skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's strange that this article mentions the increased risk of internal bleeding but doesn't mention the reduced risk of cancer.

Here's a study which suggests that if 1,000 people aged 60 took aspirin daily for 10 years then 3 more people would die from strokes, bleeding and ulcers, but 17 fewer people would die from cancer and heart attacks. If that's true, then the benefits of daily aspirin clearly outweighs the costs.

https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/08/06/aspirin-...
It's not strange at all. What does almost every human being on earth have in common with Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos? a back! If all you're willing to do is break your back then good luck standing out from the masses. You are competing with 7 billion other humans after all. Meanwhile software? I doubt there are more than 10 million software developers in the entire world.
So what you're saying is, employees shouldn't complain about (censorship, bosses tolerating sexual harassment, etc.), they should either put up with it or leave quietly (possibly to their own financial detriment)?

I can't say I agree with you. What you're suggesting is basically the Wall Street model where bad and unethical institutional behavior gets a suboptimal amount of pushback.
> Better compared to what?

Better than, presumably the old way of doing things, doing DOM transformations manually in handwritten code.

I haven't seen these talks by Rich Harris but they sound very interesting and I'd be very interested to see the performance.
That's interesting - Google haven't traditionally "listened" to their end users so far as I can see. This seems to be in the grand Google tradition of moving the carpet from under users' feet.
He's capped return at 100x, though.
> Do you remember when you were debilitated by a strange noise?

You'd find a few percent of adults who can hear above the 17khz range who are plagued by buildings with bird deterrant signals. And professionals that can hear poorly made transformers used in fluorescent lights and major electronics.

Anecdotally, my worst cases were the home Depot bird deterrer in a garden center, that every 5 seconds I would wince and lose my balance and much peripheral perception. And in an accelerator cohort of 40 20-40 year olds, 2 of us had to hunt down the tv with a loud transformer in the open office room while being thought insane by the rest of our cohort.
Honestly, I think we admire people for their character, not skills.
No... I mean you sure do see the same effect as in running that the 1% top woman beat 90% of the men. But there is absolutely no competition between top 1% men and top 1% woman. Testosterone is one hell of a drug. And for the top trails in the woman’s league you can see guys who aren’t even in the competitive leagues scaling it like it was a kids playground.
Legalizing MJ never got rid of the illegal market. I can remember arguing with so many people here on HN before it was legalized in CA and CO.

Last I heard, the illegal market is booming in california and putting legal businesses under because they can undercut the prices. Mostly because they don't have to follow any regulations or pay taxes.

Which also brings up the fact that the state is not getting the tax money it should.

I feel like proponents want legal drugs with no regulations or taxes...which will never happen.
It says exactly what I said. Censorship is one form of shushing, but not one I brought up in the direction you interpreted it.

> So we try not to overload the crews with information that's unnecessary so they actually know the information we believe is important,

But there is that bit of censorship, basically being told pilots don't need this information, and that's why it wasn't given.

What they "didn't need to know" killed a lot of people.
Well, for one, retaliation against labor organizing is illegal under federal law.

For another, Google is in fierce competition with the rest of the tech companies for talent.
”I would've thought it ought to have occurred to computer designers from the very beginning that they were following an abstract model of computation”

They were building bespoke instruction sets because nobody knew what a good instruction set looked like. The size of a byte wasn’t even settled upon yet (also, hardware changed significantly all the time, changing what the best instruction set looked like. If RAM gets ten times faster tomorrow, for example, CPUs might drop a few cache levels)

There also was the fairly significant pressure of stuffing whatever you built in a few kilobytes.

For example, the smallest 360 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_20) ran with 4 kilobytes of RAM (and for a measly $2000 a month, you got a card reader/writer/sorter and a line printer with it)
There is too much easy money sloshing around Silicon Valley. The normal mechanisms for allocating it to sane, productive use (market forces) don't work, because it's in too few hands. So instead we get our version of a planned economy run by people who scared themselves with scifi.
I originally started this discussion in Reddit but they don't allow self-post (or text-post) so we will continue the discussion here instead.

You can still find some user stories in the following Reddit posts (hidden from public):

- https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bps96v/questio...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bq64ek/compare...
The Google organizers have taken to calling themselves the “entitled vocal majority,” after one employee publicly referred to them as the “entitled vocal minority.”

I feel like this is a small example of where my views of these employees disagrees with the author's. (I'm fine with employees having strong opinions on ethical issues, but this kindof puff quote doesn't lend them respect).

I dunno if the author thinks they're being impartial. Can't complain if they know (and the reader knows) where their preference lies.
Two other possibilities that Altman's wager as presented does not take into account:

1. The government could change the rules (i.e. redistribute wealth) in response to the new economic reality brought about by AGI

2. The AGI may decide to retain the economic value it captures for itself
Which makes you wonder why hasn't any major tech enthusiast website redo their benchmarks again with both security patch and HT disabled against AMD. I also don't think disabling HT is an over reaction, as far as I can see Intel's HT implementation is fundamentally flawed.

Right now there aren't any site putting those number with AMD's number next to them.

May be it is too much work and they will wait for the new Ryzen arrives.
According to the true believers, the payoff for AGI is infinite because the superintelligence will be capable of literally anything (or at least simulating it well enough that it doesn't matter). To them, it is Pascal's wager.

Religious beliefs can be weird.
The whole point of somewhere like Google is that they don't want people who will do what they're told, because such people are only capable of doing what they're told. You can't order someone to innovate unless they have no other choice.

Silicon Valley has spent years setting itself up as an inheritor of the counterculture, a place where it's possible to "think different". Employees are given a share of the business (via a complicated tax shelter of options). Startups want "contributors", people who buy into the idea that they're engaged in a positive-sum contribution to the world rather than just bringing home a paycheck. They provide all sorts of office features to encourage people to "bring their whole self to work".

(I could go on, but I expect this thread to be buried)

Edit: exhibit A, hollywood social justice warrior proudly being a nuisance, disrupting law abiding citizens with a hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I ; the "1984" Macintosh commercial and its successor "Think Different" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEarBzelBs are as close to an official statement of SV founding ideology as you're going to get)
The BEST thing someone can do when you're they're friend is tell you when you're doing something wrong so you can correct your behavior.

A real friend speaks out ...
They should but they then also face the consequences
> I've been trying to find another scripting language to replace Python because I'm not a fan of it anymore (I won't get into it right now), and considering what I just wrote, there's not much that can replace it

Have you considered ruby?
I have a 2700X and it's a monster for the money.

That said the Zen 2 (3rd generation) is out a in a few months so depending on urgency you may want to wait for the 3xxx series.

They moved to 7nm and the IPC bump is supposed to be decent.
You can't port Quake to phones, but Gameboy had much worse screen and there were games. Unlike Gameboy, phones have no buttons, but lots of genres don't need fast action and precise pointing. Power consumption might be more serious issue, but some games are okay to redraw screen only on user actions. So it's mostly cultural and market issues.
Kenya allegedly going to sell citizen data to the highest bidder
(1) Even according to Wikipedia: "The Etruscans called themselves Rasenna, which was syncopated to Rasna or Raśna(...)"

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

(2) Again, even according to Wikipedia: "Rascians (Latin: Rasciani, Natio Rasciana; Serbian: Рашани / Rašani) was a common exonym for Serbs during the late medieval and the early modern period. It was used most frequently in the Kingdom of Hungary, and also in the Habsburg Monarchy. The term was derived from the Latinized name for the central Serbian region of Raška (Latin: Rascia; Serbian Cyrillic: Рашка). In medieval and early modern Western sources, exonym Rascia was often used as a designation for Serbian lands in general, and consequently the term Rasciani became one of the most common designations for Serbs.(...)"

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

(3) During WWII, Svetislav Bilbija was a secretary to an episkop of the Serbian Orthodox Church (equivalent to a bishop in RCC) in Italy where he has cracked the code of Etruscan because he had noticed the similarity of Etruscan letters and modern serbian cyrillic.

Ofcouse, connecting a culture that is precursor to the Roman culture (to which the modern West sees itself as a successor) with some (now) small peoples from the Balkans, peoples that have been put on a shame pole for the last 30 years, the Serbs - that is a big no, no. Which is why you'll find people who smear the work of Bilbija. But, some have a different opinion. For example, people at the Rand Corporation (yes, that US military contractor), or at least those on their mailing list:

“In a brillant piece of work rivalling that of Michael Ventris, Bilbija has deciphered the Etruscan Mummy Book.”

http://ixoloxi.com/voynich/etruscan.txt

They refer to this book (which has a direct connection to The Mummy of Zagreb):

https://books.google.ba/books/about/The_Mummy_of_Zagreb_and_...
There's also the fact that some of the snippets where faux Rogan uses intonation doesn't always make sense based on the content of what's being said.
I'd be curious to hear rank-and-file Googlers' views on how this dynamic is playing out within the company. It's in both journalists' and organizers' interests to play it up, so the reality can be hard to discern.
> Things got even uglier when Damore sympathizers leaked comments made on the message boards by Fong-Jones, a trans woman, and other Google diversity advocates to right-wing news sites. [this fortune.com article]

This got me curious, so I tried searching for these leaked comments, while avoiding far-right news sites. This is what I found:

> Diversity advocates at Google – including the Mountain View tech giant's highest-ranking inclusion officer – are being targeted by a small group of colleagues in an internal culture war, according to a new report. [...] screenshots from Google internal discussion boards have been leaked and posted on far-right websites including Breitbart and the blog Vox Popoli, which espouses white supremacy. [1]

> 15 current Google employees accuse coworkers of inciting outsiders to harass rank-and-file employees who are minority advocates, including queer and transgender employees. Since August, screenshots from Google’s internal discussion forums, including personal information, have been displayed on sites including Breitbart and Vox Popoli, a blog run by alt-right author Theodore Beale, who goes by the name Vox Day. [2]

> Their personal information and comments expressed in internal company forums have been leaked to the public and published on far-right websites, leading to mistreatment by online vigilantes. [..] "We need to see concrete and meaningful action," Fong-Jones said. [..] Chuck Johnson, who was kicked off Twitter in 2015 after tweeting about wanting to "take out" civil rights activist DeRay McKesson [3]

> Their tactics allegedly include “weaponiz[ing] human resources” by goading diverse members of Google’s team into making inflammatory statements, and reporting those statements as violations of the company’s rules around civility. [..] Pro-diversity employees say that their messages on internal Google forums have also been photographed and shared outside the company, leading to their publication on far-right platforms [4]

A lot of condemnation of the leaks, but I was shocked to find no trace of the leaked comments themselves - though the people whose comments were leaked are interviewed and given the chance to present their side. The contrast is greatest in [3], where the only comment quoted is the two-word "take out" of the presumably far-right Chuck Johnson.

So we have, broadly speaking, two sides making controversial comments. The comments of one side aren't published (except by far-right news sites), only their explanations given to the media. The other side does have their incriminating comments published (or parts of them), but doesn't get much of a chance to defend or explain themselves after that.

I'm just glad this one-sided reporting is on the side of truth and the good guys.

[1] https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2018/01/30/googles...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/the-dirty-war-over-diversity-ins...

[3] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/01/26/google-diversi...

[4] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/google-has-become-gr...
>‘Once we build a generally intelligent system, that basically we will ask it to figure out a way to make an investment return for you.'

lol
Racket's "places" work a similar way, though do a bit extra to get down to one memory copy, rather than two: https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/dls11-tsffd.pdf
I’ve never heard of Hay’s theory but it’s extremely alluring and interesting on first look. The proposition that generation of the “beauty” sensation in the brain should be the same for different types of stimuli, e.g. auditory and visual and maybe others, too, touch, smell, etc. has a certain Maxwell’s equations-like unification grandeur to it.

I don’t think this theory is right, though: music generation and appreciation seems to be linked to language, at least in humans. This is not surprising, given its syntactic, temporal nature. I don’t think all visual arts work this way, though you can certainly create beautiful patterns based on music-like repetition rules, e.g. Islamic geometrical patterns.

Just a hunch, I know nothing about visual arts and even less about music.
Vanilla JS with a good understanding of MVC serves quite nicely in most cases. I wrote a few introductory programs to clarify it (https://github.com/madhadron/mvc_for_the_web).
When “All in” Is the Safest Bet
Hacker News madlibs material
South Korea Will Ditch Microsoft Windows for Linux
Once the superintelligence achieves godhood, ye will remember yr true faithful.
Arguably the main issue here isn't the swine flu itself specifically, but the fact that currently dominant animal farming practices are fundamentally unsound and are excellent places for pathogens to evolve and spread quickly. Also, while China is particular bad in this respect many of the worst and riskiest animal farming practices are common globally including in Europe and the US. We really need to rethink animal farming if our goal is to have stable meat supplies, but then there are many reasons for that with environmental sustainability being possibly an even more serious related issue.
Because they should be a small fraction of your market. If they have outsides weight like this, then you’ve been constraining your housing for decades.
What happens if you're using a functional language?
Gates-backed computing platform raises $110m for new drug push
https://examine.com/nutrition/will-eating-eggs-increase-my-c...
People also shouldn't use the razor for cutting grass. It's sadly true that you need to learn how to use your tools and every tool needs some learning to use efficiently. That's the nature of things.

I do agree though that filesystems are not the most user friendly abstraction of data. Maybe we can do better than that.

But also filesystems have the huge advantage that they are somewhat user friendly while also being somewhat technology friendly. Therefore I'm also not too mad about their existence. There are a lot of end user problems that can be solved quickly exactly because they just need a professional one time query and FS+bash+clis are such a good combo to craft that query.
To get an incredibly valuable lead in hiring, Google has led the market on entitlements: great pay, perks, lifestyle, transparency, and a promise of ethical and participatory governance. It might be fair to say that some of these employees have unrealistic expectations about their employer, but you can't say Google didn't ask for it.

I personally agree it's kind of silly to expect your work to be a Utopia by your specific definition. On the other hand, if Google does learn to reconcile its business and competing employee cultures, they will have done something amazing that probably makes them a stronger institution.
It looks bad (even on desktop), but the good thing is that it does not try to break my browser proactively, unlike, say, all news websites. Shockingly, there's no javascript at all!
I really think that's just darkly entertaining marketing. Silicon valley in reality is a ruthlessly corporate business world, where known to be worthless options are traded for people's lives and labour. (Look up "founder's shares") Startups require cheap labour, if their investors are going to make out like bandits - that's what's really going on.

Google in particular, if they were looking for people capable of thinking outside the box, would not selecting very specifically from the box of people that are prepared to jump through the hoops of their ridiculous programming interviews. In fact, by this point in their history, they could just datamine the list of people who have repeatedly told their recruiters to take a running jump, and start sampling from there.
Yeah and don't use vim for code editing. It's too much work to learn, right? Rather use nano. </sarcasm>
Also of interest is RFC 6901, JSON Pointer, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6901. That spec is much simpler (and syntactically incompatible, I may add), providing unique paths to elements inside a JSON document, and not handling any sorts of queries, as these Jsonpath and JSONPath things both do.

JSON Pointer is not ubiquitous by any means, but it does got use in diverse APIs. Most recently, JMAP uses it for backreferences.

(The naming of these things is a mess. XPath deals in what you could call queries or selectors, not what I would be willing to call paths; JSONPath adopted XPath’s bad name presumably for marketing reasons, and so what became RFC 6901 presumably went with the name JSON Pointer instead of the obvious name of JSON Path to avoid confusion, as it was coming well after JSONPath.)
Oh I absolutely agree. If I think of those large sites as a kind of flypaper, it’s a bit helpful. On the other hand, I don’t think people should be thought of as flies - and I also still kind of believe that Internet can do better.
Lol Chicago and Illinois in general are a fuckin shithole. I welcome their downfall.
You can find brand new Ryzen 7 2700X (8 cores) for very reasonable prices after the last price cuts (we're a few months away from the 7nm ryzen 3rd gen).

If it's still too much a Ryzen 5 2600(X) (6 cores) is still a very good processor for almost any use case.

About hackintosh and AMD, that's is not only possible, but also not too complicated to achieve on Mojave (see https://vanilla.amd-osx.com/ for more details). Older versions required using custom AMD kernels, but some guy figured out how to patch the vanilla kernel for Ryzen and Bulldozer straight from Clover; it's not as simple as using Intel, but it's much easier than it was a few years back.
And many do. Are you suggesting otherwise?

But I don't think they "should" do so if they're calling out legitimately poor behavior that has been unaddressed by any other avenue. That wording is quite strange to me. Would you say that Rosa Parks "should" have faced the consequences of stirring things up as she did? Accepting that it is possible is a necessary part of civil disobedience, but the imposition of those consequences by higher powers is not.
Went down this rabbit hole yesterday and played with LitElement/lit-html for the first time... great experience for folks who don't want much "ceremony". Was also SUPER impressed with AppRun.

The more that I depart from my "bare metal" web tooling the riskier/dumber things get. I always want to see a path back to a basic HTML5 shell, driven by almost-pure JS (w/tiny helper libs), and basic CSS. Just like basic UNIX tooling - basic web tooling just works!

To those thinking about trying lit-html; it IS as simple as the example on the GitHub project page. I was able to build it into a semi-complex application within a couple of hours and it had massive performance payoff w/o compromising how I want to build things. It definitely gets my "KISS" approval stamp.
Am I misreading, or does this say that I have to serialize and deserialize data within the same process?
What happens when the caller modifies the read only arguments while the function is running?
This seems like a positive developmental, though still a bit like a one-sided negotiation.

In HN's thoughts, how should Google have approached this?

(I do not work with or for Google in any capacity).
Svelte is a compiler, so I think it's figuring out the possible state changes as part of compilation. Contrast with React where any component can return any elements at any time.
It used to be pink slime. I guess each to their own.
I can second Through the Ages, the phone port is reasonably good.

I used to play mobile games quite often, but it's been getting harder and harder to find games that don't require an insane amount of grinding or a pay to win model. I like strategy games, but when looking for games on the genre, I keptwszz finding recommendations for games like Clash of Clans, and that's precisely the opposite of what I want (it looks relevant, and the intro feels like what I want, but after a couple of hours of playing, I realize it's a waste of time).

Unfortunately, it seems games for desktop are also trying to go that direction, but with DLC and cosmetics instead of more direct pay to win. I really don't understand why people stand for this crap, but the fact that it's becoming more popular means that it works.

I miss the days when buying a game meant you got a good experience out of the box and you weren't hassled to pay more for the same game. Companies would sometimes sell an expansion or two, but those were almost like sequels, not missing features from the base game.
Taking "giving immediate food to someone hungry and asking for food" as the baseline, what process improvement would you suggest over the $0.21-for-10-nuggets expenditure?
>She was the main force behind the twisted 2->3 transition.

Explain? I’ve hated the slow adoption of 3.x from 2.x, and generally how terrible it is to have apps that are 2.x on your 3.x system, and would like to know more about how that happened.