skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Google first came out and we tried it there were two things we liked about it.

The first: Good search results.
Yeah everyone knows that right. But young people today might have forgotten the second reason we liked Google search back then:

The Second: A clean page with a single logo and search field. It loaded quick. There were no banners everywhere, no bs.

HackerNews has that feel. It is clean, information dense, and does what it needs to do.
illegally? So? At one time it was legal to own a person. In some parts of the world it still is. Even the west has come up with legal reasons to imprison, torture, and kill people who have not faced a trial or worse, said nothing while their allies do it. Legal and illegal has got nothing to do with right and wrong.
> Meanwhile, the Very High Net Worth cohort collect far more, and more from investment gains not labor, and fool the public into blaming the upper middle class HNWI

I think Thomas Piketty's proposal at the end of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" for a progressive global tax on wealth, not income, could be a very positive thing.

One of Piketty's points was that even putting in place a wealth tax with a pretty negligible tax rate would require governments to establish the necessary bureaucracy for collecting data on the wealth of their citizens and residents, and a few years afterwards there would be a lot more data for citizens, academics and policy makers to use when discussing and designing taxation policy.
Like keybase?
That would be exactly true. If your business's operating legal presence were in space, or on the open ocean, then you would pay no taxes, aside from consumption-side taxes in the countries you serve.

Tell me how this would be anything but fair.
I wouldn't say the end result is the same just because humanity survives. I mean, say the eruption occurs and as a result only a few billion people ultimately die. Well, human civilization is preserved. But it would be a lot more pleasant to prevent it happening at all.
THE REASON TRUMP HATES THE MEDIA
> Just because it was led by such does not mean that the soldier was not fighting for their liberated futures.

The claim being addressed is “Both revolutions actually overthrew the rich aristocrats and created a democratic republic...”

This is a claim about actual outcomes, not motivations.
I don't think mid-tier only includes Japanese. Since at least the 80s it has become common for Japanese to train as chefs, pastry makers, bakers and cheese makers in Europe and NYC. They usually return and open up their own small restaurants in Japan. Tokyo is full of micro restaurants with 12-30 seats that have been started this way and their quality is very often top notch, so much that it is now often cheaper and better to eat certain dishes in Japab rather their original place. For certain things Tokyo has developed enough that Japanese can now learn it there just as well - Napoli Pizza or French pastry are examples. This goes all the way back to Tempura, a Portuguese import.

What is missing is the more exotic stuff. Latin American, Middle Eastern and African cuisines are underrepresented compared to Western megacities.
How much job capacity do you personally need? Isn't it enough to have just one job? Many cities have that and more, and it only takes one job to support a family.

I hope you don't expect to lose your job every few months, but in case you do, remember that new jobs pop into existence. It's not like a city with 100 jobs is on the verge of running out. (several years later: "oops, the last job got used up in 2018 and we can't ever make any more; this city is all used up")

I've had my tech job for a dozen years now. It pays well enough to get a 3500-square-foot house on half an acre and feed a huge family, even though the pay is perhaps only 2/3 of what I'd make in San Francisco or Mountain View. The 5x to 10x difference in housing cost more than makes up for the salary difference.
Pytorch is way ahead of tensorflow in terms of cuDNN API usage.
Since Whatsapp is completely proprietary, is this totally based on reverse engineering their protocol?
I read the wiki article. In practical terms it's the same thing. If you don't have enough evidence to prove the accused committed a crime, it really doesn't matter whether or not you think he did it.

A "not guilty" verdict in the US means the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard wasn't met. It doesn't mean anything more or less.

A "not proven" verdict in Scotland means... there's not enough evidence to prove he did this, but he looks kinda shifty?

I might support a verdict of "innocent", meaning the defense proved the accused could not have committed the crime for which he was accused.
Semi-related: When does CloudFlare get sued into the ground for man-in-the-middle-attacking all of their customers for several months?
Trump literally effected CNN to consider human tolerancy to their questinable content!
Description of the NSF grant funding this project can be found here: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1619048

This work addresses two key challenges in measuring network reliability from the outside. The first important problem is to determine whether address changes are actually the cause for a network device becoming unreachable to external measurement. The second key problem is in separating individual failures from other failures. For example, with an approaching storm, many users may disable their equipment to avoid lightning damage, but with a passing storm, an outage may affect many users at once.
That and the abomination of the technology stack that we use for said process. HTML/CSS/JS is absolutely not the answer for "I want to make a UI", never mind the fact that many UI designers have no clue how the stack works and abuse it horribly.

The idea may be "paper", but what's actually being done is far from it. The browser may paint and repaint a pixel a dozen times before it's ever rendered. DOM-traversal is one of the most important parts of a browser's optimization because of the tens of thousands of times it can happen to paint a screen.
Ha! It's not like they do it out of altruism. If the wealthy are trying to spread their wealth around, they are failing miserably.
"standing up to oppression" is not a "get out of being an asshole free" card
This is a good time to remind folks that arbitrary political borders are, well, arbitrary and that all serious city-to-city comparisons should be done using MSA numbers.

A failure to understand this leads to all kinds of ridiculous impressions and conclusions.
Not to mention the Brave browser
Depends where you are. If in the EU, for example, you have some pretty strong rights to access personal data held about you, correct it, or even block its further use. They apply to data all over the world, provided it's processed by a company that has an "establishment" (e.g. subsidiary) in the EU, and the data use is somehow related to that establishment's activities. From May next year, when the new GDOR kicks in, the geographic link will be even easier to establish: businesses are caught the moment they monitor people in the EU. Check out the website of your local data protection authority for details.
The speakers can often be disabled by plugging a wire that goes nowhere into the line out jack.
It isn't paranoia if one is right. Sadly, we are both right.
Anyone daft enough to write manifestos about something as sensitive as the standards of proof for rape is grinding an axe to cause a reaction.
That's nice.

But you still don't know how the opt out has to be worded in a specific case and through which medium to which address it should be sent.

So, yes, you could build a TOS alert system of some kind.

And that might be a nice and popular plug in.

But an automatic opt-out button is very hard.
I'm fairly sure that Bucklescript - the ocaml->js transpiler - is a Bloomberg project.

I also find it interesting that Microsoft is still maintaining React-related projects, despite the license issues.
If marijuana were to be taxed at the rate of say lettuce with accounting handled by the same enforcement mechanisms, then the argument could be made that it was merely being subject to the same imperfect system we use to fund all public projects. But instead, we get the corruption I referred to - the creation of an entirely new administrative and enforcement apparatus which becomes its own justification. The dynamic still ultimately involves the power of the state telling individuals how they can and cannot aeffect their selves, with the only change being that the state is now profiting from selling indulgences.
Legal weed is not "almost here". It's still a schedule 1 controlled substance at the federal level, and in theory you can spend a year in a federal penitentiary for possession of any amount.

That's what I'd like to see changed. This legal twilight zone isn't good for anybody.
At this point, all smartphone oems selling Android devices, do they really have a choice?

Android is too big. The oems are too invested. They need Google. Google on the other hand, could flip the switch one day and say that they do not need them anymore.
What's going on in the upper left there? :)
Great. Now we could structure the text with a markup language and syndicate it. Anyone could consume these syndicated feeds using a variety of free apps. We could even standardize this and call it... RSS :)
We have laws, and we have mechanisms to change the laws. There are consequences to breaking laws. We live in a society.
I'd add that Google News used to have that clean feel too, many years ago. Each generation it gets worse.
The latest generation using AMP is nearly unreadable on my Nexus 5 phone, it bogs it to a crawl.
General government spending (local, regional, national):

Switzerland 33%
USA 37%

Military % of GDP:

Switzerland 0.7%
USA 3.3%

https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS
If only CNN would go back to being the old but trusted, amazing CNN, with Christiane Amanpour at the landing in Mogadishu during Restore Hope, or Bernie Shaw at the hotel in Baghdad for Desert Storm.

Now, a shell of its old self, CNN is just MSNBC's cousin, with people who say "we, ahem, I mean, the Democrats, are losing Michigan" live on screen.

Oh well. It's been years since I relied on CNN.

But on the technical front, good for them.
What is the advantage of tax competition? Small countries that only host headquarters can charge very low rates: they don't have most of the expenses of bigger countries, especially if they are under no military threat by their neighbors and therefore protected by them.
You failed to change my opinion.
Why not:

assert n >= 0
assert result >= 0

?
I'm no expert on Putin but I can't process the narrative about him in this piece:

> And then Konchalovsky said that Putin initially thought like a Westerner

... but then he learned and adapted to exploit the Russians?

To my understanding he was a trained KBG-ist—the most nihilistic kind of person in all of nihilistic Russia—and believes chiefly in making money. To suggest that Putin has ever held beliefs, the kind people in the West might have, rings very naive.

"Бабки надо делать" he is quoted saying as a motto in the early 90s in the movie "Who is Mr. Putin?" That's his only truth, not unlike, generally, the people he rules.
Bingo. In sweden as example our birth date plus 4 unique digits is your nation wide id/ssn. So obviously your ssn is not exactly a secret and instead you also have to proove that you are you with a photo id or online 2FA id.

There's no such thing as loosing your ssn because it is already public.
A piece of more recent history that people might not know: the 32-bit SPARC chips had some special instructions for adding and subtracting integers, assuming a representation in which the two low-order bits were used as tag bits, and a value of 00 in those bits indicated a fixnum (Lisp-speak for an immediate integer). The TADDCC instruction ("Tagged ADD and set Condition Codes") was just like ADD, except that it would also set the overflow condition code if either operand had a tag value other than 00 (it would also be set if the addition overflowed). The next instruction would call a handler if the overflow bit was set; the handler would determine whether (a) this was a case of actual integer overflow requiring construction of a "bignum" (a heap-allocated integer); (b) one or both operands were already heap-allocated integers (or perhaps other kinds of numbers) requiring some other form of addition; or (c) one or both operands were not numbers at all, a runtime error. But the point is, the most common case was handled in two instructions, and those could even be combined into one using the TADDCCTV variant, which trapped automatically on overflow. (There were also TSUBCC and TSUBCCTV, of course.)

My understanding of the history here is that a lot of Sun people, notably Bill Joy, came from Berkeley, where Franz Lisp was also developed; and in the mid-1980s (the first SPARC came out in 1987) it still seemed possible that Lisp would be of great commercial importance. AFAIK, these instructions were dropped for the 64-bit SPARC.

But the point of posting this is to underscore that the use of "fixnums", tagged immediate integers, is well known. Not only, as Juho has helpfully uncovered, does it date back to the 1960s, but it had explicit support in what was once a major microprocessor architecture.

I'll digress a little further and add that I really wish Java had used the Lisp approach for arbitrary-precision integers. Then Joshua Bloch would never have had to write this blog post: [0], among many other benefits.

[0] https://research.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all...
I've got specific dnsmasq block rules for those.

0.0.0.0 ht1.cdn.turner.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 ht2.cdn.turner.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 ht3.cdn.turner.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 ht4.cdn.turner.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 ht5.cdn.turner.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 ht6.cdn.turner.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 ht7.cdn.turner.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 ht8.cdn.turner.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 ht9.cdn.turner.com # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 a.teads.tv # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 t.teads.tv # Autoplay video
0.0.0.0 cdn.teads.tv # Autoplay video

Not all those hosts are populated yet, but this is effective.
History repeats itself. This is just like flash sites back in the 90s.
The entire line of thinking that Scott Adams has is basically comparable to being a dedicated pickup-artist.

Adams has studied all the tricks of how to manipulate people and rationalizes it to the point of deluding himself. It's like saying that if you're a pickup-artist who successfully seduces your target using all manner of clever and manipulative tactics, well, they were indeed seduced so, you judge that they liked it and had a good time, so it's all good.

Adams is obsessed with persuasion to the point of completely ignoring what you persuade people to do or think. Like an avid pickup-artist who treats Casanova as the hero to model, Adams sees that Trump is successful at manipulating people, so he sees that as all the proof needed that Trump is to be admired and treated as the ultimate model to follow.

Short version: Adams is a lousy source for actually understanding Trump. Adams is right about some things and wrong about others, and he is among the most extreme victims of confirmation bias I've ever seen.

A good understanding of Trump and the aspects Adams talks about is this: https://newrepublic.com/article/124803/donald-trump-not-liar
Something like this - https://youtu.be/3IMAUm2WY70 ?
I recall per bob shiller (of case shiller index) on an average it has taken 30 years of work to own a house throughout ages. Now try to figure out how many years of that life were spent working for real estate agent? at 6.5% commision if you go through 4 houses that's 25% of cost. so effectively 25% of your life you have worked for realtors!
Yeah I'm saying that, for example, the effects on Raleigh would be pretty overwhelmed at 2m, if Denver could even handle it at 3.3m. Contrast with Minneapolis at 3.8m, Dallas at 7.3m, and Chicago at close to 10m on the money.

I'm using the CSA definitions because I think that's a better way of comparing wildly different cities.
This whole thing is an offshoot of antinuclear FUD. If civilization collapses to the point where people no longer realize that radiation is dangerous, then so many people have already died that a few more people dying early from radiation is just background noise.

In addition, knowing human nature and our propensity for conspiracy theories, there will be people in the future who think all those signs were put there to dissuade people from finding a massive buried treasure. (After all, the phrasing is pretty much what you would expect if someone had buried a treasure and wanted to make scare people from digging for it.
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I don't believe I've ever heard France described as a communist country before
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Well, I mean it in the sense that, if you turned off all of the microprocessors, what would still function? Almost nothing. Ergo everything that would die is "taken over" fully by automation, in a way that should concern people but not terrify them.
The link title should have a [1992] annotation.
Do you have further reading on these events? I agree with you 100% but I would argue that these growers are probably some of the lesser evils facing our public lands.
I feel your pain, I thought it was either a Convolution or a Cellular neural network, was very disappointed. But thanks for pointing to some actual good material to read and look over.

To add to your trend, here is an article [1] about "Texture Classification and Segmentation by Cellular Neural Networks Using Genetic Learning" , texture not text though as they are more vision related, though it would be interesting to see by what methods they could be applied to text.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tamas_Sziranyi/publicat...
Ah, ok. I tend to assume that anything people talk about on HN is fairly recent, since most people on HN were born fairly recently...
We do.

Our system has "proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" and "not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt". We don't have an "innocent" verdict, nor any concept of proving someone innocent.

What our system lacks is the Scottish "not guilty"; not the Scottish "not proven".
I'd rather run across an old composting toilet while biking than an old meth lab, so you have a point
His far right politics was a bit of a turnoff for me.
YMMV
Because those don't delete the offending code which must be punished.

Also, implore specifies the caller is offensive, and any function which swears a falsehood is offensive. The latter is like assert, but the former is like lifting the assert to the caller.
Try giving this page a read: https://reasonml.github.io/guide/what-and-why/
Error 500 for me. Page does not appear.
My definition is essentially "Can humans still operate the system without sophisticated microprocessors?" and the answer for all the things I listed is no.

Don't be confused: Society is as much run by the machines as society runs the machines. People do not recognize this, for precisely the same reason you're disputing me: It seems like humans are fully in control. We lack all but the grossest influence over most of the fully automated systems - we can pull the plug, but we can never go back to non-automated from where we are today.

Complex systems are chaotic and rapidly exceed the capabilities of humans to understand and control.
a 16GB RAM machine to run something that ran on 16MB
earth holds onto shit. imagine not letting go of something for 600,000 years.
Thank you for linking this. It is a wonderful and vital reminder that the incredible tools we have received today did not magically spring forth from the godhead but were the product of years of experimentation, argument, and implementation.
Thanks. Priority Mail does have a signature-required option, which makes me curious whether that is as good as a return receipt.
Exactly. It means we don't think the person is innocent, but we don't have enough evidence to convict. The problem with providing juries with only two outcomes where the evidence is not open and shut, is that you are forcing the jury to make a choice they really can't on the evidence available. It is especially hard when the victim is believable and the accused shifty. Many times juries convict when they shouldn't.

On the topic of "beyond a reasonable doubt" why is this not turned into an actual probability. Juries have no difficulty dealing with probabilities in civil cases, but apparently in criminal cases they can't be told what reasonable doubt means.
Much of the profit generated in the EU by these multinationals actually ends up largely untaxed in Bermuda/Cayman islands/... subsidiaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
I love it.

The only improvement I could ask for is about 100 bytes of CSS to limit the column width, change it to a serifed font, and increase the font size.
what are property taxes like?
Without these software limits, lithium ion batteries are practically useless.

Lithium-ion cells are remarkably finicky and fragile. There's no clear cut-off that demarcates "over-charged" or "over-discharged", you're just increasing the stress on the cell. A highly stressed cell has a much shorter cycle life, so there's a tradeoff between durability and capacity. The 0% and 100% you see on the charging icon are essentially arbitrary lines, chosen by the product designer to best exploit this tradeoff.

Drone racers will often charge their cells beyond 4.3v and discharge them below 3.2v to eke out every last joule of energy. These cells will lose 20% of their capacity within a few dozen charge cycles and might fail catastrophically due to dendrite formation. A perfectly reasonable tradeoff in this application, but a disaster in an electric car.

For obvious reasons, electric car manufacturers lean strongly on the side of durability. Nobody will care about an extra 20 miles of range if their battery fails after 40,000 miles. Consumer electronics manufacturers started using more conservative battery management profiles when non-replaceable batteries became the norm - by sacrificing a bit of capacity, they could double or triple the cycle life of the battery.

Note: this explanation is grossly over-simplified in the interests of brevity. Battery chemistry is ludicrously complex.
The double Irish with a Dutch sandwich is still available and actively being used until 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
100% agree; text-based sites are the worst for this, due to all the tracking they do in JavaScript.

I've been using Brave for a while now, on both laptop and Android.

Any time I try to load pretty much any website in Chrome on Android or SeaMonkey on laptop, it's just so painfully slow compared to Brave!
Indeed. The one that needs to be punished is the programmer. I suggest burning at the stake.
You might be surprised by the scale. I know a few folks doing water management in California, and they've all independently brought up the exacerbating effects of unmonitored but significant water usage by illegal farms during the last few years of drought.

Don't have a link handy, though.
The Keras blog also has a good post on using CNNs to label text from newsgroups with their respective newsgroups: https://blog.keras.io/using-pre-trained-word-embeddings-in-a...

It achieves 95% accuracy without many tricks, but the newsgroups themselves are quite different so it's not the hardest problem.
Annuities are mostly scams with so many knobs & levers that are designed to get unsavvy people on hook with weird mix of investment and insurance. best to keep them separate.
I couldn't find a better image but I remember this used to be the big argument why people liked Google's design over yahoo:

http://aautar.digital-radiation.com/blog/uploaded_images/goo...