skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curiously, what set of reading would you say that would make a liberal person become a conservative? If you're belief is that it's logical, it must be an argument we can discuss, backup with data - etc.

So to that end, the reason i'm liberal is that i believe there is a balance between social safety nets and capitalist incentives. In my view, we are currently the conservative dream. Very few protections for workers, less and less than years past - with increasing benefits for corporations that see little to no benefits trickled down to the workers. Walmart and Comcast are what i see as the natural result of conservative practice.

I simply want what will result in the least suffering. Yet i see suffering in mass in the very pro-0.01% behavior. Walmart does great in this environment - it's employees, less so. Worse yet if you lose your Walmart job, as the safety nets are being dismantled left and right by conservatives.

So, what reading would you recommend i do to show me that fiscal conservative behavior here and that further more reducing lower/middle class protections is beneficial to them?

I certainly do not claim to know all, or any, answers. All i know is the state of the poor is very unsettling to me in America. What reading would you suggest?
I don't know what 'free' means for the project, but open source and 'free as in freedom' are not redundant these days. While open source is legally indistinguishable from free software, time has proven that open source software can be designed in non-free ways. Examples:

- Bloating codebase so much that it can't be audited, extended or forked easily

- Tightly controlling the development

- Open shims for opaque blobs

- Hiding documentation and troubleshooting information

Freedom is more about intent than definitions.
Outright banning things has a tendency to have severe side effects, look at the alcohol prohibition the US had, the marijuana prohibition and general narcotics prohibitions. This has to be considered.

I'd personally ramp up non-smoker protections first in particular protections for kids (even within their own families), and then ramp up measures to prevent people from starting to smoke, like a ban on advertisements for smoking, a ban of "branding" on cigarette packs, making access to cigarettes harder. Measures and even incentirives to help people stop or at least reduce smoking will also help.
> But for what you suggest to work, homeless people need to be visible.

Not necessarily physically visible. Just mentally visible.
When still talking about mixed SDR+HDR content on a HDR display having differently mapped whites, the article says:

> it’s strange and new, and possibly unique to Apple.

But that is exactly how Windows 10 does it with HDR displays, too. So not really unique to Apple. To the article's benefit, it did say "possibly" :)

I'm using Win 10 myself with an HDR display, and HDR white appears brighter than "desktop" white just like in the article photo.

There is also a slider in Win10 HDR settings that allows you to bring SDR/"desktop" white up if you wish to oversaturate SDR.
Same. I’ve been a happy user of Haml for about ten years, but I think that Tailwind and Stimulus will permanently force me back to ERB :(
240 People died waiting for surgery in Saskatchewan while 60 died of Covid
Why is glass transparent? – Mark Miodownik (2014) [video]
Given what I see driving around on US roads, there is epsilon-squared chance this would be found let alone fined here. (I’m also not nearly convinced that it’s even illegal in my state and likely not so in any of them, especially given that my car had a dealer service to remove the SIM card as a recall item.)
> - If a programming language includes a package manager that points to a repository by default, then it's a not a serious programming language.

I'm not sure what you mean, having a default repository seems like a sane decision to me. Do you have a language in mind that doesn't do this?
Interesting tangential observation, but let's take it offline to an IM or video chat after the meeting.
If you press 'Player Profiles' it takes you to the same page as 'Game Totals and Progress'
Hayabusa2 Capsule Reentry Operation
no, it's really the government pushing infections to the periphery, so that it gets credit for visible action rather than meaningful effect (i.e., lowering death rates permanently without throwing half the population into severe distress). that's exactly the empty effort we should hold against politicians, especially when so much harm has blindly been brought to bear along with it.

it's unrealistic to expect families to social distance from each other for months on end for a pandemic of this severity (~0.5% fatality rate heavily skewed to the aged, as opposed to the 1918 flu with ~10-20% fatality rate across the age spectrum).

so the most impactful, and realistic, action to materially lower infection/death rates is to alter our behaviors around private social gatherings only (distance or mask indoors). focusing our efforts there would be spending our collective goodwill budget wisely, as opposed to the pointless political theater around masks and restaurants. instead, all of the focus has been on curtailing public settings (easier for the government to control), where only a small minority of transmission is happening (moreover, public behaviors changed without needing government intervention). it'd be farcical if it weren't so tragic.
>popularity

The ranking portion can be misleading.
Lack of Sleep Could Be a Problem for AIs
Even linear regression is not very easily explainable for real world systems with currently utilized technologies -- especially when you have a virtually unlimited range of mechanisms intentionally or unintentionally subset or modify the sampling process (or select for desirable results at "sampling design time") ...
Of course that would be a top reason.

1. Find flaws in my thinking.
2. Find flaws in other people’s thinking.
> Most humans in a matter of a few hours can operate any multi-ton vehicle in most weather anywhere in the world. As road conditions change humans instantaneously adapt control response and safety protocols.

I would bet that the author has not had the chance to observe common driving practices in New England by drivers unfamiliar with winter weather conditions. Ideally we would all slow down in the snow, but I would hesitate to claim that we all adopt those safety protocols.
That assumes they all only go to one place, which then turns into a cesspool that immediately repels anyone who enters.

There are two problems with this. The first is that it works both ways. If you expel all the heretics then your site becomes a cesspool of groupthink that immediately repels anyone who has had so much as a conversation with someone from the other side, because you'll be saying things that are transparently wrong to anyone who has had any real-world contact with the subject matter and be unable to correct yourself because anyone who spots the error fears being ejected for pointing it out.

And the second is that the version of the opposition on their best behavior for doing recruitment doesn't actually disappear, it just ends up in separate places. Your opponents will have their home base which is full of their own obviously wrong groupthink, but there will also continue to exist places where moderates gather.

Which means you have a new problem. The place where moderates gather will still have the subtle extremism you were trying to eject, but now, because your population hasn't been exposed to it, they're more susceptible to it. They're unvaccinated. So now you have to not only eject the extremists but also the moderates, because anyone who starts listening to the moderates may start to realize that some parts of the things your own extremists say aren't exactly true. Which puts them at high risk of switching to the other team. And you've already turned the other team into a coalition of crazy extremists. But ejecting the moderates turns your team into a coalition of crazy extremists, which is likewise quite ungood.
I am the author, and I am a self-driving car engineer too! Waymo is an inspiring project, many friends work there, and it literally inspired me to work on self-driving cars.

I wrote this to help people in the industry have the right context in the right way.

As to Waymo's driverless testing, it's dangerous! See here what I wrote about why: https://jperla.medium.com/tesla-saves-lives-waymo-gambles-pa...
> The post doesn’t substantiate the claim: “The software adds a 30% performance penalty on top”.

From the link I posted: "Ubuntu 19.10 meanwhile had a 29.5% advantage over Apple macOS..."

Ubuntu 20.04 is faster still on that set of benchmarks, and ClearLinux has a 10% performance increase on top of that.

>It shows performance on an extremely narrow test.

No, it includes a very broad range of tests. I just highlighted one of them, on which MacOS performs particularly poorly and which affects software a lot of us use.

> As to your claims about iOS. There is literally nothing to substantiate it.

I gave you three links to substantiate it. It also matches my own experience.
Because the vast majority of problems are trivial. And a trivial problem demands a trivial solution.

PHP offers a development paradigm second to none. Drop a single file into a single directory and hit f5. Problem solved. Next.

Which language above can do that?
In my experience, this is not much of a problem. Server-side rendering is not that expensive, and can easily serve high volumes of users. After all, it has been used for decades, and is in continued use by most major sites. There's no significant performance difference between rendering HTML and rendering JSON.

Furthermore, there are easy ways to mitigate the cost of rendering on the server side. For example, on a site like reddit, most of the traffic is probably non-logged-in readers hitting the front page, so... cache the front page. Even for logged-in users, the front page listing only could be cached as rendered, since none of it really needs to be live. If liveness was desirable for only certain elements (e.g. voting buttons), it is possible to sprinkle on client-rendered elements.
This makes whole anti-trust angle actually even more interesting. If Google or Alphabet were to be split up, who would own the DNS? And would they still have business case to run probably relatively expensive service? Or would someone calculate that it makes more sense just to shut it down. Or maybe point all queries to nice marketing website?
I absolutely believe this person because I had periods of unemployment in my life. Many people around here treat you like shit if you don't have a job. And that was just a job.
Do you encounter similar confusion with ‘really’, ‘very’, and ‘truly’?
Yes. We would want the descriptive names for identifiers which have broad scope, but short names for the local variables that work with them.

I would rather give a function the descriptive name in such a way that the parameters can then be given trivial, mnemonic names.

Strawmannish example:

incrementAccountBalance(a, n)
{
...
}

The descriptive function name gives away what a and n are, so it is unhelpful to make this:

incrementAccountBalance(account, amountToIncrementBy)

Reasonable middle ground:

incrementAccountBalance(acct, delta)
There is always an entity to sue, because legal and organized business activity is taxed and requires legal entities.

If you hide your commercial activity from taxation, you will be dealing with law enforcement sooner or later, depending on scale.

For example, I can sue all companies that make operation of Bitcoin possible, including exchanges, miners, individual and organized Bitcoin users.

So, to repeat: Technical implementation details are irrelevant because legal business happens between legal entities.
Yes, from your IoT devices maybe you do.

The usual approach to setting up a firewall is a default of "block everything" and then selectively allow only what is needed.

Most people cheat and only do this on inbound connections, allowing everything on the egress side, because it's easier. But if you want to block your IoT devices from making outbound https connections, you easily can.

There's nothing really new going on here. It's always been possible to tunnel one protocol over another, or use nonstandard ports, and use encryption on the traffic to hide what you're doing.
> Physicians are not scientists

Neither are epidemiologists.

> they aren't supposed to make policy decisions.

Scientists don't make policy decisions either. Politicians do.

> It goes to show how few people understand what Science is

Ain't that the truth.
Won't speak for your OP, but from my perspective most Social Justice Warriors embrace the term, even if it is thrown at them derisively from the other side. Same thing goes for being "Woke" -- it is a term and mindset that they embrace.
KAS: GUI Toolkit in Rust
At this point I don't want things with nonfree firmware in my house.
Other Google researchers have stated that they’ve never had their papers internally reviewed based on the criteria she did (lit review for example). Just for things like corporate sensitive information. If no one else in Google history has had the same criteria used, that seems selective to me.
> We're talking about tech firms that have access to the entire internet and use it.

I think you're trying to say that a large enough dataset will be free of bias. I don't see how that follows. If I train a model on home mortgage decisions, I will replicate the bias on that currently exists on that dataset - https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/01/racial-discrim... - unless there are conscientious choices to reduce that bias.

Researchers in ethics in ML are specifically trying to enable tech companies to do a better job of not replicating bias and justifiably point out where that is occurring.

Third, I would argue that applying an ML model to do something faster if it replicates the bias of a previously human decision is even worse. The bias has taken the human element completely out and systematized the bias and made it possible with even less friction.
And yet the numbers aren't much worse! Amazing and suprising, right?
I know that, but unless you can 100% guarantee that the application was clean from any kind of DOS interrupt calls, there are zero guarantees that it wasn't DOS, one of the drivers or the pseudo multitasking TSRs that were the culprit, there is no way to assert that the application was the one at fault.
> We can do a lot with speech to text as a starting point. And you can easily detect if speech to text isn't working very well.

> And for those that are graphic you can do image detection. It's not out of reach.

YouTube does both of those things already. How well is it working out? Honestly, surprisingly well. But many, probably most, would argue not nearly enough, especially if you're legally liable for every frame of that video
Isn't that because they're expected to meet insane delivery schedules with severe consequences for their pay if they can't make them?
"Faking nice" over "making nice" is pretty common in online communities too.

1) A person-turned-abuser sees an opportunity to abuse an undeserving bystander.

2) The abuser takes it, using polite-sounding, civil language as a smokescreen.

3) Some commenters will point out the malice in the abuser's tone.

4) The abuser furiously spams the thread, claiming clear & good intentions. The abuser may even pretend to apologize to the abused.

5) Months later, the abuser only remembers "both sides were wrong" or the abused "kind of deserved it"

The relevant quote is "Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed." If a person offends the group's vague sense of manners, that person risks being condemned and ostracized. But if a person can cloak their action under a thin veneer of respectability (propriety), they can do quite a bit, even harm a fellow human being, without being detected.
I wasn't making an analogy to VC. Perhaps an inartful attempt to point out the previous comment's non sequitur.
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/czl1f1/jio_fiber_rou...
Agreed that std::get_if is nice, it avoids redundantly checking then fetching the value compared to using holds_alternative. But there's no need to have that separate clause in the if statement to test the truthiness of pointer, that's already what will happen from the initialisation:

if (std::string* s = std::get_if<std::string>(&myVariant)) {
// Use s
}
else if (int* i = std::get_if<std::string>(&myVariant)) {
// Use i
}
else {
throw std::logic_error("Unexpected type in variant");
}

The hardcore modern C++ gang will vigorously complain that using this kind of chained if will - horrors! - yield a runtime error instead of a compile time error if you have forgotten one of the types that the variant can hold. I have some sympathy for that point of view, but in practice the small likelihood of that bug happening and the small extra difficulty of finding it at runtime is completely overshadowed by the extra complexity of std::visit.

I don't agree with GP's claim that chained ifs are likely to be slower than std::visit. If anything, it seems like they'd give the compiler less work to do to optimise well than the layers of funtion calls involved in std::visit, especially since std::visit is ultimately going to expand to chained if statements anyway.

(A digression that's maybe dangerous to bring up: You've made an odd choice out of the many initialisation syntaxes to use. Many in the hardcore modern C++ gang would advise always using auto and brace initialisation, with no equals, even for really simple variable definitions e.g. auto i{int(3)};. Personally I find that obtuse and would write that as int i = 3, at least for simple things (raw pointers like in the example above fall into that category for me). Direct initialisation with parentheses isn't normally advocated by either old-timers or modern C++ fans, in part because of the most vexing parse - did you mean to use braces?)
I can’t find where she said to stop doing your job. Can you quote it here?
I think the main was sidetracked. If we collectively emit as much CO₂ as 0.1 or 100 persons lifetime for a single model, every year .. who cares? I don't.

But, what if Amazon wants it's own model with its own curation? Maybe we need different languages, maybe countries would like to have their own model with a different world-view. Why shouldn't a researcher train their own model, maybe experiment with different versions? Why should consumers be relegated to pre-trained model with inscrutable preconceptions?
symfony4+ simplifies it's architecture
Does anyone have a sample photo with brighter-than-white whites that isn’t behind a registration wall?
> wouldn't be touted as a research point in a respectable publication of AI ethics

Check out https://www.moralmachine.net

> Maybe the following revised statement would be closer to what we can call a contextualized "truth"

Your rewriting of my comment and critique demonstrates that I got my point across. I put perfect in quotes on purpose. The whole example could be full of the same.
Does this not violate copyright?
If someone would end homelessness by providing homes to all of the homeless free of charge and then some more empty ones then landlords would mind very much because this oversupply would make their prices drop. They would accuse homelessness solver of dumping prices.

Landlords "prefer" homelessness exist because that the surplus demand over the supply that they provide.
The article itself doesn't address concerns of many commenters here about black market sales or smokers compensating, but it links to a British Medical Journal article that does. https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/7/3/281?ijkey=ae61595....

Here's summary:

A range of potential concerns and barriers was addressed, including the technical feasibility of reducing cigarette nicotine content to non-addictive levels, the possibility that compensatory smoking would reduce potential health benefits, and whether such an approach would foster illicit (“black market”) tobacco sales. Education, treatment, and research needs to enable a nicotine reduction strategy were also addressed.

The Council on Scientific Affairs came to the following conclusions:

(a) gradually eliminating nicotine from cigarettes is technically feasible;

(b) a nicotine reduction strategy holds great promise in preventing adolescent tobacco addiction and assisting the millions of current cigarette smokers in their efforts to quit using tobacco products;

(c) potential problems such as compensatory over-smoking of denicotinised cigarettes and black market sales could be minimised by providing alternate forms of nicotine delivery with less or little risk to health, as part of expanded access to treatment; and

(d) such a strategy would need to be accompanied by relevant research and increased efforts to educate consumers and health professionals about tobacco and health.

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But that's the paradox. Who said an uncensorable IPFS will not become completely overloaded by corporate and government propaganda? How is it harder for them than individuals to create any narrative that suits their agenda? IPFS is not a panacea to powerful overlords.
Is there any evidence for people becoming homeless because of skyrocketing rents?

Are there no renter protections in the USA, anyway?

The theory is simple that where the area is rich, there are more jobs - catering to the rich people, but also the jobs that make the rich people rich.

As for relocating, in the old days, you could hitchhike or jump on trains.
Hard coding DNS removes a troubleshooting variable and decreases customer support load and return rates. Some ISPs hijack DNS to serve up search ads (when it’s not down or slow). Some routers are part of botnets so DNS is not to be trusted.
Look for terms like “conference room display” rather than “smart signage”.
To me it really sounds like trivial to serve adds from exactly the same address and even full URL as the content. Then again maybe adblocking isn't yet having such big effect that companies want to do that.
> The crucial bit that people miss is that it is capital, goodwill and organisation allows employees to generate so much money in the first place.

You're ignoring the fact that capital has most of the systemic advantages such as various information asymmetries, and thus reaps most of the rewards.

Capital also exerts quite a lot of influence to ensure that labor markets don't get too tight (eg. economic policies that target unemployment rates that aren't "too low") that might somewhat counter capital's negotiating advantage.

And when that still isn't enough of an advantage, colluding to limit the mobility of labor among competitors is absolutely on the table, because even if caught the consequences aren't particularly severe.
The argument is that would be penny-wise and pound-foolish. It also isn't penny-wise: homeless people don't have cash.
They use tables too. The generated markup could be a lot better in the sense of semantics.
The nerds (I say that will all due respect) will fight your stance on this until the end of time, but of course you're correct. There have been discussions of distributed GitHub since the day the website launched, but the concept will never take off. 99.99% of developers understand the tools are a means to an end, not the thing worth focusing on.
Theoretically illegal perhaps but I'd be very very surprised if this ever actually gets picked up by anyone even on an annual roadworthiness inspection. Maybe during some OEM servicing but then again maybe not.
you mean the tasks that can be done roughly 10x to 1000x better than with C++ using some combination of the following:

- C, assembly

- MPI, OpenMP

- GPGPU

?