skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't downvote, but the downvotes are probably a result of the brevity and slightly vulgar nature ("cut the crap") of your response. I do actually agree with you though.

I was hoping others would bring it up too, but as with all "problematic" historical icons, we're supposed to accept that even though he was extremely wrong about women, it was just a byproduct of his society and not worth discussing about the person as a whole. I think that's a huge cop-out though. I don't think we should write him off or stop reading his works, but sexism is a real flaw in a person's character.

It's worth wondering why he was so eager to tell his brother that intelligent women are liars not worthy of relationships. Was he emotionally hurt by someone in particular and lashing out against all women? Does he just like feeling superiority over women as a class of people, and therefore accepted certain norms of patriarchy without questioning because it benefitted him? The former reason is sad, but understandable, while the latter would make me wonder if those norms are reinforced in his works as well.
It's not just joke. It's the fact that it way too closely resembled the writing style of big-city newspaper articles, trying to "subtly" play on double-meaning words. It's just so awful.
It isn't different. Perhaps I'm just as legitimate a target of criticism for my depressing scepticism. To each their own. But at least I don't namecheck Vonnegut and Chekhov like a 20-something pseud..
From what I understand the dip was mostly due to an anti-corruption crackdown, because a lot of watches were bought as gifts/bribes. That's actually not specific to China, expensive watches have made an excellent bribe, but apparently Chinese were hoarding them in bulk for that purpose.
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I had the same experience. I looked it up afterwards. Recent arrivals in NYC in the 1800s tried to celebrate Paddy's day with a traditional ham and cabbage meal. However, the local Jewish butchers didn't serve ham. Also, the Irish were super poor, and corned beef was the cheapest thing they could get.

So corned-beef and cabbage is an Irish-American tradition, but not an Irish one.
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And that's worked out horribly for maintainers.. it's the whole reason for open-source. Look there are plenty of use cases where (A)GPL is perfectly suitable... a front end gui framework is not a good example imho.

I've used plenty of closed source tools in the past... and they've always bit me in the ass at some point. I'd rather roll/adapt my own, or use something with a permissive license I don't have to worry about. I participate in the broader community, and prefer ISC/MIT licensing for most of what I do and use.

If it's a given database server, sure, AGPL is fine as long as the client library is permissive.
reddit's is open source and available for anyone to see. Knowing the algorithm doesn't help you game it in this case -- it's knowing the spam controls that do, and those are secret.
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Yes, it's called "perm gen cache," or something like that, on any standard JVM profile. This roughly represents the memory used by the type system. It can get pretty high if you are doing something like auto-generating types (GUI, build systems, etc)
I know! I know! Pick me! Cuz like litigation is hella expensive and that's so mega dumb if you're just like giving the software away and stuff.
Many things pointed out in this article apply to just about every managed language runtime. Implement a TreeSet in any language and you'll see the same overhead from object headers, memory alignment, etc. Java has some oddities that cause it to waste extra memory, but off the top of my head the only I can think of is 16-bit character Strings. Java 9 is supposed to help with that by allowing Strings to internally store utf8 characters.

I do like the slide though showing that people tend to assemble abstractions together and completely lose sight of the performance costs of what they are doing. There's also the fallacy commonly held by many that because someone took the time to write a framework or library, they must have also taken the time to ensure it's optimized well.
Is it unlikely that he had exposure to Confucius?

Russia and China were bumping into each other before Chekhov's time, and a bit of Googling is turning up cases of Russian missionaries translating Chinese works to Russian in the early 1800s.
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How about sson?
I wonder how much work it would be to add support for this to Raph's pure Rust CommonMark parser [0]. Pull parsing lends itself quite nicely to the AST-based output that GitHub prefer and Rust should help to minimise some of the security issues.

For those interested, here is the direct link to the new GFM spec: https://github.github.com/gfm/

[0] https://github.com/google/pulldown-cmark
Disruption talks more about "what the thing did to everything" than about the "what the thing does to whoever use it". Bicycle is considered a disruption because everyone had one as soon as it was invented, supersonic privet jet are not. Maybe Instagram does new things, but that's not what would make it disruptive, only the impact it had, would. That impact is not obvious to me.
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US applications for New Zealand citizenship jump 70% after election
It's also possible to buy better index cards from the Internet these days, at sites like Jet Pens: https://www.jetpens.com/search?q=Index+cards&v=2 or the Goulet Pen Company: https://www.gouletpens.com/e13271/p/E13271 . Oddly, perhaps, the Internet has enabled the proliferation of great papers and pens.
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Depending on where you live, size could be a huge factor. Real estate in urban and suburban areas can be extremely valuable.
How will you know whether it's a problem?
Perhaps this will make it clearer that controlling things from your phone currently involves somebody in the middle, monitoring what you're doing. If we had better phone-to-phone data connections, this wouldn't be necessary. This is a phone pairing application between phones that could be brought near each other for pairing.
The best aspect of social media is social cohesion, and Facebook is decent at it. Being able to maintain, develop or otherwise keep in touch with people has a huge impact on quality of life.

The tragedy of Facebook is that it has integrated my ability to connect with friends and random people with 'news' using perverse solicitous internet marketing.

Of course, most of these temptations I've requested, essentially forcing myself to scroll through a Reddit-like waste of time just to see what my cousins or friends are up to. Yet the inertia of bad decisions is hard to steer against.

I'd view more ads or pay $100/month if Facebook was purely about individuals, had no brands or influencers, and it was just a way to maximize social cohesion.

If Facebook introduced a big "No News" button as an easy way to opt out of the noise, would it make the world a better place? Zuckerburg is making the world a better place through philanthropy but in business he's in the unique position of being able to magnify human ideals and spark a type of social enlightenment and cultural renaissance.
But it's OK because real(tm) socialism has never been tried

And the cycle continues...
Note that the article is almost a year old.

Apparently things are even worse now.
Yes, the lack of ethics review boards for research on FB users is reprehensible. Hardly any of the internal research would be approved by ethics boards for publically funded research on human subjects. Many people who use FB have no idea what freedoms they are giving up, how their information is being (mis)used, or how they are being manipulated.

What alternatives to FB exist?
I think there are a few people with > 500 karma, more with an account but less karma, and even more without an account.

Pareto principle and all.
There's a saying (I paraphrase): 'A good compromise is one where everyone is equally unhappy'.

Guess you could flip around your comment and say it's not democracy if it's the outcome you like!
I know what you meant, I was extending the metaphor. I would rather crack rocks for diamonds on the surface, than swim through shit below. I realize that's a preference issue, not a "right way / wrong way" issue for the record.
> I would add that there is absolutely no technical reason why an application expressed in one language need not be as fast as an application expressed in another.

There absolutely is.

If I write a program in a language that's fuzzy enough that a machine (which follows the specifications of the language) cannot definitely tell what I was asking it to do at compile time, there are compiled optimizations it can never rely on.

You make a good chunk of that back with JIT / predictive runtime compiling, but it's never going to be the same. At minimum, you're burning CPU and cache on your miss rate. To say nothing of the additional overhead of running JIT while executing in the first place.

As I understand it, this is the entire purpose of things like Vulkan / Webasm. (I realize they're primitive targets vs high level language, but same principle applies at any level of the stack)

Happy to have someone tell me I'm wrong, but the original quote flies in the face of everything I learned in language / compiler design.
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> It's not Facebook, it's the fact that we're all too happily Amusing Ourselves to Death:

Sounds like the audience of depressed pedants on this website will save us, then.
> Your average American didn't understand or get worked up over Snowden and the prospect of a surveillance state

I think it is about a mindset change. I remember in the 90s when people were cautious about using credit cards online. Then, I remember in the early 2000s when a relative, in her 70s, called me, angry, because I published my genealogic tree online (only with names and relationships). A few years ago she started using Facebook.
So, why lower the bar? A "C" is a passing grade by all accounts... lowering the bar only serves to hold back those able to do better.
Cool, thanks for sharing. I plan on taking it for a spin.
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It's 14.3 over here in the UK, so I guess we need to increase the storage capacity 4.55 times.
> you assail the document, but do you expect them to divulge sources and methods?

Of course! After the multi-Trillion dollar fiasco in Iraq I absolutely think that the raw evidence for grandiose claims about foreign threats must be disclosed without artifice to the people.

We learned from the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs that our leaders classified information not to protect people or methods but to hide aspects of the war effort from the American people. This is a high and vicious crime, and nobody was held accountable for it.

You are advocating placing blind trust in people who have not only been wrong, but have been intentionally wrong in an attempt to mislead and misdirect us.

> Via raw common sense alone,

The mistake you make here is to assume that we can apply comnon sense when the landscape of "facts" we are considering has been contrived and heavily influenced by people who want a specific outcome.

I'm not arguing that Russia did not meddle in the election or any making any specific claim about Russia, just making the point that common sense is not something we can rely on, and so our default judgement should be to de-escalate rather than escalate tensions with a nuclear power.
This should definitely be mentioned on /r/DataHoarder
Stating your case using the contact link is always an option.
It kinda sucks that they changed to rule to require you to promote a pawn to a piece of your own color. The mate-in-1 puzzle on that promotion page that requires promoting a pawn to an opponent's knight is pretty neat and I can't see that rule having a practical impact on any real chess game.
> If I put $5000 in SPY, even if the S&P 500 index contains $FOO today I'm not telling my brokerage firm to "buy and hold $FOO at any price", because that's not how the SPY index works, and it's also not how index fund investing works a strategy either.

Unless you can educate me as to what you mean here, I understand that this is exactly what is happening. As long as $FOO remains in the S&P 500, buying and holding SPY is financially (roughly) equivalent to buying and holding equity in $FOO in proportion.
IP addresses are an interesting example, as they're explicitly mentioned as personal data in the directive since in many contexts they're sufficiently unique to associate them with a given user.

Really would like to discuss this further, if you're interested feel free to send me a mail (discoverable via my profile)
Instagram copied Snapchat as "Stories". Messenger now demands you put any picture you send to anyone in an Instagram story and shows it to all your friends in the Messenger app, despite it not being messaging.
I suspect there's an important psychological factor in the idea that the post its or cards are disposable while the paper in the notebook is bound in.

I had to work to learn to use my lab notebook for this kind of thing. In school I only recorded lab setup and results. Once I got a "real job" I realized (well it was sternly told to me) that even random calculations and stupid incomplete ideas could be very important to my employer at some point in the future if something related later came out. This included crossing things out in a way that was still legible.

When we'd sign each other's notebook pages nobody ever commented on the half-assed stuff in my notebook and I saw it in others' too.
I wonder, assuming the computation was instantaneous, how effective it would be for compression.
It's exactly the point made by John Oliver when he interviewed Snowden for Last Week Tonight, and showed him a picture of his d*ck.
Yeah, I guess 'cut the crap' was maybe considered a bit crude.

Thanks for the response.
There's sort of a silly argument as to how you could get mate. If a computer is playing black, it reads the board as greatly to its advantage. So when it's coming up on the 50-move draw, it might offer you a bishop to take to prolong the game. It has such a material advantage, a draw "feels like" a bad outcome, so it's worth giving up some material to continue the game and go for the win. Which is a very computer way of "thinking". Once you take all 3 bishops in this manner, you promote the pawn and get checkmate.
Whenever I go on holiday I very much enjoy collecting beer mats from "Irish" bars[1]. The jackpot would be somewhere like an airport.

On return I then give these to my Irish mother ...she not being a fan of the "authentic" "Irish" bar experience is what makes this funny.

I am a bad son.

[1] Not counting actual Irish pubs in actual Irland. ;)
For several years, I used index cards extensively to track my to-do list and capture notes on the go, inspired by Merlin Mann's "Hipster PDA"[0].

The flaw in my system turned out to be that there was just no convenient way to carry the cards around in my jeans pocket. They always wound up getting bent or wrinkled, and I couldn't find a way to keep the cards together that was both pocket-friendly (a binder clip isn't; it pokes and scratches) and quick-releasing (undoing e.g. a rubber band is just too much work for a quick note).

If anyone's still using a hipster PDA I'd be curious to hear what your physical system looks like and how you carry it with you.

[0] http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-...
Personally I don't enjoy the mechanics of coding. I do like solving problems, and coding is generally the means to that end.

that said, it's also very possible that I'm not a great coder
So you're too scared to tell the truth with your real name attached, thus empowering the apparently stifling political correctness you complain about? Wouldn't actually speaking up, ready to accept the social consequences, be the defiant act?

It's actually your opinion that I find much more threatening. You don't want the freedom to talk shit about fat people, which, honestly, is still pretty easy to do, and getting easier. You want my response to be acceptance of your political incorrectness. You want to cap my free speech so that you don't feel the social consequences of yours. You want a captive audience. Who's more of a danger to freedom of speech than you, who would take the right to respond away from everyone else if you had your way?
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I believe the OP was talking about cost, not source code.
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Black promoted 2 of his pawns to bishops.
It's not meant as an xss prevention but as a safety to prevent rendering errors.
But, getting a mortgage to build an alternative style of house is still all but impossible.

Code in most places still isn't up to snuff on the issue of natural building materials, and the like, as well. New Mexico is one of the better locales, as it has specific code coverage for adobe, earth bag, and a few other kinds of natural building material and design. You still need to have an architect sign off on it, most likely, but it's plausible to get a weird house built in much of New Mexico without a tremendous amount of money/time wasted on code compliance.

I've been researching this, as I'd like to build a house with my own hands, and figured if I was going to do it, I'd want to do something interesting. New Mexico is among the most friendly states in which to do that, but some other states and counties are viable, as well. But, again, banks don't really like weird houses.
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* > still actively denied by numerous interests more concerned over their trillions of dollars of accumulated wealth and power than over the fate of the planet they live on and the souls they share it with.*(

Interests that are now controlling the US government....
Facebook and Google don't sell customer data. Secondly, is there a reason why you left out Microsoft or how about Apple?
Except there are now many instances where no single database server can keep up with request load. It's not fine in all cases today. Where I work now a single request from the user goes into a pipeline of requests (some can be parallel, others not)... our SLA is X, everything that adds up to the total request time counts. Adding even 2-3ms for each service layer to verify session keys is too much.

This is as opposed to < 0.1ms for verifying a JWT. JWT is a structure for stateless tokens... once you have a token, what does 2FA add? nothing. Also, some algorithms are insecure, so don't use them, or blacklist them... Or, better whitelist the algorithm you do use.
Some might say, Dan Grossman, that discretion is the better part of valour when disclosing your vibrator purchases on the internet.

I actually don't care, I just found it funny that you're posting under your real name without shame. It's refreshing, but I think it's also one of the ways techies are significantly different than the rest of the population.
Facebook has become a virus that can destroy a whole generation.
> Concerning your more specific question of "will the wall work"

That's not my question. My question is "What are we getting for the money?"

Again, you seem to be suggesting "lower crime". I disagree, but let's play devil's advocate: how much lower do you think crime would be? Now divide that by the cost of the wall. That's your "per unit cost of lowering crime with a wall". What's the answer?

> my view would be "we can build part of it to the new high standard, and see what happens" since it is a multi-year project after all

Haha, I want to know what we're getting in return for $$$ and you just said "let's see what happens...", which makes you sound like you're selling timeshares.
This chess position doesn't defeat computers. A decent engine will draw this every time. But the disparity in the efficiency of line of reasoning (a humans' being much more efficient than a computers for this problem) illustrates the value add of a programmer to a computer, and what the job of computer programming really is.

Computers basically know nothing--which is good and bad. It's good because they don't require much convincing before performing boring, repetitive tasks. They simply don't know or care that a given task is repetitive or boring, or even useful or not useful, so they will keep chugging along until they can return their output. The downside of this is that if they are to know anything at all, they must be programmed to know it.

They can also learn through evolutionary iterations once programmed conceptively. One could conceive of a computer program that would spit out random logical relationships to describe a large set of data, (what humans might refer to as "life experiences") and prune the logical statements until they eventually returned accurate logic describing the data. But this would require large quantities of generations for pruning, and careful programming of heuristics for logical evaluation at inception.

We can observe that our brains are born out of a system of evolution that has already undergone such processes. We have had a powerful survival heuristic on our genetic program for developing a broad set of skills, including logical reasoning, and it has been running for billions of years, pruning countless generations to give rise to our inherent level of intelligence that can discover logical shorcuts like the one in this problem. The evolutionary process also gives rise to possibly illogical but robust sets of skills, since survival and procreation are hueristically more valuable than being logically perfect in reasoning.

Sure, theoretically, and given sufficient computing resources and time, a man made computer system could approximately match and even exceed the human capacity for discovering logical shortcuts. But when paired with a competent human programmer, or team of programmers, the programmers can vastly reduce the time and resources required to achieve this process of intelligent evolution, and produce intelligent programs much more quickly than a computer program left to simply evolve it's intelligence on its own.

It took us humans quite a while to get here. Why would we assume that a computer could evolve faster than us, autonomously, without being programmed by us to do so? It is possible I suppose, but it's even more unlikely than the evolution of human intelligence, which sure, it happened autonomously, but over a course of billions of years.
Luckily most JS engines "unbox" simple values to "value types" if it can be determined that they will stay that way.

so aside from startup speed you get the same perf
> As long as in-house counsel says it is probably fine, the programs go ahead.

Yes, I know that all agencies have a John Yoo who is ready to write a learned legal argument for why their actions are within the law. This means nothing.

> The difference is in how the data is used. One is used to harass Muslims and their acquaintances. The other is used solely to find affiliates of a known threat to national security

Not true. The muslim watch list was created after 9/11 and was not shut down until late in Barack Obama's first term. It was only shut down because the metadata program came online and offered a more comprehensive version.

Both programs have the same goal, which is to find threats to national security. Both were created with good intentions in mind. The problem with both, in my opinion, is the potential for abuse.
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Yep done that. That's when they basically said nope too bad so sad.