skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to feel the same... but once in corporate world, you already get exhausted by the mental pressure in office that you wouldn't want to think more on the same thing, logic, even if its your personal project. Coding is not physically exhausting, but it does use up your brain cells. And after 8-9 hours of screen time, after you reach home, you would definitely want some time off the screen, otherwise it ends up affecting your health.
Usually Contract positions are 30-50% more than a full-time position in terms of pay. This is being conservative and it can also be much more.

The other nice thing is that you are billing hourly rather than salaried (most development positions are salaried) and companies are less-likely to abuse your hours/work life balance.
The truth is that censorship is terrifyingly powerful as most people won't work around it. This is why we must be extraordinarily vigilant in defending our freedom and attacking those who would take it away or those who have taken it away in their countries (Communist Party of China which is now a dictatorship).

Boycott the NBA and Blizzard and support those such as South Park who fight back
The main assumption amongst Superintelligent AI-phobes is that the transition will happen quickly, but that is an assumption that is extremely questionable.

Why wouldn't we go through phases of increasing intelligence (along multiple dimensions) while working towards an intelligent AI? Yes, someday we may produce an AI that is leaps and bounds more intelligent than humans, but before that we will have experience dealing with various human-level and sub-human-level computer intelligences. The idea that AIs will be self-improving is kind of ridiculous -- there are lots of intelligent people, and the idea that an intelligent AI will happen to be good at designing AIs is negligibly small, much less that they will have some kind of immediate breakthrough that enables a higher level of intelligence.

It's not obvious that the path from moderate-intelligent AI to super-intelligent AI is a matter of "just adding more memory and compute"; intelligence as we know it relies too much on associative memory to think that a simple capacity increase will elevate beyond a certain point. If the intelligence takes a different form, then it's hard to make concrete statements about in any capacity, but ultimately the path will be started on by humans, or possibly emerge from sufficiently complex systems.

Either way, we're so far out from this that it is laughable to speculate. When we can simulate the intelligence of a cockroach, then maybe we can start to think about what human-level intelligence will look like. The most likely case is that at some point someone creates a system that is arguably conscious or intelligent in a meaningful way, and then we will devolve back into discussions of consciousness and identity and memory while we try to figure out what it means to think about intelligence now that we have something to benchmark against. I wrote this comment [1], that I still enjoy, in response to a similarly alarmist narrative; posed as fiction in that case rather than masquerading as journalism as in this one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15420699
That could be a big conflict of interest though. What if the intelligent financial decision is not in line with your morals?

I am all for people running away from investing in these companies, but in reality that is a conflicting request of an investor and not something anyone who is focusing on returns will have much patience for or interest in. I just don't think it's going to convince real investors.
You can do high level research before committing to X.

Skimming subject literature, asking others, googling (someone's probably talked about it before), wikipedia, even flipping through X etc. are all useful. Subject areas rarely exist in a vacuum.

A big part of education is learning how to learn things -- it's a metaskill. Knowledge exists in a network, and knowing how to use the network to bootstrap is a tremendously useful skill.
That depends entirely on where you are and who you have to pay taxes to. In Canada, it would be a windfall (like a lottery prize), and therefore not taxable.
My biased opinion: worrying about super intelligent AI taking over the world with current state of technology is equal to worrying about fighting an alien invasion of our colonies in another galaxy.

Both are great topics for a epic book.

Had this discussion with my relative recently and recommend him to stop watching YouTube and start reading books on Introduction to ML.
That might be the best option anyway.

I heard rumors that the original PlayStation copy protection involved introducing an intentional wobble into the tracks who's frequency is reported back to the application by the CD-ROM controller. Full preservation may necessitate your scheme.
Right to internet access was recently construed as fundamental under articles 21 and 21 A of the constitution of India by Kerala high court but is currently not extended to all “integral parts of India”

https://thewire.in/government/home-ministry-believes-in-inte...
> 2- If possible (mobile) use iOS. Android is not robust at all for long term prospects

You can't use mobile at all. Apple requires you to update your app every year to support their new tooling. Just in iOS 13, if your app uses FB login, you need to add Apple Login.

Or, every year, you need to re-generated and update your push notification certificates.

Apple releases a new iPhone and then you have to update your marketing images in the iOS store with the new pixel dimensions. Its never ending.
where I'm from its applied equally

Weren't you saying about people being programmable? Every society throughout history has struggled with administering justice equally. Every single one.
South Park have some great comments for this type of eventd
They do, which is why we consumers have to resort to boycott. It's the only way to make bowing to china a poor financial decision
Require full payment or at least half payment upfront, and don't turn over any work until you get the final payment.
> Tyrants are really sensitive I guess.

Here's a fun game to play: close your eyes and imagine yourself in their shoes, hanging on to power day after day by a thread, relying on fear and coercion to keep on going.

Now comes such an episode making fun of you in front of the people you scare for a living.

What do you do?
I have a hard time with marketing too as it seems the most hustle oriented and requires constant vigilance. My motivation dwindles much past the website/product design but everyone likes the product. My project is stupid simple and has a niche customer base. I don't know but I'm thinking it might be best to hire a marketing person on fiverr or upwork and have them manage marketing. I don't know if the return would be worth it though. Have you looked into hiring someone to do the social/marketing work?
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There are quite a few restrictions in the UK. Anything that is considered hate speech, racism, etc. for example.
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Epstein.
It's an ideology. A religion takes all ideas in and ranks them in a value structure. The singularity is just one idea.
Anybody with good enough lawyers can tell a cop to piss off, you might even get the cop on a hate crime if you're non-white. I've got the same amount of anecdotes to suggest the opposite. My dad got pulled over because he didn't stop at a stop sign for the mandatory 3-mississippi in our neighborhood, and no lack of melanin in his skin would have been enough to prevent the ticket.
I was briefly excited to see this in the article but it looks like these are $10-$30 on ebay, still not worth putting them in a box and mailing them around.
As ridiculous as it sounds a serious benefit to me of owning a Mac is that it's utterly useless for gaming.
Or AI drones that the US will soon be using to kill various people around the world.
The Communist Party of China has throughout the protest been dressing up their agents like protesters and having them do bad things. I'm sure there are a few bad apples among the protesters, but I bet most of what you're seeing is actually government agents.
Seems like the correct thing to do is just to send the very rich person the bill for the costs of investigating their tax arrangements if it is substantially obscure. This would both make investigating these arrangements financially viable and disincentivise people from setting up arrangements like that in the first place.
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> Hate-speech laws exist because people are programmable.

And some people would like to have us programmed with their opinion unchallenged, rather than have their view face opposing arguments in a fair and open debate.

Once you compromise on free speech for some views, it’s all a slippery down-hill slope from there.
> >he should be ruthlessly mocked

> 100% agree. I too, think science needs

The GP is pointing out its not science. Seems a reasonably flame worthy target.
I do have a ton of extra columns I'm filtering out but that's really good. I'll try it on. Thanks!
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> So, it's quite a lot, being "the ingestion pipe" for Facebook.

I see. I walked away from the article with the impression that it was meant to be a log aggregation service a la flume, splunk, or logstash.

> the amount of data is low ("underwhelming") and from your last comment that it's a lot ("that much data").

I was remarking on the numbers in regard to generation, not consumption. Based on the article, my estimate is pointing out that generating 2.5TB/s of transactional logs and telemetry data using "millions" of machines would be technically possible but not reasonably practical...and thus likely not real ;). But, you corrected my understanding: That number isn't based on a different use case.
Is there a recording, paper, or blog post on the gmail session cookies to which you could point me?
Correct. And since the scrambling XOR pattern is known, it's possible to burn a disc that ends up being all zeroes or ones post-scrambling anyway. I'm told such sectors tend to be unreadable, but I haven't tried it.
That's because it's an app, not a site [0]

As @jklinger410 mentioned, it's a combination of notes, to do, personal wiki and other stuff.

[0]: https://www.notion.so
> China pollutes more than the US.

The US outsources pollution to China by outsourcing manufacturing of things that US environmental laws make extra costly to manufacture in the US. Then out of the other side of its mouth the US criticizes China for being a polluter.

Also, accounts of US pollution do not consider the pollution caused by US wars and occupations, which are the single most polluting thing ever done by mankind. China may edge out US private sector pollution, but it's hard to compete with years of oil field fires.

> they are gearing up for a conflict to obtain hegemony

China does not have natural borders (oceans) like the US, so it has more regional vulnerabilities. I don't think there is evidence that China's policies reveal anything more than the typical effort to protect against regional weaknesses.

> Look at countries that fell into the US sphere of influence.

Such as Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, The Philippines? For the most part, US influence is horribly destructive to the democratic process and civil society of any nation it touches.

With respect to European wars, the US eventually decided to stop selling IBM tech to Hitler and to step in and enter the war, but it was already too late to prevent the worst atrocities. Of course the US narrative is that the US saved Europe from self destruction.
I love South Park and it's defense of freedom. We should boycott the NBA and blizzard for their cowardice and putting money ahead of democracy.
> Hum... Are you aware that the UN has no intrinsic power, but is just a forum that hosts diplomatic negotiations?

I was talking about the Security Council which can legalize military interventions either by individual countries or by UN-labeled forces (e.g. as in the Afghanistan War), and can conduct investigatikons into war crime and other international law violations.

> What change do you expect getting rid of the veto would bring?

Right now, the veto powers block consequences for their allies - the US/Israel don't want their numerous illegal acts (regime changes, Iraq/Afghanistan war crimes, their part in the Palestine issue) investigated, the Russians block investigations into the atrocities of Assad's Syrian regime and the Chinese block everything that targets North Korea plus whatever the Russians need support. The only thing that's somehow consistently investigated are crimes of African warlords, creating an additional nasty white supremacism layer on top.
”We’re strongly dissatisfied and oppose Adam Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right to freedom of expression,” CCTV said in a statement. “We believe that any remarks that challenge national sovereignty and social stability are not within the scope of freedom of speech.”

Chinese state television clearly stating that the organization (and government that manages it) does not hold to the principles China agreed to when they voted in favor of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which reads:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/10/8/20904593/nba-china-co...

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
Adding to this: it's not just the textual content. Speech almost always carries an additional layer of information, imprinted by who or whatever spoke the words.
> This is why "cancel culture" needs to end, companies simply shouldn't be getting involved in the speech of an individual.

Wait, are you saying there’s nothing anyone could say to you that would make you not want to work with them?

As long as it’s “just words” you welcome it in your workplace?

There’s no level of verbal abuse that you consider grounds for dismissal?
The name "cancel culture" is a just a rhetorical tactic to punch down at anybody who dares to complain. The ones crying "cancel culture" are the same ones wailing when football players kneel to call attention to abuse, and pass rules to forbid it.

When you do it it's censorship, and when we do it it's patriotism. They needed a dog-whistle to avoid putting it that way, so they seized on "cancel culture".
Sure, you can find blind people with intense interest in visual media. There have to be a few out there. However, a quick google (as you requested) on the art topic seems to indicate that art targeted at the blind is rarely of the painting variety, but of a more tactile sort. This... would not be appreciated in many museums, where touching the exhibits is typically discouraged (Admittedly, audio enjoyment of visual art does exist).

I'm really sick of the argument by outlier where a generally true statement is countered by an outlier case as though that invalidates the whole statement.
For others' convenience:

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

(I was ignorant)
Somehow I am sure if he protested against US government, or climate change, or plastic straws, or patriarchy, or use of wrong pronouns, or anything else we've seen protested against by celebrities lately, Blizzard would probably celebrate it and publish a press release about how brave he (and by extension, they) are.

The cowardice and hypocrisy of US corporations, especially on the background of them pretending to uphold higher values, is astonishing. Good thing it's being revealed so clearly and overwhelmingly. They only understand money - so whoever ever paid them money or intends to - should take note.
> If the state took control of all oil revenues

No. Norway's oil fund is the surplus from oil taxes and exploration licences. Doesn't need 100% nationalisation, Venezuela or a command and control Supreme Soviet.

The UK Energy Minister proposed a national fund in the sixties, the Treasury agreed, but he was overruled by Cabinet. The remnants of the British National Oil Corporation that was going to be responsible for licences and supply was sold off at huge discount as BritOil in the depth of a recession (now part of BP).

> Picking one after the fact that did well

Or we could simply look at what the UK actually did with the oil dividend. Then conclude that anything else would have been better for the UK. A national fund with zero growth or investment. A fund that makes a 20% loss every year. Simply spend it all on modernising infrastructure every year. Better still, a national fund with a conservative growth strategy. Ideally split between a global fund (the $1.1tn) and a national fund, as the Norwegians did.

Per capita not nearly as much as Norway's $200k each certainly, but $20k per person is hardly chicken feed. Whatever, we'd be far better placed for what comes after the oil. Or have $1.2tn+ to decarbonise the whole economy. Or take some of the load off funding state pensions into the future, with an ageing society...

The USA could have achieved a phenomenal fund over the far longer period of US extraction - started in what, the 1890s, who knows what absurd valuation could have been achieved by now. Or the benefits that would bring to pensions or infrastructure.
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I wonder what Chinese citizens think when a popular show like South Park just completely disappears?

I usually appreciate South Park and it's very strong morals. I think we all need to boycott the NBA and Blizzard for putting money over freedom.
I feel like everyone thinks Flint and Erin Brockovich were the only two water incidents in the country. If you look for water pollution news - you'll find that places near garbage dumps are coming up highly toxic, all over the country. Everyone seems to think the administration has it under control. They don't. There is benzene, hexavalent chromium and thousands of pollutants found in our water all over the country. There are literally millions of properties on well water in the country that are not checked but once every 20 years (if that). The only fix is rain catchment, before it goes into the ground. Soil remediation and stopping people from contaminating!!!! In all political parties groundwater and soil contamination is going to come to a head soon.
Viewing the git history is one of the handful of things where I prefer a GUI (gitg) instead of the git command line.
You're attempting to refute an absolute statement with a relative one; "--- are oppressed" / "--- are less oppressed than ever." These two statements are logically consistent.

I question your definition of "objectively" in this situation
We should protest the hospitals, that's a ridiculous policy.

Plenty of people aren't getting married today and are in long term relationships equivalent to old-school marriage. My spouse and I have made it a point not to.
Climate models indicate it's not too late to avoid a 2°C average temperature increase by 2100 if our energy matrix and heavy industries (concrete, steel and fertilizers) move away from fossil fuels. This takes political conviction and government policy, which in turn requires correct understanding of the situation.

"it's too late" is a dangerous statement because it suggests actions no longer matter. And if no action is taken, several climate models project >4 °C average warming. The majority of the planet will be become uninhabitable at the current human density levels, with billions of people having to relocate and/or die.
Probably the same time we went from calling AI an actual sentient being or Consciousness to calling AI something that, as you called it, is a series of non-liners functions that have meaning to us.

What I used to call AI is now called AGI. I think of AI as Data from Star Trek.
Probably it's the http://exponential.com (it's the recruiters email domain). Btw. HTTPS is not working, plus there's a bunch of tracking scripts.
I wrote a short Python script which cross-references the W3W word list with a homophones list[1], and found this:

census,senses
choral,coral
clairvoyance,clairvoyants
collard,collared
confectionary,confectionery
disburse,disperse
epic,epoch
equivalence,equivalents
hurdle,hurtle
incidence,incidents
incite,insight
incompetence,incompetents
independence,independents
innocence,innocents
instance,instants
intense,intents
lightening,lightning
ordinance,ordnance
overdo,overdue
parse,pass
pokey,poky
precedence,precedents,presidents
purest,purist
recede,reseed
sari,sorry
senses,census
variance,variants
verses,versus

Those aren't sound-alikes, they're straight-up homophones. If we cross-referenced against a list which contained sound-alikes, I'm sure we'd end up with a much larger list of collisions.

EDIT: This is the script:

with open('word_data.txt') as f:
words = set(l.strip() for l in f.readlines())

with open('homophones.txt') as f:
for l in f.readlines():
l = l.strip()
homophone_group = (h.strip('*') for h in l.split())
filtered_homophone_group = tuple(h for h in homophone_group if h in words)
if len(filtered_homophone_group) > 1:
print(','.join(filtered_homophone_group))

The `strip('*')` bit is needed because my copy/paste into homophones.txt pulled in some asterices(sp?) and I didn't want to go through and fix them manually.

[1] http://homophonelist.com/homophones-list/
The ones I know here in the Portland tech scene are aligned with the Democrats/left here in the US, but they praise Modi and his policies.
I don't know enough about India's politics nor Modi (beyond the spattered news articles I read every now and then) to understand why, but they seem to be conflicting positions to me.
Perhaps rather than object to the court's decision it would be wiser to put energy towards updating the ADA to include standards for electronic access.
True, and as upsetting as it is for Americans to hear this, chances are Europe would be at least as pluralistic and free as it is today had either of those happened.
I think we all need to boycott Blizzard and the NBA for putting money over freedom and democracy.
Look awesome, and although the license is definitely NOT open source (although you DO say the parts that people care the most are best-effort open source to the community), this has the potential to motivate other people to work on similar projects or suggest improvements to yours.

However...
The beauty of Zapier relies on its amount of pluggable blocks. I don't think there's anyone in this market that has as many operations as Zapier and using custom blocks you can do pretty much anything. Yes I am totally a fan of Zapier as I have been using it for years!
Zapier is like LEGO, there are many clones of LEGO but only one true LEGO (ouch my feet hurt just by thinking about it ;) )
I really hope you can get people to contribute more and more integrations as that's what really matters at the end of the day: The ability to use little or no-code to achieve automation between various platforms!
My team at Microsoft maintains an open source browser extension for this called Accessibility Insights (https://accessibilityinsights.io), which is what Microsoft recommends internally for its own teams developing websites.

It offers a fast 5 minute scan for some of the most common/easily detectable issues, and also a much fuller assessment with a mix of automated checks and guided/assisted manual tests that aims to help web developers who aren't accessibility experts achieve full WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.

Happy to answer any questions about it!
I feel the situation is generally the opposite. We don't like systems that rely on such AI. In fact, there aren't systems that rely on such AI in general- any that claim there are are in fact tens of thousands of human contractors sacrificing their psychological health to train an AI that still kinda sucks at deciding when to block graphic content on facebook.