skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true. It took me 10 years to master my skills. Am I perfect? I still question my skills on a frequent basis. Here is what I can confirm - it gets easier over time.

I can take on any small, large, extremely large and complex projects head on and amaze myself at the end.

The most difficult thing - being disciplined.

I will always admire someone else's code. I find it inspiring. I have on my bookshelf "Beautiful Code".
I sent you an PM on reddit, my name is Chris Hawkes I have a YouTube programming channel with close to 5 million views and over 40,000 subscribers all in the tech niche. I'll be glad to promote and provide exposure to this website/cause for free. Let's get this going?
This is certainly an area where tech companies can learn from retail. You've probably heard of the Nordstrom employee who allowed a customer to return a Bloomingdale's purchase. And it's no isolated accident - stores, hotels and other experience-oriented businesses give their employees a per-incident budget to make things right for the customer, even if it's entirely the customer's fault.

It's another question how to do that at scale and over the internet.
'Imzy', the name is a bit hard to pronounce.
Obviously the "people" in this case are the proprietors of news websites, web indexers, etc. If we look at the intent of the law (causing someone to be erased from public view), we could also argue that the public is being forced to forget in a moderately less concrete sense. I use the "memory wipe" analogy because the people advocating for censorship are using the euphemistically passive "forgetting" analogy. Not my choice, I'm just keeping it consistent.
> It's like Reddit, without the trolls

That's HN.
I'm still angry at Logitech for deliberate anti-support of my Spaceball 5000. The driver handles it fine, but has to be manually tricked into tolerating ‘obsolete’ models.
Thanks for doing this! I took a look at the arguments underlying the proposed switch to Python 3 and came to the conclusion that they did not meet the necessary threshold of effort to switch. Instead, I want to see every feature in Python 3 backported into 27. I don't think the unicode change can be accomodated, but 99% of the rest of the new features in 3 can.
Look at the pic of the founders hugging plush toys, I'm sure you can imagine it.
Herman Millar.

"My chair's seat fabric has torn a bit. Is there anything you can do?"

"When did you buy it?"

"Erm, around 6 years ago, I think."

Checks records

"No problem, an entire replacement seat will turn up in a truck tomorrow. We'll fit it and leave your chair good as new. Have a nice day, sir."
I think we need the same at least an organization we can belong to with the sole purpose of protecting our creative freedoms via lawsuit defense etc... I'm also willing to promote the cause on my YouTube channel with close to 5 million tech viewers for FREE. This article really pissed me off.

Chris Hawkes
It's unreasonable to say "merrily did something different, without telling anyone" when fixing the string implementation was a significant reason for creating backwards-incompatible Python3 in the first place.

It's not a bug, it's a fix for an architectural error in Python 2, and it was quite well announced at the time: https://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
I went down this same rabbithole - Bayesian rationality to 'postrationality'.

('post' implies 'better than', but literally means 'not'. Still, Chapman knows a lot more about AI than Eliezer, and has an interesting write-up of his research into AI based on Heidegger's philosophy).

I was saved by Ayn Rand - yes, the person analytical, continental and other philosophers all agree to dismiss - specifically her epistemology and theory of concepts. (The Rand to read is "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology". Or click around here: http://aynrandlexicon.com/book/conceptual.html)
HN is known for its cynicism
Reddit definitely does not have the tech focus hn does. Maybe it did in the long past, but not anymore. Definitely not a substitute for Reddit content without the trolls.
Did you even read the article? They are explicitly saying that they will (and do) ban bullying and hateful communities. They are not free speech absolutists.
This site demonstrates quite efficiently why it's plainly illegal to advertise the claims that it makes in the headline.
Being cynical isn't the same as trolling though.
The Internet has such an enormous potential in terms of fostering cross-boundary communication, the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, and all the rest of it. It makes me sad to see once again that the greatest thing preventing it from really fulfilling that potential is that we can't stop adults from behaving like kindergarteners. Why is it so difficult to get people to abide by the basic rules of human decency and civility?
"A genius is someone who has two good ideas"
That is pretty cool, it's similar concept to an AI game I play called Halite[1], though I like the idea of having a king piece instead of just taking over the entire board.

[1]https://halite.io
I know I am half deaf(well have some hearing loss) and in loud spaces I have problems hearing people also
That's what you get when you name with this criteria:

the name means nothing; it was an available URL without copyright issues
Sorry, meant $200.
Thank you for the videos. They are such a valuable thing for infosec students. Please keep up the excellent work.
So, our family doctor jokes that patients would come to him and say 'Oh, I googled whats wrong with me, I just need your second opinion' :)

Jokes aside, human doctors won't be replaced in foreseeable future, but many people will screw up their lives because non-human gave them the diagnosis (to read, or ai, or webpage), and be late for receiving the appropriate medications.

Think Theranos, but with far greater potential (because there are no physical tests here, it's just text, so the reach is greater) to screw people to not seek the correct help, in a timely manner.

If anything, there should be law outlawing websites like this.
It makes no sense to talk about Reddit and HN as if they had the same scope. It would be more appropriate to compare HN to a particular subreddit.
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Very true. I use Google Fi, but am about to drop it because the support has been horrible. They're friendly, but I constantly miss calls and their support's solution is to ask me to get another working phone to test with and spend a couple of hours filling out diagnostic tests and bug reports. They are also unwilling to do something as simple as send me a new SIM card until I do this.

This, along with they they gave the middle finger to the Nexus line, has turned me from a strong Google supporter into someone who will give a second thought before considering using their services.
We have several large projects that are written in Python. Most of these aee production applications that are critical to what we do, and the others are libraries and tools for internal work. We haven't even started thinking about porting these to python3. We have so many other things to worry about (but fixes, new features, etc) that it's hard to justify the time investment to port these now. I can't imagine we're the only ones in this situation.
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free speech is moving to voat and gab this site is not advertising itself as a free speech zone more like a polite speech zone
Great example of how language and grammar affects how one thinks and vice versa.
I'd say censorship is a bigger issue than trolls. Creating safe spaces to protect you from other views isn't going to make them go away.
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> What a load of bollocks. For new projects this only matters if libraries aren't ported, which they are for the most part.

Except when they aren't. And then what?

I've run into this multiple times. Sometimes there's a branch of the project for 3 that's underway, and I sit and wait. Other times it means dropping the project or committing to reimplementing a library.
While it's great that you've never had one rejected, what would happen if that event occurred? Imagine a situation where you submit a proposal for a completely unrelated project, that you really want to happen, and they deny it? Further conversations, talks, they don't budge. What then?
If they don't protect their trademark they open themselves up to what is essentially loss of the trademark in the US.

They could license it to Python 2.8 for free if they want to, though it seems unlikely.
I guess most of the world could live in safe spaces like this?

But for the creators and doers it's horrific.

We move forward by being challenged. That includes everything.

(until AI has the ability to filter out things that challenge but don't move us forward)
I'm wary of any type of moderation. I don't know how it can be done, but it's very apparent that reddit has lots of moderation (within subs) and it seems to heavily promote echo chambers.

I fear we won't make any major advancements until AI can accurately measure our intent, snark, etc. Because we need to not be echo chambers, imo. Unpopular opinions are amazing and needed. But the assholes, for any cause, only serve to detract from the discussion.

I really dislike echo chambers.. and it's all i see these days.
Regardless, it's the way things are done in at least one country[1]. This only covers "personally identifiable information" though. Especially this paragraph is noteworthy:

>(8) Disagreement with processing pursuant to paragraph 6(c) must be expressed by the data subject in writing. The controller shall be obliged to notify each controller to whom he has transferred the name, surname and address of the data subject of the fact that the data subject has expressed disagreement with the processing.

What this means, is that if telemarketers call you, you just say that you require them to erase your data, and notify everyone they gave the data to erase it too. And you never hear from any telemarketers again. (At least in my experience, it says the disagreement has to be in writing, but they probably err on the side of caution.)

1 - https://www.uoou.cz/en/vismo/zobraz_dok.asp?id_ktg=1107
Does this apply in the US? I'm only aware of mandatory warranty periods in the EU. Personally I think they're a bad thing overall, since they preclude inexpensive short-term-use or disposable electronics. I haven't done a thorough market survey or anything, but last time I was there, electronics were generally much more expensive than in the US.
“Peter Thiel is trying to save the world”
Ah, my mistake for not knowing that one, thanks! I admit I've never really done much with wormholes except used them to get from highsec to nullsec and vise versa, so I didn't know about that faucet.

It sounds like the change had the right heart to it to get people into Rattlesnakes, as 800m/hour with the extra faucet of full insurance sounds like it might have been just a bit too much. I imagine it's a pretty delicate balance of faucets/sinks, and that might have been throwing it off. I don't think I was playing at the time, if you were did you notice any extra inflation in Jita prices?
Then it would seem that we agree, because I don't either. Christianity is definitely faith based.
I probably didn't express my view well here. I did read the article & understand they aren't free speech absolutists.

Still wondering how free speech will play out here, because I wonder if they will stick to eliminating trolls or if their moderation will be subjective and "politicized".
Which, effectively, incentivizes home-building companies to dig their heels on building so that they can get permission for schemes that are more profitable but wouldn't meet local approval.
that... sounds too good to be true. could you provide any references on what the actual consequences of this warranty are?
Going quickly through the awesomely titled paper [1], they fit a template to the data and obtain something like 2.9 sigma for their best value, without a obvious way how they deal with the look elsewhere effect. On the other hand, this is probably the window on nature that is worst understood, we understand gravity at solar system field strength and distances very well, we have great data from particle physics, but until last year our only evidence for the high field regime of gravity came from pointing telescopes toward astronomical objects - and note that telescopes work with the electro-magnetically, they are using the wrong force.

I think this is exciting, but only the first step. With this, one can deal with the look elsewhere effect by pointing to this paper and using their analysis, but I wouldn't think of this by itself as a hint towards deviations from general relativity.

[1] Abedi &al. "Echoes from the Abyss: Evidence for Planck-scale structure at black hole horizons" https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00266
not everyone is making a good faith effort email has spam ebay has fraud forums have forum spies and bad actors see the snowden docs they talk about denying, degrading, disrupting, and destroying
The effort to move from PHP v4 to v5 is comparable to the Python v2 to v3 move now. A lot of projects did not move to PHP5 for a long time. Lots of libraries had to be rewritten. The change brought a lot of subtle defects because programmers had unwittingly or knowingly relied on the by-value assignment of objects in PHP4.

The PHP Project did manage to allow people to write code that worked on both 4 and 5. At the same time, the project failed to get Unicode in. It's unclear how that will be possible without breaking a lot of programs. If PHP ever switches string handling like Python3 did now, it will be just as painful. Well, that's my prediction anyway, maybe they will figure something out. Just realize that their first try (PHP6) didn't fly at all.
In the last 5 years, I've had better customer service from Dell then Apple. In fact, in one day, I deal with both Apple and Microsoft customer service, and Microsoft won, hands down.

I'm not going to pretend that Apple's customer service is horrible, but I can safely say that they aren't special anymore. Maybe I've just been incredibly unlucky, but simply put, their customer service is lackluster at best.

Edit: Just to be clear, this is all consumer level support.
1.) Maybe that's a Sydney Store issue? Never experienced anything close to that myself.

2.) Yeah that's dumb. Maybe it's a stocking thing since it's Australia? Never heard of anything like that in the US.

3.) Almost everything on the mac store exists outside of it as well, but I agree it is somewhat designed more for consumers. You could use deployment tools if the source isn't App Store, or a 'family' account that shares purchases among users. Though I agree that's not ideal. Supposedly they're improving management with some new tools similar to how apps can be managed on iOS.
To be pedantic, aluminum corrodes very rapidly in air, but the surface rust (aluminum oxide) is stable and shields the underlying metal. Aluminum oxide mixed with whatever dye Apple used, on the other hand…
I have no idea how this made front-page.

The title is inconsistent with the article title, and even the article title seems inflated to what it describes.

As I understand it, the experimental group played a game they couldn't lose (rigged) and adults gave them "hints." The kids [correctly] identified that they weren't dependent on the adults' help in that group.

However, there doesn't even seem to be a link to the actual study anywhere, so I can't even check what this research actually is.
See my comment [0], it isn't that way everywhere. I've issued complaints through the ACCC three times this year, and had 48 hour turnarounds to fix my problem.

Example:

I purchased a $200 specialised bean bag for my 2 month old daughter who has appalling reflux. It broke in assembly. I reached out to the company, who refused to deal with me. I complained, and the next day received a shipping notification for a replacement.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13145568
I tried to evangelize THIS very problem with my previous company (a somewhat successful managed data infra service) for a year, it was AMAZINGLY difficult to make my executives even understand the problem and its magnitude.
This is pretty disturbing. I have a nexus 5x on Fi and would love a Pixel, but because of stories by this I haven't upgraded. Since I'm on Fi, I'm kind of stuck with Google phones unless I switch. But Fi is too friendly for international travel and data rates, and it's cheap generally.
Legacy python 2 code & an unwillingness to refactor it for python 3.
It's just following what traditional news, CNN and the like are doing...
Something about the story doesn't smell right. The defect is probably genuine, but comparing "I baby my phone" against the weathered-looking edging?
And yet, whether you realize it or not, you learned things from people that are "behaving like kindergartners". It might even be as basic as seeing examples of how not to behave.

Censorship is not the answer.
I heard about Voat recently when expressing unhappiness with Reddit. Will probably be checking it out, also... I am not that interested in the political discussion though, and on a first look it wasn't clear if Voat had much going on with techie/hobby type things.

To me I think free speech is important as a political right, but these are private sites, and it's not clear to me 100% free speech is useful. I am more interested in good, ethical management. If people are going to be banned for being jerks, especially across communities, it's not necessarily a deal breaker for me. When it amounts to filtering out particular viewpoints, I'd leave.
It's actually a bit hyped for particle physics. It ignores the fact that you're very likely to see a lot of "significant" effects in physics because there are tens of thousands of data analyses performed every year, so we're bound to find some chance occurrences at this significance level. See the diphoton excess a few years ago.

This is why the particle physics community has a very strict unofficial standard of 5 sigma for significance. People don't generally publish "serious" papers at 3 sigma.
Please please please explain how that is inhibiting or restraining personal freedom. Or how it is inhibiting or preventing the expression or awareness of your thoughts or desires.
Are you suggesting an extension of CSA into fixed income, or a platform for selling/distributing research?
Seconded. My best architecture work has been informed by my experience in implementation, and vice-versa. Therein lay the art.
Forming an oxide layer isn't corrosion. Corrosion results in loss of material like the pitting you see in that photo. You are correct that the oxide layer prevents corrosion, though.
Massive discussion from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13114538
The Pixel also has a major camera problem: https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&u...
They could deprecate the breaking changes - for example Python 2.8 could make print statements needlessly more awkward to write but warn instead of error and Python 2.9/3.0 could make the changes permanent.

Rather than have this huge break maybe just take the time to move all of Python forward rather than us still 8 years after Python 3 leave us still talking about it.
First google is no apple. Don't expect that level of service. They simply don't care.

Second it's not just with their new phone the pixel they support poorly.
Try having problems with google fiber. The stories of them taking a year and a half or over two years to deploy fiber 400 feet or to a house next to a house with it or an apartment already wired for it is insane. I don't think they have they really care about supporting their services or products. They just want you use them so they can monitize your data. Beyond that they aren't interested and it shows.

Their core soul is how to make money off data. That's it. Making the pixel was just another finger to capture more data. Android is a tire fire IMO. Google fiber is fast but pray nothing goes wrong. Any of their other services and you're pretty much on your own.
I don't think google deserves to be anywhere as large as it is. But time will tell if they are able to stay relevant.
my family doctor is quite happy that patients do research. She says that while some are hypochondriacs who have all the diseases in Google, most of the time it is useful for the patients to have spent some time researching. It saves her explanation time when the patient is informed, and also some edge cases pop up where the patient came in with a good insight.
If by safe spaces you mean places where people of colour aren't subjected to racism, gay people aren't subjected to homophobia and women aren't subjected to misogyny, then I fail to see how any of these types of attack would help anyone "move forward", even "creators".
It seems like you have learned a tremendous amount throughout your career that others could benefit from, that's why! Not learning from you flies in the face of wisdom (1)(2).

I'm not afraid to generalize this either. I see so many people and organizations repeating the same mistakes, of their own, and of others', over and over. I envision an organization built around the idea of learning from others' experience. It's a near mythical creature, but it could run circles around its peers, who would doggedly pursue finding out its "secret" and promptly discounting it when they hear "learn from others' experience / history."

This turned into a mini-rant, but it's because I am incredulous that you and others like you have learned so much yet the potential of that knowledge is so rarely tapped into.

(1)“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.” ― Otto von Bismarck
(2) Why Don't We Learn from History by B.H. Liddell Hart
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-We-Learn-History/dp/09850811...
Definitely. I'm a big guy, and I've literally stepped and sat on my 6 plus a dozen times (I can be clumsy) over the two years I had it. I compared it to a straight edge before I upgraded and there wasn't even a tiny bit of bending.
Apples main audience is not technical people. There is your first mistake. So comparing apples support for non technical people to dells technical oriented people support is flawed.
I see your point and often share your frustration. However, none of what you said necessitates electronic voting. In fact, it may be detrimental to the democratic process at the local level. A couple thoughts: (i) First, taking time to do something means that people that don't agree get a chance to discuss and possibly mobilize against it. (ii) More subtly, forcing people to vote between options means that the options themselves have already been codified. This process of choosing what to choose between is fundamental to local governance. A somewhat absurd example but imagine being given the choice between reducing the tax rate on the wealthiest people to 20%, 15% or 5%. Sure, we can vote on that but it doesn't seem very democratic...
And this is the thread that bridgman points to:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-Decemb...

Much more constructive interactions, I think.
we need good musicians and poets .. even if we do not need workers
We move forward by being challenged. We do not move forward by being insulted, slurred or trolled. Mutual respect is the necessary foundation for any constructive interaction.
Yes, a wiki would be ideal, if there was enough of the most interesting and relevant content already available. Actually, StackOverflow questions sometimes turn into a community wiki's when the question gains enough support.

My reasons for a Q&A are: (1) remove barriers from being able to contribute using any format at your disposal (maybe even a tweet?). (2) The site should allow the community to rank the most relevant and interesting answers - this can easily get lost in a long wiki page, (3) Not all answers are relevant nor interesting to everyone, given your education level, background, etc. The experience could be tailored to the visitor ..somehow. (4) Getting a bite-sized motivation while reading through a few short answers can be good enough for some people.