skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter why they play dirty. The question is how they get away with it. What are the motivations of the people who back them up and enable them? Someone like Trump would fade away as a kind of comical narcissistic egomaniac sideshow (which he was before 2016) if it wasn't for the fact that there are powerful people benefiting from him being in the Whitehouse. That combined with identifying real grievances among working class people, which the so-called "left" in the US promises but fails to remedy ... it's a recipe for disaster.

Hitler rose to power from the virulent fear of communism combined with the chaos and ineptness of the Weimar republic. Trump has risen to power because of the latent racism in the United States combined with the incompetence of the two political parties in the US and the fallout from the 2008 crisis. Among other things.

Playing dirty only happens when there's nobody there to stop you. This we all know from the elementary school playground.
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Let me walk you through how this plays out.

Lawyers from Brigade and Citibank calculate Brigade's odds of winning. Let's say both sides agree it's 5%. That means the expect returns on litigating this are $8.75 million to Brigade. The cost of litigation is $2 million. The two sides discuss. They settle for anywhere between $6.75 and $10.75 million, depending on who negotiates better. That's where neither side wants to litigate.

For being a little bit douchey, Brigade walks out a few million ahead.

If sides can't agree (e.g. Citibank lawyers estimates 1% odds of winning and Brigade 10% odds), they go to court. But 9 times out of 10, it's a settlement like that.
An Introduction to Formal Verification for Software Systems
I don't think it's the load on Gmail that's an issue. I'd point more to Google Drive, Docs and the underlying shared storage infrastructure. Also keep in mind most of those 1.5 billion users won't be very active - a few million users that have no usage at all for a few months and then all come back to being extremely active within a few days can be pretty disruptive!

IMO it's not really about having the resources to scale, but the unpredictable emergent behaviours which can happen when the load profile suddenly changes
I like that Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red, Blue, Green Mars) are in red. That is my absolutely favourite Sci-Fi series of all time. It has aged amazingly well. He did an amazing amount of research for that book. It's very believable and the characters are incredibly complex.
Sure, but most of those fields don't require a carefully examined set of beliefs about the world itself in order to succeed. A logically inconsistent but functional worldview is usually enough. As an extreme example it's entirely possible to be an award-winning pediatric neurosurgeon while simultaneously believing that the Egyptian pyramids were grain storage silos.

Fields that require carefully examined beliefs about almost everything (physics for example) are a lot harder to pull that off in.
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As an illustration, see http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
Antibodies simply teach memory cells, which is what gives you the secondary (long-lasting) immune response. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_B_cell

Still, it's an absolutely brutal way to handle the virus and it's accepting deaths on the order of large wars.
That's actually a rather nice looking building. I suspect if something was built here in the States for a similar purpose, not only would it not have such an attractive exterior, but it almost certainly wouldn't have public access. Most of our office skyscrapers aren't even open to the public as it is.
a random person can't even sell items in Walmart for that matter...

Fortnite is a software platform and the market is part of the software.

Apple is an Hardware company which also chose the software you can run on it, which also owns the only market where you can buy software for.

That's a pretty different situation.

TLDR: Apple can sell Apple stuff exclusively on their e-store, they shouldn't force third party developers to sell their stuff only on their mobile store.
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This is such an intellectually impoverished notion of racism. It's mired in 20th-century theory goo.

You can rest assured that racist reasoning ran rampant throughout world history long before someone coined the word "race" or before 18th/19th century political narratives used it in whatever particular ways.
They don’t just get your IP address... your neighbor can find out what video you are watching.

I understand google is going to know what video I watch, and accept that... but I don’t like the idea of everyone knowing what I watch.
This is not how antibodies work!
Just remember what happened when Cuba followed some domestic policies US didn't like in 1962.
What’s more, AI talking in character as itself sounds like just about the most perfect use of GPT3 imaginable. Don’t try to write like AI would, let AI do it.
Perhaps laws should actually reflect what the citizens want.
That's great if it is presented as speculation. But with clickbait headlines and initial paragraphs that make it sound like fact and that direct evidence is found is just bad reporting.
The DOA [Department of Anti-racism] would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas. -- Dr. Ibram Kendi

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politi...
Is it your belief then that everyone is immoral? Or do you have any examples of someone maximising possible good?

The most obvious problem with such a system is that you're a bad person regardless of what you do, so there is no value in doing good unless you're a superintelligence. You say as much above- people make immoral decisions (by your evaluation) constantly, so it doesn't really matter whether you do.

You seem to be angling above for a world where people who care about others feel constant shame because they're not doing enough, while selfish, shameless people get to lead happy lives. That seems immoral, even by my much lower standards.
I'm still active on the left and very much into social & economic justice, but I often notice how much division these anti-sexist and anti-racist tactics create inside the left political spectrum. I don't think a lot of these tactics are friendly, engaging, and a lot are destined to generate more negative outcomes and thoughts about left policy, structural racism & sexism in my opinion. As Fred Hampton once said, you don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water.

I agree that it almost seems like active sabotage.
I've read that book, and it's very entertaining.

But the actions described in that book include setting up political parties to co-opt various movements do not describe what Alexey Navalny was doing. Navalny is the exception to what was the norm in Russia: an actual opposition, albeit a very weak one.
There is a link for Part 2 of the article, which has more info - https://fortelabs.co/blog/what-i-learned-about-the-future-by...
68K assembly, no branches:

# d0 = num, d1 = low, d2 = high, d3 = scratch
sub.l d1, d0
subx.l d3, d3
or.l d3, d0
addx.l d1, d0 # d0 = max(num,low)
sub.l d2, d0
subx.l d3, d3
and.l d3, d0
add.l d2, d0 # d0 = min(max(num,low),high)

Adapted from "Superoptimizer -- A Look at the Smallest Program" by Henry Massalin [1].

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/superoptimize...
Artificial Intelligence Reveals History Fastest F1 Driver
This certainly bends the needle on my bamboozle bullshit meter.

They sure crammed a maximum amount of specialized words in there. Words that a majority of people will not understand.

After reading just this excerpt, I instantly lost the nerve and patience to read the actual article.

If the purpose of (written) communication is to transfers ideas, then this convoluted word salad certainly miserably failed at it. But, I get the impression that the intention here is exactly the opposite, to convey absolutely nothing while pretending to be something complex and hard to understand.

99 out of a 100 (if not more), that kind of pattern indicates a intentional scam, of which there are plenty on fringes of science communities.

Not being able to follow a science paper as the result of inadequate knowledge, regarding concepts and/or jargon, is one thing. Creating bullshit sentences like these is very much another.
This. So many founders are enamored with their titles and their ideas more than actually building a real company. IMHO its the most obvious way to spot a future failure along with the amount of fluff PR and "thought leading" blogging...
It depends on how you define "outsiders". Look at the 2019 poll table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Russian_sentiment#Statist...

The Five Eyes countries, Germany, Poland, and Japan have overwhelmingly negative views (easy to explain for historical reasons).

But you see overwhelmingly positive views of Russia in China, India, Nigeria, Mexico and Indonesia; and ambivalent views elsewhere in Asia, Latin America, and the Mediterranean.
> If someone can come up with a legal operational structure that gets around taxes then that the government didn't do its job.

Right, they passed a law, AB5, to better do that job.
But a leader speaking out to the population is not the same thing as an engineer/researcher formulating a theory and correcting themselves as information comes through in their research notes. One of the important things you have to consider as a leader is political capital, which is a limited resource. Every time you tell people that they should do something that is different from what they wanted to do, you are burning that capital. You cannot change your mind "as new information comes through" every day, soon enough, everyone stops trusting whatever you say and are back to doing whatever they think is best.

So if you think masks _can_ help (now or in the future, with training, used correctly, when we have enough of them in the future, etc etc) then DO NOT say they do not help and then come back to that because you have "new information".

If the problem was sourcing PPEs for health professionals why didn't the government use emergency powers to seize shipments and ban selling of such critical products to the general population? At least temporarily while building stocks for health professionals (which I'm surprised we didn't already have stocks of, you know, that seems like normal preparation procedure for a national health emergency?)
> 10k suicides < 200k covid deaths

If you think an 85 year old dying 3 months earlier is the same as a 27 year old killing themselves, you’re beyond help.

> Again, wow. I'm sorry you hate your gramma... You're the one that's not rational, and I expected the HN crowd to be better at digesting statistics.

Absolutely moronic emotional appeals and accusations of being irrational within a few sentences of each other? You are a hopeless midwit.
> In fact, if you watch Kent Hovind, he opens every single video he makes with, "I believe that the Bible is true and scientifically accurate."

If you're spending lots of effort making what appear to be good-faith arguments toward some conclusion, but that conclusion is in fact an axiom that you hold, then that's intellectually dishonest. If "Bible is true and scientifically accurate" is one of your axioms, then it's intellectually dishonest to provide some supposed piece of evidence that supports this claim (e.g. supposed missing links in the fossil record), because by definition 1) no evidence is necessary to support an axiomatic claim and 2) no evidence or explanation can possibly change your mind.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24225110.
Analyzing Who and What Appears in a Decade of US Cable TV News
That page doesn't seem to be about Yahoo.

According to Wikipedia, Yahoo's revenue in 2016 was $5.2 billion. Yahoo is now owned by Verizon Media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21
Black and Wooden Design 3D Bathroom Scene
Yeah, GPT-3 contains essentially all the historical internet up to October 2019 and many books, you can easily trigger it to enter a "known" world.

But what's more interesting to me as a fiction writer is to be able to prime it to enter a new world that I create.
Nas was ahead of the times. I can't believe that these lyrics are from 2003. Always inspiring to hear them.

These lyrics bring home the point that so much of culture is historical narrative. I was reading Scale by Geoffrey West who is a particle physicist. Every 5-10 pages West brings up Plato/Aristotle. This was baffling to me till it dawned on that Greek history is the author's historical narrative, his cultural identity. Erase someone's history, erase their identity and you crush their progress. Give them a glorious past and they feel predestined to greatness. I believe good things will come from resurrecting the history of African Civilizations.

"Where is your history? How did the man wipe out your history?" - Malcolm X [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6CA9VX4XY
This is a bit misleading since there are way more steps / neuron firings involved, the rule just says that these operations happen in less than 500ms and 1 firing per 5ms is the maximum throughput of a single neuron. These brain operations aren't implemented as a sequential chain of neuron activations though.
Here is the actual paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06007
Decrease costs how?

SpaceX isn't resting on its laurel letting newer startups show them up. They're working on catching million dollars crate and on their next generation systems.
Agreed, some people really don't like terse emails.

I actually got myself into trouble a couple of years back because of this. I've been working with Norwegians almost my whole working life, and am used to being terse, direct and honest. Aside from that, I'm an extrovert, and don't talk unless I have something to say.

Anyway, then I got placed as tech lead for a UK project, working remotely. Within a week, the PM had made a complaint to my manager that I was being glib and not listening to other points of view.

I had no clue where any of this had come from, and sat down with the PM to try to understand - if I'd given the wrong impression, I wanted to fix it. Anyway, we looked back through piles of emails, and in every single case it was a misunderstanding of my real intentions that was directly linked to terseness.

From then on I've tried to gauge my audience better - always using salutations, using longer sentences to say the same thing, trying to be softer etc. I think by and large this has been successful, although I am finding recently my emails tend to be too long...
Are there even any commercial products with these in them? I did a cursory search and the top 12 results were all research papers or research institutes. I found one company that produces the cells but nothing analogous to an internal combustion engine. A gasoline or diesel powered boat has a conventional engine block with intake and exhaust that's attached directly to the propeller. I don't see how any company could use a fuel cell if they can't buy it as a complete generator.
See:

https://joinpeertube.org

https://peertube.fr
I’ve done the risk analysis of the health effects of the virus on myself and people I care about and decided that the negligible marginal increase in risk of death or serious injury is not even close to sufficient to justify becoming a shut-in.

If a single-basis-point-scale increase in annual death rates is enough to make you “stay home”, you should never go outside in the first place.

On expectation, my marginal increase in risk of death from depression from becoming a shut-in is higher than the marginal increase in risk of death from contracting covid.
I would really like a recommendation engine that I own and control.

It would know what I read and watch. It would find new stuff for me, dedupe it, listen to my feedback,and learn from its mistakes. It would work with all kinds of media, not just youtube or HN.

And it would all be private. I don't mind paying for my content but I do mind being the product.
"KGB psyops"

Wish people would stop trying to play pretend RU experts.

If you want details on actual cough "Psyops", one can read a book like Active Measures by Thomas Rid.
Can fortnite run in browser?
Would be nice if they could just do that and show genzoom that they dont need to discover interesting content via an appstore app only.
> Unfortunately many gig workers don't have the privilege.

Gig work turning into full time work out of necessity is the band-aid on the bullet wound. The unemployment numbers were down, in large part due to gig work, but that work never should've been counted as real employment.

So rather than address the underlying problem with something like the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, which was the real and necessary answer, we papered things over with gig work out of a deep-seated philosophical hatred of government as a primary employer.

Now, rather than admit gig work was never a real solution for employment, we're trying to force it to be that by fiat, and acting shocked when this wrongheaded strategy isn't working.
Biomorphic batteries could provide 72 times more energy for robots
Sorry, I have to disappoint. I know at least one person IRL who believes a number of pretty weird things. Know him since school. Almost freaked me out when he told me he builds a cloudbuster for his backyard to protect against chemtrails.
I challenge you to go find a description of race based on skin colour in old Roman texts. The colour of someone's skin is barely commented on in them, more of a novelty about the person, and is not described as being related to "race." And yet they had an empire which spanned from North Africa to Northern Europe.

Race as a category was an invention to justify the form of slave trade during the settling of the Americas.
Project ONE from Mercedes will soon go into series production
A 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported that 70% of them had failed to reproduce at least one other scientist's experiment (50% had failed to reproduce one of their own experiments).
No, your point from what I understand is that even given a UBI, people will find new productive work to do. My point is 1) that with a UBI in place, there is no incentive for people to do any of these new productive jobs, and 2) a UBI by itself doesn't suddenly eliminate the need for the old productive jobs. If all of the old productive work is automated, then yes, I agree that people will find new productive work to do. But a UBI will take away any incentive for anyone to look for new productive endeavors.
Somehow other first world countries manage to keep infection rates under control and not completely kill the economy. Maybe they are super lucky and we are very unlucky or maybe they have better leadership?
When Uber tried that in Austin, competitors appeared quickly.
When Uber started up again, some of them closed and some stayed.
I'm not seeing the distinction. Why is hardware relevant? If Epic sold a "Fortnite tablet" would this somehow change the legality of Epic's monopoly on selling digital items in Fortnite?
Eh, I live here and tbh I'd rather people just invested in better healthcare and antipoverty infrastructure than in grand ecological gestures.
Your question is essentially one of "general composabilitiy vs specialized tool". There's two (opposing) philosophical answers, and three (opposing) practical answers, and who am I to say which is better for you?

For me, Tar + compression is optimal for most of my use cases - transfer over network, software package distribution, long term storage. In case of transferring over fast network, uncompressed Tar is pretty good [0], and Lz4 compressed is pretty fast too. In case of distributing software, XZ compression is optimal (expensive, good level for small projects). In case of long term storage, Rzip compression is optimal (very expensive, good level for large projects).

Besides the pragmatic considerations, as a software developer & maintainer, I honestly enjoy composability.

Funnily enough, just yesterday I've read the specification of SQLite Archive Files[1]. A pretty cool format and yet - my first question was, "Why is there no support for other compression methods? Like Lz4 for high speed, XZ for high compression?" Please note that, unlike with Tar, extending this standard is pretty much a no-go. Meanwhile a .tar.gz / .tar.xz / .tar.rz / .tar.lz4 is a self-documenting file. You know what to do, and it's easy to write a tool that does the right thing automatically.

I've been implementing a toy project recently, and one of the network communication protocols in it has grown into a poor man's re-implementation of Tar. Having realized that just now, I'll probably yank out several dozen lines of code and replace them with one call to tar on each side. However crufty Tar it might have gotten over decades, it's certainly less buggy than my hand-rolled code.

Lastly, Tar is a much richer format than one might ordinarily expect. For example it supports multiple versions of the same file[2] - and you can add newer version(s) incrementally (append-only file; a much safer operation than re-writting/replacing files). Think a poor man's Git/SQLite/Wiki/whatever. Self-contained, self-documenting, all very nice.

--

[0] uncompressed Tar supports fast seeking. If you expect working with an archive for a while, just create an uncompressed copy. Or a text file index, we don't judge.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar.html

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/multiple.h...
Nighttime Stories (Xkcd)
> You raise money, you build something, and then you have a limited time to see whether your hypothesis about the market was correct.

Or, you get to know an industry, see a need, design a solution, bounce your ideas off people in the industry, do some mock-ups to get some initial acceptance of the idea, ask if they'd pay for it, and if/when all that comes together, then start to build. If you cannot build it with your available resources, maybe look for some funding.
- Well, it depends on how you intend your interpreter to be used, but if it's for long running programs, a garbage collector of some kind is essential. Rc<T> is a primitive garbage collector that happens to be provided by Rust, but it's not very efficient, so if you're concerned with performance you'd probably want to build your own (or try your luck with a community GC--I haven't tried them in a while, so maybe they've improved since I last looked, but there didn't seem to be a lot of promising options for automating this).

- I don't think so, unfortunately. Your best bet would probably be a macro, which I'm sure you've already considered. You might want to talk to the author though, as I'm sure she has thought about this a lot more than I have.
When corporations effectively control customer choice and eliminate competition, then yes, a democracy should break up the corporation to restore a level playing field. US anti-trust laws that were fairly applied in the past are not being applied today. This is a position independent of whether a wealth tax is applied or not. Big companies have become far too big with mergers and anti-competitive practices - they need to be broken up - for the very health and continuance of precious capitalism.