skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume someone at Facebook, hopefully the person that wrote this, or someone who has more influence over this issue, is reading.

I am an engineer. I understand technology better than most of the general population. When I sign in to my Facebook account to use Spotify, I am absolutely not expecting that Spotify will now have access to read every single one of my private messages. This is a gross violation of trust, and if this is what happened, then the fact that you not only made this mistake, but also then published this blog post defending it, marks a low point for Facebook. Perhaps irrecoverably so for me.

"After signing in to your Facebook account in Spotify’s desktop app, you could then send and receive messages without ever leaving the app. Our API provided partners with access to the person’s messages in order to power this type of feature."

This is a write permission. So you needed to give Spotify permission to create a message. It seems that your system combines the read and write permissions, since you just grouped them together by saying "access to the person's messages". It also seems from your defense that you see absolutely no issue with this. In order to share a song through Spotify, you are giving them access to every single private message the user has ever written.

I find it hard to believe that Facebook refuses to acknowledge any fault in this: The initial product decision, the upholding of this decision through previous privacy investigations, and this PR response. Am I misinterpreting the facts or scale of this?
It's the entire Republican plan for healthcare: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea...

>Blitzer pressed the point. "But, Congressman, are you saying the society should just let him die?" At that point, the rabble erupted in cheers and whoops of "Yeah!"
I wonder to what extent the data being fed to these models are the issue. Or rather the problem is the systems that generate these data-sets and how representative of reality they are. If we make an app that involves humans and that data is used in a model - to what extent does user experience and other factors warp reality?

Maybe our existing methods are good enough given enough compute to reach AGI but our datasets are too low fidelity and non-representative of the problem space to reach desired results?
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I'm not sure you and the OP mean the same thing by "General Intelligence".

It seems clear that autonomous systems which can apply their computational machinery to a diverse range of problems, and can, in a diverse range of settings, formulate instrumental goals as part of a plan to attain a final goal, do exist.

Because that's what humans are, at least some of the time.
They are not overhyped, definitely not as much as old school RDBMS stuff. It's just most engineers can't make good database choices no matter what database they choose. Or more generally they can't make good infrastructure choices, as those are out of their competence and are mostly about things like operations and distributed systems, that take a long time and a lot of experience to get to a level of good decisions.
i agree with the poor impulse control claim but beyond that, for people who feel disenfranchised by the system and as though they have no other qualities they can actually use to survive in society, at least wrt the concept of selling drugs, that is an extremely reliable way to make enough money in order to support your life and the pursuit of your desires. that being said, i do believe that anyone can improve their position in life if they stop allowing themselves to believe that they are completely limited by their societal status. however, as someone who struggles to integrate into society in any meaningful way and ultimately support myself, I do get how easy it is to convince yourself that there is no other choice other than what you currently have. it's a super toxic line of reasoning and antithetical to the pursuit of happiness as it were, but man its really easy to do. and as we all (likely) know, many humans tend to prefer to just do things the easy way and rely on what they know or are comfortable with
People's health is their own concern to the extent that they do not burden society with their health care costs, nor the people in their life due to their poor condition.
Bad reading is killing people. The relevant info is still there it is just hidden: Being fit and not smoking is healthier than being fit or not smoking separately.
This is a zoning issue, not a marijuana issue. Why did the government allow a greenhouse which was zoned for daises swap to marijuana?

Yes, marijuana stinks. So do slaughter houses and landfills. There's a reason we don't zone these near residential areas.
It's not true that people's health is their own concern. Especially not when my taxes pay for your treatment when you've deliberately not taken care of yourself and not when your lack of regard in this manner promote similar thing happening to other people (children, for example).
I went to college in Kenosha, WI (North of Chicago, South of Milwaukee) -- and they have cabbage patch farms around the area.

The stench coming from those farms, woowee!
It is the only one (I know of) that provides an all-in-one integrated approach that "just works".

Actually, inspired by your comments, I'm currently sitting at my desk, thinking about how to improve the claim.

I would love to discuss things with you. If you are interested in exchanging ideas as well, feel free to contact me via mail (hello@thenativeweb.io).
I find it a little sad that he did not credit Antoine de Saint-Exupéry who wrote this story and created the drawings in 1943 after he crashed his aeroplane in the sahara desert and and met the real little prince there. Also, that the comments so far are very complimentary but it is not clear that the writers know the original story and I am most concerned that the warning about the Baobabs is not included!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
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I don't really desagree with you [0].

I was merely poking holes on parent's theory that more paid engineers and a bigger market cap, somehow justify better technical decisions. That's a dubious thing to say and if extend the logic to the OS level it should be apparent.

[0] I use Windows, Mac OS, Linux (and Android, iOS) all the time, and honestly they all get the job done, but all suck in particular and annoyingly unique ways. So I don't really agree with you either.
Conservationists plant a 'super grove' of trees cloned from ancient stumps
> Are you implying we kill/let die the "sickly"?

What's the choice? Make other people ill and have the original sick people die anyways?

That's all slowing mortality down in heroin abuses does, and it's definitely not how we treat other kinds of diseases, particularly those which have reached epidemic proportions, where the prime objective is arresting transmission.

So, yes -- I think we should follow standard medical practices, and it's unfortunate that strong measures are needed to confront an epidemic level problem. Just like it always is when you have to make medical triage decisions.

But we have to prioritize maintaining the healthy population ahead of the comfort or longevity of the already ill, in broad strokes.
Seems like a false alternative between computation and magic.
perhaps they don't agree with your thesis.
You have to hope that after legalization producers will stop competing on how strong it reeks, since we'll all know it's real and won't be evaluating on the fly. Problem is that it might take generations to breed out the smellier=stronger thing.

Somebody here has the power to start branding based on being strong but not smelly; get on it first, you'll find a huge market.
Those are two wildly different questions:
What is with this weird assumption that the recession will never come? On average since the founding of the nation every 10 years or so we have had some kind of a recession/economic slowdown. It's coming whether or not you think it is.
I think you are seeing what I'm trying to say. It's not like most fat people are not aware that they're fat, and not aware that that is a problem. They are just exhausted with trying to change it. Particularly for people who have "always" been fat.

Consider that being fat might be better for you than alternating between eating disorders and being fat, which is the choice that a non-trivial number of fat people are faced with.
> The purpose of prison should be to keep dangerous people out of society

Whatever happened to purpose of prison being rehabilitation? I mean... they are called correctional facilities. Are we so far gone now that we think criminals are beyond redemption and change?
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It's really nice, I'll test it out and post my feedback. Thank you for making this.
The HUGE difference is that one is asking to use resources in a smarter way (safe injection sites). They are not destigmatizing drugs.

I've been to countries where there are 'tolerance' zones. But that doesn't mean there isn't stigma to doing it.

Stigma is a strong social disincentive.

The Healthy as fat is trying to remove stigma for something that is unhealthy. But it is not trying to re-assign social resources in a logical way.
Pity there seems to be no Linux option.
There are other possibilities. For example, there can be an immaterial mind that operates as a halting oracle and interfaces with the world through the brain. Halting oracles are well defined, and we can empirically test for their existence. So, no reason why we have to assume everything humans do is reducible to some sort of automata. The only reason we make the assumption is because of prior materialistic commitments.

UPDATE: I've been rate limited for some reason, so here is my response whether the mind intuitively seems to be a halting oracle.

1. It's obvious there are an infinite number of integers, because whatever number I think of I can add one to it. A Turing machine has to be given the axiom of infinity to make this kind of inference, it cannot derive it in any way. This intuitively looks like an example of the halting oracle at work in my mind. Or, an even more basic practical example: if I do something and it doesn't work, I try something else. Unlike the game AIs that repeatedly try to walk through walls.

2. We programmers write halting programs with great regularity. So, it seems like we are decent at solving the halting problem. Also, note that it is not necessary to solve every problem in order to be an uncomputable halting oracle. All that is necessary is being capable of solving an uncomputable subset of the halting problems. So, the fact that we cannot solve some problems does not imply we are not halting oracles.
On the internet, there is a supportive community for every possible opinion humans can have.
I recently listened to an episode of Sean Carroll's podcast with the planet nine astronomer interviewed. Basically they're working on finding it, but their math can only limit the location of the planet to a specific orbit, and they need to check all possible angles of that orbit and it is a lot of the sky to look through.

Edit - podcast link https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/08/27/epis...
That's not what damage control is. I am not claiming that there is a way to be fat and absolutely healthy. I am saying that there are ways to be healthier while being fat. That is damage control, like the ones applied to drug addiction. And that is proved to be a good decision in some cases.
IMHO, Chrome arrived at such a market share mostly through (i) ubiquitously ad campaigns (subways, buses, on the web, ...); (ii) an strong push towards the users (it's quite easy when your editor is in charge of what is basically the homepage of the internet for most people); (iii) an aggressive bundling strategy with dozens of other programs (JVM, freewares, ...).
It's hard to explain that to an unfit person who would argue it's immeasurably more enjoyable to eat whatever you want, whenever you want. Sometimes only after they develop heart disease or diabetes, or other obesity-related health complications do they realize maybe it wasn't such a good idea to never exercise and frequently supersize.
As someone who files taxes every year, I'm quite certain that Adjusted Gross Income is a reality ;)
Imagine that you're searching for a solution to a Javascript issue, and you see two search results. One has the answer and links to a working Codepen, and the other provides some conceptual information and links you to MDN documentation so you can figure the answer out for yourself.

Which one are you going to read first? If you picked the first one, does that indicate a dilapidation in reading ability, or that you needed an answer, and the first option provided the best one?
As an adult, I like flavors. Flavors aren't addictive, nicotine is.

As a teenager, I used to steal bottles from my parents' liquor cabinet and drink them neat. Needless to say they (with few exceptions) don't taste good this way.

Kids use drugs (partially) because they want to play at being adults. Requiring the e-cig to taste bad isn't going to inhibit that at all. It is going to inconvenience a lot of law-abiding adults who enjoy flavored e-liquid.

Stop trying to ruin my e-cig based on narratives and weak evidence.
What is a "big calorie deficit" relative to others? I am just curious because the general physiology is pretty simple and I have read some things that pretty thoroughly debunk endomorph vs. ectomorph. It is must more useful to classify based on muscle fiber composition. People with a lot of fast twitch muscle fiber build muscle quicker, etc.
Hello! A tangential question: how did you manage to compile the book yourself? I find many errors that are hard to track down and Im not sure if its due to missing custom packages.
I had a similar experience and seeing that video made things a lot more clear. I'd recommend putting that on your website. Anyway, looks like a great tool!
> "Schemaless" just immediately means that instead of the database keeping consistency, you now essentially have to do all your type and constraint checking in the application...

This is so true. Some component has to maintain integrity of the data. Should it be the application developer? Or the database software team?

I know which one I'd choose, and which one is focused on data integrity and not business logic.
its no where near as bad as a paper mill
I like Seneso pads/pods. They're just discs of coffee grounds packaged in coffee filter paper. Fully compostable.
I mean, maybe not. But it's a personal decision.
If you're actually concerned about "your taxes" you should celebrate the over weight and otherwise unhealthy. The lion's share of health care costs are end of life treatments; don't have to worry about those if you die of a heart attack at age 45.
Just out of interest, how active was your blog? (hits/day?)

I don't have a commenting feature on my blog - partly because I haven't gotten around to setting it up yet, partly because I'm worried about potential spam. But I would like to get some feedback from my readers, so that's a bit of a conundrum...
Is this for GDPR compliance?
Hmm yes, this is exactly the same sort of situation:

> WSDOT announced on December 21 that it would not resume Amtrak service on the Point Defiance Bypass until positive train control is implemented in 2018.

"But America has also had train crashes" is a typical response in this sort of situation, but also typically irrelevant.
AWS ECR is down
No idea at all. A sibling comment notes there some mushy statements about working with the DOJ. It's very, very hard to believe that Rep. Goodlatte is unique in his cares or communications with the DOJ about the impact of the bill. Occams razor points to something pettier.
It is an opportunity to say "Ok, we can't stop these people from doing heroin. But we can make it as safe as possible, and we can provide a vector for additional health care interventions". It also means that you aren't psychologically torturing addicts by telling them that if they were only 'strong enough' they could cure their addiction.

You might not like the way HAES or fat acceptance is packaged, but this is exactly the same thing.
> The new law maintained the status of illegality for using or possessing any drug for personal use without authorization. However, the offense was changed from a criminal one, with prison a possible punishment, to an administrative one if the amount possessed was no more than a ten-day supply of that substance.

You seem to be mistaken about how their policy operates.

You're also working from a different premise than me: I believe people fundamentally have agency, and so they're influenced by their circumstances, but their problems are not causal from them -- they made a choice to adopt that habit as a coping strategy.

And frankly, I disagree with you about how to confront that: I think we should be accepting of how they got there, but I absolutely disagree with things like HAES which suggest that their choice isn't a problematic one.

To borrow a phrase from a friend, and use it somewhat out of context: I can love a sinner without enabling or accepting the sin.
I run my personal mailserver on a DigitalOcean VPS, but I wouldn't recommend it. I've never had blacklisting issues and email works fine over IPv4, but outbound connections on all mail ports (25, 109, 110, 143, 465, 587, 995; not 993, oddly) are silently dropped over IPv6. They assign each host a IPv6 /124, instead of a /64 or better like other providers, so they block outbound SMTP for spam prevention. The other blocked ports aren't documented and I've had a support ticket open since November about getting them unblocked that looks like it won't be resolved anytime soon.

DO has been great for everything else I hosted there, but they're a bad choice for a mailserver.
I am also curious as well.

I have seen this article about encoding an image into DNA. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40585299

But have not seen a compiler for which the output is DNA, or other biological materials.
This is the thing. It costs a lot to get a nice vape and it is also not cheap from an effort / money to maintain compared to cigs which you just throw on the ground. It is almost a hobby-level undertaking.

People do switch juices all the time so it is common to have different bottles of varying quantities sitting around.

If you're just vaping with whatever you can get your hands on and conceal as presumably teens are, I doubt they have a nice repeatable setup with a trigger counter.

But regardless, there are none of these confusing points in branded cigarettes. One cigarette is one cigarette end of story.
The problem is Apple is a unicorn in this regard. If you have a treasure chest of money collecting dust you can afford to be much more proactive. Most businesses are not afforded the luxury and will deliver what is the most cost effective which isn't always aligned with most environmentally sound.
Yeah, it's called Red Hat Enterprise Linux ;-) It's available on all the cloud providers and has a better API/ABI guarantee as well as very, very well defined commitments to patching and lifecycle :-)
You chose a pretty poor example.

Have you ever heard of methadone? Its literally accepting that someone will be addicted to opiates for a long time or life and then giving them a healthier alternative that doesnt try to change that.

https://www.crchealth.com/addiction/heroin-addiction-treatme...
Some people will use it for that. Others won't.
It goes lots deeper than that. It's not uncommon for corporations to be setup to prevent leaking or discovery of sensitive information. Military intelligence agencies are notorious for that.

Top executives maintain ignorance of operational unpleasantness. Technical staff know operational specifics, but little about business design and usage. Intermediate management know pieces of business design and usage, but nothing about technical implementation.

Nobody needs to lie, and still there's often no way to know for sure what happened.
As a 21 year old, 21 year olds are terrible at giving advice

this is a generality. You omitted the next sentence where experience / results were presented. I would ignore most 21 year olds advice about snowboarding, but i would listen to everything Shaun White had to say at 15.

There’s also the successful-bias problem, where you think you’re successful because of whatever you did, and that there aren’t other ways

another generality (perhaps you're talking about survivor bias). in any case, these are general statements that may be true statistically but unless you tie them to the context of OP there is little relevance to this discussion
>Throw coffee + water into a big jar (~2 quarts), leave in the fridge for 12-hours. Filter, and you have ~1.7ish quarts of cold-brew coffee.

This works for home or personal use. But in a communal, office setting where nobody knows whose stuff is whose or how old anything is it's a recipe for someone drinking from a moldy bottle.
Old versions of mongo were very bad.

We accured lots of downtime due to mongo.

But later versions were rock solid and I've matainer mongo installations at many startup and SMEs once you setup alertd for disk/memory usage, off you go. Works like charm 99% of the times.
“Pluto, no longer considered a planet (it was the ninth until 2006), is not marked on the chart, but it would be below Neptune just outside the pink region (2,300 km diameter and 30-50 AU away).“

Yeah, that sucks.
But a lot of them have opt-outs already, which are presumably free. I think we're talking about the just the convenience cost of exercising all of them on my behalf.
Crisis management playbook in action.
Damn, you just put a hole in my already utterly impractical scheme. CURSES!!! (twirls mustache)

:)

In all seriousness, that would definitely kill any possibility. Sweeping an entire orbit at the resolution needed to hit something smaller than Uranus/Neptune would take eons.
Yep, you can index any expression on a single row in postgres. The downside is that the optimizer will only use the index if the query contains that exact expression, while it's usually smarter with column indexes.

The only limit that I've run into in comparison with NoSQL databases is that you cannot index fields inside arrays within the column (json -> arrayIndex -> field), you need to normalize the array to a different table.
> goals and motivations seem 100% in line with google,

It's been a long time since I've believed in their idealism, yes, but I still think accusing Debian of being in the advertising and surveillance business is a bit harsh.
Let's reconsider this position using some other example:

Such a shame that the "healthy at any genetic condition" BS is so popular these days. Literally killing people.
I think you're asking the wrong question. The question should be: How did MongoDB become so successful?

IMO, the reason is that newer developers faced the choice of learning SQL or learning to use something with a Javascript API. MongoDB was the natural choice because they excelled at being accessible to devs who were already familiar with Javascript and JSON.

Not only that, their marketing/outreach efforts were also aimed at younger developers. When was the last time you saw a Postgres rep at a college tech event?
Thanks, more specifically what I'm asking is say we sequenced computer code. If we assume a tree we can make any collection of projects look like a tree. However, if we don't assume a tree they'll form some other sort of graph.

Have we done the same sort of experiment with genetic code to verify whether it actually does form a tree, or if that's just an assumption we are forcing on the data?
But denormalization is one strategy to improve the performance of a rdbms.
>Instant coffee takes seconds, a couple of minutes if you include boiling the water.

Another excellent example. Now we have coffee which tastes awful and still takes longer.