skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I should have been paying better attention then
Daemon by Daniel Suarez is pretty good.
I'm not even sure what exactly counts as a "techno thriller" but you might enjoy:

Zer0es: https://www.amazon.com/Zeroes-Chuck-Wendig/dp/0062413171

Zero Sum Game: https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Sum-Game-Russell-Book-ebook/dp/B...

Null Set: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GVD5T4M/

The Shockwave Rider: https://www.amazon.com/Shockwave-Rider-John-Brunner/dp/03454...
This neglects the massive rise of infertility in the last few decades (eg, sperm counts are halved). It doesn’t seem to be a choice for a growing number of people (I guess if you’re well off there are some procedures that can help)
Is 'criminals' better? Also technically true.
> And we are nowhere near reaching it

Evidence for that? There's a fair selection of serious planetary scale human impacts right now - food chains, species loss, plastics, and I haven't even mentioned climate yet. I haven't heard of any of the Club of Rome calling for sterilisation of Asians either - neither have the search engines. So that seems baseless hyperbole.
The ideal approach would be if it turned the original process memory into "copy on write", and created a paused exact copy of that process. This would give a consistent, immutable, snapshot of the target process memory, without freezing for the duration of actual memory copying.

One could then take a core dump, java heap dump, or similar, of the paused copy process.

I'm curious, why does the tool try to copy the original process memory into the memory of the tool itself, risking a collision? Is it impossible to create a third process - an exact copy of the original process?
Good ol' Greg Egan. Thanks for sharing.
Effective VimScript
Dart is not really a counterexample.

Dart was abandoned by Chrome and Angular teams, it almost closed down if it wasn't for AdWords team being so heavily invested into Dart that they kind of rescued the project.

Many Google projects that could benefit from Dart ended up migrating to TypeScript instead, oh and all original Dart designers ended up leaving Google.

Naturally in such scenario there is hardly any external confidence to believe in Dart.

Then Flutter came along, decided to pick up Dart from its burning ashes, reboot the type system and add AOT compilation to native code, but the damage to its public image is already done.

However it managed to annoy the Android team enough that now JetPack Compose is a thing.
As if regurgitating someone else's leetcode answers is any better? Or googling or stackoverflowing answers? Or a take home challenge?

Even at the ML level, engineering is more about applying known good techniques and less about new innovative ideas.
> Author here.

Can you make it so your site uses HTTPS?

Can you make it so it doesn't just load an frame pointing to Github.io?

Both combined seem very sketchy to me.
Sense of self is quite possibly an illusion a bunch of separate processes in the brain use to organize things. If this is true, changing some of those gradually enough will preserve your sense of self. This is what any experience does to you in various degrees. (Changing them rapidly might conflict with previous memory though.) Even remembering something rewrites that memory and you end up with a slightly different one.

So it is possible that not only your body gets completely replaced many times over, but your identity and memories and thinking processes get replaced by imperfect copies.
Automation doesn't need to do any of those things (even though it eventually could). It could simply make other industries so cheap and efficient that more labor flows into elder care.
Patrick Winston of MIT gave a good series of lectures on how to give a presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F536001A3C605FC
His explanation of why writing things on a board and slow pacing is helpful for your audience made sense to me.
This.

One topic I use to get people thinking more about implications is speeding.

Right now, in most places, there is balance. One can speed, and have reasons that are not to be judged at the moment, and there is some chance of it being detected and a ticket written.

Could just be simple error too. Glance down at speedo, see +15 over, think "oops", and correct with no real worries. Happens all the time.

Now, think about that android phone. Google actually knows when speeding happened, where, and all that. So far, the only action I have seen is Google alerting me to speed traps and a request for me to confirm they are still there.

But, where will that lead?

Does my insurer get that data? Can they get it? Should they get it?

Etc...

Then return to that balance bit.

Say one gets a ticket. With, what I call old world balance in play, the general response is to just be a bit more careful and avoid future tickets. Simple, easy, reasonable.

Now, with all that data collected, a ticket could be just the beginning. A review of your last year of driving reveals chronic behavior! To get past the ticket, monitoring is needed, your car may be required to limit speed to the legal limit at all times, and on it goes!

Same scenario, same person, but two very different outcomes and perceptions! Should there be. Why?

Or, say one is not popular politically, or got sucked into some sort of investigation just by poor timing and proximity, or maybe an unfortunate surname similarity.

What could happen?

One morning you get up to find your license to drive has been revoked and you owe a ton of fines. That happens despite never even being pulled over for years, or ever. Maybe it happens at random, like a drug test too.

One day, boom. Your life is forever different, because data.

All of us are extremely likely to be guilty enough to see the worst max penalty allowed for in the law too.

True right now, today for me, you, everyone we know who drives.

What should happen? Why? What public good does it serve?

These are questions of balance.
All of that mass data hoovering going on in pretty much all aspects of our lives is not balanced at all. The human factors we are accustomed to do not exist. The watchers are perfect. Or near perfect enough to be a concern.

The first time Google prompted me about a speed trap, I thought, "spiffy" and saw it as a nice help / value add to Maps.

Then later down the road I thought about where it can all lead. Nowhere good without some new rules, and even with those, trust is difficult.

Frankly, I want to put my phone in a faraday cage after thinking about it all. People vary in their responses, but I can say this line of discussion can often get them thinking about these matters and it is all pretty easy to talk about.

People, even those with light knowledge of these things, can picture their own driving, the phone, and potential outcomes.
>The main downside for me concerning AirBnb is it takes a long time to analyze the listings to find quality accommodations.

I just spent 7 days (20h total) trying to make one booking. Tons of reading between the lines and analyzing involved, as well as bad or non-responsive potential hosts. To top it off, AirBnb Support the whole time was very poor.
cut, awk, sed, comm, grep
When people claim innocuous statements are really dog whistles, I find that usually indicates more about the claimant's beliefs than the original speaker's.
> In the context of the modeling onsite, we ask open-ended problems with sufficient business and problem context such that the candidate can clearly identify an ML-based approach to solve it.

I'm disappointed the author wasn't more specific about where the line is drawn between "ML SWE" and "Research Scientist"/"Data Scientist" when it comes to the core ML competencies like model selection, evaluation, and design.

Having worked in teams with Data Scientists and "ML Engineers" it's been murky whether me and others in my team that were not the former were Data Engineers, Backend Software Engineers, "ML SWE", or "Software Engineer - Machine Learning".

This area of software is rapidly developing and there's no semblance of the bright line that tends to exist between Backend Engineer and Frontend Engineer for ML-involved engineers.

I'm personally interested in moving into the "Software Engineer - ML" space (or is it "ML SWE"?) and thus I have to find out what the right balance between Software Eng skills and researcher skills is. I think I have a decent sense of
real-world ML basics but would quickly flounder when pressed for details on mathematical technicalities of different modelling approaches.

Lyft's job listings have these items for "Software Engineer - Machine Learning":

> 5+ years (or Ph.D. with 2+ years) of industry or research experience developing ML models

This really seems like the purview of a research scientist or a data scientist, if I understand the meaning of "developing" correctly.

> Proven ability to quickly and effectively turn research ML papers into working code

This seems fair enough, but my experience has been that the data scientists are doing this mostly, while the "Software Engineer - ML" people are preparing data pipelines or batch training systems.

> Deep knowledge of ML libraries like scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, MXNet, etc

I know it's a job ad and thus it is a 'wish list', but this seems unreasonable.

Guess I'll just keeping studying 'all the things'. Brb in 5 years.
That was literally from a professor at Princeton in Jewish History class, based on mainstream academic literature. I'm not sure what the purpose of your sarcasm is. Are you one of those people I read about in articles on recent rise of antisemitism?

Jews have been prosecuted for centuries. Additionally, they never had a homeland before Israel, so it would really force them to develop a global/cosmopolitan/non-attachment mindset, which happens to pay off well in modern globalized economy.
I mean, the crate engine is cheaper, lighter, far more powerful, and you can buy one labeled "turnkey"!
True, it's not bulletproof. However, with a bit of discipline it's possible to use it safely. And anyway, it's already an improvement over just documentation like "don't call this until you called that"
I don't think we should dismiss your argument so quickly just because Stripe isn't a large corporation. I'd be interested to know more about the approach Stripe took. I'd imagine there are plenty of mistakes to make regardless of company size.

I'd also like to point out that a small company can be so toxic that the employees would welcome any change in leadership -- because anything different can bring temporary relief.
This. Look up "dilution".
The VC could have 2X or higher. At the end you could get none of those magic beans.
Pianos became part of the furniture at UK railway stations
College is much less expensive in most European countries and still the birth rate there is smaller than the US, so it is nothing to do with the cost of college per se, it is just that middle class women are now serving their corporate masters and can't raise kids. Unemployed lower class women tend to bring much more kids to the world even though they got much less money to support them.

The feminist push to get women into the workforce didn't improve family life or wealth, it just made everything more expensive and much harder, on top of that countries have to bring labourers immigrants to do all those valuable jobs women used to do at home, cooking, cleaning, laundry, caring for the old, baby sitting etc. So that strains the system even more.
- Perl, Active State and was a standard language in most UNIXes

- Tcl, was backed by Active State and Sun for a long time

- Python, all the renowned companies Guido worked for
> Population growth is vital for the world economy.

The thing is we know world population boomed for the last few centuries. We don't know what will happen if that stops, there's simply no observations yet. Hysteresis is indeed the major question mark. We can certainly imagine some terrible problems.

Probably the biggest problem that comes out of this imagining is a reverse specialization effect. Think of the economy as a tapestry of different specializations, some of which support a very few people on a global scale. For instance, any particular thing that people get phds in like particular materials research. Or industries that are highly concentrated, which you'll find quite a lot of if you look closely. They might stop being viable on their own, requiring consolidation into wider industries or they'll get dropped entirely.

The hysteresis comes in where we go back to a previous population but we unfortunately cannot support the same economy. You see things like that article about the Japanese trainline that stopped once that girl finished school. I mean that town might well have had a train when it was a similarly sized town getting bigger, I don't know. But that kind of thing might happen in many places.
> They routinely ...

Did all prehistoric folk do all the bad things you enumerate? Or did you cherry pick things from a multitude of regions and time periods which you personally believe to have been engaged in unethical and outrageous behavior based on your acceptance of the veracity of treatises written by western academics who have no reliable source of data about what prehistoric people were really doing or thinking?

Honestly I'm surprised and give you credit for not bringing up the old straws of cannibalism and human sacrifice by the alleged primitive savages. So, thanks.

But... on the topic of outrageous behavior, how do you feel about Mai Lai? Treblinka? The Donner Party? Obama's Predator Drone policy in Yemen?
So you are mistaking my facts for a hypothesis, it is not. I’m a moderator on an active forum and have been for a while. This is what happens in reality.

Your hypothesis On the other hand is worth following if you have substantiating facts that back it up.
It's almost like some issues are more complicated and nuanced than others.

I don't need to constantly wring my hands about declaring Nazis to be evil asshats, just because they were humans with varying motivations or whatever.

More insightful and deeper analysis may be warranted at times, to be sure, but summarizing them as genocidal, evil maniacs isn't wrong in the least.
McSherry et al's paper "Scalability! But at what COST?" is worth reading. A single threaded, single core implementation typically outperforms Spark.

The best rule of thumb I'm aware of is: unless you can't fit your computation on a single machine or your jobs are likely to fail before completing from the size and length involved, you are generally better off without Spark or similar systems. And if sampling can get you back onto a single machine, then you're really better off.
We don’t get to wash our hands of this. Particularly when we have neither brought them to justice nor recognized any transnational authority’s jurisdiction to do so.
Interesting project.

The site alfio.netflify.com needs some responsive breakpoints set for mobile as some of the text section widths > 100% on mobile.

Let me know if you need some help :)
> Imagine it works perfectly, and a three-letter agency with practically zero oversight, transparency, or accountability is collecting an accurate history of every single thing you do--everywhere you go, who you talk to, what you say to them, what content you consume and create, what emotions you feel, detailed biometric profiles, and so on. Are you ok with that?

A few years ago I met someone, they asked what I did, I said computer software.

Their first response: "Oh, I hope there's no more of those Snowdens out there!"

So I wouldn't assume everyone is opposed to law enforcement mass surveillence.

We have to give them reasons to be opposed to it.
Interesting. I think, FB matches whatsapp numbers with fb profiles and other meta data.
My current team is at least 80% foreign-born-and-rasied, myself included, but I don't know everyone's immigration status. But this is the "whitest", most American team I've worked with in the last 8 years in Silicon Valley. Prior to that I was in the mid-west and I was the only foreign engineer.
This is wrong. See posts here from ptitdrogo: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/d4n3tw/alphastar...

> People oversaturated in wol and hots because you didn't expand a lot in these games and bases have a lot less minerals in LOTV, not because of some kind of lost knowledge like some comments seem to think here.

[...]

> Meanwhile alphastar was going 2 gate robo staying on one base making a fuck ton of probes to take a super late natural, it was bad, and anybody calling it the future really bothered me.

Alphastar has not introduced anything new. Its play is strategically poor.
Hong Kong is part of China. Under the "One Country Two Systems" model, it has more 'experimental' and 'innovative' policies than the rest of the country (such as choosing their local government officials via democratic elections). But then again so does Shenzhen in other ways.
"Now if I reported that my local bricks-and-mortar second-hand store was selling my stolen TV set"

Yes, but an analogous situation here would be if your local bricks-and-mortar store were selling a TV that looked and worked just like yours, but was made by a different company.

What (if anything) do you expect your local police would do if you reported that?
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Right, I don't think they're trying to win back ad-blocking people, but rather avoid irritating people without ad-blockers more and driving them towards ad-blockers.
When you get a result type back in Rust you have to check it to use the value it contains. The worst you can do is call unwrap(), which says "Im assuming this will not fail, panic if I am wrong". But you can't forget to check.
"When the above attack model is extended to include multiple clients independently updating the same repository, then Borg fails to provide confidentiality (i.e. guarantees 3) and 4) do not apply any more)."

Edit: I've posted this a bunch of times here, pretty much every time it caught my eye when someone said this tool has good crypto, and by now I'm used to people just downvoting it and saying it doesn't matter because obviously no one ever would use it like that and the design is fine etc. (isn't the point of deduplication to save disk space?)
> Who did no marketing, because they couldn't sell either one.

That was the marketing, an almost free OS, with free compilers out of the box, adopted by universities trying to avoid paying for mainframes.
Sure, We Do That
They argue bad statistics and science, which it probably is.

No mention of touch DNA transfer. An article about it was posted here [1]. Considering they share a household, Gissantaner's DNS could have very well ended up on the gun without him touching it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16903330 (and others)
The post you disputed pointed out that there aren't separate AIs needed for things like Go or Chess. Because there aren't (any more) the Deepmind work showed that you can just generalize to learn all games in this class the same way.

You claimed that "different architectures" are needed. Not true. And further you claimed this is true even for "each subdomain". This would have been a fair point in 1989. Traditional chess AIs approach the opening very differently for example, relying on fixed "books" of known good openings. But AlphaZero since it is a generalist doesn't do this, it plays every part of a match the same way.

Now you've gone from asserting that Chess and Go need separate AIs to claiming that since BERT and AlphaZero are different software it makes your point. Humans pretty clearly don't have a single structure that's doing all the work in both playing Go (AlphaZero) and understanding English (BERT) either - so that's a pretty bold bit of goalpost moving.
It's a FPS with jumping tanks. Grab flags on the ground and get special abilities.

The main gameplay element is that when a tank is in the air it keeps its rotational momentum and you have no way to correct the trajectory mid air. Sometimes you have to jump and aim on the right or even backwards and this all gets down to injecting the exact quantity of movement prior to the jump with the mouse (a nice addition beyond the classical pointing mechanics of FPS).

Tanks can't tilt, but hopefully they can jump, so another saillent part of the gameplay are mid-air duels, when two tanks facing each other start firing, jump to avoid the slow-moving orbs, and carry the fight into the air.

It looks like a caricature, but it has great mechanics that could make a good basis for an e-sport. If e-sports are introduced into the Olympic Games and they decide to look for an open-source game, BZFlag would be a good contender.
'hard workers' - also technically true
The average color of the universe is "Cosmic latte"
Did you look at typescript? I've used swift and typescript and think you could have gotten a lot of runway with typescript/node and react native.
I think the burden of proof in the discussion here is on those advancing a position, but neither the allegations nor the evidence presented here are convincing.

As I said I have no particular knowledge of or interest in the cause, I'm just commenting on what I've read here. It seems to me that you and professorTuring would like to convince us, and if so, you should present stronger evidence of more serious crimes than disobeying the very government whose legitimacy the independence movement is challenging.
Don't forget gltron!
Nah, why do you think Android now has JetPack Compose?

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose

Do you think Android team would just stand still with people nagging them about Flutter?
> if others see the benefits, it will automatically grow with the help of the community

There’s nothing automatic about it, you or someone else will need to put a lot of work into leading the community, merging pull requests, debugging, etc.

(Sad to say, promotion too, in a lot of cases.)
Recently switched from MacOS to Pop OS on Thinkpad X1 exreme gen2, very satisfied with the high level of immediate productivity and minimal required fiddling. For a Linux distro, "it just works" rather well.

Add to that an appreciation for better keyboard and non-shiny screen... overall I feel better developing on this than Macbook pro surprisingly.
Hey, from an internet stranger, I'm sorry this happened to you. That's a terrible situation, made worse by the culture around you.

I hope you've found support since then; if you haven't, here's my anonymous support.

Here are links to finding more support:
https://malesurvivor.org
https://victimconnect.org
http://www.mensadviceline.org.uk
> elephant in the room which is that Earth only has finite resources

The material on the Earth might be finite, but as long as the sun shines, we can rearrange it.

Ultimately, that is what the economy is. It can go on forever as long as we get energy.

Granted, we are not doing a fantastic job of making best use of our star, but we are improving.
It will be said that you have internalized notions of white supremacy, or that you are performing "whiteness".

I wish I were joking, but these are real arguments that people make.
Here's one of the main ones: https://www.donaldjtrump.com
The gender field was added for FrosCon.
They used it to select what kind of t-shirt you want.

Other uses have been to suggest shared sleeping arrangements.
There's two kinds of potato gun. [1]'s a toy, [2]'s a destructive device, and I believe that GP was referring to [1].

[1] https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/602483/files/527908/768...

[2] http://potatogunwarrior.tripod.com/revxunfolded.jpg
See also bigslice (https://bigslice.io) for another take on this.