skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, absolutely. I don't think humans will go fully extinct. But it doesn't make me any less scared for the future. In short term - massive waves of immigrants coming to Europe because their own regions will have difficulty growing anything and having enough drinkable water. A million refugees has severely damaged the very principles of the EU, what is several million going to do, especially as the entire continent is slowly more and more right leaning?

In longer scale, Ocean gets warmer, plankton dies, we start running out of oxygen. Not immediately - but slowly the percentage of it in the atmosphere will start dropping. I wouldn't be surprised if in a 100 years it will be common to have oxygen supply stations on the streets and if you can afford them - personal supplies of oxygen just so you can operate at 100% mental capacity. The rest will have to make do with feeling crappy all day long.

And of course we're already starting to see signs that we might have triggered a self reinforcing loop - melting clathrates releasing methane, methane heating up the atmosphere, releasing more methane.

No, humans won't die, absolutely not. But I'm 100% certain that the civilization as we know it is fucked.
It's important to recognize that the cortex is a relatively late addition to the structure of the brain. Brains have been learning about the world and how to behave appropriately long before some mammals developed such a large region here. It's much more likely that the core functionality to be an autonomous agent in the world is encoded in the limbic system (e.g. basal ganglia, hypothalamus, mid brain and brain stem regions).
The Highlander (to Aberdeen, Fort William, and Inverness) splits at Edinburgh Waverley (though that's not a passenger call); the Lowlander (to Edinburgh and Glasgow) splits at Carstairs Junction.
I don't agree.

There's nothing inherently wrong with writing imperative code, and being imperative doesn't imply the code isn't broken up into components or that it's necessarily difficult to maintain.
I guess what you’re really saying is that human readable aliases should require identity verification? That makes sense.
If you're interested in Weber, you might find Erich Fromm interesting as well. He studied under Weber's brother in Germany, fled to America during the rise of Nazism, and wrote a monograph for the officials and State Department types who would later coalesce CIA about the conditions which lead a democratic people to turn to Fascism. The monograph was later expanded into a book called _Escape From Freedom_, which is widely regarded as the first work of political psychology.
Besides wanting to destroy property and take a more aggressive stance, there is a prevalent atmosphere of doomsday feeling among the protesting youth.

3 suicides over the last few days can be associated to the current unrest. I wouldn't say it's all the government's fault but it cannot be overlooked either.

They are desperate, while whether the current realities warrant that feeling is debatable, one cannot deny its existence.
A society is composed of humans. But there are (very stupid) AIs loose on the Internet that aren't going to respect human etiquette.

By analogy: humans drive cars and cars can respond to human problems at human time-scales, and so humans (e.g. pedestrians) expect cars to react to them the way humans would. But there are other things on, and crossing, the road, besides cars. Everyone knows that a train won't stop for you. It's your job to get out of the way of the train, because the train is a dumb machine with a lot of momentum behind it, no matter whether its operator pulls the emergency brake or not.

There are dumb machines on the Internet with a lot of momentum behind them, but, unlike trains, they don't follow known paths. They just go wherever. There's no way to predict where they'll go; no rule to follow to avoid them. So, essentially, you have to build websites so that they can survive being hit by a train at any time. And, for some websites, you have to build them to survive being hit by trains once per day or more.

Sure, on a political level, it's the fault of whoever built these machines to be so stupid, and you can and should go after them. But on a technical, operational level—they're there. You can't pre-emptively catch every one of them. The Internet is not a civilized place where "a bolt from the blue" is a freak accident no one could have predicted, and everyone will forgive your web service if it has to go to the hospital from one; instead, the Internet is a (cyber-)war-zone where stray bullets are just flying constantly through the air in every direction. Customers of a web service are about the same as shareholders in a private security contractor—they'd just think you irresponsible if you deployed to this war-zone without properly equipping yourself with layers and layers of armor.
You'd probably like Milton Friedman's ideas, and I'd be surprised if you've not already come across his work and YouTube lectures.

There is something to be said for small government, but also can go too far: actors acting in their own best interest can obviously cause harm to society or to the larger group as a whole (See "tragedy of the commons").

Related to emergence is rapid iteration, and it's importance to analysing complexity, which is caputured nicely in "Boyd's law". See https://blog.codinghorror.com/boyds-law-of-iteration/, and then see if you can find the referenced paper by Roger Sessions. (Sessions seemed to caputure the essence of "Lean Startup" before it was cool...)
To take it one step further, why does it need to have a type? Why can't the compiler just figure it out?
Good grief. After all that, it turned out to be a dupe. I had no idea!
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Because (1) those are written in that ancient language, so you're not a complete engineer if you don't understand the workings of your tool, and those tools come with disclaimers which make every issue your fault. (2) integration with tons of C libraries or libraries with C API's is a reality.
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> I don't believe this is the case.

Please show why you don't believe this is the case.
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Most Tesla employees want to work on EVs, and it is a natural inclination for employees to move towards newer, shinier projects and want to switch company at some point.

Lucid probably makes that choice super easy, since you'll be working with familiar faces.

The early employees are likely the best to create a new electric car company, since they were the foundation of the current industry leader.
Now that modern POWER hardware can be bought for roughly commodity prices, how likely are optimizations to these workloads?
What lies have I told ITT?
> But rendering in separate threads turned out to be (unsurprisingly) harder than the way I would do it in C++...It was a bit frustrating to figure out how to accomplish this. Googling yielded a few stack overflow posts with similar questions, and were answered by people basically saying use my crate!

Based on some discussion in r/rust (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/c7t5za/writing_a_smal...) I went ahead and added a Rayon-based answer to that SO question (https://stackoverflow.com/a/56840441/823869). That's been the de facto standard for data parallelism in Rust for the last few years. But the article highlights that discovering the de facto standards is still a challenge for new Rust users -- does anyone know of a well-maintained list of the 10-20 most critical crates that new users should familiarize themselves with after reading The Book? Things like Rayon and lazy_static. The ranked search results at https://crates.io/crates?sort=recent-downloads are almost good enough, but they include a lot of transitive dependencies that new users shouldn't care about. (I.e. `regex` is a very important crate, but `aho-corasick` is usually only downloaded as a dependency of `regex`.)
Apologies if I implied you were ignorant, or at more risk than most people. Hearing that description, I'm willing to bet you're safer than most people who do run antivirus and the newest OS versions. (And safer than me, for that matter.) As far as principle, though, I think there have been things which can't be solved by avoiding sketchy links and emails?

Bemstour was a mix of two NSA-discovered 0-days, which spent a full year in the wild before it was patched or disclosed. (Admittedly, the only known deployments were highly targeted, so it's not exactly grounds for personal paranoia.) EternalBlue was spun into the widespread WannaCry after the Windows 7 patch was released, but before Windows 8. (Having spent a while on 8 instead of 8.1 while 8.1 was still broken, that hits close to home.) I don't follow Windows that closely anymore, but haven't there been a few other botnets initiated with unpatched vulnerabilities that didn't require browsing somewhere ugly?
I've only paid attention to local markets in DC and the Bay Area. If you know of any good write ups on other markets I'm curious to see what's going on.
You're ignoring a lot of its function. The hippocampus (within the limbic system) is necessary for long-term memory. If your hippocampi are removed, you still act more of less the same, but you can't remember new events or make semantic memories. Attention is also an important function of the limbic system.
> If you can read those languages you can read C.

If you can read those languages, you can probably tokenize C fairly well, and parse a decent proportion of it. But only understand maybe a small fraction.
It is possible to remove an email address used for authentication now.
To my naive understanding of evolution, it has little incentive to fix anything that breaks after reproduction age. So I would not expect evolution to catch on cancer ever.

What if there were artificial evolutionary pressure? What if researchers start identifying specific mutations which are associated with cancer, then start editing them out of the DNA of unborn children?
I have a metric ton of respect for Jeff and his team.

However, I do think that they did not go far enough in figuring out the computational capabilities of individual pyramidal neurons, which IMO is the foundation to figuring out how the neocortex works. I wrote a short book about that once - if anyone's interested, check it out, it's free and meant to be readable for AI/neuroscience enthusiasts:

http://www.corticalcircuitry.com/
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Also quite recently another Facebook event with Border Patrol:

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"Just run your own home web server to share images in chat" is the kind of self-parodic response that's made Slack so successful in contrast.
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I like the "option".

I work from home 2 to 3 days a week, but man for some meetings and such I really want to be there.
I'm not sure I understand your reasoning, why should Google honor noindex everywhere but on .gov websites? What about other countries' government TLDs? What about publicly traded companies? What about personal websites of elected officials? What about accounts of elected officials on 3rd party websites?

That seems like a can of worms not really worth opening.
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>> It’s really not that impractical if it’s really occasional.

It is when I only have a finite amount of leave that I can take. If the rental car is more expensive, must be picked up/dropped of during business hours, has unsuitable tires for a Canadian mountain pass in winter, and will bankrupt me should I have an accident "off road", it isn't practical. If I just have the long weekend, just three non-business days, I don't want to spend half of those dealing with the rental car. I want to get in my car at 2am and be where I need to be by dawn.
A good rule of thumb is to apply this technique for objects of 10 kB or larger — but as always with performance advice, measure the actual impact before making any changes.

Might be worth investigating if you have a ton of JSON.
In India you can go north to south and east to west for that much money in AC train.
> Depends the context, but in general, yes.

For example?

Otherwise we just have: yes it is! no it isn't!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_Clinic
Why would anyone employ a remote worker who demands a US salary when the same remote work can be done in any country with cheaper cost of living and consequently lower salaries?

If you have to be on-site, you're only competing with locals. If you're remote, you're competing with the world.
Very well said. If there's a methodology that starts with: these are the people involve, these are their incentives and this is the expected outcome in game theory, then I think we'll be making progress on methodology.
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> Actually I wondered if that might be the case so I checked TFM: https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration
Plaintext negotiation is my complaint. I doubt we'd be discussing this if it was plaintext storage. Not even the most fanatical IRC proponent would be okay with that.

We are running our own IRC servers and you can't connect without using TLS, I still don't know what's your issue is with the registration ? You would need to have access to the machines that are running IRC servers to use that information. It's like saying that none of the standard authentication over the internet (login + password to your bank, your slack account, google cloud etc) using encrypted connection is not secure because you are entering password in plaintext.

> Where is your znc hosted? How much does it cost? Are you paying for a VPN service (please no)?

It's hosted at one of the largest datacenters in Europe. We are not using cloud. Cost is low, very low, compared to Google cloud/AWS we are paying around 50x times less for our whole infrastructure. But we digress now from the main discussion.

> Are you paying for a VPN service (please no)?

We are running our own VPN servers on dedicated hardware.
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New C code is being written all the time.

> misguidedly use C when they shouldn't (e.g to speed up Python code)

The Python virtual machine itself uses C to speed up Python code. Python's compiler is even written in C instead of being properly self-hosted.
Everyone talking about wind turbines and I'm just appreciating how fluid the cluster zooming is...I should add mapbox to my list of things to try. Their free tier looks like a good learning tool, or a good gis portal for small porfolio apps.
This is not 8chan.
I agree – I'm just wondering what the draw is. Maybe Tesla has gone into maintenance mode with refinements to their cars, and these folks are fundamentally builders and want to build something radically different.

But when you look at it, they're building another Model S.
Well... that sounds like the consequence of a personal choice then, and not a public crisis.
Point of purchases taxes are also poor in that they fail to reflect the damage that particular car will do. For example - a Lamborghini will have outrageous taxes due to high emissions, but a Lamborghini is usually only driven 10-20k miles in its lifetime, nearly never for commute, and usually only filled up with best fuels and well maintained. Then in comparison a Fiat Panda will have tiny emissions taxes if any, even though compared to that Lamborghini it will pollute far more through its lifetime.

No, I think fuel taxes are the right way to do this - the more fuel you use the more you drive = the more you pollute.
Given the tech world seems to have centralized around English as the lingua franca as it were, I believe this argument can be safely dismissed.

Further, if they didn't want it, they were free to not contest it. They contested it. Given the circumstances, I see no leg to stand on to deny a more legitimate claim being held by Peruvians.
Yes, the "/s" at the end meant he was being sarcastic.
What is that black cube on top of the heatsink?
Understanding is semantics matter, not merely syntax.
Wonder if they could persuade Musk himself to jump ship...

After all, they're going to need a visionary...