skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve often wondered if nightmares serve to prepare us to act quickly in worse-case type scenarios. Our mind responding to stress by saying, ok if this goes really bad, what are you gonna do about it.
Looks like the Chinese gov't is committing another Holocaust.
Same. Maybe the limit is zero -_-
Yeah, I think that query should actually return this result:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3572342
>There's no way real to do forums, social media, or sites like medium or blogs without companies being able to host content without being liable for the content they're hosting that doesn't break the law

That doesn't seem true or tragic at all. By your own admission it works it just fine in the literal sense, you just don't seem to like that it would cut into platforms you want to indulge in.

What becomes undesirable is things like front page recommendation systems and popularity lists that might now include inflammatory bubbles. I say boohoo, Medium won't get to actively leverage its sea of garbage authors as easily and reddit will have to let the sub-reddits market themselves, nothing of societal value is lost here. Discord style insulated communities become the norm and things move on. And the only casualties end up being shills for left leaning ideology like twitter and tech sector pets like forums that have little relevance to the mainstream.

The only reason the tech sector cares about handling this issue with finesse is because no one wants to admit that the industry actually does pander to one side of America's polarized system. That's a feature we as a community built for ourselves It's not a mystery why tech products and beliefs have ended up so homogenous, the industry increasingly homogenized as it congregated in a heavily political region. But if anyone calls that it they get labeled a bigot because that's SF and California culture in a nutshell and most professionals don't have time to deal with that shit so the dissenters just toss the line and collect they're pay.

It's no less evident when you notice that enthusiasm and support for whistle blowers only gained broad support in tech once they started targeting the American right. We as an industry are the problem but we've already allowed ourselves to become so polarized that no one is pushing back anymore because at best you get fired but manage to still find work. Most heavy criticism, such as whenever Google gets called out again and again, comes from outside the industry at this point. We built the rails while pretending to be cyber anarchists with no affiliations and then took our chance to ban the trains we didn't like because society couldn't see the implications of what was happening yet, we're the techno-authoritarians and we're no longer the ones qualified to talk about solutions for precisely that reason.
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What I meant was not this particular instance but the future. Long term not short term. Is Facebook immortal? Companies, even the biggest ones, usually have a shelf life.
I see it like they're chasing the lower end of the market like single dev projects that don't want to spend much - which I guess makes sense. But for us this definitely would be a lot more expensive.
If you like this sort of stuff then you'll like Sam Harris' waking up app and his ideas around consciousness in general. If I didn't know any better I could mistake this commenter as Sam himself!
Ah, I didn't think of that.
I understand, it was mostly or the-in-the-future-maybe-have-a-web-function-to-sync.

I also suggested Couch because outside of western countries, you seldom find laptops or desktops (outside of cities), but smartphones with a recent browser are ubiquitous, so if it worked on IE7 it would run anywhere, even in the most remote area with no/crappy network. And the first time I used couch, my programming "knowledge" was very basic HTML (no JS).

> if we went with the browser I would have to support mobile phones and I don't want to support mobile phones for this use case for a lot of other reasons.

Yeah... all in all I completely misinterpreted the requirement of your use-case.
That wealth is not cash. It's control. It's control of something he created and would like to continue to control. He can't convert it into cash without liquidating control.

Imagine is 98% of net worth was in your home. You can't mortgage that without giving up control. This is why even Bill Gates really only started being truly philanthropic at a grand scale once he had decided to relinquish control in Microsoft and pursue his philanthropic endeavors. It was only at that point was he free to do something with that wealth.

We would all be better off letting Bezos build wealth and then tax it at the end. There's going to be a lot more tax money to work if you tax at the end of the prosperity.
Well, that is certainly one way to express support for the further entrenchment of racial inequities we find in our society today.
CatalyzeX – Browser extension that links code for ML papers anywhere on the web
why are you surprised ? Did you pay for the service in the first place ? Then everything you do in their site is valuable. You are the product
Micromanagement is a bad habit of insecurity that rots leadership, it affects the company health so much. One more source of emotional distress that makes good people leave.

Accountability (AKA delivery, outcome) is the best metric for me.
You are conflating many things here. To pick out your priorities, it seems what you want is:

* High Pay (top priority)

* Decision-making authority / Leadership position

* No code

* Work in tech

But it's unclear what you actually want to be doing in your job, asides being the person that gets to call the shots. I don't personally recommend goaling towards that, but if it is your goal then your fastest route there is through people management. You can be a non-coding engineering manager or product manager and work your way up eventually to Director, VPE, or CPO.

But, is making the most money possible really what you care about most? If so then go work for Netflix or similar where they will burn you out while paying you well.

Think hard on your actual goals though and make sure that is what you truly want. Personally, I'd recommend to folks to look more towards finding a good team that you gel with doing work that you find enjoyable.
Understood.

Never trust tech companies about anything. Wise words.
This is in "my friend Mr Leakey" which is a collection of JBS Haldane children's stories, published by puffin books
For a more in-depth look at Project Chariot and the general strangeness that surrounded it, find yourself a copy of The Firecracker Boys: https://www.amazon.com/Firecracker-Boys-Dan-ONeill/dp/046500...
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Why should they be applauded if they knew about the problem? notifying you about it is not enough... they need to let you act on it.
Might be a good idea, but the multilingual argument doesn't convince me one bit. If this project is any useful, it won't be because of its multilingual part.

Any person worth reading in STEM fields already knows English, and I don't know why anyone would want to read Wikipedia in any language other than English.

I'm Latin American. I used the Internet in Spanish in my early teens before learning English, and it's a joke compared the English Internet. I don't even like English from a grammatical and phonetical point of view, but trying to cater to the non-English-speaking public seems like a waste of time in 2020. Just learn English already if you don't know it, it will be a much better use of your time than reading subpar material in another language.
I was contacted by Google and interviewed based on my profile page on the crufty, tag soup website of my employer at the time. shrug
Agreed, but for every legitimate use case there are 10,000 that are just invasive and manipulative
I wasn’t aware of the cost TBH. I guess they can always develop their own zelle substitutes if they feel it’s worth it, not sure the economics of that are in their favor. Just saying you can’t ignore the upfront investment the builders put into creating and maintaining it while also pointing to the unit costs they charge the network partners. I’m sure it’s all negotiable with volume.
Apologies for the typos, I proofread where I could but I'm on mobile so some slipped through and due to the post length I can't edit them away.
Do you mean a reference describing the CPython runtime system, etc?
I hear you. I think it's weird that companies are being asked (or want) to take a stance on any issue outside of their core business.

If I was the CEO I'd say that I personally support and strive for equality and mutual respect. And as CEO I'm focused on changing the world though [our product].

I'm sure that wouldn't satisfy some folks but that's OK. There's only a Catch 22 if you're trying to make everyone happy. If you're OK with some folks bring upset then there shouldn't be fear in questions like the ones you mentioned.
The old biography is pretty good.by Ronald Clark. JBS was a Humanist, communist, self-experimentor, lifelong scientist. Often wrong headed. Also worth reading about is JD Bernal, AV Jones, Solly Zuckrmann, and PMS Blackett and the rest of 'the boffins'
For those using Firefox instead, here's the add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/code-finder-c...
To straightforwardly answer your question: you can always take that kind of stuff to 4chan.

But I don't think it's accurate to say that most people think these places shouldn't exist. The reality is simply that most people don't want anything to do with it. What you're witnessing is 99% of people collectively saying "not in my backyard", which leaves very little backyard for deeply unpopular views. I think that's an important distinction, even if the results are similar.

For what it's worth, I think a place for unrestricted speech should exist. I am honestly disappointed when I see calls for blanket bans, but I also understand why private platforms don't exactly aspire to bear this weight. These people and their views still exist, and ideally we as a society should confront it.
Legal Problem; the moment you log this crap as a company... It's discoverable. That sexual harassment lawsuit that just came up? You are legally required to now do data hold on all these keylogs and screenshots you took. Oh and now you have to explain to a jury how you don't fall into the common charge of "could have or should have known" that abuse was occuring. I mean, you had all these logs and you still let this go on!?

Any corporation that collects these logs is asking for danger. Give a good law firm that much data, they will nail you.

Not to mention if you fire someone for burning time and they sue for wrongful termination and you get an e discovery request..to see if you applied that surveillance to everyone equally. Let's request a random selection of logs from 10 staff members in the same or related roles.

This level of monitoring can get you in some huge problems.
It’s a good solution, but for workers in lower paying jobs it’s hard to afford even a single device
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If you didnt pay for the service, then you are the product.
Thank you for giving the link. Never knew about Lake Chagan, and it was very interesting to dive into stories about it.

Apparently, they intended to use such nuclear explosions across the whole country, but they learned quickly. What's even more interesting, they had a bio lab that would add new aquatic species into the atomic lake (as Lake Chagan is known to locals) and see what happens. Most of them died, some of them had mutated across several generations, including "positive" mutations, like increased size.

Source (in Russian): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA...
No, the harm is inherent in the surveillance.
You can receive and impart opinions without twitter. Gab and Parler exist. So does email.

And sharing an opinion is distinct from holding an opinion, and isn't protected.
That third party will be incentivized to monetize the data they collect after “anonymizing” it
As I have detailed here before as a schoolchild in Detroit our class visited the Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant. In a movie that we saw at the plant in the early sixties they envisioned nuclear powered automobiles.

Ford even created a concept car called the Nucleon as a demonstration of what a nuclear powered car would look like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
The Chinese military has already given the go ahead to start injecting a vaccine developed by CanSino Biologics into military personnel. That's potentially 2 million people. https://fortune.com/2020/06/29/china-coronavirus-vaccine-mil... This vaccine has already gone through their phase1&2 trials. Whereas in the US a vaccine probably won't be available for about a year, it's quite possible that other countries will follow China's lead and accelerate their vaccine development & trials.

Slowing the spread was to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed (flatten the curve) but it was also to minimize the number of people infected before either a vaccine or effective treatments became available. In the US a vaccine is likely still a year off, but we already know more about how to treat this than we did 4 months ago. And in another 4 months we'll likely have even better treatments and protocols.

It's not inevitable that 80% have to be infected within 18-24 months. Other countries have slowed the spread with Hong Kong, S Korea and Taiwan being 3 of the more notable examples.
PG told me it’s a good thing that there are things I’m afraid to say.

Up until more recently, it seemed the majority of folks on the internets felt they were obligated to let their freak flag fly.

So color me confused.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

Or at least give Jonah Goldberg credit for Liberal Fascism, written over a decade ago.
Study for the PMP: https://www.pmi.org/certifications/types/project-management-...
https://learn.go.dev lists many good resources.

The language spec at https://golang.org/ref/spec is a surprisingly approachable one-pager, it’s worth at least glancing over.

One of my all-time favorites talks is https://vimeo.com/53221560 from 2013. It shows off how Go scales by starting with a small task and continuously adding more requirements into the mix, while also demonstrating its concurrently support.
“Only the paranoid survive” is their motto, one of their early CEO even has an autobiography in that title
Ah, so _now_ we're asking Apple to disallow any UI development whatsoever outside of using the components in the UIKit and AppKit SDKs (and screw you if you want to develop any sort of interface that's not supported or intended to be supported out of the box by the above)? Very interesting indeed.

I understand the outrage over programs abusing the resources they have access to, but frankly this is just approaching hysteria. This is the equivalent of reading an article about an app snooping at documents you didn't open for sensitive data and jumping to the conclusion that operating systems should not support programmatic access to the filesystem.
Facial recognition is no match for face masks, but things are changing fast
Discrimination at Pinterest reveal Silicon Valley hiring problem
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At long last..it's here:
https://VisualSitemaps.com/
Yes but as a nation can't we understand that it's a general principal? All this cancel culture is ridiculous? Obviously there are limits but it's gotten absolutely ridiculous. At least two generations now equate yelling louder on social media as being the same as having a real reason that you're right and they consider debate a relic of the past.
Coincidentally this was covered pretty well by none other than Slate Star Codex itself, here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200618093842/https://slatestar...

> The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong
Interesting change. Disclaimer, I joined one of Algolia's competitors (http://sajari.com) 6 months ago and we are about to release a new product and change our pricing, so I've been thinking about this a lot.

Having worked at Atlassian before, I understand how important simple pricing can be. My personal (and probably biased opinion) is that this is a move in the wrong direction. It appears simpler on the surface, but the concept of a unit and understanding all the disclaimers associated with it make the pricing more complicated than before. If I have to read the faq to understand what I'm getting, it's too complicated IMHO. Also, it seems other features, like analytics retention, crawler, have moved into add-ons, which requires you to contact sales to find out how much you'll pay.

More granular pricing does provide more flexibility, but it also reduces predictability, which can be important especially in small to mid-sized businesses. I'm curious to understand how people feel about "usage pricing" vs. "tiered pricing" where you know exactly what you are paying each month? Which ones do you prefer? We are still finalising our own pricing, any feedback would be very much welcome.
If censorship is merely annoying, but otherwise ineffective, why do people keep portraying every act of moderation that any site performs as a slippery slope towards global Orwellian dystopia?

Why are people worried about cancel culture and "SJWs" and the "Left" purging conservative voices and "erasing history?" Why are some adamant that we need to have the government force all platforms to allow all forms of speech without moderation in order to combat the absolute, near Stalin-like censorship power that social media is perceived to have over all human communication?

Just reading this thread makes it obvious that people are worried about a lot more than merely being annoyed by it.
Some notable features:

+ public access to comments
+ private comments
+ team workflow
Chrome does use bundleware and dark patterns to trick users into installing it. It's done this for years in things like free Windows antivirus, the Flash installer, etc. I've had to uninstall Chrome from my mom's computer 3 times.
https://imgur.com/gallery/WWZxj
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My old gig was at Lawerence Livermore (home of Edward teller); there’s a photo of the sedan test with a few lab engineers posed next to it in the building that they interview new comp sci hires in. One of the senior engineers I was on an interview panel with told me all about Plowshare; weird to hear it from someone who wasn’t on the project.
I reckon trying to grow all our food in smart greenhouses will seem silly in hindsight.
I think people are leaning further and further into retribution instead of rehabilitation. People make mistakes and we need to realize that unless the mistake is really heinous then we don't need to absolutely destroy their entire lives. We just need them to learn from the mistake, possibly pay a cost (therapy, fines, temporary unpaid leave, etc), and then rejoin society as social and economic contributors.

I'd rather not pass individual judgement on these cases presented but it seems to me that some of these are more damning than others.
Companies are required to keep books according to accepted accounting principles, under which sunk costs are in fact on your books, and that's what financial analysts look at, and those costs you need to amortize, both financial accounting and tax accounting. When you build a new factory, you charge what you need to to pay the price of the factory down (or assembly line). You don't spend lavishly on an expensive factory and say "sunk costs, let's call that money gone, what's our marginal cost, ok, that will be our price." Rather, you charge as high as the market will bear and hopefully make a profit. You don't control the market of course, and you have to respond to competition.

A competitor who has already paid down their investment has more flexibility than you do because they have more room to play with price and still report a profit.

The sunk cost fallacy refers to your decision making. What is the value of a project? its prospects, not what you have already spent. What has your spending done? It's bought you the option to make this decision. Do you call the option? Well, it doesn't matter how much you paid for it. Did you make money on the option? That does matter how much the option cost.

Some of it's psychological and perhaps not rational: if you have engaged in a big money losing project, if you pull the plug on it, your stock price will go up, because the market says "whew, at least we know they are not going spend money on that project any more" which I guess is them suspecting you will fall prey to the sunk cost fallacy. But these are complex decisions to make, especially in Europe where shutting down production entails a lot of costs that would be better put to something productive, and as you don't know the future, you try to figure out ways to make the project work.
I guess that depends on how you define poverty. When I first moved to San Francisco, I slept on an air mattress for about 8 months and ate for about $2-3 a day and spent about $200 a month for health insurance. I walked most places at the time with the occasional muni fare. So my total monthly expenses was about $300 to $350 month once you include necessary incidentals. I don't think I had more than $300 in my bank account at one time. The only large purchase I made in that time period was a $200 pressure cooker, which I used to cook the beans I ate. I would buy black beans, kidney beans and rice in 20lb bags.

Would you consider this poverty? Cost-wise and earning-wise most people would consider it poverty, but it didn't feel like poverty because I knew what I was doing and I adjusted my expectations accordingly. I reckon I lived on about $2700 over those 8 months in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Would I want to do it again? No. Could I do it again if I had to? Yes.

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/how-i-live-on-7000-per-yea...
> Any person worth reading in STEM fields already knows English, and I don't know why anyone would want to read Wikipedia in any language other than English.

> Just learn English already if you don't know it

Some people are merely fine at English, or uncomfortable reading "casually" in their second/third languages...

It's actually not unreasonable for someone to want learning content in their native language. And there are loads of opportunities to try out new content when people in different places are writing content in different languages, with new angles and takes

For example the best intro to LaTeX is a book originally written in French[0].

And sometimes content just makes better sense in other languages because primary materials will be in that language (if you had the choice, would you rather read about the great Tokyo Fire in English or in Japanese?)

Sure, having access to English content is really important! But trying to have multilingual content is normal.

[0]: https://www.latexpourlimpatient.fr/
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Seems a bit ironic that Mozilla that hires and support

Anti Freedom

Anti WHITE

Anti MERIT

and goes out of its way to hire and support

Feminism

Marxists

Diversity
which are all tools of the Global LEFT
along with making a untrusted browser

now crying against a leftist that hates encyption (barr)