skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had sexual relations with a 23 year old when I was 16. Not by a long shot would I describe that as rape. I also then and now would not consider myself a "child" at 16.

This is a very new and very strange trend to redefine all teenagers as children and the moral panic around this is interesting to say the least. The extreme backlash against any slight questioning of this is likewise something people should be skeptical about.

Your counter-examples are historically poor choices as 50 years ago (less in many parts of the US) the majority of people would have seen homosexuality as a perversion indistinguishable from pedophilia (attraction to pre-pubescent children, not 17 years olds), and miscegenation, a word we don't even use any more, would have held the same status if you go back just a bit further.

Again, 50 years ago you could just have been one of the people who would have said "... you'll conclude that sodomy is one of the bad things" or go back another 50 and "... you'll conclude that intermixing pure blood is one of the bad things"

This moral absolutism is definitely not part of a "bright line" in our culture, and its sudden and rapid emergence needs both more questioning and more understanding. Of course anyone who proposes this is a "child rapist" in your view so we likely won't get much discourse on this topic anytime soon.
Well, did you know what Big G used to say?

Company X has just gone Google!

To answer your question on why this happened?, Google has just gone Google!
Yeah, that's how I'm doing them. Agreed, great narration.
Branko Milanovic is one of my favorite researchers.

His "Elephant Curve" is well-know. His book "The Haves and the Have-Nots" is excellent.

I used his dataset to replicate his results to show inequality in an interactive form here:

https://income-inequality.info
Fear seems to be a complex autonomically mediated phenomenon elicited by both instinctually determined and learned responses to some stimuli. It’s adaptive and critical to the survival of any organism. No one can completely eliminate fear from their biological repertoire anymore than they can stop recoiling from a loud noise. At best, all that can be done is tame the behavioral response to a probable stimulus.
This review offers some definitions which may be useful: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)...
I'm a huge fan of Egan's work, but his writing definitely has its strengths and weaknesses.

In addition to being an "ideas man", I think his prose is generally excellent. He has a real talent for crafting sentences that are clear, concise, descriptive, and often evocative. (He's mentioned that outside of his writing career, he's a programmer, and I get the sense that any technical documentation he produced would be a joy to read.) It's a testament to his skill that his work is as comprehensible as it is.

The downside is that he has a tendency to write character dialogue the same way he writes everything else. Every sentence is carefully constructed to advance an argument, or to reveal a specific detail about a character's viewpoint. The characters end up feeling less like fully-realized people, and more like mouthpieces in a Socratic dialogue.

I agree with the recommendation to start with his short stories. Of the ones that are legally available online, I'd suggest "Singleton" (http://www.gregegan.net/MISC/SINGLETON/Singleton.html) as a good starting point.
»If you need to transition from TF1 to TF2, consider doing the TF1 to pytorch transition instead.»

- that’s exactly what we did and we don’t regret that decision
We're just in different fields. The OP of the post was a graphics engineer, as am I. We drink to celebrate when we shave off a millisecond haha.
It was! Same day I made the account, all I did was follow people, never posted myself.
This is probably my all-time favorite article on the internet. I've brought it up in conversation dozens of times when referring to ways to control computers. It's why I don't really use phones for anything beyond answering phone calls and handling urgent tasks when I'm not at home/office. I just feel like I have very little control over these devices, unlike the massive control with a keyboard or mouse, or even better, a fork and spoon when eating dinner (although despite its high degree of control, you can't control a computer with them).

Tech innovators and its users/consumers need to think outside of the box more often for ways to control computers. Given a physical UI device, you can place it on a spectrum of "computer-friendly to human-friendly". Touch screens are computer-friendly because it's trivial for computers to understand and developers to interact with. The downside is that users feel distanced from their control, so it is difficult to use efficiently. But developers are smarter than users at UI---the difficulty should be put on them instead, to control their software/OS.

I've imagined things like stress balls with "electric muscles" for feedback to control various applications, a cube with the ability to change its texture with suction/servos, and things like https://roli.com/products/seaboard or https://www.expressivee.com/buy-touche except for general computing applications rather than music performance. Who knows what could be invented if customers could be convinced their computing experience can be improved with better physical interfaces.
Correct, which is option 1 from the parent post. MisterBastahrd seems to believe that the NCAA can just say "you have to follow these rules if you join us even if you're from CA", which is not true because the bill outlaws those rules.

The 4th option that they're suggesting only serves to open them up to lawsuits should they ever try to enforce the rule for CA players.
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I mean look at Robert Pera, the founder of Ubiquiti Networks but started working on his idea while at Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pera
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Eventually you will be the greatest fool.
Ah, yes! Jeremy Irons in that board room... wow!
I have long thought the NCAA model actually does a lot to undermine/harm "student"-athletes as well.

Not only can they not make money and send it home ... they can't even make enough money for a normal social life. It's no wonder players (especially from poor backgrounds) end up making dumb choices and find themselves in bad situations.

At a basic level, you've got division one basketball players who don't even have enough cash to take somebody out on a normal date. It's no wonder a lot of players end up at parties in dumb situations every year - they can't afford paid entertainment to stay out of trouble.
> very curious to hear about any startup unicorns that are profitable or at least have a clear roadmap to profitability and not based on a business model that will be outlawed in a few years

Stripe. Recently valued at $35 Billion, although they being profitable is unlikely now considering their phase of international expansion; IMO it does check rest of your questions just because their growth is directly tied to the growth of their customers.
they were all operating (and may still be) from within the reality distortion field. the field covers the valley and beyond.
This is where I think the argument falls down. They do get a free ride. That might not seem like much, but I worked full time while going to school full time. I could have created a lucrative start-up in the hours I was working to pay for school. The athletes also get the primetime TV exposure and ESPN highlights that lead to a chance for $MM contracts. They also get some of the best training and coaching facilities that money can buy.

I get that the players are taken advantage of but so do all of our employers. They aren't slaves, they can try out for professional sports around the world right out of high school and start making money. It will probably be less but they have options.

The one fallout of this is that there are lots of collegiate sports that will go away. They schools won't pay the money for the field hockey team so all the players can get a salary.

All this to say that this is much more grey than a lot of people think it is. I think the right solution is to get rid of college athletics completely. Move it to an intramural setup. All the other leagues can create their own farm systems like baseball has and people can start having minor league NFL and NBA teams in their middle sized towns instead.
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That's not correct.

The reason public spaces are safe is because it's hard to randomly kill people in public spaces and get away with it

While you are correct that most people don't want to randomly kill people in public spaces a non trivial amount of people do.

It's only the thin slice of that small group that want to kill people and don't care if they live after that we've had to worry about to date, and we see them in the form of suicide bombers or that Las Vegas shooter from last year.

We will have much bigger problems when it's possible for people to kill large swathes of innocent people and have a high probability of getting away with it.
At the very least it means being able to do things like offer coaching or training services or even just run a lawnmowing business under their own name, which is prohibited by NCAA rules.
When I transitioned to female, one thing I was told early on was that I shouldn't put my tops in the dryer anymore, because the dryer will wreck them. So nowadays I hang-dry all my tops.

And one interesting side-effect of my transition is that I actually like the feel of clothes now. Stretchy materials are so much more comfortable. I've never been able to stand the feel of cotton against my skin, and I'm so glad I get to wear clothes made of stretchy softness now. If I had my way, everything I wear would be made of rayon and spandex.
Just to reiterate the point above, they're not entirely unpaid, unless they're a walk-on. Scholarship players receive tuition, housing, food, health care, clothing, professional career prep beyond the classroom, supplemental tutoring, a stipend, and all kinds of other benefits.

It's not as cut and dry as, they get nothing. The all in spend on a College Football player annually is probably well over $80k.
there has been no real warfare since WW2.
Well, the answer is that since the market has been flush with cash, these companies kept raising more and more money in their rounds. The guys in the early rounds will make their money, but the later rounds ( Softbank) will lose it. VC is a massive bet, Softbank started a new vision fund worth 100B.
They know exactly what they are doing. But, with WeWork, they probably thought they could keep the charade long enough to go IPO and get unsuspecting investors in the IPO.
When a company is hot, the founders have massive leverage, look at Adam Neumann , employing his family and friends at all key positions.
I'm actually looking to learn PyTorch. Where's the best place to start?
Perhaps tomorrow you will reconsider the idea that people who come later in history are automatically better moral judges.
I think this comes up against a fairly fundamental difference in opinions that people have.

Some people believe that discrimination on the basis of race/sex/etc is bad. By that standard, discrimination in favor of women is also bad.

Other people believe that imbalance is bad, and thus discrimination should be used to counteract this.

IMO people with the second opinion probably shouldn't call what they dislike "discrimination".
Sure...in peacetime.
The IOC removed the requirement to be an amateur in 1971. The requirement of the USOC for US athletes to be amateurs was eliminated in 1978. Individual sport associations still prevented professionals participating in some sports until 1986. Since 1986 all Olympic sport have allowed professionals.
Good old Wikipedia have some more info, filed under flippy disk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_variants#Flippy_di...
People on the internet seem regularly shocked to learn that there are real-life individuals who support Trump, are pro-CCP and don't consider every interaction with a Russian national to be treason.
It is still pretty much the same, the UW stipend in Seattle is enough to rent an apartment in a nice neighborhood and eat well. Not an extravagant life but no one is going even 20k into debt, let alone 50,100,200k that people do for other professional paths.

I know Stanford PhDs have even higher stipends to offset the costs of Palo Alto.
People only read, what they want to read it seems. Nothing new.

But if you want it explained, well above I just said, that many (not all!) IT nerds still fullfill the stereotype in my experience.

And the stereotype is unwashed nerds, who have never been close to a women in a way they wanted, but they want to, but don't know how. So they behave weird with women around.

That makes women uncomfortable and avoiding the scene. Not long hair.
That’s not the worst for sure. Now not packing a proper italicized version leaving the text renderer to draw each glyph at an angle to make oblique text (which is the difference between oblique and italic) for a truly hideous result.
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I guess today I’m the victim of the psyop, heh.
At the same time - there are a lot of wealthy alumni from schools without a noteworthy program that would be more than happy to directly play some players to come put their alma matter on TV for a couple seasons.
The analogy doesn't totally fit. There's nothing to stop a college student from also playing a pro sport outside of college, either.

I'm still in favor of college athletes getting paid endorsements if only because the practical alternative is rampant corruption, but college athletics are hosted and promoted by the colleges.

That's a distinction that matters.
the worst argument I've heard from skeptics associated with the NCAA is "THE COLLEGE PLAYERS ARE ALREADY PAID!". As if forcing young student athletes who are often from very low income families to resort to illegal bribes is a better solution than regulated endorsements for something they're absolutely entitled to.
It actually sounds kinda like it:

"We are inventing a new computational
medium where people work together
with real objects in the real world, not
alone with virtual objects on screens."
It wouldn't be "completely unpredictable".... pulling some numbers from a hat, let's say powered-ship takes 6 days, wind-ship takes 8-11 days. Depending on the severity of being late you would plan for perhaps 10 days. Or 12 days if missing your port slot is severe. You would be able to track the wind ship, so your window of arrival will narrow as the journey progresses. There must be a portion of the industry that will navigate this complexity in exchange for the fuel-free benefits.
Zig and Rust both don't have a runtime/GC, they should be on par with performance in C, meaning they are slightly faster than the others (of course this all depends). Go is the only one you listed that doesn't have some kind of parametric polymorphism support (generics). Rust is the only one that will validate your program is memory safe at compile time, they call this 'data race freedom'.

I think in the end it's really up to your tastes which you prefer. Have a look at the tenets of each of the languages and see which resonates with you.
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Many labels own equity in Spotify. Those royalties just go back to them. Those equity deals are controversial among artists big and small. [1]

Most labels that invested in Spotify cashed out and sold in the IPO. It was hugely lucrative! In retrospect it looks like the right choice but what does it all mean? [2]

There is no certainty about Spotify's performance in public markets.

Netflix's original content push was fundamentally vanity-driven. If you're going to permit hindsight and say "That was a good idea," House of Cards's lead actor was a well-known predator even then, just not yet disgraced. So the success of original content, which literally everyone at Netflix is incentivized to make you believe occurred due to the sheer brilliance of blowing $100 million on a TV show, is undoubtedly as much attributable to exquisitely good timing as anything else.

All the other comments don't really know what they're talking about.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/24/taylor-swif...

[2] http://copyright.nova.edu/spotify-stock/
When CO2 last was as high as it is today, we didn't have a planet with 8 billion people to support either. In fact, there were no people at all.
What are these numbers, D0, P5, G5?
They didn't go to Stanford. /snark
> You can never feel like you are somewhere else - or something immaterial is with you - until a full sensory experience coalesces, even if it's "low resolution."

I'm not sure I agree with that. Games like Beat Saber and the old demo of Budget Cuts have really made me feel like I'm inside another world, particularly when I was newer to VR.

I say "not sure" because we're not necessarily talking about the same thing—the above are "games" or at least "experiences", not "interfaces. You don't really touch anything in Beat Saber, except for the blocks where a strong rumble is sufficient. Harder to do that in a UI.
> In another sense, doesn’t the existence of long-term negative interest rates suggest that some people/institutions have more money than they can productively use?

Yes. This is why venture capital is a thing, why it's so easy to get funding for a variety of businesses, and why hedge funds that have very modest returns are popular.

> If so, this would seem to be a pretty clear argument for wealth re-distribution in the name of poverty alleviation and reducing economic inefficiency.

Inflation is wealth redistribution. By reducing the real value of money, it benefits those who are engaged in economic activity and makes sitting on money a losing proposition.

Actual wealth redistribution is a bad idea because it reduces incentives to invest or engage in economic activity and encourages capital flight.
> If you believe in evolution, you have to believe in the genetic determinism of genes.

The determinism part doesn't follow. Evolution works on probabilities, so you have to believe that genes influence the outcome. Influence. That's all that's needed.
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Wouldn't a better analogy be to give free food and housing to women, but not to men?
I was reading this blog post by Fred Wilson last night and I think this unlocked a key insight for me[1]. WeWork (Uber, Peloton, Lyft, AirBnB, etc...) are not software companies. None of these businesses sell software, they use software to enable them to sell their end product: Commercial Real Estate (Rides/Freight/Food/Bikes, Exercise Bikes/Treadmills, Rides/Bikes, Home Rentals, etc...).

The mis-calculation that I made was that I thought using software to enhance a legacy business was something that public market investors would apply a high valuation multiple to. What it looks like is happening is that public market investors are comparing these companies to traditional industry companies they already know.

The interesting note is that Amazon, Google and Facebook all stumbled out of the gate, but they were able to pivot to selling software. Amazon with AWS, Google with Search Ads, and Facebook with Mobile Ads. I think this is the pivot that's going to have to happen for the latest round of companies that aren't doing so hot right now to start throwing off cash and increasing their valuations.

[1] - https://avc.com/2019/09/the-great-public-market-reckoning/
You created an account just to say this?
But I can't choose for you and vice versa. Agreements and treaties do a good job but a cursory reading of history indicates that they can also be violated.
> Shaw has been said to purchase tickets for several different flights on the same day in case his plans change.

Hard to reconcile that with David not choosing to fly private. Maybe he has environmental concerns, but I would guess he exclusively flies private, especially since this article claims he's a little OCD about controlling every part of every process.

With regards to "buying" his kids' way into college, it doesn't look like there's any evidence that this was David's goal other than coincidental timing. But beyond that, David doesn't need to buy his kids' way into these colleges. Colleges love to accept the children of billionaires. Nothing is better than linking up an intellectual class with the wealthy class, and letting the melding of capital and innovation create powerful and successful alumni.
Hear, hear! DA is my favorite; love the Turing machine castle.
Observed facts of Google Trends:

1. Erlang/Elixir are less than 1% of programming languages market.

2. Erlang/Elixir popularity is trending down.
The IOC is 100% an athletic association. And they absolutely prohibit athletes from accepting many forms of paid endorsements. I'm not sure to what extent they have "authority over intercollegiate athletics", but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of college sports defer to rules created by the IOC governing bodies. E.g. I wasn't a swimmer in college, but it wouldn't surprise me if the bylaws of college swimming called for the use of Olympic size pools.
There's a lot to family background. I went to a division 1 school and while I didn't personally know any of the "big name" players, it was obvious life was a lot less comfortable for many of them (even with a certain future in the NBA) than the walk-on with no professional ambition but a surgeon for a parent.
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The latter. Zig actually kinda does define this behavior as "`a + b` shall not overflow" and inserts checks in debug and safe builds for it. To get overflow, which zig defines as wrapping overflow, you use a different operator and no check is inserted "`a +% b`". For speed optimized builds, unless you've explicitly told the compiler to insert checks in that scope, it will turn the checks into nops.

So, while it is technically correct to say that it has undefined behavior for overflow, the practical reality is quite different.
Ah, that makes sense.

"V8 changes such that alterations in general are difficult to maintain."
> The method to walk must be encoded in the horse's DNA.

A bodily and neurological structure capable of walking must emerge in the horse's phenotype as a result of development in the horse's environment guided by its genes.

It sounds like the same thing, but it's not. Genes do not encode anything explicit except RNA and protein sequences. Everything else is emergent. They are not a blueprint. Birth a horse on the Moon and I'm not sure if it would be able to walk as quickly.
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Correct. The university also provides tremendous support in media training and publicity garnering. For example, when you see a media interview blitz for a Heisman candidate - that's certainly not being organized by the 20 year old athlete.

It will be interesting to see the schools strong-arm athletes into giving a revenue cut.
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