skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm just getting too cynical, but this is not the first nor second time I've seen an outrage manufactured by a social media post of someone who took offense at a minor transgression, which ended up costing the transgressor their job.

I didn't know that GNOME has had issues with Stallman before, though I do believe it now and can certainly imagine it; I learned a few new, bad things about his behavior that I didn't know prior to today. Still, my point is - if they wanted to get rid of him for a list of valid reasons, they could've done it earlier, or they could've waited for the current storm to blow over and do it then. They picked this moment, and unless I'm grossly misunderstanding the timeline, they must've known it'll get carried by the media. So for better or worse, out of all possible opportunities, they picked the one where RMS is a subject of borderline-libelous and utterly nonsense shitstorm. Sure, people got upset when the news broke, but that's the thing with Internet witch hunts - people get upset over lies, and react without thinking, further fueling the avalanche.
>male billionaire sex peddlers elites

take it easy on the antisemitism
> True, but if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

Not exactly true. If you can't find a replacement internally (or when there is a conversation about your promotion) then do an external hire
But this is where it's subject to interpretation:

-... years of experience, working? Does mowing lawns, serving ice cream in high school count as experience?

-... years experience as a Product Owner?

-... years as a embedded devices software engineer?

-... years as an executive assistant, TA, PostGrad?
>he doesn't trust the official GDP figures

Chinese GDP is "made up" according to Li himself in an leaked memo in the mid 2000s. The context behind this statement is that Chinese GDP figures are irrelevant to the actual operations of the Chinese economy and calculated off low-effort and unreliable provincial measures to appease foreign audiences - the government understands the limitations of statistic reporting in China. They know any number derived would be largely meaningless, so here's some back of the napkin estimates for international audiences who clamor for it so much. Then people take it out of context and accuse manipulation or falsification when no one should take it seriously since garbage in garbage out. In addition to LKI, the government uses other internal measures like TSF (total social financing) [1] while ignoring the GDP to gauge economic health.

As for foreign commentaries and studies on Chinese GDP, they're as unreliable as the Chinese figures themselves because the data simply isn't there. The most rigorous western analysis of Chinese GDP I'm aware of was conducted by CSIS who comprehensively reverse engineered Chinese GDP reporting from ground up, sector by sector using a variety of official sources, and concluded China is (1 trillion USD) larger than official numbers purported to be: Broken Abacus? A More Accurate Gauge of China's Economy [2].

That's not to say it's anymore an accurate reflection of ground truths, but at least it tries to reconstruct from the bottom up. Unless people believe the Chinese government expends vast resources manipulating every bit of data to comport to their GDP estimates which by all accounts they don't even care about.

[1] http://www.chinabankingnews.com/total-social-financing/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOxIJMjZOUo&
« For centuries, it had been the food of nomads and wanderers. Cooked over campfires, it had been carried in knapsacks from Beijing to Barcelona, from Modena to the Maghreb. »
DoT paints a more interesting picture:

https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/gas%20emi...

Passenger cars and motorcycles, combined, saw between 1990 and 2006 an increase of 3% in carbon dioxide emissions in absolute terms.
Over the same period of time, medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses saw their carbon dioxide emissions increase by 76% (!). Also notably, CO2 emitted by Aircraft decreased 5%, and Boats/Ships, Rail, "and Pipelines" (I'm not really sure of the mechanism for CO2 emissions from pipelines), decreased by 13%.

I'd like to see more updated information, not sure why it's harder to come by, but it seems like there's more to it than passenger cars. The "Light-Duty Trucks" category is also hard to tease apart, because it inherently combines trucks used as passenger transport, and trucks used for utility.
> WeWork pays 100 units for commercial real-estate and flips it for 90 units

Not from what I can see ... they charge their clients enough to cover the location. Individual locations are (barely) profitable, the losses are coming from massive expansion and leasing new places.

Maybe I'm wrong on that. Either way this seems like an epic fail, but they are not "paying for 100 flipping for 90".
It does suggest that the Fed's goal of lowering rates may introduce some unintended consequences.
My parente went into a lot of debt at my age, but they were able to file bankruptcy and walk away from it after living the high life for 20 years.

I don't have any student loans anymore but anyone in their 20s or 30s most likely doesn't have the same luxury my parents did.
Elon Musk says 'pedo guy' tweet did not suggest cave diver was a pedophile
Someone will soon start on how many text editors and writing apps we already have. From webpage
> This web app, built by the Hugging Face team, is the official demo of the pytorch-transformers repository's text generation capabilities.

This is a demo for NLP
This sounds like a joke in a recent Netflix original of Dave Chappelle. He said "every illegible black person should go out and register for a fire arm. This would bring the gun control to the legislation."
I'm not expanding the definition of the word. Tying up a person's hands, dragging them into a car, and locking them in a cage is most definitely under the definition of what most would call violence.

The only reason most people don't resist is the threat of more violence if they do.

Is kidnapping someone at gunpoint not violence?
> The Aegis System software reuses tracking numbers in its display, constituting a user interface design flaw. The Aegis software initially assigned on-screen identifier TN4474 to Flight 655. Then just seconds before the Vincennes fired, the Aegis software switched the Flight 655 tracking number to TN4131 and recycled Flight 655's old tracking number of TN4474 to label a fighter jet 110 miles away. When the captain asked for a status on TN4474, he was told it was a fighter and descending.[42] Scientific American rated it as one of the worst user interface disasters.[43]

Ooof that is a boneheaded design decision.
I'll go ahead and say the quiet part loud. There is a changing definition of what is a child in the US. People generally under 24 are considered children, and I can recount a few people facing critique over dating people in their early twenties (<25) from dating men (mostly men) who are older. I've read an article that questions whether 16 year olds can be sexually active at all, that is, with teens their own age (other 16 yr olds), not with older people so nothing like pedophilia or an age difference at all. Another example is a thread I read on reddit questioning whether it was okay for a 17 year old musician making music with sexually explicit lyrics, presumably concerning sexual relations with others their own age.

A lot of the Epstein drama seems to be driven by two pieces, political connections to Trump and Clinton (so it touches "both" sides if you will) and the reaction of this changing definition of childhood to the exploitation of these teens at the hand of Epstein and the perspectives of people either older or from countries with different ideas of the propriety of the sexuality of teenagers. The changing range of who is a child is why what rms said so digusting, because it is considered in kind with say, rape of a toddler or a preteen in the popular mind as the social definitions are shifting.

The problem of course is this is very US centric, and there are of course people just living in different cultures and attitudes elsewhere. I have friends abroad were actually confused about the Epstein drama when they first read about it because to them, it was salacious but not as creepy as Americans think it is.
What makes this different from https://giphy.com/? They don't seem to be professional or consistent in anyway...
Nice visualizations and explanation!

You might want to make it clearer that the agents don't actually receive any visual observations, but rather directly the xy positions of all other agents and objects.

This also seems very similar to "Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents" (https://deepmind.com/blog/article/capture-the-flag-science)?

Regarding the conclusion:

> We’ve provided evidence that human-relevant strategies and skills, far more complex than the seed game dynamics and environment, can emerge from multi-agent competition and standard reinforcement learning algorithms at scale. These results inspire confidence that in a more open-ended and diverse environment, multi-agent dynamics could lead to extremely complex and human-relevant behavior.

This has been well established for a while already, e.g. the DeepMind Capture the Flag paper above, AlphaGo discovering the history of Go openings and techniques as it learns from playing itself, AlphaZero doing the same for chess, etc.
Does this work in liquid markets though? Demand could obviously drive up price beyond fundamental value in a bubble, or below fundamental value in a panic.

But in the ordinary course of things, we would expect the price of a security to match its value in the long run.

If you are a rational, amoral investor, and you see a security worth $100, you would be prepared to pay up to $100 for it, and to buy it in as large a quantity as you could if it was selling for less. Assuming there is more than one such investor in the market, we would expect them to bid roughly to the expected value of the stock.

I suspect this was the reasoning underlying Mr. Gates' comments. As long as customers buy the oil then the security has value for investors.
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>US on the whole is also fairly poor.

Relative to whom exactly? Us engineers posting on HN? I'm not making light of anyone's circumstances here, but living paycheck to paycheck doesn't make you poor, and billions of people around the world would love to be that "poor" (and many of them live in China.) Very different definitions of "poor".
Unclear how this is better than something like WP Engine. They have lots of killer features, great reviews ( https://cloudconfusing.com/2019/09/16/wp-engine-review/ etc), enhancements on WP that aren't part of the core platform etc.
Corporate bankruptcy doesn't work exactly the same as personal bankruptcy. WeWork declares bankruptcy, it's officers find a couple of new, untainted folks to hold key corporate officer positions, and suddenly YouSlave, Inc is open for business and looking to rent space. Might need to polish your D&B a little, but that's easy enough.
Fancier couch pillows.
Sounds like Firefox ESR is for you then.
I fly a bugsmasher (albeit a really nice one) which does exactly that. If I put everything in the computer and then lineup in a different runway, it will literally yell at me and say... wrong runway!

On some jets there is an annunciation system(RAAS) that also yells at the pilot all the time saying where he is... even in the sky. For instance, as he's about to land, it yells "approaching 28R", or on the ground, "on rwy 28R"

So the tech exists. The challenge is that there are a lot of older planes flying around, tech in that highly-regulated environment is slow-moving, etc.
When I tried

> It was the best of times; it was the worst of times

the result was:

> ; and they knew what they wanted them to do. In the end the three writers who wrote the biography took the best decision of all. • A. Smith’s and B. Soderland’s biography is one of the best literary work of this generation , and deserves the award. It is well written, and does not take long to read.

Start with a novel, get a review instead...
"The lawsuit also names as nominal defendants the corporate entities involved in publishing Snowden’s book. The United States is suing the publisher solely to ensure that no funds are transferred to Snowden, or at his direction, while the court resolves the United States’ claims. Snowden is currently living outside of the United States."

This is the actual goal here.
Everybody here is drowning in their conspiracy theories...it's just culture.

Why do we shake hands, other than to give the other person our germs so that if I have a deadly disease the other guy will die too? Well maybe because it's just established. To show that you have respect for the other party, even that you are willing to follow customs. Calm down everyone!
> A slower release schedule doesn't mean you have more testing time. It means you tend to release more in one feature.

Plus, most of the serious bugs are found right away when a new group of users starts testing, e.g. when Firefox Nightly version moves to Beta or Beta moves to stable Release. Firefox Nightly, Beta, and Release channels have very different user populations. They have different hardware (Nightly users are power users with big, fast machines), software (Release users are more likely to use anti-virus software or not have the latest GPU driver updates installed), and browsing usage.

Mozilla's studies of crash rates and bug fixes for Firefox Beta showed that most of crashes and bugs are seen in the first two weeks or so. Having more beta "bake time" with a very long beta cycle has little benefit after the first batch of bugs are found and fixed.

An interesting historical tidbit: about 60% of Firefox Beta users are in India and Indonesia. That is definitely not representative of Nightly or Release user populations! The apocryphal story is that many years ago, a local computer retailer started passing around copies of a beta CD of Firefox 4 so people didn't have to download it over a slow or metered internet. And then all those people are still on the Firefox Beta channel.
This is yet another way to avoid exposing real circumstances AND reap funds to continue black-budget trafficking operations (precedent setting [see DanielBMarkham's assessment], plus avoiding certain due process rights.)

It will not succeed because these measures stand between everyone who has not had their circumstances optimized by bad, withholding leadership.. preventing the better results in the advancement of types of people everywhere. Myself included!

Asymmetry of information has overrun the optimum curves of received value for all peoples. Now there must be more clarity amidst those elites to reform their appetites/waste/projected powers, lest they get priced-out by their own over-runs.

A way of saying: evil loses. Nature and dignity are neutral. These methods are not. They break the system that keeps balance, so WHY a unique ruling matters a great deal more than a blanket pronouncement OR precedent- setting to avoid getting caught in abuses-of-trust.

Specifically, abuses of trust(s) by knowing authority generates enormous destructive potential in spirit-of-the-law violations.
Hey, I'm the dev, thanks for your kind words! You probably caught me at a good moment before the lack of sleep and standing all day caught up to me. ;)
This is a much better link than the original story.
I was confused by the comment saying that they'd "never consider that". There is precedent for exactly this sort of thing, even in the US -- like the example you cite!
Nobody in this discussion seems to have mentioned the word "advance". Snowden has already been paid for this book, and the advance will have been negotiated with the expectation that it will be difficult to pay any additional royalties.

Has Snowden's contract with the publisher been exhibited yet? It'll be interesting to see if there's anything funny in there.
I urge you to look more closely at the specifics of the best arguments being made on either side and see if you hold that same view then.
I took over a customer who previously only got answers over email in 1 week, and they were useless crappy answers even then. When I started slacking them they got useful answers in 1 minute and the customer was much happier.

My point is that even if the customer feels they can only get an answer in 1 week so they don’t expect any more than that, that feels shit especially if the answer sucks.
There is, in fact, an excellent charity called Doctors Without Borders who are all about doctors giving their labour force for much less than society would generally value it for. They're not the majority of doctors, just like the majority of software engineers are not charitably motivated open source developers. They are, however, doing immensely valuable work serving people who would otherwise not have a shot at getting any sort of proper treatment.
Divestment also results in less shareholder oversight of emission heavy companies because environmentally conscious investors are selling their shares to investors with less scruples.

This isn't just theoretical.

According to Fossil Free, asset managers with about 10 trillion under management have committed to divesting.

If you assume 10% of that is tracking something like the S&P 500, then these investors have sold about 80 million shares of Chevron.

In 2018, shareholders introduced a proposal asking Chevron to limit its methane emissions. That proposal failed with 46% of the vote.

80 million shares would have been enough to swing the vote to 54% in favor.

I quit my job a couple of months ago to fix this problem. You can learn more at greengovernance.org or by emailing me at (hn username)@greengovernance.org

(typed this from my phone on a plane but I will add citations later when I get to my computer)
Ha!

But, really, I think a corporate "death penalty" would be much more justifiable than a corporeal one. The company can reform its business and try again; whatever's left of it (the ultimate shareholders) could even be made whole (with cash) if the decision was egregiously bad. Natural people, on the other hand, aren't coming back from the dead.

I don't follow the "perfection" part of your comment. I'm certainly not suggesting that this be the only remedy, but this is, as things go, pretty bad, and maybe it deserves a pretty harsh punishment.
Someone in the upper levels of WeWork needs to seriously step away for a minute and look at what they have.

They are not a "tech company" who is trying to "revolutionize" the way people and communities come together to work.

They are a real estate company with a good interior design team and a founder with "a vision" but a lack of grasp on reality.
>> symbolic importance

Do the symbolic with your money, I have respect for that.

But a bunch of about to be retired people, who may need every penny of their return, will get reduced return because some fund manager wanted to feel good and have better PR all the while collecting the same big check for his services... No Bueno!
there's always "from the depths" for the 3d detailed builder itch - most components there are functional and tiny bit of damage can ripple into multiple non functioning system if the vehicle is not build carefully enough
Supreme Court cases get deprecated without expressly being overruled, especially wartime cases. Stare decisis doesn’t require you to read a precedent for all its worth; only to follow it if it’s squarely on point. The ACA case found the individual mandate failed under the commerce clause notwithstanding Wickard.
> No I really don't need to see the universe mind exploding guy in response to a story

Universe mind exploding guy haha...what you need to see is some Tim and Eric ;)
https://youtu.be/FYJ1dbyDcrI
I don't understand the "2 trips for one passenger". The car will pick up the closest human that needs a ride and the operator will optimize the trips globally based on where cars are, where humans are and where humans what to go. It's about as optimal as it gets.

Yes, cheaper trips will lead to more trips and therefore more congestion.

But there are also advantages of having a massive car network.

There are actually plenty of roads for most of the time. It's only during rush hour that you have congestion (LA being an exception).

Rush hour traffic happens due to people commuting to work, usually one person in a car.

The density of rush hour traffic makes it easy to optimize.

Without changing cars, we can put 4 people in a car, which is 2-4x better than the common commute of 1 person in a car.

People don't want to share cars?

Implement rush hour pricing scheme that heavily penalizes single occupancy (say, $4 for shared ride, $16 if you want a car to yourself).

The next step would be to make mini-buses for rush hour traffic: at lest 12-16 person. Once you know the traffic patterns, you can optimize by building cars / busses with the capacity that fits the pattern.

What makes it even easier is that rush hour traffic is stable: people go to work and back roughly in the same numbers, which means you can do long-term predictions and investments.
I think it assumes that large investors aren't really passive, but intervene on behalf of their investments. If you convince someone to divest from X, then they have the luxury of remaining neutral when you propose that X be destroyed.
Sorry about that, my poor webserver wasn't expecting this kind of traffic. :/

If you can't download the standalone version, try downloading the "demo" on Steam, which despite being called a demo is really just the same version as the standalone.
Worse than an adult having sex with a child? What would that even be?
I for one am grateful for all that "disruption." The much needed improvement in the areas of transportation, accommodation, payment, etc. might never have happened if all these companies stuck by the old rules.
When my parents got married, my mom was 17 and my dad was 19.

Is my dad a rapist?