skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Your entire line of reasoning is based on the assumption that risk of fire is unavoidable and such we don't want to exert pressure on them to reduce that risk any further than regulation requires.

Not quite. I think some risk of fire is unavoidable but I'm not saying they should do only what the regulatory minimum is and no more.

If we assume that there is a relationship between the amount of "effort" (whether that is money, management insight, or whatever) they put in and the fire risk then we want them to be incentivised through most of the range of that function. If they are good at preventing fires, investors and management should benefit, if they are bad then they should pay penalties.

The point I'm making if that single events can cause 10s of billions of dollars of damage, and if the trigger for that event is something which can be reduced but not eliminated, then the incentive structure ends up being much more like a lottery ticket than a smooth relationship that rewards diligent management.

If they were instead fined a substantial amount (say $100m) every time one of their assets caused any kind of fire in a risky area without being liable for all the damages (which is not within their control) then I think that would drive a much more effective set of incentives.

It's fundamentally a contrast between a light-touch regulatory mechanism with uncapped tort liability + insurers requiring certain behaviour and a heavier regulatory incentive where a regulator requires that behaviour but with the liability of the consequences held elsewhere.

To be fair, in many cases the US uses the former and it may just be my European utility regulation perspective that makes me think it is odd since we typically use mechanisms of the second sort. My intuition says that when the cost of the consequences has a power-law type distribution (most fires cost very little but a few cost billions), it is more efficient to use the latter model rather than rely on insurance models but that's admittedly not based on any detailed analysis.
Weather poses an additional problem in that it is not fully observable. It is only partially sampled and contains unknown unknowns still.
Do you not feel limited by the CPU? I had a Macbook Air with a 4th gen Core i5 and at times it was really slow just for day to day browsing. Maybe that was just thermal throttling though.

Now I've switched to a T470s which seems a good trade off between size, connectivity and performance. It's roughly the same size as my Macbook Air (13", 2014) but a little lighter, and has ports for HDMI, Ethernet, USB 3.0 x3, audio, USB-C/TB3 and dock connector. I only get maybe 6 hours on the battery which is a bit disappointing though...
Dude, you're full of shit. The article makes only this claim about Stamos's departure from Facebook:

"Mr. Stamos and other high-profile executives have left after disputes over Facebook’s priorities"
Not sure which set of free speech you subscribe to but I really doubt WikiLeaks publishing stealing information falls under the definition of US constitution of free speech. It is NOT.

I am not sure what publish rights you are talking about. You must be kidding yourself, if I may borrow your language, to talk about publishing rights and WikiLeaks in the same breath.

The thing is I do love the principle on which WikiLeaks was founded. Is what WikiLeaks doing legal ? Hell, no. But morally I know it is the right thing to do.

Again, as mentioned elsewhere, my problem with WikiLeaks is has taken a side. And telling the truth selectively and conveniently. And that does not deserve the moral approval, which I would have given earlier.
U.S.-Made Drones Add Muscle to Australia’s Military Buildup
The premise of that series is that except for the original species, there had always been intervention to uplift not just observation. Humans had been a bit of a surprise because they had no apparent uplifters. IIRC the general viewpoint was that self-evolution in this way was just not possible so there must have been some kind of deception involved.
Totally! And this, the idea of conversational implicature, and how we draw meaning from people's variously following or flouting the maxims, is one of the reasons Grice was thinking along these lines to begin with.

He introduced the maxims in 1975 (or thereabouts) in support of his idea of a cooperative principle, which is to "make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged." [1]

He goes on, after discussing violations of the maxims leading to certain styles of communication including sarcasm, irony etc., to suggest that "to calculate a conversational implicature is to calculate what has to be supposed in order to preserve the supposition that the Cooperative Principle is being observed." [1]

It's pretty neat stuff. I like to think about communication among programs over networks in terms of the cooperative principle and conversational maxims. [2,3] HTTP/2 oversupplies information in response to a request, at first glance violating the maxim of quantity or relation; TCP acknowledgements literally mean "I heard you" but implicate "stop talking"; an HTTP request literally means "Please send me X", but implicates "I don't already have X, and I need it"; and so on.

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[1] Grice, H. Paul. "Logic and Conversation." In Syntax and Semantics 3: Speech Acts, 41–58. New York: Academic Press, 1975. PDF: http://lefft.xyz/psycholingAU16/readings/grice1975-logic-and...

[2] Garnock-Jones, Tony. "Conversational Concurrency." PhD dissertation. Northeastern University, 2017. http://syndicate-lang.org/tonyg-dissertation/html/#x_2_1_0_0...

[3] https://eighty-twenty.org/2018/02/01/lying-to-tcp
My cynicism about law firms makes me wonder if things like "free car service" can be charged back to clients.
So you are "conferring" value to it with more buzzwords and façades and PRs? nice try.

I would like to see how long everyone in the team can keep a straight face to it before people start leaving. Well you will eventually leave after spilling out all your tokens too anyway.

Can be interesting to see who are the last remaining ones inside the start-up. (HR or sales or marketing?)
> The scenario being discussed was building a company on top of GCP and being unable to afford $200/month for support costs. Tell me what “mom and pop” shops are pulling in $10k/month from GCP-based software but are unwilling/unable to pay $200/month for the very thing that underpins their livelihoods?

I was trying to tell you that most small businesses can't go around spending hundreds of bucks of things that provide little value, whether that's a business support plans on services they use or something else. It's true regardless of whether you're a brick and mortar store or some online service.

> This is akin to saying that a mom and pop laundromat can’t afford insurance, or shouldn’t because they won’t frequently need it.

Speaking about about false equivalencies...

> You’re the one pretending that small businesses bringing home $120k/year can’t afford a $200 monthly support bill.

First off, I spoke of businesses making generally less than that.

Also (I already said this, good job ignoring that!) paying $200 bucks on a single useless thing is survivable for even a small business - but you know what's better than only making one bad business decision? Making no bad ones at all. Making too many will quickly break the camel's back.

Which was my whole argument and it's also what people generally refer to when they say they can't afford something.

For instance you may say "I can't afford to go to this restaurant", even though you'd have enough money to do it without going immediately bankrupt. But it'd be a bad decision, too many of which quickly add up.
> how to control your stance or manner

Quite "easy". Put a pebble in your shoe, or some scotch tape on your skin. You'll behave differently

> Someone (human) trained to differentiate authors of handwritten text can often still do so even if an author is actively trying to write differently.

That was never proven. Please cite a (good) source or I'll take it to be false
I think I read somewhere that they are not getting the 'pings' from the Cockpit Voice Recorder like they did the Flight Data Recorder, which was recovered.

I believe the force of impact, which was almost vertically nose down at high speed just caused such a shattering of the airplane that it might have fatally destroyed the CVR, or else driven it under many feet of mud and silt.

Re: Your last point - I think this time around the CVR could vindicate the crew and point the blame at Boeing, so it may seem in their best interest to recover it and have extra proof for the court case. Then again, the level of corruption in Indonesia could affect what happens with the recovery process.
Depending on coverage, this might not be enough. People with masks can be tracked as well. E.g.: At some point, persons A, B and C enter an area without surveillance; Person B and C come out, A remains unseen but new person X comes out, wearing a mask. Even if they all don't leave during the period when X is out destroying government property, the problem is reduced from finding the needle in a haystack to identifying a ~1.75m lean person with a brisk walk, blue Sneakers and specific political views out of a relatively small set of individuals.
I grew up in Tulsa as a minority. Went to Jenks Public schools.

Two students in my graduation class got accepted to Harvard, and others to MIT, U Penn, and Duke. They have gone on to become successful tech entrepreneurs and professors. The graduating class after my year had 4 students accepted to Stanford.

Non est ratio ad gustum ... Über Geschmack lässt sich nicht streiten ... Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas ...

There is a reason why almost every language has an idiomatic expression to express the same idea.

Tulsa may be a great place for you, it may be a not so great place for you. But dismissing an idea based on no real experience and innate prejudices is pretty stupid.
Do you know what materials they use to make these balloons? Weather balloons can go as high as 100,000 feet and then they'd blow up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_material_published_by_...

Back in the day he was a champion on the progressive side for a while with all the 2nd fake Iraq war stuff and dumping all of Sarah Palin's emails among other things.

I might be partially wrong on the Russia claim. There is some Russia stuff but it looks like they did not publish the huge Russia dump they claimed to have in 2010 but supposedly it was released to a Russian newspaper.
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I had a small though experiment about how to model a system influenced heavily by social media that tracks users and builds extensive profiles of them.

On first level, such a system (let's call it A) is equivalent to a imaginary loaded die with a control that
lets one control what comes out when rolling it. A system (let's call it B) without social media is more like a fair die. On a long run, the net outcome of system A will be heavy with induced biases and that of system B will be fair but could be with slight biases due to natural randomness. If the system A is controlled by private interests rather than societal welfare, it would lead to unhealthy societal setup. Hence, the system A is inherently flawed and is also dangerous to overall well-being. System B doesn't have this flaw inherently.

... PS: purely thoughts and so abstract.
> nobody wants a cell phone with a little cartoon satellite dish on top

Speak for yourself! ;)
Your friend experienced psychosis from being convinced they'd been in a coma? Genuinely curious.
Completely wrong. Continued survival of given that gives no information at all of survival rates and its distribution. This is because variability of data input is extremely low so mutual information between each of the days is vanishingly small.

This is why a good experimental design will observe a measurement with some expected variability.

An even better trick is the sleeping beauty problem. To solve it you need external information.
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You don't even need to rely on the US government for this.

Everyone from the Dutch[1] to private companies have come to the same conclusion (and had linked the hacking group to Russia before the DNC hack).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-russia-cyberc...
> no other company

How about Tau Beta Pi?
> had tons of dumps on Russia

If you know it, you must have it. So, please, dump it and publish a magnet link.
Simplicity awakes
> A social media company getting the Senate leader of one of the 2 major parties in the US on their side is a huge fucking deal.

Odd then that in the many comments on this very website discussing the original article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958), the terms "Schumer", "Senator", "Senate", and "Sen." never appear.
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It's a pretty useful list. I do wonder how many people actually end up having to rebuild their databases after running a test!
Are there services that companies can use to settle their employee's tab at a local coffee shop?
Maybe it was downvoted in error, sometimes it happens and it's better not to think too much about it.

Sometimes the problem is that the downvoter thinks that I'm implying something that didn't cross my mind. Most times I prefer to keep the downvote better than explaining everything to the boredom point :)
My thoughts exactly. From what I gather, salaries in the Toronto area are around half those in London/UK, and the tech is seriously lagging behind. Let alone their mindset in hiring "workers".
https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/
It was brought up during VMware's internal security conference called "MooseCon" earlier today during a talk on Unicode.

No idea if it's just coincidental resonance though.
In these cases, what I've found to work quite well is to not bother with scaling at all for Gnome, but rather up the font sizes in the tweak tool and scale Firefox individually :) Seems to work out rather well.
This common "criticism" of Grice's Maxims isn't one, but a misunderstanding of the Maxims themselves.

In everyday conversation the Maxims do hold, that's the point. When they break down, you get "marked" effects — marked is a linguist's way of saying "unusual." This doesn't make the utterances wrong. Violating Grice's Maxims may cause miscommunication, or induce effects such as sarcasm, irony or humour, but also a slew of other, more mundane pragmatic effects.

Think of Grice's Maxims not as legislation you have to abide by. Think of them as laws of conversation (law in the scientific sense) which generally hold. I can subvert the law of gravity by jumping. But I need to invest energy, and I will cause an effect which will perturb the current reference frame in all manner of ways.

Similarly, I can lie, be facetious, tongue-in-cheek, etc. But that's not the default state of communication.

The Maxims aren't there to be obeyed. They're there to describe communication, and also describe non-cooperative communication when they're violated.
So all of the engineers with a moral conscience leave, selecting for less moral engineers? This doesn't seem like a great strategy.
I guess it means you still get 12-bit tonal range even if you're four stops underexposed.
Hum, mumble mumble... I may have experimented something like that, having become an Emacs addicted... But I'm sure enough that no Emacs devs work with such theory in mind :-)

Maybe I also have a rebound effect against certain platforms/apps/digital jails... How many sharing this around here?

Anyway, seriously: in the history we (as society) learn to distinguish good and bad things, generally the hard way, we develop society-antibodies for many "bad things". Unfortunately actual rapid growth of corporatocracy, while it's not nothing new under the sun, it's evolved quicker than society capacity to metabolize it and that's a real big danger for us all.

At nazi times it's easy to identify "the enemy" if someone go bomb you, go invade your country, have clear uniforms, symbols, clearly state that want to dominate the world it's easy to understand that's not good. But "new enemies" learned that well, they suppress symbols, they ceased to appear a unique body (of course, they are not, but even original nazi are not a unique body, have had they internal fight etc) they do not say they want to conquer anything but only "having success", like anybody want... Well for the mean, typical biped that's not much evident. Especially since actual "humans" disappear being presented as "platforms" with unclear propriety, with tons of different commercial brands that belong to a sole subject but most people do not know or if they appear in person they present themself as "genius in it's lab", young happy hippy that "work for a better world".

And even worse, ancient dictatorship require strong power to stay and evolve, actual corporatocracy do not. They simply remains as the sole option to buy services or products. They do not have to prohibit something "free" like open PCs, open cars etc, they simply stop to produce them after having bought any possible other producer, substituting them with jails but well presented, well colored and of course "for our safety".
The real problem is that there are only 2 significant players in this sector: AMD and Nvidia.

Real estate of modern GPU chip has become astonishingly large and expensive. It will make absolutely no economical reason to have GPU separately from CPU. The future looks like desktop CPU and GPU will be placed on one die as it is done in every modern mobile System on Chip.

In the near future AMD has a better chance on desktop because of x86 cores used by desktop gamers, but Intel may start to compete here more seriously. Nvidia might be more successful on mobile/robotics/automotive markets with their ARM+GPU System on Chips, but Nvidia will start loosing desktop gaming.

Now data centers and AI. It is clear that CPU+GPU SoC is not a solution here because right now one modern compute node has 2 multi-core Xeons and 8 Voltas. Even if AMD will make very powerful SoC like EPIC+Vega right now, it cannot be sufficient for many compute-bound problems. This looks like Nvidia will still dominate in this sector for a while. But tendency will be to have 2-4 socket mainboard of powerful SoCs because it's more efficient in terms of money and energy.
I do not see why scientists should be expected to play politics if they do not want to. It is great if China is willing to fund and host such a project. Yes, perhaps there are some issues in China but there are issues in every country.
The way Patreon works is that you can set "achievements" levels and people coming on the page can see how far you are from the next goal. You have to publish the earnings for that feature. It entice people to contribute towards the goal so it's not a design flaw.
I agree. Reading those articles sometimes resembles reading a horoscope given that probably everyone can relate to these issues to some degree. Likely many of us think of themselves as smart, yet not reaching their true potential.

With that in mind, I wonder if that isn't a misleading assessment, a soothing, relieving conclusion that is all that uncommon at all. After all we can't all be above the median smartness line. What if you or me are actually unknowingly performing below that threshold while mistaking ourselves for a precious exception to most other people?
How do these balloons change their altitude? Is there a pump that can move gas between the balloon and a pressurized container?
On the other hand, same-sex sexual activity is literally illegal in Singapore. That’s not something that I think I am willing to adopt a “difference of opinion” view on - it’s objectively offensive to my moral system, and supporting that idea is not acceptable to me.

There is too much “whataboutism” going on here. Criticism of Singapore’s pseudo-police-state doesn’t mean that the US doesn’t have a crippling racism problem, or that the UK’s surveillance state is okay.
there are invented language conventions and meetups. There's also the Esperanto community.
Come come, surely it must be the case that either Moriarty was based on George Boole or he wasn't. Tertium non datur!
AFAIK they only blow up because they're designed that way.
Alcohol and caffeine both appear to be legal in Singapore. Perhaps we should criminalize it and sentence anyone who uses both of those to prison time. They're drugs, after all!

Or we could recognize people's personal freedoms and understand that sacrificing them to achieve a dystopic police state is not worth it.

I vehemently disagree with people like you that public order and compliance is such an important end that all means to get there are justified.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Singapore was a link I thought to be at least tangentially related.

My position has always been and will always be against anyone that wants almost total control over what other people can do. Authoritarianism is never worth it.
The rocket that Blue Origin has developed is very powerful. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BE-4. It'll be used by various companies for their rockets.

The SpaceX rocket has certain trade-offs. Basically the upper stage is not that powerful compared to various other rockets. This is usually not too bad because they go for the cheapest option. Blue Origin might have a huge advantage there though.

Blue Origin is not in a need of money, this drastically changes things. It seems they went first for nailing a super powerful rocket, then to develop something close to the SpaceX BFR called New Glenn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn).

Note that in various cases people compare expendable versions with reusable versions. Further, SpaceX is often better for lower orbits.

Suggest to follow /r/spacex on reddit. Above is what I learned from reading discussions there.
In my mind, this is a bit of an "experimentation smell". It means you're experimenting backwards because you are uncertain of the domain in which you are operating. It's something I've learned to notice as a symptom that I'm flailing around in confusion, and that I need to step back and understand the problem better.

Clarify the domain so that you know the types of everything up front, and your work is more than halved.
Honestly my experience with facial recognition suggests that it has about a 50% chance of doing that so maybe not such a risk.
Do you have any examples of this working successfully and sustainably for software?
The development of online software over the last 10-15 years is a case study in feedback loops. It really has flipped the paradigm.

For lotus notes, success is when a user makes the software do what she wants, like sending an email. In the modern equivalent, the software (designer) succeeds, when the user does what the software wants, like sending an email.
Playing old games is not enjoyable anymore (they are symbiotic with old hardware) but playing old style games adapted to nowadays hardware is.

From the top of my mind: curious expedition, stardew valley, undertale, freecol, dwarf fortress (...)
I'm running Ubuntu 18.10 and basically only needed to install sway, wlroots and json-c from source. Additionally Ubuntu's system version of meson is too old, but you get the latest with pip.
I think this is fairly normal for anything creative. During this downtime your brain plays around and that is often when the ideas come out. I frequently get these sparks when you're in the shower or on the toilet, your brain is free to explore.

It's different if you're just processing though, there is no creativity required to check a pile of 500 invoices; you just need to get on and plough though.
Agreed, whereas previously they told the unconvenient truth, they grew into a political outlet asking their twitter followers to vote for specific presidency candidates