skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why to thank god for that. Pakisthan have denied the existence of such terrorist organisation even though the last surgical strick from India killed over 50 jihadis who were trained to attack India. The attack was done by 12 mirage aircraft carrying bombs weighing over 1000kgs. This have a destructive radius over 15 kms. The Indian intel and the state is claming that there is anywhere beteen 300-400 Jihadis killed in this attack. Major strike on terror from Indian side.
Gee, this is legit. Gave me some insights. Thanks a lot :)!
I think he's referring to the fact that maps are iterated in random order. Now if you print them directly, you may be lead to believe that the order is _not_ random.
This raises an interesting issue: if an interrogator "on autopilot" was fooled, is that really a valid Turing test that was passed?

Fortunately, the solution is simple: to have a Turing test of the interrogator.
Maybe they can use https://NewReleases.io to track Go releases.
It’s against international law to randomly bomb another country. Duh

India didn’t get authorization from the UN Security Council nor was this in self defense.

I think your bias may be showing.
Your site reminded me one of my favorite charts and tweets of all time, so I want back to look and it was from max at ourworldindata way back in 2017! It's this one: https://mobile.twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/8528130327238574...

Thanks for doing this, I love having big easily accessible data to show people how then world really is.
As many as it takes to either make Pakistan change its course or the terrorists are wiped out.

Everyone who was killed in this attack was willing to die to kill innocent Indians, civilians included. So, from that standpoint it is a completely justified attack.
Or GLBasic that just was released on Steam.
Your indignation would make sense if this were some defense contractor, but it seems to me that the same corporations that produced your search engine, Android phone, games console, cloud infrastructure, desktop operating system and much more and know a lot of stuff about you are suddenly interested in also producing stuff for the military.

Military applications are a totally different game with their own cloak & dagger culture and perverse incentives.

I for one wouldn't like to see companies like MS or Google which anyway abuse lobbying to find even more creative ways to abuse democracy in deals with the government. "We'll help you work on this super-duper weapon system if you don't introduce any privacy laws".

And US is really the last country on this planet that needs more defense contractors. There's a whole bunch of them in what's a huge part of the economy.

Ever heard of the military-industrial complex? Does it honestly look like a good idea to anyone to add US's richest companies to it?!

Probably the biggest threats to the USA's national security are political corruption, social unrest caused by economic injustice, ultra-conservative policies and the actions of the current president which is pushing away your allies and wants to be friends with Russia.

Has anyone on this thread noticed that your president is being investigated for his relationship with Russia, the country you all seems so afraid of?
> Do you know how the web works? When you go to a website, you are making a request to someone else's servers. If you don't like what they are serving, then stop going there. Vote with your attention. I have stopped visiting places like Businessesider due to their adblock-block and free-quota walls. They no longer get traffic from me.

Trying != succeeding. If someone applies force, it rarely means you cannot choose not to comply. But you'll suffer from the consequences.

> It does happen, it's called "coupons".

Not really. The value of coupons is that you get discounts, not that they advertise something. Classifieds are a better example.

(Arguably we would better off if coupons did not exist and companies just set proper prices to begin with, but that's beside the point)

Either way, even if valuable ads exist, advertising as a whole still destroys value because the vast majority of ads are destructive.
Why are you patronizing? And what are "stress disorders"?
Well, a lot of kids lose interest in school subjects for a lot of different reasons! I remained very interested in math, physics, and computers, gained some more interest in biology, etc. But this way of looking at life can be weird and alienating. I think part of the fascination is how life kind of keeps going on nevertheless. Regardless of what you think about the nature of language and meaning, you have to act in society. And you sort of have to cope in your own way with the big thoughts while also coping with the ordinary stuff.

Various insights into evolution, biology, materialism, or what have you can't really negate the reality of what's going on today. Or if they seem to do so then the insight is probably incomplete. I'm reminded of the way people use rational scientific rhetoric to exclaim that religion is irrational and dumb; well, but how about using that rational science to investigate how and why religion is a part of human psyche and society? Etc.
(At last! the perfect occasion to link to one of my favourite cartoons... "THRAK AND I")

http://explosm.net/comics/2830/
I suspect you are seeing the result of a few generations of humans doing exactly what you are proposing and subsequently maybe (with effort) fixing the number one demand. All the other "future huge problems" have become the now huge problems and it doesn't really make sense to rank all the definitely going to destroy our way of life issues because they will all result in the same thing with a similar time frame (way too soon).
You're ignoring the possibility of negative value. People ITT have been saying repeatedly that DNSSEC provides negative value, i.e. that the effort is vastly out of proportion with any benefit that could be derived from it. They aren't necessarily saying that there is (absolutely) no benefit.
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That’s a really good point. Thanks for the food for thought.
What a coincidence (!/?) I'm reading Brian Clegg's book Quantum Age and just heard about this for the first time yesterday.
There has been limited engagement for last 70+ years with no result.

As Einstein said, lunacy is doing the same thing again and again and expect a different result.
> Perhaps our brains are optimized to have the pilot train the autopilot (so to speak) when necessary

In a process commonly known as dreaming? I don't think that it is a coincidence that new tasks car we are currently learning to perform (that are still "piloted") often appear in the occasional snapshots of that somehow cross the boundary to our daytime consciousness.
Thanks; it's nice to see that people still find break useful. It's gotten somewhat difficult to work on, as I no longer have a live account to test with nor do I use the app anymore, so there are some bugs that have driven me up the wall for years but I can't figure out how to fix. I'll try to keep it running for as long as I can; maybe someone else will be able to figure it how to fix the issues ;)
congrats! that’s one of those books that really needs a careful reading. it’s on my re-read carefully list but it’s so long and convoluted (in a good but challenging way) that i’ve yet to even think about starting.
I am very proud of this. And there is nothing to be ashamed of. India did not attack any civilians or military base, It attacked terrorist training camps. The attack was on an area 50Km after LOC(line of control) which is a part of Kashmir currently occupied by Pakistan. On Feb 14th 44 Indian reserve police were killed in a bomb attack made by the same pakisthan based Jihadi terroriest organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed. I think this is a major action against terror from India.
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Fishing while selecting for big specimens and throwing smaller specimens back leads to the unfortunate result of us creating selective pressure for small fish. Those big fish have, when they are smaller, inefficient reproductive systems which means they have a harder time creating enough offspring in the wild. Even if what you are saying had anything to do with how things actually work (it doesn't), this selective pressure contributes to our favourite fish dying out.
Please see my comment below: this was in response to a terrorist attack in India about 2 weeks ago, which had killed 40+ people, by Pakistani terrorists.

Moreover this targeted terrorist camps in remote areas, and not Pakistani military or civilian targets.
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That's probably right, but as with the fairy pictures the technology to make the fakes is also advancing, and no one can tell a whether a picture that's been made recently is fake or not just by eye.

As fake text becomes more common the tools to make it will become more advanced to the point where we can't tell it apart from the real thing.
> Not to imply that population isn't going to be an issue

Population is already an issue, this isn't some future problem.
He said a lot of things, including some piercing observations about the folly of nuclear war. I think he’d also be amused at the notion of a stable and predictable equilibrium resulting from a dynamic system of humans in conflict.
Economic growth doesn’t necessarily means ressource consumption growth.
Those goals are and have always been attainable. We've just not put in the effort required. No goal is attainable if you are unwilling to work to attain it.
Countries should also not harbor and train and support terrorists that attack neighbors.
> I knew we are at 7 billion right now, but holy fuck... in 200 years we went up by 6 billion?

Congratulations, you're one of the today's lucky 10000 :) [0]. That's the exponential growth. It seems shocking when you fully comprehend its shape for the first time.

(Also a spoiler: "we're using more of resource X now than all our use in the past combined" is true at any point in time under exponential growth, too.)

People don't notice it in case of many things because it's a natural consequence of independent agents doing the same thing. I'm reminded of the story about bacteria in a bottle: on 11:00 you have a single one, their number doubles every minute, and you know that on 12:00 they'll fill the entire bottle. Q: at which point the bacteria will notice they're running out of space? A: somewhere after 11:59.

> This is the fundamental human flaw, exhaust everything until there is none left and move on to the next thing...

Wouldn't go that far. This is a fundamental flaw of life itself. Humans, in fact, are probably the only living thing on this planet that is capable of self-moderation. Life in general is moderated by death. Animals reproduce until they either exceed the food supply and start starving, or their abundance causes predator populations to grow (and they grow until they eat most of the prey, and then starve, starting the cycle anew) This is nature's self-regulation, and it's present at every level - from animals to bacteria. Yes, it would be best if we could moderate ourselves a bit more, but it's worth stopping and considering sometimes how unnatural moderation is, before condemning humans as some aberrant creatures.

> I can already hear the justified screams, "Elon will take us to the Mars!".

Oh come on :). Elon wants to take people to Mars so that they live happily on two planets, thus mitigating some x-risks like killer asteroids, or biotech fuckups. He never endorsed the idea of giving up on Earth. Settling Mars long-term ain't easier than surviving here anyway, and there's a huge overlap in technologies needed - especially if we can't coordinate internationally to unfuck the climate in the first place.

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[0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/
Why does one have to kill people from one side or the other?
The strike was done on the terrorists which in this case happen to be on Pakistan side.

Terrorism isn't going away itself. One or both the nations need to take action on them.
Sorry, I'll get a Medium account and post it there.
It's not hard to figure out how to price them in. It's hard to get such taxes put into law. A CO2 tax is very simple. Just add a tax to a fossil fuel as they're extracted that matches the cost of pulling the CO2 they release from the atmosphere. Now you only need a global consensus to actually do it.
Easy to talk like that from a cozy chair with a full plate..

People that have been there or in extreme poverty, dont want to go back there no matter what.
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This is naive. Your argument is hinged on the proposition that rich countries will remain rich and poor countries will stay poor. Given the current economic activity, a shit ton of countries will become rich and their resource consumption will increase. It's not if, it's when.

So stopping immigration will help,maybe, in the short term but the earth doesn't care for what happens in next 4-5 years. The earth does care if resource consumption increases exponentially over the next century.
Super cool. This and the Python-based subtitle downloader subliminal make working with subtitles really easy. I had previously relied on incremental fudging of times using trial and error with www.sync-subtitles.com.
I read elsewhere that this might very well be with tacit agreement from Pak

* India bombs terror camps and can show it's retaliation for the suicide attack.

* Pak has always denied existence of the camps - so of course they 'missed' and bombed empty ground. Helps them save face internally.
charity is part of the problem, and not part of the solutions.
You say that like moving somewhere where there are a lot of good jobs is something only snotty upperclass twits would ever want to do. This mental image justifies nimby ladder-raising by trivializing labor mobility, the massive decline of which is a huge problem. E.g. https://neighborhoodeffects.mercatus.org/2017/01/26/why-the-...
and you can grab TurboBasic/QBasic and have functions, subroutines, switch/case, while loops....
Here in the UK that is the case but, not for spices but for herbs. If you're from the UK you'll know that mint source with your Sunday roast is very common. It was invented by the Welsh to make their old lamb/mutton taste better.
> We’re always 10 years from total annihilation and destruction. You can worry your whole life (tons of people do) or go on with your life. The earth has dealt with far far far worse outcomes in the past and there’s no evidence that it’ll reach that in the newr future.

This got down-voted to hell, which is odd, because it rings true.

The "total annihilation" isn't even that hyperbolic. I've seen comments here on HN that depict our world as under imminent threat of global nuclear war, or that depict our world as suffering from a mass extinction (caused by humans) that will end all life as we know it.

I believe those statements are the hyperbolic ones, and one should be allowed to call them out for that.
>His authority came from Rome, where he sat on a number of councils policing church doctrine. These were the years the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith worked up fresh hard teachings to revile homosexuals.

"Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" is the renamed Inquisition :

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

"With the exception of the Papal States, the institution of the Inquisition was abolished in the early 19th century, after the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the Spanish American wars of independence in the Americas. The institution survived as part of the Roman Curia, but in 1908 it was renamed the "Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office". In 1965 it became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."
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This is highly interesting. API based trading on exchanges has given me the opportunity to build and run my own trading algorithms. I developed my own strategy for trading, and it was interesting to see how my thinking compared to others.

My overall strategy seems to be described as a "perfectly uninformed, risk neutral market maker".
This is glorious, I love it
I think if you spend a lot of time wondering if you are depressed, there is a good chance you are depressed. I used to wonder that a lot. Now I’m on an antidepressant and the difference is clear - I’m sure I am not depressed anymore.
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You’re right, but avoiding nuclear war is the higher priority. If India and Pakistan want to kick the ahit out of each other they should disarm their nuclear weapons. Imagine for a moment that Russia had been sending terrorist to the US border with Canada. Now imagine that the US started bombing Russian border towns. You would quite rightly, be crappping your pants and focusing on the threat of global annihilation.

Nuclear powers are burdened with a far greater need for restraint out of necessity than non-nuclear powers, even in the face of provocation.
Given Python's success with its insertion-order-retaining "compact dict" implementation[1], I've wondered why more languages aren't adopting that design into their maps/hashtables.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#whatsnew36-compa...
Or, why don't you instead move to a poorer country?

Since I'm guessing that you won't do that, how about reduce the 8.5 tons number down to something more reasonable in your own country? Why not make your country more like 1 ton, and invite everyone you can, so that carbon emissions are lower for everyone, and your own country is responsible enough to control that?
The whole thing is very similar to the replication crisis, which is caused by p being a random variable and sometimes hitting below 0.05 for no reason. Similarly, any training or test set validation percentage is also a random variable. Even a single researcher trains only a single model, the field is very packed which leads to many, many models being created. As test set accuracy is a random variable, some of the models will hit above the threshold and they are the models that can be published. Otherwise the researcher has no results to report. The extra step that eliminates negative results is the mechanism that causes the indirect validation on the test set. Yes, the results are correlated but they also provide inflated results, which is shown by all of the new test accuracy points lying wildly outside the prediction interval.
who wrote The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell a seminal biography of the now-convicted cardinal[0]

Also one of Australia's best journalists

[0] https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/david-marr/2013/09/18/137...
Love the part about the "Bangkok IP"
Copenhagen Consensus tries to prioritise "solutions to the world’s biggest challenges" using cost–benefit analysis:

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

https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/
Second derivatives will not save us this time.
Usual referring to the mere "infix syntax" part (as opposed to some other kind of syntax that isn't infix).

Not to having "infix syntax plus the associativity / precedence you get in C". We've already established that it doesn't have the usual precedence.

The distinction was with e.g. Lisp which has a prefix syntax (polish notation), and other more exotic styles.
Wow! This is great news for the space program. Feels like it’s gathering alot of momentum now.
Yes, WebDAV, XML, SOAP, CalDAV, etc. are from an era in computing where interoperability and common standards were important and demanded by customers. What have XML bashers to show for exchange and long-term archival of documents?
Notion (https://www.notion.so) is doing something similar yet simpler with its 'Databases' view.
And that gives him the right to blatantly violate the law exactly how?
It is, isn't it?
There is no switch to "turn off" depression. It's a long process. What has worked for me in the past is connecting to others. Take a class, refresh skills, join an outdoor club, find a meetup, either a programming meetup or even something else. Exercise is a cheap form of anti-depressants.

I have also found finding or hiring a job coach (offering a post hiring fee) to be VERY helpful.

Trying to lift oneself out of a downward spiral is extremely difficult.
You might already be onto it, but if not, have a look for Randy Oliver and Oxalic acid [1]. Or, more locally for me, this mega thread [2] on homemade treatment strips. They work, they are cheap and so far there is no resistance.

[1]http://scientificbeekeeping.com

[2]https://www.nzbees.net/forums/topic/10061-oxalic-and-glyceri...
You may find this useful:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/25/mental-health-on-a-bud...
It seems like bibliotherapy and free support groups might be a good match for you.

I'll ask a lot of questions, don't be offended if you've already thought of all of these ideas:

Have you heard any feedback about why you aren't getting any interest from employers? Can you ask your friends to review your resume and do a mock interview?

I've heard good things about getting feedback through http://interviewing.io.

Can you interview at a less selective company where you would be more likely to get an offer, just to get something? I know people who were able to get their first job at a non-profit such as a charity or library. Those positions probably don't pay well so there aren't as many applicants, but it can get you back on your feet.

Have you reached out to all previous managers and coworkers to see if they are aware of any opportunities?

It sounds like you don't currently have a job which means you can go about job search differently. I don't know if this is a possibility, but some companies have a situation where they pay you to work with them for a week, and then they decide if you are a good fit. This might help if you are fine at doing work but under perform in interviews.

Have you applied for unemployment or government aid?
I was not arguing for prolonging the suffering of animals as some method to make people turn away from animal products. I'm not really sure where you seem to have read that in my comment. I don't think that's a fruitful strategy at all and I've never advocated for that.

Some farm animals are killed after a few months, others like dairy cows are used for multiple years. Also, the animal psyche is not that simplistic. Yes, they might not care about the the upper levels of Maslow's model, but they're not stuck on the first one either. Therefore, throwing mind altering drugs at the problem seems like a naive and hardly effective substitute for me for the reasons I've stated earlier.

I think, there are cheap solutions that can improve the lives of these animals today, e.g. more space. But as I argued in my initial comment, I think a cultural shift is necessary (similar to smoking) and this is why I think factory farming needs to be forbidden in the long-term, meat taxes need to be introduced, meat prices need to be raised, government incentives for alternative food products need to be given, etc.
Are you normalizing to the total human population?

So currently 30 million slaves out of a 7 billion population is under a half a percent, compared to 4 million slaves in the us out of a US population of 30 million is almost 7 percent.

I'd say that's an improvement
Qualcomm as a whole literally loads the spyware onto their processors. Banning all Huawei is kind of like mopping up the water in your kitchen while the tap is on full blast and the drain is clogged. Sure, it feels like you're doing something but what you're actually doing is performing a big puppet show (I'm guessing to make people feel good, this is politics after all).
On the upside, the dying process of oxygen deprivation seems to be quick and painless.

https://jme.bmj.com/content/36/3/174
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