skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. This is a really ambitious project for just 4 contributors (and one that looks like they did most of the work). I'm curious why ASM and not LLVM?

Edit (comment above unaltered):
I got down voted by someone which tells me I missed an obvious answer to my question. Did I miss something?

I've noticed a lot of compiler projects lately tend to default to LLVM, I'm curious of the strengths and weaknesses of LLVM vs ASM since the author here chose to compile to ASM.
Bots generate engagements.

"Engagements are new followers from Promoted Accounts and/or clicks, retweets or likes on Promoted Tweets. You will never be charged more than your maximum bid and you usually pay less."

https://business.twitter.com/en/help/overview/twitter-ads-gl...

The bulk of all engagements now are fake/automated.

P.S. as a bot, you don't need to "see" a tweet to engage.
That's not true at all. Ripple (XRP) is a cryptocurrency and it is distributed.
Also very popular amongst survivalists.
the US has an entire political party angrily decrying any effort to regulate healthcare as socialist slavery.

Argubly regulation is the problem we're in this mess. Do you think an epipen would cost $600 if there weren't a Government granted monopoly?

We have two parties who love the current amount of regulations on competition - you need to go to an AMA approved medical school to become a doctor, there aren't H1Bs for health care workers, and the government gets to pick and chose who's allowed to sell medication.

They just disagree on the amount of subsidies for poor people. One party thinks prepaid consumption with cross subsidies is insurance and the other party thinks that insurance shouldn't be so binding if you get sick.
I wouldn't be particularly sad to see him lose his account, but I don't think this is a useful angle of approach.

This clause is pretty clearly about illegal violence. Part of the President's job can involve both threats and actual violence. I think this president is a dangerous loon. But I don't think Twitter should a priori ban government accounts from talking about, say, a declared war.
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It really isn't like the thing you've mentioned at all. Perhaps a different analogy?
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Welcome to the dark web. It's terrible here.
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I just love how the HN community says "huh, yeah let me verify that" and basically pulls the wool off the eyes...

So, fuck you, you beautiful tech community and I love you, you horrific tech community..

This is literally what democratization of actual information looks like.
The 11th hour is already at hand. Some pretty big players are ready to trigger their contingency plans if certainty about future remains unclear: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/04/eu-transiti...
There are so many problems with this response. Mostly related to your inexplicable efforts to ascribe meaning that was not conveyed in the OP comment. I won't go through your entire wall of text, because it is an emotional response to a salient and accurate neutral analysis. But I do want to point out that your post seems to place an inordinate amount of trust in our current set of elected officials. For example, your assertion that candidates do not hide behind secret plans. What a silly, and frankly incorrect, assertion. Many of our current president's policies, foreign and domestic, were opaque and largely summarized by his now-infamous regurgitation, "you'll find out - after I'm elected."
Less ambitious: has anyone yet built a Lisp Machine unikernel (i.e. a "Racket on Xen", like "Erlang on Xen")?
For those who do not have the context, senior figures at The Times were caught on camera talking about ties to people associated with the Democrat Party and talking about working closely with an individual at YouTube to favorably curate their front page. This individual also discussed a close personal relationship with former FBI Director James Comey.

If you want to watch the videos for yourself, look up "Project Veritas", and you can see the footage that likely prompted this post.
Honestly I was thinking more the darker side of the internet. Combine uncensorable with a hint of anonymity and you're on the hook for distributing a lot more than you signed up for.

Less cryptic - copyright violations at best, things like child porn on the worse end of the scale
Or you can view it as a high-profile step in an ongoing employer power creep.

When you work for a company, how much of your life does that company own? Do you have any rights as a private citizen at all if you have an employer? Can they tell you what to say in your off time? Can they tell you who to vote for? Whether or not to stand when a certain song is being played? Whether or not you can own a gun? Which political organizations to join? How about where to eat? Who to be friends with? What conferences and meetups to attend? Whether or not to smoke and drink alcohol? How much to exercise? When and where to pee and to surrender your bodily fluids (step over here for this mandatory drug test, please)? Can they own the ideas that you think of when you are not working, like they do in tech?

The most fascist governments in all of human history would salivate at the chance to exert this much control over their people. While here if you disobey, you are not sent to jail or killed, instead you lose your livelihood and health care, which for the poor approaches a similar end result.
software is never complete. It might be usable (in the world outside personal projects perhaps "shippable") but never complete.

I think the point the author is making is to not start projects that aren't likely to have a minimum viable product that is usable and achievable within reasonable time.

I'm not so sure. It's more fun to write the skeleton of a compiler and abandon, than it is to write something minimal sometimes. The only (proper) way to learn what tradeoffs exist in sql database design is to make one. Making a sql parser, btrees and so on is HARD but rewarding. After a week you'll know a lot about a lot of things. But you likely won't have a working SQL database. If you aren't a very special kind of crazy you won't reach the finish line and you'll abandon it somewhere along the way. So was it all a waste? Is exploratory hobby programming somehow a bad practice? I can't see that it is.
> Marking them as bots would be a good idea though.

I agree. I like how Telegram does bots. They have first class support for bots, and the separation between real user and bot is extremely clear. You have to specifically create a bot account, and bots have certain restrictions that users don't have (e.g. they cannot initiate a conversation themselves).

Of course, that assumes the bot is set up as intended. One could masquerade a bot as a real user if they were clever enough and had a spare phone number, presumably. I've not tried it, but I'm going to assume it's possible, since you can very well write your own Telegram client.
The gaming forums are concerned about this announcement since IGN has a reputation for aggressive ads/branding, which is antithetical to Humble Bundle’s mission.

There is also a potential conflict-of-interest in a reviewing site owning a games publisher. (HB has published a few indie titles)
Oh, please, drop the "They". We all know what you are:

https://angel.co/kamrin-danielle
> super awesome.

This is not super-awesome. Humans have made incredible progress by specializing and optimizing, and this process improves productivity, efficiently, and (most importantly when it comes to medicine) safety.

The idea that we will have people taking the risk of getting sick or dying because they are not able to manufacture drugs with the same purity and potency as pharmaceutical companies shows there is a huge problem with the status quo.
It's a psychologic trick - appeal to extreme [1]. By constantly discussing a scenario which is so completely unlikely to occur, it warps the discussion into thinking that that extreme is somehow representative of reality.

It's a fallacy because it's like a DOS attack on the argument - burning up most of the time on a absurdly small probability. Participants and viewers tricked by thinking "what's discussed most is what's most important".

[1] https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
This all sounds like FUD. Have you personally had any problems with delivery people or have any data on problems in the aggregate?
Domain name: A+
Content: A
Everything else: C-
I don’t follow. He shows a balance of 1000 DASH (=300k USD) in his wallet. How is it related to the price of BTC?
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And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But the question I was responding to was about the potential to use this as a starting point for re-creating the productivity advantages of the Lisp machine.
I think you both are right: historically, Vudu was a bit of a mess to use, but eventually it became pretty good/decent. However, if you had that initial clunky experience, you may've never come back to find out that it is okay now.
> nobody forces software upgrades down your throat

Windows 10 does, as does every SaaS web app out there.
The phrase:

> our journalists

is used 14 times. Do the serfs go with the land, or
can they have any private/personal online presence?

I get that the Times is using "our journalists" as a shorthand for
"journalists employed by the Times" or "people who work at the
Times' newsrooms" but this seems like an exclusion of many
significant personal opinions from online spaces.

It also seems to be a shift from journalists having both a private
persona and a separate public body of work to a single public
persona who is always and constantly expected to be on the public
stage - like an on-call physician, a well-known trial lawyer, a
politician, a celebrity, or an actor.

We might expect that shift for a small percentage of the people in
journalism - the ones whose names might be recognized by any
reader or viewer - but do we want it for all journalists?
Dating is absolutely not a market for lemon.
I did not know this. I do not think cookie warning == site tracking. Many of those pop-ups are people thinking they need it due to the law.
There was a study of abused wives who finally resorted to murdering their husband's in self defense. They were expecting to find that women who killed their husband's had certain personality traits or something like that. What they found was that the ones who did so were basically the most severely abused who had been painted into a corner and had no other way out. That was the only thing they all had in common.

Tons of kids get bullied, but the extent and severity varies tremendously. The ones who get bullied the worst typically also have shite home lives and no one at all really looking out for their interests.

Your position amounts to "Meh, bullying happens. Can't be arsed to care. The victims need to not go ballistic about it though." And I find this monstrous. We need to create social environments where, no, bullying is not tolerated.
Note that since the phishing site proxies requests to the legit site, this also has a high risk of knocking the legit site offline.
Getting fired, unceremoniously, and at a point in time you don't control, is quite a different thing from a planned exit where you already have your new position lined up and waiting. I propose that "correcting" your boss is likely to lead to the former, which is bad, and that - IF one cares so much about this point - it is better to just go ahead and start planning the latter.

Edit: I should perhaps have been more explicit in saying that I meant "start looking for a new job so you can quit" as opposed to "rage quit on the spot".
I'm not a tor expert, but could this be solved by using something like namecoin for DNS within tor? So there would be a "proper" domain system for the .onion routes?

The whole confusion comes from the fact that tor domains have this random string added to the name you actually want to take, right?
Yes, that's what I meant to imply. So yes, TeX is finished software but the boundary between what is known as TeX and "not TeX" is blurred by the thousands of extensions in the TeX environment that people must use when using anything beyond the basics.

Basically what I'm saying with that example is that you can draw a line around some code and say "this is TeX, and it is finished." But what users mean when they say "I use TeX" will never be finished and will be forever expanding.

TeX is the hardest to argue because it is probably the most stable software in existence for what it's capable of, so any other software you use is much less finished.
Their brand has been long damaged before the NFL protests. Joining in the war in trying to out-Trump Trump has lost me as a reader-subscriber.
Cats? Are you kidding? I love cats but I swear those fuckers wait for a car to be there before they cross the street.
Things definitely have been tried. However, companies find loop holes and frequently things get worse after. Check out this amazing episode of econtalk: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/robin_feldman_o.htm...
> ensorcelled

verb literary
past tense: ensorcelled; past participle: ensorcelled

enchant; fascinate.

Worth the price of admission for that alone
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Humble Bundle has been acquired by media giant IGN
Google should just pay students to learn at coding bootcamps
Source? Marijauana use and alcohol use both seem to correlate positively with wealth, but Tobacco indeed appears to be a negative correlation. [0]

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410945/
Not if your competitors have the same data in their DB.
> On that same note, we strongly discourage our journalists from making customer service complaints on social media. While you may believe that you have a legitimate gripe, you’ll most likely be given special consideration because of your status as a Times reporter or editor.

One of the more sensible precautions IMO. It's very easy to get a company or institution to acknowledge to your complaints when you pull the "Do you know who I work for?" card. Difficult to be unbiased when things go your way.
So the moral human will not torture a man who planted a bomb somewhere in a city, which will cause hundreds of deaths if it goes off before being found?
Sorry guys the path of least resistance also took into account price. I'll admit I've not checked your pricing recently but last time I used your service I was paying something like $70/yr for <100G storage
Social media policies like this have been standard for a long time and even beyond existing employers, future employers will monitor and curate existing candidates in their social media usage.
It very much is, and I'd be happy to spell out the analogy.

"It will never be necessary to torture for life-saving information, because I have perfect certainty that no information can be obtained that way, so I don't need a moral philosophy that appropriately weighs torture against loss of life."

"It will never be necessary to levy taxes to pay for public goods, because I have perfect certainty that no asteroid will ever head toward the earth, so I don't need a moral philosophy that weights taxation against unprotected asteroid strikes."
The similarities are only superficial. You have to make careful distinctions.

In the trolley example, you aren't choosing to actively cause harm to someone for the sake of the benefit of others. The trolley is going to kill someone. You may, at best, act to reduce the harm done by a process out of your control.

Where the torture example is concerned, one choice involves the active, intentional infliction of pain on someone for the purpose of extracting information that can be used to save lives.

In general, a fairly important principle in ethics is the principle of double effect. I.e.,

1. the action must be in itself good or neutral

2. the action's good effect must be intended, not its evil effect

3. the action's good effect must not be produced by means of the evil effect

4. the action's evil effect must not exceed the good effect in degree
Oh yeah. I worked at a defense contractor so we had facilities to read and print out Microfiche.

30 or so years later I bought a huge stack of DEC microfiche on eBay so I could still do it if I wanted.
I don't have equipment to read it though.
As other HN'ers have happily reminded me, journalism has always been that way.
The whole point of software is that it is soft. Malleable. Ductile. Thats the strength and sometimes a weakness. It makes software hard to deal with. See the many late projects. But that also makes it awesome because you can change it with changing requirements.

Yes, it’s important to generally finish what you start. Equally important is the capacity to accept, learn and make changes
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You missed the best clone of them all :P
https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone
In the affluent suburban town where I grew up, the chief of police was caught selling percocet to a middle schooler.
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Regulations can put pressure on prices (and if you look at epipens in particular, part of the regulations allowing the increase of their price have nothing to do with monopoly and a lot to do with getting policy placed into areas where organizations are required to keep an epipen on hand by regulation...).

But in terms of overall effect, one can't ignore other nations which pay much lower prices for healthcare with both regulation for drug patents, as well as regulation on drug prices. That combination manages to deliver better care at lower costs than the US (we pay on average double per capita). So I don't think one can generically fault "regulation" for a poorly performing health market in the US.
This is an amazing list; thanks a lot for sharing! Here is a link to the underlying github repo where people can contribute to that list: https://github.com/piranha/osgameclones/
In my case, the default "whois" on Fedora Linux. F22 on the machine I did that on, I think.
bonus, https://www.crofflr.com/ will mark your link as read once it gets to your Kindle.
Just submit a PR to https://github.com/piranha/osgameclones/
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That's impressions (even those can be gamed).

If you promote a tweet or account on Twitter, you will get billed for Engagements (RTs, likes, follows).

https://business.twitter.com/en/advertising/campaign-types/i...
I don't agree that it's all about pretending. Thoughts generally precede actions but it can go both ways too. For me, the benefit of aspiring towards objectivity helps affirm the mentality that I don't/shouldn't have a stake in the outcome, which keeps my mind open to more searching when I find that my presumptions don't (or do) match reality. In situations where I don't care about objectivity, I'm quicker to fall into confirmation bias.
This problem cannot be solved. As natural language processing and output become ever more sophisticated, it will in the very near future start to become impossible to discern between bot and human. Consequently, I think instead of trying to solve the issue of bots, it's more important to start educating people that just because they read something on the internet does not mean it's true. And just because lots of people seem to support an idea (or condemn an idea) says nothing about the actual public view towards said idea.

This sounds somewhat patronizing (the first part in particular), but falling victim to confirmation bias is something we all do. When ideas fit our own personal biases, we tend to become much less critical of them. For instance animal testing, when visible, is something very few people can emotionally accept. And there have been countless hoaxes [1] where people will share an image of an animal in one context (such as a rabbit suffering from severe hair less / skin damage at a veterinarian) and then claim it's an image of the result of a named shampoo company testing their products on animals. It gets people riled up and interested in stopping animal testing, but the problem is that it's completely fake. This is an obvious example but the exact same is true of words themselves and it spreads into everything -- most notably politics.

It's in many ways bizarre that we don't deal with this issue as a part of basic education. Imagery or messages designed to spark an emotional response are very effective against people who are not aware of what's happening. At the same time, they can be rendered far less potent by simply educating people about these tools of manipulation and giving them a wide swath of examples. In today's ever more connected world, with ever more people looking to shall we say 'utilize' other people, the complete neglect of this social skill in education today is perplexing.

[1] - https://speakingofresearch.com/2017/05/16/context-matters-ho...
I checked the curriculum and was so disappointed that it didn't start with 6502 assembly :/
> I agree with the conclusion, but for a different reason. "Theft" is the wrong way to think about IP. The economic function of IP is not to protect producers from consumers, but to protect producers from free-riding by other producers.[1] Thus, for example, stealing pills does not offend a drug creator's IP monopoly. Teaching people to make their own pills, who couldn't afford pills anyway, does not really do so either. It doesn't implicate the real purpose of the patent monopoly, which is to keep some other company from profiting by free-riding on the R&D of the original drug creator.

I've always wondered about this line of reasoning. Drug is made that could save a life, but is put behind an access and paywall that would prevent person from living. So one steals this drug or makes it in violation of patent rights. Now, logically theft is illegal and stealing it is theft.

However we also have another area of law called "Justification" - it "because committing the crime advanced some social interest or vindicated a right of such importance that it outweighs the wrongfulness of the crime." (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justification_(jurisprudence) ) . This topic came up with the recent ex-marine who "stole" a truck to drive the shooting victims to the hospital, at the Vegas Massacre. On the face, he stole a vehicle. However it was to save lives, which is justification.

So yes, it is theft or violation of patent. However this is in the face of living or dying. Whomever would state this defense would have to admit complete guilt to the court, and rely on this as the defense.

But if this won, it would say that everyone has the right to life-saving drugs, but those that can afford it have to pay.