skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am of a completely opposite opinion, at 24 (now), I wouldn't want to stay in any sparsely populated place.

The likes of NY, Boston are my perfect city. Everything I need is by my doorstep, don't need to own a car (or use it regularly) and can find not-unreasonable rents if I have roommates and don't stay in cheaper locations. (eg. Allston in Boston)

I work in a Boston suburb and can't imagine staying in such a drab place, unless I had a family, kids and all. Almost everyone there is older than me and almost entirely invested in family living. Everything from conversations to activities lack any sense of freshness and feel routine. Don't get me wrong, people seem to be happy there. But, a lot of it hinges on their family and social relationships built with people over many years.

I don't see myself having either of those things at least till I am in my mid 30s. Even then, I would probably live in a condo where human density is larger, rather than suburban sprawls.

In my experience, suburban living comes at the turning point of the exploration-exploitation curve.
People who want to explore, will stay in urban locations and see out new experiences .... Until they start feeling good about a certain local optima and "settle down" on it.

My hypothesis is that tech workers usually slog it out in till they get a job (usually in their early-mid twenties) and then start the exploration phase, that may have come sooner for other majors. As a result they prefer staying in cities for longer and till an older age than other majors.

I have noticed this among my peers, but of course it is anecdotal and have no idea how well it will generalize.
> Face the truth. If you want no killing, Your enemy isn’t Google, it’s your neighbour.

> it's not Google's fault either.

Starting from a false truth, you can come to any conclusion. Google is responsible for choosing to enable immoral acts and pretending there are no fault actors is one of your faults.
MAX doesn't have the Caltrain problem because it is not at grade outside of downtown.

You are comparing Portland to European cities which is not a fair comparison. Compared to any city in California, Portland is miles ahead.
The new boomtowns: Why more people are relocating to ‘secondary’ cities
> No it is not.

What claim are you responding to here? Simonh said:

> He says general AI is on the same spectrum as the AI technologies we have now, but is qualitatively different. I'm sorry but that's a contradiction.

Which I agree with. How can two qualitatively different things be on the same spectrum? You later say yourself:

> His claim is that getting these agents to human-level intelligence is a matter of compute and architectural advancements that are not qualitatively different that what we have now.

Which seems to be the opposite of what simonh said and it's confusing to say the least.
Now all that's left to do is hope that your analysis succeeds in robbing the author of their ill-gotten joy.
>The commander stated that to
save time before pushback he had set the autopilot Flight Director (FD) modes to Go‑Around
(ga), Heading (hdg) and Altitude Select (alt sel) but without first setting a selected altitude.

Sounds like they were waiting on the ground and had time.
Hi HN!

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Approve, audit support access requests to VMs using Customer Lockbox for Azure
> Based on the title, I was expecting the article to suck, but I think it's actually pretty solid.

I disagree, honestly. After reading it, I saw another stellar example of empty yet well-meaning advice. It's just enough to stand on its own, has good intentions, but doesn't actually focus on a tangible problem or set of problems that people have. Rather, it addresses a few high-level topics in extreme brevity and is just an outlet for the author to demonstrate some kind of power they feel that they hold[0]. The article looks more like a wrapper for a previous HN comment, which is in a thread about an article detailing a very specific and actually useful piece of advice, and a Data Science book.

[0] https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6...
> It should be fairly obvious that it makes it significantly easier to suppress voting if you have a list of voters to specifically target.

And how many instances are there of that happening in the past, say, 20 years?
I guess that one makes sense. I was having little luck Googling that name.
Quick question: in this hypothetical where China presents an existential threat to the US, what happens to the Chinese economy when they invade the largest consumer of their domestically produced goods and services?
I had an IPv6-only host last year, sucked that I couldn't clone my dotfiles from github - because they were IPv4-only.

Lots of things fail if you're IPv6 only, but it was a useful experiment and I'll try it again in a year or two.

Right now most of my hosts are dual-stack, and I have a /64 setup for my home network.
My personal experience, after working for Alibaba, is that just the appearance of looking busy is what drives promotions, funding, and raises. Actual progress on projects is not measured, nor is code quality via common metrics (tests written, branch coverage, line coverage, test failures).
I agree with the quote from the article. Think of technology as a tool. If you take email, for example, you can use it for pretty much anything - it solves the problem of communication. But it doesn't inherently solve poverty, racism, inequality or any social problem - it could be used to do that, or it could be used to make them worse. The growth of social media has brought people together for better or for worse.
Despite what the Nim documentation says, realtime and garbage collection are mutually exclusive (unless you count non-deferred reference counting and give up on collecting cycles.) Setting maximum pause times doesn't change the fact that the garbage will be collected nondeterministically, which is a problem for kernels.
Spinning Up in Deep RL
No but you live on through your influence and your children, which can be modulated with money.
I said it before:

- If you continue this line of thinking, your only option probably is to extinguish all human being.
If scooters can’t operate on sidewalks then they should be banned from sidewalks. Saying they must have somewhere safe is fine, just build bike lanes.
In many cases, probably. In other cases, probably not. The fear is that drone strikes lower the bar for how certain you have to be that "action" will have better results, because the practical risks have been substantially lowered. If the bar is lowered, then we may be choosing the "no action" a lot less even if it was warranted.
They really are running out of ideas for turning the stock around. The funny thing is their current product lineup isn't too bad. And of course, they decided they will ditch ALL cars (except the Mustang) and just got with crossovers and trucks instead. The F-series is a money printer, keeping the entire company afloat.
From the featured website: "Mercury is a logic/functional programming language". You are still going on about constraints, although they are not mentioned on the website at all. Also, before, you were going on about functional programming as if OP was not familiar with it: "What snippet in a purely functional programming language would be simultaneously intelligible and communicate the power of FP to someone who knew only imperative programming?"

Snippets would be useful for people who already know functional or logic programming. Have a nice day.
Arguably, the dropping of the atomic bombs saved more lives in the long run by forcing the Japanese to surrender and end the war, full-stop.

And arguably, nuclear weapons are keeping the world at peace. Sure, everyone has them pointed at each other, but it’s that threat that keeps us honest and peaceful. Just like how drivers in Chicago are courteous and never honk their horn - you’ll get shot if you drive like a dick.
Sure, but wanting influence and control is somewhat the opposite of the desire for a leisurely life.
A bit orthogonal to the point of this interview but:

> When we follow “right to be forgotten” laws, we are censoring search results because we’re complying with the law. I’m committed to serving users in China. Whatever form it takes, I actually don’t know the answer.

This is an important point: Google has a lot to offer Chinese users. From providing a trusted search engine in a context where people still trust foreign products over Chinese ones, to simple access to its services which, let's be honest, are pretty solid for the average user. It's fair to criticize the company for trying to find a way to access an environment that will almost inevitably demand some degree of censorship, but it overlooks the real good that that such a presence would deliver.

Much of the criticism I hear of Google in this case centers on their presumed willingness to tolerate censorship. Pichai makes a good point here: complying with some degree of censorship imposed by a regime is just the cost of doing business in an international setting. No one is howling for Google to pull out of Europe after the ridiculous "right to be forgotten" censorship ruling. You can quibble about where to draw the line; censorship out of a misplaced desire to protect privacy and censorship to prop up a repressive, authoritarian regime are far from equivalent, but in either case it's a cost-benefit analysis with principles on one side and the potential gains for users on the other. This quote suggests Pichai hasn't yet found the best way to do that, or even that he ever will.

And to those cynics out there who will throw out thirst for profits, I say: if money were as strong a motivation for Google as y'all seem to think it is, Google would have never left China to begin with. They (full disclosure, we) lost tremendous leverage in that market when it became obvious that operating in China was not sustainable.
https://lcwo.net is also quite a good tool.
> No mention of the employee representative on the board, either.

Can someone who knows better than me explain whether this is actually a reasonable request? It sounded ridiculous to me but I admit I am not knowledgeable in these matters.
Mandatory sexual harassment training sounds quite disturbing. Anybody can comment in detail how it is conducted? Is it really mandatory for everyone or only for men?
> the lean theorem prover

Which has its share of segmentation faults (around 50 closed issues) and unknown number of corner cases with silent memory corruption/data races.
Spark Release 2.4.0
Luxembourg endorsing reverse engineering, disassembly, vulnerability disclosure
It could, but the primary reason it was developed was to generate a lot of energy to kill as many people as possible.
Waiting for the peak.
from all websites I'd expect HN to NOT read OR as mutually exclusive
Android apps will soon be able to update while you’re using them
I always like getting a new battery when something else fails in the top case.
> blow one up so it doesn't collide with something eventually.

The one thing worse than a large asteroid heading for you is dozens of medium-sized ones and thousands of small ones all heading for you.
Would you be willing to show some recent security failures? Whenever I searched, I found a few things from 2016 but that seemed like the latest thing. 2 years is a good bit of time without any incidences.
I think he means tech companies perversely hoarding hundreds of billions of dollars even while they avoid tax obligations all over the world doesn't solve humanity's problems.

But as Bill Gates shows, a lot of money clearly can solve many of humanity's problems.
anyone have any good explanations of the image linked? like what are ARIN, RIPE, why is some unallocated, what is multicast?

that sort of thing would be cool to learn
Google in China: When ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Met the Great Firewall
What do you mean, there's nothing that you could possibly want that costs that much? What about funding large-scale medical or scientific research, or a private space program, or mass vaccination campaigns in poverty-stricken areas ala Gates Foundation? These kinds of goals are extremely capital intensive, and if you can fund it entirely by yourself, you won't have to answer to shareholders who seek an immediate profit, or be forced to play politics instead of focusing on your mission.
Not just you. All I see is mostly a Dribbble feed, so I can’t really connect these random shots to the alleged purpose of the site: “top digital products and trends in design”
The technology for elections is there. It's people who have failed to get it in use.
Good Point! Burn out is real. And Eventual. Especially when you work for a founder or have a VC who is just demeaning and sucks all around.
Having novel, unique goals is not necessary for AGI. Normal people don't have novel goals -- they mostly want love, comfort, and respect. An AGI that had as its goal "gain people's respect" would exhibit an unboundedly interesting range of behavior.
Why does that sound disturbing?
No one outside Apple (and maybe inside too) knows for certain. They don't share information like that in advance.
>They belong in the bike lane (which should exist in the first place)

the problem is the existence of bike lanes. If public officials start saying "scooters belong in the bike lane", then they have to confront the fact that their cities have no cohesive network of bike lanes that can actually support a real journey. This has been acceptable up until now, because cyclists are weird and it's okay to tell them to just ride in amongst trucks travelling 40mph when a bike lane abruptly ends. But e-scooters are for "normal people" who aren't as content with being told to go play in traffic.
I mentioned this is another comment but

If you read the UK Government report that is not what happened. The plane was at 1500 ft when it began to descend. At 1300 ft the warning sounds activated and the pilot reacted but it took another 300 ft of descent before the pilot was able to fully recover from the descent.
I strongly disagree with the premise. I can’t think of any industrial titans who retired to leisure. Those who tried or were forced into it seemed to die shortly after.

Henry Ford perhaps came closest with 20 years of only “unofficial” control of the company he founded.
Care to explain why you think not?
Funny, when it comes to programming languages like C, operator errors are very much blamed on the quality of the language.
Doesn't matter as long as each entity maintains their "bottom line".
Wanted to share that we developed a GitLab CI Runner/executor for Anka Build and have made it public (It was done for one of our user). It basically enables you to run your iOS/macOS GitLab CI pipelines/jobs on Anka build macOS cloud. You can configure Anka Build macOS cloud on-prem(on macs) or on hosted macs. Happy to share more details.https://github.com/veertuinc/gitlab-runner
I think these articles have value, but in moderation. It's like watching TED talks - watch too many, you become the antithesis of productive. Focus too much on productivity software, you lose sight in what matters. Focus on your life, people you care about, and work hard. But you should be your biggest critic, don't expect someone else to do this for you.

Per the topic itself.

I tend to enjoy many things, so skillstacking is something I naturally pursue. My take on this topic, is just to create value as much as possible. Not just for others, but yourself as well. Things like learning new software, building tools people use, workshops you can use to make DIY projects, and long term relationships.

Sure there will be mistakes, you will write cringey things like "Read over 500 books" in your about page, but it's still progression. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
What are humanity's problem exactly? Every era of humans had different list of problems. Problems today (climate change, nuclear weapons, etc) are very different than say 1000-1500 years ago.

Technology definitely solves lot of problems and some tech enables to scale the solutions (e.g. discovery of antibiotics and tech to mass produce them). But then it gives rise to new set of problems which are much harder to solve. The harder the problems get more collaboration and working together is needed at global scale, which itself is very hard. In this sense, tech can only go so far.
Not only that, Amazon's HQ2 now covers more of the US than MetroPCS.

https://www.techloaf.io/2018/11/08/amazon-hq2-now-covers-mor...

(This is a tech humor blog/email I follow - they have been vicious with Amazon this week)
I see what you did there. Well done.
I love these scooters -- but one thing I have found is they feel too fast for the sidewalk and too slow for the street.
They used to -- that's why IPv6 was so slow to arrive. But that's fixed now except possibly in some parts of "legacy EC2".
That's the one, thanks for digging it up!
What are you talking about? Mandatory sexual harassment training is standard for managers; California requires it for companies with 50 employees or more: https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/sexualharassmentpreventiontraining/
>Can we rule out near-term AGI?

In keeping Betteridge's law, no, not really. Hardware capabilities are getting there as evidenced by computers trashing us at go and the like and with thousands [0] of the best and brightest going into AI research who's to know when someone is going to find working algorithms?

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/global-ai-talent-pool-going-2...
Elisabeth Warren is working on a bill to make this a requirement.

Personally I think its sensible to have some accountability to your employees, not just your shareholders.
Magnus Carlsen Streams Playing Bullet Chess
Mercury is great at basically the same problems you would solve with Prolog, but has added purity markers that help your code not have exponential slowdowns caused by hard to discover bugs.
By the way, I always wondered what if companies start acquiring large IPv6 space chunks, and it will become the same problem as with IPv4. For example in hand, if AWS bought 3.0.0.0/8, cannot they buy 03::?

And once enough companies buy huge ranges of IPv6, we would come to the same scarcity as in IPv4, no?

PS: I understand that largest CIDR block that can be allocated in IPv6 is /20, not /8. But they could buy 4096 blocks of size /20 to get the whole of /8.
Charged, settled and Site never went down
> The technology for elections is there

But not technology that guarantees what I mentioned previously.

> It's people who have failed to get it in use.

Some have, but some have resisted, for good reason too, because it fails to guarantee the things I mentioned previously.
Let me get this straight. I linked to a report which included culs-de-sac in London, and with a map of the streets.

You responded "I think all of us (you, me, cimmanom) are assuming that cul-de-sac layouts are not urban."

So your belief is that I looked at a map of a part of London, assumed it was not urban, but was instead some 'absurdly expensive neighborhood that isn't urban'?

I am growing more convinced that I cannot place weight on your assumptions.

Which Wells Fargo museum robbery you are thinking of which took place during the day. Can you at least tell me what year it was?
i'm not sure what industry you work in, but i've had this at every single job i've held—even ones before the SJW bogeyman existed
nope. as another commenter said, it's happens 100% when clicking within a few pixels of the underline. i'll respond to that comment with more detail.
This. It's all about relative speed difference. If the cars are going slow then riding with them is no problem. If there's no (slow) people on the sidewalk then you can ride there.
“Be the Reason, Someone's Smile” a Patient's Word About Dr… – Flickr
That's not true at all. Your thinking is dangerously wrong.

If you feel that these companies like Google are in it to make humanity better, you really need a better understanding of people. Google, Exon Mobile, Phillip Morris, and every other public company work in virtually the same way. They maximize profit. If you work at one of these companies and you don't help the company make more money, see how long you keep your job. Google is just in a different market. You may respond with why does Google invest in self-driving cars or 4g weather balloons? Very simply, to make more money. I'm not saying you can't make money from doing things to help humanity or that you shouldn't but let's be very clear, Google is not a person with a conscious. It's a system set up to make money and it will disappear as soon as it stops.

From a planning perspective, hoping large systematic changes will be brought corporations completely ignores history. The military has been behind virtually every significant technology at least in the United States. Even technologies created by corporations almost always have some sort of public assistance.

Our problem now is that corporations are seeping deeper into the centralized decision-making network we call the government. The whole point of government is to have a centralized power that can avoid the local maximums of profit motive. Corporations, in their bid to continue their existence, erode our public institutions. If we really wanted to, we could have the government mobilize trillions of dollars to solve any problem we wished. Capital may be the problem for figuring out fusion but it's certainly not the problem for clean energy, sanitation, sustainability, and ethical food production.
It's really embarrassing to intend to descend to the airport and instead climb to FL4294967295.
It has been researched: Alessandro Forin's eMIPS research project was on integrating FPGA fabric as an execution unit.

Project page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/emips/

Research paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Back then Moore's Law was still going full steam so there wasn't much interest but, who knows, maybe that will change in a few years.
I have, actually. Most of our networks were /23s, and the syslog server was a .0 in the middle of one. An SMS sending appliance we bought would not accept IPs ending in .0. Fortunately, the check was client-side in javascript, and once overridden, everything worked.
> [0] Ideally a diversity officer would stand up for Damore.

That claim depends entirely on how you interpret Damore's behavior. Tolerance does not and must not require tolerating intolerance [0].

I'm not stating a claim as to whether or not Damore's behavior should be considered intolerance. I don't have a take on that. But without having some opinion on that, you can't claim a priori that a diversity officer is obligated to enable his views.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Developer here. FlickType is the keyboard app I’ve always felt was missing from my Apple Watch.

Why?

I’ve always thought Scribble is too slow, Siri doesn’t always work, and canned replies feel… canned. I asked myself, could a regular (QWERTY) keyboard somehow be not just bearable, but actually comfortable to type on?

How?

My solution uses two simple flick gestures and a unique correction algorithm, and it almost feels like you're typing on your phone with one hand - surprisingly comfortable!

Woot?

Yes! So you can now reply to messages straight from your wrist when the situation arises — and it might be more often than you think!

Take my $$$!

Oh, it's completely free. But if you love it so much, there's also a paid version that you can use on your iPhone :)

More?

This is just the first iteration of the watch app — expect a lot more to come. Tell me what you think and how I can make it better!

Thank you,
Kosta

PS: For some more background, read my wife's recent post "Designing for Inherent Universal Gains": https://medium.com/@flicktype/designing-for-inherent-univers...