skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assure you that I still think of the dog that bit me twenty years ago as the
true incarnation of all evil. Bastard mutt! It just jumped out of nowhere and
bit me in the leg. The fuck?

Now, I think the point you're making is that, in terms of moral agency
humans are special, so special that we 're not allowed to eat other animals,
even though other animals do it (and they'll eat us if given the chance).

Well, I have to say that I've heard the same claim on both sides of the issue.
For example, in the past people have claimed that animals don't have a soul,
and in modern times, that they don't feel pain (or don't experience it as
humans do) or have emotions (or human emotions) and that, therefore, it's fine
to treat them anyway we please. In fact, I believe that this special moral
agency of humans is used to justify animal experimentation, at least to some
degree.

Obviously, I don't think that this idea of special human moral powers holds
any water. We're animals like the rest. We 're part of the same food chain,
where living things feed off each other. Why should we be treated differently
than all those other living things? They can eat us, and each other, we can
eat them.
For what? Both are widely known facts.

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

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangers-of-big-city-subsidie...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/isps-want-to-be-...
Land acquisition costs are very low in the US (this is done through a competitive bidding process when new tracts are offered).

Royalties to the government are in the 20-30% range on a revenue basis, plus standard CIT.

This is for new land for exploration- e.g. no proven reserves at the time of the sale. If there are known reserves, then the price would be much higher but the government is not typically in the business of proving reserves themselves.
COM+ is an enhancement over regular distributed COM that was released with Windows 2000.
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What private organizations have assets which compounded in value over centuries?
It's nice to know what a competitive base salary is for an engineer but when negotiating an offer I think you really should be looking at Total Compensation. RSU, Stock Options, Bonuses all play a very significant role when looking at offers. Especially if you work at one of the large tech companies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc) the stock grants are a VERY large portion of your compensation.
This model was maybe viable in XIX century when our economy was simpler, but it's impossible to produce anything really complex (like a modern x86 CPU) like that. A network of thousands tiny, family-owned businesses will never self-organise to produce such CPU.
The urge to use the same flag for both B and A is probably motivated by a desire either to clean up the code by not using redundant flags. Or perhaps it was implicitly part of a forward-thinking (in theory, well intentioned) design to avoid separate flag B in the future.

Either way, it shows some attempt at longer-term thinking undone by short term implementation done improperly. That’s a microcosm of this story as a whole which gives this incident a fractal quality.
Ironically, in my area, I'm above market already (at the top 3% or so), at which point it's been easier to ask for other things (an extra week of vacation time this last job cycle).
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Maybe not everything but pretty low replication rates for most psychological experiments.

IMO that matter is extremely fluid and dependent on many factors. Just consider the fact that lots of the experiments are done with available volunteers which at Harvard or Stanford or Yale are white uber rich privileged young adults. And that’s only one of the many factors.

Another one is the pressure to constantly publish research in order to move forward or be anybody in academia.
It was as seriously discussed and considered 40 years ago as today. Maybe more seriously as Medicare and Medicaid had recently been enacted, so there was momentum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_health_care_reform_...
Sure, China doesn't want people dissing its internal policies. No country does, do they?

And yes, they are repressing dissent within China through "violent physical force". That again isn't unusual. There's a broad consensus that a state has internal monopoly on force.

Me, I hate that. But it's not as if China is alone, in that. I'd love to go buy some LSD or shrooms. But authorities put people in jail for that shit. Some huge percentage of US citizens are locked up for nonviolent drug offenses. How is that not just as bad as what China is doing?

Edit: And what if some were organizing a UN conference to discuss the violent repression of recreational drug use in the US etc? That's not even a credible possibility, is it? And that's largely because the US has so thoroughly dominated the world regarding the issue.
It's illegal in the US for the company or anyone representing the company to say anything more than that they worked for the company, and what they worked on.

They can't tell the person that the employee was fired, or anything like that.

But as noted - there are ways used to get around such things (that is, the laws of our country). Those laws exist because people were wrongly discriminated against by using such "references".

But if you have a reference to someone you worked with, and they are no longer employed by that company - then I'm pretty sure they can answer anything they wanted too (unless there's some kind of NDA they are still under after leaving the company). Because they don't represent the employer any longer, and are a personal reference - things become more casual.
Well, how do those things happen today?
Consul for 7 terms (though not in a row). He alternated between savior and terror of the republic.
The beauty of React and other frameworks is that it separates the concerns of state and UI.

I don't see it as a tool for making a fancy button or widget, I see it as a tool for guaranteeing that what the user sees is always what's actually going on in the logic.

Too many times I've written something like a "clear" button or a "reset" button in jQuery, added an extra field, forgotten to include it in that clear/reset method and now the UI doesn't match the logic, leading to unpredictable and hard to debug results.
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I've sadly not kept up with Linux Journal, but for the stretch of a couple years when I was in grad school and during my first job it was immensely helpful. It used to be you could get buy the print copy in New York's Penn Station, and I would get it going back home on the train after an evening spent at the CS lab. LJ helped expand my awareness about Linux and the free software.

Congratulations, and thanks to putting together such a great resource!
Reading this I was considering point #6 and shutting down the system. If the proper alerts had shown a system improperly taking on massive positions, and the related risk in dollar terms, wouldn't shutting down be a better route than bankruptcy? In retrospect, would (could?) they have chosen that?

Of course, violating those SLA's could cause bankruptcy through client dissatisfaction but that seems less certain than bleeding out money.
Ass-Network: Adversarial Sample Synthesis Network
(A Big Announcement of ASS-Net)

Hello from Tokyo & NY.

We are highly honored to announce that we have successfully completed the research paper on the revolutionary generative neural network model.
Surprisingly, this DL architecture works without electricity.
This is a totally innovative green technology, too.
A-Net will save millions of people's lives in the long term

We will present this at Fake-CVRP and Fake-NIPS this year. Collaboration offers are super welcome.
Please comment or message me!

Title:
ASS-Network: Adversarial Sample Synthesis Network

Abstract
We present a new Generative Adversarial Network Architecture for perspective augmented image samples which can effectively discriminate over physical attacks and recover contextual information through our dual-stage GAN architecture. Using a novel method known as Adversarial Sample Synthesis, our sampling strategy trains on pairs of images where we utilize an adversarial sub-sampling approach to effectively learn the divergence between the fake and real image distributions. Our methods have shown to effectively discriminating between fakes and real images while also doubling as a generative model which can perform an inferential recovery process to predict the entire context of the image. Our model requires very little hyper-parameter tuning and converges relatively fast, thus yielding a low-cost for training and saving energy. Although our results show great promise, we will not release the underlying model to consider ethics and surrounding consequences that may emerge from the misuse of this model.

Full contents URL:
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Best,

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> I would be surprised if you could find an example of anyone at all prominent or influential on the left expressing in writing the position that you quote.

How about this for a prominent and influential source:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x

The headline is "Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains"

Under the sub-heading "Cultural paths":

"So if it’s not brain hard-wiring, how do we explain the often stark differences in behaviour and interests between men and women? Here is where we get to Rippon’s thesis on the impact of a gendered world on the human brain."

You can inject people with testosterone and estrogen and observe behavioral changes (as people attest to in this very thread), so it's certainly a pretty strange position to have. Neuroscience is too important for these nonfactual statements to be accepted, let alone be published in Nature. There's a pretty thorough counter argument here: https://quillette.com/2019/03/29/denying-the-neuroscience-of...
One thing that requires clarification here is that there aren't shady characters at the helm of the American Red Cross collecting a billion dollars in grant money to develop housing. The money donated to the ARC isn't squandered by executive compensation. The Red Cross isn't even in the business of building houses. It helps provide housing through hotel voucher financial assistance or manages shelters. So, it's no wonder that mistakes were made. The ARC does a lot of things right. If people in the ARC actually committed to housing development, it wouldn't build the houses. It would partner with developers who did.

I'm a disaster response volunteer, although inactive since Katrina.
His "The Storm Before the Storm" (https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic...) is a great read as well. I was genuinely saddened when I finished it.
> In the course of a year, her doctors had created what’s known as “a prescription cascade”: the side effects of one medication are diagnosed as symptoms of another condition, leading to a succession of new prescriptions.

This term, "prescription cascade", should be lesson #1 at medical school. It's the natural result of an incomplete diagnosis, and is present in every medical field.

> At the hospital, where she stayed for two weeks, she was put on a new combination of pills: Lamictal, a mood stabilizer; Lexapro, an antidepressant; and Seroquel, an antipsychotic that she was told to use as a sleep aid.

(emphasis added)

These descriptions -- mood stabilizer, antidepressant, antipsychotic -- are just marketing terms that don't actually describe the actual function of the drug. These marketing terms are most useful for tricking medical professionals into prescribing these products.

'Antibiotic' is the prototypical name for a class of drug that does what it describes: acts against bacteria.

> She saw her drugs as precision instruments that could eliminate her suffering, as soon as she and Dr. Roth found the right combination. “I medicated myself as though I were a finely calibrated machine, the most delicate error potentially throwing me off,” she later wrote.

I think this attitude is probably common for all the smart people who find themselves medicated into a downward spiral.

> “It is tempting to add a second drug just for the sake of ‘doing something,’ ” a 2004 paper in Current Medicinal Chemistry warns.

This is the trap the mental health system has fallen into: the professionals want to help. The drug industry has FDA-approved drugs for the various diagnosises.

Joel on Software said a re-write is something that shouldn't be done. But what other choice does the mental health industry have? Their system doesn't work. The modern industry is based on the flawed chemical imbalance theory of mental illness.

Little bits of progress have been made, in spite of the inertia to treat misunderstood behavioral problems with patent medicines. I have to conclude this comment before I can finish the article, so I'll link to my recent comment on the submission on the Szasz's book, the myth of mental illness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19243417

edit: shortened my first quote from the linked article
You might as well label the Fed a corporation officially then, and do a real compare and contrast.
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* Yes, JS is changing stupidly quickly.

* C++ has changed a lot starting with C++11, and is still changing quickly. However, not nearly as quickly as JS.

* C is still stuck in the age of the dinosaurs. The tooling has gotten a little better with clang, cmake, etc. (though these are as much a result of its close relationship with C++ as anything).

* Assembly is not moving, mostly because it's dying. There's one notable exception: ARM.

* PHP is changing much faster than it has for a long time.

* I learned rails about 4-5 years ago and haven't done much with it since, but it doesn't seem very different (though this could be wrong).

* Rust, go, zig, and other new languages are all vying to replace legacy languages such as C/C++, even for high-performance, low-level applications. This may be part of the reason some things that didn't change previously are now changing: competition. Ditto with PHP and node.

* One other item of note I haven't really explored: functional programming seems to be the new hipster technology, and as a consequence is rapidly evolving.

It's kind of crazy in many places, which, to your earlier point, does indeed hinder productivity. For many people, more time is spent learning new frameworks, programming paradigms, etc. than actually doing work.

Oh, and I'm only commenting on the parts I have at least some experience with. I'm not sure for other areas. I've also heard a lot about swift on ios, along with cocoa. Even windows has uwp and has really been pushing its modernized c#/xaml ecosystem.
What’s the difference between any of these roles? Full-stack versus generalist?
The biggest thing I've noticed between those w/o a CS degree and those with a CS degree (at least from an elite college) is the first job opportunities. Coming from a school with a very established CS program does provide a huge advantage for your first job because companies actively seek you out and give you an advantage far more than you would get if you're the one putting yourself out there (w/o a degree).
Oil is a wonderful resource with many uses that will remain valuable long after we stop relying on fossil fuels; it forms the basis for most of chemical industry from plastics to pharmaceuticals. It's just that currently it's so extremely cheap and abundant that we simply burn most of it.
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The data is on average base salary. Nearly half of my total comp is stock plus guaranteed bonus. That's how my total comp is $200k+ with 1 yoe at a low CoL city.
Yeah, but many of those are fixed costs, given immutable characteristics of the fields themselves, which means given a certain profitability threshold, you have a very predictable income stream.

That given of course varies on the highly variable price of petroleum commodities, but given the oligopolistic nature of the O&G industry, getting subsidies to tide over the bad times and prevent extensive capital depreciation is reasonably easy.

Saudis make a lot of crude, and the crude they pump is good quality. Hence, they print money.
So you didn't take over when the car crossed the line?

The lane changes are so slow that you have plenty of time to correct if the car makes a mistake.

You're supposed to have your hands on the wheel, and pay full attention, at all times. This means being able to take over if the car drifts into the oncoming lane, or has trouble deciding what the lane is.

That's why I call BS.
Java and .Net is steadily improving. But unlike the JS world things are mostly backwards compatible and there exists stable (some have argued too stable) dependable frameworks.

We are starting to see this in the frontend world as well with Angular. After throwing everything away between 1 and 2 it is now mostly smooth (until Google decides to ditch it for something else).
I agree that it's under-discussed. Part of the reason seems to be that people have such variable reactions. I have friends who literally had to quarter their pills while tapering off of them, and I also have friends who were able to stop taking them cold turkey and felt fine in less than a week.
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