skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of the interest over UBI comes from wealth disparity (rich getting much, much richer, middle class shrinking). On top of this, people are working harder than ever and salaries are mostly stagnant. In other words, wealth is being siphoned away from those creating value into the pockets of people who already have immense wealth.

I'm personally more in favor of real social dividends: a public fund that owns stock in publicly-traded companies and returns some portion as a dividend, and some portion it reinvests into buying more stock. The idea being people are getting a dividend (like UBI) but it's based on overall productivity so there's a connection between working and the payout (obviously, the connection is a few steps removed, but it's there nonetheless).

Regarding democracy/ownership, I think it's somewhat debatable. We're told the government represents us, but how many of your interests are represented by the Democratic party? How many by the Republicans? I can safely say at most 10-15% of my interests are ever really taken into account in a two-party system. I'd say people who are incredibly wealthy have a much greater say in political outcomes than the general population. In essence, we are told we have ownership over the state, but in reality our ownership share is collectively small.
The SR-71 flight manual can also be found here [0].

I was surprised to find the plane can be flown solo [1], and with no pressure suit below 50,000 feet [2].

There is also a section on "Tactical Limits" describing scenarios where exceeding normal operating limits is advised to exit a hostile area [3]

0. https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/

1. https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/5/5-23.php

2. https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/5/5-23.php

3. https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/3/3-135.php
Why now? After all, we've had all this supposed white supremacist content available all these years and now it's somehow a threat? Are more white people getting fed up being the tax cows of the world or what?
It's the modern aristocracy; this kind of behavior has existed since the beginning of humanity. And it likely won't ever end.

I found an interesting example of this reading through David McCullough's 1776[0]. One major weakness George Washington sought to exploit in the British military was the lack of talent and creativity among the British leadership.

Back then, British military officers were commissioned based on their wealth alone, not their talent. Washington leaned heavily into this throughout the revolution through his use of guerilla tactics and promoting officers, like Henry Knox, based on tactical aptitude. This gave way to successes like the Knox Expedition[1], many of which were consequential to winning the war.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(book)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_train_of_artillery
Sounds like you have a lot of experience with imperative and procedural languages.

If you want to try something pretty difficult, but familiar, try a super-strict language like Ada.

If you want to try something completely different, I would suggest a functional language.

Elixir is already on you shortlist. I would also suggest taking a look at OCaml, Erlang, F#, Clojure, etc... However, I would not suggest Haskell if you're just starting out in functional.
JVM and CLR.
You can't claim to be as a Service if you don't want all the downsides associated with it.

You can sell tools as is (not as a service), and if it is used for nefarious purposes, your hands are morally and legally clean. you can seek to make that specific tool illegal, but until then, everything's fair game, e.g. you can try to ban automatic weapons but you can't charge companies for selling them.
I use Threema which doesn’t need a phone number or an email address.
Is this not a highly inefficient implementation of an integer comparison?
Not to mention that as we've seen with Twitter the rules don't really matter. The name of the game is selective enforcement and zero accountability because you can always blame the algo/users for not reporting enough.
Agreed. ML is a particularly hot field right now and there are plenty of ML positions that are locked behind having an advanced degree. That doesn't mean there aren't people with bachelors degrees working in those positions, but in my experience unless you have years of experience or a personal connection it can be very difficult to get your foot in the door. A PhD provides evidence of a candidate's expertise that's difficult to obtain without an expensive interview process that's flooded with unqualified applicants.
It falls on its face when you are just outside the typical use case. Sometimes I'll throw on an album and listen to it all the way through, or just really listen to one particular artist for a few weeks. Then the recommended content falls on its face as it doesn't know how to handle someone binging Grateful Dead one week and Kendrick Lamar the next.
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"Bubbling" per se is essentially defined as that portion of Google's ranking algorithm that incorporates its opinion of you. The rest of it, the generic part of Google's algorithm, can and does reflect Google's desires as a company. The EU even fined them billions for it (specifically, for promoting Google Shopping over competing comparison services).
Comments in this thread are kind of trippy but also so heartwarming to read.
I was born in independent Ukraine but, unsurprisingly, I studied math and physics with the help of all of those Soviet handbooks: Perelman, Irodov etc, basically all of them are household names.

It's amazing to realize that somebody from a totally different culture, continent, language, was slouching over the same problems as I was, maybe even at the same time.
I'm kind of curious what it means to run a non-profit as a front.

I sorta know from news/pop culture that a lot of rich people use non-profits as a way of funneling taxable income into championing their own causes and throwing galas for themselves. But it sounds like Singer was using it more as a money laundering front? Or was he basically paying himself an exorbitant amount to be an executive of the non-profit, while not really doing much?

Is it really that easy to abuse the non-profit system in the US?
I do understand that, but I have also heard things from supposed leftists like "Oh, everyone's rent will go up by $1000." This says less about leftist movements than the people I talk to.
> You can get a waiver from the NZ censor

The fact that NZ has a censor is abhorrent.
My favorite story about the Blackbird is how it was designed with heat and expansion in mind.

On the ground to leaked fuel like a sieve[1][2], it was only once it reached operational speed that the joints & frame heated up and sealed it, (thus requiring a refueling shortly after take-off).
[1] https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/sr-71/
[2] http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2011/02/betrayed-by-he...
Kelly Johnson, who led the project to build the Blackbird, disagrees. "All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way." --- Ben Rich, Skunk Works

This quote opens an essay on beauty by Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
> These people live a lifestyle of status symbols over substance.

Do you mean everyone in the US? We don't have a student debt crisis because only the ultra-wealthy decided to live beyond their means.
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They are indeed differences of degree, not kind. I don't know of any culture that has embodied 100% free speech through-and-through, it's all degrees of what you can say and what you can't.

The key difference is the penalty: is it going to jail or some people roll their eyes and stop being your friend?

I don't think it's ever going to be "people enthusiastically try to understand your positions and respect them". That has been the ideal in the US, but historically I can't find the pages in a history book where it's been largely true.
go to gab if you wanna hang with other nazis, no platforms for white supremacy.
> It also sounds like the events that you mention were dealt with quickly and severely, maybe they would have been more severe threats given the space and time to form more completely.

In the case of draft resistance in the world wars, perhaps. We did win those wars within 2 and 4 years of the US entering them, respectively.

In the case of the Hollywood blacklist, the Communist screenwriters became a cause celebre and, once the anti-Communists went overboard, were rehabilitated within Hollywood. This is despite the fact that they were members of an organization under the control of the USSR under Stalin. To some extent there was even an informal counter-purge of Hollywood conservatives who supported the blacklists and investigations.

> My fear is that we'll get to a point where people won't know about the suffering or injustice that is occurring in the world without physically going to the places where it's happening.

Ah, back to the last hundred thousand years of human history!
You can't be non-white and nationalist.

(obvious sarcasm, apparently not)
Adversity is the rock against which you sharpen your knife. If that rock is always covered with silk pillows, you are going to grow up dull indeed.

You would think money would, while maybe not buying happiness, at least free you from the kind of sniveling, insecure, desperate worrying these parents seem to be engaged in. Apparently not. "We're just one Harvard rejection away from totally still having plenty of money OMG!!!" It's like their brains have been hijacked. It's like being in that movie "They Live" before finding the magic sunglasses.
The F-22 outperforms the F-35 in virtually every aspect. It's possible to stick F-35s 360 thermals on the F-22 too.
It depends on what kind of websites are you talking about. If it is more of a web application with heavy interactions on the page, you are probably better off using a js framework or you will end up writing your own in some ways. But if you are talking about web pages with javascript to do a few fetches here and there, you can surely use vanilla js.

So as a developer, no I am not using vanilla js to answer your question because I work with interaction heavy web apps where I am better off with a well tested js framework. I don't have time (time is money) to try and do those interactions using plain js (I at least suck at plain js). One anecdote for you.
I could imagine this announcement will drive Schmidhuber up the wall. He's been very outspoken about how credit in the field should be assigned.

That said, I don't know how you could argue against Hinton's impact on the field, or LeCun and Bengio's achievements.
Right, because it's extremely easy to find other brands that are effective in the same way. A social network's purpose and efficacy is directly related to the number of users in that network. Not at all analogous
A better way to consider this is to ask: what about the platform's freedom of speech? Simply because you have a thought and post it on the Internet doesn't mean that someone is required to retransmit that thought for you. If they decline to do so, they're not censoring you, they simply don't find your content worth platforming. You are not guaranteed an audience for your ideas and they are not compelled to provide you one.

> Imagine your ISP blocked your every message that disagrees with their political stance.

This is substantially different from what is being talked about here: censorship versus deplatforming. No one is removing white nationalists from the Internet, Facebook is simply saying they won't retransmit their ideas. You can still find them if you desire and they still aren't illegal to express.
There's a fair amount of looseness in how these terms are used, in practice, depending on the context.

4/4 means 4 beats per bar, and we'll use a quarter note to represent a beat when writing notation. Another example would be 7/8, which is 7 beats per bar, and we'll use an eighth note for the beat when writing notation.

Looking at music in terms of bars or measures only really matters when creating traditional western sheet music notation. If we're writing computer code, or playing by ear, or looking at other kinds of music notation, those terms like "bar" and "measure" become less meaningful, and other terms become more useful or appropriate for describing the structure of the music.
Proposal: Add to Your Job Description – Encyclopedic Knowledge of Syntax
I've been interviewing and I really don't see the point of this style of interview. You know where they quiz you on obscure language details. When a simple google query will answer the question. Don't get me wrong. I'm fine if you want to do this style of interview, but at least label the job description so I know not to waste your or my time.
It bothers me to see so many projects overbudget and late, even to do mediocre things like combine a city's disparate accounting systems. Were companies better in the past?
Facebook moves to ban white nationalist and separatist content on its platform
Smart grids are essential to prevent infrastructure from holding back US economy
I don't think that Calvin and Hobbes can be put in the same category as Harry Potter. Adults may reminisce about Harry Potter but I don't think they go back to it and find new things the way they do Calvin and Hobbes (as evidenced by this thread). It is far from "insipid kids [sic] stuff."
I've tried to read the law, but it's hard when you're not a lawyer or a politician. The sentences are weird, the words are weird and just like all other in the law making business version control is apparently magic that are not allowed to be used.

Anyway, yes, I think it's a trick, but not in the way we anticipated. There's a ton of weird language about collective licensing and collective licensing management organisations. For the most part it seems to revolve around ensuring that libraries and archives have access to what ever they need to do their job. A lot of places on the other hand it seems to be something that anyone can make use of. So if you want to make a streaming service, with old Hollywood movie and licensing the movies are impossible or prohibitively difficult, for example if it owner of the movie can't be tracked down, you can just license the movie from the collective licensing management organisation in your EU state. Or license a whole bunch of movies in one go, because licensing the right individually seems to fall under "prohibitively difficult".

I don't know, I can't read legalese, but it seems that there's a bunch of stuff that allows for easier licensing deals across Europe and I think that's what the EU is really going for. Breaking large parts of the web is just collateral damage.

Really, some lawyer need to translate this into something we can all read and understand.
You can't?

Most people only see the relational model as is inside a RDBMS. That is how judge the OO for what you can do on Mongo.

RDBMS have some weird and well considered restrictions for their case.

But read a little about the relational model, and none of it depend on SQL or say anything about how is the storage.

P.D: Is important to note for where is MORE powerful. Remember that the creator of Pascal say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_%2B_Data_Structures...
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

You can say OO/Functional lean more to the "Algorithms" side but RM to the "Data Structures". OO/Functional not say much how operate on data, most is a exercise for the reader.

Instead, RM give a clear answer and defined operations for that.

You need to "spice up" things to make the one be more useful to the other part of the equation. RM, too pure, certainly is incredible limited, not even can print "hello world!", but that is just too give a solution about how transform data...
This ^, and also most HR drones don't know how to properly vet tech candidates. They get a set of vague "wants" from hiring managers and if they see anything worded differently, they balk. I've had to personally talk with HR over the years to get them to realize that RedHat, for example, is Linux, it's not its own thing. Ditto the lazy coding candidates that list JS instead of the proper JavaScript. Let's not even get into HR deciphering stuff like Jenkins, Nomad, linting software, or other tools. They see that stuff and their eyes go all glassy.

My mentor long ago likened these people to Eloi and the IT grunts to Morlocks. I cannot say I disagree.
It depends what you do. Most of these languages are general purpose but might be better suited for specific needs.

Go: It is really good for web apis and making cli apps

Rust: Suited for system level very high performance computation

Swift: Mostly for apple ecosystem

Kotlin: It might be most general purpose language, can be used for mobile apps, Web backend, native development
You know, I think you can't really argue against gentrification _and_ against things like white flight. I suspect that most people actually feel like you do. What they don't want are the consequences of gentrification.

They want things to get better but to capture all the surplus from the betterness. So they want to continue to live where they did, have the streets be cleaner, have the stores be nicer but not have anything go up in price.

The economy isn't generally zero sum but some things definitely are close to zero sum.
Square is hiring 3-4 crypto engineers and 1 designer to work on Bitcoin/crypto
Ad Hominem.

If you want the data, check out these studies from the quoted researchers:

1: http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
2: https://datasociety.net/output/oxygen-of-amplification/
I always assumed if you donated that kind of money to certain private colleges that you could get your kids accepted.
I think they were so incredulous because this is being suggested as a superior alternative to existing public transit options and public resources are being invested in it in places like Chicago. So why is the public investing money in building a system that will be useful to a far fewer amount of people and will cost significantly more and will be marginally faster. If Musk was just doing this with his private money and not seeking to replace existing public transit then i doubt anyone would be as skeptical. See https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-oh...
That doesn't sound very reasonable to me. Is my pocket not a perfectly reasonable place to put my leatherman? It takes many seconds to unfold it and then unfold the blade, it's not exactly a switchblade. I'm not doing dance battles in the streets against the Sharks and Jets with it (is that really what London is like?)

Carrying around a bag when I'm out and about town is a bad habit I broke myself from a few years ago, but supposing it were in my backpack instead of my pocket, what's the difference? Probably three or four seconds to retrieve it, on top of probably about 10 or so to unfold it and then unfold the blade as well.

For this to even be a shade of gray is ridiculous.
> Should anyone be forced to pay for someone else's speech that you don't agree with? Because that is what you're asking these companies to do.

If they are going to get the benefit of _not paying_ for speech that they would ordinarily be penalized for (libel, copyright infringement) then that's the cost, yes.

I think they should be able to impose arbitrary limits on the cost of serving content, either the size of the content or the bandwidth consumed by serving it, but by invoking any sort of copyright/libel safe harbor, they should lose their ability to curate based on content rather than metadata.

Sort of like being able to opt in to being a common carrier -- it carries both benefits (immunity from most criminal and civil prosecution for content served) and obligations (complying with takedowns and not discriminating based on content).
Whoa... I don't work for and have never worked for Signal. Feel free to ask Moxie if I have ever worked for Signal and the answer will be an abject "no".

I think it's worth meditating on the tradeoffs of your system design. Nothing is perfect.

Signal is trying to do the best that it can, and I really think that the starting line in writing secure software is open sourcing the whole thing from top to bottom. Anything less isn't auditable.

Note: I edited this post to make the language more addressable. I love the work Keybase is doing, but I want them to open source their server.
Usually when people say "<news organization> is trash" when presented with an article it's an attempt to poison the well and/or resist having to read it for themselves - i.e. confirmation bias.

If VICE is trash, then it should be easy to point out where the article is wrong, right? Which studies did you disagree with?

What about Tech Crunch [1]? Mashable [2]?

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/study-finds-reddits-contro...

[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/594kq5/alex-jones...
I would say that if the mainstream narrative is that your ideology shows up in a bunch of mass shootings then you get pushback. We thought it made sense to take down ISIS content, now it makes sense to take down white supremacy content.

Presumably this wouldn't be happening if not for the dozen or so mass shootings with oddly similar perpetrators in the past 5 years.
What current laptops have good keyboards?
I agree with you that they probably aren't explicitly conspiring or coordinating with each other, any more than millennials explicitly conspired or coordinated with each other to all start wearing skinny jeans. But, to stdcredzero's point, there doesn't necessarily have to be an explicit conspiracy for there to be a legitimate concern here.
AI winter doesn't mean people stop using it. ... The thing that you should notice is that when the bubble collapses we don't stop buying, we just stop overinvesting.

Right, but that doesn't match the way I feel the term "AI Winter" has been used. Now I could be mis-interpreting things, but I've always looked at an "AI Winter" as a period of underinvestment, created as an over-reaction to the mechanics you're referring to.

but that doesn't mean we won't see a drop in investment once the general public realizes that your neural nets aren't going to learn how to do double-entry accounting any time soon.

Right, but again, I don't think most people use "AI Winter" to mean a simple "drop in investment". If it were something that straightforward, there would be no need for the "Winter" metaphor.

And that's why I say there may indeed be a drop... an "AI Fall" if you will, that still represents a pull-back of sorts, but perhaps just a less pronounced and extended pullback like we've seen in the past.
Why not use XDP?
Elixir. It's the most different from what you know but has great online resources for picking it up.
If you want to take that tactic it's probably just better to reframe the argument.

Most of the problems that come from being a massive social media juggernaut like facebook/twitter/etc come from those services being free.

Being free is what makes them massive monopolies and gives them such broad reach. I think 99% of the problem cases AND the lack of competition in the market could be plugged by breaking the ad-supported/VC-supported model and forcing these companies to charge something to their customers.
It's not fallacious: pro-ISIS stuff is already banned on Facebook so it's literally exactly the same standard.
Not about an analogy, it’s just illustrating the point that market share and monopoly are not synonyms. As to a social network being effective in direct proportion to the number of users, it would really depend on what you want to use it for. Eternal September theory certainly shoots down the general case of your claim though.
Facebook does not have a monopoly on internet speech. Facebook does not even have a monopoly on internet speech for its users; people who have Facebook accounts can also have Twitters or Tumblrs or blogs or what have you.