skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. The grass certainly turns brown around here. But that is just a water conservation state for the grass. It doesn't mean it is dead. As soon as it does rain again, it will turn green again. That is not a reason to water a lawn. A brown lawn functions equally well as a green one. In fact better as you don't have the same need to cut it.
While this is true (Windows is another example), that doesn't stop people from doing this. It's how Go works most of the time, for example.
Rust is a modern, memory safe systems language. The code you write compiles to native machine which executes in a predictable way every time you run it.

If you need to write firmware for, say, a satellite, C# and Python are out because they have an intermediate step between your deployable and the machine instructions you eventually execute. You have an external dependency which adds a level of unpredictability. All three of your example languages are out because they are garbage collected languages, which makes them inherently unpredictable at runtime. The last thing you want is an OOM in the middle of a rocket engine burn.

Go and C# are competing with Python, Java, Ruby, etc. All languages you would write a web application in, but not a satellite's firmware.

Rust is competing with C and C++.
But then the question is: what's the point?

Any difference between production and dev/testing environments should be justifiable. Certainly in the last testing stage there should be no difference at all.

Nightly builds of any software are only there to enable testing 'in the wild' of that software. There's no justification for any other use.

Edit: The Rust community really needs to grow up...
If anyone doesn't know, "Armageddon" is a type of chess game that guarantees a victor; it's not just a click-bait title. It's the last tiebreaker after a series of other Rapid and Blitz games. (all this is covered, just way at the end of the article)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_chess#Armageddon

fivethirtyeight has been covering the tournament and their rough calculation gives it a 1:5000 chance of making it to the Armageddon game, based on Carlesen's superior Rapid and Blitz rankings.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/carlsens-bizarre-decisi...
Obviously Google doesn't place values over profits. Let's be brutally honest here. Nor do the employees.

Are the employees that make $200,000/year donating the extra income to those in need or are they buying things to engage in lifestyle inflation like most people? Are they going to quit Google and work for a non-profit?
See also: If your mother's tongue isn't also the local native/dominant language, you must be an immigrant, which may be positive or negative depending on the circumstance.
I only meant for that as an example of a regular place for housing also seeing increased housing prices.
Well, presumably the ideas we are talking about are political/social/moral views. To base your acceptance/rejection of them, even in part, on your knowledge of their genesis is already quite intellectually lazy. ("John made such and such claim about topic X. When I consider the claim's intrinsic merits I'm not complete sure what I should think, but given these biographical knowledge I have of John I accept/reject the claim" is only acceptable reasoning when X is an empirical topic (say about genetics) but not when it's a moral/political one)
I think Ethereum's plans for PoS penalizes people (on the main chain) people who have previously signed the wrong chain, so I don't think that's an insurmountable obstacle. It's all still a work in progress though with a lot of cases like that. I'm deeply suspicious of any projects that claim to have already figured out PoS.
I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I personally do think that people should be exposed.

Sex offenders need to be registered. Heck, I think Panama papers and paradise papers people should be exposed...
Yet 1 person in that company could kill it in 3 seconds even if this didn't happen. That's 1 in 88K.

My wife and I once went around and petitioned all 100 people that lived in a condo complex for a specific issue. About 80 people signed. We didn't even need to present the signature sheet - the one hold out on the board we had to convince had caved after learning about the efforts - not knowing the percentage of signers (only we had the number).
I reject the premise: I don't think it is possible to predict intelligence accurately from DNA. While some degree of intelligence is heritable, perhaps even a substantial degree, environmental factors still play a big role in intelligence. A poor prenatal environment, malnutrition, toxins like lead, and disease all negatively impact intelligence, none of which you could measure or account for from just DNA.

But let's suppose this hypothetical test also accounts for environmental factors, and it can even calculate what the child's future intelligence would be based on how much financial support is provided. I don't think such a thing is actually possible, but I won't fight the hypothetical. Then I would say to allocate the money to provide the best net increase in intelligence: prioritize those with the most IQ points gained per dollar. I'd rather get 10 kids from 80 IQ to 100 IQ than 1 kid from 80 IQ to 140 IQ.

Though I think you'll find that, if the goal is improving the intelligence of the average population, putting funds into prenatal care and lead abatement programs will probably have the same impact for a lot less money than college scholarships.
The problem is you think you can judge who is repressed, usually based on group identity, but that never ends well.

Life isn't fair, some will be rich. Judging by capabilities means that anyone can learn to do the job well, even if they have to work harder to overcome their circumstances, and it'll always be down to the individual. People move between classes all the time, and in the US you'll see many people going in both directions.
I have no idea what I am doing, but after uploading a text file, that dweg.page thing tells me to share this link:

https://untangle.care/ipfs/QmaSpmvTr68z3EgTp2XFZdBzc1HwNPQXW...

And this password:

xngojhmH10zb2oLA7COya6pHZ3qkmQAJuX7cwqBkRJM

Ok, so now I kind of published my haiku in encrypted form on IPFS? Why was it encrypted?

I tried to redownload it from one of the other ipfs gateways, but so for to no avail. Any ideas how to do it?
>"albumname zip rar torrent"

Your complaint about their service is that they've made it more difficult for you to break the law?
Maybe nitpicking, but a blockchain can have a Proof of Authority, Proof of Elapsed Time or some other consensus mechanism that is not byzantine fault tolerant.
I think what the GP is stating is that if we only assess accomplishments and we do it at this stage (later in life after many different phases) those systematically disadvantaged will not be competitive (example: If you went to a crummy public school you have a harder time getting into an ivy league, harder time getting a prestige internship, getting a premium job, etc)

Affirmative action laws were introduced to address this, but the trend toward meritocracy counters them.

My guess; we end up with the worst of both worlds: One stream blind to these factors and a bunch of regulated exceptions.
It is interesting to see the standard to which these big internet companies are being held lately. The mere fact that Google debated and waited many years before jumping into China with a censored search engine puts into the top of the most ethical for-profit corporations to ever exist, in my book.

All this bad-will seems to come from their advertising business models, which I find is loudly criticized with rather thin arguments, given that these companies are often the only ones defending the users from the dirty tactics of advertisers (who get none of the blame). I've neve seen criticism of coca-cola for using Google's targeting abilities to its advantage and shove ads down our throats for money without a moral concern.

And rightly so.
Yes! The most important bit of this comment IMO is the "about two weeks" part. There's a trough of uselessness in vacations – 14-21 days is the minimum in my experience.

In week 1, I'm annoyed by my vacation. I don't care about sitting on a beach, I'm bored, I want to get back to solving problems.

In week two, I'm aghast at the mundane routines I've fallen into, bullshit hangouts, errands, and reddit.

Something weird happens in week 3 where all the books you read, all the ideas you have, start to take on this new lightness and optimism and interestingness. Hang out in that vacation mode for as long as you can afford to.

I wish I had more insight into that last state, but it's a very rare day that I take more than a month off work.

For me at least, vacations under 3 weeks are somewhat useless from a "recover your health" standpoint, and I'm much better off spreading a week or two of vacation around in a way that makes many 3 day weeks, giving room to run errands and make non-work life more relaxed across the board, rather than oscillating between tire fires and mandatory relaxation.
Based on your resume, I think you can present all of these skills anonymously as well.

Of course, there might some clear marks that will give away your gender and age, but that's up-to the interviewer to decide. All the things you have on your resume can be done by a woman or 20-year old as well as 60-year old.

So, I don't this would hurt you in any way and you can still demonstrate your soft skills.
Thats not the issue, though — it isn’t that there’s no word for a female doctor. If you know someone’s male, in English everyone’s happy to use “he” (I think). The issue at hand is that there’s no word for a doctor of unknown gender.

What does the inclusive writing movement suggest one should do in this case? In English, only the pronouns are concerned, so you can advocate using a different pronoun, but in French the genders of nouns have more pervasive effects.
And the funny thing, it's not easy to get in there.
Climate change: CO2 emissions rising for first time in four years
Pictures or video are not the point of the mission. And it was nowhere certain that we'd even get that initial picture right away, as it depended at least one of the two experimental MarCO nanosats doing its job as a relay. They successfully did just that which was great; otherwise we'd have had to wait for several hours for one of the orbiting assets to relay the data. Radio doesn't work if there's thousands of kilometers of rock in the way, as you might know.
"Like if they come from a poor/disadvantaged background and still have 90% the skills and experience of another candidate, well that's more impressive" - Potentially, yes.
This is arguably not a good idea, and feeds bad habits. If you restrict your calories for a while (say 1-6 weeks), your appetite and hunger will adjust. Once you get used to it, you might be surprised how little you need to stay full. This is healthy. People lapse because of unhealthy cultural habits to binge. IF is basically a harm reduction strategy around that. You could argue that the best idea is to abstain, and rarely overeat.
P.S. In fact, here is evidence that Google does absolutely nothing about fraudulent directory listings and ads, like the one you seek to think will be solved by Google moving into China: https://youtu.be/5c6AADI7Pb4
It is interesting to see the standard to which these big internet companies are being held lately. The mere fact that Google debated and waited many years before jumping into China with a censored search engine puts it into the top of the most ethical for-profit corporations to ever exist, in my book.

All this bad-will seems to come from their advertising business models, which I find is loudly criticized with rather thin arguments, given that these companies are often the only ones defending the users from the dirty tactics of advertisers (who get none of the blame). I've neve seen criticism of coca-cola for using Google's targeting abilities to its advantage and shove ads down our throats for money without a moral concern. And rightly so.
ok there's no part of this comment that I'm not interested in you expanding on if you would!

Does the 10 hours a week support you financially? Is that because your cost of living is low?

Tell us about the creative projects and the lawsuits!
Can you elaborate on why you feel that way?
The article was about recent trends, not ancient history.
Taylor Swift is a labor radical
In past World Chess Championships when they finished tied with points the current champion retained the title, which I found disappointing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1987#...
That is what the farmers that didn't go bankrupt do.
Doesn't the US spend around $100B a year on farming subsidies from buying crops, to paying people not to farm etc? Not even counting indirect subsidies like requiring ethanol be added to gas.
I work on anime fansubs as a hobby, mostly as a typesetter, I use Noto Serif as my main dialogue font, and I default to Noto Sans (in various weights and widths) when I need a regular sans to set on-screen text and signs.

It is absolutely perfect. And you know what? I don't think I've gotten a single complaint from anyone about using a serif font for dialogue, which is something that's really uncommon in the fansubbing community (there is a tendency to stick to old taboos, even though the reasons why serif fonts were avoided are no longer valid now that almost everyone, including me, only releases softsubs). It's just that gorgeous.

The widths and weights Noto is available in is also massively useful to me. There have been times I've tried to set some text, observed that the regular is too light and the bold is too heavy... and then I remember that Noto has a demi. Or when it started to irk me that the width of the font didn't harmonize well with the width of the Japanese text and I started to play with \fscx until I realized that I could just use Noto Sans SemiCondensed and get something that's optically sound.

And the best part is that it's all open-source.
Carlsen is not in the shape he used to be and I can understand his choice. I don't like his attitude, but he has all the rights to manage its tournament the way he thinks best.
I don't think 1 and 3 are contradictory. Chines companies routinely scoff at US IP protections.
> In what is ostensibly the best country in the world, and a massive proponent of free speech and human rights, you think it's bold to write a letter on the internet to your extraordinarily famous employer?

Free speech only applies to the government though? Your employer is still free to fire you.

Sure you won't be put in jail but for most people losing their job still certainly affects their livelihood.
I'm guessing from your description that your lawn has probably largely reverted to less needy species. In which case, they don't need that maintenance to grow and you are probably beating that 8% pretty handily.

My front lawn right now is full of daisies. I have been purposely not mowing sections of it, because they're covered in bees and I can't bring myself to leave them nothing! Anyway, like you, I put in zero chemicals, but that stuff still grows well above 8% of the chemical-fed grass a few houses down.
Only founder CEOs really have the luxury of putting values over profits, and that’s because they can’t really be fired. Once they put someone else in charge, that is over, though it doesn’t become clear until much later.
Kind of my first thought, and why it seemed out of character with the rest. Because it isn't uncommon for me to get up an hour later at 5:30 to go for a run, and I'm friggin' lazy. Learn a new language and travel to a foreign country? Hell, yeah, I'll go to bed an hour earlier for that morning run.
for client machines looking for a very light alternative, perhaps. A project called Ntimed was started some time ago here at Network Time Foundation (nwtime.org), but the development stalled.

We'd really like to revive it, as there is demand for a lighter NTP client.
There wouldn't be a "this is PII" sign on top of it. By its nature you don't know what encrypted data is unless you can decrypt it, and there's many other things that people would be encrypting and putting on the blockchain that aren't PII (probably the vast majority of them wouldn't be). And that's only for the symmetric case anyway; in the hash case it's non-reversible and the majority of the blockchain data is already hashes anyway.

Also, your "ephemeral encrypted packets" are probably logged to disk in multiple three-letter agency databases.
That is only true assuming the selection criteria that weren't blinded were themselves free of bias. That's very rarely true.

And if it's not true, arguably what you've done is removed the adjustment variables that could correct the bias, rather than the bias itself.
This is how I mainly take it. A lot of comments about how this will make it "bias free!" and "nondiscriminatory" when really what it will do is give advantaged people even more advantage. Those who were not able to go to the better school and get more life experiences and obtain connections are going to be even further behind.

There seems to be this implied belief that there's a conspiracy in the West to hire white males above all. This simply isn't true. By having access to race and gender and even age in some cases it allows us to select for a diverse set of candidates. So although we may not (or we may!) end up with an outcome that is as diverse as the set we started with, we at least made the effort to give different people an equal opportunity.

If I'm only allowed to recruit based on the best credentials then those with a socioeconomic advantage will continue to.
Do they have numbers for intermittent fasting? These numbers seem very similar to other ingrained habits, and are kinda depressing. Honestly, it makes me doubt the effectiveness of willpower in general.
True. There's definitely a vicious cycle.

These days you have to work like a maniac to get a 10% chance of success. It's not very motivating. It's better to save yourself the mental trauma, take a cushy job and get a 90% chance of being able to retire.
"But what if the theory of mind that underwrites our distinctiveness is build on sand, is just another useful illusion foisted upon us by the Darwinian processes that got us here? Then it will turn out that neuroscience is a far greater threat to human distinctiveness than AI will ever be."

Ah, I get it.

It's that journalist twist. The threats supposedly presented by AI include some version of robot rebellion ("the singularity"), a crisis where jobs are still necessary to live but where few people have any sellable skills, and a blow to the human ego concerning human uniqueness.

What are journalists concerned with? The blow to the human ego? It's like the hyperbole of, say, one boxer described as "destroying" another by insulting them when the actual match will say who will destroy who.

I mean, I personally think it is good to put to sleep the concept of agency promulgated by certain views of philosophy. Neuroscience is useful here. But what a terrible way to start framing things.
Nope.

Now if you give the impression that you are all bout money but don't act like it then shareholders can be rightfully upset. But if you clearly state your values and ambitions and shareholders don't like it? Then, sucks to be them! There is nothing more to it than that.

Serving shareholders’ “best interests” is not the same thing as either maximizing profits, or maximizing shareholder value. "Shareholder value," for one thing, is a vague objective: No single “shareholder value” can exist, because different shareholders have different values. Some are long-term investors planning to hold stock for years or decades; others are short-term speculators.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
If your ISP is not a dumb pipe then everything else is already lost.

Mesh networks only work if you pay the big money for rental on building roofs and existing towers. This money, and so height, and so line of sight, is why cell networks work. You might get some non-profit going in areas especially conducive to it (ie, high population density cities where residents have access to their roofs, or coastal areas with large mountains).
University hiring made easy
Huh. I'd say work on "human-computer interfaces" is one of the pinnacles of social activism and always a highly politicised endeavour. The Media Lab has always had (in my fairly long memory) a reputation for empowering individuals in the face of authority. Disobedience is a perfect fit.

If being an "engineer" means not being involved in social activism, why would anyone want to be called or perceived as one?
C++ and Fortran support on CUDA was one of the big reasons why OpenCL was left behind.

They now at least support C++14, but driver support seems to still not be quite there, from what I get reading the interwebs.
One of the best episodes of Black Mirror. Truly made me have deep thoughts about myself, life, and where humanity is going. Immortality seems indeed achievable, but not in a biological way our ancestors imagined.
It is a counter-attack by Adtech industry. They were not amused by Safari ITP 2.0 and other Apple privacy features.

iPhone market share in US is ~50%.
TBH I am so divided on this. I did a little thought experiment over this and came up with two possible outcomes
Negative:
We live in a strange world where valuing morals limits our career opportunities. If I am a Google employee and I walk out now where does it end? If I am not a hypocrite I cannot work at Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber or even Apple. I am limiting where I can work and hence will have to settle for lesser wage. This will discourage people from speaking against wrong practices.

Positive:
OTOH this activism has a potential to let companies know that some very smart people will not join you if your moral compass is faulty.
Maybe it can't be done in the US, for various cultural, bureaucratic, and legal reasons, but it has been done successfully in other parts of the world.

http://ontheworldmap.com/japan/city/tokyo/tokyo-rail-map.jpg
Thank you, brave Google employees, for speaking out.
In most jurisdictions it's hard to hard someone. In all jurisdictions it's expensive.
Making PySpark Work with SpaCy: Overcoming Serialization Errors
I'm going to go with the vets' opinion on this one.

If Brinks trucks do the same work, use Brinks trucks. They are civilian vehicles and all of the tasks you list are civilian tasks.

Militarization of the police force is a very, very, very bad idea.
Change that list from code to regular text (no 4 space indent) so we can click them!
> If only I realized how much time I had in the before-time....

Funnily enough, I feel like I get more done with kids. Before I had them I was a huge procrastinator. Now I have the focus and time management skills (because I HAVE to) to actually get stuff done on my personal projects.

But, yeah, if I had all that free time, with my current focus, would have been nice.
tl;dr after 11 draws, Carlsen offered a draw from a superior position in the final game to head into the short-format tiebreaks, where:

> he is ranked No. 1 in all three formats (classical, rapid, and blitz). Caruana is ranked 10th and 18th in rapid and blitz respectively.

Critics are appalled that he didn't fight for the win out of sense of honor. I don't see how this is different than, for instance, fouling at the end of a basketball game. Hard to blame a player for working within the rules to put himself into a position where he feels he has a greater chance of keeping the title.

"It's not the critic who counts...."
Very much so, and nearly one decade separated between the three in their respective fad cycles. Being a fad isn't a judgement against the technology, some will fail and some will prevail.