skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that protected classes line up with the dinstinction between insulting and hateful at all, and it scares me that this US-centric line of thinking will probably conquer Europe as well.

You can absolutely mock people (even groups of people) in a hateful way for their looks, body weight, or success in the sexual marketplace. The obvious solution is to add more protected classes! And I'm afraid that is what will happen, simply because it creates administrative work and a nice distraction from everything else (just like adding new emoji every year). And then people will find new ways to hate someone.

I much prefer HN's moderation stance. Either a comment adds value to the discussion, or it tries to derail it. And even though I hate the CCP, I don't think 共匪 is useful, except maybe in a self-ironic kind of way.
It seems mind blowing to me that military would use off the shelf Android hardware! We have come so far from military being at the forefront of tech.
We don’t know, because right now youtube is one black box in Google’s finance sheets. We don’t know if it is a loss leader, which I think is very likely. Imagine youtube was a separate company that always ran in the red and another private company solely footed their bill. Would you trust YouTube’s neutrality then? Wouldn’t that explicate why competition is having difficulty emerging?

Or imagine YouTube were to split into two; YouTube the distribution platform and YouTube the recommendation engine. Imagine Youtube the platform had to license content publicly. Now it is much more likely to have competition emerging and end users benefiting from it.
Even when they seem to be coordinated?
It's also a consequence of some unfortunate mistakes, like uniform initialization being screwed up by std::initializer_list.
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The 3600 does not have a GPU. Their APUs are suffixed with G on the desktop, and U on the laptop.
This general concept of going back to the source of the information can be applied to many other social networks to find higher-quality/interesting content. I started browsing hackernews because I realized a lot of the content posted on reddit on /r/programming and tech-related subreddits was often posted here first.

It all starts by taking the time to examine the content you consume & why you enjoy consuming it.
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The reason Uber initially blew taxi companies out of the water is because taxis greatly limited their service to what was profitable and we're incredibly difficult to work with should you be outside one of their comfort zones. You could always count on Taxis near an airport or for an intra-downtown route but good luck getting a cab to pick you up at your house to take you to another suburban destination. It's not that they'd ignore your call because they sucked at customer service, it's that your call is only worth it to them if there's literally nothing else going on. Even then they might not show up if your request isn't going to end with them back in a profitable starting point for another ride.
So their argument is that because Apple, et al, do things for other governments that they really shouldn't do, they should do something for our government that they really shouldn't do.
I used tt-rss for a long time, but about 6 months ago I moved over to FreshRSS.

But either way, self-hosted RSS is the way to go. Nobody can take it away from you...
Your objection is far from being obvious. One objection to your objection is that your thought experiment is incoherent in the first place. Consciousness does not have be a property of a being in a separate ontology than material reality. In other words, consciousness is not something associated with conscious physical systems in a different reality, rather it is a property of these physical systems because of their particular function. So, it doesn't make sense to talk about something that behaves exactly like a human, but is not conscious. Something that is physically-indistinguishable from a human will also be "consciousnessly"-indistinguishable from a human.
It makes complete sense if other countries got the files from the journalists. Snowden deleted everything before the first articles were published, and he's also a more difficult target than the journalists. The journalists that were initially in contact with Snowden are neither intelligence nor technology experts, and they had never even used PGP email. They had to get an infosec crash course from Snowden, so their systems could probably be breached with relative comfort by intelligence agencies like Russia's or China's.
Oculus surpasses $100M in Quest content sales
I'm presenting it solely to demonstrate that I'm not a crank or a schizo. The reason for my firm belief is that just as I can look up and see that the sky is blue, look down to see that the grass is green, just as plainly and immediately can I look inwards and see that I'm conscious.

Other smart people believing in emergence is easily explained: They can not see what I see.
Very interesting and useful project. I was going do develop the same one myself. Do you have any plans to open its source that other devs could install it on their own servers to keep data under own control and contribute to improve this project?
China pledges $2B in global funding for coronavirus relief
well do we have a list of words or symbols they automatically delete?
Is it coordination when multiple people choose to avoid the same pile of poo on the sidewalk?
There have always been things we weren't allowed to say. The interesting thing now is that these lists are actually being codified in code, apparently.

Arguably, companies should be required to publish their censorship code, so that at least we can all see what's happening.
WeWork is absolutely not a bad idea. Talk to regus, they’re running a profitable business doing the exact same thing (pre-covid).

Also, Rides had already reached profitability at Uber (pre-covid).

They are both totally viable businesses, post-covid.

The mistake SoftBank made wasn’t investing in them, it was investing at a valuation that grossly overestimated the size of the opportunity, and how quickly they would see their return.

Uber & Wework aren’t going to be Apple/Google market cap any time soon, if ever. And that was true pre-covid.
If anything, I'm saying the opposite.
What is a 49th percentile person measured by if not the fact that they have a 49th percentile life?
If you Google "hate speech", it shows the definition from Wikipedia, which says:

> Hate speech is defined by Cambridge Dictionary as "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation".

So no, Google does not decide what hate speech is. They let Wikipedia decide, which happens to go with the Cambridge Dictionary's definition.
> Are you speaking as a Google employee or just from personal opinion?

The distinction is irrelevant; were I speaking as a Google employee I would still be speaking from personal opinion, not on behalf of my employer.

> Also, this viewpoint is naive. Simply more information isn't better. What if all that information was about the flat earth theory and nothing else?

It's not though; it's "all" the world's information (within constraints; Google also isn't vending a search index to make pedophilic imagery easy to find). But the flat-Earth hypothetical doesn't apply because that's only a subset.

In fact, it doesn't apply in a way that's demonstrative, I think, of the game Google plays with authoritarian states. Google banks on the notion nature cannot be fooled. Sure, individual phrases or sets of facts (like Tienman Square history) can be knocked out of returned datasets. But the missing data leaves holes; it becomes apparent where the cuts are in the data.

This is why North Korea cuts the whole internet; they know it can't be contained. China's ruling party is more subtle; they'll block unpopular signal it if a sense of "decency," as it were, but they know their people aren't stupid. In any sense of "stupid."
>>>there's just a level of mental exhaustion and constant low level burnout

This, x1000. It's maddening. I work in a an understaffed military HQ that tries to do too many things, while suffering through 30-50% personnel turnover every summer. We plan exercises talking about "readiness" but it's like groundhog day...EVERY.DAMN.TIME. Nothing really changes, the organization is no better prepared to fight today than it was 3 years ago, and all it's doing is burning out the mid-career professionals we'll need to carry the force when the war eventually kicks off for real.

Across industries, across geographies...we are living in an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia.
It looks pretty mature. Why is this compression not implemented?
I checked out the youtube channel of ZFS, but it is nowhere mentioned in the years of monthly sync ups.
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> Anybody have a really bad negative feeling toward the deconstruction of science ?

C.S. Lewis for one, this is from "The Abolition of Man":

> But you cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.
Memory latency is 20-50 % worse, but that doesn't mean 20-50 % lower FPS. What it does mean is in CPU limited scenarios Ryzen CPUs currently cannot touch Intel's CPUs. Even several year old high end Intel parts outperform Ryzens there, even if the Ryzen part in question has better single threaded throughput (i.e. Cinebench).

At the 3600 price point this is largely irrelevant though, since you will be GPU limited by way of budget anyway.
If you're coerced into signing a contract, you can always breach it later and when sued for breach of contract bring up evidence of coercion. Courts will not enforce contracts signed under coercion.

At the end of the day, a contract is just a piece of paper and your signature is just some ink. Contracts only have power if courts enforce them. (At least for private entities. International law and sovereign entities are a whole other ballgame)
We can't possibly have enough overhead in our system to accommodate this, right? Eventually this is going to lead to shortages in grocery stores, right? This has to be our number one priority.
i live in a country with paid parental leave and have heard second-hand stories of employer bias against women in childbearing age precisely because women in childbearing age got employed and promptly got pregnant.

for the record i'm for this kind of social assistance because the alternative sounds downright barbaric.
Tesla was strapped for cash at the time and picked up Fremont, which used to be the joint venture NUMMI facility between GM and Toyota, for almost nothing. It was a necessary concession to bootstrap Tesla. Arguably, they have outgrown the need for such a small facility after Texas and the next battery facility are built.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI
That's not a log, not even close. It's a link to dang's comment history, not a list of every comment/submission that has been deleted by the moderation team.

Go ahead and downvote me, doesn't make what I'm saying wrong.
Its not clear they failed on the technology/engineering front? It was a hard sell - expensive, heavy (5000lbs!). Marketing of autos is clearly a very different thing (dealerships? seasonal dips? advertising?) and there they may have exceeded their reach.
I can't see myself ever owning an Android phone, I simply don't trust them to be secure enough for a device that controls, or can monitor, pretty much my entire life.
Why would that be more equitable/efficient than paying for it from general tax funds? It would have to be so to make up for the employment disincentive and business overhead.
Bridges are designed, built, tested, and verified as fit for purpose.
Planes are designed, built, tested, and verified as fit for purpose.
Why should software models that inform policy be excluded from those requirements?
What is the expected cost of failure - it seems that critical risk controls are
missing from academia - in the case that they are wrong.

The case in hand - is problematic because it highlights that lack of controls that are
present and that should probably be present when building models and simulations
to inform policies.

Quality control is important in nearly every other industry - the lack of quality
controls in academia appears to be the root cause to me. Rather than particular
language/build choices.
The 3950X is also an AM4 part (non-threadripper).
I did a search on youtube for 共匪 and got many results?
I added 共匪, 五毛党, or 五毛 as a comment and it quietly disappeared after a few seconds
Fresh Air recently interviewed a chef, Tom Colicchio (sp?) and he had what seemed like a novel solution to this problem.

Since suppliers to commercial kitchens aren’t able to easily switch production to support consumer-facing customers, he argued that the Federal Government should subsidize restaurants based on a percentage of typical revenue (say 80%), and then use the kitchen staff to make prepared meals that can be sold via takeout, or CSA-style boxes that customers can take home and cook themselves. This way, restaurants get to employ staff while using their commercial kitchens to process food that consumers/food pantries could actually use.

This would help stabilize the restaurant industry while we wait for a vaccine and keep at least some staff employed while performing an essential task (converting food for consumers)
> Human life is on the line here. Google is doing the right thing.

Right thing for their bottom line, you can continue to use Google Podcasts though
Yet, his companies are in a much better position compared to 2013. What should one be worried about? The name of his children and his Twitter rants/jokes?

Or how the companies we're talking about are actually performing?
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The speculation was in response to question about “moving Singapore to APAC”. Sorry if that wasn’t clear from the context.
Shanghai GF was built in time, for example.

Though, I guess in this case it's to put some pressure on Texan government burocracy to hurry up with permits etc.

Over here at Giga Berlin, the local government issued temporary permits extremely quickly (for German standards) but it takes still longer to get all the paperwork done than it took to actually built Giga Shanghai.
Messages had to be transmitted by hand until the telegraph era.

The British (or Dutch) India Companies had a stranglehold over shipping -- and thus over communication -- to colonial holdings for much of their existence.
Not really. The only other option is to limit your service to only desktop PCs/websites which is not super helpful to normal people that just use their phones for everything.

Google has a monopoly on phone apps. If they don't like your app then you pretty much don't exist. You don't have many options.
I think the parent is referring to the idea that even hate speech is free speech.
Yes, but it will ruin dust filtration, so the proper choice is hot water vapor, dry heat, or hydrogen peroxide. Perhaps silver ions too.

HEPA filters use exactly the same meltblown fabrics as respirators, except thicker and in accordion form.
IIRC the story I referred to is in Beveridge's Life Of John Marshall, Volume IV. Unfortunately I don't have my copy handy to check right now.
I think that attitude of customers is changing as we speak. Before, sure, it was easy to ignore the ramblings of how the CCP was upset at something and a western company just gives into them.

Now, anti-CCP sentiment is growing. I think western people are starting to realize how different we actually are. The CCP will be blamed for the pandemic (which is mostly correct), and you will see a massive decoupling here in the next couple of years.

This is the first real anti-globalization movement in about 80 years. Who knows where it will end.
It is your bad for assuming. Telecoms will fight to the death to prevent Internet service from becoming a utility and you're acting like it's all but guaranteed. We're not even close to this reality.
They are using public right-of-ways an spectrum to carry their data, so free speech ought to apply.
There are some alternative slack clients.
Wouldn't a tech like this be more likely to be used as an ABM tech than something for power transmission?

Maybe Ronald Regan's Star Wars program is finally getting implemented.
Many years ago I created some very widely used libraries in the Perl ecosystem, DateTime.pm (first release in 2003, 3,774 transitive dependents, https://metacpan.org/release/DateTime) and Log::Dispatch (first release in 1999, 1,043 transitive, https://metacpan.org/release/Log-Dispatch). I've also created or contributed to dozens of other packages in the Perl ecosystem, some of them very widely used, including at places like Amazon (to this day).

During Perl's peak in the early 2000's, I'd guess there were easily dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of companies using code I'd created. Some of the bigger Perl companies these days include Craigslist, Booking.com, CPanel, Bluehost, and Grant Street Group. Many of these companies have been around for quite a long time.

Starting in 2008 I began adding a DONATIONS section to my package documentation, like https://metacpan.org/pod/DateTime#DONATIONS. Over time, I've added this to nearly everything I maintain.

Unfortunately PayPal doesn't provide stats going back to 2008, but at a best guess I'd say I've received about $2,000-5,000 dollars over 12 years or so. The largest donation I ever received was $500. Most donations are in the $1-50 range. None of the companies I mentioned above have ever donated anything, though they have all contributed to The Perl Foundation in the form of conference sponsorship.

So that's a long-winded way of saying that I don't sustain myself on open source. This is a pretty common story. Companies rarely make an effort to support individual developers. They will support language/project foundations, but that money isn't going to be directly divvied up among library developers for the language.
I just built a new machine around this CPU back in March too. I built a new machine specifically for playing Half-Life: Alyx, and couldn't be happier with this CPU.

My thermals were pretty great with the stock CPU cooler, but I ended up going with a Noctua NH-U14S which might be a little overkill, but when playing Half-Life: Alyx, I stay between 45-60c which seems pretty good to me. The game runs at a perfect framerate on High settings with the AMD 5700XT, 32GB of DDR4 RAM on the Vive Pro.

I may end up upgrading to a Ryzen 7 4XXX series when they come out, but for now, this CPU is performing great. Def best bang for your buck.
I wouldn’t go for a laptop for ML and I don’t care if CPU is Intel or AMD... parent commenter is mixing up CPU and GPU
Are there cameras on the sides of the occulus so peripheral hand movements can be recognized?
Not even the most anti-china, anti-communist person in the world operating on half a brain cell would call china communist. How are you buying things from china with capital if they're communist?
I'm an introvert and please don't include me in the tiny subset of introverts who consider this a perk.

There's a spectrum within introversion, and this sounds more on the edge of that spectrum.

Full disclaimer: I too originally had trouble with calling to order pizza. But in retrospect it wasn't introversion: I just wasn't used to initiating conversations with strangers on the phone. The solution was trivial: Script the "opening lines" before calling. After a few of these, it all became natural.
Yes, and within how short of a time span all those flags came in!

A post that's regularly being flagged by 0.0X% of logged-in users will have different behavior than one that gets fairly few flags for many hours and then suddenly gets 30 within a five minute period.
Seems Firefox doesn't remember the CSS you have selected (i.e. per page? per domain?)

I can think of some uses for this if it were sticky - high contrast and dark mode versions for websites
We can not yet measure consciousness. We can not say for certain, as an example, whether a brain or AI that we design experiences it’s own consciousness or not. And yet, they are made as all the same particles as you and I.

We can say that consciousness is something to do with the links in our brain, but how many times can I slice a brain before it is not conscious? Does a brain sliced down into single neurons not experience the world as a billion separate individuals? If I were to reconstruct the brain from its individual parts, would those individuals feel as though they had died as their consciousnesses merged?

I’m willing to still accept the traditional view that consciousness is a special sauce. That when we reproduce, it’s something that we can fork, but it is not common in the universe.

And I think that the true litmus test to the nature of consciousness is to effectively kill someone by freezing them (so that they are actually dead in the sense there is zero electrical activity) and then successfully bring them back to a conscious state. Then you will have paused a consciousness, and yet it did not leave. I do not think it’s possible. I think something like that ruins the special sauce and the resulting experiment may be able to survive (breath, react at a motor level), but effectively does not live a conscious life.
The game plan is pretty simple: use VC cash to quickly provide services everywhere and build market share, drive competitors out of business / acquire them, move to self-driving cars to the extent possible and eventually raise rates when customers have no other options.
> America is increasingly becoming a land of large companies controlling industries where the consumer almost always loses
I stand by this statement, here is a more detailed argument, its from 2018 but still has lots of information about consolidation and how it has become alot worse recently, say the past 30 years:
https://beta.trimread.com/articles/16432
Do modern CPUs fry themselves like the ones from 15-20 years ago? I thought they just throttled down when approaching their limits, and extra cooling is helpful for allowing CPUs to boost clock speeds for longer.
Hopefully not where the last anti-globalization movement did (isolationism, fascism, and a world war).
The why is that there was a huge solution/market gap.

Finding software for Palm and Windows phones was often a trek through random forums and websites to download garbage that didn't work.

There needed to be a central registry before smartphones would be adopted by the average person, and the registry needed some quality assurance so that the average person would have a good experience.

Tucows wasn't going to cut it, and the only open model that worked at the time was linux distro package repositories, which would need a dozen features tacked on before it was usable, and only added packages glacially (that QA problem again.)

Smartphones wouldn't be a thing without centralized app stores, but I'm also in favor of allowing users to add third-party app stores, in the belief that 99% of people won't do it, and the 1% would understand the security risks.
"You're either a one or a zero. Alive or dead." Gary Winston from AntiTrust
Unemployment insurance only applies for full-time hires though doesn't it? Lots of companies will try to keep part-time employees from becoming full-time so that they don't have to pay for benefits like these. Same with gig-economy and contract-based workers.