skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rely a lot on text for obtaining information and shaping my opinion, and in many cases short form text plays an important role (e.g. here or on reddit). I’m sure I’m not alone in that.

This technology can at the very least waste my time, confuse me and hide the content that I’m actually looking for. It looks like it can feasibly generate 2-3 sentence comments that make sense in context, but in an automated way, with the purpose of injecting a specific sentiment into a comment section.

I already didn’t like that sometimes it seems comments I think are written by humans might not be (or they might not be sincere). This kind of technology can make that problem a lot larger.

It could flood the internet with so much crap, that is so hard to filter out, that the internet becomes a much less usable source for obtaining reliable information. I think that’s pretty scary.
It's an ongoing project, most of the frontend stuff simply hasn't actually been made yet.

So far one tool has been launched: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21241093/facebook-google-...

and i really doubt they're going to stop with just that.
Well the army was downsized yes but most men still do their military service. I just recently completed my service and almost everyone I know did it too with maybe one or two exceptions. So this is still true. Except the women part yes this is really not significant.
My point is there will be very little useful text out there, 99% will be be baseless gpt 3 junk, and google won’t be able to tell the difference and rank the useful content higher.
but if, as the OP article suggests, there is no lost value, then there is no incremental value to pay existing NIMBYs. Otherwise you're just paying people off based on some subjective measure, which does not seem eminently sustainable.

Obviously, there are plenty of potential issues, such as sampling bias that may confound the article's conclusions, but it's not something to outright ignore, either.
The invention of nukes and a couple failed military campaigns were probably bigger factor.
> Unless they expect low-income people to cause issues, why would housing price decrease?

In principle, by supply and demand. If there is more housing then people don't have to outbid each other for the existing housing and the prices decrease.

Obviously this only applies if there is enough new housing to move the needle, which for housing projects like this there often isn't, but that's also the exact reason why programs like this are so ineffective. You have a city of a million households, a quarter of a million can't afford housing (or are having to scrimp in order to afford it), then you build a thousand units and imagine that will do something. What about the other 249,000?

Anything actually effective at making housing more affordable would reduce housing prices, because that's literally what "more affordable" means.
I think it is true.

You're right that you can't hold an empire with only force, but I would argue that was just as true during the days of the Roman empire as it is today.

Sure, the Romans used (for the time) overwhelmingly advanced technology and amazingly brutal tactics to conquer Gaul and Britain, but they maintained their hold over those territories by culturally assimilating the native populations. Gallic and Britanic Romans spoke Latin, wore Roman dress, and even followed Roman sanitary customs -- there's a reason there's a town called Bath in southwestern England.

That culture continued to exert influence long after Rome fell as a central military power.
Some people viscerally do!

My wife for one, even 5mg Vicodin would give her unbearable nausea and head spins.

Whereas that plus a glass or two of wine would be very (too) enjoyable for me.
The US definitely would have used nukes, especially in Vietnam - I believe that the reason the US President is the one with the nuclear suitcase and who it the end decision maker (probably something more people are nervous about now) is because when Truman learned about the nuke project (I'm not sure he had been aware of them until he became president) and used them he was afraid the military would use even more. Former SecDef Perry does a lot around nuclear nonproliferation and has good free courses, a podcast, and a book https://www.wjperryproject.org/
Good read, but I wish the author would have conducted a better Turing test by having someone that does not know beforehand interface with the AI. Add a control, find more people for both acting as control and participating in discrimination, and it would have been fascinating to see the results of such a test.
How do you think the US was founded? We are the strongest nation because we have the strongest military. Where would the US be without it's military? At best we could be Japan, but even they have their own military, and rely on ours to protect them.
Ah, but can it speak Emoji? Because, bless them.

Not the first time I’ve seen a “let’s make coding more accessible” project make this mistake, alas.
If you replace military with street gang in this post, it works just as well.
You sir, have not seen most gamers.
The will of the shareholders is expressed through voting rights, which may or may not exceed those of the board members.

The shareholders aren't the bosses, they're the audience.
Yeah, you nailed it. Definitely take the dive yourself. Docker has made it so that we can run any of our tens of services locally with nothing more than a git clone and make up. It’s a great feeling!
One has to wonder then: is this coordinated stalling?
Pretty much all of them.
A SF short story about a biologically encoded message from ancient aliens (written by one of the Autodesk founders):
We'll Return, After This Message by John Walker

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.
The only reason that the middle east is in such dire situations is because we refused to do what crueler militaries would do, which is crush opposition, what Assad would do, what Saddam would do. They may be cruel dictators but they brought stability and the ability for people to live within those rules. The US's military has and probably will do cruel things too but not to that degree.
Camping Kootwijk
In this (July 9) Wired interview, Larry Brilliant expects it will be 12 months. https://www.wired.com/story/larry-brilliant-on-how-well-are-...
Agreed, also because geography has thus far protected us from most major modern wars so we were able to avoid the catastrophic damage to infrastructure (and lives lost) that afflicted most of Europe and even Asia in WWII
> but it's not a causal effect - or at least, it's a lot more complicated than a simple causal effect.

It is a causal effect since parents with more resources (higher paying jobs, higher levels of education, more connections/resources) will be living in higher value housing.
In the case of Samsung and smart TVs, and to fully support the argument you are supporting, it is not sufficient that Samsung makes a lot of money. They need to make a lot more per user selling data than they would adding $20 to the price of that TV.

But that $20 price difference would probably mean that less people buy Samsung, so the maths isn't going to be that straightforward.
That's kinda like saying "convince me to buy a minivan".

It's impossible (and futile) to convince someone of anything unless it aligns with their goals.

Equally, advice from people who did things and met _their_ goals will not necessarily be helpful if your goals are different to theirs.

To meet your goals, open sourcing may not be the right thing to do.

So I think you need to reword your question before you will get a useful answer to your situation.
I agree, but to be fair, that includes many major armies in the world such as western European colonial powers that have track records far worse than the US. I think the idea that militaries are glorified due to a supposed "coolness" factor is disturbing to begin with.
> i think it's "easy" - pay the existing NIMBY people the equivalent in lost value when constructing objects in their "backyard".

Suppose the difference is actually large. Their currently million dollar house will be worth half a million dollars.

Who is paying this money? Low income people who need housing? They haven't got it, that was the original problem. Local taxpayers? That's just the original homeowners paying themselves.
I'll comment in an end user standpoint. I'm not trying to debunk your idea. I know, having an idea and acting on it is a hard thing and kudos for that. I would love easier login process on every site.

I don't know your likely use case or target market. So I'm using an imaginary one based on my usage.

Disclaimer: I'm not your average user. I use password managers heavily. But on the other hand every browser have some kind of integrated password manager.

My imaginary scenario has these assumptions:
- This website relatively simple and offers unimportant service because otherwise it's not a good practice to use this service. So my security need relatively low.
- I'm using this site relatively often. Maybe a few times a week. Otherwise these points are not that important.

My imaginary scenario has two cases:
- I'm using my regular PC & Browser
On a website using this service, I always have to open my email address and click a link to approve login. And if there is a "Remember Me" option only the first time. So my cumulative additional cost between somewhere 1 - infinity extra steps.
On a regular site, I'm already in here. I'll just hit a key combination for password manager and I'm done. And if I'm using browser's password manager I'll probably just need to click login.
- I'm using a new PC and/or a brand new Browser/Profile
My email address has 2FA active with a really complex password. This just caused me unnecessarily 3 step instead of 1 to login.
Why comment on the headline only? If you read the article you will understand that your comment is irrelevant.
Not all evolution depends on mutation. Genes can exist in a gene pool, but be rare. Selection can change that pretty quickly. Multiple genes can interact to affect traits. etc.

You can go from average dog, to a distinct breed of dog (behaviourally or physically) within very few generations. This doesn't require new genes, or many of them. Natural selection can also work pretty fast this way.

YNH's theory is that evolution of "superintelligence" is memetic, rather than genetic. Starting at about 100kya, cultural evolution was taking over as the main factor driving behavioural changes.

> There's evidence from cultural artifacts that even 100,000 years ago humans were less intelligent then us.

The same could be said about 10kya or 1kya. Medieval artifacts are far less sophisticated than ours. The brains are similar.
So it works fine with Linux then, yes? :-P
If you are part of an industry that willingly drops bombs on children using robots piloted by cowards hiding in a strip mall on the other side of the world, and if you propagate war games industries in order to have cannon fodder (your own citizens' children) to recruit from, then you are pretty much evil, yes.

If you participate in this heinous activity for 20 years without repercussion, then there is something completely and utterly wrong going on.

The evil is systemic.
You could get a native wildflower mix, and seed bomb with that. After a few years, it’ll settle into patches that of species appropriate for the sun/shade level, and look more natural. It’ll make the native pollinators and birds happy too.
Select in Postgres – 20 years ago and today
If you have a thesis that goes against well established facts and you meet that by not re-evaluating your stance but by blaming the media for not supporting your altered facts, then yes you are a conspiracy theorist.

I don't see where "elitism" comes in here. When you are wrong, you are wrong.
This belief serves only to propagate the evil. (Also, the USA is not the strongest nation in the world by many measures: health care, education, infrastructure.)

Children are being murdered in cold blood every single day by the US military. You don't see it if you live in America's propaganda bubble - therefore its "not your problem as a citizen" (it fucking IS though) - but millions of non-American citizens see the results of America's callous and evil wars, and we don't think its so grand that your nation requires such death and destruction in order to maintain itself.
I do not think you would find a single person who would call it fashionable. I don't dress based on aesthetics, I dress based on practicality and comfort. How it happens to look is a consequence, not a goal.

Form follows function. I don't wear boots because I think they look good, I wear them because they're comfortable to walk around in for a whole day and last much longer than regular shoes.

I don't wear polo shirts because they look good, I wear them because they're comfortable and because the collar is practical to avoid sunburn on my neck. They also tend to last longer than t-shirts.

I don't wear work pants because they look good, I wear them because they're comfortable, last longer than regular pants and because they have a bunch of practical pockets.

The end result may be that I do fit a certain type of look, but that is incidental and was never the goal in itself.

Fashion trends are pointless and destructive. They herd us into cheaply made fast fashion and is a great factor in our willfull destruction of the environment.
What about the education market is suboptimal?
There's also the micro plastics issue. Some plastics are prone to scrarching and becoming scuffy. Plus grease really likes to stick to plastics.
I was able to understand this, but then I found that some sliders make other sliders move farther than necessary. I even found a case where grabbing a slider to move it but putting it back to the original position before releasing the mouse button would change other sliders (surely that means either the original positions were inviable or the changes were unnecessary).

UX wise, it would be far easier to understand if the other sliders responded instantly so that I could see as I drag one slider how much it impacts the others, without having to release the mouse at each step to find this out.
That depends a lot on what you mean by "use". Pretty much every commonly used language would be able to define something that can hold one of two things and provide ways to determine which one is present and retrieve one of the two options, but comparatively few are going to be able to provide the same guards against accidental or intentional misuse that pattern matching gets you.
Fair enough, but I inferred the "all X is Y" bit from the first sentence, in which you said "I don't think you missed the mark" regarding a paragraph which, IIRC, did essentially imply that cargo shorts are by nature deceitful.
Yes, you can create a mess in any language. However, a lot of languages protect you against a lot of potential mistakes and also give you means of safely recovering from errors. The XML parser might not be better when written in another language, but if it is called from within an error handler, the calling program could recover from the error.
At least that was an overt recruiting tool.

Strangely, the one thing that sticks out to this day is they shunned the convention of using red and blue team indicators and instead chose red and green which made the game strangely difficult to get used to. I think I am remembering those little tick icons hovering above a player or maybe the reticle.

I guess the reason I'm pointing this out was because at the time I kept thinking if they can't get this one simple thing correct, what plethora of other things are they getting wrong.

edit: I have no idea how this adds to the conversation. Just thought vomit I guess.
Nearing 300 comments. Everyone either underwhelmed, or excited. Speculating what'll come next, how to improve, etc. Only some mention of possible abuse of this tech: mass propaganda / disinformation, misdirecting SEO.

Zero mention of Ethics so far.
>People think street gang is cool, even those who are against the street gang are donned in street gang gear and want to train with street gang tactics.

Can you name a street gang that pays your college?
I forgot to add that the main reason for setting up unbound is to use DNS over TLS.

I am not suggesting to ditch DoH and go back to unencrypted DNS.

There are a number of small independent and trusted DNS providers who support DoT. Uncensored DNS is one that I woul absolutely recommend.
Book Reader, also on F-Droid, is a great fork of FBReader.
Do you have a meaningful reply to my question or do you just have a rant that has nothing to do with what I just asked?
There is nobody around today that has a worse record than the US when it comes to unprosecuted war crimes and crimes against humanity. The US military is the #1 cause of death, chaos and mayhem in the world today, without question.

Americans forget that they are responsible for the illegal destruction of countless sovereign states in the last 20 years. Literally, 10's of millions of refugees have been unleashed upon the world due to America's callous actions. Iraq lost 5% of its population.

European armies are being forced (by their NATO captors) to participate - but nobody has come even anywhere close to the level of evil enacted on the world, as the US and its criminal War Coalition cult, which is recruiting children for its needs today.
If it's something that has quite a bit of complexity, then Vue and React will be close, though once you incorporate React's router and state management I think Vue wins soundly. Angular is a distant third.

In addition to having better 1st party coherence, Vue has fewer footguns than React.

However it's a different paradigm than HTML/PHP templates with some Jquery click handlers thrown in.
This is really glorifying dictatorships, people who live within the rules are still targeted and killed if that happens to benefit the dictator or those in his favor.
Assuming Genie the feral child was not born mentally retarded, it may suggest that language is critical for human level intelligence. There's also the theory in anthropolgy which I believe has some evidence that human intelligence exploded with development of more complex language.
I cannot say for sure, but it wasn't the only place with conflicts. I also got high on the ASVAB, but I didn't end up joining because I was too nervous and scared like you.
previous EdTech founder here. can only agree. It is a weird business. I think it boils down to this: most students don't care about learning. They educate themselves for other reasons.

So if you make a good learning tool, it only will be liked by the small niche of high performance self learners / students.
Yup, they get exported to poorer countries and fall off ships during a storm or 'accidentally'.
You can have programs crash in any language. However, it is the question, how well a program can recover from an error. Having a concept of error handlers in the language, which can catch conditions occuring inside the code they are calling, leads to more robust programmers.
Think of it as airbags and seat belts. Drivers, who don't make a mistake, wouldn't need them, but in reality shit happens, and they give us more survival chances.
You can "ssh" into a docker image and then commit it.
Than you can ship the binaries __or__ you can write down all the steps and ship the source (Dockerfile).

So it's something like a mix out of infrastructure as code, vms and baremetal. Something like vagrant but with lesser overhead.
Do AP classes require a strong lab component?

My honors chem class was in 10th grade. It barely touched on electronegativity, nor acid/base chemistry in a through way.

To expect a student to pull that experience forward two years later and integrate it with calculus to pull off organic chemistry seems non-ideal for many students.

And you really need the through physics/calculus component unless you want to wave biochem students past thermodynamics, which seems crazy to this former biochem student.

Cut the one quarter quantum mechanics class, perhaps.
NIMBY is only one face of the coin that makes it difficult for building. Local governments are also extremely satisfied placing a high bureaucratic burden (red tape) on new development. Think of setback laws, environment impact studies, zoning, facade ordinances.
https://ai.facebook.com/research/publications/vibe-dressing-...
“they felt it disorienting to express in their own native language programming constructs that they'd learned in English”

Trust me, going from natural-language English to programming-language English is just as discombobulating. (Been there, done that; made a deliberate point of remembering that experience.)

If you’re only testing it with existing programmers, you’re bound to skew your results because anything new and different to what they’re already used to is a disruption to their established flow. As in any scientific research, designing the right control for your trial is critical to avoiding GIGO.

A better test would be taking groups of English and non-English non-programmers, and teaching both of them entirely from scratch. (This assumes, of course, that each group’s teaching materials have been human-localized to the same standard, and all trainers follow the same script.) That way you avoid polluting your results with preconceptions and existing biases.

Out of interest, is there any more public information of your work here? iris-script[1], my own end-user-friendly language project and obvious anagram, has a way to go before I can begin to explore localizability, but it’s on the TODO list so I am collecting links to relevant material. Ta.

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[1] https://github.com/hhas/iris-script
Could someone either change title to “Facebook joins the Data Transfer Project (2019)”, or change the URL to https://datatransferproject.dev? It’s not about a product or feature of Facebook, it’s about Facebook joining an existing initiative so the title is between confusing and misleading.

I’m curious about the incentives. On one hand, it must be expensive to implement this kind of universal data importer/exporter across your products; on the other hand, this allows your users to switch to a competitor more easily.
As a European I find the patriotic displays before sports matches in the US a little vomit inducing. It's paid for by the military and not some spontaneous display of love for the country, and it's a little fascist in that anyone refusing to take part (Colin Kaepernick? But also people in the crowd who don't stand) stands out like a sore thumb. Then there's the "let's clap for veterans" mid-way through the game and whatnot, sometimes bringing one or two onto the pitch for everyone to gawk at. It seems to me like the whole thing is a choreographed process to show impressionable youngsters who lack self respect that they will be respected by society if they wage war on its behalf.
Some people are asshats!
I have biodegradable single use cutlery made from corn starch. It's stronger than it's cheap plastic single use counterpart. And ten times more expensive. Wood is also biodegradable. I recycle some of my chopstics.
I considered that term, but the ones I like the most are made from heavyweight cotton twill, similar in weight to denim but with a different weave and feel. Whereas I think combat pants are generally some sort of polycotton or cordura ripstop fabric.

So it's "service" as in service tech or mechanic, not military service.