skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I get that, and there are some subjects where I spend an unhealthy amount of my personal time debating with people on the internet. I catch myself in the same traps. I am careful to edit my comments before submitting them though, because I realize how it might be read by someone else. My point is your anger is apparent, and it takes away from your credibility.

Anyway, how you present yourself is clearly your decision. I was just trying to add some perspective.

Cheers.
Researchers are able to correctly classify human skulls into black and white Americans a vast majority of the time.
> What functionally changes for our existential understanding of the universe?

The anthropic principal becomes less compelling; to say nothing of the religious implications.
True, it's very easy to make your code unreadable but other languages have the same drawback too. I would never pick it as the language for team projects. But with Perl you can really pack a lot of power into each line of code. It's hard to beat for scripting.
Sent away sounds quite harsh. Ran off with that dashing young noble who was passing through would be just as fine as an explanation.

"Strontium levels from three men, in contrast, showed that although they had left the valley as teens, they returned as adults."
And if you would like to visit a place that is tacitly backed by Scott Alexander as a place to discuss cultural phenomena with a wide variety of backgrounds, visit https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/
So are you actually concerned about CO2 driven climate change or asteroid strikes? What about all the other things that could potentially eliminate civilization?

Something something Pascal's wager...

People constantly talk about "externalities", which implicitly means the downside of using fossil fuels isn't infinite. Equivocating between "infinite" and "actually a rather small amount on a global scale" makes anyone paying attention tune out. You've got to consistently fake sincerity to influence people. Or I used to think so.
Paw, too
Can someone give me an endorsement for cs.CR on ArXiv?
What's the catch? I can't find a pricing page. This looks like something that could be potentially more expensive than Ghost.
I'd argue that the jump from 0 to 1 of "knowledge of life on other planets" would be huge. Currently, we have an almost pseudo-religious understanding of what place life holds in the universe, but that's based on the fact that when we've looked up at the cosmos for all of history, it seemed impossibly devoid of anything familiar. The discovery of life on another planet (even if that life somehow originated on Earth), turns the proposition of finding intelligent life elsewhere from at best a 50/50 question of belief into a near certainty. And that is huge.
> no one anticipated the reaction from lawmakers and rules agencies

Everyone should have anticipated that reaction. Finance is filled with smart people trying to pull fast ones. Regulators and lawmakers are sensitive to being blindsided, moreso with anti-money laundering.

The moment I saw the announcement I knew they screwed up. So did everyone in D.C. who isn’t selling blockchain consulting. It was hamfistedly introduced by the wrong people (Facebook) at the wrong time.
The word “nation” as you quoted above isn’t present in the post by Blizzard linked here. Is your quote from another Blizzard statement somewhere?
Presuming SpaceX pull off their plans, there will be trips to and from Mars. We'd better be pretty sure what microbes we're being exposed to or bringing back to Earth before we do.

Or we might get a repeat of when the Spanish brought disease to the Inca and Maya.

The mere knowledge of life is viable off-Earth is huge. If we find it on our nearest neighbour, the chances of encountering it elsewhere rise markedly. Hopefully it would trigger a search elsewhere in the solar system, like Europa.
As far as I know, there is no way to use Neural Engine without going through Core ML. This does not go through Core ML, hence this can't use Neural Engine hardware acceleration.
So... people specifically opted in to release their photos under a Creative Commons license, and now they're outraged that people are using the photos under the terms of the license?

And some of them chose a license that required attribution, and now they're outraged that the photos are attributed to them?
Here’s a good intro from strangeloop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvNRlE4E9QQ
No, because the origin of life on Mars would probably be the same event as on Earth, with life having been transferred by impact ejecta. It would not allow us to conclude that origin of life was common.
> It would be abnormal in say, C#, to dock points because of C interop.

Not really. WinForms is a lot of the reason for C#'s existence, and WinForms is just a wrapper around pinvoke'd Win32. You're crossing the boundary a lot.

> For many use cases a lightweight RPC layer between two apps will give better throughput, something that also is done in production to great effect.

I have a hard time believing that RPC can possibly be faster than cgo. You have the overhead of message serialization and deserialization, two message copies (into the kernel and out of the kernel), two context switches, and a trip through the OS scheduler.
We did get a change to the tax law during Trump's administration, so it's not totally impossible.
I have no interest in Libra, but the fact that government basically bullied these companies out of this initiative is alarming. If the regulators think that they should scrutinize these companies deeper, being involved in Libra should not matter. It's like saying, "withdraw from Libra and we'll continue to look the other way on your sketchy non-Libra activities".
Climate change is the cause of carbon emissions? So what does that mean, we have to have an ice age to eliminate fossil fuels? How do we do that, lots of nuclear testing?
Exactly.

Most of the time it is either a small number of users, or it is not used that frequently.

Since developers/designers probably cost more than the end-users of the application, most businesses consider it OK to push that cost to the actual user.
1. It comes in the box.

2. It allows me to have 7 inboxes routed to one view

3. It's pretty fast.

4. While "boring", It usually" just works.
Do you really need a botanist on board? I would think you need space travel / survival / engineering hands on deck who then gather samples and bring them back. A botanist isn’t going to be able to do much on Mars that she can’t do on Earth.
It was posted by Blizzard's partner in China, NetEase, on an official Blizzard account on weibo.
Religion will have absolutely no problem to adapt to new information and incorporate it as though it had always been there. This has happened time and again in the past to the point where the religions of old would have been in direct contradiction with even the most basic scientific knowledge if they didn't adapt. The funny thing is that the so-called holy books are full of stuff that no sane human would believe in. That doesn't stop a lot of people from doing just that when those books are creatively re-interpreted by intermediaries.

Religion will last for a very long time into the future, forget about major lasting change on that front other than some rearguard action to ensure survival.
It's up to you. I followed along with your questions, in the typical order, so you can just add in the matching headers if you like.

The notable difference is that I'm a former maintainer. Also, it was core system utilities written in C.
tl;dr
Our top analysts have determined that the amount of money lost by people being upset about this is still less than the amount we would lose by losing business with China.
- MSM is a propaganda organ.

- psychology is a pseudocience focused on acclimating people to--rather than rescuing people from--systemic abuse.

- Israel / AIPAC has deeply penetrated our government, and has been using us to settle scores in the middle east for at least two decades.

- until you personally repeat it in the lab, what most call "science" is actually a megachurch religion--much more about money than truth or salvation.

- all of the tranny-mogrification "science" is of this sort. See David Reimer story. First, bad psychology to cover up a botched circumcision. Then another layer of bad psychology for good measure. Now that there are both medical and political industries around it, we'll surely have an endless supply of bogus papers to keep the wheels of the gravy trains well oiled.
If red-indian gets a sports almanac, how about a couple trifectas for the HN folks?
Your differentiation between "intelligence" and "other skills" partially refutes Paul's point in the article. If we were to take your definition, Paul's saying that physicists, because they're better at ratiocination should be good enough at french literature to get a PHD, but based on your claim french literature involves a host of abilities that have nothing to do with intelligence (not strict ratiocination or problem solving) so how could we possibly conclude from the fact that physicists are better at ratiocination that they're therefore better equipped to learn about French literature than french lit profs are to learn about ratiocination and subsequently physics?

It's also predicated on an imprecise and singular use of the term "reason". Do you mean calculation? Or do you mean analogical thinking (the construction of metaphors, "grasping concepts"), for instance, both of which could be called forms of reason but both of which are very different.

It's a totally inane question.

Claims like Paul's are just the intellectual equivalent of chest puffing. Don't get roped into the stupidity. This kind of attitude causes divisions and turns you into a prideful douche. It's indicative most of all that the author takes an extreme pride in whatever he takes to be his "intellect." Goliaths' waiting for their Davids.

As for the skeptics, what I mean is that working scientists usually can't engage in radical questioning--this is left to mathematicians (in the pure sense) and philosophers. They need to have faith, just like everyone else, that their systems work. While the application of reason provides probabilistic assurances around certainty you leave the realm of complete, inviolable certainty as soon as you exit the heaven of pure theory and turn it into practice.
> Also a dead planet means the idea of the Monotheistic God kind of remains.

I don't follow why life on another planet would have any bearing on the idea of a Monotheistic God.
This is probably your best bet: https://makerdao.com/en/whitepaper
Why was Stripe even in it in the first place?
Just got an 11 Pro and some notifications don’t vibrate, other notifications no longer show up even though they have permissions to and are set to. Sometimes iMessages won’t vibrate either.

It’s a mess and I can’t trust my phone to notify me. Now I have to constantly be checking it
In Amazon’s HQ, First-of-its-kind family shelter takes shape for Mary’s Place
Sorry, but I am going to call this a pile of BS. Do you really have any proof of this? I am really surprised that you are upvoted on this, considering that on HN everyone requires proof of some sort (most of the time).
One of his latest interviews was with EuroNews in 2017 (https://youtu.be/2qEM6Unzsm4), and he sounded very impressive for his age, in comparison with what you are trying to convey.
And I am sure (judging from his multiple interviews), he could keep track of his time much better than you are anyways.
P.S @kingkawn - do you have any interviews/profiles with any major news companies to prove your creds for verification to substantiate your claims?
Embracing Popper's thesis implies the existence of a line separating "tolerant ideologies" from "intolerant ideologies". Who is going to define that line?

Knowing how the world works, I don't suspect, but I know it will be used to suppress things that the mob doesn't agree with, while that same mob preaches ideologies more violent and intolerant than the ones they suppress.

Popper's opinion only makes sense when the person in power (or the mob) is never wrong, and that never happens.
Against individual officers though? That is what's absurd.

And what of Twitter and Telegram and Messenger and Gmail and Weechat and Outlook?

This is also the same organization whose spokesperson that called a protestor being brutalized by officers a "yellow object" and who have been routinely documented fabricating evidence. Taking their word at face value is patently absurd.

Tim's statement doesn't add up.
If the craft actually creates a 'vacuum' at the quantum level it seems superficially reasonable to think that it might jam conventional radar as an effect of how it 'deals with energy' rather than an intentional jamming system.

But I must admit I know very little about these things.
I've been wondering about this for a while. This one shows up ranked fairly highly on Google searches for alloy. I was very confused but I suspect it's an identically or confusingly named fork. But when I first discovered it, I spent a while assuming that development had just migrated to GitHub.

Has the original alloy gone unmaintained?
You sound like such a monumental asshole, fuck you
A botanist was the protagonist of The Martian.
Why having a 1000s buffered channel is useful in this case? If it's unbuffered, you still get the backpressure blocking on writers as a feature, since you have a worker queues of thousands of goroutines to read and handle them.
Sure, it's more practical, but it's still an inane rule.
Python and Perl have almost exactly the same OO model, yet many people quite like Python's OO, so that can't be it surely...

There's no private data or private methods in Python objects. All the properties are right there for anyone to read, protected only by convention.

JavaScript and Perl have almost exactly the same OO model, yet many people quite like JavaScript's OO, so that can't be it, surely...

There's no private data or private methods in JavaScript objects. All the properties are right there for anyone to read, protected only by convention.

(It's closer than it looks. Perl's "bless" function means almost the same as JavaScript's ".__proto__ =", and inside-out data hiding is possible in JavaScript much the same as Perl, although hardly anyone uses it in either language.)
A lot of my coworkers were getting hung up on this point too. I think they're just emphasizing that large channel buffers can hide concurrency problems, so you want to be careful when using them.

The last sentence in the recommendation emphasizes this: use them with scrutiny.
This post seems to blame the administrators for picking a product based on checklist. The problem is if the administrator is concerned about his end user, he would consult his end users who will end up giving him a checklist of features which would still be a problem.
This missing piece is discussions on user experience, which for enterprise software, would need to be done on a case by case basis.
Pagan Viking society entailed many sons going on trading and raiding expeditions, sometimes never to return. It was not uncommon for both father and son to leave on the same trip, and young men were often recruited or enslaved by passing ships. Given such an unpredictable environment, the best way to ensure stability and the continuation of the family estate was to grant inheritance rights to the women who stayed home.

For those interested in a classic adventure novel set in that era, I recommend "The Long Ships" by Frans Bengtsson. The latest edition's foreword is written by Michael Chabon.
“When I am Weaker Than You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.”

― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
>we've looked up at the cosmos for all of history, it seemed impossibly devoid of anything

This is popularly misunderstood. We obviously don't see Type 3 civilizations, but if another of our own civilization was in our galaxy, we would have had an very small to extremely small chance of seeing it.

I'd wager life is everywhere, and just as is the case on earth, it pays, in terms of survival, to blend in with your surroundings.
Every time this topic comes up someone posts this Popper argument.

The problem, in my opinion, with this argument is that it is spoken from a position of moral superiority. When deciding whether to surpress an idea by force, who is making that decision? Why is that person or group correct about the matter?

My major issue is that the people using this argument are usually so adamant about an idea they can’t see any flaws in their reasoning and believe they are correct without a doubt.

Can no one think of a time in the past when the “right” move to surpress or perpetuate an idea ended up being something that was regretted in the future?

Can you be sure that the decision you are making now will be looked back on favorably?

On one side of this argument, I can imagine this being a solid strategy to prevent another Nazi Germany style idea from taking over.

However, on the other hand, I see this being used to conveniently sweep ideas under the rug that are not favorable, but may not be as dangerous as they are made out to be (think Fahrenheit 451 or 1984).

So to summarize, I don’t think people should just drop this argument and call it a day. I’d love to see more discussion rather than ad hominem attacks.

/rant
Most languages have a GC so there really is no ownership to pretend away (if you like, everything is owned by the GC). Rust can be super cool without inventing fake problems for other languages.
The reference above is to the book "The Martian" by Andy Weir. Also a movie starring Matt Damon. Good read. Highly recommend!

Xkcd reference that got me to read it: https://xkcd.com/1536/
> What functionally changes for our existential understanding of the universe? I'd argue little to nothing.

It depends on how different it is chemically form earth life. If it is similar enough that it shares a common origin, it's no big deal. If it isn't, then that's a massive deal because it means life originated twice in one solar system, therefore is probably widespread.
https://www.federaltimes.com/opinions/2019/04/18/dear-bureau...
Products die young or live long enough to become complex "enterprise software" that a subset of its users hate immensely.

I would also like to point out enterprises have unique and complex workflows which require these softwares to have such complexity. I worked for a a big bank and every new manager/director/partner tried to bring in change by introducing more complex workflows and more checks.

So it's not a software problem its a people problem. It starts of as a thing that could be done on a white board and then you end up using complex Service now UI to do the same stuff.
Fair point. I wholeheartedly agree. The issue is, it is not the humanities profs, in this case, or at this time, that are claiming intellectual superiority. (funnily enough, it's not even a physicist that's claiming the intellectual superiority for physicists, but rather a venture capitalist computer scientist--this should be nice flag as to the dubiousness of the claim).
It does not need to be the background. You can check context cancellation without any goroutines by:

select {
default:
case <-ctx.Done():
return ctx.Err()
}

When there's no other channels to select with the context, just use that code block between lengthy operations to check context cancellation and return early.

(If you are curious about how many extra time is wasted, it's easy to write a benchmark test for that. Last time I checked it was ~20ns when you are going the default/not-cancelled route)
There's a Dan Luu essay on that subject: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
But no one would have taken it seriously without FB pushing it.
> The specific views expressed by blitzchung were NOT a factor in the decision we made. I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision.

It’s depressing how stupid he thinks we are.
If the life evolved independently of life on earth (ie, no panspermia or anything like that), then it would have philosophical/existential implications because of the Great Filter Hypothesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter.

Edit for a TL;DR - The basic idea is that, if we don't see evidence of intelligent life in the universe, it must be because star traveling species must be rare. If we find life evolving twice in one solar system, then the early parts of life evolving must be relatively easy - which suggests the later parts of life becoming technologically advanced are the hard parts. In other words, life on Mars may mean that there may be more problems ahead of us than behind us.
They certainly deserve respect. Many of those involved were under immense pressure to succeed. The state pretty much threatened their families’ wellbeing if certain things were not achieved.
Mir 1.5.0 Released
It's not a power grab, it's an attempt to avoid taxes and regulation, same as all the game companies do with virtual currency.
Just shameful. They are taking the side of a repressive regime over a player expressing support for universal values.

Mealy-mouthed corpospeak will not save you now.
...Red Hat “Enterprise“ Linux

Companies buy it because of sales, support, and the warrantee (the ability to hold an “enterprise” with financial resources accountable for mistakes).

Importantly, because large companies use complicated, slow decision making processes with many people involved it is very expensive for them to buy software AND it is extremely expensive to sell them software. Vendors of “enterprise” software can support all the meetings and risk all the expense of that sales process.

The feature checklist exists to provide rationale for the purchasing decision, but it isn’t essential to the decision.
I'm not sure that's true any more at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale. People I know are having a very difficult time covering just rent, electricity, food, and transportation for a family of 4 on a dual full-time income.

After cutting basically everything else except the cellphone bill because you basically can't get by in the modern world without a phone and an internet connection. (And that replaces the landline bill they would have had a few decades back.)
This is one of those predatory conferences that accepts literally everything. Nobody working seriously in the field has ever gone to any of these -- they exist solely to allow non-serious people to pad their resumes, which is exactly what happened here.
Can’t they just admit they like money more than free speech or democracy?
I dunno, this article is a bit too negative on China for someone who wants to immigrate there.
If it's fungible and negotiable, it is a security, if it is a security, it is regulated. If you try to move something that is fungible and negotiable, it is offered, therefore an offering, therefore regulated.
Yep. In the old days women died in child birth, men died at war. And everyone that died was born. What comes out, by nature is nearly 50/50 - and what dies is the same ratio as born...by whatever means nature determine
Hah! You don't know how right you are...

> there should be a cryptocurrency based on Proof of Spam Assassination

Did you know that the blocking proof-of-work algorithm in Bitcoin today, derives from the Hashcash proof-of-work algorithm, which was originally designed to prove you are not a spammer!!
The point is, there a market for drugs because people like to consume drugs. No one likes to consume hash codes like they consume hash.
It’s amazing the lengths how reactionaries go to hide what they really mean. It’s most on display when we around and around entertaining their insane notions that acknowledging systemic racism is the actual racism. It’s shocking how often this argument is made.
Yes, it’s terrible that you’re not allowed to reproduce white nationalist propaganda in public.
California power lines spark wildfires&prompt blackouts. Why not just bury them?
That’s fiction...