skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing worse than the "evil" genie giving us exactly what we ask for is the genie that decides its inferences about our actual intents/wants/needs/motivations based purely on our behaviors matter more than what we intentionally express as our intents/wants/needs/motivations.

The most obvious analogy, and I acknowledge the potentially controversial nature of it, is that of a date rapist attempting to defend their actions by pointing out the victim was dressed provocatively, gave all the "signals" that they wanted sex, and when they expressly said "no" the rapist knew from their prior behavior that they actually did want it (or had some inner heretofore unexpressed need for it).

The true underlying motivation for such a rewrite of Asimov's laws lies in the paragraph that follows Russell's new list. "...developing innovative ways to clue AI systems in to our preferences, without ever having to specify those preferences." Perhaps he can start by ceasing to write and speak and instead clue in his audience to his preferences via behavior, since specifying them is somehow undesired.

Asimov's Three Laws exist to place boundaries around the genie's means of achieving our wishes. Russell's laws remove not only the genie's boundaries to means but also lets the genie make the wish as well. After all, it knows better than you what you want.
It's right there in the article - secondary infections, especially bacterial pneumonia. This was pre-antibiotics
And here we see the other common conceit in the game industry, that graphics make a game.
Weaknesses of the Hacker Personality (2003) [catb-jargonfile]
" Another weakness of the hacker personality is a perverse tendancy to attack all problems from the most technically complicated angle, just because it may mean more interesting problems to solve, or cooler toys to play with. Hackers sometimes have trouble grokking that the bubble gum and paperclip hardware fix is actually the way to go, and that they really don't need to convince the client to buy that shiny new tool they've had your eye on for two months."

https://web.archive.org/web/20030610114209/catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html

20XX (or even 3XXX), guess this remains the same!
I use the same as a default. It's been a great help.
Hey, Michael!

I was following you story since your first post two years ago. I just want to say that to succeed you need to sell something. As a software developers we can scale something (move from 1 to N, in terms of tech), but you need to find initial niche (from 0 to 1).
I think that main success (as a business person) that you have is an audience reach that you had (almost every developer feels that things that you are described in your initial post). So why don't you try to play with your audience? Man, 2 years ago, when you posted you story of quitting, I was sitting in Yandex office at Moscow, and a lot of colleagues were talking about you and you story. Isn't that cool?
I am not a real entrepreneur, but I really advice you to use your strengths (audience reach, mastery in writing, etc) along with you software development skills to find point of growth.
Thanks for sharing and good luck!
> CERN is publicly funded and that it doesn’t have an unlimited budget

Not strictly true.

With a budget of €7.5 billion (approx. $9bn or £6.19bn as of June 2010), the LHC is one of the most expensive scientific instruments[1] ever built.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Cost

That being said, it does seem publicly funded institutions do seem to have a lot more money to devote to plant and equipment (or anything you can put someone's name on) than software, services, or other small equipment that you cannot put someone's name on.
> We do have experience, my C++ projects compile much faster than their rewrite in Rust

Wow. And C++ projects can be quite slow to compile
It's not always about the money. It's about the happiness.

If it doesn't work out, it's not like he lost the knowledge, he can still easily get a job anywhere. Probably even a bump from the startup experience.
Above link is “Don’t Fear The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult opening to “The Stand” TV show, showing presumably dead people that contracted the super flu.
Academia Gets the First Production Cray “Shasta” Supercomputer
I haven't made the choice to have children and so it doesn't apply to me. That is your decision and that class of problem doesn't apply to everyone.
Wifi is not a bigger drain than cpu when you're playing CoD on your mobile. Your smart phone now has multiple cpu's and would have a GPU. When you're doing something intensive like CoD it will fire up that GPU and suck up power.

Wifi power used will vary with a few factors, how far you away from the station, how many other wifi signals, etc.

In addition a big bright screen uses a lot more power than wifi. But that would be used either way so not part of the comparison.
People cannot live in a building under construction, they have to find somewhere else to live while it is being built. To build a new apartment, you need to tear down some existing housing.

And they probably lose their rent control in the process. So, some percentage of current residents will be forced to leave permanently.

This is fixable with some regulation, but it's a really common oversight in these discussions. It's not just beginning and end state we have to think about, we have to consider the way the housing is built and what happens to the people during that time.
She probably hoped for a different answer.
Didn't invite is a silly way of putting it. Jobs went to war with Flash, and at the time Adobe was making progress integrating iOS as publishing targets, and today it would have been a moot point as iOS hardware is surely powerful enough. Creative Cloud is heading to the iPad Pro and it is a real shame that Flash isn't part of that.
He said he has no kids. It's not the right path for everyone.
There doesn't need to be. These VMs aren't designed to run anything other than their flagship languages.
If you have the savings then why not? There is probably not a better time in history than to check out from being a corporate drone, assuming you have the savings. The stock index returned 30% last year...a $1M nest egg returned $300K in a year. I don't know what his savings looks like but I assume most of it is invested and wasn't included in these numbers.
> Needing to "understand" root construction before "being able to use" is just procrastination.

since I feel personally attacked by that statement (I say in jest), it's more charitably viewed as a risky investment. Understanding now might help you use it more efficiently later.

3D Rotations are traditionally very tricky to represent in a computer! It's only in "modern" times that basically everyone has settled down on quaternions as the best parameterization. I think the comparison to anything about real numbers misses the point. It's not about rotors themselves, or real numbers themselves, it's about how they model something we care about. Money isn't a real number, but we model a balance in an account using one. And an accountant definitely needs to understand operations such as "debiting", "crediting", "accruing interest". So they need to understand addition, negative numbers, and multiplication. But that's just because of the choice of the model.

funny enough, it seems like lots of accounting existed a while before negative numbers were obvious, so there are all sorts of to-me funny ways of representing negative numbers, or subtraction (I don't have any clear evidence to back this up). Everyone was doing accounting just fine before, but really it just feels more obviously elegant to use a negative number to represent a deficit.
Gomorrah [1], the book, by Roberto Saviano is pretty good too.

[1] quick fun read on the origins of Sodom and Gomorrah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah
how did you get early stage stock being self employed?
If you cannot do that you have Aphantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
I think you’re underestimating the effort and luck involved in building a successful growth startup.

> Why not shoot for the moon?

Some times it’s better to throw a few things at the wall and see what sticks, before going all-in on one idea.
I'm familiar with the etiquette of posting such links on here, I'm not sure I ever have before. Thanks for the help.
Isn't that OOYBPP? :P
That's pretty incredible. What made you want to join the mid stage startup? Also did most of your income come from consulting type work or product revenue?
> rotors operate fully in 3D

By this, the author means: you can visualize a rotor FULLY in 3D, no extra dimension neccessary.

I suspect you never have tried to think about how quaternions work mechanically, I suggest this neat video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4EgbgTm0Bg
The ReentrantLock class and friends have been around for a while and typically provide a better alternative.
fail2ban is security theater. Turn off password-based ssh authentication, use keys only, and you’re done. You don’t need additional software for it.

For extra security, bind ssh to localhost only and run a tor hidden service on the machine for accessing it.
Study of YouTube comments finds evidence of radicalization effect
I agree. Heck, it is fun to shoot stuff. I just don't understand why and how this turned into such a powerful political movement. My fun turns out to contribute to mass killing of children. Maybe my fun doesn't justify such lock-step ironclad opposition to additional gun control measures. If an "assault rifle" ban saved one life, and I can keep my .22 semi-auto pistol and my M1, what is the big deal? The NRA makes it seem like DEM gun control measures are an attempt to subvert a whole way of life, which is total nonsense.
> and all arrangements are made so you don't worry about stuff like food and can fully go into it

Then you have help of people who do arrangements and even complete dependence on them. If you get sick, they will take you to doctor. If you will have mental breakdown, they will take you out.

Being alone as in without "help you when you're sad, desperate, sick" means that if you are sick, you go to store and you cook and you have to pick up kids from school no matter how bad it feels. It means that if your close one dies or you loose job, you are still alone and with no one to talk with.

> where you can stay for a week or month without talking and not knowing other people and just face how it is to be alone

That will not teach you to be alone. Week or month of being alone is like ... nothing. It is comfortable holidays, everything is arranged so that no external event have even possibility to influence you. Even if you lost job during this time, you would not know.

> If they can react consciously I'd expect them not to get into sadness or depression like at all.

Oh they do. And they do go to anger too. And to frustration.
Interesting! This needs a tu quoque argument. Would you say the same about Jews in Banking/Finance? Is it jews hiring fellow jews?

- how come every other cop (esp. in the Northeast) has last names like Donovan or Monahan

- how come every other fireman is an O'Reilly or O'Connell

- how come every landscaping or construction business is owned by a Caruso or Piretti

- What about the "Patel Motels" or Dunkin & 7-11 franchises owned by Indians
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on and on...

Ethnic niches are nothing new and extrapolating from some anecdata (and a few lawsuits) claiming discrimination is absurd.
There are multiple laws. This issue was a dispute between two branches of government. That's a scenario where you can win. NYC /NYPD has a large budget for police brutality settlements.
If you are on fiverr or Upwork, please share your profile so that others can connect with you for work.
Not flash games, but these are ones that I have done in the past that were good for learning:

For puzzle games, Set is a good one that will let you practice the UI aspect and recording state, as well as scoring. The PDFs here have the rules, https://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle_rules, and you can play the game at https://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle.

For real-time games, Pong is a great first project and can be followed up by a top-down 2D game (probably a shooter is the most common one). For these you'll need to use Canvas.

Unless you're doing something unusual, the game mechanics are usually not the hard part. A lot more work has to go into polishing it and making a finished product.

I would suggest staying away from Unity in the beginning, it adds a lot of complexity and you'll be able to get started much faster with a bare canvas (which you can easily learn to draw on, and create a game loop with setTimeout or requestAnimationFrame) or React project.
Luke, in Episode 4: "Why would Imperial troops want to slaughter Jawas?"
The chem Engineer in me hates the general word "Chemical".

It's not descriptive, any (macro) matter is classified as chemical.

I find the words used to describe plastics is equally poor.

Is it nylon? Is it a polyurethane? Is it ABS? Is it all large chain chemicals? Or just low density? I could go on.
... assuming the author harbors such aspirations in the first place, which you and I don't know. And, frankly, nobody needs to know.
You know, I think there might be something to any publicity is good publicity in this case. It's controversial to do something 99.999 percent of the workforce would not. So, by posting even when there is no great success, he is growing his exposure and making it easier in the future.
Of course you'd say that facebook guy, but facebook has no place running anything from CERN or any other scientific org for that matter.

CERN shouldn't even have considered it in the first place. Might as well just install a fibre optic cable straight into Fort Meade and Langley to cut off the middle man.

Also, I'm pretty sure tomorrow or next week's news will be that facebook will in fact supply this tool out to CERN for free and cite some bs like "to give back" or "to support the scientific community". I hope I'm wrong but let's see how it goes.

Will we ever learn?
I had an experience similar to you, but after a nasty bump on the head.

In my concussed state, all my trains of though, critics, and general random thoughts all stopped. It was like a holiday.

:-)
As Einstein said:" Two things are infinite - the Universe and human stupidity. I'm not so sure about the first one."
neat site! clicking an example opens up a playground with live update and explanation and railroad diagrams, similar to sites like regex101[1] and regulex[2]

one suggestion would be to mention clearly which tool/language is being used, regex has no unified standard.. based on "Cheatsheet adapted" message at the bottom, I think it is for JavaScript. I wrote a book on js regexp last year, and I have post for cheatsheet too [3]

[1] https://regex101.com/

[2] https://jex.im/regulex

[3] https://learnbyexample.github.io/cheatsheet/javascript/javas...
my mistake, what's the proper etiquette here? edit my original comment?
Phones come packed with quite a few sensors and communication capabilities (multiple cameras with parallax and varied optical parameters, microphones, accelerometers, GPS, depth sensors sometimes, etc.). There has been a lot of focus over the years to do useful things with commodity sensors since they're so pervasive.

There are a lot of very sophisticated and computationally intensive algorithms out there that can use specific sensors or combinations of these sensors to infer other useful things.

Now take into account you may have multiple phones collecting data distributed in some spatiotemporal fashion, you can really get fancy with some aspects and increase accuracy of some of these algorithms.

Instead of hand waving, one novel example I've worked with is using video feeds from streams or rivers to perform LSPIV (large scale particle velocemetry) analysis to estimate instantaneous discharge rates of rivers. There are at least 6-7 other use cases for projects I've been involved with that could leverage these resources in interesting ways--some use phones, some use other sensors.
The returns in 2019 were exceptionally good. There’s little reason to assume 2020 will be as good.

With everything going on this year: Brexit, US elections, impeachment, corona virus, etc... it’s entirely possible this years returns could be negative.
>Laboratory studies on the reconstructed 1918 virus began in August 2005. A report of this work, “Characterization of the Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic Virus”, was published in the October 7, 2005, issue of Science.14 To evaluate the 1918 virus’ pathogenicity (i.e., the ability of the virus to cause disease and harm a host), animal studies involving mice were conducted. The mice were infected with the 1918 virus, and measures of morbidity (i.e., weight loss, virus replication, and 50% lethal dose titers) were collected and documented. For comparison, other mice were infected with different influenza viruses that were designed via reverse genetics to have varying combinations of genes from the 1918 virus and contemporary human seasonal influenza A(H1N1) viruses. These viruses are called “recombinant viruses.”

>The fully reconstructed 1918 virus was striking in terms of its ability to quickly replicate, i.e., make copies of itself and spread infection in the lungs of infected mice. For example, four days after infection, the amount of 1918 virus found in the lung tissue of infected mice was 39,000 times higher than that produced by one of the comparison recombinant flu viruses.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-19...

The referenced page goes on to detail how various parts of the 1918 virus contributed to virulence. I've seen articles that said that the reason 20-40 year old patient had more severe disease is that their immune systems were stronger, and that the lung damage is actually caused by the immune system combating the virus.

The 1918 virus started out earlier during WW I. During that time, large groups of men were being transported internationally by troop ships. While trains and ships are slower than airplanes a journey from a camp in the US to one in France probably took under two weeks.
These problems are not inherent of GA, but of (flawed) implementation details and deeper social problems. GA code boils down to essentially the same computations as 'raw' Linear Algebra, and should be implemented as such. Your math centered programmers fell in love with the idea without ever figuring out how to really use it.
Funding Friday: Walsun Fingerprint Bike Lock
Planting 1T trees might not be a good idea
As we kiss these quaternions goodbye, let's remember how they came to be, and their role in building the discipline: Ivan Sutherland's early hardware graphics pipelines.
At least the jail cell comes with an amazing variety of food and unrivaled convenience
My understanding was if Apple got a report about NSFW/hate speech/whatever channels, then they had to be hidden on the Apple version or else the app gets pulled from the app store.

As to the rest of the app's quality, no idea. I use it on my phone and it seems OK, but I've not really dug into it.
I believe opioid addiction is not well understood among general practitioners. Here in the UK, they accept as common sense that your patient won't get addicted if they're taking opioids for pain.
Similarly for ADHD, when I was started on meds my psychiatrist reassured there was no risk of addiction because I had ADHD. In practice, whenever I spend more than 3 days without them I get terrible headaches.
Mind' Is the Antidote to Bad Endings
Even that is wrong because you can have privately owned TLDs (I forget what they're technically called) like .google

So sundar.pichai@google is technically a valid address (whether .google has any MX records is another matter)

Regex shouldn't really be used for email addresses anyway because the only reliable way to authenticate an email address is to literally send an email to that address.
> I answered, "i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1".

Could you explain why? For someone without a math background, it seems indeed like a pretty arbitrary thing to define.

(I can understand the idea behind complex numbers and how the multiplication rules followed from the desire to define the square root of a negative number - however, so far, I don't get the motivation of introducing even more "special" elements)
I heard CERN broke the Matrix when they accidentally opened an occult black hole with the LHC and that's why things like the cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom logo are getting erased from reality. /s
The thing about modern code is that anyone can take a project, turn it's function into a webpage, and charge money without revealing that you could run the program on your own machine.

If you license all of your code under the AGPLv3, you will at least see if someone is using it out in the wild and maybe even get some contributions to your project.
No, I bet this was exactly the answer they were looking for. After all, it was love at first sight.
Nope! It was CRP, named CREEP by opponents as part of the disgracing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Re-Electio...
I would only add the caveat that under a free market system single-payer may still be more appropriate for emergency care, since you can't make a consumer choice in the middle of having a stroke. The fallacy that healthcare is a monolithic field which can necessarily be equally served across the board by any particular regime is catastrophic to the debate. There are completely different requirements, limitations, time scales, etc. between an ER, a family practice, a specialist pediatric cancer ward, a cosmetic surgery clinic, etc.
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You have to use vpn to access the website which contains the web version but only desktop installer. The app itself works just fine. Futhermore it can be downloaded from W10 or OSX app store with the only limitation being lack of autostart.
Blaming yourself only works if there isn't a power asymmetry.

We probably don't elect politicians because they say "we will enable the redistribution of wealth to our friends and families via allowing a war", or some such.

Sure, there's probably a whole lot more each of us could be doing about any particular large-scale issue. I feel okay with many of these issues being fairly well down on my list of priorities. Beating myself up about this or that particular issue is likely to have very little effect.

I'd suggest it's important that we allow each other to pick n choose which issues we focus on.
Ingredient line parsing is a really small market and something that sounds like a fun project to work on but is probably not a business venture that has room to grow. The number of companies that have enough recipes to justify automation, profits to justify paying for it and nobody inhouse who can implement it is really small. There's no viable price point for a product like this when you factor in the cost of customer acquisition.

Content based consumer sites are also really hard to get off the ground and it's not something that I'd recommend any bootstrapper to try unless you can charge for it.

I'm sure it's all a great learning experience though and if Michael keeps iterating the way he is now he'll definitely end up finding a worthwhile business venture.
Decentralize Messaging
> lack of autonomy, petit politics and meaningless work

This isn't a given. Plenty of (particularly large) companies will inflict this on you, but it's also very possible to work at a company and have autonomy and do meaningful work.
This sounds like a terribly mismanaged Workplace instance to me. Why should anyone be joined to 100 groups? That's a red flag right there. And if you can't move personal stuff off of Workplace, create separate groups for that that can be muted or left etc. This noisy personal stuff can easily exist in public groups that can be looked into by anyone if something comes up.