skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a logical inconsistency here:

Statement 1:I’ve always been worried about potential misuses in lethal autonomous weapons. I think there should be something like a Geneva Convention banning them, like there is for chemical weapons.

Statement 2: You should regulate them (AI) based on how they perform. You run the experiments to see if the thing’s biased, or if it is likely to kill fewer people than a person.

The intention of utilizing AI in weapons systems is to reduce human error in their application. So is it unethical to implement an "AI" in a weapons system that kills fewer people than a person would?

Seperately, I am curious why Hinton is not talking more about state representation and prediction, as almost uniformly across DL/RL researchers this is agreed upon as the next step forward. Hinton certainly is working with Richard Sutton on his RL programs at U Alberta. Sutton believes that the next step in AI systems is state representation and prediction and gave a quick talk on it recently [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Uiq8-wKrg
How much Mathematics do you need to succeed in AI/Deep Learning?
Or they just had a spare phone they plugged into the socket their parents didn't know about (the phone not the socket). I'd be surprised if OP has gone and spliced an additional line instead of their just being a socket in their room already.
Technically affordability is peripheral to profit margins - although they are very related right now. If they could make more money and get through building tenements they would because that is where the money is and that is what they can get approved.

In order for cheaper housing to win for new construction it requires both acceptance and greater profit margins.

Granted one doesn't need /new/ affordable housing if the new luxury leaves enough vacancies that the older high end becomes the new low end. The persistent historical lack of high density housing does make things worse because of the lack of dense housing to wind up relatively downgraded creates a bottleneck in density growth for affordable housing. If they were building only new luxury high density for 70 years there would be effectively a relative affordable housing from degradation and shifting designs.
Because internet speeds are not a good measurement?
I misspoke, we've wanted to add it. We've added it to soda and seen correlations where lithium is naturally occurring in the drinking water.
>With self-driving cars, I think people kind of accept that now. That even if you don’t quite know how a self-driving car does it all, if it has a lot fewer accidents than a person-driven car then it’s a good thing.

Unless there is a condition in the environment that causes a systemic failure involving large number of self-driving cars at the same time. This happens all the time with other types of software. People shouldn't assume that machine-learned models are magically different and ignore all common-sense rules we apply to safety-critical applications. In your daily job, would you be willing to bet your entire car on a black box piece of code that seems reliable, because it worked most of the time in the past?

Also, recall that flash crash of the stock market. Imagine something like that, but with lots of cars on a highway. If you don't understand "how a self-driving car does it", you are unlikely to install appropriate safeguards.

PS: Please don't insult your intelligence by replying that we don't understand how people drive either, so it makes any opaque self-driving software okay.
Low Earth orbit isn't really that far away. The ISS is only about a four hour's drive away, if only your car could drive straight up.
Please don't do this here. Comments like this degrade the reading experience on HN. This is why you are getting downvoted. The HN crowd generally prefers more substantive comments and discourages low effort humor.
The quantum vibrations might be crackpottery, but the microtubules might still be information carriers[1]. I'm still curious if any neural net models incorporate these paths.

[1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jnc.12621
Tar-1.31 released
Go ahead please do argue against my points about building costs and transportation infrastructure.

I'm waiting.
At Google scale, you'd either need tooling for automated version bumps, or some other infra to manage versioning.

You'd need cross repo bisection.

You'd need a way to run all tests in all repos reflecting a new change.

There's 10s or hundreds more frs I could list.
Also no 555-XXXX numbers.
People are often into PL because they are into programming and want to improve the tools and languages used for programming. For us, programming isn’t just a means to an end, it’s an end also.
By your own admission wouldn't the answer be more transportation infrastructure to support more dense housing?

Nonetheless, I personally "agree" with your solution (in that I work in tech and don't live in SF), but hoping for the free market to do something that it is not doing has never been the solution to a question of public policy. Even if you took the most anti-tech public policy options possible in the city of SF, it wouldn't solve the fact that tech is firmly embedded in the entire metropolitan region which is outside of SF's municipal control.

If you really wanted to get "tech bros" out of your city you would need a solution on the level of the California state government, ideally something that intentionally disincentivizes business and venture capital. Good luck on that, in the mean time you're just going to have more "tech bros" moving in and voting for anyone who speaks out in favor of upzoning.
We actually have an informal meeting in the mornings here. Nobody is required to attend or pay attention, and we generally talk about things in our lives like TV/games/etc or what we did over the weekend, and then move into what we're working on.

Management occasionally suggests that maybe the meetings are a bit too long, but I think everyone is generally okay with saying they need the meeting to end because they want/need to work on something.

I'm now wondering if I need to make it a little more clear that that's a thing they can say without it causing an issue.
I don't get this piece at all, starting with the title. What's shameful, or even mysterious? Malls all over are closing/shrinking due to disruption of the retail business by Amazon and others. In this specific case the mall is located at a sales tax gulf between NH and MA (I used to live in Londonderry and shop at Rockingham) and so the shrinking fortunes of the mall owner have provided an opportunity for independents to move in and acquire "first class" store frontage they otherwise couldn't afford.
Hmmm, I don't know. I imagine it's harder to sell an animal with a PTSD-affected personality, so from that perspective, they're incentivized not to harm animals. Did you have something in mind where harming the animal makes it easier to sell?
> Components might need to be released “together”, but if they are worked on by different teams, it means they’ll have a different release process, as in different timeline, different priorities.

released "together" == part of the same feature. Timelines, release process and team priorities are all there to help to deliver features. If they stand in the way, they need to be adjusted. Not the other way around.

Multi repos encourage silos. Silos encourage focusing on the goals of the silo and discourage poking around the bigger picture. Couple that with scrum, that conveniently substitute real progress metrics with meaningless points, and soon enough you end up with an IT department, full on with processes but light on delivering value.
I don’t understand the point of this article. It starts off with by discussing that the most successful mall is a tax haven, and then muses about possible future mall occupants.

Also this article has a suspicious number of upvotes, no comments, and is realitivily low quality. Smells like vote manipulation.
I agree, it's not really solved, but solved "enough". You can't have your cake and eat it, there are tradeoffs involved- if you grow large enough to hit monorepo limitations, you are large enough to invest in tooling that manage your workflow (the tradeoff). However, if you're a small organization, you can't afford the tooling and you're wasting time/quality coordinating polyrepo releases, so you are better off with a monorepo.

> A far higher percentage of developers continue to be affected by large-repo issues than...

Are you suggesting that the results of the HN ranking algorithm at this very moment in time is a good metric of measuring what affects developers? I don't agree, and besides @yowlingcat's opinion that the article is "horseshit" is unrelated to how well its ranked on HN.
This is not super surprising. Google OSes may come and go, but they will put the Android Runtime on all of them.
>With computer control, you eliminate the gap needed between cars - just hook it directly to the car in front, let them draft for better aerodynamics, and detach when you need to make a turn, saving 70-100 feet of road space

You will still need a way to turn off at speed, leaving you with interchanges at each potential detachment point taking up a lot of space.

Grand Central Terminal in NYC has 44 platforms in 48 acres. Tens of Thousands of people per hour can switch between subway, regional rail, and bus lines, as well as access the surrounding city on foot, and access the on-site amenities and offices above. 700,000 people pass through daily. 10,000 people visit each day just to have lunch there. It works because the most space-efficient way to route people is to have them get out and walk. A tiny person-carrying vehicle will always need more space and supporting infrastructure than a person walking.
Unless you want to involve a judge and a legal process I imagine you usually need two signatures, at the very least. In Norway there are other requirements as well.
> I agree that you don't want currency deflation

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...

> Yet when you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts. So having a somewhat higher inflation rate would lead to lower unemployment, not just temporarily, but on a sustained basis.

Just to be clear that we understand the policy here in blunt terms: The point of inflation is to cheat the working classes out of their income so that the ruling class can lay claim to high employment metrics. This is the price of currency stability.
Still an important story. But the title should read (January 2018) or something to indicate that it is not breaking news.
I disagree. For bad engineers, coding is still easier than figuring out the solution to the problem, even if they find coding really hard.
Why would there be a lag in the call? I don’t think other satellite phones have much perceivable delay.

So the question is...do astronauts get 10 spam calls per day like the rest of us?
While the mall obviously needs some revamping, I don't think tech entrepreneur magic is going to revamp it. It's ultimately a problem of customers wanting a physical space to shop in, otherwise, why bother leaving the couch at all? Why not just get what you want on Amazon? The invisible hand of the market will refine the malls, if it can get past the coarse-grained lumpiness of large, expensive facilities.

I'm almost more interested in online boutique stores, and their fates. How do they compete against Amazon? I hate going to buy some obscure thing, and then getting hit with a ten buck shipping charge for something that will arrive two weeks later, when Amazon Prime has me used to "free" two day shipping. But when I want that fancy smoked salt, or the obscure imported Japanese pen, I have to go to the boutiques.
Google will just make it a requirement in order to provide the Play Store and other Google apps on your device. Then most will be forced to follow along.

I could see it being the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for Samsung, though. They have their own assistant, web browser... they could just choose to go it alone.
I fundamentally disagree with your analysis, as OP helpfully listed their entire thinking out:

> "It went something like this:"
> ....
>- Some people decide that they'll stick with their phone a bit ?longer than they otherwise would have, reducing iPhone sales.
>- Apple misses their earnings target, likely costing them more in value than it would have cost them to address the root issue in the first place.

OP using a list format is implying a causative link between battery issues and earnings targets. OP even suggests that their value would be safe had they simply corrected the battery issue earlier.

It's an extremely clear post they made, IMO
Some on the left consider both the US and the USSR to be capitalist (the term used for the latter is often "state capitalism"), not communist.
I did mean insincere :). Thanks
The majority of the community believed in the fork, that's what I meant if I wasn't clear.

That belief is contra to the concept of an immutable decentralized ledger, which means ETH isn't canonically a cryptocurrency, an immutable ledger, or a decentralized ledger anymore. The upcoming (well, it's never going to happen) POS fork is going to centralize it further among the very small number of massive whales who control the ecosystem.
That was a turning point for us as well. We had a sprint at the blender institute in Amsterdam and had invited artists to come as well. And we sat down a whole Saturday, taping them while they were painting and complaining. Us developers, we weren't allowed to chat back, we were just there to look and listen. Very illuminating, and fun for the artists.
911 is a joke in yo orbit
Solving the Brachistochrone using genetic algorithms
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Thank you for feedback. I was thinking about footer same thing actually but waiting someone else to give this feedback to shrink it actually :)

I will make instagram picture heights smaller than it will be good I think.

Goal in the end to show all content based on community decisions. So I believe content will be better with time. But we try to make good researches about cities to fill initial content. Then it will improve with feedbacks.
I don't think it's that. I can only speak from my experience, but it seems like web comics have been replaced more by memes and I see a lot less of them, especially XKCD.
I've been thinking a lot about moderating with online communications, decentralized and federated makes the solutions even more complex.
It's not easy to filter when the people you want to filter have some tech knowledge. I've been dealing with that for years. One bad person in a country near this one has access to thousands of VPNs, and is simply unstoppable.

I've been kicking around the idea of having multiple filter options for each server and each user.

I am very interested in how others would tackle this. Particularly interested in blocking / filter options with matrix and similar systems.

I am imagining a block servers list, block cidr list, and a set of human moderators that can 'add on the fly' to a list they control - these lists being set to block by default. With options to whitelist individual users or ips on a server basis and per user basis.

I'd like to give each user an option to turn off these filters all at once, or whitelist different servers for example.

I also want to have a page showing for example, a blocklist of servers, and a blocklist of users, and a list of the moderators, like a list of nightclub 'bouncers' - so that people can make comments about them - if one bouncer does block lots of bad things, but also blocked a few people who had differing politics for example, it would be nice to have a way to see and discuss that and give people options to have a different bouncer blocking their message box.

There's some of my random thoughts on the issue, I'd like to see what others have come up with. When exploring rocket chat and similar, what I have seen so far is that these comm platforms are working with teams of non hostile users in mind and defending against the kind of issues initially described here is not really something any portal is prepared to handle well. Yet, hopefully. I have been asking about different mod tools and how to implement multiple layers for the various threats / issues.

I also think sometimes people in a group need to be set to not see new users to the group by default, and only after a certain amount of time can a newer user be seen by the main others in a group - things like that.
None of the standardized interview looks test for that kind of knowledge however, they really are generic. Also, I’ve find that the really famous bigcorps don’t care as much about what you know than what you could learn, even for experienced hires. So by generalist, they simply mean someone who can learn to do anything rather than someone who can already do anything. Full stack job descriptions often come from lower tiered tech companies that can’t afford that and anyways don’t have as much specialized infrastructure as a place like google does anyways.
These are shit programmers. Complexity != talent.
I think Google legitimately believed nothing was wrong with their implementation of Java and that implementing a language with so many developers was a smart move.
Hey, author here. If you look at my submission history, you'll note vote manipulation is not my foray :)

If you want a clear point, how about "At what percent of mom and pop retail occupancy do malls, even successful ones, become unattractive destinations for the stores that are still driving retail sales."
It's easier to sell animals to people who torture them to death and buy another one like they're a disposable toy. This is a real problem that shelters and breeders deal with.

It's also something people should be aware of when selling or giving away a pet on craigslist.
> many of the products in these stores seem to be dubiously sourced, the commitments of some, e.g. Christmas Town, are definitionally short, and the branding is banal. Currently, 10% of the storefronts are occupied by these independent brands, but one wonders what happens when this shrine to shopping begins to feel more like a swank swapmeet?

Other than the dubiously sourced products (which is a problem at Amazon too, so hardly unique to this space), I'm unclear on why this is such a problem? What happens when a "shrine to shopping" begins to feel more like a "swank swapmeet"? Presumably people buy stuff, which is the point, and honestly, after a lifetime of being deceived by or taken advantage of non-"banal" brands, banality doesn't sound so threatening. The rest of the article (not that there's much of it) leaves me likewise uncertain of what need is going unfulfilled. Is there anything I'm missing?
> Human blood is limited in availability, and would be phenomenally expensive

Just wait until researchers realize where to obtain human blood for free...

You're looking awfully pale today Steven!
This piece is hilariously out of touch.

“Middle-class staples like Williams & Sonoma, Coach, Lush, and an Apple store (along with the obligatory food court Sbarro) help account for $1.8B in annual sales.”

Those are not middle class “staples” - the US middle class can not afford to shop at Williams Sonoma. Apple is a luxury or near-luxury brand, same with Coach.
How do you know he was calling Huston? He's Dutch. Maybe he was trying to call home?
The Story of Sustainability in 2018: “We Have About 12 Years Left”
The ISS is close - only 400km above surface. The zero/low gravity doesn't come from distance, but speed. It's more like "where are you?" - "oh, travelling at 8km/s"
Pandas dropping Python 2 support
Thanks! I find how to upgrade to 7.2 [1]. Will try it again!

[1] https://support.hostgator.com/articles/php-configuration-plu...
>>> import base64

>>> email = "Z3JlZ0Bhc3NldG1hcHBpbmcuY29tCg=="

>>> print(base64.b64decode(email).decode('utf-8'))
I guess you could replace "drug dealers" with "grocers" if your emphasis is not on the thing being sold as being bad for you?
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The first ASCII draft (1963) had a left arrow and a right arrow which were later replaced by _ and ^. When Smalltalk-80 was developed, it replaced its non standard character set with ASCII but Xerox (like a few other companies) used the older version and that is what got adopted and which Squeak inherited.

Smalltalk V was developed on the PC and borrowed := from Pascal to represent assignment supposing that most of its new users would be coming from that language. This became an option for Squeak/Pharo and since using this would free the underscore (with the proper fonts) for names imported from other languages there has been a lot of pressure to rewrite all old code to eliminate the left arrow.
I do not think laws come about because a majority of people. They normally come about because a loud minority. At least in these days.
Google does this though. Whenever is PL PhDs get together, someone invariably talks about how they are doing ads for google these days. It’s actually so common that it has become a meme.
> Really the solution is not more housing in SF but to move tech bro jobs elsewhere more affordable. Like Detroit.

When the tech bro jobs leave, SF will be in dismay, it wont get better.
SF city spends 2,600U$S a month per household. If it were to lose its corporate/sales tax revenues, it would have to cut spending aggressively, and it will not make rent cheaper: it will make it unaffordable, exacerbating unemployment which could lead to rising homeless ness.

SF is in a terribly delicate position right now, its just masked by a lot of money.
That's still just a lottery based on who gets their application in first if it's not based on market pricing. If you command "affordable housing" be built and that's all that's available, then the people who would have paid for luxury housing will move into the "affordable housing" and drive up the price because that's all that's available. Additionally this will lower the efficiency of the market and makes less housing available as developers who would have built housing at X price drop out of the market when the price is mandated to be X-Y.

I am all for getting people help to get housing, but everything societies have tried to do to fix housing shortages for lower income people has failed other than building more housing. It's all just trying to paper around the fact that at the end of the day there are more people who want to live in the cities than there are apartments/condos/houses.

If you built like crazy and added 50% more housing in a year to a city, you'll find that suddenly a lot more housing is available
The Python equivalent of your JavaScript example is simply:

def double(x): return x * 2

Python's `lambda` construct creates anonymous functions - its limitations mean it should only be used when anonymity is required. If a function is to be given a name, there is no reason to use a lambda over standard function syntax.