skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only care about coarse grained time tracking on my team. I estimate to the quarter day at the smallest, if any task is smaller than that, it shouldn't be a separate WBS item. After all, my end-of-year bean-counter statistics are all based on person days anyways, and I'm not a consultant, so why would I care about tracking to the 15 minute increment?
Not easy at all, good luck getting it accepted by both the UK parliament and by Deng Xiaoping. People have this notion that the UK could do whatever they wanted in HK before 1997 (or at least before the negotiations with the PRC in the 1980s). But recently declassified documents revealed that the PRC was already pressuring the UK about HK affairs back in the 1950s.
I spent nearly six years homeless. During that time, I basically taught myself to make money online.

I still don't have much, but I'm off the street. I read articles like this and imagine a future where I'm wealthy and powerful and everyone will talk about my privileged background and pooh pooh the idea that I'm self made.

If I ever figure out how to address affordable housing in some meaningful way, no one will laud me as a champion of the poor and downtrodden. No, they will most likely label me a slumlord.

Of course, no one is entirely self made. Of course, it's helpful to know what resources were genuinely involved in actually creating x, y or z. You have no hope of doing something similar if you have what amounts to misinformation about how it got done.

But we value the concept of a self made person because we've all had to fight to be free. We all struggle to take the hand life dealt us and turn it into a thing we desire. We all look to others who somehow accomplished that for clues to find our way into the unmapped future and try to make it a thing we don't loathe overly much.
Make sure you are using a matching coordinate system (ie wgs84) when calculating distances that later get displayed to a map or comparing lat long datum from different sources. Good article but I didn’t see that advice mentioned.
No one is saying Bill Gates didn't earn his success. But we can't deny that having access to certain levels of privlege makes success much more probably than for those without those advantages.

With Bill Gates' upbringing, it is quite unlikely he would have struggled with housing insecurity.
Conversations on a golf course, or over dinner or drinks aren't recorded and auditable so everyone has plausible deniability over what was said or instructed.
Realistically, the platform itself should show these (imdb, rottentomat and metacritic). Instead they show some personalized likeness metric that never works.
Write a simple chess program. The rules are easy but require some thought. Displaying a board is easy but requires some thought. Writing an alpha-beta search is easy but requires some thought.

By the time you have a simple working chess program that couldn't beat a child you have learned everything you need to know about a programming language. You have to write an algorithm, handle input, handle fancy output, etc.

This is the first program I write whenever I start on a new programming language. I know WHAT I want to do, I just don't know HOW to do it in the new language.
A charitable interpretation of that quotation is that Zionists have transformed the definition of anti-semitism from something truly horrible (bigotry) to something the author finds honorable (criticism of Israeli government policies).
This kind of nonsense happened rather frequently when Google+ was suspending people for using "not-real" names. The suspension extended to youtube, to gmail, and to other services.
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I don't know much about statistics, but I can add that the time period matters. If we only started observing space yesterday, and saw it, it would be weird to say "it's rare", but we've been observing space for, I don't know, up to 400 years? (counting since invention of telescope, 1608)
Thanks for this! I had no idea who this person is, the MagicInk paper is a wonderful, animated piece of writing to be sure.
I think it's obvious that someone who won the lottery did so purely out of their own hard work. Only someone with the proper knowledge and skills would be able to execute on the narrow opportunity of winning the lottery and be willing to take said opportunity in the first place.
We can start an experiment with the HR department and measure if confliction resolution rate is the same.

Same for recruitment department to see if hiring rate is the same.

Just throwing it out there that not all white collar job productivity is unmeasurable.
I disagree with this. Some people do not want to have families, and some people are really competitive and ambitious. Not everyone's goal is to spend their time with others or leisure.

Furthermore, I know for myself I feel like shit after a lot of social activity or leisure, and feel actually really great after working for a long amount of time. The only hard part is starting.
Or perhaps they realize exactly how valuable Waymo is, and how dangerous it would be to ally with them. The contract probably stipulated that auto manufacturers cease efforts to develop a competitor to Waymo, meaning they'd be tied to Alphabet forever. Under Android, most OEMs have razor-thin profit margins and little ability to customize the stack.

If auto manufacturers think there's enough lead time for them to develop a viable competitor (Cruise), why should they knuckle under to Alphabet? Cue lobbyists fighting to keep each other from DMV certification..
I just make mine super vague. I put in the number of hours I was in the office, and I summarize most days with some variation on "Made improvements and bug fixes". That's the only way I can spend time doing anything other than actively writing code without stressing out about it.
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I'd be curious if Instagram is actually a lead gen for a photography business? Or many small businesses. Might be a quick way to maybe see what someone's posted as a portfolio, but i'm pretty sure more people would just go to the artists website to see their actual portfolio work.

I think Twitter even less so.

Facebook might be convenient for people to message them? But even then, I imagine it's mostly over email.

I think there's a pretty big illusion that social media sites add tons of value to a lot of small mom-and-pop businesses. A good website, email, and word of mouth, and in-person contacts, is likely more effective...
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Not to derail the conversation too far, but there are actually cases where a minimum wage has been used as a tool to eliminate certain jobs. For example, a big sticking point of the new NAFTA deal was the requirement that exported cars be manufactured in a factory with a $16/hr wage floor, with goal of making exports from Mexico uncompetitive and move some of those manufacturing jobs to the US.

Obviously, I don't think that's the common policy goal though.
That is a definition of "natural 0", not a definition of "empty set". GP was pointing out that GGP was using the concept of "empty set" to provide a definition for the natural numbers, without having first provided a definition for the empty set.

Replies that consist solely of throwing a quote at someone are kind of rude even if you're in the right.
>Filtering by that criteria substantially increases the probability of someone being 'self-made'.

Of course it does, because non-successful people by definition can't be "self-made"! (In order to be a self-made millionaire, you have to at least be a millionaire.) What it doesn't do is tell us anything about how much of any given person's success is down to luck.

If you are just going to insist that a majority of successful people (as compared to their peers) are self-made, then you continue to beg the question at issue.
I too am getting too old for this.. Whenever I see a company tout how fun it is to work there (ping pong tables, etc), my gut instinct is that engineers there are underpaid.
Say your prior is that something has a 1 in 1 million chance of happening in any given year.

You start monitoring it. Year 1, the thing happens. Which is more likely:

1. You've encountered a 1/1,000,000 event

2. Your prior is incorrect and the thing happens more often than once every million years?

Without more information we can't actually answer this question with certainty, but "re-evaluate your priors" would absolutely be a thing one might suggest in response to this event.
In my experience, you have to build habits. Motivation and willpower can fluctuate, but forcing yourself to do something for awhile until it becomes the norm tends to work for me (assuming it's something I value).

Now I have a question for you. How did you end up in a situation where people will pay you for ten hours of work a week instead of forty?
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We'll all use LISP on Linux Desktops.
It's worth noting that there's a surprising difference between the full model (1542M hyperparameters) and the released smaller model in the repo (117M): the full model can account for narrative structure much better (https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1097652984316481537), while the smaller model tends to go on trainwrecks, especially if you give it a bespoke grammatical structure (https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1097656934180696064)

The arguments OpenAI have given about people using the model to create fake news are IMO not good; bad actors will still create fake news anyways (or with the paper/repo, they might even create more bespoke models trained on a specific type of dataset for even better fake news). With the open model, we would know how to better fight such attacks.
A good pair of dikes starts at about $80 and goes up from there. Don't use them to cut anything but copper wire. :)
Where should I start with assembly though? What programs should I be using? where do I find them? which ones are good and which ones are bad? I originally thought assembly language was just 1 or 2 different languages and as I research I am seeing otherwise. I just started reading a book I found called the beginners guide 4 reverse engineering if that helps to show where I am at so far.
As am I. The paper dedicates one sentence to that question:

"... another aspect that needs to be studied is
whether its extremely low density could be maintained
while in the parent system, during its long interstellar
journey, and when entering the solar system."

Without analyzing the structural integrity of such a fluff ball it's tough to give any more or less merit to this concept than the others.
While you're correct about everything you wrote here, you totally missed the point of my post. If Rome had somehow avoided total collapse, we probably would have developed our current level of civilization and technology 1000 years earlier, because there was almost no technology being developed from ~400 - 1500, certainly not on the scale that the Romans did things. People went from having real toilets with running water from aqueducts to crapping in a hole in the ground until after the Renaissance, and from making complex buildings out of concrete to just stacking up stones (at best).

My claim is that today's society is going to collapse as well, and the survivors' ancestors will be really lucky to get back to this level of development in 1-2000 years.
I don't think an object like this could have been spotted until relatively recently.
If it does get a push from the sun's light it could reach escape velocity from its home sun in a few million rotations around it...maybe?
I wouldn't read that much into it without even asking for elaboration, "it fell apart" can mean a lot of things including "they messed it up after I left". That it really just fell apart under its own weight without anyone doing anything is probably the weakest plausible interpretation of what they wrote. After all, if it brought in $100M/year yet was of low quality, why didn't they hire some people to recreate a better version of the thing real quick?
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That's pretty much what they are publicly saying, right?

> This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need to tackle the issue of publication norms in a thoughtful way in certain research areas.
Agree.

As a primarily JS/React developer, I think there is irony if JS is held as a good design pattern in comparison to CSS with respect to reusability. Inasmuch as what are being called CSS "workarounds" are in fact workarounds, so too has been the case with JavaScript itself. I am old enough to remember jQuery and Prototype colliding over the dollarsign namespace.

Don't get me wrong. I am not a JS (or CSS) hater. I think these "workarounds" are more than adequate in making these technologies easy to work with. Which I suppose is sort of my point. I see a lot of overengineered codebases with Byzantine solutions to relatively simple problems.

Also, to parent poster:

> Let's say you wanted to pull in a button from Bootstrap for one part of your page, a button from Material UI elsewhere, a button from Semantic UI elsewhere, etc.

1) First of all, don't do this. Perhaps you were just saying this to make a point, but obviously don't include 3 monolothic libs with overlapping functionality in order to implement 3 things with the same functionality.

2) It sounds like your problem with this is more with the libraries themselves. When I write a component, I always namespace it myself. Obviously, if libraries are properly namespaced, then you could easily include buttons from three separate button libraries.
OpenAI is literally a non-profit.
Lol, I remember being in a billable environment and making so much shit up. Reading emails? Billed to project Y. Bathroom break? Billed to project X. Politely listening to my boss gab? Billed to project Z.

Now that I manage my own team I let them abuse the Other time entry. I only expect 70-80% billable anyways, which lines up with studies on productivity. Anybody expecting 100% productivity is an idiot and anybody reporting 100% productivity is a liar.
GP understands the notation; he means to cast aspersions about the axiomatic project.
I use a hifi headphone that has amazing sound quality. Why should I give that up and move over to something worse? I think we as a society are responsible to reject if a company tries to push down something that is worse than the previous version. Capitalism and supply/demand works only if the purchasing power is smart about quality.
But how recently have we developed the capability to:

- observe this thing at all

- accurately measure it's velocity and acceleration

- understand that it's velocity and acceleration were unusual?
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stay away paypal transaction with btc
It'll be 12$ on get.dev once it hits GA.
I would say that this depends on your perspective. While Trump likes to talk bad about the EU, NATO and FVEY members, our military, intelligence and economic cooperation is still VERY strong. And I see no indication of this changing, outside of the rhetoric coming out of the White House. Our Allies know that pulling out of Syria via Twitter was not a decision that came from the Pentagon.
Sounds like a lot of power reqs, and therefore a lot of AA/AAA batteries. For many of the more tech-forward piece of equip the Army produces, there is a heavy dependency on batteries to the tune of 10xAAA for ~2hrs of consistent use, for example. That sort of burn rate turns into massive, massive, MASSIVE battery requirements for even 24 hr operations. There simply is not enough ruck space.

That's all to say, these ideas sound great. But the odds that the Army has a combat-loaded Soldier + ruck try to carry whatever comes out of this before fielding it all to the force are rather low. Or, solve power source first.
> The thing that I don't like about this sort of construction is that it also implies all sorts of nonsense. For example, I can ask the question "Is 2 a member of 4", which is clearly nonsensical, but will get the answer "yes" from this model.

Why? Any set of 4 things also contains 2 things. Where's the nonsense? Within this definition, that's consistent.

> Type theory and category theory give us a much better way of constructing these sorts of objects without having to resort to creating constructions with all sorts of side effects.

Out of curiosity, what is the category theoretic construction that avoids Russell's paradox? I don't know that there isn't one, but I can't think of it off the top of my head. I know there are category theoretic constructions in general (I responded to one someone else posted in this thread).
While you are right that data like your address is freely available it should be mentioned that data like your income is a bit more ”protected”. One has to pay for it (and AFAIK there is a limit on the number of items a private person can buy) and the person whose data is queried is notified about such query (who asked what). Also some info is not so detailed as it may seem first. What does it give you if I say that I own a Volvo in the country where 30% of cars are Volvo?
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iPhone 6s has amazing DAC, I have an amazing earphone and I use ALAC. This setup certainly outperforms mp3 + external DAC + mid range earphone.
My usual answer is that math isn't too concerned with what things are, but with how they work with each other. So the answer would be: anything that works like the Peano axioms says it should. The "what it is" can be filled in later, and that's what makes math so powerful.
Thanks this was very helpful!
Here in California, most farm workers appear to earn above the minimum wage already, so you could nudge the minimum wage up a decent amount without having much impact on the industry.

I suspect full automation is the wrong way to think about the issue anyways. You don't need to completely automate things to reduce labor costs. There are a lot of ways to make a restaurant kitchen more labor efficient, some of which don't involve automation at all.
> Do we have example of naturally ocurring space object with such low density?

Depends what you mean by "object. Assuming the mass is mostly protons, that corresponds to a density of ~3e19 particles per cc. In comparison, molecular clouds in the galaxy have regions which are have densities as low as 1e2 particles per cc. And the hot X-ray emitting gas in clusters can be less than 1 particle per cc. There are things which span the gap, including disks around stars.
I think it's more of a problem with Launchrock, than anything else.
Seemingly yes, I don't know if they continue, yes, and yes. I think that my IP at least is probably on a list, along with a lot of other HN readers.

This is a mid-2014 story which didn't get a ton of press traction, I assume for no deeper reason than "people were burned out on specifics-of-surveillance stories after 2013". Original source [1, 2] was Tagesschau, a branch of German public broadcasting, by two high-profile German journalists and Jacob Appelbaum. (People other than Applebaum did review the technical side of things. [3]) It's since run in the standard English publications (Ars, TechDirt, El Reg, etc). I first got it from Bruce Schneier. [4]

The document source is somewhat unclear; the publisher hasn't said and it doesn't appear to be from Snowden's leaks. It was published around the time the TAO leaks started. But the document's accuracy (and that of the TAO leaks) is undisputed, and the NSA responded by defending the program instead of denying the report. [5]

The surveillance targets were numerous: emails, page visits, usage, and web searches variously relating to Tor, Tails (which was described as "advocated by extremists"), proxy services, and even the Linux Journal! The surveillance scope is unclear; the outlined system targets the full data of a single action then logs the IP for possible followup. One published code segment used deep packet inspection to find emails with links to the Tor homepage, then extracted the full body of those emails. This collection was part of XKeyscore, and presumably had the same targeting standards as the larger program. [4, 5]

As for being on a list, the Tor-homepage email filter had an exemption for IPs based in Five Eyes countries. But the other's didn't, so domestic users would presumably have at least been flagged. [4] The presence of a location filter in one tool sort of implies location wasn't being filtered later in the flow, but it's also possible non-email mediums were being filtered in other ways. The NSA statement was of course unhelpful, but includes "The communications of people who are not foreign intelligence targets are of no use to the agency." Given the NSA history of exact-words paltering, it seems significant that it calls those other communications useless, but doesn't say they're not collected. [5]

So yes; I think a large fraction of techies and Linux fans probably are on lists for completely innocuous searches.

[1] http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/nsa-xkeyscore-100.html

[2] https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

[3] http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-1.html

[4] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/nsa_targets_p...

[5] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/report-rare-leak...
I really strongly disagree with this. I don't have much time to write, but:

1. Photo manipulation has been extremely destructive in a variety of ways. People "know" that photoshop is a thing, yet fake pictures abound at all levels of publications, and unrealistic standards propagate at full speed nonetheless. The effects are wide spread and insidious.

A way to automate the production of median-literacy shitposts on the internet tuned to whatever you want to propagandize would be a devastating blow. People "knowing" that it was possible would do precious little to stop the onslaught, and it all but destroy online discourse in any open channels. I'm certain there would be other consequences that I can't fathom right now because I don't grok the potential scale or nth order effects.

2. There is no fire alarm for AGI[1]. Is this thing the key to really dangerous AI? Will the next thing be? No one knows. It's better to be conservative.

[1] https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/
Overall, the calibre UX isn't bad, especially given how powerful it is.

The UI can be improved quite a bit, check out icon packs like this one: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-calibre-th...

For me, that looks pretty good, comparable to qBitorrent or 7zip.
If it comes in a box that says "Amazon" on the side, then it has everything to do with Amazon.
IEEE floating point is hard!!
Well, Android never went through an evolution like ipod+itunes > iphone +/- itunes, so the tools for managing it from another machine never needed to attempt to be friendly.
Actually it seems fairer than a traditional auction, since there is no chance of a bidding war.
IMDB is owned by Amazon, a competitor to Netflix, so don't hold your breath for that one.
I have the same reaction when companies say we only hire the best. Why should the best people in the world be working on this problem? There are profound problems we need to solve as a species like tackling global warming and building a sustainable economy. Should the best and brightest we working on CRUD apps?