skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading somewhere twenty years ago that the past smelled aweful. People not bathing, poor sanitation, sewage, industrial pollution, fires for cooking or heat, I wish I had even a hint of where to find that article because it was pretty vivid. The closest I think I’ve ever come to that level of supposed stench would be New York City in the summer time when it’s 90-+100 degrees and +70% humidity. You can’t walk a block with out being soaked in sweat and everyone is soaked in sweat! Combined with the raw garbage, ands feces and it makes for a great democratizer and some interesting scenes.
I credit watching Fight Club at an influential point in my life for teaching me this lesson.

"We work jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need"
It's really all of the above. For a technology as monumental as human germline editing, the scientific consensus is that we are not yet ready to perform these experiments. There is a widely-supported moratorium on the type of research Dr. He has done, from the ethical implications of the work to the not yet fully understood risks of off-target edits when performing CRISPR modfifications.

And even so, what Dr. He did can only be described as bad science. He conducted a study with woefully misinformed participants, and it would appear that there are significant technical shortcomings in his procedure as well. For instance, Dr. He proceeded to implant modified embryos even after confirming that the attempted knockout of the CCR5 gene was unsuccessful.

In summary, Dr. He's research flew in wanton violation of worldwide standards for ethics and safe scientific practice, while failing to accomplish anything of note.
Well, as someone pursuing their masters in CS, I can't argue that it is not too impressive. I would like to know before I finish if it is actually a negative signal, though ;-).

I'm at the point in my career where it won't make a bit of difference, but I would still figure on it being a mild positive if I were going into the hiring process through the front door. Maybe it will refresh my memory on algorithms enough to do well at one of those useless Google interviews :)
Besides the obvious question of 'does it work' I see a myriad of other problems with this. Does Facebook have the internal procedures in place to prevent abuse? Will this data ultimately be used to advertise things like anti-depressants at people? I already get ads for "mindfulness apps" and other BS cures (I dont doubt the principle technique as such, but these things are pretty useless and just techies cashing in on a fad IMHO).
There is in Thai. หมั่นเขี้ยว means wanting to bite someone/something because it is so cute.
Actually we're pretty OK, BUT yeah, you're right: we'd be hiring faster if we offered more.
Your entire viewpoint is based on the idea that there will always be jobs no matter how advanced ai and automation becomes. This is the idea that needs to be addressed, not the shrubbery surrounding it. It’s meaningless to say that new jobs have always been found and that rapid advancement in technology has not seemed to doom us so far. That’s like saying we haven’t run out of oil yet so why would we ever run out. The number of tasks that a human can do is finite. When machines saturate that set of tasks, something really bad will happen. But even long before, there will be massive problems as we approach it.

I already know you won’t be convinced by what I’m saying. Just respond with your strongest counter-argument to my central point about the finite nature of human jobs, or in other words what will happen when machines can do everything we can. Just give me your strongest counter-argument about that. I will then explain why that’s wrong, and we can continue until you see that you’re wrong. I will be extremely patient about it.
Sorry, I completely mangled that sentence. I explain it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18798786
That's a wrong way to look at things. I wouldn't have any problems with what you said if you rephrased it as "as long as very poor people exist..." Socialist/communist revolutions have repeatedly shown that merely eliminating "the rich" leads to some very tragic outcomes for the poor down the road, complete with starvation, GULAGs, and millions of people dead.
Ha! Agree on the not-sure-if-sarcastic part. I bet you can find plenty of people who actually see it the way you describe.

I'm doing a working master's program myself (yay OMSCS!) so I'm not missing out on the drudgery known as the current industry while I'm pursuing academic solutions to non-existent problems...
I don't think Google are free of responsibility. They are prioritising their lower bandwidth over the user's better power usage.
I'm actually the opposite. Cash is free money in my mind. But yes, it's important to use money from the source where it disappearing will bother you.
Perhaps it's because Tesla's lane assist doesn't make unrealistic claims resulting in the deaths of uninvolved people. AFAIK the only deaths involving Tesla's autopilot were of the drivers themselves on highways.
Does HN do comment of the year awards? I nominate this along with the reply about the LLVs at his funeral.

Thanks for sharing, this is the best part of the HN experience.
The workers in aggregate make out all right. Which doesn't help Bill, who is now homeless. (What would you do if your job became obsolete next year?)
I'm a little surprised nobody is calling this out in this thread (assuming you're right). OP claims to be in "one of the biggest startups in our field" but they do not offer competent salaries/benefits? This is the problem and basically every answer in this thread is peripheral. Of course, money isn't everything, but if you're not paying your engineers a competent compensation, you should not expect your competent engineers to stay in your business for years. Free market economies work both ways.

EDIT: I wrote this comment before seeing @thrwwyngnr 's comment. I do not claim they're not offering competent salaries, but if they're not, this is the #1 factor and everything is #n, n>1.
Hey Nathan! I’m working on creating a website that is somewhat similar by much more wide scale that uses a pattern similar to this.

Email me at lustig@knophy.com if you’re interested in chatting. The idea has tremendous potential and I’m nearing completion of a prototype.

Thanks in advance,
Michael
> If the benefits were great enough (reduced pollution indirectly saving lives? saved life-years due to more efficient traffic?) one could even accept that they could be a little less safe as far as direct fatalities are concerned.

I disagree. I'm finding it hard to come up with an example that would make me think it's ok to have more people hit and killed by cars. I'm more than ready for self-driving cars to be a reality, but not if more people will die. "Saved life-years" is not good enough.
So if there are any student drivers then they shouldn’t be allowed to beta test in that neighborhood?
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Oh cmon, while I think my statement is relevant I cannot tell whether it's (co)related or not. Those are very different topics and you are mixing them up together.
Starbucks might not be breaking the bank, but it and the 10 other "not breaking the bank" habits all added together very well could be.

Also in order to same "thousands" every year, you either need to be spending a significant amount of money, or be carrying a significant amount of debt. Neither are strictly necessary. Avoiding it is a good plan for a lot of people.
What’s a review checker?
Applying labels is a poor way to understand someone's position.
Facebook's role is to escalate, not to intervene, and even that escalation process is done by a human. It seems very unlikely that it would ever result in a situation where someone gets involuntarily hospitalized because some machine learning algorithm had a bug.

Per TFA they don't actually track the outcomes of their calls because that would be too much of a privacy violation. I'd expect the resulting lack of feedback to be problematic.

Also, I'd say that escalating to the people authorized to use force is a form of intervening.
Good questions!

1) Perhaps counter-intuitively, it's generally thought to be easier to enter a Snowball state when most of the continents are at the equator, the reasons being (A) silicate weathering of the continents consumes CO2 and is faster at low latitudes and (B) the albedo (reflectivity) contrast between ice and water is greater than the albedo contrast between ice and land. Ice is very reflective, water is not, and land is in between. In other words, if you grow sea ice at the poles, you make Earth more reflective, and the change in light (and heat) reflected per unit area of ice cover is greater for ice grown over oceans than ice grown over land. There is some background on the history of the Snowball Earth hypothesis, including the above points about albedo, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth

2) Definitely. I don't know the right answer yet, but here's a relatively recent (and relatively accessible) Scientific American article on the topic: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-idea-on-how...
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Perhaps, but you could go back and forth on that all day. Look at the list of incidents involving at least 50 deaths on wikipedia[0], comparing aviation and road, there a difference, but it’s not an enormous difference.

My point is that I don’t think there’s a strong correlation between risk to public safety, and remuneration, nor between training and remuneration. There’ll likely be some correlation for both, but you can find huge variations in remuneration across different industries that can’t be explained by those factors.
Should have used 8SFP to avoid confusion with OSPF (which also is a terrible name in its own way)
It also keep very interesting apps from being in platform, from hobbysts/opensource developers, for example.

Last time I used iOS had terrible apps for Keepass (I tested them all, trust me [1]), while Android has at least two very good implementations (both opensource, one based on the official C# implementation with a native interface in Mono and another one less featured however fully written in Java).

> But as far as $99, between my $300 a year Linux Academy subscription, $144 a year JetBrains Resharper subscription and the money I spend on Udemy, $99 a year is nothing.

Congratulations, so for you this is nothing. If I wanted to develop for iOS as a hobbyst I would need to pay ~R$400,00 (this is equivalent almost half of a minimum wage in Brazil) [1]. I am not even including the expenses of buying a iOS device and a Mac just to have the "privilege" to develop to an Apple device.

[1]: Or don't, because Apple Store search is terrible.
[2]: Just to make clear, I could afford this too if I wanted. However just because you and I can afford it doesn't mean this tax is abusive.
Personally I feel like the most ridiculous part about the App Store is Apples so called "developer program". Charging 99€ a Year for a nearly nonexistent service is absurd, especially since they are already taking the 30% cut.
I am a flutter developer myself, so technically I could publish all my apps on iOS and Android with minimal changes. But since Apples developer program would eat up a significant portion of my potential yearly earnings I simply publish only on the Play Store that only charges a modest 25€ one time registration fee.

https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2018/12/ghous-e-azam-bam...
Thanks for the extra info! I'm really sorry to say this, and this may be naive. Please downvote if you think this is not helpful. But imho:

> [...] or leaving while complaining about different things. All but salary. They had two raises in 2018 and pretty much everyone left got a promotion in 2018.

I'll be honest and guess most people said this probably thought about their compensation. It's not about whether you gave them a promotion, or a raise. If they found a job paying better, with better benefits, they're gonna switch. Now humans aren't robots so you can assume some people will stay in the company for various reasons. But if you see that people systematically leave your company, I think this might mean that you're paying less compared to other tech companies down the street. My 2c. Happy new year!
are people just doing feature engineering once removed and is the better performance just the result of having WAY more parameters in the model?

Not really, or sort of, depending on how you think.

A deep neural network does work - at least to some extent - because of the large number of parameters. However, it is practical because it can be trained in a reasonable amount of time.

Things like ResNets are useful because they allow us to train deeper networks.

You can create a SVM with the same number of parameters[1], and in theory it could be as accurate (this is basically the no free lunch theorem[2]). But you won't be able to train it to the same accuracy.

[1] Of course there are practical concerns about what you do for features, since hand created features just aren't as good as neural network ones. One thing people do now is use the lower layers of a deep neural network as a feature extractor and then put a SVM on top of them as the classifier. This works quite well, and is reasonably fast to train.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
That's the difference between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine
As long as we're bitching about the 'apple tax'.... I'll toss out an unrelated-yet-perplexing issue I've had with mac/ios/etc since... 2008?:

Slow app store speed.

It doesn't matter what device I'm on - multiple macbooks, imacs, iphones, ipods, ipads, etc, all running through multiple cable and dsl providers in multiple states over the last decade.

Download speed is abysmal. 30meg app update - why does this take 2-3 minutes on a connection that can get 120Mbps from multiple other sources? I've just never been able to understand how they can stream live video around the world instantly, but grabbing an 8meg update is *ever a > 1 minute process.

12+ devices over a decade, from multiple carriers in multiple states, and always slow speeds. But no doubt other people here will have "all my updates are less than 8 seconds, all the time, for years" anecdotes. :/
Real estate agents are legally acting as a lawyer in a very specific scope in some states. They are considered to be one, again in a very narrow scope.

And no Realtors/real estate agents in no way is anything close to an mlm. They work as an authorized extension of a licenced broker. They work on their behalf with oversight and receive compensation. But that is literally every job.
Can you please not cross into incivility in HN comments? It leads to flamewars and we're trying for better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doctor He. Who is He?
What’s his name?
Regardless of the reasons for the call, can you really pursue damages from someone who made a good faith call to emergency services?

The only legal issue I could see is violation of privacy, but I bet their EULA covers them there.

Now, if they screw up bad enough, I could see it precipitating some new legislation that they might not like. Until then, I think they're in the clear.

It's another one of those situations where everyone is incentivized to "do something" whether it's actually helpful or not. "Student dies after symptoms of suicidal depression went ignored" is a splashy headline. "Student unable to graduate after involuntary psychiatric detention" is not.
The study seems to use pictures of humans: babies, adults, some of them manipulated for more/less cuteness.

It doesn't really need an evolutionary explanation. What is obvious is that babies and adults somehow coevolved in order to ensure that helpless babies are probably taken care of. But that mechanism doesn't have to be perfect. If a consequence is a few overly cute babies get hurt by a few overly sensitive adults, is not a really big deal.
1966 Volvo P1800 belonging to Irv Gordon of Long Island, NY. Gordon claimed the Guinness World Record back in 2014 when he’d posted 3.04 million miles.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/automobiles/going-the-distance-7-...
I so agree with the ridiculousness of this behavior. When people talk of an "ask" meaning "request" i cringe at the embarrassment of their need to be jargon-cool rather than individuals.
I was playing with a web simulator called evolution where you draw an imaginary creature (bones, joints, muscles) and then set it to the task of learning something like walking using a combination of a neural network plus genetic fitness selection.

One of the parameters you can tune is the length of the simulation for each generation before the individuals of the population are scored for fitness and culled as appropriate.

One particularly successful variant learned to (sort of) walk and then right before the end of the simulation timer it would fall forward. Because of the way the simulation measured fitness, it was always judged to have the greatest distance from the starting point and therefore would always survive to the next generation even though it wasn't the best walker.
Something like https://fakespot.com

It analyzes product reviews to detect fake ones.
>When this happened to one guy on friday, next week on Monday everyone took ownership of their work and started organising better and collaboration shot up.

yeah, they were all sending resumes out over the weekend
Fwiw the "deep learning" advances in NLP have typically still been from shallow networks, almost always less than 10 layers and usually more like 2.
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If it’s China, then the answer is simply that it’s embarrassing.
What does it mean to avoid a fatality other than saving that person's remaining life-years?

> I'm finding it hard to come up with an example that would make me think it's ok to have more people hit and killed by cars.

Entirely speculative: Heart failure is the leading cause of death in the US. If 100% self-driving traffic could let EMTs arrive faster at the scene that could save more lives than a slight increase from traffic accidents.
As I mentioned I'm not following this case really at all, but some initial thoughts from your comment are that while Apple doesn't have a monopoly on smart phones, they do have a monopoly on what software users can run on the phones and tablets they make (so if you define platform as "smartphones" then no monopoly, if platform is "iOS" then yes monopoly).

On the Android side of things, Google doesn't have near the same level of control, so that is false equivalence. One can easily side load apps, and people do all the time (Fortnite for example, couldn't happen on iOS but did on Android). There's also competing app stores (F-Droid, Amazon App store), so a very different situation. You can also run any OS you want on your device if Google's Android flavor isn't to your liking. Google also doesn't make/sell most of the hardware.

Microsoft got in trouble for simply making it very easy for people to use IE instead of Netscape and Word instead of WordPerfect. Imagine if they had gone a step further and mandated that only apps that pass a Microsoft review process could even be installed at all?
The Hollywood part is focusing on the conversation.

Journaling for example is a common technique that’s part of therapy and outside of what you’re describing. Talking without actions outside of therapy is mostly an expensive hobby. And those nudges are critical for people to actually have direction as to how to attempt to make change.

You do bring up the other issue I have with Hollywood therapy. Therapists don’t need deep incite into how you think to come up with some unique solution tailored to you. It’s more like a dentist convincing you that you really do need to both brush your teeth and floss. Rather than a doctor giving you some antibiotics for a week and everything is fine again.

PS: Though this is from the CBT side of things.
I think folks like you are going to be super super disappointed when we succeed in passing campaign finance reform (which i think we will!), and roughly nothing changes.

My guess is that you'll go back to just blaming everyone else being ignorant for them not agreeing with you.
Rent and cars are a major culprit. Boomers worked all summer selling lemonade when they were teens then bought a home so they can rent it out to this generation for 2100/month. They'll makeup lies about how they have to charge that because they're losing money! Yes, it costs 2100 a month to do basic maintenance on a house. Hmhm.
> In principle I think that we should consider doing germline edits in humans. In general, if we have the ability to improve ourselves, we should absolutely do it.

What if not everyone has the ability to improve themselves, say due to cost?
Do you know of a reasonably sized city in the US that offers what I’m talking about?

Otherwise, no thanks, I’ll just argue for what I think is best here.
That's interesting. Related to the erosion of minimum wage, my brother's mom, when she was around late teens or early twenties (so, around 40 years ago), was able to rent a beach view place in Newport CA with her friend. They both worked part time at Burger King. There is no way that could happen today
Being a real estate sales agent, in my US state, requires licensure. It's not a particularly difficult test, and arguably it has a component or protectionism to it, but there is also liability too.

Realtors (a trademark of the National Asociation of Realtors) are members of a private organization.
Well, obviously. If what you want to spend your marginal income on is more consumption, that's completely reasonable. There's no accounting for preferences. That's not what I, the article, or anyone else in this thread is talking about though.

Note that I'm also talking about a _floor_, not about discretionary income. What you consider "must-have basics" is different from what I would consider to be so, which is different from what a billionaire or a villager below the global poverty line would. To some degree this is normal, but the degree to which it gets in the way of the other goals of the people I'm talking about, I don't understand it.

I'm specifically talking about the many, _many_ friends of mine who have goals other than immediate consumption, and for whom immediate consumption is preventing those goals even when those other goals are higher-priority. Yes, I know revealed preferences are a thing, but in extremis the concept relies on a completely unrealistic Homo Economicus model of people. Hyperbolic discounting, innumeracy, an innate desire to keep up with the Joneses even when you disavow any such desire: these are all surely contributors, but I guess I'm surprised at the degree to which their sum skews consumption behavior.
JPEG 2000 uses wavelet, and a few other I can't remember their names, none of them has better image / pref than the best ones on the market or soon to be released image format based on X Codec. So in reality much like Wavelet in video, it hasn't worked out well at all in real world implementation.
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This is basically my concern with the hype over automated driving. I live in the upper Midwest. 6 months or more of the year have unideal driving conditions. A purely autonomous vehicle is worthless to me if it can't get me to where I need to go half the time.
> You suggest the company use all kinds of deceit against that community to keep doing what it's doing.

Citizens attacking the cars with knives, blocking the intersection on purpose, trying to run them off the road is just unsafe and counter-productive.

I don't see it a lot different than road rage. Is it ok to trick people to be less susceptible to road rage somehow. Or how about tricking delivery drivers into driving safer by putting one of those "how is my driving, call 1-800-xxx-xxxx" signs on the back of the car?