skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Move. You should not be tolerating such behaviour, nor should you be condoning/encouraging it.
In other words, when the elite are impacted the full force of law will be brought to bear on the perpetrator of the injustice. This used to be called aristocracy. We've spent the past 250 years pretending it doesn't exist here in the States.
Cumbersone in what way?
They'd have to go out of their way to not open-source it.
On social media, all voices are equal. Some voices are more equal than others. (apologies to Orwell)
Amazon Braket introduces verbatim compilation for quantum circuits
Almost the same as the COVID restrictions.

Why? Because the public wants restrictions to feel safe, while the elite wants to be free and independent. Each gets what they want.
> and torture of the worst kind.

Not always, depends on where you are. Being set on fire is probably not better than the conditions of industral farms. Let's be realistic.
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Lets not be so dramatic. Rain is good for plants. Why should not Greenland be green ?
> Because we need regulation of new technologies and to address issues that are becoming endemic and long-standing enough that the general populace genuinely understands them.

in my view, regulation is not the answer. what's happened, from my perspective, is that only a small handful of platforms have gel'led into place, have come to take over all of our social media world. this is largely via a system of rampant acquisitions/anti-competitive behavior, & enormously high switching costs of leaving any given network.

we need more people engaged & trying to find answers. we need more networks. we need new ways of networking, new ways of moderating, at scale. the current contenders are mostly well over a decade old & have rotted into place, and trying to regulate these vast networks is not going to bring us to a better place. we have to really journey, to better, less dull places, via innovation & competition.

personally i feel like social networks are elemental to freedom of speech & democratic practices in the world today. if we as a public value speech, believe it important for public good, i would like to see funds set up to fund development & running of public good works. we should fund the fediverse, we should fund people trying to build helpful moderation tools; we should practice actively the values that are important to us.
Mitt Romney, the senator from Utah, former Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor, is also, apparently, the man behind a Twitter account that uses the moniker “Pierre Delecto.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/us/mitt-romney-pierre-del...
It's a convenient fiction the rich/elite propagate through funding stupid plot lines in books/TV/movies while hiding that the elite get off scott-free and later expunge the records.

Convenient because it allows the state to continue to pass more and more draconian laws that prevent any change to the status quo in which the rich get richer and poor are further dehumanized.
Most crimes, even if reported, are not meaningfully investigated. I am not sure that is really society failing. Society is still better on that than ever before.
Linus Torvalds admits to self-inflicted damage with -Werror as Linux 5.15 debuts
^ This.

In a cursory survey [1] of the alcoholics I've known (both recovering/acknowledged and not), for 80% social drinking hasn't been the problem. The problem was what they did when they were alone with a bottle.

[1] Not an SRS, clearly anecdotal and entirely in my head, so all caveats apply, etc.
> ... per country caps are a good thing for family based GCs.

Would you mind going into detail on why you think that? To me, it's not obvious.
It's not naive to acknowledge existing examples.

But it is naive to assume that nothing more than "carbon switches" give rise to something we can't even begin to fully define yet.
I can offer two salient datapoints:

1. bug [New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18808): `Opened 22 years ago` and `Updated 14 days ago`: they can neither implement nor reject a feature in 22 years?!

2. "We need more than deplatforming" blog post that promotes suppression of Free Speech. Would you trust a _browser_ that wants to _limit_ what you can read?!
>code split into two files and three functions

You could always put multiple classes in a file if you wanted to organize that way. The new language changes just reduce nesting and boilerplate the IDE already took care of. (which isn't nothing). These framework changes to focus on lambdas is pretty nice though.
The Earth's atmosphere is homogeneous up to about 100 km from the surface:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosphere

That includes the ozone layer.

Gases don't stratify in the lower atmosphere. Pure argon is heavier than oxygen and nitrogen, but it does not sink down from the atmosphere to form a concentrated surface layer. Neither do CFCs.
It is a paired t-test as the test takers are the same individuals. This is confirmed in the statistical analysis section of the actual paper. Paired t-test have more statistical power because we don't correct for group variation (as they are the same group measured twice).

Edit: One way to think about this is assuming the effects are random and symmetric then the probability of going up is 1/2. If all 6 participants had increased scores, then the p-value is at least 1/2^6 and this is not taking into account the magnitude of the shift.
>policy that demands no action be taken

If that's to be changed, who takes the action? The government? Does the government decide what's bad, and what's not? It's an unanswerable question that none agrees on.

Society hasn't worsened meaningfully, this kind of stuff has always existed, but the internet exposes this to everyone, pulling everyone out of their pre-internet bubbles.
I feel like these types of posts are only made by the socially inept, who've never managed to make a friend over the internet.
And the original author's point is that you can't possibly happen to foresee all of the consequences, and so the best thing to do is to just ship the change and deal with what breaks.

That's the whole point of continuous integration, and that's what the author is trying to push. That you actually move faster by letting people push and fix bugs versus push a change, wait some time for a code review (somewhere 1min...1day), go back and forth on some style things, maybe a the reviewer managed to win the game of "spot the bug," and then ship, and then fix any delinquent bugs.

Like, unless if that middle reviewer is doing something that really can't be done elsewhere, it just serves to slow things down.
Those three questions seem pretty weak to me.

Its not hard to imagine a software engineer who likes to work a part time job on the weekends, gets to set their own hours as long as they complete assigned tickets, and who negotiated their employment contract aggressively. That person would still be an employee.
I don't think human-defined moral value has much to do with consciousness. A sacred object (or animal), might have a high moral value in certain cultures, but it doesn't mean it's highly conscious.
> Facebook and Twitter [are] responsible for the biggest spread of misinformation

I really wish it was that simple. if it was, we could just ban it all and have done with it. For the US this is a symptom of the splitting of a country into multiple warring parts. Partly whipped up by news networks, print journalism and all by the constant war for your attention.

TV news picks up some stupid tweet, offers it as an morsel for 5 minutes of hate. This pissed people off, they got online and berate the original tweet, the "other side" counter attacks, rinse, repeat. (see critical race theory)

The general public are being played, so that a number of large corporations can get attention enough to sell advertising space.

> Google is a close third, if you hold Google responsible for its own search results

why wouldn't you? I mean they are well known for allowing advertisers to manipulate results. They track your location, what your reading, who your talking to, and sell the products to third parties. If we should be keeping an eye on anyone, it should be google. The level of questioning that FB gets must be applied to any of the internet giants.
It's only an oxymoron according to folk wisdom. The common shorthand definitions of constexpr and virtual are both too simple. People come to believe that constexpr means evaluated by the compiler, but it really means that it may be evaluated by the compiler. Similarly, programmers believe that virtual means vtable dispatch, but all it really means is the function supports dynamic dispatch. It may be de-virtualized at compile time, or there may be no overrides anywhere in the program.

If you understand the true definitions `constexpr virtual` doesn't seem contradictory.
Your surprise comes from a perspective of understanding and trusting the process, presumably from experience. Is it really such a surprise that someone with a different experience -- that of extending trust and having it betrayed -- would find it hard to extend trust a second time?

And yeah, this system seems to be the worst of all worlds: needlessly punishing for small players and needlessly lucrative for large ones.

The patent system, as it is implemented, clearly behaves as an instrument of power, not an instrument for fixing incentives.
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If you take abstraction to the extreme, sure - our brain is the same as GPT-3; but only in the same sense in which our brain is equivalent to any function with discrete output - that is, our brain maps something (the space of all sensory inputs) to something else (the space of mental states). In this same sense, our brain is just like the whole universe, which is just a function from the entire world at time t to the world at time t+x.

If we look at anything more specific than 'mathematical function', our brain is nothing like GPT-3. GPT-3 is not trained on sensory data about the world, it is trained on letters of text which have nothing directly to do with the world. The brain has plenty of structure and knowledge that is not learned (except in a very roundabout way, through evolution)*. GPT-3 is lacking any sort of survivalist motivation, which the brain obviously has. The implementation substrate is obviously not even slightly similar. The brain has numerous specialized functions, most of which have nothing to do with language, while GPT-3 has a single kind of functionality and is entirely concerned with language.

And even if I start writing down random words, what I'm doing is not in any way similar to GPT-3, and my output won't be either. It will probably be quasi-random non-language (words strung together without grammar) vaguely related to various desires of my subconscious. What it will NOT be is definitely not a plausible sounding block of text that I determine to resemble as closely as possible some sequence of tokens that I observed before, which is what GPT-3 outputs.

I do not have an inner GPT-3. The way I use language is by converting some inner thought structure that i have decided to communicate into a langauge I know, via some 1:1 mapping of internal concepts to language structures (words, phrases). In particular, even the basics here are different: letters, the things GPT-3 is trained on, are completely irrelevant to human language use outside of writing. People express themselves in words and phrases, and learn language at that level. Decomposing words into sounds/letters is an artificial, approximate model that we have chosen to use for various reasons, but it is not intrinsic to language, and it doesn't come naturally to any language users (you have to learn the canonical spelling for any word, and even the canonical pronunciation; and there is significant semantic info not captured directly in the letters/sounds of one word, through inflection, or tonality and accent; or in sign languages, there is often no decomposition of words equivalent to letters).

* if you don't believe that the brain comes with much knowledge built-in, you'll have to explain how most mammals learn by example how to walk, run, and jump within minutes to hours of birth - what is the data set they are using to learn these extremely complex motor skills, including the perception skills necessary to do so.
The overwhelming bulk of the Ruby entrants on that list formed in 2009-2012 (as did Shopify). At the time Ruby was the love interest of HN, and it isn't at all surprising that the HN-affiliated had an affinity to it. The next cycle will be built on whatever the current hotness is. Rinse and repeat.

No one should cargo cult off of that. Ultimately the product is magnitudes more important than the technology (at least in most cases).
It's difficult for doctors from the southern hemisphere to work in America. US licensing authorities don't consider most foreign medical training as sufficient so at a minimum they usually have to repeat residency.
Hmm, Europe was dominated by Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. I can't imagine why a memorable turn of a phrase attributed to the most important figure in the most important text of that religion would ever become a set phrase in those languages but not in the languages of countries where Christianity was never dominant. /s

You might be surprised how many of the common aphorisms you use every day come from the Bible. Ever gone the extra mile? Moved mountains at the eleventh hour to get to the root of the matter? Ah well, no rest for the wicked, it's like the blind leading the blind.
It's not very diverse, is it? You'd end up with many times more people from India and China as from the whole of Africa, for example. Basically no one from small nations would get a green card.

The problem is that the number of green cards is relatively fixed, so there has to be some way to distribute them that prevents two nations from taking almost all the spots.
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"In 2019, it allowed international soccer star Neymar to show nude photos of a woman, who had accused him of rape, to tens of millions of his fans before the content was removed by Facebook."

Ouch
I often debate this with HNers, so yes, there are quite a few that believe the world is perfectly fair, more so in “democratic” countries.
> The polarization started in the 1960s started during the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.

No, the polarization on racial issues started before the founding. It came to a head numerous times, the Civil Rights Era of the 1950s-1960s being, while one of the more recent notable times, not anywhwere close to the most significant. (I mean, its quite obviously absolutely dwarfed by the time racial issues came to a head in the 1850s-1860s.)

> Or rather, the parties started sorting themselves on various issues after that point.

No, they’d been doing that since the Democratic New Deal Coalition of the 1930s broke the old partiaan alignment, what changed in the 1960s is that, unlike the similar split in the Democratic Party in the 1940s that broke off the Dixiecrats over racial issues, the Republicans sought to exploit the Democratic divisions and welcome disaffected racists via the Southern Strategy.

The current partisan polarization is largely because, since the long political realignment largely settled out in the 1990s, we’ve had the longest period in a century where the main ideological divides are aligned with the partisan divide between the two major parties.
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> Will this cost them more money than it's worth to operate there

But isn't that already the case? I not sure Uber is making a profit anywhere in the world, so maybe they don't care if they lose $0.58 or $0.75 per ride?
Court Awards $200 in Damages for ‘Innocent’ Copyright Infringement
> If the US relaxed its requirements for nurses and doctors they could actually destroy the healthcare or many other countries.

Some medical professionals find the US healthcare system to be unconscionable. Some would move, some wouldn't. My doctor parents were offered jobs in the US but they refused on moral grounds - forgoing a somewhat higher salary - preferring to stay in Canada.

The best outcome would be for them to move to the US, push down salaries (salaries in the US are something like 56% of all of healthcare spending) and that normalization would then stem the flow of foreign professionals while seriously benefitting Americans.
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There's a little bit at the bottom of this[0] blog post, expanding it a little as we speak though!

[0]: https://dev.to/joe8bit/shipping-web-components-in-2020-2h54
A few years ago I attended a presentation by a social justice evangelist. She was unmarried, black, and from LA. Some of her observations about the intersection of being all four were eye watering.

I no longer recall the statistics she cited but if you want to date a black man in LA, you first have to find one that is not in jail, which diminishes the dating pool substantially.

I'm glad that decriminalization is also including early release and voiding of criminal records but once you start down that path it's hard to walk that back. Recidivism is high not just because the same conditions exist post-incarceration, but also because finding a good job with a record is difficult. We are only really fixing things for people who were recently convicted/released and haven't had to make those kinds of choices yet.
> It gets even hairier: suppose you are sitting on both apps (or even more) waiting for a ride. Do you get to double-bill two companies for minimum wage hours?

IMO this is a no-brainer, the answer is yes, double-bill. The same applies if you get two remote jobs, you bill both.
GP's explanation was almost as plausible, and much funnier.
simple: if you are important, then you get a moderator.

If you are a pleb, its up to the AI. so unless that video has been fingerprinted, then it'll be approved.

if the sentiment analysis AI says you were being abusive: ban. if you appeal (if you can) it might, perhaps 1/100,00 times be looked at by a human
Yes and that's what we should do instead of this half assed, politically expedient, 'make the corporations pay for it' bullshit that we do now.
Does the letting agent have a privacy notice? What does your agreement say about damage and inspections for damages?

What is the app? Does the app have a privacy notice/policy?
I fear the day when dang retires.
I’m not sure how we can ever expect FB to treat everyone fairly; there isn’t a system on earth which does so, including any judiciary ever. Imagine that I were treated the same as a president or king.
I agree with the one of the author's points: Running tests pre-commit is the answer.

What I don't see is how this translates to getting rid of git and Jenkins.

It seems that (1) setting up a command/script to run the test locally and (2) having CI run this command/script and nothing else will be enough to fix all of the author's problems.
Additionally, I can imagine nice IDE integration that continuously runs the tests in the background and indicates if the code is ready to be committed or not.

Of course we'd still need git for code history/code review; and CI, just in case someone does changes without using IDE.

(Also, I'd like to comment on this phrase: "How often have you or a coworker pushed an empty commit to "re-trigger" the CI?" -- dude, your tests are broken. The CI is not supposed to be flaky. Fix your tests, or if you cannot do this, add a "retry" block to your Jenkinsfile. And if you don't want to do this, at least give developers permission to re-run failed jobs, so they don't have to keep pushing empty commits!)
If the point of the attention-seeking is to encourage others to leave the attention-seeking platform, then it belongs in the set of special self-subverting cases.

Same logic applied to Stallman using a proprietary compiler to build a free-software compiler that obviated the need for said proprietary compiler. He really did do that. (Unironically, at that.)
I think part of the problem of "moderation" is exposition, and incentives to maximize user engagement. Posts that nibody sees don't need to be moderated. The problem comes from the fact that platforms offer the most visibility to the worst content, because getting users riled up, excited or upset is the core of their business. It's their only business.

Maybe moderation could be solved by regulating the number of likes or reposts a given user can make or a givzn post can receive. Seems a little far-fetched but worth thinking about.
I mean... I agree that fixing your tooth now for 100eur (price of a filling here) will save you from an artificial tooth (1000+eur) in the long run,... but this doesn't help you a lot if you don't have 100eur now.

If you have enough money, you can insulate your house, build geothermal heating, solar heating+power, and all that stuff. At that "richness level", a power bill increase is a negligable cost. If you're really poor, power bill increases mean choosing between freezing at home or eating. I pay ~45eur monthly for power (i get heat from elsewhere), and doubling that to 90eur would mean one less aliexpress toy for me. It would also mean around 10 days of cheap food for someone poor.

Basically, rich can afford to be green, but forcing green policies impacts poor the most. Ban non-eco cars? Sure... someone rich already has a car with low exhausts to pass the bar, and they will replace the car for a new one, even cleaner in a few years... poor people have an old beater with a shitty engine, burning oil, and a new eco policy means, that they have no way to drive to work anymore.
> confusing what is and what ought to be is a hugely annoying feature of many armchair legal analysts

To be fair, the delusion is shared by many, including law itself. If "what ought to be" was the same as "what is," then what form of law would be needed?