skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure why you think it does but let me then be more precise.

1. All choices have consequences. The choice to not use combustion engines would have meant that most of us would not be alive, we wouldn't have the internet or 99% of all the things we take for granted today. The use of combustion engines have positive and negative externalities. The positive far outweighs the negatives. The problems we have to deal with because of our use of combustion engine are better problems to have than those we had before the combustion engine was invented.

2. Said no one ever. Coming up with better alternatives that pollute less is an ongoing project humans have been involved with since the combustion engine was invented.

The issue is when there is no better alternatives and inferior solutions like wind and solar (which btw cannot be created without fossile fuels) is pushed as a better solution even though it means less reliable energy supply. It's one thing to solve with something like fusion or nuclear but what we are seeing currently is creating worse not better problems because it's trying to solve something it can't solve.

3. Humans have the potential of solving any problem they encounter with enough knowledge. There is no guarantee though and the history of the world is that 99.9999% of all species went extinct, but the fact that we can come up with something like a combustion engine makes us able to potentially solve the problems the climate have always presented us with.

With regards to wind and solar. No, just know, even in principle it can't be a better solution. It's simply a question of physics and energy density.

For some things it's great but it's unreliable and completely depending on the weather which means that we have to create backup systems of coal, gas, oil and nuclear to deal with it just as we are doing today which only makes the entire sytem more complex, less reliable and more expensive.

So lets get alternatives to fossil fuels as fast as possible, but they have to be better not worse in terms of reliability, price and scale.
> Under no circumstances is it justifiable to essentially enlist people's devices to police their owners, while using the electricity that you pay for, the internet service you pay for, and the device itself that you pay for to perform a function that is to absolutely no benefit to the user and in fact can only ever be harmful to them.

This is an obvious misrepresentation. An opt-in system to detect when adults are trying to groom kids by sending them porn seems like the opposite of harm. I imagine a lot of parents want that.

As for scanning what gets sent to iCloud. That’s also an opt-in service, and frankly it seems entirely reasonable for Apple not to want their servers to be used as a repository or hub for child porn.
Once you get entropy high enough, it's no longer the weak link in the chain. So sure, a 50 character long letter/number/symbol line-noise can have more entropy than a 6 word random passphrase, but it doesn't matter and has some drawbacks.

By the way, for security questions specifically, I'd recommend passphrases. Often there are protocols where you need to say the security question answer to a human and they need to verify it. You're not going to have a great time spelling out a bunch of nonsense letters, and there's also more chance someone would be able to talk customer service into "oh I don't know, I just typed random keys" or something. Your password manager can likely do passphrases for you as well so it's probably no harder.
We plan to charge for some of the algorithms. Also, eventually some parts will run in our cloud and we could charge for compute credits.
I'm not sure if I agree that crypto is the future, but I agree with most of the rest.
Regarding this point:

> Sacks repeatedly comes back to the idea that retailers could give away unsold or lightly used, returned (but still good) items to their low-wage employees, instead of tossing them, or jumping through bureaucratic hurdles to donate them. This could be an “added perk”, she says, or an additional form of compensation, to bolster employees’ wages.

This perversely incentivizes the employees. I had an acquaintance who worked in retail in college. This was a large Midwestern store that sold everything from groceries to car parts to home stereos and TVs. They had a policy that if something was damaged it couldn’t be sold and the employees could take it for a significant discount. It wasn’t long before lots of items started having just enough damage to not be sold, but always on a part of the item where it wouldn’t be noticed when installed in your home. He was eventually fired for intentionally damaging stock.
Falcon SpaceX Lander
I'll be honest. I don't understand what you said because you are making hidden assumptions that heavily affect outcomes without telling anybody what they are.

Is it a sellers market and buyers are outstripping supply? Big profits, dig everything up.

Is it a buyers market and sellers are outstripping demand? Low or no profits, keep it in the ground.

High prices don't mean high profits. Low prices don't mean low profits.

Once you add a carbon tax you have a high price with low profits. Some countries subsidize coal mining. The price of coal is cheap even though there are high profits for the companies.
Don't worry, WebC is coming... sooon
Don’t care about this guy, but why would they think that changes in the reporting hierarchy means a promotion? If my boss leaves then I would report to my skip in the interim and in many companies that’s forever.

So just because there’s nobody between me and my skip I got promoted? That’s the most dumb rationale I have ever read.

This guy was already the head of a prominent Alphabet division. If you move him around the executive structure he could have ended up one or two skips below the CEO without that meaning absolute shit .

At that level of organizational hierarchy that’s far from a promotion. He is now the VP of some random AI program that’s way more obtuse and irrelevant than DeepMind.

The only clear public signal of a promotion at executive levels is being a VP and becoming a Chief or a SVP. That’s it.
At companies like Google and Facebook changing titles doesn't mean that you got promoted. A promotion is going from one level to the next one.
This guys was probably an L10 and is still an L10.

Blows my mind that they arrived to this conclusion based on such a weak signal.
University moves 70-ton rock off campus after student backlash
Are you OK? Do you need a reading tutor?
I know, I mean the thought process when designing a program in such constraints where any aspect of a system might be a useful resource and you had almost no other choice (kinda like abrash rotated texture trick on pentium) .. it's so at odds with current processes where everything is split and isolated as much as possible.
Some of the funny effects seen here come not from relativity but from the finite time of propogation. In fact, relativity _reduces_ the effect of you see from time of propogation. An example is that objects seem to be curved, because it takes more time for the light from there to get to you, and you move in that time. With relativity, this apparent curvature is less.
I just free-associate the first few words that come to mind when I look at the name of the site. It's remarkably consistent and I can derive passwords for accounts I haven't used in years.
Really smart people are rarely pushed out of the industry. They just suffer. Usually people who say they were pushed are not that brilliant to start and are just making excuses
Article doesn't seem to work correctly - it throws up an interstitial saying it's trying to access the site, but then never does. Might be down?
> That funding must flow through the massively corrupt Afghan bureaucracy before soldiers or police ever see it. Much of it gets skimmed, wasted, and embezzled.

This isn't exactly a compelling argument for our continued support of Afghanistan's government... We've been funding them to the tune of $3-10 billion a year in defense funding, and the corruption is so extreme that they are failing against the Taliban, with estimated total funding of $300 million to $1.6 billion [0]? That's an obscene level of graft. If 20 years on we still haven't reduced corruption to a manageable level, is it realistically even achievable?

> It's not a matter of how many Afghans perceive a certain cause to be just. It's a matter of how many are willing to suffer and die for their cause to come out on top. Even if only a minority support the Taliban, as recent polling shows to be the case, they can impose their will on the majority if they're more willing to suffer and kill. Of course, suffering is easier to endure when you're getting paid.

I saw the 13.4% statistic that you cited elsewhere, but I'm inclined to think that's either a low estimate or there are an awful lot of people who are ambivalent as long as basic government services continue. If the Taliban were truly culturally incompatible with the average citizen, surely there would be more organized resistance? From the news reports I've seen, the Taliban typically move into a new area, the local government rolls over, basic services continue, and the average person shrugs and moves on with their life.

[0] - https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/taliban-afghanistan
Definitely. Solar and wind take it on that metric too (though I don’t have those in front of me). Add to that it isn’t a trivial calculation if you include project risk. What is the LCOE of the Summer reactors? Does that HUgE failure impact the LCOE of the class?
This guy appears to be a self-styled liberal activist operating in the business world. According to this fawning Business Insider piece (did his PR agent write it?), he has tried his hand at fixing climate change, inequality, health care, AI ethics, and so on.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mustafa-suleyman-the-lefty-a...

He dropped out of his degree at Oxford and then founded a telephone helpline for Muslim youths. Then got a job with Ken Livingstone, the politician.

This early history seems strange to me. Who drops out of Oxford unless it’s to start a business? You’d almost think he was an intelligence asset of something.
Yeah, it’s weird. I tried stripping the key= parameter from the link when I commented, but it’s required.

The author posted the link in the comments of the original post.
This is the consequence of the “regulate and tax the hell out of it!” policy that some Americans want to apply to all vices.
Sometimes I tell myself I grew up near a miniature version of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Geyser_State_Park

:-)
Is this reaction sarcastic? As if to say "I'm not afraid of people who boast of crushing others"?
There is a reason the scale stops at 0.95c.
They would lease the space from Adam Neumann-owned properties.
No, I don't mean recursive. I mean the callback might need to read (or write) some state that's different than the state used by other, concurrent instances of the callback, or other arbitrary threads, so the framework should provide a means for it to get at that state that doesn't rely on say, global variables, so that multiple instances of the callback may be running concurrently with different state. Typically this is done with a cookie (in C, a "void *" parameter is generally used for this.)

Basically, if you write a framework that has callbacks, and you don't make allowance for passing such a context cookie, you're imposing a constraint on your users that you might not mean to. Maybe "re-entrant" wasn't quite the right word, but in my defense, the qsort_r() man page contains this: "In this way, the comparison function does not need to use global variables to pass through arbitrary arguments, and is therefore reentrant and safe to use in threads."

In addition to allowing one to write re-entrant callbacks, it also allows passing in arbitrary data of whatever kind, not just whatever parameters the framework author happened to think of.
Ha! Exactly that, he has named all of his exercise with humorous names.

Worst result is the referral to a podiatrist for expensive insoles that IMHO are snake oil. Huge waste of time and money. It turned out that the primary problem they were trying to fix was an issue with glute activation, nothing to do with the foot itself.
If Google doesn't trust your browser for whatever reason (eg. privacy-conscious browsing).
Redoing the math, I get more like 20 MJ to heat a bathtub.

For comparison, supposedly Teslas ship with 80 kWh = 288 MJ batteries. So you can take 14.6 baths with the energy in that battery.

That's more than I'd expected.
I feel that people aren't using C because it's fast as much as it's not dog slow. And that it has a stable ABI and a very small footprint.
I've been considering getting fiber to connect two switches on opposite ends of my apartment. The distance is short enough that I could use a slim Ethernet cable, but even the slim ones are pretty noticeable. Fiber cables can be incredibly thin.

I did research, and the problem I found was that there is very little availability for fiber cables of alternative colors. Most of the cables I found that were the right type and thickness I wanted, I could only find in bright yellow that would stick out.

There are a few products like invisilight that are incredibly thin and almost clear which would be ideal. However, they're only sold in bulk to businesses so I could only find some on ebay. It felt too adventurous for me to pull the trigger.

Currently 5Ghz wifi is sufficient, but its bad enough that I refrain from doing anything that consumes a lot of bandwidth, like torrenting.
For your theory to work you'd have to exhibit an actual track record of innovation in the case of this dude, other than being Demis's henchman / fusebox.
They are possibly all correct.

Correct means that the requirements of a documented specification are being followed.
I feel the same way (and mostly use unittest instead) but maybe this technique makes sense as long as its use is limited to test functions?

Test functions are never called explicitly and would otherwise (like unittest TestCase methods) never have any arguments, so in this context maybe it's clear that any arguments they do have must be magical.
In the toxic positivity sense, "please don't be vulgar", or something else?
For me a part of the melancholy feeling comes from the indignity of being forced to prove I'm human, and then the frustration at this stupid world we've created which requires me to do so which immediately follows the indignity.

A website with captchas is like a retail store with metal detectors; it's not somewhere I feel welcome.
Do you like to read? I can take over your Kindle with an e-book
I have no problem cheering on those who take on known risks. But a person who takes on risks they are ignorant off are not heroes. They're cannon fodder for internet chatterers who cheer them to their doom. They are to be pitied.

I'm under no illusions that something has to be done to contain the rising totalitarians around the world. But I won't send a delusional noob to fight it for me.

As to your comments about self-loathing. I love the West. I just don't think self-immolation through twitter is that effective. He's changed nothing for the better and lost everything.

But we agree on something. He just got punched in the face w/ realpolitik
> So he was a Swiss person doing a PhD at a Chinese university

He'd been advised by Gallen to deregister with a plan for how and when to re-enroll. It's pretty obvious in retrospect that they did this so they could have a trapdoor under him just in case something went bad in China.
That’s what the “hardware collision” bit is about. You place sprite 0 at a certain location on screen, and you can find out when that sprite gets drawn (with some certain other restrictions / assumptions). IIRC, the collision bit gets set when a pixel from the sprite is drawn overlapping a background pixel. This is how early games like Super Mario Bros. drew the status bar, but Super Mario Bros. could just spin the CPU waiting for this.

There are two other mechanism I know off the top of my head.

One is to put some circuitry on the cartridge, and then arrange the usage of tiles such that all the background tiles are in one bank and all the foreground tiles are in another. If you do this right, you get an address line which cycles high and low once each scanline–and you can put a circuit on the cartridge which counts the scanlines, triggering an interrupt. This was only available if you could put that circuitry (usually, a “mapper”) on the cartridge.

The last method is to count cycles.

I would note that among other differences, this is much, much easier on a Game Boy. The Game Boy has a register you can read which tells you which row you are on. Not the only thing that’s easier on a Game Boy—there’s also a hblank interrupt, and the tilemap is larger than the screen. Anyone interested in NES programming but unsure about how much they like dealing with obscure technical problems may want to try Game Boy programming first to get a taste for it.
>We had absolutely no work in Russia.

Wouldn't the point of such a high level briefing be because they're tying to get work in Russia but don't already have any? It's rather common for employees to not know the details of the strategic plans of the executives until the execution starts.
Or trigeminal nerve pain.

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Educat...
There are lots of practices that aren't crimes but which should nevertheless be discouraged within organizations.
> What is your argument at this point? Both authors of those emails are time travellers or something?

You know it's not.

> Do you think someone is fabricating these emails? Why would they do that and how would they get them onto these third-party websites?

Once again: any attempt to engage requires as a precondition some kind of indicator that doing so wouldn't be a monumental waste of time. You seem comfortable providing assurance that such a thing will remain forever absent.
Not a good look for google. As a cofounder is he untouchable?
We have open source. Crypto allows for open state. Blockchains are databases where everyone is a root user.
Is there a set of program synthesis problems (or a source of problems) accepted by academics as a reasonable benchmark for measuring progress these days? Or does each new approach find its own example problems to demonstrate their particular differences on?
on tor browser it shows them always.
Looks great! Very innovative approach.
Are the generated models compatible with OpenCV OAK camera?
I believe that more auteur movies that challenges and surprise you still being made, but one problem is that superhero/franchises movies are eating big part of the attention on many cultures, and many people, specially young people, get the idea that this are movies.

In 2000-2010 I think the attention was more distributed, and in the 60s-90s was all over the place, the New Hollywood of the 60s with things like Easy Rider; Coppola, De Palma, Scorsese and Spielberg in the 70-80s, and the edginess of Tarantino in the 90s.

And of course, much more weird and experimental movies where more mainstream, see David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski, John Waters, even europeans/asians directors like Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky.

Scorsese talk about that:

>Another way of putting it would be that they are everything that the films of Paul Thomas Anderson or Claire Denis or Spike Lee or Ari Aster or Kathryn Bigelow or Wes Anderson are not. When I watch a movie by any of those filmmakers, I know I’m going to see something absolutely new and be taken to unexpected and maybe even unnameable areas of experience. My sense of what is possible in telling stories with moving images and sounds is going to be expanded.

>So, you might ask, what’s my problem? Why not just let superhero films and other franchise films be? The reason is simple. In many places around this country and around the world, franchise films are now your primary choice if you want to see something on the big screen. It’s a perilous time in film exhibition, and there are fewer independent theaters than ever. The equation has flipped and streaming has become the primary delivery system. Still, I don’t know a single filmmaker who doesn’t want to design films for the big screen, to be projected before audiences in theaters.

>That includes me, and I’m speaking as someone who just completed a picture for Netflix. It, and it alone, allowed us to make “The Irishman” the way we needed to, and for that I’ll always be thankful. We have a theatrical window, which is great. Would I like the picture to play on more big screens for longer periods of time? Of course I would. But no matter whom you make your movie with, the fact is that the screens in most multiplexes are crowded with franchise pictures.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-m...
The same thing applies.
Whenever I've encountered managers refusing to use company-provided communications for company work, it's one of two explanations:

(Note these apply specifically to managers communicating with their teams. I'm not including ICs who just prefer to not use company comms)

1) Leadership has developed a reputation for routinely reading people's private communications. Specifically, not just for investigating specific events like harassment claims, but just to surveil people as lazy way of seeing how things are going instead of doing the hard work of actually talking to employees to see what's going on.

or

2) The person is behaving in a way that would be very incriminating, so they force the team to use communication channels that won't leave a record behind. I can think of one manager who was exceptionally kind and caring in company e-mails and Slack messages, but would constantly berate people from his personal Skype account. If you were on his team, you had to be available in both Slack and Skype, and you could usually guess the tone of the communications based on which app pinged you.
It's a thing. Turn up privacy features in your browser (including the undocumented ones you need to go to about:config to adjust) and stay logged out of google and you'll get them.

Or just fire off a lot of searches pretty fast e.g. by launching a bunch of tabs to search for variations of a term.
He looks like one of those creepy guys at a nightclub who stands in the corner by himself that everyone avoids. A classic case of overcompensating at work due to severe deficiency in other areas of his life.
Really looking forward to reasonably priced ARM servers with modular/beefy RAM. I don't get the trend of everyone running RPi clusters with the tiny amount of RAM they have, how do you use that for anything serious?
It's personal because it's not work-related. He would demand people do random, pointless tasks for him to show dominance.
Are you my PT? My rotator cuff wasn’t related to my problems, it’s just the only thing PTs focus on when you come in with shoulder pain.
I worked retail for a year as a kid and dealt with this issue. Another reason stuff is destroyed is to prevent insider issues. You will naturally have merchandise that gets damaged in day to day operations or becomes no longer viable to sell and needs to be taken off the books. This presents an obvious avenue for theft by insiders (employee says functional item X is actually broken or they intentionally partially damage it, they record it as broken so it isn't being tracked anymore in inventory, and they walk out the door with it or throw it in the trash out back for their buddy to pick up). Requiring destruction of all decommissioned assets is the only reliable way to stop this from happening.
It sounds like it was a side task not related to the company or the company’s work, but rather the writing was at the whim of the person at issue. My framing is something like telling someone who reports to you to do your college homework.
Nobody is a root user. Try rm -rf / on a distributed blockchain.