I see there is that a) in release builds, exceptions on many platforms suck. Things get inlined, parts of the stack trace are missing etc. If you understand why that is, that's not so much of a problem. But: b) people often have this Voodoo-like mentality about this. They often see the 100th stack trace that doesn't make much sense and try to wing it, because that's obviously always the case. The best thing you can do look at them together: Lead by example, think aloud and you might just teach someone how to read it in a better way.

It's rather important you have a consistent and accurate mental model of why your stack traces are mangled, lest you end up like one of those beasts that got random treats in B.F. Skinner's experiments and ended up with the strangest behaviors possible :-)
That's uncharitable.

Here in Australia there is a team building a new bank and having good success doing so. In order to overcome the institutional barriers like the one the OP raised, the team consists both of highly experienced corporate "grey hairs" and talented young hackers/designers.

This way, they have the industry experience and network to ensure the company is run competently and prudently, whilst also being able to leverage the energy and creativity of younger hacker-types who can bring new ideas to the market.

I'd suggest to the OP that this kind of approach may work for them.
Start smaller. Most of the disrupter banks started as something else with the view to eventually obtaining a banking license. That way you can actually prove that you have a product worth investing in. Usually banking startups start with a Stored Value Facility license (or the local equivalent) and work up from there.
Yes. The word "clone" has been so abused by popular media that people have wild misconceptions and objections. We should call them "elective identical twins."
I also wonder what role religious backgrounds of different countries might have in this. Are Christians more likely to have a religious opposition to human genetic modification (such as on the grounds of "playing God") than Shintoists and Buddhists might be? (I suspect the answer is "Yes", but I don't know enough about Japanese religions to be confident in that answer.)
Is this the real singularity?
Only issue I've had was when I was about to cross the US to Canada border on the way to Vancouver. I remembered I'd left my ID in the trunk and pulled over about a mile south of the crossing to get it.

Turns out there was an unmarked police car there waiting for people to pull over and ditch their stash or whatever.

Cop was extremely rude and so sure I was hiding something he started pulling on the dash of my rental car to see if I had something hidden inside it. I was worried he'd damage the vehicle and I'd lose my insurance. So something like this would have been handy at the time.
"I would love it if I saw a new version of a language come out and it removes language features, wouldn't that be a change!"

"I am still bitter about the initial .NET core rollout which was a crapshoot and had no parity whatsoever with .NET Framework."

Those two statements seem to be in direct contradiction with each other. Would you like iron-clad parity, or would you like to break compatibility in an effort to shed bloat?
Humans today are vastly superior in intelligence to humans centuries ago. Physical fitness, maybe not. Anyway, why be depressed? Would Columbus be depressed to know that if he had lived a few centuries later, he could have just flown around the world on a plane instead of going on his big adventure to confirm his big claim? The guy got to go on an adventure that he firmly believed in.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and find your calling to go farther and higher if you can't be content. Just... no reason to be depressed.
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Maybe the enhanced humans will find a way to enhance poor old grandpha!...getting smart after being dumb must feel better than being "born" smart.