skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no real penalty for switching between SSE and AVX2, unless you do it wrong. What are you referring to specifically?

Are you talking about state transition penalties that can occur if you forget a vzeroupper? That's the only thing I'm aware of which kind of matches that.
Thank you for your comment. Well thought out IMO and appreciate this feedback as being a semi stock holder
Or it could, y'know, simply paint the proposed target with an overlay which makes it easier to kill but not sympathise with.
I disagree. I think their policy of reacting to content that is harmful and dangerous is a good idea. It's not like the are censoring them. They are still free to spout whatever nonsense they want, they just won't be monetarily compensated for putting other people's lives at risk.

If someone made a cleaning video that encouraged users to mix bleach and ammonia to make a super cleaning liquid, I don't think anyone would disagree that it's harmful and dangerous.
I think that '()))((' will be judged balanced by the above code.
If Tesla has few cars per capita in the shop but their cars are newer on average than other models, then that is not a fair comparison. And where did you get the data that Ford etc. is in the shop more often? And where did you get the idea that CR has different goal posts for Tesla?

Also, just because Tesla claims they fixed their problems in manufacturing does not mean that those problems don't exist in the actual cars out there. And so what if it's covered by warranty; the problems are still there.
I wrote a lot and lost it. I am going to paste what little I could retrieve..it ends mid sentence and so I don’t know where I was going with it..[..][..]+ maybe inheritance laws and personal rights processes and even medical decisions will become easily streamlined.

Currently everything involves a lawyer/attorney. And time. And money.

+ this makes me think of something else(likely unrelated. Or not.) what if..in our future..we move to entirely paperless non monetary transactions. In that we own ‘credits’ rather than property or wealth.

Wealth can be in the form of credits as well as all material things. And immaterial things as well. Like reputation.(I know..like Black Mirror. But not in a punitive way)

We already have credit scores. But some things are not monetized. Like intelligence or beauty or qualities like kindness. The flip side is that a lack of beauty or intelligence can stem
from a biased pov. But if it is non punitive, only positives get scored.

The ‘credits’ can be transferable and can be inherited like any transaction. And if someone isn’t on the transaction list, they are not part of the inheritance. Every time you add someone to your list, they have access to some part of your life. Maybe your accountant gets an annual retainer automatically but he can’t make decisions about whether you can pull the plug. Maybe your girlfriend got downgraded to just visitation rights. So basically, the list is multi tiered.

It’s also a way to keep track of ...[..]

do you think any of the above warrants comments or a reply. I had a couple of meetings so my memory is disjointed now..I can’t seem to grasp the line of thought and where I was going with that...apologies. ETA: I am going to give a reply another go tonight. I am sure I had something more to say.
What about folks who work on digital skinner boxes or dark patterned tech, such as, ad networks, social media, free-to-gamble games, anything Android, gig-economy apps, or the like.

People in those industries don't even have the fig-leaf of "national defense" to help them sleep at night.

For them it is only about money, t-shirts, and free food. Who cares how many lives they ruin along the way.

They are true sociopaths, though inexplicably they would feel horrible if their work helped save a 19 year-old soldier's life or helped enable shooters recognize an incorrect target before harming innocents.
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In the beginning, I suspect pimping GitLab on Hacker News was tolerated because Y Combinator is an investor, and the company is viewed as potentially one of their home runs, with gazillions in returns. Further, there are many GL employees on HN who will promptly upvote or comment on submissions.

These days, GL is so popular that the echos of the early days continue. Self-fulfilling prophecy, achieved.
Agreed that it looks more like an investment plan than a loan, especially with the funds being unlocked gradually upon completion of assignments and courses attendance.

My point was that if you strip out the marketing "good intentions" part (not saying that the good intention aren't there), then this looks like a financial product of sort. Which made me wonder why bother combining the financial part with the school. But I got the answer about that.

Note that I'm not in the US, so I can't really get a feel of how risky this is for the student. Is 40k/y a common starting salary for a beginner or is it usually higher? 15% is due when you get to 40k salary, so that would leave you at 34k/y. Is that comfortable, or is that 6k loss hard to absorb?

I guess that depends a lot on the location?
Even if that’s the case, so what?
Do you speak from personal experience or are you trying to correct the experience of others based on your mental image of how it should be?
The one difference here is the risk component of equity financing versus debt financing -- with debt, you have to pay no matter what, with equity, you pay only if there is money left over. I think in the future, as the cost of capital comes down, the percentages of income will come down a lot.
I'm sorry, what is there to be skeptical of? There are plenty of reviews with hard data and measurements. This isn't one of those things where something stops being true just because you refuse to look.

https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-geforce-gtx-1660-t...

Now, whether it's worth another 279 to upgrade from the 1060, well, probably not. It is very much worth considering if you have an older card than from the 1000 series. It performs on par with a 1070, gets within spitting distance of the Vega 56 in 1080p/1440p in a bunch of games, and it's the most power efficient card out there.
It's not asking the question that's hollow — it's actually a worthwhile question — it's asking it as a rhetorical question, as those comments do. They are asking it for the specific purpose of not answering it. If they'd actually grappled with the complexity of the question to come up with an answer, I suspect they'd be upvoted.
Yeah, and kids aren't compelled by law to smoke. If you think that Facebook addiction is the result of human weakness, you need to wake up. Facebook has methodically exploited human psychology for years to cultivate addiction. Check out Roger McNamee's new book.

By the way, I don't have a Facebook account.
I wonder if they'll hang an explanatory note about why they closed in the window.
No, thermonuclear bombs [1] are fusionbombs. Nuclear bombs can be of both types but the term thermonuclear specifically means (partly) fusion-powered bombs. These bombs always use a fission reaction as a starter for the fusion reaction, depending on the type of bomb the power output can be anywhere from mostly fusion to largely fission.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
While teaching web dev, do you put any focus on accessibility for users with disabilities and other special needs? Is your platform accessible to students using assistive technology like screen readers? You're possibly offering something here which could have an impact on the high unemployment rate among disabled people, many of whom are lacking skills or opportunities to obtain them. Would be happy to talk with you more about this if you're interested - full disclaimer: accessibility and usability are my dayjob :)
Youtube is not nor should be required to pay money to channels they do not want to.
Saying that not paying money to channels is pushing an agenda is plain silly.
No, the defining characteristic of thermonuclear bomb is a second stage fusion device. The first stage fission device sets off the second stage.

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

Edit: just acknowledging the funny set of identical replies!
A question I have always wanted to hear the debates on:

Do we want corporate entities dictating/enforcing social rules OR

Do we want the elected government to be our moral compass and have corporations abide by the same / help the government enforce the same?
i worked on software used by military police to record criminal interviews. should i be concerned that it's used by the military, or should i be relieved that the military courts have more accurate/complete recordings?
Youtube already has enormous political power and its algorithm already pushes various agendas - in this instance, a particularly harmful one. Demonetising anti-vax videos is merely course correction.
> "Being a negative or critical person does not make one stupid"

It does if you have engineering goals and the _manner_ in which you are being a negative or critical to other people is preventing the team from achieving those goals.

Negativity does not always come with skepticism, by the way:

Some people are negative in the sense that they demoralise others, yet are full of uncritical enthusiasm to use every random idea and technology they hear about. Which may be what is demoralising others :)
Because they were grouped together in the original article, as tactics Scott Alexander's detractors had employed against him in trying to silence the CW threads.
May not be a popular opinion but I'll share it anyway.

I believe anti-vaxxers are nuts.
I believe they are dangerous.
I believe YouTube is a private company who can do what they want with their company.

So why does this leave a bad taste in my mouth? Because they have so much power and influence and they can pull the plug on what could be called a difference of opinion. Yes, it's a horrible opinion but it's still empowering one side of an equation.

Yes, Youtube may be "right" about Anti-vaxxers, but what happens when they're wrong? What happens when they decide to silence or stifle a group that's actually trying to help the good of the people? It's a complex issue to say the least.
Where do you draw the line between, say, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, and actively advocating and planning harm of oneself and/or others?

Both sides of that particular discussion would argue the other one is doing things that are actively harmful to others.

I think one side is grossly unfounded fearmongering that's doing long-term sometimes irreparable harm to a great many people, some of whom are vulnerable and unable to decide for themselves, but they would say the same about people who encourage vaccination.

I'm just trying to convey that almost any form of filtering qualifies as pushing an agenda, and it's just how controversial we find the topic that affects whether it bothers us.

(Work for elgooG, not on anything even remotely related to Youtube, all opinions are my own, etc.)
Taylor hauled uranium ore home in checked baggage while it was legal. IIRC, he might've been also partially inspired by the early David Hahn. I wonder if he still has a part-time gig at VICE after the layoffs and HBO cancelation.
The sooner the better but it helps to have something to point people to as well. Even if it's just some landing pages with some nice images of the product that can be a good place to start a conversation at least.
Yep. Where I work at Box is the enterprise solution for sharing files externally.
Pinterest made their search system not return any results related to vaccination as a way to combat it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/next-front-in-tech-firms-war-on...
> If crypto is money, can I quickly, efficiently and without huge fees: Spend it at Amazon? My grocery store? My corner deli? Pay my rent? Pay my employees? Pay for dinner?

I've seen people do all of these things, but in every case it depended on cryptocurrency hobbyists happening to be on the other side of the transaction, or on informal exchanges (and the trend may be that it's getting less common, not more). So it seems like the answer is "maybe, but not reliably and routinely".

In this regard, cryptocurrencies might be more like commodities, collectibles, historic currencies, or foreign currencies (that are pretty much always still foreign, no matter where you travel).

> If crypto is a store of value can I trust it will hold value in any sane, non-Venezuelan way, over any reasonable time period?

Nope; in this regard, cryptocurrencies might be more like commodities or collectibles. "Not all plates go up in value; some go down." (National currencies can also be volatile, but most are dramatically more stable than cryptocurrencies.)

You could try to hold a stablecoin, but it's not clear that the backer will be able to maintain the peg (or even that the backer itself believes that it can maintain the peg!). Futures traders might be able to force the issue unexpectedly.

> If not, doesn't it default to a cool technology with no current useful application??

Most of the financial applications aren't currently routinely useful to most people. Although some people are optimistic that this is just a temporary bug or a matter of growing pains, I'm concerned that there are pretty strong scaling and sustainability problems with cryptocurrencies, so it might not be easy to fix this.
It is a leftover piece from our arrogant past when we considered our image a reflection of the divine.

It is now just a way to say, "not human". Unfortunately, the embedded arrogance is still perpetuated.
A large forecasting competition called M4 [1] recently published their results. If you're interested in forecasting I suggest checking out their summary paper. [2]

Highlights include:

* Pure ML methods are still not competitive with statistical models;

* Ensembles perform better than any single model, an important difference to the last competition;

* Very simple benchmarks can perform very well on this type of competition.

The top 3 included multiple statistical models feeding into an RNN (by an Uber engineer), another ensemble using XGboost for the final layer and a combination of just statistical methods with a clever weighting scheme.

If you're interested in making production-level predictions, it's probably a good idea to ensemble prophet with other methods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makridakis_Competitions

[2] https://www.scribd.com/document/382185710/IJF-Published-M4-P...
Smart, this should change the media narrative from their utter bollocks of handling the comments thing. YouTube may be equal parts soulless and incompetent, but their PR strategy isn’t terrible sometimes.

On the other hand, antivaxxing is one of those problems crying out to stamped into the dust. I don’t particularly care if some decides to eat lots of fruit instead of getting chemotherapy, because their cancer isn’t contagious. Immunization though, is a matter of public health, and my patience for precious fools on a mission is precisely 0 when it could hurt people I care about.

Still... why the hell is this something we let YouTube decide? The problem with antivaxxers isn’t their YouTube channels, it’s the fact that our lawmakers are too cowardly to pass some laws around the issue. YouTube shouldn’t be in a position to exert this kind of power, and this isn’t how issues should be tackled. This doesn’t solve anything, it just obscures it. A solution involves restricting access to public spaces for selfish morons who don’t get vaccinated, and yes, their children.

Edit: Sorry I just realized that my comment is on the border of being little more than a rant. Like a lot of people here I suspect that this is the intersection of two issues I care about deeply; a big tech company’s questionable, situational ethics and enormous power, and the horror of people facing debilitation or death because of pseudoscience. I’m angry, I’m frustrated, and while I know having the government intervene is fraught with danger, it seems necessary especially in cases of public health.
Yes, what I meant is that for a person who bought a 1060 two months ago, it's not worth spending the same $279 again to upgrade.
You can still watch the videos, the producers just aren't getting paid.
No, thermonuclear bombs actually work on nuclear fusion (started by a smaller fission bomb).
https://www.amazon.com/Turing-Evolved-David-Kitson-ebook/dp/...
ICBMs can go anywhere.
Hit them where it hurts, their wallet. Tweet at all their major advertisers to boycott them unless they stop demonetizing antivax channels. It’s easy!
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EA seems to be doing better - there's a few new things in there once you strip out Battlefield, Sims and the Sports stuff - but still..
..For some reason I'd still thought the big publishers were some massive force of nature, crushing all in their path.
We could stand on the side-lines booing their latest monetization strategy, but I'd still considered them to be invincible monsters. I'd imagined I'd see a list of a load of games I'd never heard of. Games they'd taken a punt on that hadn't paid off - as that's what I imagined you did as a corporate monster. 80% would vanish breaking even if lucky, and 20% would make 80% of your income. That's how you stay big.
Instead their entire output appears to be just rubber-stamping iterations of past glories.
I genuinely feel a bit sad now I've looked into it. They're still monsters, but of the dinosaur variety.
Oh definitely. The 1060 is plenty performant for modern games (except for pathological cases like Anthem) and somebody who owns one shouldn't be in any hurry to get the 1660. The 2060 is a better candidate for that, but pricey.
Why does it need to be an OR?

If you run a platform you should be able to exercise your view of morality on there, assuming such morality is permitted in the jurisdictions you're working with.

I have long held the belief that the "global no-regulation" Internet was a frontier mentality, and as it becomes more crowded, we will see a balkanization as places like Saudi Arabia, China, US and Europe have different rules/mores.

What this means for the digerati and the Internet's impact on freedom of information remains to be seen.
Yeah. People seem to forget that while technology advances have monotonically increased the potential for collateral damage, they've also in practice broadly lowered the incidence of collateral damage.
It's actually a big issue in any performance critical regions of code. I've come across this in both the network stack and the file system (user space and kernel).

Switches can sometimes be optimised away into O(1) using clever static compile time tricks, but if you rely on jump indirection you get branch misdirection penalties, or even worse for a ladder of if's, you are doing O(N) work (where N is number of cases).
Please consider a "first" and "latest" day in these options ... or let everyone go back years and find out the first day 2007-02-18
They also supported a large number of ongoing games-as-a-service games. I suspect they have more employees working on released games than working on non-released ones.
What people consider to be necessary to show "respect" for someone is seen differently by different people. There are a lot of people out there with a sense of entitlement, to money, to jobs, to popularity, and will scream at their "oppression" if it isn't given to them. Take egalitarianism to an extreme and they have a point, if I give a job to person X rather than person Y, am I not saying that person Y is on some level "less than" person X?
To support this goal, you really need to figure out how the military can be prevented from engaging in further elective wars. In recent history, the main result of contributing to the military has been creating war to benefit private business interests at the expense of our domestic and diplomatic wellbeing, and it's not surprising that enthusiasm for doing so has waned.
> The decline of logical positivism was a process of philosophers discovering fatal flaws with it and discarding it, no?

Few things in philosophy are definitively discarded (and if they are, they can come back in some revised form); they may fall out of fashion.

> Ignoring of course the question of how we could know.

But that was precisely Hilbert's point. The problem was this: either you took Brouwer's intuitionism, which has no inconsistencies but is inconvenient, or you take classical mathematics because it's useful. But if you do, you need to know that it's consistent, but you can't.

> but doesn't the existence of something like the axiom of choice, disprove the law of excluded middle?

No. LEM is an axiom that you either include (in classical mathematics) or not (in constructive mathematics).

> I don't know if that's a serious problem though.

The problem is not exactly that of interpretation, but a more basic one: if the formulas refer to something, what kind of thing is that thing, and if that thing exists independently of the formulas, how do we know that the formulas tell us the truth about those things? Again, there is no definitive answer to this question, just different philosophies.

> You can perform a derivation as many times as you like, you'll always get the same result, no?

If you start with a set of axioms, you can apply any inference rule in any order to any subset of them. There's an infinity of possible derivations, that yield all the theorems in the theory. We can look at that as a form of nondeterministic computation (that nondeterministically chooses an inference) .

> A surprising number of people disagree on that point though.

Gödel did.
From Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary (1906)

OCCIDENT, n. The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call “war” and “commerce.” These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply – the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.
Forbid robots and send this guy instead. Two problems solved.
>>> the new coding style is better, more efficient, and would even prevent mistakes going forwards.

Except that's wrong. The new style is not "better" at all. Replacing CamelCase with underscore_variables and forcing brackets on new lines make no practical differences.

All the time to rewrite hundreds of files was just churn.