skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also: What is the fewest required bits. With modern data based techniques, it's tempting to add a large data file that must be loaded with sunfish. However that kinda feels like cheating.
> The same way that a dictionary definition clarifies the meaning of a single English word.

Right, so use the dictionary we already have! Why do we need the RFC?

> "there's no possible way to disambiguate English"

This quote isn't from me. I didn't say that - I don't know where you've got it from.

> your repeated sarcasm and snark

Sarcasm and snark? I don't use those rhetorical devices if I can avoid it. I don't think I've used them in this thread at all! I don't know where you've got the idea that I'm not arguing seriously from. I'm sorry I gave that impression.

My legitimate argument is that nobody is honestly confused by words like must - nobody. The RFC is over-the-top formalism where it's not needed.
Why modern humans have round heads (2018)
Note that in the article it says the avg net worth is now around $8000, which means 34% more is only ~$11,000.

That's noticeable, but still not really as a big of a drop as 34% makes it sound.
Having grown up in a poor community I got to know a lot of police officers and their children. Racism and thuggish behavior was definitely a huge problem. These posts sadly don't surprise me.

That being said, Buzzfeed and their ilk routinely make excuses for people on the left posting the same type of racism and thugish messages. "Ironically" calling for old white men to be punished, routinely calling for violence against Trump and Trump supporters (not ironically), sexist comments against men and so on.

I feel the need for freedom of speech is so great that we shouldn't censor any of this stuff but neither should we endorse or support it in the media regardless of what side of the political spectrum it's being perpetrated on.
His writing is surprisingly good. I enjoyed it from an outsiders view with little knowledge of particle physics history.
Wasn’t that part of why Oracle v Google was disliked?
Oh wow, I am from the part of Turkey that this is from (i.e within 30-40 miles) and I had no idea - my impression was that they were just whistling certain pre-mediated commands. Weird thing to see on Hacker News today, the next time I hear one I’m going to hunt the guy down and ask me to explain.

By the way, just to give some context, this is what the place looks like - you actually do need this kind of communication because you might be communicating from hill to hill, with a very deep valley in between, so it’s impossible to actually get closer and shout.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rize+yayla&client=safari&hl=...

We have pretty decent LTE signal up there by now, but I guess old habits die hard.
> at close range, FTW excelled in combat, in part because its reaction time was half that of a human's, and in part because its accuracy was 80 percent compared to the humans' 50 percent. [0]

I see now that reaction time was compensated for. No info on accuracy.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/googles-ai-group-mov...
Nevermind the fact that steroid abuse is common in the police. The BMJ has a lovely factsheet on anabolic steroid abuse: https://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-us/987

Risk factors: "employment as nightclub bouncer, professional male dancer, professional wrestler, or law enforcement officer"
It's surprisingly hard to get browsers to use monospace with unicode. If anyone knows a trick, I'd love to learn about it!
People often make the nuclear war comparison but it's different. With nuclear war, we just have to hope that a couple hundred people are sane enough to not push the button. In comparison, with climate change, it seems like the vast majority of older (and much of younger) generations simply don't care that the status quo is going to screw us. Also consider the fact that a private corporation (Exxon) had all the knowledge to give us enough lead time to avert this situation and decided to make piles money instead, and it gives you a pretty bleak picture of humanity.
The bank shown in the article's photo is (somewhat lazily) Australian.

To clarify a bit: The photo doesn't seem to appear in the article itself, but in RSS feeds and on the article index.
Not in my experience. Equivalent plans (gold level) were maybe 10% more expensive than my employer plan (Cobra rates).

Also what subsidy are you referring to?

Could you cite some data?
The study will fail to replicate.
Cancer Research UK (a medical charity) has a good summary of some common food controversies - foods that are claimed to either cause or curtail cancer.

The entry on 'super foods' states:

> "...the term ‘superfood’ is really just a marketing tool, with little scientific basis. It’s certainly true that a healthy, balanced and varied diet can help to reduce the risk of cancer but it is unlikely that any single food will make a major difference on its own."

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...

Also worth a read:

Bacon, salami and sausages: how does processed meat cause cancer and how much matters? (April 2019)

https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2019/04/26/bacon-sa...
Do the oldest people predominantly die of cancer?
Apache Spark has had an implementation of it for a few years as part of its batteries included. https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.6.1/api/java/org/apache/spar...
> only 20 percent of consumers were meaningfully better off in 2017 than they were in 2007, with precious little income left to spend on discretionary retail

Reading this I assume it is rather caused by housing and food cost in metropolitan areas.
To the surprise of no one. Twitter's always been the most censorship-friendly social network.
Thank you, arbitrary and inaccurately measured 2% inflation targeting.
Typically anything that has the Wolfram name attached to it has the most gifted that money can hire doing the actual production.

https://www.lurklurk.org/wolfram/review.html

"Wolfram is careful never to actually claim credit for something he hasn't produced; however, he's good at wording the main text so that it implies he has discovered things. "

I would not be surprised if this writing was much of the same.
That's a very wide claim. Amazon may not be the most valued type of open source user, but they are on par with most open source infrastructure historically.

It's as if they are trying to say that only the creators of an open source project can build a SaaS for it. Tell that to mySQL, Postgres, redis, everything apache (Hadoop, Cassandra(which is based on amazon's DynamoDB whitepaper), Kafka, Zookeeper), every programming language ever (Except maybe C#). It has always been the case that open source infrastructure was built by one group and another completely unrelated group, who are much better at cloud anything, built the SaaS offering for it.

If this is Mongo again, it's probably a PR stunt by them to get their failing business model's latest failing hail marry to not completely destroy developer trust (which it will, of course, fail to do).

There is really just one thing to complain about Amazon's use of open source, they aren't supporting back enough for projects they are using. That's it. They should be shunned for it, but that's not earthshattering, and it's definitely not a condemnation of other cloud vendors (Microsoft and Google) who support open source massively.
Ring ring Your generation calling. You can take your anecdotal statement and your "my generation" and kindly keep it to yourself. Not to mention, "Our generation" is so different thinking about this across countries that this idea is just so odd.

It's not realistic. It's not scalable to all people. It's survivalistic. You will get tired. You will get sick. You might have a family. You will affect others. You will die one day.

Your skill set won't save you. Your adaptability won't save you. Your material possessions won't save you. And your savings might not be able to even save you.

You will live in a community and by extension affect one. It is a fool's game to act as if youth and health are infinite.

We can have work freedom, that's fine. But without a community, a caring society, a caring government, something to back us up. When the work is gone and we are sick, distressed, and at out most helpless we will have nothing but our hopeful savings to help us. And honestly that's naive to think is a enough imo.
As in their taxes have been in increased to keep unsustainable pension programs humming along?
It is not unlikely, I don't remember details, but I remember the case when two broken sensors voted over working sensor.

The problem is that in order to save tiny amount of money Boing made plane rely on unreliable sensors.
Dark pattern right there
If you mean me (and I guess others aren't likely to come across this conversation):

I was very impressed by Halide but I'm not involved and have no idea how widely it is used, sorry. I could imagine that a lot of potential users enjoy tweaking GPU and SIMD code enough, or have enough confidence in their results, that they don't give it a good look.
Yes, but how long does that take, and what is the cost of people acting on misinformation in the meantime?
I notice you had no reply to his comment about exploitation of workers. Why is pointing out Bezos’ massive wealth disparity “tired”? I think it needs to get brought up in every discussion about Amazon to point out how little he cares about other human beings that he accumulates so much wealth at the expense of tens of thousands of people.
Why is it 'premature' brain development? This seems
to have picked a particular lens to interpret the results.

From TFA:

The researchers found specific associations of SES and
TSE with psychiatric symptoms, cognitive performance,
and several brain structure abnormalities.

We know that these brains are developing prematurely rather than differently because they are flat-out worse. Adversity is not the same as meaning or experience. I'm sure that lack of meaning causes problems, and we do need to provide opportunity for growth, but that's not what the article is talking about. Lack of trauma or chronic stress permits the brain to develop the way it evolved to, and brains that develop the way they evolved to are more performant, more stable, and inclined toward more effective habits and behaviors.
So Amazon shouldn't be allowed to create any products, or must ignore the data it needs to plan logistics?
When I was a kid I had a TI-83+ with a chess engine that could whoop my ass. Zilog z80 at 6MHz, a few KB of ram. Of course, I sucked at chess...
Not as a counterpoint to the domestic violence issue but to broaden the picture of symptoms of widespread mental illness, the suicide rate is also higher than the general population.

> “The Ruderman Family Foundation, a philanthropic institution, also found that first responders die by suicide at a higher rate than people in the general population, according to an April 2018 report.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/for-third-straight-year-polic...
If you think I am accusing the New York Times of engaging in a "deranged conspiracy theory" then you either have not read my comments, or you are deliberately stuffing words into my mouth. A conflict of interest is not a conspiracy theory. If you want to get a response from me, read my comments and make a response based on what I actually wrote.
> "A Facebook page called Chicago Code Blue attracted attention for inflammatory comments — such as “Every Thug Deserves a Slug” — after an officer was found guilty in the death of Laquan McDonald."

Oh dear, speaking of "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"
> Of course that is true. That doesn't mean that the cost imposed on others is zero.

It's never zero. But you're making it out to be a significant cost relative to the effect on the person making the decision. Having a way to internalize the cost of others' displeasure at being aware of their possible misfortune wouldn't materially affect their decision one way or the other, because it's so much smaller a factor than the possible misfortune to begin with.
> It will be over soon

The universe or the patent system?
Is that inflation adjusted? If not, the $11k, probably should've been higher than $18k.

Still not a huge drop in absolute terms, but the percentage is a lot worse.
To get lucky is something different from being a person who "has luck". The latter doesn't exist. Unless you believe in supernatural things.

Everyone has the same chance to get lucky. You can position yourself to optimize your chances. The question remains if you have the necessary abilities to take advantage of it.
“After Boeing removed one of the sensors from an automated flight system on its 737 Max, the jet’s designers and regulators still proceeded as if there would be two.”

No, no, no. This is just more of shifting the blame from Boeing upper management. They couldn't use two Angle of Attack (AOA) sensors as when there was a differing reading there would be no way to know the correct reading, which is why MCAS used a single AOA sensor on the right-hand side.
The problem is that you are framing the censor as evil and the user as benign, which unfortunately isn't the norm in an online context.
The New Technological Cold War Runs Through a Cable on the Ocean Floor
That's an incredibly broad range of subjective infractions. Looking at the examples from the article, one is the "I would of pulled the trigger." - that's in response to an armed robber, a clear case of hypothetical self-defense. The other is "Execute all involved," - is it wrong to believe the death penalty is appropriate punishment for the murder of a six year old child?

I wouldn't characterize using lethal force when someone pulls a gun on you, or advocating for the death penalty for child murderers, as unreasonable positions.
> what is the probability that a two-sensor model will fail pretty soon as well

It's actually higher than the probability that a one-sensor version will fail. With two sensors, you have an effective failure if either sensor fails, and the probability of that happening is roughly twice the probability that a single sensor will fail (assuming failures are independent, which is not necessarily a valid assumption).

However, with two sensors you can tell when one has failed (even though you may not know which one it was) and so the consequences of the failure might be less severe.

The problem is: now pilots need to be prepared to fly the plane with a failure sensor, which is to say, without MCAS. To do that, they will need additional training. Avoiding that was the whole point of MCAS in the first place. That's the reason it's taking so long to sort this out. Technically, it's an easy problem to solve. It's the economics that are daunting.
https://lowres.cartooncollections.com/doctors-medical-parano...

The SENS people say, if you live long enough, you will eventually have cancer.
I've worked a lot of part time jobs in my life. Very few respect your availability very well, and if it becomes too low they drop you. Most of the time the expectation is that you keep all hours available and they only have you work as is convenient for them not you. I only say this as I think you are a bit more optimistic about that than most who work those jobs would agree with.
Assuming that’s true, the fact that it has happened before does not mean simultaneous failure is not incredibly unlikely. Unlikely things do happen. One might call it extraordinarily bad luck.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4043499/

Has pneumonia and 'frailty' as the predominant causes.
People said the same thing about DeepMind's SC2 wins. Its actions per minute spiked to inhuman levels briefly and its efficiency and precision of control was nearly perfect. These types of criticisms completely miss the point.

People were attempting to build StarCraft agents for 10 years. 50000 actions per minute, complete vision of the entire map, predefined scripted build orders, restrictions on human opponents - nothing worked. A moderately competent player would destroy those old bots in 10 out of 10 games, it wasn't close.

These games have so much more to them than reaction time and dexterity, these new agents are doing something that simply wasn't possible before.
Which is nowhere in the book, it's only referred to as "ML language" so requires assumed domain knowledge such as (1)ML = Standard ML = SML/NJ (2)you know what a REPL is and that it has different commands on different platforms (Ctrl-Z to exit on Windows VS Ctrl-D in *nix) (3)you know commands to load your larger .sml programs into the REPL and all the pitfalls like needing to restart/empty the environment. In the course it's explained but not the book http://cs.wheaton.edu/~tvandrun/previous/spring19/cs243/ml.h...
QuickTime has no library, it just plays files.

iTunes is a library for music, tv shows, movies, podcasts, audiobooks, heck even home movies.
Every city job I’ve seen outside of the minimum wage service jobs pay better than all the surrounding small cities and towns. Which helps offset costs.

But certainly many urban areas have been very slow to match the right level and type of housing development for the needs of a growing population. The effects of building laws, zoning, political influence, rent control (particularly how it was done in 70s/80s), etc has a long recorded negative pressure on supply vs demand. So it’s very likely the wage differences aren’t sufficient for most people.
I don't think its a hard distinction to make that the bar is higher when you are issued weapons and authority by the state.

Leftist asshole talking about "old white men" online = bad

Cop who has the power to use force against you or arrest you talking about how "thugs deserve slugs" = worse

This isn't hard.
> I thinks I have to stop referencing Lord of the Rings because most high schoolers haven't seen the movie these days.

I'm old enough to remember when they were 'just' books... and I thought you were going to write 'most high schoolers havne't read the books' :)
I don’t remember if it was chess or tennis or something else: “The good player is always lucky.”
I think [MusicBrainz][1] deserves a shout out on this topic.

[1]: https://musicbrainz.org/
What I always found interesting was you can go as fast as you want - to you, going from here to alpha centauri could take just weeks for you if you had enough energy - it's just that time would speed up around you so no matter what everyone else would see you get there in 4.5 - 5 years.

And if I'm wrong, I apologize and would gladly hear the correct answer.
I think infections are the primary cause of death for the oldest people. If lifespans were several times longer, most of us would be dying from an immune deficiency caused by cytomegalovirus. We just don't live long enough.
It’s not unlikely... because of some vague memory you have?
The drug war is what ruined policing in this country. If a large part of what you do is brutally enforce laws against essentially harmless behavior disproportionately against minorities, you’re only going to get sociopaths and racists who want to do the work.
If you host your website on AWS and store invoices on S3, Amazon can blindly enter your market with a competing offering and it might lose money, or they can go through your invoices and decide to copy your product because they see how profitable you are. The EU's theory is, if this is what is happening, it gives Amazon an unfair advantage and they shouldn't be leveraging your data against you to compete with you.
> With two sensors, you can detect failure

You get a reading of 20 on one sensor and get a reading of 34 on the second, which one is correct. To achieve reliability a minimum of five sensors need be used. four primary and one back-up. If three primary agree then system normal. If two primary disagree then switch to backup.
Yeah Uber is quite terrible, they are aiming for the autonomous taxis, that's where they might start being profitable.

But the delivery companies, and the scooter companies that pay people to charge the scooters.

Overall the gig economy is the future, we shouldn't harm it because of greed.
Isn't this what GPLv3 is suppose to prevent ? Commercial Entities seems to hate it, there must be a reason, probably because they cannot 'cheat' with it.
It's covered in the article. When they say "lack of innovation" it's alluding to the fact that nothing Uber does is necessarily exclusive to Uber. Uber is entering into an massive existing market with a low entry barrier and high competition that often already out performs Uber in terms of cost and efficiency.
Most of the accounts were probably registered normally with en email address and a handle, only until Twitter presented the accounts with a 'Please verify the account with a phone number', and then they got flagged and banned.

There used to be a loophole in Twitter where you could register accounts en masse (without phone verification), but they have since clamped down on this and now you have to go through rigorous verification steps to prove you're not some bot or trying to run a propaganda campaign.
> I do not intend to be deceptive. You have provided overly simplistic vision of slavery and I have provided some counterexamples.

No you have not. You have selectively quoted parts of a Wikipedia article to portray Roman slavery as though slaves were treated well and had reliable paths to freedom. This is absolutely not the case, slaves had little to no protection and were subject to whim of their masters who could harm them without repercussion.

> This seems to me like a vision of an American dream of sorts. Promise of social mobility for a choosen [sic] few members of lower class to become middle class. The problem is that for the last 30 years American dream isn't working anymore. It is rather that middle class poeple are pushed in lower class ranks.

Sure. But how on Earth do you go from, "social mobility isn't as good as I would like" to "gig workers are comparable to slaves"? You're clearly reluctant to defend this statement, probably because you've realized how inane it really is.
I sometimes wonder what it would take for “yellow vest” type protests to happen in the US.

It seems like there’s a combination of shame in talking about money, in being made to feel personally responsible for being in precarious financial situations (e.g. too much avocado toast!), and relatively easy access to consumer credit to numb things over. Or it’s just the “boiling frog” phenomenon where things get slightly worse every year due to everything getting a little more expensive but never sharply enough that it’d create a mass revolt.
Open Source has been so well understood to mean a certain set of things within the technology industry now that making changes to that definition would just cause unnecessary confusion (beyond what already exists between OSS and FOSS ...). Quite possibly the author is just annoyed his portfolio companies get pushback when taking about "source available" or proprietary licenses to potential customers, but leaping from there to "our customers want open source, thus open source must change to mean what we want to give our customers" is fairly dramatic.

Honestly, I think this editorial could have done with toning down the rhetoric a bit - calling people / groups names ("wonk tank") and generally implying those with the opposing view are irredeemably "short-sighted" isn't particularly persuasive and just detracts from the author's points.
As it turns out, when you have a position in society that allows people to get away with hateful violent actions, it will attract hateful and violent people.
Is ‘working class’ an offensive term now?

And where were my self contradictions?

Contributing to an open source project isn’t necessarily an employment arrangement, neither is volunteering, or being an unpaid intern. This comment of yours doesn’t contribute much to the discussion.