skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does the Japanese Self-Defense Force's charter allow in cases like this? Are they allowed to launch attacks on foreign soil in response to immediate threats, or do they need to appeal to the US/allies to do it for them?

(Not that there's much they could usefully do to NK, AFAIK, but I'm curious about the principle.)
The way this works in terms of design is:

1) A game mechanic is introduced
2) The player is subject to slowly increasing difficult that requires the mechanic
3) The player is forced to demonstrate mastery of mechanic in some new situation, often by combining with other mechanics
4) The player has mastered the mechanic and has the option of using it whenever they want in the future
Drugs and child porn - sure, but that's still a niche. Plus, people finally realized that Bitcoin payments are quasi-anonymous, and the conspiracy theory that CIA/NSA created Bitcoin to catch crooks now makes more sense than ever.
> I remember when D&D was honestly considered being a gateway to satanism / Devil worship, and not in jest. And not a short two week news cycle thing, but it went on for years.

Just because D&D is no longer one of the things people with a religious agenda hired to advise law enforcement are pushing as dangerous doesn't mean things are more sane, just the targets have shifted.

> You millennials think you have it bad, the boomers were absolutely batshit crazy to GenXers (we were also considered lazy BTW).

To be fair to the Boomers, a whole lot of the crazy we in GenX put up with was from the “Greatest Generation”, not the Boomers. (And to be even more fair to the Boomers, they were treated even worse in their youth for their conflicts with the orthodoxy of their elders.)
At risk of offending, I don't believe Trump is modeling that behavior. I don't think his rants are ridiculous, meaning that I believe there's a (sane?) reason behind them.

I feel I need to stress that Trump doesn't scare me. I don't believe he is dumb, I believe he is a fan of gamesmanship. I don't think he is insane. I don't think he is going to cause society to collapse. He scares me exactly none.

I also, unfortunately, need to add that I didn't vote for him and don't particularly approve of him. I'm just not even remotely afraid of him.

I suspect you see what you want to see and draw similarities where there aren't any to worry about. For as much as the politicians change, we keep trudging on. Truly, you'll be alright. It's very unlikely that things will change in a meaningful fashion. We are very much on a trend towards better, and have been for millennia.
Stuff like this combined with the general credit bubble is giving me the feeling the Next Big One is going to be 10x worse than '08.
I think it's a bit reductionist to say "X is the new <existing standard>". Especially when X is proprietary.

Email is a standard. There are multiple providers. It's a great lowest-common-denominator.

Does any company really want a part of that without changing the above? I thought Uber establishing a "defacto standard" for ride-sharing which can be copied by competitors is one of the strategy points we criticize here on HN?

I don't know the Chinese market, but just keep in mind at some point everyone thought that FB/Twitter were going to kill RSS. Fact is, RSS is still around and being used a lot (Podcasts?). While FB/Twitter have restricted access to monetize (or prevent others monetizing) their proprietary platform.

Email will be still around when WeChat is dead and gone.
> reduces code understandability.

Actually it makes R scripts much easier to grasp. It prevents the abusive usage of brackets, and it makes the data transformation flow more obvious.
Artillery shells travel much faster than aircraft.
No: the missile peaked at 550km (probably about when it was over Japan), so unless a(n un)lucky Japanese civilian in "sparsely populated Hokkaido" was looking toward Pyongyang through a telescope at 6am and tweeted a photo of the missile in boost phase, I'd say you wouldn't even be able to tell what the object was.

Furthermore, if you don't trust reports from two nations' militaries, you definitely shouldn't trust anything on the Internet.

Hokkaido is beautiful this time of year, just sayin'
It's pretty well known that stimulants have a calming effect on patients with ADHD. Anxiety can often be a symptom of understimulation.
It will be. Especially in the Bay Area.
> a longtime journalist shares hard-won insights in teasing out substance from hype.

A journalist is not somebody I would be trusting to tease out substance from hype. Their job is to sift the hype out of the substance for ad revenue.
I often look up E-mails from 5-10 years ago to find some piece of obscure information. It's a really nice archive for exchange of thoughts. I don't think my Slack or Facebook messages will stay around for that long.
My understanding is that it is all China.

China's two concerns are avoiding a refugee crisis, and not having a US ally directly on such a sensitive border.

Seoul would certainly face hardship, but is currently willing to help. (Plus they would be happy to have solved their fear of immanent invasion.) However allowing Seoul to help would leave a US ally directly on China's border.

However Seoul's support is faltering as memories fade. In public polls, 56% of South Koreans think that supporting reunification as "essential", but support is much stronger among older generations. If the stalemate lasts a couple more generations, the two countries may not want to reunite.
Maybe not a direct answer to your question but using dynamic variable names is kind of tedious with dplyr. You have to go around it by using paste() statements before passing the argument to a dplyr function, so it's not always elegant either.
NK will not be going to war, unless by miscalculation. Kim knows that of all the scenarios in a war, none end with him munching on caviar in a palace. There are two major powers that would make certain of that. Why do you think he was so keen to assassinate his half brother?
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Not saying they are lying but Abe has been continously playing with the fear of NK to push his military agenda (the change of constitution and surveillance laws).
Seems like you didn't read the whole article.
>> And the Skype app works amazingly well.

That's a first. Let the down votes begin but Skype has always sucked. I'm hoping they do a better job with Teams.
I would think twice about it although. GW501516 for example: 'was abandoned in 2007 because animal testing showed that the drug caused cancer to develop rapidly in several organs'
That's only ~187MP/s. A single 4k 2160p60 stream needs almost 500MP/s, which might be at the edge of what's possible on a CPU today, but would make far more sense for a GPU to do.
async/await is nice duct tape to integrate cooperative concurrency into a thread-based concurrency model but it has the drawback of creating an incompatible sub-language for functions within the parent language. Now every time you call a function, you have to check if it is a "coroutine"/ returns a promise or if it's a synchronous function.

This divides the language ecosystem and makes it hard for library writers to support both concurrency models.

Ask anyone who has done significant async/await coding in C#/Python. It gets messy fast.

Async/Await works a little better in JS because it always has had a cooperative concurrency model, standard library functions usually don't block (except sometimes in Node). Though it's still annoying to have to check whether a function returns a promise or not.

Languages that do this right are Haskell and Go and probably Elixer/Erlang. This usually requires eschewing LibC (which usually assumes a threaded concurrency model) and writing your own runtime.
I wonder about the cost of licensing patents for a project like this one.
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I was an early hire at a data protection startup which inexplicably began behaving like a much larger and profitable company when product was still very flawed and barely usable. ~$100M of funding and many years later, that company has yet to become profitable and rather than shudder the doors, merged with a competitor. All common stock rendered completely worthless in the process, not that there was any hope left after all the dilution anyways.

What I saw was a whole lot of empire building. Things seem to snowball very quickly once managers start getting hired and they're all aspiring for greater head count.
>A better rule, however, is: do not try to time the market. Just invest when you can.

Well, that rule assumes two things:

1. That you're investing for the long term (i.e. retirement), and more importantly,

2. That you're investing in the stock market, which has a very long track record of going up more than it goes down, such that it always goes up over the long term.

That second one, in particular, is much more of an open question when it comes to BTC.
this has been around for a few years, https://www.emotiv.com/ and never really got any good.

sceptical to say the least.

You just don't get enough resolution via eegs.
The package management model in NixOS looks like what it should have been elsewhere.

Do you know why it's not yet the case?
I was a Junior Officer on a Coast Guard cutter for a year and a half. Without a doubt it comes down to command climate. Our Captain had "Standing Orders" that every deck watch officer was required to follow. This is required for all Coast Guard vessels, and I imagine for all Navy vessels as well. Included in these were reasons to call the Captain, where if certain parameters were met you had to call the Captain (and if its late at night that meant waking him/her up, explaining a situation over the phone, and providing a valid recommendation in accordance with the navigation rules of the road). The JOs I knew who made shitty and dangerous deck watch officers were those who would try to skirt the rules in order to avoid calling the captain. If the standing orders said to call the captain and provide a solution to avoid coming within two nautical miles of another vessel, and the radar was providing closest point of approach solutions that bounced between 1 nm and 2 nm, they would interpret that as not being necessary to call the captain.

So why would a deck watch officer not want to call the captain? Well if the captain refuses to ever admit to being wrong, chews people out for tiny things, tells people not to disturb them, or overall doesnt support their junior members then people become less worried about safety and more worried about covering their ass. A lack of training, crew fatigue and bad command end up with bad decisions being made, and when bad decisions are made at that scale people can die.
Right, out of band management (by today's definition) means - assuming the chassis has power and network, you can manage the machines, this is primarily a hardware problem. As much as I root for Open Source software, I don't see how OSS can replace the AMT stack.

Our team has several racks of R&D servers 7500km away from the bulk of the team, and having OOB management is vital. Absolutely vital.
It looks like your certificate expired.

Since it's just a DV certificate from Comodo, have you considered switching to Let's Encrypt? Its automated systems could have helped you automatically update.
I think it will be 10x worse than the 90's tech bubble. I was there, it was painful.
I'm interested in getting into Hololens development. What languages, frameworks and tools would you recommend? From what I've read it seems like I'd be using Unity and C#.
You don't think individuals should have the choice to invest their own money where they please?
I believe in iOS 8 and up (could even be earlier) Apple closed up tricks which would have allowed this sort of thing to work.
Then I suppose we don't need async iterators at all since this can all already be done with callbacks.
If they can't sell, it's not Free Trade.
Any project in a heavily regulated environment is not measurable that way.

The cost comes from compliance, audits, paperwork. Trials, PoCs, etc.

You also need to prove security and a long term lifecycle for the solution. Those open source packages - are they being updated? Who validates patches? etc etc.

Those are moats, once you're able to deliver the above, you're set for a long time.

Good luck!
This is where I couldn't figure out his motive. He clearly wants to maintain his reign, but if so, why did he start provoking in the first place?
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$86M does sound high, but glad to see the author at least acknowledge that some of this would likely have been spent on improving existing software/databases etc to support the new system. Also probably worth noting is the cost of the labour required to develop the new system, and upgrade the old, and design and fit out the interior of the vehicles, and to make sure it's all done in compliance with privacy laws, and so on.

Not that I'm saying $86M is justified - rather that I can start to see how things might add up.
It might be yet another case of the US preparing for the war it wants to fight while ignoring the skills it need to operate in the real world.

The US doctrine have always been fleet warfare with large formations of US ships sailing alone on the open sea or in some water they have complete dominance over. which is exactly the opposite environment to where the recent accidents have happens as the us is forced to operate single ships under IMO rules something I suspect is not a big part of the west point curriculum as no self respecting naval officer is going to be caught dead doing coast guard type work

The interesting and often forgotten thing here is that the Royal Navy who are way better sailors, and have far less cultural aversions towards playing coast guard then the USN failed miserably at a very similar mission in the icy waters around Iceland doing the 70ies and 80ies when Iceland decided to extend their economic exclusion zone beyond what the UK fishing fleets were willing to abide by.

The problem is that nobody in Washington want the US navy to start a shooting match within range of china's coastal missile batteries so none of the warships equipment is applicable for any confrontation. so all they can really do if the Chinese coast guard decide to board some "allied trawler" fishing in what China calls Chinese waters is lurk about a 1000 yards away and yell on the radio.
125mg. Should be "rolling face".
Worth reading:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3053129/

> In a study designed to minimize limitations found in many prior investigations, we failed to demonstrate marked residual cognitive effects in ecstasy users.

> We found little evidence of decreased cognitive performance in ecstasy users, save for poorer strategic-self-regulation, possibly reflecting increased impulsivity. However this finding might have reflected a premorbid attribute of ecstasy users, rather than a residual neurotoxic effect of the drug.

Good news, seems like even in long-term ecstasy users they have good cognition.

Edit, also:

> MDMA researcher Matthew Baggott: “To the best of my understanding, doses around 1.5-1.7 mg/kg MDMA (roughly 100 to 125 mg MDMA) are unlikely to cause long-lasting serotonin changes. Studies by MAPS have looked for changes in mental abilities after people participated in their studies, with some participants receiving 125 mg followed by 62.5 mg, and have not found any changes.” MAPS study protocol involves 3 - 5 week breaks, and a total of 2 or 3 MDMA sessions in total.

https://rollsafe.org/mdma-side-effects/#possible-long-term-s...

And if you want to become an expert and get a summary of all of the safety research, ~1 page of reading here: https://www.mdmawiki.org/wiki/Is_MDMA_Neurotoxic%3F
Caffeine reduces cerebral blood flow:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19219847
Where do we go from here? To the very brink, at least if Trump is left to his own (mobile) devices. My guess is he will reroute a CBG or two towards the Korean peninsula and make a lot of bluster about whatever new line he is prepared to draw.

Meanwhile, everyone else works frantically on a backchannel plan that allows both Kim and Trump to save some face. I don't see how this happens unless brokered by China, who emerges the big winner on the world stage.
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It sounds like you already have your answer. Yes, there are skills that transfer over, such as critical thinking and logical reasoning. And yes, it sounds like there are aspects which might be a good fit for you (remembering that there are many, many aspects to law).

Talk to some experienced lawyers in your area and get their impression of what it takes and what they would recommend. I would consider studying for the LSAT for a couple weeks and taking it (even a practice exam) to see how you do. Also, are you willing and able to pay for law school? It's not cheap. And remember, also, that if you don't get a good school or pass the bar exam, it may not pay off at all.
The threats are to extract concessions.

The nukes are to make them too dangerous to invade.
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All i can say is "watch this kid!". He is showing the motivation, perspectives, insight and intelligence to be able to do important work in the future. Great article and the C code worth reading to learn from. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to reading future blogs and seeing what you create.
Another upvote for 3blue1brown. I just watched his linear algebra series and it's probably the most outstanding math instruction I've encountered.
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Isn't it great that the name is entirely coincidental? Love that anecdote.
To the extent that anyone on HN knows an active philanthropist looking for potentially highly impactful but severely underfunded causes - send them one of these articles: https://www.inverse.com/article/32376-mdma-ptsd-therapy-dr-b..., https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5x748/the-refugee-fundin..., http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment, or encourage them to read the book/audiobook called 'Acid Test.'

I believe there's a case that funding MDMA research has very high dollar/impact returns - or at least that it's likely enough that it's worth a thorough exploration.

It sounds like they still need to raise about $12 million, which is shockingly small compared to the ~$1.5bn/yr NIMH budget - and all of it will come from private philanthropists, as governments aren't yet willing to fund the work and for-profit companies don't see much profit yet due to the lack of patentability.

If you're on HN and this is the first you're hearing about this research, some resources:

- A short video excerpt from a documentary on MDMA therapy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iKx2MKS70

- NY Times article - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.html
Toss in architects, visual effects artists, kinda of whatever job you want in the US, especially if there's no history of a union.

As someone else said, there's a lot of ego involved too. Given that a lot of it is "brainwork", it's the only physical way they might be able to feel they're testing themselves against something.

Most of it in those jobs is just production-churn and an attempt by the higher-ups to save money on things that a) were bid low and b) have shitty margins.
Imagine you're North Korea. Like you give a fuck if the US starts flying things close to your borders. They know that if the US attacks it's game over for South Korea, so unless the US is willing to throw South Korea under the bus the US won't do a damned thing.

The US will also have to convince China it was attacked in order to get support. Otherwise China will sit out any conflict, as ugly as it might get.

North Korea is really smacking the bear around with a stick here seeing how far they can go before they get bit.
Every supported configuration paramater adds to the cost of supporting the platform, so, I totally get reducing the surface of supported parameters and charging whoever really needs this[1] through the nose for a custom support plan...

[1]: I'm not suggesting most, if not all, people don't need the ability to disable Intel ME, only that, they more often than not don't value it enough to pay for it..
> Do you think many people, especially the poorest or those in the least favourable jobs, would engage in such wage labour if they had the opportunity not to? No, they engage in it beacuse they are forced by the circumstance of the capitalist system.

Many people could afford to live in very small homes, and live with about nothing but a bed and a shack and decide instead to have big cars, huge houses, big fields, 3 TVs and 3 smartphones, while they probably need none of those to live well. So "most people" are certainly not working just to sustain themselves, they are actively working to keep getting richer. That's what we see across the world, read any recent World Bank report explaining how poverty is decreasing everywhere and level of life is increasing (yet people still choose to work for more money, to buy more stuff when they can, not just be satisfied with what they have).
Yes, I was thinking of exactly that in the shower later. It's one of my favorite ways for an author to build tension.
You are comparing CPUs to GPUs right now
>In today's world I'm skeptical to say the least.

Why? NK has been launching missiles for quite some time now, and this fits reasonably well with their overall pattern of escalation. I don't really pay that much attention to NK, but this launch is utterly unsurprising to me based on my very limited and amateur interest in the subject.
Ah. I think you are the reason my blog was slammed all of a sudden a few days after I hit the front page.
Yes, this is all discussed in the eRFC (which admittedly isn't what is linked here, but is the first link in the description, https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2033) and various threads on internals before it.

> writing your own runtime.

This is not a cost that Rust can bear, and so that option is just not possible. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
But this time not only is the country already on the tip of its own disasters, it's RIGHT next door to a bunch of our allies. It's not in "the middle of nowhere" like Afghanistan.

Either way if North Korea or to do something nuclear we've never answered the question of how we respond to that other than mutually assured distraction. However I don't think we can do that without causing serious problems to South Korea, China, and probably Japan. That policy was really designed for Russia, not something like NK.

We thought messing with Afghanistan and Iraq repaired, how in the world do you try and unwind something like North Korea?
>it's kind of amazing how little has actually changed since those laws were put in place.

Given there's a lot of bureaucratic inertia and jobs at stake here, and:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

...is it really so surprising?

This aspect of human nature is not isolated to the Drug War. Jaime Escalante was possibly the best teacher in America, and demoted because his success threatened the jobs of others-1

What about the never ending wars for profit? Wolf Blitzer at CNN tells us it's a moral problem for the US to stop funding war because a lot of jobs will be lost-2

The problem is that if we are to truly care about human dignity and equality, we need to fundamentally change the way in which we approve of jobs without critically looking at what they actually produce. This isn't just isolated within the economy of the War on Drugs.

1-reason.com/reasontv/2017/08/22/stossel-government-run-schools-crush-in

2-https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/wolf-blitzer-is-worried-...
How much of that is from all the overheated Hacker News and YC Partner boosting (pun intended) of them back when they first launched and were going to reinvent personal transportation rather than just be a sub-type of skateboard?
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