skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How are you measuring complexity?

I think measurements are useful when comparing things in an absolute space (eg. rate all cars by engine power). But complexity is relative; something complex to me is simple to you. A topic might be simple to me because I axiomatically accept a premise which you consider a topic of analysis.
Where will you make it?
This is why I use GhostBSD instead of plain FreeBSD.

It’s like a Linux Mint experience but on FreeBSD.
Remote Leaf is now an Open Startup
Lolz! GitHub did not change any branch names - they only changed the default help text file that suggested a command you can use to initialize a new repository.. that's it...

If someones existing repo changed their own branch name then it was the decision of that repo owner.. not related to anything GitHub did - technically if you see what's happening, Github barely did anything for this change..
> Deplatforming is speech, from advocacy to execution.

Censorship (of which deplatforming is one form) is not the same as choosing not to listen, and hence, is not part of freedom of speech.
Great to hear! I love the ability to swap out wifi cards or even insert a wan module. Great it wifi cannot be trusted as a fallback.
The renaming has very broad support in Native communities:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Washington_Redskins_...
> Would you take an empathetic view to where I'm coming from?

I personally would be empathic to you.

However I would also expect you to recognize the failure in that heuristic, even as you continue to execute it.
Not really. Firstly it will be way too expensive for you (cloud gamins is like $10/mo, this is $10/10h). Secondly the GPUs installed (Tesla V100s) are not designed for gaming - rather for ML & scientific computing.

You should check out some of the services people mention in https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudygamer/
GrayScale Investment Announces New Trust for These Five Cryptocurrency
One of my answers for "Best scene about a meeting in film" (a super fun question).
The Stanford site has been posted on Hacker News previously (links below) and not received much love.

SQuAD2.0 combines the 100,000 questions on 500 wikipedia articles from SQuAD1.1 with over 50,000 unanswerable new questions.

I don't understand why this is effectively ignored, and there are so many folks who discuss GPT-3.

For example: @maraoz about 8 months ago got over 500 responses to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23885684

But less than 10 folks responded to the previous incarnations of this link.

Previous incarnations/links to SQuAD:

@catchmeifyoucan on Dec 6, 2019
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719929

@davidlee1435 on June 14, 2018
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17308909

@nopinsight on Jan 30, 2018
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265835

@brittohalloran on Jan 15, 2018 reported it is used by the Alibaba search engine:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16150976

@jonbaer reported on March 1, 2017
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13763816
Full disclosure, I work for Stack Overflow.

The product is different from wikis or intranets because it's not just about anticipating what someone might need and documenting that. Stack Overflow for Teams gives users the ability to ask a question and people can ask teammates to add knowledge to the platform right in chat. So knowledge itself can be either proactively added, meaning people are anticipating needs, or it can be reactively added, based on an immediate need, like a question.

For your search question - it has basic and advanced search capabilities. You can read more about that here.

https://stackoverflow.help/en/articles/4400196-search-existi...

If you want to read about how it compares to using version control, Confluence, or wikis, there is a case study on switching from those tools here.

https://info.stackoverflowsolutions.com/Enterprise_Elastic-C...
(co-founder here) Thanks! We started on this last August, so still pretty early and got a lot more we want to add.
It's nice, but also a hot mess! Try sliding some sliders, then clicking on the about page (mismanaged as a plus sign), and then clicking back - a sweet whiskey laden cacophony! At this point, every slider needs to be explicitly interacted with in order to toggle it.

Thanks for the ambiance!
There's nothing unethical about artificial wombs if they work well, it's the whole "just because I can build it doesn't mean it will result in a healthy baby" aspect where the problem lies.
Just uninstall the openWrt web UI then.

or configure uhttpd to only listen on localhost and use a ssh proxy tunnel to access the web interface.
It saves you from the hassle of self signed certs too.l
In fish shell, with bob-the-fish theme[1] and powerline fonts, my prompt ends in ``. Gives a nice appearance, and definitely isn't a valid redirect.

Of course anyone who does manage to paste and execute code as root (or with sudo in the line) in a terminal without sanitizing it is careless, as long as their terminal doesn't have the stupid right-click-paste behavior. If it does, I agree with the author that it's just a bad terminal.

[1] https://github.com/oh-my-fish/theme-bobthefish
I think you missed the "without a brain" part of that sentence. Growing a headless or brainless copy of myself for spare parts seems like a great idea without ethical issues.
> Are we going to rename master's as an academic degree?

Good Idea! I'm going to start a gofundme for a petition on change.org right now.

> What about chess?

Don't get me started about all the sexism (only one female character), classism (royalty vs pawn) and racism (black vs white) as well as animal abuse (war horses) in chess...
And other people aren’t squeamish about murder or genocide. Just because one person, or you, aren’t squeamish about something doesn’t make it right for society. That’s why we look to history and anticipate possible future consequences and make decisions about current regulations based on the future we want to bring about.

I prefer a future without harvesting humans for the members of dynasties that can afford it, while those with ethics are left behind or destroyed.
Labour accounts for about half of world income, from memory, with capital accounting for the other half of world income. If wealth centralises, then so does income.

Besides, you replied to try and refute a comment which was quite unambiguously about wealth inequality. It's possible to occasionally admit you were wrong, rather than doubling down when you are.
It seems to me that the storage of the content is a red herring in many cases.

Say you buy a JPEG of an artwork. This is equivalent to a print which can be reproduced indefinitely.

The NFT is essentially just the artists signature on a print. It’s literally the artist signing a hash of the content.

The storage location of the content isn’t important. It’s really just part of the history of the artwork.

The owner only needs to keep a copy for their own collection, and can put it online themselves if they like.

The NFT will verify that the owner bought a signed copy from the artist regardless of where the JPEG is actually stored at the time.

I’m not commenting on how we should value this - just that the storage location going away doesn’t seem to be a showstopper.
> "Those who look/think differently than me aren't human."

Sure, if by "think differently" you mean "don't think at all". There's a big difference between "eh, Jewish brains are not developed like ours" and actual rigor. I'm comfortable with the latter.

> Also, regardless of your political or moral beliefs on abortion, the unborn are certainly "human".

Well, I think you're manoeuvring around the point here. Clearly some combination of life and humanity is what matters, depending on what definitions people are glossing over at the time. Most people aren't upset by autopsies or cadaver work.
Former BitMEX CEO to Surrender on AML Charges
I couldn't find any years ago. Perhaps the situation has improved by now.
300 years ago: I'm not squeamish about life forms with consciousness at the level of what we enslave every day.

The cases aren't the same, but the lazy callousness is.
how about we split the difference and grow headless clones and put an electrical brain inside of them as hordes of cyborg soldiers?
Try How to Design Programs also known as "HtDP" or "HtDP2" for the second online version.
Point taken - I think to drill into my point more is that very few meetings are objectively "pointless" - and managers are much more likely to see a meeting as having "value" than the engineers, in part because of the effect I mention where their jobs are defined by meetings, not in spite of meetings. (Sometimes this is not the case, eg a manager may see the latent value of literally just having two people in the same room together and talk to one another who would otherwise not, for political purposes, that the engineers cannot understand.)

To cut it in the other direction, your average testing engineer will have a much harder time agreeing with the idea that most of your test suite is useless and should be thrown out, even if it is useless, because to do so would be to admit that their entire job is less credible as a concept if it is true.
Well the argument does break down as you get to the atomic level, but the observation is morally correct; the idea (and the divergent sum) is easiest to see with the Koch snowflake (which has an infinite perimeter)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake
When did that supposed shift happen? I lost track after Schiffman, but everyone up to that point was pretty much the same kind of people as the KL crew.
You're completely right, Big Tech gets away with a lot - including collecting/selling a ton of data to make profit. That's because their revenue model is based on behavioral advertising. For Startpage it's always been based on contextual advertising. And, you don't need personal data for that.

And, it happens that System1 is interested in "capturing" that revenue from contextual advertising.

"System1 is interested in Startpage's ad revenue, not its data," the company said. "The reason a company like System1 openly owns other search engines and consumer tech products like Info.com and Mapquest is that they want to capture that ad revenue that is slowly shifting to private search engines. There has been a steady increase in people using private search engines and therefore a steady increase in their revenue. It is a growing market that they feel will continue to thrive and grow." (https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4017337/privacy-focused-sea...)

That being said: At the end of the day, it all comes back to trust. Even with OSS, you have to trust that they won't change the code. And, you should use products that you trust to best protect your privacy.
It’s Snowing Plastic
Its ok... move on
'root' is already way too overloaded. How about 'trunk'?
And AIG insured many mortgages. Remember 2008? Insurance is good for small-scale disasters, not large-scale ones like 2008 Mortgage bubble or COVID19.

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For most city level governments, things like Theater, Restaurants, Sport-events, Conferences, Gambling, Malls, Tourism, Hotels, Gasoline Tax (aka Driving), serve as a major leg of their tax revenue.

All of which has been severely restrained by current events.
But why should we ever go with this as a "solution" – with its computational cost, hackable vendors, inevitable implementation errors and vulnerabilities, vulnerable supply chain, inability to make any technical guarantees wrt to the accuracy of its assessment because of an arms race power balance in perpetual fluctuation – instead of learning to reason about these things?
Well, how about making it hard to do accidental input in the first place? If pasting is a problem the maybe make the actions necessary less possible to be triggered randomly?
Part of the problem with open sourcing Google's software is that the software is often integrated with a bunch of the rest of the google stack. This could just be dependencies on little libraries that may or may not already be open source, all the way up to depending on various large components to do some of the heavy lifting around security/scheduling/storage etc.

If some library (that the thing being opened up uses) has an open open source version, it is necessary to worry about versioning concerns, because unlike inside google3, the open source versions can no longer make breaking changes merely by updating every single consumer. So the internal version in some cases will have drifted from the open source version. Even when a library or tool needed is already opened sourced, it is not rare for a newly open source program to use a stub version instead of the full tool/library to avoid such headaches. (e.g. I've seen super stripped down alternative to gtest shipped as part of some opened libraries, because trying to utilize the open source version was more hassle than it was worth.)

For libraries or tools not open sourced, some form of stub or adapter to some similar publicly available software is needed. In some cases that does not exist, making directly open sourcing basically impossible (but redeveloping the tool might be possible). In other cases there are alternatives available, but they might be lacking features that made the integration nicer inside Google.

Overall I can totally understand why Googlers sometimes want to basically redesign an internal tool as the approach to open sourcing the underlying concept, rather than try to publish the equivalent-ish internal tool.
as a basketball fan, i'm fascinated by the players barely hanging on to a roster spot on any given team. the storylines vary widely, from veteran there to teach the youngsters, to scrappy upstart who barely made the cut, to the sibling of a star player.

in the nba, these are guys who are literally better than 99.9999% of the planet, and yet, they often seem to be treated like hangers-on rather than some of the best.
Considering the age of the article, and the fact that I'm unable to find any information on Vulkan support for any manufacturer's drivers, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Steam (more specifically Proton) doesn't work as well as it does on Linux.
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I’m not sure what you mean, his bank was the strongest and most highly capitalized during 2008. He famously had to be brow beaten into accepting federal bailout money.

And brilliant doesn’t mean perfect. he’s had his share of mistakes, but his business record is one of the best.
My father has been playing in the same pub session with the same friends almost every week for close to 40 years. Pubs in Ireland have been closed for a full year now (gastropubs could operate over the summer for a bit but in a limited capacity) and it’s been very hard for them to adjust to the loss of community, especially since they’re all relatively recent retirees. Here’s to some normality soon.
The difference is, we know that slaves have equally developed consciousness. So that wasn't based in fact.

Animals don't have human-level consciousness. We're not going to discover some day that they do.
Sorry I would call this name change nothing but an overreaction
>If it's in a bank account then welp, $250k FDIC limit.

Yeah I see people mention this a lot on HN. That particular number ($250k) has been increased over the years. It was partially upped in response to the S&L crisis. So do you really think T. Rowe Price is going to go under and you'll lose all your savings above $250k? Charles Schwab? Morgan Stanley? Even back when Lehman Brothers collapsed, no one lost cash holdings.

Unless you're with a mom and pop bank down the street, this doesn't strike me as a real threat.
> these teachers or guides aren’t trained in psychiatry

Some are :) https://meditatewithtucker.com/about/ I'm not affiliated with Tucker, just been on retreats with him in the past. I'm sure there are other teachers out there with similar training.
It's at least questionable if you want your super soldier to not be able to feel pain. I've read about genetic conditions that cause reduced pain sensitivity and the effects are odd. Pain makes learning possible, we see that everyday in things like don't touch a hot stove but it goes deeper. Think about learning how to walk. Or pick things up. And that's just physical. Imagine trying to teach something to a person who felt no remorse or guilt or shame - what would motivate such a person?

I'd like my super soldier to be super sensitive. I'll get them to do the terrible things I want them to and then they can live with the consequences after the fact. It'll be harder on them (after the fact) but easier for me (getting them ready for the fact)
Yes. I agree it is textbook racism.

Now for jumping to the defensive the moment a man asks you a benign question, because you assume he is sexist because of his gender - isn't that sexism?
This reminded me of the NPR Planet Money episode [0] about the design universality of international Irish pubs

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/04/12/523653040/epis...
I'm not talking about just the sense of self. I'm talking about the fact that the world is an illusion.

In any case, I may not be conveying the message properly, because I'm still trying to understand these things conceptually.

The book I mentioned does a far better job with this.
I would add the smells of rain, wet wool, sweat and breath, and sawdust. Fragrance is so evocative and complex, but it'll be a while before we can call it up in our browser.

I remember a Disney World hang-glider ride where they puffed cool humid forest-scented air in my face. That was a very effective ambiance enhancer.

I also remember getting an Odorama card [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision#/media/File:Odo... ] when I saw the movie Polyester. Amusing, but not exactly Proustian.
You seem to be suggesting that this is all Microsoft has done to help underrepresented groups and is their main focus in the push for inclusion, but that isn’t the case: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/06/23/addressing-racia...
And is there a relatively distinct group of their descendants being pulled over by the police today in Morocco, after continuously being excluded from economic progress for a few hundred years? Actually really curious -- one of the "innovations" of US slavery was the slavery of the descendants of slaves -- was that the case in northern Africa? I think not; if you have some evidence otherwise happy to think about it.
It can be made to run, but I can't really recommend it unless you enjoy tinkering/troubleshooting. It's still pretty far from being a "plug-and-play" experience.
Eh, not really.

There was a very funny old sci-fi story about scientists on some kind of space colony who just ... wanted fresh milk. And the point of the story was just how much of the actual cow they had to replicate (in semi-isolated containers) to end up making that milk.

So you want an organ, sure, but you're going to need something like blood flowing through it so it doesn't just flat up die. That means that it is going to need oxygen -- so you're stuck replicating some kind of pulmonary system, and then you're going to need to put various nutrients in it, and then you're going to need to remove waste products, so you're definitely getting a liver and a kidney out of that ... and then just making the red blood cells requires bone marrow ...

My guess is that anacephalacy would be studied and replicated to grow humans with only a minimal brainstem, with probably a nubbin of various hormonal systems tacked on. We could get to that a lot faster, I think, than single organs.
What makes someone human, or what makes them a person?

It's the mental aspects of humans which matter, not the genome; we wouldn't deny human rights to a conscious space alien, while we commonly do deny them to non-conscious (and not capable of being conscious) beings with human DNA, such as zygotes or molar pregnancies.
I think everybody is just holding their breath waiting for everybody else to go first.

I say: GO FIRST!
> The real benefit that reluctant young lawyers like Otlet get from their career is boredom. Their minds wander.

This reminds me of Einstein's stint as a patent clerk where he "hatched the most beautiful ideas [1]". Sometimes a boring job is simply a means to an end -- time to let one's mind wander and pursue one's raison d'etre.

1: https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/life-and-times/car...
People on the right don't have the power to really cancel anything anymore. Some on the right may attempt to cancel stuff, but it is mostly not effective.

>Colin Kaepernick and kneelgate

Kaepernick wasn't canceled by the right. He just wasn't the best player out there and didn't get onto another team. He now is making millions from Nike and other deals all without playing the game. If this is what be canceled is like I would gladly sign up.

>calls to boycott Starbucks for celebrating an inclusive holiday season, rather than Christmas in particular

There was an attempt but nothing happened. As far as I know Starbucks' revenue didn't even drop (but I haven't really looked into it). Again a complete failure of a cancellation.

>republican voters "cancelling" Mitt Romney and other republicans for being vocally anti-Trump, even though their political principles have not changed

Romney still has his senate seat and is still on all of the committees he was original on. There is no cancelling here, unless you mean voting out a politician is canceling.

>The long, ongoing fight to teach children about LGBTQ issues in public schools.

This is a bit more complicated. Some people believe it is more than just an objective teaching that LGBTQ people exist and you should treat them as any other person but more of encouraging people to engaging in such behavior. Some people also accuse the schools of focusing on random LGBTQ people or assuming people's sexuality when they weren't married in history class instead of focusing on more important people or just the facts. I don't think I was in school when this was going on so I can't really comment on what it is like.

> Teachers can be fired for simply revealing to their students that they have a same-sex partner.

I have only seen this in private religious schools. In theses cases the teacher agreed to publicly follow the church's teachings and they failed to follow their employment contract. You shouldn't work for a church if you disagree with the church's teachings.

>Ellen comes to mind as an example.

Are you saying Ellen was canceled for being LGBTQ? I am pretty sure she is being attack for being abusive to people who work / worked for her.
Twitter user refutes EA's claim FIFA21 users dont need to pay to get full access
I am pretty comfortable calling a body without a head or brain "not human" (this was what the OP suggested).

> ... the unborn are certainly "human".

You would be surprised how many people would disagree with you about that. I personally definitely would not call a freshly-fertilized egg in a womb a human. I would agree that the fetus just before birth is human. I do not have an answer for how far back you have to rewind for the unborn fetus to not be human (no one has a universal answer to this).
> However, the older I get the less enthused I am about having to play around with config files

That's why you leave around your config files from the '90s, you don't touch them and they still work!

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