skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Request to Apple: Just let this slide and see how it plays out.

Remember when you took out SuperBowl ads [1] demonizing authoritarian, totalitarian megacorps that told you how to think and what to do - YOU are that company in 2019.

Maybe if you let this alt store be, and monitor it's metrics you'll see that your users really want cheaper, more-full featured apps that you'd never allow on the app store - like a competing browser engine (Chromium), or JIT enabled javascript core [2], ...

It may also happen that this alt-store becomes a piracy and malware haven - in which case, your thesis of totalitarian moderation might win. I'd bet my money on the former - a thriving alt-store filled with apps Apple is too cowardly to approve on it's main store - like Steam Game Streaming, Chromium Browser, JIT enabled js/node, ...

[1]: https://youtu.be/zIE-5hg7FoA

[2]: http://www.janeasystems.com/blog/node-js-meets-ios/
No different from Google blocking "spam" while simultaneously targeting and delivering ads...
Please read the post you are responding to.
The soft overcomes the hard.

The slow overcomes the fast.

Let your workings remain a mystery.

Just show people the results.

-- Tao Te Ching, Chapter 36, Stephen Mitchell translation (http://taoteching.org.uk/index.php?c=36&a=Stephen+Mitchell)
If your personal style permits, for casual wear and walking (but not working out or running) you could look into a resolable option like a Goodyear welted or Blake stitched shoe or boot. Chukkas generally work well with workplace appropriate attire and most footwear of this type have a sole material that lasts way longer than sneakers. I've never heard of anyone wearing through a Vibram sole in 3 or 4 months. When you've worn through a sole you just get cobbler to stitch on a new one and most can be resoled 3-5 times.

Granted, you're not likely to save much _money_ this way, a cobbler will charge about as much as a new pair of sneakers cost, but you'll throw a lot less stuff away.
No. The SAT in the USA is a test people take in secondary school to get into university. Very few 10-year-olds would be taking it.
For me, wearing noise cancelling headphones increases the amount of stress that an open office causes.
To the best of our current understanding, they are accepted by the scientific community.

Do you need to see that proviso expressed every single time?
Just saw this yesterday and feel it's apropos for this thread:

Octopus Dreaming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vKCLJZbytU

Some of the best imagery I've ever seen of chromatophores (and other *phores) in action.
How can a company in this industry just strand 600 thousand people!?
The burden of proof is on you to establish a random wordpress blog's credibility.

The tin-foil NOAA "cover up" conspiracy the site is pushing means it's spreading conspiratorial misinformation.
Sorry, just saw this. I think it’s his assumption that an AGI will act strictly as an agent that’s flawed. It requires imagining an agent that can make inferences from context, evaluate new and unfamiliar information, form original plans, execute them with all the complexity implied by interaction with the real world, reprogram itself, essentially do anything... except evaluate its own terminal goal. That’s written in stone, gotta make more paperclips. The argument assumes almost unlimited power and potential on the one hand, and bizarre, arbitrary constraints on the other.

If you assume an AGI is incapable of asking “why” about its terminal goal, you have to assume it’s incapable of asking “why” in any context. Miles’ AGI has no power of metacognition, but is still somehow able to reprogram itself. This really isn’t compatible with “general intelligence” or the powers that get ascribed to imaginary AGIs.

I’m certainly no expert, but I expect there will turn out to be something like the idea of Turing-completeness for AI. Just like any general computing machine is a computer, any true AGI will be sapient. You can’t just arbitrarily pluck a part out, like “it can’t reason about its objective”, and expect it to still function as an AGI, just like you can’t say “it’s Turing complete, except it can’t do any kind of conditional branching.” EDIT better example: “it’s Turing complete, but it can’t do bubble sort.”

This intuition may be wrong, but it’s just as much as assumption as Miles’ argument.

I’m also not ascribing morality to it: we have our share of psychopaths, and intelligence doesn’t imply empathy. AGI may very well be dangerous, just probably not the “mindlessly make paperclips” kind.
Yeah, integers can't overflow. It will just use all of your memory.

Unless you're using a C bind, like numpy.
Do Narcissists Ever Grow Up?
For french antifas, a bus stop or a mcdonalds is a violent fascist then.
radumazilu, your response is dead, not sure why.

Copy pasting

Thanks!

1. AI is definitely improving in this area. We watch this space closely, but based on user feedback so far, it seems that AI voices are perceived as very monotonous, and thus it is not enjoyable to listen to them for more than 10-15 min.

2. Listle is already available on the web at https://www.listle.io/ -- scroll down to "Sign in here" link.

We also have a chrome extension which allows you to see if a particular page / article you are on already has a human-read audio version. If it doesn't, it creates an AI powered audio for you: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/listle-request-ext...
A good point and one of those strange troughs we get stuck in, every application having it's own different incompatible update system is clearly a bad idea but solving it requires the co-operation of disparate teams each of whom consider the amount of pain it causes end users as minor.

Honestly Fedora (and arch, ubuntu, debian and so on) simply spoils me, everything I need to do my job is a `dnf install` away and it just works.

I'm reminded of that every time I have to interact with a windows desktop how poorly the other (majority) side have it.
Or a scientist that claims all objects are pulled with equal acceleration by gravity, yet when he drops a pillow and a brick from a balcony, the brick hits the ground first.
I don't think it's a cultural thing, simply because across time when ever you wanted someone to be remembered, or their actions, you would still do it no matter the medium - word of mouth, paper, stone.

The problem is bound to the internet medium: how information is spread, indexed and stored, while being cheap - so cheap we can almost claim it's free.

It's not a matter of one being a changed person or not. It's simply your right to not have your information indexed, with no intrinsic value attached to it.

People wouldn't be featured on an old mass media like newspaper unless such person was "news-worthy" in the eyes of journalists that had to a code of conduct.

The internet has no morals or code of conduct.
You still have that right, stop making up arm chair legalese. Your Search Engine Optimization is supposed to fail within the EU. Telling people in person, telling people in group chats, telling people anywhere you want is fine.

According to the top court, the different service indexing all that stuff, within the EU, has to de-reference.
Great. You should also read through https://www.nature.com/collections/prbfkwmwvz to understand how fallible science as practiced today is. It's 100% politics and money generation.
The idea is great. But the low quality of many code examples puts me off. For me it would only work if the examples shown are made by a selection of top level developers. Then it would be really nice actually.

About the site design, the little menu on the left should better not move the content window to the right. Now, when you scroll down in 'all idioms' for example, the list is right aligned and left has useless whitespace. A horizontal menu or dropdown would be better I guess.
I myself did not take any SAT prep courses, so I can't disagree. My point was that some small tricks do exist, and most test takers are not aware of them. Knowing those tricks will give you a slight advantage.

For me, those prep courses would likely be a poor value. However, I likely am not in the demographic who would benefit most from them. There are plenty of people out there who haven't learned how to learn from a book, and so having someone teach them will result in better scores. I would have thought such people will likely struggle in college, yet my grad school had quite a few of them. I guess they found a way to compensate.

The trick I mentioned was not in the official SAT book.
Fascinating. With the right idiots available, I can convince people of the falseness of real things by just having the idiots defend reality. This is a useful technique. I think the right idiots are available for practically anything useful. I wonder if it's possible to attempt to get someone to make spurious claims of racism being the reason why we can't have tech unions, and use that to spike unions in tech because people will associate support for tech unions as support for the spurious claims of racism.
Unfortunately genetic algorithms are notoriously bad about getting hung up on local minima/maxima. They'll probably produce a lot of really interesting patterns, but none that are notably better than what we do today.
Sorry, but your comment is another very nice example for confirmation bias.
Depends on your viewpoint.
To some extent, isn't that true of all products? When you sell a product to solve a problem, once you make the sale, assuming it actually solves the problem, the customer won't come back.

That's why, for example, Photoshop used to cost $1000 (outrageous!) and now costs $20/month (outrageous!), and users hate it both ways. Or why electronics are less repairable than ever, and companies are optimizing for cheapness, and you can just buy a new one when it breaks. When you open the hood on your car you just see another hood, and you couldn't really work on your engine (it's a big noisy proprietary computer now) if you even could get to it, anyway.

This is simply how the economy works today. People complained yesterday about software patents being legal roadblocks to make easy things hard. Then they go back to writing proprietary APIs for closed-source web services, which are mostly just technical roadblocks to make easy things hard. Most of the work we do now is to serve the preservation of the capitalist system, not because it's actually useful work.
By stating that "someone else says X" it doesn't imply that X is a fact only that maybe it is. The statement is not wrong, it just bothers me that Nature of all mediums would do that on this particular topic.

It's really mindblowing that feedbacks aren't more present in conversations about climate change considering these are probably the most dangerous and IMO terrifying aspects.

Even the IPCC has been evading the subject:

> Mario Molina, who shared the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1995 for his work on depletion of the ozone layer, said: “The IPCC report demonstrates that it is still possible to keep the climate relatively safe, provided we muster an unprecedented level of cooperation, extraordinary speed and heroic scale of action. But even with its description of the increasing impacts that lie ahead, the IPCC understates a key risk: that self-reinforcing feedback loops could push the climate system into chaos before we have time to tame our energy system, and the other sources of climate pollution.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/tipping-...
Thank you for this article! I would post kurgezstat video but their credibility went down recently so NOPE
About as easily as they can not pay their bills and operate without actually generating profit.
> We do have the skills for massive amounts of thin film production that's necessary for solar and lithium ion batteries. And somehow, we are massively reducing the cost of wind as we scale to ever larger turbines!

Don't wind farms actually warm the earth by robbing kinetic energy from the wind (which cools the earth)? I read that local climates actually get warmer where there are huge wind farms
Doesn't Qubes meet this requirement?

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/architecture/
Once you've got a culture where it's not your machine, it's just another sensor in Google's panopticon, the idea that Google should do this makes perfect sense.
> Would they oppose a 5th luxury hotel being built next to 4 other luxury hotels?

IIRC, the anti-TMT protestors would ideally like all the telescopes on Mauna Kea removed. However, obstructing the construction of the new one is the most practical present course of action for them.
I wish both OSX/MacOS and Windows had a generic solution for 3rd party applications to check for updates, that wasn't tied to their respective stores. It's such a common pattern and requirement, the OS should/could provide the infrastructure to have a background service that periodically checks external links for availability of new software.
I can't emphasize this enough. Land had two stages of thought. The first is what's described by armitron in the parent here, and was developed at Warwick University in the 90s. During his time at Warwick, Land developed some substance issues (amphetamines, mostly) and from what I've gathered ended up having a breakdown and moving to China. A few years after that he started writing his Neoreactionary work.

While you could probably draw some links between the two phases of his work if you wanted to, they're at odds with one another. In the Accelerationist framework layed out by Land in the 90s, neoreactionary thought would have been futile - everything, including reactionary social mores, would be deterritorialized by capital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

"Global cooling was a conjecture, especially during the 1970s, of imminent cooling of the Earth culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. Some press reports in the 1970s speculated about continued cooling; these did not accurately reflect the scientific literature of the time, which was generally more concerned with warming from an enhanced greenhouse effect."

I would describe it a sample of irrelevant pop science noise from the past, that AGW deniers like to mindlessly compare to the current well established theory of AGW.
That is flat out wrong that vaccines aren't harmful. We have programs at the federal level in place that track and document the harmful effects of vaccines, including deaths caused by them.

If you wish to support your position better, you need to acknowledge the worries people have, not be deceptively dismissive of real worries.
Already thoroughly discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985429
So this guy picked OP completely at random? I wonder why he was initially targeted
Is this all caused by us humans? I'm totally against pollution caused by us, but for global warming, who is the major source contributing to it, could it be beyond us, e.g. the solar system cycles etc. We had ice age/geenhouse eras in the past without human's existence at all?

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

List of Icehouse and Greenhouse Periods

A greenhouse period ran from 4.6 to 2.4 billion years ago.
Huronian Glaciation – an icehouse period that ran from 2.4 billion years ago to 2.1 billion years ago
A greenhouse period ran from 2.1 billion to 720 million years ago.
Cryogenian – an icehouse period that ran from 720 to 635 million years ago, at times the entire Earth was frozen over
A greenhouse period ran from 635 million years ago to 450 million years ago.
Andean-Saharan glaciation – an icehouse period that ran from 450 to 420 million years ago
A greenhouse period ran from 420 million years ago to 360 million years ago.
Late Paleozoic Ice Age – an icehouse period that ran from 360 to 260 million years ago
A greenhouse period ran from 260 million years ago to 33.9 million years ago
Late Cenozoic Ice Age – the current icehouse period which began 33.9 million years ago
Different issue (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20172172), but my heuristics might work for you as well. I'm not a therapist, so take it with a pinch of salt.

1) Edit the host file to block nsfw websites on your computer: https://github.com/4skinSkywalker/anti-porn-hosts-file. Note that the host file blocks whole websites (e.g. reddit.com), not specific pages (reddit.com/r/news/).

2) Download a web/app blocker to lock down your browser during night time. I use https://heyfocus.com/?utm_source=focus_about, but there are several free apps to choose from.

3) Soul-search what really caused the compulsive behaviour. This lengthy process is less about finding "the ONE answer" and more about self-awareness. A good psychologist (a professional therapist who does not rely on prescriptions) can help you connect the dots. I was skeptical at first, but I've ended up enjoying the sessions.

4) Find a hobby that involves exploring open spaces: hiking, nature photography, bird watching, biking through the countryside... you need to feel that child-like freedom again. Modern life is like moving from one prison cell to the next, each one with a specific function. Your daily routine is likely defined by a string of tiny spaces: bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, sidewalk, car, office, repeat. Porn might be one way to escape from the ubiquitous wall, but I suggest you to explore other possibilities.

I wish you good luck! I hope you'll post your progress to this community in the future.
I agree that we should try to change the culture. But solely depending on having people act better isn't going to be enough. Especially since changing the culture of fashion would mean fighting celebrity culture, people's ingrained obsession with fashion and basically the entire concept of sex appeal.

To take your example of cheesecake, it's perfectly fine to have a personal policy of self control. But if you extend that to the general population, you miss a few things. For one, perhaps there's a reason people are eating so poorly, such as food deserts^[1] or simply lack of time or money. Second, perhaps the fast food companies are acting in particular ways that can be deemed unethical. Personally I find the ways in which fast food companies market to children and feed on what's essentially a sugar and fat addiction pretty despicable and an underhanded tactic. But that's just me.

Indeed blaming the consumer is a pretty common tactic. Keep America Beautiful is a famous example. The entire campaign was an attempt to foist the blame onto people littering instead of, y'know, the corporations producing millions of disposable items^[2]. And yes, stopping littering was a good goal. But it also distracts from the underlying problem: why are we allowing these disposable goods to be produced?

With clothing we should be asking a similar question. Why are we allowing such terrible industrial practices, from the pollution to the child labor?

[1]: http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/usda-defi...
[2]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec...
> Because most people don't do interesting things until they're out of their 20s, it makes those who do unusual and therefore newsworthy.

But I'd say that the peak accomplishment of someone who peaks later is probably better than the peak accomplishment of someone who peaks early. So in that sense we're celebrating the wrong thing.
Half the problem is that two parties have screwed up the nation, and no one lets third parties get a say. Remember they wouldn't even let Gary Johnson (libertarian candidate) debate back in 2016, even after he was polling widely at double digits? https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/let-gary-johnso...
Red flag #1 should have been when Chrome could install itself on Windows while bypassing administrator restrictions by not being installed in Program Files.
Buying beach property isn't such a big deal when you're rich - at worst, you lose it, but you're still rich.

As for living in the present... I'm in my 50s, and have a chronic respiratory illness that developed a few years ago, but it has probably been latent since childhood. Today, it's an annoyance to treat and a mild disability. As a child, it would have flat out killed me. That's the change of half a lifetime.
I do, because they are one of the few online collaboration platforms which support LaTeX. I'm not talking about Overleaf, which is great if you want to make a full LaTeX document, I'm talking about an easier markdown editor where LaTeX is only used for math equations. I don't need the full turing-completeness of LaTeX if I'm just taking some notes during a meeting, but I do want to be able to write math formulae and have them display correctly.

This was the sole reason I checked it out, however I have grown to appreciate many of their other features. Their collaboration functionality is quite unique, and the generally smooth way you can add structured information (eg. "todos" with assigned users and due dates) is great.

That being said, it often feels "half-baked" still compared to other solutions. The Paper file organization interface feels like it is just bolted on top of Dropbox's existing interface, and sometimes their formatting is too restrictive (eg. you can't change text alignment). The issue raised in this post is yet another example of the product being half-baked.
Do not forget arts, nutrition, and exercise.
UCI and Zwift sign Memorandum of Understanding for cycling esports discipline
I've always received performance feedback which roughly matched my experience of my productivity.

This comment strikes me as more malicious than is warranted.
I don't actually think that the all people saying the climate will spiral out of control in 12 years are saying what you are attributing to them.

Nuclear is not a panacea, but we should build more because this is a global emergency. There is a racist component to the reaction to climate change because of who is being most immediately impacted (equatorial countries and the poor), but intent doesn't matter, because only action matters.

The science is bland and harsh, and doesn't care about how people consume it. You can put CO2 in an aquarium, seal it, and easily measure the greenhouse effect from CO2 yourself. You can even work out the basics of the relationship of CO2 concentration to degree of warming. This is happening right now - it's not predictions, it is our reality. It will happen to you regardless of how you feel about the discussion on either side of the issue.
> you don't rely on the system package manager seems like a fairly widespread recommendation.

Not from me to others using Fedora, the chrome you get via

dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories

dnf config-manager --set-enabled google-chrome

Is rapidly updated.

As a general rule I use what is in the repo's unless I absolutely can't or the version in the repo is so old that I can't.
> Uber told the Post that it’s “the victim’s choice to report an incident to police,” a position the company tells The Verge it arrived at after consulting experts. That said, the company has started giving people the “option to allow [Uber] to contact law enforcement on their behalf”

This is a reasonable policy and this sentence completely desensationalizes the premise of the article
Those were fringe theories, not mainstream ones like global warming; the comparison is simply bad.
Excluding NZ from world maps is a rather frequent mishap, and it has even become a meme. See https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
Given the depth of our knowledge of the interlinked dynamics of earth's ecosystem, pulling out Geo-engineering is like practicing brain-surgery by whacking a baseball bat to the side of the patient's head.

But hey, I get it. There are profits to be made in Geo-engineering, while no-one will get rich quick from abstinence, right?

I have said this for years. We will not take any action until it is too late, and then we will speed up our demise by trowing a 'Geo-engineering' hail-Mary (using engineering in the name is supposed to give it some merit it doesn't deserve)