skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing my point in the same way the person arguing that the food pyramid wasn't valid science is missing the point. The food pyramid, Iraq WMDs, peak oil, and climate change all look exactly the same to the average citizen. If you're not a climate scientist yourself and you believe you can tell the difference, I'm skeptical of that. There is no category of argument you can make about climate change that was not similarly made for the food pyramid, WMDs, peak oil, etc. during their heydays. The way climate change is presented to the public is exactly the same way those previous scams were presented to the public.

FWIW, I am not a climate change denier.

Edited: removed something that unintentionally sounded like an insult.
> Did you used to frequent r/weightlifting?

I did, a long time ago. I became tired of arguing with PED apologists and anyway, injury has driven me out of the sport.

> In his case, the tax man can only come when he sells stock, of which he only sells a ~1 billion USD per year.

And they will, if he spends enough time here. He'll need to increase his sale to cover the difference.
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> The pyramid, for example, has killed literally million of people

I actually think you're just reflecting the currently vogue "common sense" view of carbs as the worst macronutrient. Neither this view, nor the view which produced the original food pyramid, is accurate. But saying the food pyramid has "killed literally millions" is incredibly hyperbolic. Starvation has killed literally millions. Cereals on the other hand, have literally been the most common dietary staples of most human diets for most of post-agricultural history.
Perhaps the man proceeding towards the grizzly had a negative economic outlook.

There are literally hundreds of word-sense-disambiguation papers being published per year, and have there have been for about a decade. The state-of-the-art has been advancing relentlessly, and examples like the ones cited here are being zoomed past right now by the latest thing, which is even larger models pre-trained on unsupervised data. There will be a next thing, and for NLP this will be backgammon or chess to 2020s Go.

Embodiment is a better criticism, but this article is still bad, and is written as though Intelligence were some essential soul-like property that agents either possess or don't.

It is really amazing how often articles with this viewpoint repeat one particular trope: they put the word "understanding" in italics. Look out for it.
Great article by Melanie Mitchell (she gave me her code for the Copy Cat program from her book with Hofstaeder almost 30 years ago - she has been looking at creativity and common sense in AI for a long while)

My day job is all about deep learning but personally I think we need to stop and take a deep breath and really solve problems with biased data sets and models, easily spoofed models, etc.

I have worked through a few AI winters and we may be hitting another one. I would like to see care given to using deep learning models only where it is safe to do so.
Pocketputer.com has a listing on the Links page. I'm on mobile or I would give the direct link.
I guess you could whip up a batch of fake vomit. But then you have to actually clean up the fake vomit, thereby incurring the very costs (both money and time) the fee was meant to compensate you for. If you use the gimmicky plastic variety, I'd think it'd be pretty obvious in photos. Especially if you only buy one fake vomit piece.

But I was thinking more in terms of catching at least some of the fraud attempts and making it a bit riskier as a deterrence, rather than a foolproof detection method.
> what and why are furries?

You know how some kids like to pretend to be animals? Furries never quit doing that once they grew up.

> When did furries become a thing? I have yet to run into a clear reference to them before the 1980s and they may primarily postdate even that

If you want to be aggressively inclusive you can go all the way back to the earliest recorded myths about talking animals. If you want to limit yourself to "people who called themselves furries" then it started somewhere in the mid-seventies to early eighties.

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/History - be sure to check out the external links at the bottom, Patten's history is pretty good, though I advise skimming once the "Burned Furs" come up.

> Is this true, why are furries so rich and well-funded, and why tech, specifically?

A confluence of the timing of the growth of the Internet and the growth of the furry scene. You needed a certain amount of technical acumen to hang out on Furrymuck and roleplay as an animal person; as the Internet started being an important thing, it was not uncommon for someone whose day job was in tech to pass job opportunities on to their friends who were looking for excuses to get the hell out of Middle America.

There are also plenty of broke furries, for what it's worth.
Congratulations, and welcome to the family, I guess! It's hard for me to connect the dots and harder for others probably that don't know you, but Pivotal is another VMWare brand AIUI (and I know you are a Pivotal Labs employee, big fan of your work)
With regard to this, maybe there’s an opportunity for a market maker to step in.

An “Uber for vulnerabilities”.

Having said that, I do tend to think “slap a market on it” can often lead to perverse outcome.
They are selling something on 10nm:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/269270-intels-first-10...
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Serious question: how could they already know about us?

Are you simply assuming they have advanced signal detection technologies that match their space fairing capability?
> DoorDash steals tips so they can pay less in fees

I found that hard to believe, so I looked it up, and you're right.

DoorDash uses some pretty fancy wording to try to hide it, but they use tips to subsidize your pay. If a delivery is going to pay you $5 and the customer tips $0, then you get $5, obviously paid entirely by DD. If the customer tips $3, then they give you the $3 tip, and DD only pays $2, so you still drive away with only $5. If on that same delivery, they instead tip a whopping $10, then you get the $10 tip and DD only pays you $1.

But DD is charging the customer the same delivery fee no matter what. If DD charged the customer $7 for this hypothetical delivery, then they keep $2 from the non-tipper, $5 from the $3 tipper, and $6 from the $10 tipper, when really, they should be keeping only $2 each time with the remainder going to you.

They are absolutely stealing tips.
Yes because they read all missives personally. And no one ever interferes with those missives or those who send them. And no one ever lies in them for personal gain or joy in chaos.

Quick, do a good job and renovate everything, hide or move anything annoying or embarrassing while the boss is here is part of Chinese management everywhere from Xi Jinping on down. Supervision and management are hard, especially when your subordinates are constantly shading the truth and covering things up.
… and/or P J Plauger.

“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?” in The Elements of Programming Style (p10 in the 2nd edition).
It's a way for employers to shift, by way of ingrained culture, some of the labour costs onto the customer.
Yes, but the adults were busy rejoicing that the previous climate scare had been debunked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
You obviously haven’t seen Marco complain about the MacBook, Apple Watch, the existing Mac Pro, the 2014 Mac Mini upgrade, etc.

Marco made a few million when Tumblr was sold, has a profitable podcast app and is on either the most popular or second most popular Apple related podcast.

I doubt that he’s hurting so much for money that he has to lie to get a loaner Mac Mini.
> A properly-designed network of self-driving cars would be a train.

No, it wouldn't, for the reason I describe. Cars occupy too much space per person by a factor of about 11x times on the figures I gave further up. Self-driving cars will be part of the mix but they physically cannot replace the subway.
That’s a closed minded view of intelligence. There’s a level above exploitation where you value other intelligent life and cherish it.
I meant he could have said: "Because I love Rust, I'm giving this for free to be used in Rust codebases", instead of "this would never exist if not for Rust".

Or maybe he's serious, maybe the Rust ecosystem literally saved him from death or something like that.
Unfortunately, time is at a premium in game development - the amount of crunch is already absurded.

Multithreading hasn’t gotten any easier.

Even when games are forced to multithread like on consoles. Said games run on PCs with half the cores (admittedly at nearly twice the clock speed and higher IPC) outpace consoles with 2x the frame rates.

> And costs a lot a lot more. That's why I mentioned price per core above. I'd use such price difference to get a better GPU instead.

Of course, it’s the best on the market. Intel would be stupid not to charge a premium. It’s how such things are priced.
The easy thing to do for the driver (for legitimate cases), is to take a picture/video of the passenger while still on the car right after the incident.

For the passengers, just take a picture of the interior after you get off an uber vehicle.
I have a 2006 Mac Mini that refuses to die. I ended up putting Windows 7 on it and giving it to my mom. She still uses it as a secondary computer when she is tutoring.
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For being such a cynic about humanity you're awfully optimistic about aliens.
It's easy to laugh at them, but generally those products are actually being sold to people with disabilities.
Yeah that is what reincarnation is about in part, taking on earthly form until able to transcend snd live as pure spirit, forever.
Bus, not car. Take a bicycle with you and you'll have decent transportation at your destination. Or rent when you arrive.
I bet aliens love it when you shine a pointer in their eyes
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I flew Etihad once. It was a lousy flight and poor customer service at the transfer gate. I can believe the OPs story could happen.
The Earth's crust has something like a million times the mass of its atmosphere.
Its the amount the pay bill increases sorry its a HR/IR term
Yeah, you're right. Probably I didn't get the correct linguistic context.

But you never know, maybe in another language he would have done a much better project, maybe not. Actually, in alternative universes everything would probably be different. If Python didn't exist this project would maybe not exist too, and would be at least a little different in any case, so he could have opened the full version to Python codebases too, and that applies to all other languages.
It really doesn't matter. What if going from 10nm to 1nm means you need to use simpler features, reducing performance?

CPUs won't necessarily evolve toward smaller feature sizes - it's just what we've seen so far.
I hate Oracle and consider them among the most evil of companies out there. However, I don't think that's a very fair characterization of their mission statement.
I wonder if this is a thing at all with Lyft.

If its a problem with both services, it's dishonest to target Uber specifically.

EDIT: A quick Google search indicates it's likely a problem in both Lyft and Uber.
It’s not just westerners running pig of jobs. The immigration influx in both Europe and America, and wider the people left behind, are also symptoms.

Watching a travelogue this evening in a rural Sicilian town that was mostly empty. The population in the last generation had left. Not to Palermo, or even Rome, but to Berlin and London.

The governemt was keeping the village alive by settling immigrants from Africa there, but eventually, under our current system, they’ll need jobs.

It’s the same story world over. In places looks Tunisia it’s more explicit than in say England, but in today’s world it’s not going to go away any time sooner. It’s like a sinking ship in “titanic”, and as technical experts with the benefot of a western passport and education we’re further from the bow. Eventually though there’s only a few life rafts.

While we still have nominal democracy there is a chance though, doesn’t matter how much voter disenfranchise or brainwashing you have, when 90% of the country is unemployed, they aren’t going to vote for the system that keeps 10% in power.
Interesting. You'd think they would show people with disabilities in the ads... unless they were going for the mental sort.
Desalination I suppose. Israel has really pushed the limits. California has private desalination companies supplying drinking water.
Turn it around:

"Why are so many people in the United States denied their right to vote?"

* prisoners and former criminals can't vote in many places - https://www.sentencingproject.org/issues/felony-disenfranchi...

* (this just got a little better - Florida just passed an amendment that will give the vote back to 1.4mil former felons, which is a full 1/10 of the state's population and 1/5 of its African-American population, that should make their next elections a ton of fun)

* slashing funds to the part of government that buys/maintains/runs the voting system means you have to go further to vote, which is much easier if you have a white-collar job that gives you paid time off and can afford a car (vote-by-mail helps fix this one a LOT, I live in Seattle and it only took me like a half hour sitting at home skimming election guides, plus putting it in the mail a couple days later)

* aggressive campaigns of preventing "voter fraud" can make having sufficient ID expensive in both time and money, which are hard to come by when you're working two part-time jobs with erratic hours
Meaning doesn't 'require' strong AI -- the kind of meaning that strong AIs like us prefer to interact with does. There's plenty of simple meaning in simple systems, and they are quite useful to us that way. They just don't encapsulate the complexities of human experience very well.
I live in the third world. I don't know what you mean by "third world mindset". Grab drivers here don't do that. I hope this "US mindset" doesn't spread to the third world.
I haven’t seen much of that from available examples.
It is very interesting, though I do have a small gripe with how they characterise the "goto fail" bug. #[must_use] probably wouldn't have helped because the bug was that they effectively returned Ok() early. However, having an ergonomic error handling design in a systems language definitely helps. try! and ? are actually a massive improvement in the state of systems languages. Error handling is very important when designing a language.
1988 is the beginning of the "modern" era. However, I would like to make the baseless claim that climate change didn't become a hot-button issue until the 2000s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...
I find that part really weird. These are two extremes - you can easily notify the vendor and give them a month (or whatever period you think is reasonable) to fix the issue if you're not interested in the bounty. Google was pretty successful with enforcing 3 months. VirtualBox may not be a production service where it really matters, but publishing a 0day makes for some stressful days for many ops.
Because maybe you have a 1M:1 peak/idle traffic ratio, for example if customers run once-daily batch jobs.
Perhaps they periodically send probes like Oumuamua that report on nearby systems.
We have a good alternative. France produces ~80% of its electricity with nuclear power.
Let me quote https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/07/27/what-is-rust-2018.html

"Beyond that, it’s also important to mention that this release will be the initial release of Rust 2018; in some sense, it’s the start, not the end. We haven’t formally committed to a schedule for editions, but it’s likely that the next one will be Rust 2021. We’ll continue to add features to Rust 2018 after its release, just like we continued to add features to Rust after the Rust 1.0 release.

"It’s also important to note that Rust 2015 is not frozen. Anything that does not require being a part of Rust 2018 will work on Rust 2015 as well. This is due to the way editions work; given the small nature of possible changes, the compiler uses the same internal representation for all editions."

That seems to directly contradict your first answer. Is there some subtlety I'm missing?
No, I was just typing on a phone. I meant control+a (start of line), control+e (end of line), etc.
I think there's an argument for einsteinium to be excluded from the nature, as it is something fundamental and yet absent in naturally occurring world.

But skyscrapers, to me, are nothing more than beehives or limestone caves. The former has impeccable geometric precision and latter has marvelous outlook and properties.
28 cultures is quite a lot of diversity to suddenly and forcibly slam onto a single party-line. Have you considered that maybe this collection of cultures might have values and methods that are sufficiently mutually different, that there often isn't a single policy that will satisfy all of them?

Here in the USA we have an analogous situation, but it is maintained - for at least a century and a half - with enough top-down brute force to keep the resulting tensions simmered-down such that they are only expressed via things like the "culture wars" phenomenon.
The platforms of the two parties are entirely malleable. You could have a very different mix of priorities and still retain the core voter base.

If the things the democrats claim they want to protect are as important as they say, and the moment as dire, it obviously worth abandoning less important parts of their platform to sway independent voters. The democratic party's refusal to do that just shows arrogance and disregard for the will of the people. Instead of adapting to form a new coalition, they're just encouraging an end-of-days propaganda campaign to scare people.

I'm willing to let things get worse, and encourage gridlock, in the interest of antagonizing a major political realignment. Until that time comes, my vote is for a ham sandwich, except in circumstances of monumental incompetence (read: Trump).
Well, in Canada you have a Prime Minister who is elected by the House of Commons? Would it be so much better if the Prime Minister was elected separately? How would a Prime Minister run a government if his/her party was in opposition?
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It was a different life.
My guess is that if they showed people with disabilities using them, able-bodied people would be less likely to buy them. They might admit some product might actually be kind of handy, but seeing it used by the disabled in an ad would implicitly send the message that it's for disabled people and not buy it.
China is a democracy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China

Funny thing is, people say one party system is not a democracy. What about USA's two party system? Both of them have representatives elected by people (baring the violence).

But in both, people can't realistically get a new party in government, let alone run the country. Yet new parties get elected in other parts of the world, even if they don't run the government as a majority.
Appears to be discontinued along with the Dell 5k. Only current option is the LG.
> Liberals who want to make college free have good intentions, and there certainly was a time when a college degree offered the most reliable ticket to success. But times have changed. Today, plans for free college are threatening to make the next generation less entrepreneurial.

It is refreshing to see a well-thought out piece that doesn't demonize and ad hominem their opponent's position
> it's delivering enormous value to nearly every business on the planet

lol
I think the author is referring to third parties which buy and disclose vulnerabilities. Very hard to monetize. There is already a flourishing market for undisclosed vulnerabilities, for obvious reasons.
I just customized a Lenovo ThinkCentre with a Core I7 (I’m assuming it’s the six core), with a 128GB SSD, 8GB of RAM, Windows Pro, and a WiFi card and the price was $979. The equivalent Mac Mini is $1099.

Are the USB C ports Thunderbolt?
I'm pretty sure the "Graph" part refers to the Facebook's social graph. They already have (REST'ish RPC) Graph API, so there is a precedent here.
I believe the mayor of this town had questionable charges just filed against him by the national government
"Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are heavier than air, so how do scientists suppose that these chemicals reach the altitude of the ozone layer to adversely affect it?"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chlorofluorocarbo...

Also, see the definition of homosphere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#Other_laye...

"The homosphere and heterosphere are defined by whether the atmospheric gases are well mixed. The surface-based homosphere includes the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and the lowest part of the thermosphere, where the chemical composition of the atmosphere does not depend on molecular weight because the gases are mixed by turbulence. This relatively homogeneous layer ends at the turbopause found at about 100 km (62 mi; 330,000 ft), the very edge of space itself as accepted by the FAI, which places it about 20 km (12 mi; 66,000 ft) above the mesopause."

Note that the ozone layer is well within the homosphere so CFCs readily mix into it from surface emissions.
I had a tiler round on Monday. He quoted £200, I paid £200. Job done.

The entire cost of his Labour was borne by me, yet I didn’t tip him.

Is it a tax evasion scheme, and thus a tax subsidy for certain professions?
Humans cherish their pets. Aliens will cherish humans. Can intelligent life however leave things that they know about alone to do as it wishes without any interference whatsoever? No. In the short term maybe, but in the long term it's impossible. Why? Because either it's under control or it's a threat. Either you are a beast, in which case you become a beast of burden. Or you a barbarian, in which case you should be subdued. Or you are an ally in which case you must be integrated. Or you are food which must be farmed and eaten.

Heck maybe in the long run aliens have more to fear from humans than humans have to fear from aliens. But it's not going to end well for one of them in the long run.
As of Java 9 have uses one byte UTF-8 array instead UTF-16 chars internally.

See: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/254
> but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo.

Many modern cars get pretty close.
Actually, TIL (a google search revealed) it's only 5 times more massive.
Have you tried just getting him to read the Wikipedia page? It describes how those gases circulate and how it was discovered. Particularly the "Misconceptions" section. Also the shape of the depletion is not shuttle-sized AFAIK. Finally remind him of rain, or a house in a tornado. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion
> just the 10% that benefits from that wealth

That's not true, as I've already pointed out in my comments. The fact that you keep covering your ears and pretending this is not the case doesn't change reality.
> I mean, I can evade income tax to a certain extent by making my boss buy me a nice car, computer, bicycle etc.

Most systems tax these at a higher rate. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_benefits_tax_(Australia...