skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes of course they don't want to - that's why he's saying they should be forced to do it by law.
The idea that crime runs in families indicates a biological factor in crime is nonsense.

Yes, but it does suggest it is a possibility. I thought it was a common belief that genetics play a part in addiction, and mental illness. I do agree that socioeconomic factors are most likely the biggest contributor, the movie Trading Places convinced me of that at a young age. I just think it would be foolish to dismiss genetics completely.
That's just not true though when you consider that these platforms have algorithms that will determine which posts get more visibility than others (trending is the most obvious of these). I don't think this would be even half as much of a debate if we had an electronic platform that could actually be the modern public square of the US, but instead we have only private entities attempting to provide this, and they are decidedly not protectors of free speech (that would be our government). The extension of this is that even if the government did provide such a platform, there would likely still need to be rules because as much as you like to think we have unfettered free speech, you still can't stand in the middle of the public square and call for the death of another individual or you can't shout "FIRE" in a movie theater when there is none.

If we actually had a government run system, we could ensure things like accountability for your ideas that you self publish in such a public square because the government itself would have the servers that contain the data. The constitution would limit the government from censoring this platform, but it wouldn't limit the government from implementing more effective methods of processing abuses of free speech such as libel by having an immediate record of what was said. My main point here is that it's easier to agree on what if any free speech limitations should apply if there isn't this proxy layer of "Well corporations can do whatever they want with their servers" and "Well these laws don't apply to what they said because nobody is speaking in the domain that freedom of speech applies to"
It's mind-boggling that it has to be limited. What are universities for? Every day every university should have hundreds of guests thinkers and grad students streaming through doing paid speeches and Q&As. If half of them are Alex Jones fraudsters, ok, let students protest and leaflet outside all they want, which would be even more exchanging of ideas and facts.
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Thanks, I wasn't very clear but now I see the problem. The C++ invocation syntax (basically the difference between expressions and statements inherited from Algol) makes it impossible to call if you want to update it at runtime.

You could declare `static static_map<>::Value& get()` constexpr. (Actually you wouldn't need to; I think you could simply declare `semi::map<>::get()` to be constexpr) and I believe it would allow calling to look up a value to inlined at compile time.

However using it as an lvalue isn't possible with current c++ syntax. As a long time Lisp programmer this limitation continually trips me up.

Sorry about the backquotes; I know that HN doesn't use MD but it was the simplest way to denote code inline.
It's just me or everytime Julia is in HN a veritable army of shills follows
Amiga: Can you ever really go back?
You don't have a usb cable permanently plugged in to you pc or laptop dock?
In order to make your points, you keep skating over the first principle: there is a clear definition.
> people whose livelihoods depend on being able to track users

Those people can go hungry or find another line of work. I have zero compassion for that behavior. Justify it how you want, but most people abhor it.
While the War on (Americans who use (some)) Drugs is a decades-long tragedy whose human costs dwarf most natural disasters, it's pretty clear the goals of US drug policy aren't to reduce criminal activity, but instead explicitly criminalize what may consider a personal choice.

Given that minimizing criminal activity isn't a concern isn't a goal, what incentive is there to change the policy? Saying that the war on drugs causes more harm than drugs is obvious, but repeatedly pointing that out and expecting policy to change hasn't worked for a long time.
All of the major urban areas in Texas (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin) tend Democrat (see the 2016 results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... ).

I'm a bit skeptical and concerned about folks from outside the state moving in and meddling with politics, even if they mean well.
> Until that, the Uber Roaming with autonomous cars, one is taking you to the border, the another is already waiting to pick you up, a convergence of taxi and rental, will solve that issue in the meantime.

I highly doubt that 'in the meantime' includes the present. Autonomous cars are science fiction, not fact.
> Counterfactual: if this spend is that useless, it should be possible to start a competitor that focuses on high-ROI advertising.

Exactly! And that's where online ads, user tracking, online-to-offline came in. The whole reason why it gained so much traction in the past 20 years is that it began to offer better tracking and results than other forms of advertising.

If Google (or Facebook, or anyone else) stands still and lets fraudsters abuse their ad networks, the return on their ads will drop, opening space for their competitors.

So controlling ad-serving quality is a competitive advantage.
Ok this should be the first link in the readme.
Do you think they would mind if robots owned and operated by Ford patrolled the city at night and painted over swastikas on neo-Nazi's cars?
The idea of a world where beehive-esque drone noise is ubiquitous is terrifying to me. That sounds like a truly awful future.

It's going to be real shitty to be outside once there are hundreds of drones flying around all over the damn place. Road noise is bad enough.
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That's why I was saying that that they need to get onto Android base - then the only thing will be the camera, which to be fair, Google is really great at.
Busses leaves more often and starts, stops and travel much faster than ferry.
>Then you can take your health, security and happiness into your own hands.

No, you really can't. If you are white and try to create a self-sufficient rural community you are going to get Waco'ed. But even if that were not the case, it doesn't help any of the people we're talking about. Some random farmer or coal miner is just getting buy and has no way to buy land and fend for himself. Without his job that everyone is so desperate to take away from him, he can't keep paying the loan on the scrap of land he has now, how's he going to buy "cheap land" in "some remote place"?
We've known for a while (at least decades) that publicizing suicides tends to lead to copycat suicides.
Carbon sequestration is a nice side benefit, but wood-into-durable-products can absorb only a small fraction of present anthropogenic CO2 emissions. We're emitting about 37 billion tonnes of CO2 per year at present (10 billion tonnes of carbon) and wood is about 50% carbon. To offset a quarter of human CO2 emissions, we'd need to turn about 5 billion tonnes of wood per year into long-lasting buildings and other manufactured objects. As of 2014, the world was producing about 0.8 billion tonnes of wood products that could be used in long lasting applications (sawnwood and wood paneling).

https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions

https://blog.forest2market.com/fao-report-highlights-resurge...
Let me add some texture to my comment. When I flip through radio stations in the car, I can always identify the contemporary christian station by the music style regardless of if I've heard the song before. It's not about not hearing enough of the music to differentiate songs. It's that they all have the same elements...like Taco Bell, it's only 7 ingredients.
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You can say the same thing about liberal ogansisations. why the hell does someone else have to pay for your abortion ?
Do you know the state of Nextcloud vs Seafile vs Sparkleshare? Wasn't one of them a new fork of a previous one? The idea of a client seems nice (especially getting access on iPhone/tablet).

I've done long ago ftp in the past, but I like auto-syncing my files to provide redundancy. Though using ZeroTier it's pretty easy to sync between my devices. Especially as I use ZFS, so `zfs send | ssh othernode.home zfs receive` is pretty nice.

Anyone use https://www.resilio.com/ (previously Bittorrent Sync)?
Hate speech specifically comes from a position and perspective of power. Stop making up your own terms.
Coinbase is not a wallet.
Firefox's reader mode does help for this kind of issues: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
I know this is going to get downvoted but I have to say it: the problem is not CO2, the problem is CO2 alarmism. The models on which the IPCC predictions of doom are based do not match the data. Even the IPCC admits that in the AR5. The actual data says that CO2-driven warming is not enough to worry about. (Not to mention that the prediction of doom also depends on economic models which are even worse at matching data than the climate ones are.)

We should not be spending the valuable resource of startup founders on this problem. We should be spending it on creating enough wealth to bring everyone in the world out of poverty and giving them the tools to adapt to whatever happens in the future, including changes in climate.
Hate to be the one to tell you this...they're doing it domestically (in their own country) as well.
We have numbers on this sort of thing. Here are some Swedish adoption studies (they track everyone) which, from a first glance, support the usual rule of half-half:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4009388/

http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2012.11.0...

I can't now find the (also Swedish I think) study I remember, which managed to look at families who'd got suddenly rich between the 1st son & the 2nd son.
Seriously. I would say that also applies over to the author's claim that "doctors produce doctors, lawyers produce lawyers", etc. Sure, kids whose parents/relatives have forged a career in a particular industry have a much easier time making their way in, I would seriously doubt that genetics are a major factor other than general cognitive ability.
I've used TerraForm to string together (subsets of) AWS, Heroku and CloudFlare. Having set up quite a few greenfield projects recently, being able to re-use the same tool is great. The amount of effort required is so low now, that every project I set up has review apps - which really is a fantastic concept. TerraForm has been key.

If you only use AWS, I'm sure CloudFormation is great too.
Whats the point of surviving if it means contributing to making the world a place you don't want to live in? You can probably earn a living some other way.
Scientific results are primary communication. It can happen in English because lots and lots of non-English scientists worldwide understand English, just as in earlier times it could happen in Latin, French or German. It's pointless to produce articles which don't reach the audience that matters, so your language is irrelevant compared to the language of the audience.

I wouldn't expect much (not even most, but even a significant amount) of scientific output to happen in Chinese, even if produced by Chinese authors, until Chinese becomes a very popular second language worldwide which a critical mass of global researchers (e.g. most people who "matter" in a particular subfield) can use. Currently it still has a far way to go - while it's comparable in the total number of speakers (1.1 billion for both Chinese and English according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...), Chinese has just 200m secondary speakers compared to 740m of English, and that is the number that matters; not the total number of people but the "marketshare" of how many of worldwide 'educated class' know the language, and English has an extreme headstart in this regard. Any changes would require at least a full generation - new researchers growing up that had learned Chinese because it was widely taught for other reasons.
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>Seriously, what doeos "topology of latent variables" even mean?

The simple answer is: the graph topology of the resulting program traces, equivalent to the topology of a graphical model sampled from a distribution over graphical models. The complicated answer is: the Scott topology of the program-trace space.
> the biggest advantage is that, in a microkernel, if one 'server' goes down (the disk server, for example) the whole system is down

Rather, if the disk server goes down, the whole system might go down. It doesn't necessarily will go down. You could, for example, simply restart it. If your Graphics server goes down, you might still be able to SSH to the machine, and in the example of yours which I quote you could run a remote emergency SSH server in full RAM.

Unikernel and microkernel are good examples of (fine-grained) principle of least privilege. Doing that right is difficult. Just ask the NSA or Intel.
I think geo-engineering will open Pandora's box. On one hand, we need to invest in geo-engineering as a last resort, on the other hand, if people see this as the last resort the problem of CO2 will seem less urgent. Very dangerous stuff.
Didn't this type of fraud require massive domain expertise?
Bear with me here, trying to come at this from the other end.

Why do Uber and Lyft have to develop their own self driving
tech? If what they sell is their routing algorithm for drivers, they can simply lease self driving cars from the companies directly and run them on their network. The car companies would be happy to get a cut of the profits.

What advantage would they get by developing their own tech? They have to manufacture the cars themselves or lease the tech to other companies to cover the costs.

Uber and more so Lyft seem late to the game and Uber in particular seem to be fraught with problems and have not made the progress they hoped. So why pursue that? I understand if they started early and are making great progress. On the flip side is the tech no where near completion? Then that would make sense. But Google seems to indicate that they are very very close to launching their own taxi program.
Is there a non-developer overview of what this patch does? Pull requests often aren't the best thing for Hacker News submissions as they assume a very deep level of understanding of a project… especially when they chronicle long development tasks.
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> I suppose the only drawback here is that they're issued from a centralized authority.

The lack of a central authority was the entire reason Bitcoin was successful where previous cryptocurrencies were not.
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A 28nm SoC in a severely battery-limited wearable including video output and speech-to-text screams "poor battery life with moderate to heavy use".

I'm going to wait for the next-gen device built on a more modern manufacturing node (like TSMC N7/N7+).
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"Tracey Bogle, who served a 16-year prison sentence for kidnapping, armed robbery, assault, car theft, and sexual assault"

Yeah, he'd be a saint if drugs were legal.
I buy mostly Apple specifically because I find the build quality ensures they last the longest. I'm still using a 2009 Macbook on a daily basis, and my youngest daughter is using my original iPhone 4.
I don't think Oculus had the opposite strategy though. Standalone 6 DoF tracking with on board processing simply wasn't an option for them in the past.
The mountain pass is a lot more fun though!
What about changing our diets?

> Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation [1]

Are you will to fund any product ideas that will be willing to encourage a paradigm shift/or smooth shift with regards to a more eco and animal fríendly lifestyle?

[1] http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
We have a custom python tool that does something similar, except for terraform and kubectl. This is the sort of thing where you probably have to write it from scratch to match your workflow, but it should end up ~500 LOC in your favorite scripting language.

Then we wrap that tool in jenkin pipelines so we can easily trigger it in response to events like code being pushed.
Like any sane person, I totally accept the global warming is real and most likely mostly man made. But rather than fighting that change which is already underway, can we not adapt to the higher temperatures and entropy? I appreciate that there's lots of side effects that we see as disastrous, but generally warmer = better for life in many parts of the earth.
Most likely the positive outcomes of global warming do not outweight the negatives, but it looks like relatively very little attention is paid to what is most natural course of action - adaptation.
Who said anything about the US?

Let's imagine you work at a social media company. You see the comment: "capital punishment should be legal". You don't know anything about the carceral system of the jurisdiction the commenter lives in.

Do you remove the comment for being hate speech, or not?

But the main point is that since the other commenter reached the conclusion that this would be hate speech, and you reached the conclusion that it might be but not necessarily, it follows that the definition he or she proposed is not clear.
Stop reading books that are wordy and not meaty.
Do all methods of curtailing CO2 emissions lower people's quality of life?
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The easiest surfaces to make more reflecting should be the oceans. Some proposed carbon capture methods involve algae. Maybe algae could be synthesized that are white/reflective as well as capture carbon? Patches of algae can be huge without the need for any construction.
It's not just his generation. I've had 10 millennial friends commit suicide for similar reasons.
2 were software developers, who realized on their 60-70k salary and student debt, they still couldn't afford the "american dream".

We are heading for a violent political revolution imo. The status quo just can't go on.
IME, I've only seen happen to people who had stopped learning and growing years earlier.
Care to elaborate? I think a lot of HN posts around popular technologies will clearly have a strong group of followers, not sure why it would be appropriate to call them `shills`.

So maybe there is or maybe it's just genuine interest in the novel parallel task runtime. I'd like to think it's the later.
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The post mentions the significant logistical challenges associated with moving large quantities of biomass and biochar. What about a mobile biochar production system? ie a device that could be delivered to a farm and towed through the field to convert waste biomass in-situ into biochar and till it directly into soil?
Elon Musk's managerial approach
In my state you can't call yourself and Architect or Engineer unless you are actually registered as such. I keep meaning to ask what they call someone who drives a train.
We will have to adapt, even if we mobilize to remake the entire energy economy. It is too late to prevent a lot of warming from occurring.

If we do nothing however, we are headed for things we cannot adapt to. The worst case is not rising seas and famine, the worst case is the Permian-Triassic Extinction.
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I don't get it. I click "Start" and then "no" when asked to allow notifications. After that I get a blank page.
Don't forget to disable, if you have, "Don't care about cookies" extension !
> nobody wants to accept a bad outcome, but in this case I think it is better than the alternative.

I don't like this reasoning because when it comes to environmental effects we've always had individual firm expectations but we haven't known, we didn't know and we still don't know.

But I do believe the growing crisis demands urgent research and gradual early implementation of a range of projects like ocean seeding, and others which may be opposed by a most skeptical portion of the environmental movement. But when there are doubts about the details of potentially massive eco-engineering projects, please dont write them up as 'qualms of environmentalists' The movement has broadcast for decades the crisis we face today, helped in many situations and hindered very few - it was never truly characterized by sentimentality.
Apple underreported the number of affected apps by two orders of magnitude, reported that only on its Chinese website (even though millions of users outside of China were affected), took down even that report shortly after (it now loads a marketing page), and left the apps on users' phones. https://www.fireeye.com/blog/executive-perspective/2015/09/p...

I consider anything that Apple says to be an ephemeral marketing gimmick.
Extra battery (the one you take inside where it's warm over night) and starter cables in the footwell :)
Digital dollar != a programmable digital dollar. It's like bitcoin, but will all the downsides of the dollar (endlessly inflating) + all the fragility and throughput constraints and centralization risks of ethereum.
Isn't the challenge that biomass gasification systems require fairly pure feedstock (ie cubes of hardwood)? Has anyone succeeded in developing a feedstock-agnostic gasification system?
Hi Gustaf, I read earlier that you are more interested in Direct Air Capture technologies than others. Do you have any specific reasons?

I think another way we could look at things is finding "cheap" forms of carbon that would have otherwise been burned/left to rot and reprocess those into building materials.
I don't know enough about the data to contribute any thoughts on it. Could be valid, could be incomplete/inaccurate. However, I don't think this is an either/or situation, and wouldn't it be great if we contributed some time and focus on making sure that there is a world left in which the impoverished can be helped?
Or maybe social media companies get rid of any kind of algorithmic selection. Feeds are completely ordered by date. You can follow/unfollow people who you like or dislike. If you don't want to be offended by jackasses, don't go on the public feeds.

That said, you've shot down a lot of people's arguments but I haven't seen you promote a sensible alternative. Given your personal belief framework and given the first amendment, what do you see as a solution to this problem?
>There's still too many unsolved philosophical questions here.

It's only unsolved among people who don't understand what free speech is.

There are no "compelling answers" because the problem at hand is how to maintain the positive branding of free speech while removing what it means for speech to be free.
That modern economics has programmed in accountability for slow, large payments doesn't mean the system wouldn't be better off if it changed.
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Mod does. Don't like the mod, get out!

Social networks don't control the police and jails. They have always had the right - though they neglected it because they are lazy and delusional - to moderate content on their own servers.

It's so clear to me that "one size fits all" social networks will go away. They are inherently dysfunctional. Putting everyone from terrorists to toddlers on the same forums was never a good idea.
Why should we sacrifice the welfare of human beings to prevent jellyfish from taking over the ocean?