skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, but I'm still waiting for multicore support, and a mature GUI library.
All true. But all of this is making me wonder - what are the people thinking who say they can't wait for our society to be run by AI? The apex of AI capability can't even recommend videos properly right now, and we want it to run all the aspects of our society?! No, thanks.
Look for "### Compiler user-interface and warnings" in the announcement for references to the work.
I actually removed the age from the title - honestly I'm kind of proud of the fact that I'm a female producer - there's not a lot of us, and I want to see it more. ^_^
Yesterday a friend of mine told me about how they got a Node.js application from a vendor that was about 3 MiB, and after running npm install, it was over 1 GiB.

I half-jokingly said that Node apps are the new ZIP bombs.
I generally agree with you, but I think YouTube being safe for kids became their problem when they launched a version specifically for kids and marketed it as safe.
"I'll say one thing though, users are much more likely to visit a website than download and install a desktop application."

Again, that depends on the use case. I am in health care and because of HIPAA regulations I would be much more inclined to download a desktop application than a web application.
`if i<3: continue; if i==3: break;` is what a for loop does. You don't have to manually control it.
Human, local, and friendly interaction vs mega corporation using a profile they built without asking that has pulled as much information on you as possible while simultaneously using algorithms trying to determine how to get you to buy as much stuff as possible and pushing advertisements right to your phone.
Where is your Toronto Raptors anthem?
Is it acyclic? Can you make cycles of cell changes?
> I assume this is why magnesium salts act as laxatives

This is a side issue, but apparently it's a different reason.

From https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfession... : "The diarrhea and laxative effects of magnesium salts are due to the osmotic activity of unabsorbed salts in the intestine and colon and the stimulation of gastric motility."
If you feel your work is valuable enough to be worth receiving compensation for, use GPL and/or a proprietary license. If not, use a permissive license.
Britain wanted Hong Kong to have a democratic government. China wouldn't let them.

> documents recently released by the National Archives in Britain suggest that beginning in the 1950s, the colonial governors who ran Hong Kong repeatedly sought to introduce popular elections but abandoned those efforts in the face of pressure by Communist Party leaders in Beijing

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu...
I agree with the sentiment but how? Google & Facebook are in a powerful position, and its a complex issue that the general population (let alone politicians) don't fully understand. The author acknowledges that GDPR is fine, but doesn't address the underlying issue.
Google absolutely can do all of those things without an algorithm. What they can't do is accomplish that without impacting profit margins (or at the minimum, executive bonuses). "If it impacts business as usual, then it is impossible" is a naive/flawed/libertarian stance.
They could have the whole thing be opt in as opposed to opt out. If you want to find the drills at your home depo then opt in via the app otherwise could be ignored. This would at least give people visibility in the same way location services, contacts and push notifications do.
That wouldn't explain the fancy parts of their diet though. Huge quantities of grain where passing through Portus. Why would they waste the good stuff on slaves?

I do wonder if the cost of more exotic food in Portus would have been significantly cheaper than 15 miles away in Rome.
Ahaha, honestly, it's literally a WIP - my label mates and I just couldn't help ourselves :P
Are they down? I'm unable to open the link.
I appreciate your approach here. Then again, while Karl Popper invented the term, his initial quote around it doesn't for me define law.

But, to your point:

> You think that Brendan Eich and people like him would meet you with fists and pistols if you didn’t suppress him by force?

Eich? No. Persecutors of homosexuals? Yes. Homosexuals have been thrown in prison, tarred and feathered, and subjected to physical and psychological torture masked as "medicine" in the past. I would not be surprised to learn of a weaponized gay uprising somewhere like Utah, particularly in the last century or two. It was literally war for survival for them. Still is, in parts of the world and even parts of America. The stories I could pass on to you, and you can easily find on your own, stretch straight into 2019.

Eich was a member of this persecution class, even if he would be one saying "guys guys, we shouldn't HURT them for their gayness, even though their gayness is bad! Now here's another 1000$, feel free to spend it on tar."

> Or are you merely, contrary to what Popper recommends, suppressing all intolerant philosophies?

There's ambiguity here, around what "suppress" means, "suppress the utterance," "keep them in check," etc. Anyway, Popper's word isn't law, and he himself contributes to this ambiguity:

> We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

To me, Mozilla is perfectly justified saying "we do not tolerate the intolerant, please leave our organization." Nobody at Mozilla (that I remember) was saying "put a ball gag on that man, he should not even be allowed to speak." The argument was "Mozilla doesn't tolerate this. By having him at the organization, we appear to tolerate it. We implicitly tolerate it. We pay him a salary and some of that money he spends on oppressing gays. He must go."
> Restricting the ability of ... is not tolerant

You can say this about anything the government does. Any law at all is going to infringe on some people's preexisting natural rights and deprive them of some "ability" they used to have! So, unless you're some sort of extreme anarchist or libertarian, this is still not a good defense of "you donated to the wrong political cause, you're fired!"
Just to add on, a Youtube executive was recently on a podcast and she said there are 500 videos uploaded per second.
I've gone the other way; the last time I put a GPL on anything was more than a decade ago. (I mean on something completely new, not a modification to someone else's GPL-ed program).

I won't ever be GPL-ing anything going forward; two-clause BSD all the way.
Digging into IPv6 traffic to Google: is 28% deployment the limit?
The sad thing about the 4 things you listed is that the person in question is rarely conscious of employing those "anti-patterns". And most of the times convincing them of what they are doing takes a lot of effort.

If I'd had to choose and original sin/anti-pattern I'd say not having a growth mindset and a tolerance for solving the multitude of problems they'll find along the way without succumbing to the emotional component of problems (being able to approach problems in a detached way).
I didn't mean it to be insulting or to imply that there are not talented people in the Midwest. What I mean is that if you look to places like Louisville, KY for just one example, or Dayton, OH and look at the type of pay that is being offered there, it is vastly below the coasts. Even adjusted for cost of living and other expenses, many cities across the midwest pay below what is a reasonable market value, and naturally they only get people who will accept those below-market rates.

When I said 'the midwest' in my original post I didn't mean places like Chicago, St.Louis, or Indianapolis that pay industry standards adjusted for cost-of-living. It isn't out of the realm of possibility though for someone to get 10+ years experience in a place like Lexington and have them still not know basic things EVEN after having been trained.

Again this is just my anecdotal experience, I don't mean to insult anyone from these places. This is about brain-drain and salaries, not about anything intrinsic about a place or their people.
I don't really think any of what you said is actually true.

There are many types of software project where the license doesn't matter at all - what matters is that the software exists. Someone is willing to pay to get it made, and they don't really give a hoot about "licensing". I believe this actually constitutes the majority of software - it's just invisible because no one really has much incentive to release it. But I don't really see how, say, a festival's business model is undermined by making their lineup app open source.

Next, there really is GPL code that's simply too special to ignore. One obvious example is the Linux operating system. Designing an embedded device? You're almost certainly using Linux. Maybe Linux doesn't do quite what you want - say, support for a given bit of hardware. Guess what, you can't ship your patch without publishing it - and now every Linux user gets to use that hardware, if someone's motivated enough to merge it into mainline. This is a real thing that happens all the time.

We're not there yet (and we may never get there if people stop believing in the GPL), but you can imagine that if we get a world where all the important software is GPL, the sheer mass of it will overwhelm any other licensing considerations. "You can either participate in our ecosystem, or you can rebuild modern computing from scratch. Your call."
Is alcohol better than just patting it dry and blowing it out with some compressed air?
On the iphone, safari tries to open these links in mail.

Unescaped @ symbols are invalid for URL paths.

What does it say about a company who can't even get URLs right?
This will make a big difference for getting new users off of other platforms, I think.
Either the consumer is paying the VAT or the business.
You can't say that the business pays the VAT when you are the business, but the consumer pays the VAT when you are the consumer.
If you frame it as you "personally purchased" something and paid VAT, then what you sold as a business to someone else was "personally purchased" and had the VAT paid by them too.
if your company were under threat and you had the option to invest in your competitor at an early stage, wouldn't you? I don't think I agree that this is a threat to credit cards, but even if I did I think I would understand the investment.
Another personal workaround - which I just realized must exist and apparently does - is a Faraday phone case...

https://silent-pocket.com/collections/all-products
> To begin, we need a scalable way to spot high-quality fake videos.

In a world with 7 billion people, an adversary doesn't need lies to sway opinion in any direction desired. Simply promote stories that fit a narrative, and ignore those that don't - cherry pick.
Entrepreneurial engineer here...

If I ever hire an engineer for my business -- I hope it'd be someone I've already worked with and know -- but if it had to be someone random, I'd pursue this method:

1) Solicit Resumes

2) Pick N candidates

3) Phone screen to make sure they aren't complete assholes

4) Stack rank & pop top candidate

5) Pay them to develop a feature on contract

6) If satisfied, repeat step 5 until ready to hire; else repeat step 4.

I think it'd be important from the start to let candidates know they might need to do a week or more of work (for pay) before getting a final hire. Some people would be put off by this, sure.

But I suspect the people put-off would be people desperately seeking full-time employment. I think it might attract a lot of talented people that don't want to go through a 4-week long ceremony of an interview process that takes up days of time with no pay, though.
I don't understand why you feel it's necessary to share your personal justifications (rationalizations), other than you're trying to normalize your own mediocrity. Which, by definition, already is normal.
What? I'm really struggling to find the nugget of 'point' in there, but... what?

Are you saying that Gravity is somehow biased toward powerful people?

Are you saying that refraction is somehow biased toward powerful people?

I'm left so confused by your comment. It's amazing -- hopefully in a good way!)
I wonder what Mr.Vonnegut would have to say about the historians that try to minimize the causalities that occurred during the firebombing of Dresden.
> It is no one’s responsibility other than the parent to ensure their child isn’t watching inappropriate content

Society has had laws in place to prevent children from viewing things they should not be (inappropriate movies, magazines, etc).
Moving control to the endpoints: motivations, challenges, and the path forward
Epistemicism
Oh well... This brings me back memories.

The way it's achieved may not matter much with a 4 GHz multi-core CPU running a multitasking OS, but having to deal with 16-bit pointers and segmented memory in a 4.77 MHz 8086/8 was a huge pain I felt in the flesh.

Most compilers wouldn't even deal with that mess.
Could you not hire someone smart who doesn't already know react/redux and teach it to them? Or give them a couple of weeks to do some tutorials?

I knew almost zero about web dev (I had been a decent C++/Java/Scala backend programmer) when I was hired to work in a web dev role -- I spent the first two weeks doing RoR tutorials on the internet and was just as productive as anyone else a couple of months after that.
> The CCP, for all its imperfections, has lifted 850 million illiterate peasants out of extreme poverty in a mere few decades

This is one of the most frequent arguments by Chinese excusing the actions of CCP. Keep in mind that this is the party that started the cultural revolution, which resulted in 5-10 million deaths due to famine and state-sanctioned purge, destruction of cultural heritage, and forcible seizure of land (all land in China is owned by the state). Yet to this day the details of this history are rarely discussed in school and subjective to censor.

A wealthy person who has no affiliation with the Chinese government is vulnerable to predatory action by local government [1] -- a big reason why there are so many wealthy Chinese buying and moving property in foreign countries, and part of why government officials tend to be among the richest in the country.

The massive wealth created as a result of private enterprises that end up in the hands of government officials through various methods, is often siphoned out of the country. Imagine if KMT stayed in power, the cultural revolution didn't happen, and private business owners weren't paranoid of the government meddling -- 850 million illiterate peasants were lifted out of extreme poverty despite CCP.

Since Xi's rise to power, the anti-corruption campaign has served both to root out some corruption, and at the same time removing his opposition in the party, leading to his limitless term as the party leader.

While some speculate Xi may use this as an opportunity to move China toward a more democratic model, there is nothing preventing him and his faction from siphoning more wealth from the country.

> The trade-off was made between an authoritarian but stable and prosperous society vs balkanization and endless wars that pre-mature democracies tend to produce.

Your whole thesis seems to be based on the economic growth of the country justifies the oppression and corruption. But as the economic growth slows down, at what point is it not enough as a justification? With the tight media country, how would the Chinese people EVEN know what the true state of the economy is? And even if they decided they've had enough, with the growing control of information, communication, and movements, what can they even do at that point?

So yeah, fuck CCP

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/business/china-parliament...
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But if the proprietary fork is analogous to the original software the "user" can just seek out the MIT-licensed project and start from there. If the fork contains significant functional modifications then it seems fair to let the author of those changes choose how to distribute them. This doesn't restrict user's freedoms anymore than allowing greenfield projects to be proprietary already does. GPL is for people who are concerned with forcing their viewpoint into wider adoption. MIT is for people that are interested in truly gifting their work (and only their work) to society.
> with a gradual introduction to broader material.

It doesn't gradually introduce broader material, it gradually introduces more "engaging" material.
36 Hours in Oxford
The queue for having your video uploaded and public does not at all have to be the same queue for getting your video included in others' recommendations.
I don't think that's the point. It is false advertising for YouTube to create YouTube Kids for kids, and then not have content that is appropriate for kids on it.
Wow, I'm conflicted. First, an obvious idiot statement, which helps us ground our analysis:

> Human intuition can recognize motives in people’s viewing decisions, and can step in to discourage that — which most likely would have happened if videos were being recommended by humans, and not a computer. But to YouTube’s nuance-blind algorithm — trained to think with simple logic — serving up more videos to sate a sadist’s appetite is a job well done.

So this person is advocating that a human (ie, another human besides oneself, an employee at youtube), have access to the click stream of individual users? This proposal, in 2019??? Of course this would have to be compulsory to be effective. Why would I want a megacorp to be making moral decisions for me? I'm ok with them making amoral algorithmic decisions.

The author is generalizing the problem of YT Kids, which should be human curated, to all of youtube.

OTOH, yeah feeding our worst impulses is kind of a problem. But, tweaking the algorithm isn't the solution. The machine itself is designed to thrive on attention.
That's not true you can upload a video and not allow it to be recommended until some human review was done. Most youtube channels don't need the recommendation engine.
Agreed. I float 2-4x/month and can confirm that I sleep way better and generally have an increase in mood. I'd highly recommend it.
CodeThat.today
What about those who worked while in college to minimize their education debt? Will they get anything back?
The Carnot limit is a simple statement about temperatures: the thermodynamic efficiency of a heat engine is 1 - the ratio of cold/hot temperatures in Kelvin. In practice that means that efficiency goes up the hotter you can make the engine's working fluid, and that (because you start at 294K) you have to go pretty high to get really good efficiencies.

The relevance to ICE vs. steam is largely about material science. You're limited first of all by mechanism by which the working fluid is heated and second by the materials used to contain it. Regular non-superheated steam never gets past 100C (373K), because once it does it boils off and the steam transmits the heat away from the heat source into the engine.
Superheated steam (as in a nuclear reactor or military-grade steam turbine) can get significantly higher than that, and reach corresponding efficiencies, but you have to figure out how to continue applying the heat source to the steam after it has boiled, and that steam will be under correspondingly high pressure (because of the ideal gas law: PV = nRT), so you need materials that can both contain the high pressure and don't degrade under heat. The working fluid within an ICE is entirely contained within the engine; thus, the primary constraint is that the material used to construct the cylinders can't melt or deform under the heat of combustion. The big advantage of ICEs is that you don't need any piping, though, so you can machine the engine out of a solid block of iron or similar material and get all the strength that results.

Electric or solar-thermal Stirling engines actually do have very good efficiency ratings. But the key here is for stationary uses. They are big, bulky things, because they have to be to provide sufficient heating to the working fluid and then move it to and through the engine without any pipes bursting.

Moving vehicles have a large constraint: any engine adds to the weight of the vehicle, and has to be accelerated along with the payload. So power-to-weight is crucial: an engine that has equal efficiency but weighs as much as a car has effectively half the efficiency, because you need to move twice as much weight around. That's why most of the interest is in either smaller (and hence lighter) ICE cars or in electric drive: electric motors have very good power-to-weight ratios if you can make the battery storage light enough.
It is unfortunate. Though, on the other hand, Jane Street is even leveraging OCaml for their FPGA’s. It’s an exclusively OCaml shop.

Too bad I’m not smart enough to get hired there. The interviews are impossible.
iOS 13 makes apps ask permission to use Bluetooth, so at the very least it's going to massively cut down on passive data collection.

They've already banned these SDKs in the kids category. I'm sure the next step is to ban them everywhere.
The Youngest Known Child Separated from His Family by the Trump Administration
It's not complicated.

They need to stop showing people the upvote and view COUNTS. Behind the scenes they can still use it to make recommendations.

Those numbers are pseudo signals of quality to people who encounter content they have never encountered before.

Even when they have doubts that are watching something unhealthy the mind goes "well if the rest of the world thinks this dumbass is important I better pay attention..."

If a dumbass hurting people on video gets 10 million views other dumbasses worldwide automatically get triggered looking at the count. "hey I can do this maybe I should run for President..."

Remove the counts and you remove the pseudo signal of quality.
But claiming that there are no consequences to speech means you cannot think that, because judging someone for judging someone for saying abortion is illegal violates that
I worked at a place with a demanding interview process for about 3 years and the people I worked with were excellent. Nobody is making you do anything you don't want to do. So drop the attitude and the childish entitlement.
The Lisa was also much, much nicer to use.
Sounds like it's only part of the reason, if I'm correctly parsing "... and the stimulation of gastric motility" as a second mechanism of action.
That is an apples to oranges comparison, Youtube is a platform not an institution. It is open to all videos, provided they meet certain agreed upon guidelines, and should not be responsible for censoring content based on individual opinions.

I don't think that the recommendation is broken at all, in fact it works astonishingly well for the vast majority of people. The fact that there are a few bad actors is also present in the banking industry, (Wells Fargo for instance), to use your own bad comparison.
I found this odd.

Britain is having a hard time being allowed to self-govern itself away from the EU.

Hong Kong is supposed to self-govern itself independently from China.

It seems like they are both fighting for the same thing, however as Britain is not technically independent from the EU until Brexit is confirmed, why should they be obligated to help HK from China when they need to worry about their own problems first?

I know it is selfish, however if you cannot take care of yourself first you cannot take care of someone else in my opinion.
Yes. Elsagate is an example - the creepy computer-generated violent and disturbing videos that eventually follow children's content - or the fact that just about every gaming-related video has a recommendation for an far-right rant against feminism or a Ben Shapiro screaming segment. There's also the Amazon problem - where everything related to the thing you watched once out of curiosity follows you everywhere around the site.