skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it either. In a past life I was sold to work in a factory in London for basically no pay at 80 hours a week. It's like human standards of living go up over time or something.

Joking aside, it's probably a good sign that what once was normal isn't. Eventually robots will be doing all the lifting and we will look back and shake our heads at how much intellectual capacity we had tied up lifting boxes.
Just to be clear, what you linked to is the European Parliament's proposal for the law. Compromise negotiations are currently ongoing with the Council (representing the member state governments), which in its own proposal does not ask for human review or an independent dispute resolution body. At this point it's unclear what the final law will say.
https://juliareda.eu/2018/10/copyright-trilogue-positions/

No matter what the safeguards end up being though, Article 13 is likely to make the problem worse overall because it will force all other platforms that host a lot of user posts/uploads (all content types, including text and photos) to also implement automated copyright systems, which are likely to be even shoddier than YouTube's.
I think Facebook would love to be the WeChat for the rest of the world.
Precisely what mode of thought was he satirizing?

"Satire" has a meaning - A Modest Proposal wasn't Swift going "haha what if we ate babies"
Review of 2018: the thrills and spills of football
Don’t dismiss this because you think you disagree with the politics. 12 rules is life changing.
I thought they limited the downvote karma to -4?
In 1869, Oakland and Council Bluffs Iowa were joined with a golden spike, completing the Pacific Railroad. From Oakland, it runs Sacramento, Truckee, Reno, Ogden, Cheyenne, Lincoln, and finally Omaha across the Missouri from Council Bluffs. I80 follows the same route today. Not because of travel demand between Oakland and Cheyenne, Wyoming (population 60k).

Because of geography.

The article asserts France has about 3000km of high speed rail. That will connect Oakland and Council Bluffs, with just enough left over to cross the bay to San Francisco. But not from SF to San Jose.

From Council Bluffs to New York, it's another 2000km. That's all the high speed rail in Germany plus all the high speed rail in Italy (as asserted in the article). In European terms, it's like building a high speed rail line from Paris to Moscow. But if the Urals were in between.

The US doesn't have a national high speed rail network because a national high speed rail network doesn't make sense. Between the Canadian and Mexican borders, there are three geographically reasonable rail routes to the Pacific.

To the north of the I80 route, there's the I90/Great Northern route through North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho. South of I80 is the I10/ATSF route across West Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. It is the only all-weather route to the Pacific in the US. The US obtained it via the Gadsden Purchase in 1853. The three routes alone would require the US to build the second largest high speed rail network.

Using the US Interstate system as a first approximation, a US network would have about 77,000 km of high speed rail line. 77 Germanies or 26 Frances or 3 Europes. On completion, it would be larger than all currently existing and planned high speed rail.[1]

There are places in the US where high speed rail makes some sense. Again, it's about geography. Maybe the article's DC to Charlotte is one of them...Dallas to San Marcos (population 44,000) probably not.

The US is vast. Even at 3x the speed of high speed rail in optimum conditions, most of it is experienced as fly-over states.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_lin...
>> > given that greenfield software tends to be written in Rust...
>> You are terribly mistaken again.

True, but I sure hope that changes sooner than later. The top comment here echoes my sentiment about what C++ has become, while another one illustrates how cleanly the example can be done in Python and Rust. The problem as I see it is that long time C++ developers have learned all this arcane BS right along with its development. Anyone new to a language will vomit when they try C++ compared to Python or Rust. The C++ language developers are probably the least able to see what the problem is in this regard.

On a slight tangent, IMHO this approach to language development is at the heart of the issue that lead Guido to step down as Python lead. One of the proposals that got accepted crossed the line between readable code and "this is a compact way to do this but isn't intuitive on its face".
And yet, when 3. our current president said there were "fine people on both sides" it's still racist, because it is a pattern of behavior. It's not a single incident.

Obama disavowed Wright and Farrakhan in a speech that was praised by nearly everyone, including Mike Huckabee and John McCain, and was president for 8 years without winking at Nazis, white supremacists, or anti-semites like Farrakhan.
Syntax should be dead-simple so that correctness is obvious, compilers don't dump incomprehensible messages on trivial typos, and programmers can focus on efficiency.
For example, in something as simple as:

int z;
while(++z)
for(int x = 1; x <= z; ++x)
for(int y = x; y <= z; ++y)
if(x*x + y*y == z*z) emit_triple(x, y, z);

a programmer would easily spot that x and y should never reach z, y should be initialized to x+1 and that this will stop working as soon as z outgrows 16-bit values. A programmer would also see that this is a horribly inefficient algorithm.
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HN has a large amount or regressive leftists and even communists.
I have been thinking about our conversation here and wanted to add something more in case that's what you were wondering about.

Do I regret coming back?

Yes, I do on some days, especially when I go to Indian stores similar to BestBuy. I see all the big screen TVs and see them priced at 150k, 200k and above, and I suddenly feel poor. When I was in US, I couldn't buy them because of the uncertainty of being in US. Now, I cannot buy because I don't have a job. That makes me wish I shouldn't have come back. May be, my thinking would be different if I had a job in India.

Another issue is place of stay. I am staying at my in laws house, and I have to "act" to keep them happy. If they ask me to leave, I would be jobless and homeless also.

So, if all these RFEs are making you want to come back, I would say keep going. Things will most likely get better. If they deny your visa, come back. Otherwise stay. Save some money and retire early.

All the best.
What price do you put on a species?

We are losing 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal every 24 hours.

That’s an estimated 1,000 times the natural rate.

We fucked up real bad, and the fact that there’s 7 billion of us now and we’ve got iPhones doesn’t change that a shred.

we Will pay for this destruction, in unforeseen, invisible, and difficult to imagine ways.

We could have done better, and ignoring that blocks our path to a better way.
But but metallized plastic!

Yup, wiki says it can be metallized plastic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)
Because they don't like Amazon, the same facts mean something else. Same bizarre idea upper middle class people seem to have about small businesses in the service industry, which arguably tend to treat workers considerably worse than "big mean megacorps".
Would your weariness of satire been the same had South Park instead satirized the climate change deniers and led people to take the issue more seriously?
To state myself clearly:

I am disturbed by the line of thinking of basing conclusion on media reports.

I do not say negative outweighs positive or vise versa. That's not my point.

My ultimate point is that a person is complex. If you want to base your perception on media reports, that's clearly lazy and manipulated. To know a person, you need to see the whole picture. Then if you want to claim that a person's repetitive attacks from media is because that person is problematic, that's disturbing.
Does the code for insulin do anything else?
Not at all, I’m just saying that speccing out a whole system before you start building is a great way to waste a lot of time.
It's not witch hunting. It's ad money hunting. Click-based advertisement has created incentives that are directly opposite to what drives good journalism.

Therefore, paywalls and online subscription is actually the best thing that could happen to online journalism.
"The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins" by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25510906-the-mushroom-at...

It's all about how in Japan there's this tradition of gifting (and never purchasing for oneself) matsutake, as a way of showing appreciation. However, this tradition grew alongside deforestation.

Japan has done a pretty good job conserving forests, but this strange mushroom they like so much only grows in deforested forests out of skinny pines, so now it has to be imported from Oregon, Finland, and China.

The author embeds herself a bit with Laotian refugees that do mushroom hunting in Oregon, and describes the various interesting ways these communities operate. Auctions, forest hunting, how kids get started, etc.

And then she explains how these two intensely social and human concepts (the gift giving and the harvesting) are connected via an impersonal cynical international supply chain that commodifies everything.

Beautiful book tbh.
Content addressable memories are a commonly used example.

Harvard architecture machines are still used in embedded processors; among other things they can provide some hardware security impossible in a von Neumann architecture.

They are interpreting "Von Neumann" somewhat loosely; on a more strict basis (though I consider it nonsense), the only real NV machines were minicomputers like the PDP-11 or micros until recently. Mainframes had plenty of processing units beyond the CPU (what, after all, was a channel controller) and modern systems have cpus embedded in disk drives, in the PHY of all sorts of devices etc...not to mention that a modern "machine" can be a machine-room-scale system with lots of subunits.

Even at the level the semi guys are talking about the current processors are a far cry from what Von Neumann wrote of, with multiple functional units, asymmetric processors, caches etc -- make a mockery of the simplistic CPU model of ALU, single path to memory etc.
Who could possibly be considered an impartial author on the topic?

Surely not any Christian or any atheist. Not any Muslim either. I suppose Buddhists wouldn't have any particular stake in whether a historical Jesus existed.
Because not all art is intended to be accurate — it might be symbolic. The linked example shows blue/purple clothes, which were limited to the elite. Like the article says, this is used to show a royal status, not that it was what he actually wore.
How wide is the set of potential tentacles?
https://twitter.com/_Saeen_/status/955889027957297152

Here's a video of Jordan Peterson saying feminists support the rights of Muslims because of their "unconscious wish for brutal male domination."

Interesting pick!
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> 1. Who said they would?

That's my question.

> 2. Also, it appears that many states already get a lot more than they contribute. That subsidy probably isn’t going in the direction you think it is.

Sure, I'm not arguing that the distribution of federal money is 100% fair.
That's why people are moving to Rust.
Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson - amazing book about US criminal justice system. Read it.

The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt - a management novel. Oddly engrossing and educational at the same time

The Everything Store by Brad Stone - about Amazon's history, culture, businesses

(None of these books was written in 2018. I just read them in 2018)
To clarify a bit, the existence of official state flowers and so on seems to mainly be a way for legislators to waste time.

I have absolutely no idea what the official flower of any state is, including the state where I was born, and the one I live now.
Crucifixion was to Roman society what telling brown-skinned people to "go back to their own country" is to American society: a common pastime.
2018 is too late already, Quora and many others came in a time when making a post viral on Facebook and Twitter was way much easier in late 2000s and early 2010s and almost for free, exploiting Google search engine was also much easier back then. Now the internet is popularity contest business, pay for exposure or see your products die.
Facebook AI Research Automatic Speech Recognition Toolkit
I actually went ahead to learn haskell after one of his recent talks(my motivation was the vehement rejection from the haskell community..on reddit mostly) I haven't turned back since then. It's either he doesn't really understand how types are used or he's intentionally "bad-mouthing" types(which I don't think he's doing)
Social Security started out as an inter-generational wealth transfer and it still is. The original beneficiaries received benefits without paying in and everybody since then has been paying for their parents.

The only reason the "trust fund" has anything in it at all is the population expansion of the baby boom, which is drawing itself down as they retire. And there was never any money to begin with -- it's all government paper. The government collected social security tax, lent the money to itself and immediately spent it. Now it owes itself money. "But it's the social security administration's money" doesn't change anything about where it ultimately comes from -- present day taxpayers.
A C++ standalone library for training neural networks
Seems to work reasonably well in several European countries (I believe Switzerland has this, Germany at least partially also does).
Details of his life may have been written down then, but the sources we have aren’t those sources, just edited and translated retellings of those supposed stories with about 1800 years of politically and religiously motivated games of telephone between us and them. I have to ask, the Dead Sea Scrolls date from between about a century before Jesus’ purported life, to about a century after his death and as far as I know make no mention of him. I wasn’t claiming that the language is somehow untranslatable, but that we don’t have anything like contemporary sources, only people who hundreds of years later claim to have access to those sources.
“A way to make long winter nights slightly brighter, despite the offshore presence of Germans.”

Well that came out of nowhere.
Malaysia seeks $7.5bn damages from Goldman over 1MDB scandal
Douglas Adams was right “Genuine people personalities” are coming to our gadgets
In my view, there's only a certain extent to which code can teach domain knowledge. People tend to freeze up when they see any kind of math, physics, or quantitative engineering. And managers want to believe that domain knowledge is worthless because it refutes treating people as interchangeable cogs.

The only solution is to make sure you keep someone on staff who has a hope of understanding the underlying technology, and failing to do so is a business risk like any other.
I'm intrigued to hear how you think they should "take care of the problem".

Hire actual humans to review disputed decisions, while putting in a proper appeals process that is also overseen by actual thinking humans.

Maybe you can share your innovative python script that solves the problem for good.

I'm not Google. I don't pretend that all of the world's problems can be solved by computers, and then fail while trying.
Those are individual rights, and arguably they came from a worldview
(stemming from those values) where all people are created equal.

Much of the new culture I am referring to, seems to elevate the rights of groups and treat individuals as unequal because all people are born unequal depending on the group they belong to - the exact opposite of what the country was founded on and believed for a long time. It isn't untrue because people are born to vastly different circumstances that have a big impact on their long-term success in society. This seems to have become a sacred cow, i.e. a new set of religious principles.

How this plays out in this particular context is that when Pewdiepie uses his YouTube channel to make amusing videos, if he touches on certain blasphemous topics, then regardless of context, he is convicted as having "ties to white supremacists". His rights as an individual are deprioritized because the subject matter is blasphemous to the new value system, which places a very high priority on protection of the sentiments of minorities.

This is an exceptionally great goal, but freedom, due process and presumption of innocence of the individual must come first, if the goal is to create a fair and stable society, in my opinion.
This is backwards. Countercultures are dead. There is only one Facebook. There's no hippie Facebook, no goth Facebook, no punk Facebook, no right-wing Facebook. Not with any market share. The Village Voice and the rest of the alternative press are gone. So is Tribe.net, which was briefly the goth Facebook. Even the Weekly Standard just went bust. Instead, there's one big system which automatically caters to the interests of its users.
> Prior work has focused on various aspects of open software development [1–7], but documenting software has been underemphasized.

This article - like all software engineering - is completely unscientific. Scientific method:

> systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses
I mean with all this publicity they will probably be switching providers or sending in a complaint to Sedgewick, but they aren't micromanaging carpal tunnel workers comp claims that make up 1/100000th of their revenue.
I’m glad I read that book but I was slightly disappointed.

Signal and Noise by Nate Silver was more educational and enjoyable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Signal_and_the_Noise

Fooled by Randomness was also good. Better than Black Swan IMO.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness

Just started Einstein’s Shadow by Seth Fletcher. Am enjoying it.

https://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Shadow-Black-Astronomers-Un...

——

Adding other books that I’ve read in the past that I see mentioned and also loved:

Masters of Doom

Longitude

I liked Logitude so much I called myself h4labs when I released apps in the App Store, after Harrison’s H4 watch.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4labs-word-search/id1311744...
Clear your browser history and load a “fresh” YouTube to see how low that denominator is.
Package thieves ambushed by an engineers glitter bombs were not all real robbers
> you are moving up and down the ladder picking 380 items per hour for 10 hours

A picker is expected to pick an item every 9-10 seconds for 10 hours?
...ah yes the military glitter industrial complex
Amazing new things you can do with Alexa
Upon discovering a 0day, there's a number of ethically-variable choices:

- monetize it, which leads to it's unknown use by those of means for good, bad and ambiguous purposes

- keep it a secret for personal ability

- do nothing and forget about it

- drop it to the world immediately, leaving millions vulnerable while vendors scramble to do a not so thorough job fixing it

- report it discretely to the vendor with a reasonable disclosure timeline that aims to work with them to fix it in a timely fashion

The last is the most ethical, but I can understand why some would sell remote exploits for large piles of cash. Dropping 0day's is like setting a forest fire and hoping the fire department can put it out before it reaches people's homes; it's unethical because it's a power trip of unnecessarily harming many people just because you can and then blaming them for one's own, preventable, harm-causing actions.
I'm really liking How to Invent Everything by Ryan North. It's instructions for rebuilding civilization if you were stranded in the past, and is just the right mix of funny and interesting.
It's in Google best interest to not give others the data it collects as it can rent out the results multiple times to multiple customers. Where as giving data means they earn money of it one time.
That policy is actually good.

If someone goes through the trouble to delete their account it makes sense that they’d want their content gone too (privacy).
This is a preposterous false dilemma.
Chat Startup Discord Tops $2B Valuation
I know a few people who worked in frozen food packing, where workers are expected to be in a freezer for 10+ hours a day lifting, moving and sorting heavy loads. Repetitive stress injuries were so common that it was a factor of when, not if, someone would become injured and be unable to do physical labor for a living again.

Each of them has done a stint with Amazon and left citing conditions, expectations and compensation.
For what it's worth, this happens where there's single payer health care too:

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/06/16/workplace_safety...

For context, WSIB is a government agency here in Ontario:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_Safety_%26_Insuran...

Hiring PIs to prevent workers' comp fraud seems like a very normal and expected thing to do.

It seems like the ones in this case might have overstepped their bounds, though.
How Juul became worth $38B
the way I read "consensual consensus"

citizen A thinks roglob is gree
citizen B thinks roglob is purp

all citizens need to know what roglob is in order to function(live/make money/sleep/whatever) and to a certain extent have the same 'understanding' of roglob

So a "consensual consensus" means citizens A and B agree that in order to function(live/...) roglop starts with prue... the rest of the letters will be decided 'later', and that's enough for all citizens to function. (later being not fully specified out)

Implications are: A and B have to change the way they live, a bit, based on the "consensus" roglop.

And of course, it assumes that A and B accept to be 'a society' and accept that having a single roglop is good. (which, in itself, is another roglop,... it's roglops all the way down)
That's a good point. If you use a custom allocator with your vector then you can be sure of the alignment, although the compiler will pretend to be unaware of it. All that stuff I want for string goes for vector, too.
But will they do worse than random mutation?

Evolution is like Motie Engineers (https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye). I would summarise the essential difficulty as non-heirarchical.
Yep, and a quick way to search with/without blacklisted sites included. I'd pay for that.
They have now.
whether we are legally or physically on the same platform (facebook), has little to no bearing on whether we are cross-exposed to content.

So yes tribalism can absolutely exist on facebook. It is a digital platform, not a supermarket. There is no guarantee you ever bump into someone you don't want to bump into, and completely isolated communities can be formed on the same base-structure. Reddit has made this sort of design explicit.
Geezus, that pretty much sums it up:

"The Sad Fucking State of the US" by @adventured
It's not a talk, but worth a mention. Joe Rogan interviews Matthew Walker, a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science and author of the book "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
I said it quite grumpily.

There was some weirdness with the edit window time meaning I could no longer edit to remove the grumpiness, nor delete the post, but could still get downvotes.
They have a section for “Companies using TensorFlow Lite,” but half of them are Google apps.

They say performance is comparable, but I wish the landing page would elaborate more on the differences between this library and standard TF.