skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, "Microsoft Millionaires" referred to a large percentage of Microsoft employees becoming millionaires and how they changed the Seattle economy. Stories like, don't kick the poorly groomed guy in shorts and flip flops out of your expensive sports car show room, because he might be there to pay full price in cash for a car and drive it off the lot.
that might work, and the larger packages might be sent as a sequence of parts, so that essentially all packages have the same size

other things to keep in mind is the dependency graph, some large packages might be rather unique in total filesize downloaded
I've been doing taiji for a couple of years -- interestingly, they also talk about a cycle of qi that passes down the front of the body, around the perineum, up the back, and over the head down through the tongue on the roof of the mouth. This is supposed to be going on during standing meditation. I haven't experienced it yet, but it's early days for me.
>iPad Pro, $250 Amazon certificate, Arduino, or a JetBrains Surprise Gift Pack

Isn’t the iPad Pro like $700 retail? The valuation of your choices is something like $700, $250, $25 or $random

What an odd set of things to have a choice on
Is this not survivorship bias in the flesh?

> Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in several different ways. It is a form of selection bias.
That's interesting, I was just linking the article because it was talking specifically about co2 and NASA recommendations. In fairness, it didn't give any hard numbers on what to expect.
I cut out my parents with the support (not direction of) my therapist. She was very clear in our conversations that the way in which my father and step mother were treating me was not acceptable behavior, and providing them with guard rails around what will allow us to maintain a relationship was appropriate.

So yes, 100% your comment. It’s a pretty easy argument to make.

Are there toxic and harmful people in this world? Yes. Are there toxic and harmful people who have children? Yes. Are there toxic and harmful people who direct that behavior towards their children? Yes.
About the last sentence: If only we will still need developers in the coming 10 to 20 years... I hardly see how 'AI' (note the quotes) could not replace them.
Sales talk. This doesn't reflect reality, sadly.
An obligatory mention when we talk about secure operating systems is the seL4 microkernel (https://github.com/seL4/seL4) where they have formally verified every line of code using the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL.
1ab) Based on my experiences, I am prepared to discount the mental suffering of broiler chickens. I would not do the same for cows (or pigs). This is based on my beliefs about their intelligence, coupled with their lifespans.

Would it impact your moral calculus if we artificially retarded broiler chicken's intelligence?

1c) To me, the carbon and land use impacts dominate the direct ethical costs. With a ~1:4 carbon footprint ratio of chicken:beef, and taking into account my (1ab) opinion, that's enough to offset the individual mind count concern.

2) I value animal life conditions in a net utilitarian manner. Providing humans sustenance and pleasure in the form of edible protein is weighed against animal conditions.

3) What are the consequences of making an incorrect decision that cause you to weigh the 10% so heavily?

4) Including the qualifying "if you eat meat" phrase in my quote and the context of the comment thread (organic, chemical / drug use), I think my statement is pretty clear. To expand, "If you eat meat, the most ethical thing you can do is support a chicken producer who attempted to eliminate mass-dosing with antibiotics from their entire production chain."

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You'd probably be interested in Peter Singer (see updated copies of Animal Liberation) and the debate between absolute, preference, and hedonistic varieties of utilitarianism.
I'd say the dynamic vs static should really be about team size/makeup and life expectancy of code base. Basically quickly building up things in a small team that might be around until a mature lifecycle (maybe startup-ish, prototype) vs big corp scenario where people working on code base will cycle through and the product is known to have a 5+ year life cycle from the start....
Shouldn't such old standards like SMS just die?

I didn't write or receive any SMS for like 5 years now (except some confirmation codes) since encrypted messengers became so common and accessible.

I think it's obvious that SMS is outdated either way and I too think that encryption should be P2P on the "application layer" for many reasons. Encrypting the actual physical transport would add extra cost in terms of latency and hardware and could become a maintenance disaster over time if I'm not mistaking.
From "REMME – A blockchain-based protocol for issuing X.509 client certificates"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18868540 :

"""
In no particular order, there are a number of blockchain PKI (and DNS (!)) proposals and proofs of concept.

"CertLedger: A New PKI Model with Certificate Transparency Based on Blockchain" (2018) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.03914 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:LF9PMeqNOLsJ:sc...

"TABLE 1: Security comparison of Log Based Approaches to Certificate Management" (p.12) lists a number of criteria for blockchain-based PKI implementations:

- Resilient to split-world/MITM attack

- Provides revocation transparency

- Eliminates client certificate validation process

- Eliminates trusted key management

- Preserves client privacy

- Require external auditing

- Monitoring promptness

... These papers also clarify why a highly-replicated decentralized trustless datastore — such as a blockchain — is advantageous for PKI. WoT is not mentioned.

"Blockchain-based Certificate Transparency and Revocation Transparency" (2018) https://fc18.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/bitcoin18-final29.pdf

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:oEsKmJvdn-MJ:sc...

Who can update and revoke which records in a permissioned blockchain (or a plain old database, for that matter)?

Letsencrypt has a model for proving domain control with ACME; which AFAIU depends upon DNS, too.
"""

TLA references "Certificate Transparency Using Blockchain" (2018)
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1232.pdf
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="Certificate+Transparen...
> This rather big bunch of current Amazon employees, if they were cobbled together in a building before they were hired by Bezos, would they have spontaneously created the company? Most probably not

So he did something once and deserves to be paid until he steps down as if he is creating a company everyday? That doesn't seem right to me.
So after 2008 and all the QE's (we're up to 5, I believe), government thinks they can just keep going with more and more QE/outright money printing and it won't matter ?

Call me unreasonable, but given recent (even last 80 years) history I can certainly understand why they believe this. The truth is not just that I (and I'm almost 40) can't remember any time it didn't work, you'd have to go back to my grandfather's time (he died at >100 years old in 2015) to find counterexamples. Even back then, in the US he would have been too young to realize the last time the US was confronted with this.
I know "me too" kind of comments are frowned upon in HN, but to anyone thinking "Should I read that book?" I want to add another "it's one of my favourite books", is a book I recommend to almost anyone.
> If they understand their friend's work deeply, doesn't that imply they've done something comparable themselves?

Imagine you're interviewing a candidate and they're talking through how to design an analytics service. They begin talking about e.g. database architecture, and how this type of data is most appropriate for a star schema. They start talking about the tradeoffs of row versus column orientation. They mention they'll need to do indexing for performance and talk about the index space versus query speed tradeoff. They say they'll do joins on the x and y tables.

Is this demonstrating deep understanding though?
Re: technology showing "traces of exponential growth" citations needed; everything slowing down from where I'm sitting.
probably enterprise reasons and less personal consumer.
Most social media platforms are designed with their clients needs in mind. Often, those clients are PR firms.
Article summary: Many scientists (particularly social scientists) think they’re doing Popperian falsification of their hypotheses by using null hypothesis testing. That is, they posit a hypothesis that e.g. IQ is correlated with happiness and then setup a null hypothesis that says IQ Has zero correlation to happpiness and reject it if their data does not have zero correlation. Gelman argues this is confirmation-seeking not falsificationist since the scientist never posited a precise model of how IQ correlated with happiness that could be falsified. They only reject a straw man null hypothesis and then claim that this supports their hypothesis. He also notes that this has nothing to do with frequentist vs Bayesian statistics since null testing can be done using either approach.

My own added view: Gelman never elaborates on what “making a hypothesis precise” means in this article but I think this is the key. A lot of social science is really about estimating model parameters and not positing new causal explanations (theories) of phenomena. If you hypothesize that IQ correlates with happiness, that is not a theory, one could say it’s not even a hypothesis, it’s really asking “how much does IQ correlate with happiness?” Anything can correlate with anything else, in principle so this “hypothesis” is not a new causal model of reality, it’s just a parameter estimation. So it doesn’t make sense to use falsificationist reasoning here since there’s no theory to falsify only a parameter to estimate. This is why null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is so wrongheaded because 1) most social science is not about new causal models but about parameter estimation 2) when you do posit a new causal model you should falsify the predictions of your model not some straw man null hypothesis.
This is what I've been using the last year as well. At first I felt silly paying for a font but I really like it - having cursive fonts in VsCode does seem to help with my comprehension and breaks up the monotony a bit.
Ok then its like Superman sending DMCA takedown notices to Youtube over Lex Luther's unauthorised use of Superman's S. Rather than destroying the space laser that's about to destroy the earth.
:P
It's called "kicking the can" and the only reason it looks like a sustainable system is because we haven't hit the end of the runway yet. But now that we're trapped at the zero bound and cannot normalize, the next few years should see the beginning the end of the debt supercycle and the USD as world reserve currency.
I know spiritual reality is sometimes invoked in discussions about things we haven't yet mastered or understood in science and engineering (one might even accuse me of doing that). But your story is kind of a straw man example, because even 50 years ago we knew of algorithms that could theoretically render Go a solved game, given enough computing resources. You could just as easily say modern cryptography is spiritual in its essence, which would be nonsensical.

Emulating a human mind with computers is an entirely different class of problem. We don't even have a mathematically rigorous definition of what constitutes a mind, much less know of any algorithm that could implement or solve it, even with any given supply of computing resources.
Probably not very many of them are making $500k, either.
>it is difficult to know that you have opted out of all data collection.

So the issue is a lack of a single (or a very limited number of) "opt out of all data collection" button? I didn't know that was a requirement. How does that requirement interact with data which is required to run the business? Isn't the single "opt out" to delete or not create the account in question with Google?

>it is difficult for anyone to know how much data Google has, and one of the provisions of GDPR is that companies allow consumers to access their personal data.

Doesn't [1] show it pretty explicitly for Google?

It's not all on the same page, but it's not like it's all hidden or purposefully obfuscated. And I'm not sure how you would even fit it all on one page, it would be extremely hard to navigate if that were a requirement.

>I expect that, if cnil.fr is compliant, then clicking deny all stops all data collection.

And I would expect that if you don't check the "« I agree to Google’s Terms of Service» and « I agree to the processing of my information as described above and further explained in the Privacy Policy»" boxes that the article talks about, then Google will not collect any data on you, and I don't believe there is any evidence to the contrary.

The root of this seems to be that Google:

1. Doesn't tell the user well enough what their data is used for. I'm floored at the idea of this because Google has among the most comprehensive systems for explaining and controlling how your data is used within the company. This specifically terrifies me as Google is the standard that I'd hold any company i'm in to, as the way they show and explain how they use data is very understandable to me and many I've talked to about it. It almost seems like they will have to take a step backwards to become compliant and show a single page with a bunch of technical information on it that follows the letter of the law but in practice is useless for most people.

2. Is not getting informed consent from users on the data they do collect. And I genuinely don't understand why 2 checkboxes labeled "« I agree to Google’s Terms of Service» and « I agree to the processing of my information as described above and further explained in the Privacy Policy»" is not allowed, but a single "OK, accept all" on cnil.fr is allowed. Not to mention that the linked article specifically calls out that "it is not possible to be aware of the plurality of services, websites and applications involved in these processing operations (Google search, You tube, Google home, Google maps, Playstore, Google pictures…) and therefore of the amount of data processed and combined." But at the same time the link at [2] shows pretty explicitly where they get the data, where it's used, how it's used, and why, with plenty of links scattered throughout that take you to the page to limit that information gathering and delete information they already have.

[1] https://myaccount.google.com/

[2] https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/
I agree with your first paragraph, but your second one is definitely wrong. We aren't anywhere near even understanding "what nature has wrought" the possibility of "catching up" within the foreseeable future is not realistic.
>I think the best way to find talent is to do a trial run for 1 - 2 weeks and see how good they are at taking fuzzy problems and breaking them down into actionable steps, then executing.

Except even if you could get someone to do that it doesn't filter for the right candidates. Someone who can quickly get up to speed in a foreign domain is not the same skill as being able to build great systems/code/etc in a domain you're familiar with. The day to day of a programmer after the first X months if the latter and not the former.
Oops. I thought I skimmed the text well enough to detect that, but apparently was looking too much for the graph “CO2 concentration over time during the night” that to me, seemed obvious as the thing that had to be there.
Apt has supported HTTPS and tor since forever. Aws offers https mirror. OP is about defaults. If you want you can switch to https or tor or http.
I meant "make cookies decisions for every website that wants to use cookies" (I just updated my comment).

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https://eugdpr.org/the-regulation/

The request for consent must be given ...

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> they way we bring up women in western societies is a much much stronger determiner of personal preferences

That's what I'm saying the data explicitly disproves.

Look, this might come as a shock, but let me lay out what everyone on both sides of this argument believes: Everyone who chooses the profession and performs well should be included. The contention is whether their genetics should matter, and those who reject the assertion that there's an inclusion problem answer "no".

Here's a more direct point: the fact that women tend not to choose STEM tells you nothing about each individual woman. The mere fact that someone got the job is explicit evidence that they're probably just as capable as everyone else that got the job. Membership in a social class as defined by the progressive left is just... meaningless. As it should be. #MLK
Basically it means having "agency." What most people are looking for when they think of "intelligence" is not the ability to master specific tasks, but to choose which tasks to perform using one's own "free will," ultimately leading to behavior that humans find novel and feel they can connect with.
Unions are basically legalized price fixing. What happens is that the union negotiate a "fair" price, and then all companies decide to pay no more than said "fair" price. See for example (original is in Swedish):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
Insane work hours also reduces demand for workers, though. If it's a norm in an industry for employees to work 80 or 90 hours, an employer might hire fewer people than if folks only worked 40 hours.
Because they aren't starting from nothing? They're starting from humans -- the more we can usefully encode about our knowledge of ourselves, the more time we can skip in evolutionary effort. The mutation rate is also rapidly accelerated and although we drop the fidelity in simulation, for the most part we can run magnitudes faster than real-time (and certainly if a limiting factor was human decision making time).
Landlord here. My lease doesn't specify the type of lock, nor do states where I rent property require that I disclose smart locks nor provide an audit trail of remote access to the lock. I am only required to provide "quiet enjoyment of the property" and provide reasonable notice if access is required (24 hours notice, which I provide via email and text). That said, I don't use smart locks with my properties. They're a pain in the ass from a reliability standpoint, and I prefer more reliable mechanical locks (Kwikset SmartKey, which allows for rapid re-keying when turning over the property).

> I think that the perspective that [the addition of] a remote unlock facility without an audit trail compromises the security and safety of a physical lock and thus breaks the implied contract is a perfectly reasonable argument, especially given the prevalence of general industry failure (known vulnerabilities in specific models) in this area.

While the argument can be entertained, housing statute provides for no such requirements (providing an audit trail of smart lock activity to tenants). I'm happy to run it by my attorney for funsies if you're interested in going down the rabbit hole, but I'm confident the use of smart locks, as well as not providing access control data to tenants, is entirely compliant with housing statute (and I have read all housing statute for the states I operate in).
> Let’s not forget the 98% “chance of winning” estimate of the 2016 election.

> For months ahead of the election, the election was never called by The New York Times as being below a 90% certainty.

It's trivial to verify that neither of these things are true[1][2], so...just adding to the garbage, I guess?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/forecast/president
I think what they're arguing is that since most engineers don't use the algorithmic knowledge on a day-to-day basis (and are thus likely to be rusty), the time they'd need to spend reviewing/prepping to pass a whiteboard coding interview is greater than the time it would take to do the work sample.
Tao Te Dev 5: effectiveness in chaos
I see this as another, albeit slightly subtler, way of trying to rationalize a command economy. It's one where the government has unilateral authority to marshal all of a society's resources. Do we really want, say, Trump to be able to print as much money as he wants to fund his wall?

I'm not sure whether the fact that the government's method of doing so and the unchecked nature of this power is obscured by currently makes this better or worse than straightforward proposals for command economies.
This idea has some legs but it also needs to fit context. When I come here and see comments on a subject about programming I know there will be people here who are very smart and knowledgable. However I also know to skip any thread about nutrition, fitness, politics, or anything not tech related basically on this site.

If I said well the people who comment on here and the articles submitted here about fitness are mostly shit, why would I read their opinions about programming, then I'd miss out on a lot.

Not all the writers on staff at any publication are going to be bad, but some will be or they will just be given a topic to write about which they are not familiar with, but are experts in a different field perhaps.
FWIW, I have almost no dream recall, and am not as rested, when the window is sealed shut. We are four humans and two cats (usually) in a small-ish bedroom, creating a lot of co2. There is built-in ventilation in each room, but performance starts declining 2 weeks after every filter change (which cost €20). So I swap the filter only once every 1-2 months, and instead open the window ever so slightly (moving the lever just a bit towards open position, weakening the seal). Voila, perfect dream recall and much better rested the day after.
> The more I learned about MMT the more it seemed to be the same thing, in an economic sense and I have frequently made this quip expecrting MMT-ers to call it a strawman or point out some fundamental element that I’m missing but instead they usually confirm that I have it correct in broad strokes.

> MMT-ers believe that currency is nothing more than an economic scoreboard or tally, and any government that denominates it’s own currency can never go broke because they can always create more currency. Of course, as Weimar Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and more recently Zimbabwe and Venezuela have all found out, you have to watch out for hyperinflation.

> The MMT magic bullet for this is… taxation. Through taxation the government can drain excess liquidity from the system while printing as much currency as it needs to fund its projects and as long as the total value of currency printed doesn’t exceed the productive capacity of the economy as a whole.[0]

[0] https://medium.com/@markjeftovic/the-disturbing-rise-of-mode...
May I ask, do you have many specific examples?
The new Congress should use its oversight power
to explore just why the administration has failed to do
to protect against that risk, ...

New York Times, grammar, really?
You say the USA as a whole, but IIRC there are a couple states that do require it to be able to use the title "Software Engineer".
Please explain what you mean by “trapped at the zero bound”. It can’t possibly mean interest rates.
progress. is it better to have to much or too little? with more room to grow there is more posibilities.
I was a regular at the JW Marriott in Jakarta after it was bombed in 2003, and so was my boss, who was actually in the hotel at the time of the attack. In addition to being an excellent hotel, they also took security very seriously, unlike the security theater put on by most of their competition. And besides, lightning won't strike twice, right?

Only problem is, they were bombed again in 2009, this time with the help of a staff insider...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JW_Marriott_Jakarta