skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More specifically, the AI is likely to be scientifically curious because it is a likely way to further its goals: understand the universe so it can be more efficient at doing whatever it is it is programmed to do.

Altruism on the other hand sounds more like an end goal, not just an instrumental, intermediate goal. Unless the AI is specifically programmed to be altruist, it will likely be utterly indifferent. Which if it becomes powerful enough will be more like trampling an ant without even noticing it.

Then comes the really difficult part: programming altruism. What does that mean exactly? Ultimately, it boils down to tell the AI what we want, except we don't exactly know what we want, let alone what we will want once we learn more, become wiser etc. We don't want the AI to keep us in soft rooms with children toys and morphine shots just because we asked it to keep us safe and happy…
Based on what we know, the global population would crest, and then begin to gradually subside globally. The biggest question would be, what is the peak and is that number tolerable even for a short while.
RCS isn't end-to-end encrypted, unfortunately :(
Any truly result-driven company's premptive measure for dealing with these sorts of annoyances (for all employe*s), should be the solution of deeming non-work-related discussion involving politics, religion, race and such divisive topics as "unsuitable for the workplace". Discussion serious-enough to spur opinionated ramblings and ideological smartassness, to say the least, that's not work-related and that's conducted during working hours, must be ideally stated in all employee contracts as a clear set of terms a prospective candidate must comply with avoiding.
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Those are on YouTube, so law-abiding citizens aren't seeing them. The search results for Hong Kong on Weibo are a bit different: https://m.weibo.cn/search?containerid=100103type%3D1%26q%3D%...
Pretty sure blender started out as the product of a company that went out of business in the 90's, for whatever reason, they decided to open source the product instead of let it die.

I'm not countermanding you. Blender is awesome, the volunteers who make it perpetually better are awesome.
The market is not perfectly efficient. Small cap stocks outperform large cap stocks; the S&P500 outperforms leaving money under your mattress.

I am more than willing to bet that if you combine these methods with an algorithm that estimates a stock's "proper price" with the information, a sophisticated algorithm should be able to at least outperform a layman's "Buy-and-Hold" strategy.
Uh, that's a completely optional feature. I've intentionally had it on for over 3 years now, and it's one of the first things I turn on when I get a new phone.

You can also delete your location history data at any time.
Yeah, it's mirroring the behavior of "git checkout -- myfile" which also does destructive changes without warning.

These new commands were hatched in response to a blog post from a couple of years ago pointing out the confusion. https://redfin.engineering/two-commits-that-wrecked-the-user...

A good conversation on HN followed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14712269

I've long wished git checkout (and now, git restore) would save the contents of blown-away worktree files somewhere (e.g. a throwaway stash) so that they could be retrieved from the reflog or something.

In my mind's eye, the command would be something like "git trash" and it would throw your changes into a trash can, where you could fetch them back out again later, until the GC erased them in ~30 days or so.
millions of poeple fly on airplanes too yet dont wear a parachute.
I'd take a look at my comments, rethink it, and realize I probably misjudged the situation.
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Why is time on the y-axis for all of these examples? Is that a (perverse) convention even outside of econ somewhere?
Hey! So I’ve been working on a news app, that like the others curates to your interests, but instead of emojis uses adjectives which are based on criteria. The idea is to filter out sensationalism engendered by the emoticon (and frankly addictive) rating system. Gem tends to recommend articles from the likes of NYT, The Atlantic, Nature, and Nautilus. Please check it out, and let me know your thoughts: https://exploregem.com
It’s well known black swan events are not predictable (see Nassim Taleb), but this doesn’t mean FAANG doesn’t, on average, outperform the S&P500.

A sound strategy would also hedge against black swan events — so some money might be in gold or jewels or something. But that’s beside the point.
I work as a senior engineer at a FAANG and this whole road started with The Rails Tutorial. It isn’t hyperbole to say that Mike Hartl changes lives. Him and the old RailsCasts dude deserve to be in the Rails Hall of Fame.
If they were holding on to supply, it would keep prices high (since the people that did want to buy houses right now would have to pay higher prices to make up for the lost revenue sellers would have gotten post IPO
I understand. One point of disagreement that I could have made more clear is that I don't think the collapse is "nearly-inevitable" at all.

I'm also skeptical that it provides sufficient motivation to spend the money to bring the false positive rate down to X acceptable level. This is a for-profit company; they're going to try to get the lowest ratio of R&D spend to revenue that they can.
Indeed, animation and special events shops are along the most likely to do so. They often create custom add-ons for the commercial software they use so they have the in house skillsets already for this in many cases.
Having boots on the ground here, have to wonder if related to all the increased Austin emigration.
> Why do we expect companies to act like a government we have control over?

Because people always have control over the companies serving them, as it should be. Without people exerting control, we won't have - antitrust regulations, civil rights legislations, ADA, EPA regulations, Clean Water Act, Financial regulations etc. And I believe those regulations were essential towards making a better society.

Mind you, I am not advocating for a communism-style abolishing of private property. But neither do I want to see a libertarian wild west of no government control. That is just other extreme. What we have currently seems to be a good trade-off, where companies have a lot of freedoms but political will can step in occasionally to demand changes to the way they operate.
The last time I ever went to Knotts, admittedly 13 or so years ago... One of the employees asked me not to lean on a chain that was strung between to parts of the que to rope it off. I gave him a sort of, "Are you serious?" look...

He was super nice and explained that it took him a whole year to get the chain, that Knotts doesn't like paying for things like that, and he didn't want it, or the que itself damaged as he wouldn't be able to get a new one anytime soon.

My mind immediately started thinking about the cost of chains, and how safe the park could possibly be if that were the operating environment. We rode the ride because we'd waited 4 hours in the queue, and the friend that I had gone with and I agreed this was not a place we wanted to be anymore.

I also worked in Cypress, a few blocks from Knotts, and we'd always hear about horror stories about people stranded on attractions. What worried me about it most was, not that rides break down, they do. What was concerning was that Knotts didn't seem to have a plan for that.

When a ride breaks at Disneyland, They have plan after plan after plan. I have never felt unsafe at Disneyland, and I've had at least half a dozen incidents. I remember being stuck once on the Ferris wheel at DCA. My wife and I were stuck with 3, 13-year-old boys for 2 hours. We joked around, got to know each other other, assigned the barf bags to those most likely to need them-- the sunwheel is 160ft tall. Never felt unsafe for even a moment.

Knotts, just seems to call the fire department when something happens.
It’s been that way in every company I’ve worked for 25 years. I’ve never known my bosses’ religion or political beliefs.

I’ve never had a political discussion at work.
> In fact, if it wasn't for the coloring, they wouldn't even have noticed, except if you exchanged other data than pure text, but I can't imagine this being a real deal-breaker for planning?

People very frequently exchange data other than pure text when event planning: GIFs, map pins, tapbacks to express [dis]agreement, etc.
This is why the truly successful quant groups like Renaissance continuously adjust their strategies and come up with new ones. Renaissance in particular has invested heavily into their data processing pipeline which enables them to have a significant advantage over the rest of the field.
That's an uncharitable interpretation of the OP. It's not that people think different, it's that people are actively discriminated in Atlanta (well it's less an Atlanta problem and more a Georgia problem). For context I write this as an African American living in the Bay Area with family that's based in Atlanta.

For example as a Black person I know my vote won't count for much in Georgia, and that the state is actively working to disenfranchise it [0]. I also know that I won't have the ability to plan my family [1]. I know I might get weird looks if I'm in a non-heteronormative relationship [2].

So the problem most people have with "red" states isn't that people love God, love cops and love pickup trucks, it's that these areas actively working to restrict our "blue" freedoms.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/14/stacey-abram...

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/us/heartbeat-bill-georgia...

2: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/us/tennessee-internet-min... (Note, this is about Tennessee, but similar attitudes pervade the South)
If so, that's an argument I don't necessarily agree with, in either case.

Yep, these ideas were as controversial in the day of Socrates as they were in the day of Voltaire and, for that matter, Barry Goldwater ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.")

So: no, to answer gamegod's original question, the argument is not going to "die now." S/he is hardly the first or the last to try to wish it away, but that's not going to happen.
Can't seem to access the site. Could you elaborate on how Thread solves the problem of messenger lock in? Is it federated like Matrix?
More like the difference between "wow, that meal looks like a challenge" and "I can totally pull this off".
Is there a reason for referring to Intel as INTC and Nvidia as NVDA? Is this just the internal Nvidia jargon or something?

It seems gratuitously confusing for readers, and doesn’t seem to have any benefit I can see.
> Building a suburb generally involves cutting down trees.

Only for cities/suburbs that exist in forested areas. This would exclude most desert and prairie ecosystems (for example).

> Humans living in a smaller area of the planet leaves more room for trees.

Sure, mathematically-speaking, and planet-wide. On a more local scale, though, this is not necessarily the case.

There's also the consideration for relative density of CO₂ sources v. sinks. I don't have any actual data here, so feel free to ignore this, but my hypothesis is that urban areas would have significantly higher CO₂ densities than suburban areas (which would in turn have significantly higher densities than rural areas, and in turn wilderness areas), and this high-density CO₂ would not readily/easily/immediately disperse / would be more difficult for surrounding carbon-sink areas (like wilderness and - I'd argue - potentially suburban areas) to even receive, let alone absorb. You thus end up with big lingering blobs of CO₂, continuously fueled by human occupation, and unable to disperse. Spreading out humans would better spread that CO₂ sequestration load, thus allowing better efficiencies.
Any yet average person in Poland has a similar carbon footprint.
This kind of content came with the internet, not social networks. Traditional forum moderators have had to deal with really vile content for a long time now, along with the operators of almost any other media sharing website.

Unless you want to make it illegal for individuals to widely share content without going through an editor, this kind of problem isn't going away any time soon.
Yeah, I'm aware that it's cross-correlation from the signal processing world, there are a lot of misnomers like that in the DL world, e.g. "deconvolutions", etc.

> Wrong.

The best way to respond to this, somewhat humorously would be "Wrong".
Off topic but what an username!
You can have economic growth without growing population or resource consumption. Either way, that still doesn’t address the problems of population decline.
Cooperative threads are still threads, they just aren't preemptive.
Time isn't on any axis. The y axis is seniority.
> always cold.

I realize this is subjective, but... What? I don't think I've ever been there when the high temperature was under 55.
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They're just young, is all.

That's what I tell myself, anyway.
I think it's important to also remember that you can use Android without any of the Google services since it's open source. The same can't be said of iOS.
I bet that's exactly what most companies did. Most enterprise WANs are probably still not encrypted today and it would bankrupt their IT departments to do it.
Rationally, Sounds like he played the game and won. He didn’t make any false promises (but I’m sure didn’t correct anyone either).

Values wise, to me sounds like a bit of a dick, esp with the early employees. Good for him, he made a billion dollars. But he knowingly took advantage of people who chose to invest years of their life with him. Not cool. He doesn’t have to keep being a dick either - just give employees a generous bonus (like 1x annual salary) when they reach x years if they did well and a thank you, not that hard. That’s all people want.
Is there any memory that can replace DRAM or flash?
> It's best to treat 'await' as syntactic sugar, and to dig in to the underlying concepts.

Slight word of warning: `async/await` is more than just sugar in Rust, it also enables borrowing over awaits, which was previously not possible.
It's not really time. Seniority here is more of a quality than it is just something determined purely by time. So "Senior Software Developers" are those with some of the correlated skills in the article.
Is that actually a major blocker? Anecdotally, when I check out expensive open houses, it's frequently Uber & Lyft engineers that are also there. It's possible that they're just window shopping, but to me it seems like if you know you have $X in pre-IPO stock and have been pulling in $150-200K base for 5+ years the lockup doesn't really matter. You've got enough saved for a down payment already, and when I talked to a mortgage broker they seemed willing to lend against public-company stock compensation. (This strikes me as...risky, but it wouldn't be the first time banks have done something risky in a bubble.)
We're focused on complex transforms for high volume & performance workloads - something you'd find in Enterprise core production ETL workflows.

We're a complete replacement for ETL products - you'd use us to replace an Ab Initio, Informatica, IBM Datastage - we'd move your workflows through automated conversion.

You can program using visual drag-and-drop or write pure Spark Scala/Java/Python code, they are equivalent in our system. You get configuration management, lineage, metadata management. We're not tied to any private/public cloud - so you can use us with any Apache Spark - every public/private cloud has it.

This is quite different from these products! Different focus and level of abstraction.
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See asutekku's comment in this thread regarding Autodesk giving out free student licenses for Maya. I don't know how true it is, or how to go about it, but if the Blender UI is really what is keeping you from pursuing 3D art as a hobby, perhaps that could be a solution.
>Some people in network engineering at the mobile network operators in Canada screwed up big time.

if that was just the network engineers screwing up, they would have fixed it. Broadcasting amber alerts as "presidential" level is an intentional choice at the policy level.
> I know not to use that model of car and try something else.

We weren't using that model of car. Until the mechanic, during routine maintenence[0], attemped to steal our cars and replace them with Pintos.

0: Outside the metaphore: during 'apt-get upgrade' et al.
This went as well as it deserved to.
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Use Telegram, Luke! :-) It's almost perfect. The only thing I can imagine that could make it better is an option to sort its contacts list manually.
That's the most unreadable thing I've seen in a long time
async/await are coroutines and continuations (bear with me).

Here is synchronous code:

result = server.getStuff()
print(result)

Here is synchronous code, that tries to be asynchronous:

server.getStuff(lambda result: print(result))

Once server.getStuff returns, the callback passed to it is called with the result.

Here is the same code with async/await:

result = await server.getStuff()
print(result)

Internally, the compiler rewrites it to (roughly) the second form. That's called a continuation.

That's pretty much it.

A more involved example.

Synchronous code:

result = server.getStuff()
second = server.getMoreStuff(result+1)
print(result)

Synchronous code that tries to be asynchronous:

server.getStuff(
lambda result: server.getMoreStuff(
result+1,
lambda result2: print(result2)
))

A lot of JS code used to look like this hideous monstrosity.

Async/await version:

result = await server.getStuff()
second = await server.getMoreStuff(result+1)
print(result)

Remember again, that it is basically transformed by the compiler into the second form.
It’s baffling to me that anyone would believe this post. Do people here not have an ounce of skepticism?
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And it's often not over 60! That feels good in the winter to someone acclimated to wider temperature swings... but pretty cold in the summer.
From current levels maybe, but not always.

We cooperate as well as compete. A world with too few people would have its own struggles.
The one that kills me is textbooks. I mean... WTF.
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That shade of green pre-dates the introduction of iMessage blue. It's the original default for SMS/MMS from when that's all that iPhones suppoorted.
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Being disgusted by a state having the ability to invade my body with a warrant is fabricated outrage, are you serious?
The Black Death killed people all at once, though. Especially the old and infirm. A demographic population decline would mean large numbers of people growing old and infirm while the necessary workload of producing the goods and services they consume gets concentrated among fewer and fewer people. One particular example of this might be shortages of doctors and other medical professionals, hospital overcrowding, and similar issues.
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Hah! And with not a lot of code and an ActionText integration, you can write some nice looking emails too!

I can build my own Gmail in an hour!
You might find this interesting as it relates to a 44-month imprisonment and Facebook.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/16/supreme-...

On June 1, 2015, the Supreme Court reversed Elonis's conviction in an 8-1 decision. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonis_v._United_States#Deci...
It does. That's why a lot of Hong Kongers stopped him to do so.
It is interesting he brings up Garner and Michael Brown. I think Garner was a good example of police overstepping the mark that everyone could agree on and Brown was much controversial. But weirdly enough it seemed that Brown was pushed more than Garner by activists. I think this is quite common with activist organisations. They seem to deliberately push more controversial causes. I'm not sure if this is because more controversial causes are more effective or it is because there are weird personal incentives in play.

Also, it could be that no-one wants to bring attention to negative effects from a popular policy. Garner had the attention of police because he was selling untaxed cigarettes. Taxing cigarettes is quite popular and I guess no-one wants to explicitly bite the bullet that some people need to die to have these laws on the book. In a country with a population over 300 million there is a good chance people are going to randomly die from run-ins with law enforcement over non-violent crime. All law is a trade off between the good effects and the bad effects but a lot of people believe any serious bad effect means the law is immoral.
If the tendency to have large families is heritable in some measurable way, maybe because of beliefs or personality traits, wouldn't the carriers of whatever makes them have more babies eventually overtake the rest of the population?

It may not be the case that this is how it will work, but it's not a foregone conclusion that "on average" most people will continue to not want to have kids even in the "first world."

(Don't Mormons for instance have a fertility rate well above replacement despite also having higher than average incomes?)
So you're saying I should not be trying to engage the problem that people are engaging in verbal abuse with me:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_abuse
...and your peak demand for energy is heating in the winter. Not convenient if you have to somehow store all that energy from summer for use in winter.

Though I guess Poland is still heated by NG, even if it’s coming from Russia. Heating with electricity is pretty inefficient.
I keep being surprised that this is surprising to anyone. This is a commonly-observed pattern in biology; a simple graph called the Gompertz function (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz_function) is often used to model it.

I guess most folks have always assumed that humans were somehow exempt from the natural laws, maybe because of the much greater degree to which we are able to reshape our environment to suit our needs (sometimes to our long-term detriment).

But so many growth-related things seem to follow a Gompertz function that I think it's likely we just don't yet understand all of the factors when figuring out our own carrying capacity.

I'm really curious whether our asymptotic population limit only applies to our population on one world, or if, were we to eventually become multiplanetary, we'd discover that a whole other planet wouldn't really increase our overall population that much.

I wish I could be around to see the answer to that question.
Having read both, I think _The Sense of Style_ is a very different kind of book from _The Elements of Style_. The latter is more of a collection of rules and recommendations. It is very concise, to the point, and without much argument. It simply describes what constitutes readable writing.

_The Sense of Style_ has a lot more why and how. The author showed the reasons that he recommend certain ways of writing, sometimes referencing studies in linguistics and cognitive science. The rules it contains are not as rigid as _The Elements of Style_; many of the style guides are really just something to keep in mind. Reading _The Sense of Style_ was like peeking into the thought process of the author.
We’re focused on energy in general, but so far the users have been posting about hydrocarbons as that’s trending now considering where the oil price is now and where it’s headed. What did you think of the website

Let me know if you want me to send you an invite (email in my bio)
Now, at least. If the buyers don't materialize and they give up on waiting, it increases supply and decreases prices.