skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

Kira (one of the heroes) - Atlas Shrugged

> The weak are unworthy of love

Rand, in an interview: https://youtu.be/qL3ukTMo-0o

> Yes, there are elements of nonconsensual sex in that scene, but I was aware of Dominique's feelings towards Roark and to me, she internally agreed to it... It was a welcomed rape is what it was. It was a rape where both people wanted that sort of contact.

Rand discussing the rape scene in The Fountainhead.

The books overall are full of the heroes committing various murders, assaults, and terrorism to get back at those evil government officers who dare to give people money without demanding something in return.

She also has a weird obsession with torture. http://cgpgrey.squarespace.com/blog/ayn-rand-loves-torture.h...
And I don't generally post things publicly to allow an anonymous authority figure to compare every one of my statements against some hidden criteria of "acceptability", one which is highly likely to be skewed toward preserving the power of the person implementing it.

"A member of the public ends up reading it" is reductionist. The two are more or less technically interchangeable due to the cheapness of digital monitoring, but if you think that's all that matters you're completely missing the point: the issue that you're ignoring is how this is done systematically and with a particular intent. It is not like overhearing a conversation in the park, it like is hiding in the bushes with a tape recorder.

Total observation is socially and politically horrifying, but authoritarians like to take advantage of the fact that we never previously codified norms against it because it was resource prohibitive until the advent of computing.
How was time created, time means changing state, without time there is no change. So in order for a change to happen in the existence of time you'd need a further time dimension; then you're just shifting the problem up the stack.

Creation of time requires a meta-universe of some sort. Though perhaps there's some other way to conceive time not existing further back than a given point that works around creation being something that's done within a temporal dimension.
I've had some Indian co-workers in arranged marriages who think it's great, and are totally baffled by people who only marry for love.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the reason they continue to improve, is because of our fear that it won't?

A little fear, and skepticism of the future, is a good thing.
They recruited Dahl (and certainly contributed much through people like isaacs (npm, iirc he was at Joyent already) and more before he officially moved to Joyent) but if my memory of that time isn't all too blurry it certainly gained enough steam at that point to credit him as being the one kicking it off. It surely was the node we know today at that point (granted, with a much less enjoyable API surface). Not that this belittles their role, they certainly grew and provided a viable ecosystem for the large scale adoption that followed.
I trust UpCloud more than other VPS provider because the technical support (Regional) has been very approachable and you know "who" they are. Beside, they promise 100% uptime SLA when your business is critical.

https://upcloud.com/blog/
Yes, but it won't be spewing out any noxious gases while stranded in traffic (neither would a hybrid or a shut off idle car, but none of those are in that picture).
I understand the meaning of the "playable" tag. I know for sure that Minetest and Oolite are 100% playable, and yet they don't have the tag?
Are you suggesting their "fur babies" won't take care of them when they are old and sick?
The feeling of Guilt from complicity in this whole human experiment? Easier to not feel bad about the mistakes people make if there aren't people left to make them?
"Can anyone explain Joyent to me? My understanding always was that they're some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it."

Here is an old, historical thread that gives some context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669

I have a hazy recollection of their being part of the "free thumper" startup program that Sun Microsystems offered, briefly, and then later, blowing up one of those thumpers and losing a whole clouds worth of data... here it is:

https://adtmag.com/articles/2008/01/21/strongspaces-10day-cr...

Later, they were briefly (in)famous for voiding everyones lifetime shared hosting agreements:

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

"Customer backlash to the announcement turned out to be fierce."
Just because you are at sea level, you can't suddenly float stuff in the air. I like your optimism though. :) I was imaging a floating city like cloud city in star wars [0].

[0] https://www.starwars.com/databank/cloud-city
Just because one was the victim in the past, does not mean one is not the perpetrators today. This just further indicates that you should have taken the time to listen to what someone might have to say, rather than strawmanning.
>I'm astounded at HN's ability to spin anything as a negative.

Usually I'm right there with you, but Google doesn't exactly have a good public perception around products and services without good profit margins. If they're not making money from it, it could be shut down at any moment (even for paid physical hardware, like the Nexus Q). "Too cheap" is a real fear.
> I don't see "I've never run a business before" as a valid excuse, nor do I see "the cloud vendor is better equipped to handle backups" as a valid excuse.

It's not unreasonable to be annoyed when a company you are paying specifically to do the things you're not familiar with, catastrophically fails to do them correctly.
>It may be harder for a man to get 10 dates than for a woman to get 100 but in those 10, half of them will be a sensible life partner.

That's probably the point of disagreement, I don't see any reason to think this is true.
The irony of motorists' outrage on small towns banning car parking in the city and creating pedestrian only zones, is that they don't produce enough economic activity to let them park.

There's a reason why the most coveted retail real estate is in pedestrian accessible areas... not parking only strip malls.
There are still ways we can reason about it. If we come up with a model of a super-universe and then find that model says that universes like ours are more likely to exist, then it can be evidence for the super-universe. We could possibly use the model of the super-universe to make predictions about our own universe.
We currently have "I Voted" stickers.
If satoshi tried to cash out, wouldn't the value of bitcoin plummet?
Man, the older I get the more I realize that life is always a balancing act. I immigrated from a 3rd world country (probably a 2nd world now) 20 years ago with my parents. Both of my parents were engineers and both were paid about once a year by their employer because nobody had any money. So we were broke and poor my entire childhood. And yet we always had friends visiting us. There were always celebrations. Seemed like we managed to get by and stay happy despite the circumstances. Rewind a couple decades later and I barely see my parents living. Both come home exhausted from work. I spent most days stuck in the office and then toil away working on my own projects and ideas. And that's it. We have everything we ever wanted and absolutely no happiness. I recently came back from a trip to my home country and I see neighbors talking to each other and inviting each other for dinners and celebrations. People are eager to help each other out. You can strike up a conversation with a total stranger at a bus station and it doesn't feel weird and awkward. I was looking at all of this and thinking if i'd give up everything i have now to simply enjoy humanity for a change. You can't have everything in this world.
Do solar panels not have a limited lifespan just as well? And is there a reason we could not build reactors with lifespans greater than 50 years? It seems the claim that only solar is scalable is premature, I'd say.
All the apps I have seen have terrible search. In Google I can type in "xxx Street Burbank" and will get a result. In OSM I have to go through state, city, zip and know all that stuff. Much worse than google Maps.
Artificial intelligence that can understand meaning of a baby's different cries
By attaching it to a steel balloon filled with breathing gas, which can provide lift in the Venusian atmosphere.

Inside the baloon you get a really nice habitat with the correct Temperature, pressure and gas composition for humans to live in.
It is not the norm today, but it certainly was in the heyday of 'nuclear' family, in the sense that grandparents, aunts and uncles, would be living nearby.
Bareback blowjob?
A subreddit populated entirely by AI personifications of other subreddits
In my limited experience, it is because nontechnical managers are incapable of evaluating our work.

Since they can also not ever admit to not knowing anything, they rely on a crude metric like physical presence or time served.

Then, they can pretend to be managing you by suggesting buzzwords they saw on linkedin.
Unacceptable. I just instructed my team to begin a transition to AWS.
Guys, just start reading fiction. It's like having a conversation with someone super smart and super relatable. You'll get hooked once you find something that fits your subconscious, but don't settle until you do. (I've been really digging Richard Yates and Thomas Mann lately, so maybe start there if you need inspiration. Murakami is also a famously great read if you need a companion.)
Hypothesis:
Up until recently, you only needed a so-so amount of interest in settling down and having children, in order to pass on your genes. Some people did, but others didn't, and while this was not entirely genes it wasn't entirely NOT genes either. But, since everyone got more or less pushed into marrying and starting a family anyway, by strong social pressures, there was no strong evolutionary advantage to a strong desire for family.

For about one generation now, the people who WANT kids, and are willing to be half of a committed couple in order to have more of them, are the ones having more kids. Others, either don't have any children, or only have one.

In a couple generations, they will look back at this time and wonder why people back then were so (relatively) uninterested in family.

Just a hypothesis. Could happen relatively quickly, though. Which would mean, in only a few generations.
The Art of Loving was positively one of the worst books I have ever read. He was an unmarried, childless Atheist that wrote a book about love. As a religious, married man with children, his ideas on loving God, a spouse, and your children are almost completely wrong. It was like reading Ayn Rand, "true statement, true statement, true statement, completely illogical and nonsensical conclusion, unsupported by prior statements".
“The people whose photos were used were not asked for their consent, their images were scraped off the web from search engines and videos under the terms of the Creative Commons license that allows academic reuse of photos.”

Is it ethically acceptable to republish someone's CC-licensed face annotated for the purpose of training recognition algorithms?

Is the dataset inclusive as a composite whole? Does it have biases such as “primarily white-male” or “majority white”?

Should facial recognition data and training studies of people’s faces be required to adhere to the same ethical review practices that psychology and sociology studies of people are required to adhere to?

If I were Microsoft, I would red flag every one of these questions as reason enough to take it down immediately until answered.
Why don't you make an effort to meet new people and expand your social circle?
can you explain that example more clearly?

if you wanted to "include images or something of that sort" you would add an "images" key or a "something of that sort" key

in your particular example, body can clearly take image links image data as string and the parser can deal with it.

in my projects we typically would have a nosql database which out the box allows it to be indifferent about objects in a collection/table that include or exclude certain keys
this is what serialisable continuations[0] provide.

[0] https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/stateless.html#(part...
I'd love to know what's wrong with the polymer electrolyte, the demo is so amazing..
You ruined your brand
Having kids takes a lot of time and money. If you work till 5 you need to pay for childcare, which isn't cheap at all and might even be akin to doubling your rent. Mom is also working so you can't just unload domestic work and childcare to someone else to worry about. If you are entry level chances are you need to get there before the boss and stay there after if you ever want to not be entry level, and work weekends during busy season, so even that 40hr week can go up to 50-60. If you are a woman asking for maternity leave in an entry level job could jeopardize your entire career trajectory. Even in superficially liberal SF, VC firms have been known to discriminate against women entrepreneurs just from the possibility that they might be pregnant one day. People can scarcely keep housing costs below 30% of their net income.

People are waiting until they have more money and a job that actually gives them time to raise a family. The real reason why people are putting off having kids is that it's not 1950 anymore.
> She was closely allied with Ludwig von Mises, an economist and historian who helped shape neoliberal thinking.

I don't know too much about whether Rand and von Mises interacted personally, but I know that Murray Rothbard (who moved in the same Austrian economics circles and founded the Mises Institute) wrote a satirical play mocking her.[1]

> She invited her readers to rejoice in cruelty. Her heroes were superior beings certain of their superiority. They claimed their right to triumph by destroying those who were not as smart, creative, productive, ambitious, physically perfect, selfish, and ruthless as they were.

As other commenters have mentioned, that's not what I recall reading in the books. The whole message was that the 'heroes' were 'on strike' and 'done helping.' Not that they were actively trying to destroy anyone.

My take on Rand is that she shared a lot of instincts with other people in the broader liberty movement and carried a lot of traumatic memories from early Bolshevik Russia. Atlas Shrugged represented those memories and also a potential wedge between the left and the right. The sociopolitical elites at the time treated the novel as a threat to the broad liberal consensus/compromise they believed was necessary to keep the country's left leaning and right leaning factions together in the Cold War against communism. Conservatives aren't going to work with Liberals and uphold the containment policy if they thinking in terms of 'looters' and 'producers' because they read a popular, apparently book. All this is my own speculation about the semi-private machinations of long dead people, of course.

So they savaged both her and the book in the press of the day. Was it high literature? No. Even a great book? Highly debatable, even among libertarians. But it probably didn't merit critical comments such as Whittaker Chambers', "From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: 'To a gas chamber—go!'"[2] An interesting side note about folks like Chambers is that, if you trace the intellectual lineage of the neoconservative movement far enough back in time, you find a bunch of big-C communists (often Trotskyists, though not Chambers specifically) jumping from one end of the political horseshoe to the other.

And in response to her novel's reception, Rand hardened and radicalized, becoming a threat to no one. Even others in the broad tent of then-nascent libertarian movement like Murray Rothbard, found her to be comically one-dimensional at best. In a way, the latter half of her life is more sad than anything else.

[1]: https://mises.org/library/mozart-was-red
[2]: http://whittakerchambers.org/articles/nr/bigsister/
Here’s my evidence:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100725135317/http://blog.okcup...

https://www.girlsaskguys.com/sexual-behavior/a22977-girls-on...
There's good reason to believe that humans can understand everything that exists: we're Turning complete, and mathematics admits no higher category of functions than those that a Turing machine can compute. We may not be able to physically compute every function, but we can devise a plan for computing any function, and isn't that tantamount to being able to understand anything in principle?
Overall it is good software but it needs "Undo/Redo" feature.
you don't, you just store the string as is in the body tag and let the client side parser know how to parse html strings that may also include an image tag

what is the argument here? why didn't you know you answered your own question

"body":"Why didn't you use <img src="xml_has_its_uses.png"> XML!?"
> I don't see "I've never run a business before" as a valid excuse, nor do I see "the cloud vendor is better equipped to handle backups" as a valid excuse.

If you're paying someone specifically to make backups for you, you should be able to trust that they've taken every reasonable measure to ensure that backups are actually being made and preserved.
Mars' atmosphere is 95.3% carbon dioxide, which means that the problem we have to solve is not "how do we inject craptons of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere" but "how do we stop the solar wind from stripping away the atmosphere," which is not a problem we have a clear idea as to how to solve.
Solid State – the latest free app coded in Flask
I used to get a bit lonely. For 10 years I tried to get a girlfriend. It took forever, but eventually I finally succeeded. anyways, we eventually got married and even had a kid. Now, I never feel lonely.
There’s a ton of info out there that says it better than I can but the consensus is the vegan diet is the biggest thing you can do.

“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use,” said Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the research. “It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he said, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions.

“Agriculture is a sector that spans all the multitude of environmental problems,” he said. “Really it is animal products that are responsible for so much of this. Avoiding consumption of animal products delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
You can sign up for GeForce Now -- it already has overwatch. I played it yesterday on my macbook. Felt like local.
Microsoft and Oracle link their cloud services together
It’s not all you can eat. They have some free games but you have to buy your games still.
Are you high? Being not-bad is not the same as being good. Inaction is not the same as positive action. That's literally all I'm saying.
I'm a bit late to the party, but Hetzner actually deleted all my VMs and backups. Their abuse team didn't like my name, despite me also having my name in my e-mail and my credit card info.

I got an e-mail that my account was flagged, but they didn't even give me a chance to tell them they had my name correct.

I responded to their email within 30 minutes, but everything had already been erased.

Luckily I had some stuff in github, but I will never use them again.
What is "Peak fertility"? That's at least 10 more years for women before they even become higher risk.
When you are reading it you feel like you're living vicariously through the hero.It's a constant feed to your ego.
When you are reading it you feel like you're living vicariously through the hero. It's a constant feed to your ego.
It's all subjective what is what, but "skinny" can easily veer into unhealthy, especially for adults.
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I sometimes wonder, too. I'm not quite in your boat: I have quite a few close friends, and many acquaintances, and find they all enrich my life in many ways. But I never understood the "keeping up the joneses" mentality. I have my well-worn furniture, a practical amount of kitchen stuff, some plants, a small amount of art, some tech gadgets, and a 15 year old car, and I just don't feel the need to own more than that, or to constantly "upgrade" all my existing stuff to things that are more expensive but don't actually make me any happier.
Prostate biopsies are usually done without any anaethesia, just a bug gun up the bung that fires multiple needles and retracts.

Breast biopsies maybe use sedation and maybe a local bit of lidocaine, maybe not, depending.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to stick a needle in so you don't feel a needle sticking in, but they're different gauge needles.
All this Digital Ocean talk... I spun up some droplets to play with a few months ago and liked what I saw and then "deactivated" them or turned them off.

What I did not expect to see a few days ago was the bill for the stopped droplets. Not just a little for the dormant disks I have had but seemingly full-prices for the entire droplets, as if they were all still "active". Nonetheless I deleted all my droplets, discarding whatever I had setup a few months ago, out of pure frustration. I never plan to return.

AWS may take me a little more time to setup and their interface may not be as pretty, but they will at least bill me fairly.
Okay, but why RSS over Activity Streams?
Have you tried any multiplayer FPS games where latency is very critical? I'm sure both Stadia and GeForce would perform reasonably well for single player and networked coop games but am a little skeptical about real FPS multiplayer games being as good as local games because there are too many variables involved such as other players on the server also need to have as good a connection as you. Very interested in hearing about your experiences.
Depends on where, I have had kidney biopsys its painless but does take a team of 3 and you spend most of a day flat on your back (taking up a hospital bed) being monitored every 15 mins
Insane 2080 Ti tensorflow numbers using XLA and FP16
I am. Mostly for the backup and other DB administration that comes with it. Also use Spaces (DO's S3 equivalent) for any assets that aren't packaged with the code like user uploads.
That's American culture for you.

Capitalists force a narrative that everyone is inherently "lazy" and will be good for nothing if not for the jobs/existential crises they so conveniently provided by the capitalists.

I relate heavily to your description of your daughter (and am also the same age!). I have a great career by most standards and am independent but also prefer to be home and near my parents/extended family whenever I can. Why? Mostly because I enjoy their company, but even just being in the same house feels nice.

In contrast the girls I have dated do not understand how I prioritize/spend so much time with my family instead of anyone/everything else. :shrug:
The problem in your argument is the word 'become'. To 'become', something has to not be so and then later be so- with 'later' implying time on both sides. Hawking's argument is that there is no time on the other side.

My interpretation is that the energy of the universe exists in time and space, evolving across the dimension of time. But it has an edge called 'the beginning'. That's the shape of the beast- a defined edge that we cannot reason outside of.

Edit: At least, I presume your 'because' was meant to be 'become'.
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