skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They came out at the same time, I’m sure there was some influence between them (Mads Tergesen would know better). However, all the functionality added in could have been done with static methods, just with more verbose syntax. LINQ query syntax could have been special cases. Anyways, I like what they came up with, it’s very versatile.
Wow. This is an original job posting from Bezos.

> and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.

I guess this explains their slave-driving work-culture.
What is the standard you applied that helped you come to that conclusion?
No, it really is their money. Property ownership is a core tenet of any civilized society, and you'd be "grunting and chortling" without it.
I wish I had known when I was younger that a lot of the people who shoot down ideas, minimize your creativity, and say "that's impossible" aren't smarter than you. They're just more insecure.

It's easier to say no to everything and look like a genius, then to say "I wonder...", and try, and fail, and try some more -- and perhaps (who knows?) actually be a genius. With all of the concomitant messiness and failures and actual real life kept in the mix.
The US is pretty big. I have neighbors that ATV and snowmobile the last few miles to their house, except during the very few months that they can wrestle an old Jeep up there. Google Maps isn't very helpful.
Wealth beyond a certain point won't buy you any greater material comfort, but it affords you influence. Look at Elon Musk. The market thinks that Tesla is a valuable company, Musk owns a large proportion of Tesla, so the market has decided that Musk gets to make a lot of decisions about how the world's resources are allocated.

Musk has decided to allocate resources to sustainable technology and space exploration. Gates has allocated resources to the eradication of disease. Roman Abramovich has allocated resources to sports teams and a series of increasingly massive yachts. $10bn might get you a football team or a big boat, but it won't get you to Mars.

It's not necessarily fair or just, but it seems to be quite effective. Lots of alternative systems have been tried, but they've all been woefully inefficient at directing resources towards activities that generate more resources. Capitalism is the best system we've found for coupling "stuff-making ability" to the amount of stuff you get put in charge of.

Capitalism doesn't reward hard work, which feels very unfair; there's no real relationship between how hard you work and how much value you create. The typewriter industry was full of incredibly talented and hard-working typewriter designers, but the value of the best typewriter is far less than the value of a crappy computer.

Capitalism is also really bad at distinguishing between fairly created value and value that has been captured by theft, fraud or coercion. For that, you need an effective legal system. Free markets and bad laws create a lot of rich gangsters. People who control a lot of resources can use those resources to influence the legal system, which is inherently dangerous unless you've got really good checks and balances.
Real question, how is he able to introduce new code with bugs in it? How do you know the bugs weren’t yours and they were waiting to be awakened?
But it doesn't "precisely denote a future". Not even remotely close to the same thing.
Start taking pictures of policemen in your local area, especially near the station. I'm sure they will provide a guide to publishing...

Really, on a larger scale, is there much shock that reporting on top secret weapons research topics will get you in trouble?

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-17/local/me-607_1_spy-pl...
His thoughts on editing were very insightful. I do think his fight scenes do border on being silly at times, but his attention to detail and rehearsal is amazing.
Has China produced a single major AI breakthrough with all these cited papers? Just because they have a lot of papers written doesn't mean anything. Quality vs Quantity. You can take technology developed by others and copy it all you want, and assign all your grad students to write something publishable about it, but unless you innovate in it, I wouldn't say you are a world leader. At best you may see novel applications of AI tasking come out of China, and people will falsely equate this with "China is beating us at AI." I still think the General AI breakthrough will come from Western researchers out of the box thinking.
As an OCaml developer... I'm feeling just a _little_ jealous of those Reason error messages. Beautiful!
The good news is that given the geopolitical climate surrounding Korea, a new generation of atmospheric chemists will get to study radioactive fallout without censorship. Or wait, is that the bad news?
Ok that's a good point. I guess I am too spoiled by modern mostly-making-sense laws and annoyed by the neverending "government is bad" rants.

On the other hand, public supported all those "bad" laws at the time ... But yeah, I was wrong, illegality on its own is wrong argument.
i love todo list tutorials too
There are some slight problems with your proof, firstly your proof doesn't really use the fact that you're raising a number to the 5th power, except for the last part and secondly the last part (as it is currently written) will print "false" for all numbers other than 1.

Also I don't think you need to bother with the sign of the number. Python is one of the few languages that took the sensible approach and made statements like (a % 10 = (a + 10) % 10) true for all a.
Facebook has over a billion daly actve mobile, and over two billion monthly active users. It is the biggest single media platform in the history of the planet. If you're in the audience business, it's simply a fact of life.

https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/amp...

Media tends to winner-take-all dynamics for various reasons. Zipf's law means that at best a small number of outlets will be significant. These are characteristics of media platforms, period. Not journalists' or publishers' fault.
Low density means that there are less people per km within walking distance of a bus stop which means you pick up less people. So it’s less efficient in that way. High density means at each stop there is much higher amount of people who live near the stop.
They definitely inserted an opinion. The bit I quoted gave the reader nothing new. It conveyed no information other than the personal and uninteresting views of the author. Had that section been removed, the reader would know precisely the same amount of information they had before they got to that point. It was not a viewpoint, it was an opinion (and a childish one at that), which was inserted into an article which seems to present itself as describing a study.
Both the blog post and the release notes remark that the change to function definition and application syntax would get a lot of attention, but neither of them even hint at a reason for such a significant change. The PRs implementing the change don't seem to provide a rationale, either. Does anyone have more background as to why this change was made?
Google Even Fear Intel ME, Reduce Their Attack Vector with NERF
Are the new parentheses optional? I love modern JS syntax but the Reason syntax sans parentheses was really growing on me.

Also I’m still hoping for an async/await équivalent. I’d love to use Reason for Node API stuff but the JS interop with promises isn’t very pretty...
> perfect, accent-free English.

This is a myth. You mean they speak your local accent of English.

> (As an aside, I totally love my little window into Somali teenage girl culture, just from riding the train and sharing a neighborhood with them. Their fashions are incredible, and they're so energetic and happy. Somali teenage boys, on the other hand, are just as glum and faux-cool as teenage boys everywhere.)

Please don't be racist. Appreciate people without making convoluted assumptions about how their race and gender causes their behavior
If you enjoyed this article, the Restricted Data blog about nuclear secrets and allied issues is great: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/

Also recommended:

The Nuclear Weapons FAQ by Carey Sublette (one of the foremost open source researchers about the actual workings of nuclear weapons -- much more on his site):
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq0.html

And Gregory Walker's Trinity Atomic Web Site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170606125046/http://www.abomb1...

(The last-updated version says "Trinity Atomic Web Site has moved to a new primary web server courtesy of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech University." but apparently it's all just fallen offline since the last time I read it, sadly -- hence the archive.org link.)
I agree that the utility of this feature would be limited to a small percent of users for a small percent of cases.

The SSH example comes to mind because that is a system that does something similar.

In my experience every single SSH error on a key change has been a false positive but everyone accepts the high false positive rate because it is worth it to detect that one case where you are actually compromised.
> We should check when Let'sEncrypt renews by default (is that 14 days before expiry?)

30 days in Certbot defaults, and I think that's an official Let's Encrypt recommendation for authors of other clients.
Great interview and a fresh perspective.

Life, as in the totality of species on Earth, is incredibly resilient. As much as we impact the environment, as long as the Earth remains hospitable to us it will remain hospitable to a huge number of other species. That's enough for me. I don't worry about a few individual species that grab headlines, I worry about the long term viability of Earth to host life, and the long term viability of humanity.

I don't accept equivocation about humanity's place on Earth. We are the pinnacle of evolution on this planet, because we build. We build glorious physical and theoretical structures orders of magnitude greater in complexity and power than anything else.

Before us life was defined by endless struggle, individuals doing the same thing their ancestors did until their species were either wiped out or evolved into other forms that would carry on doing the same thing for millennia. They understood nothing of the world. They were powerless in the face of nature.

But then humanity comes along, and we take control of our own destiny instead of being caught under the heel of the uncaring natural world. We shape our own behavior. We define our own goals. We rocket off this planet into space.

We are Gods, and our ascension only continues.

So I don't waste too much existential anxiety on the fate polar bear.
> We've found a bug for you

I must admit that if my compiler reported errors like this it would start to grate pretty quickly. Besides, isn't a bug exclusively something that breaks at runtime?

E: s/big/bug/
Agreed. I think we all have a few phones stashed away. This makes them immediately useful. I would love for this trend to continue in more companies. So much working hardware is tossed away needlessly.

It's also smart for Samsung. It encourages a secondary market for their old phones, increasing prices, and nudging their customers to "turn over" to a newer phone with the higher resell value.
Good luck with the new initiative. Can't come quickly enough and should provide growth for decades.

I live in SH and run a professional services company. At the margin, does seem attempts are being made.

Vince Fulco, CFA, CAIA
Weisisheng Consulting
vfulco[@]weisisheng.cn
I didn't get that from the post at all, I thought the post advocates mostly for integration tests and I didn't see anything about refactoring code to make unit testing easier.
>Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

― Steve Jobs
In the case of nuclear weapons specifically, it actually was a shock when the US tried to enforce the "born secret" doctrine (which said that information about weapon design and mechanics -- even if figured out from nothing but public, non-classified sources -- would automatically become classified as of the moment the person figured it out).

See US v. Progressive for the details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive,_....

Amusingly, the argument was made -- and made seriously -- that the mere fact that the government had pursued the case was a leak of "born secret" information, since the attempt to suppress the information was tacitly an acknowledgment that it was correct (since incorrect information would not be subject to "born secret").
It does seem like a lot but I havent done canvassing before

5.5 mil people about 110k signatures.

Colorado only has 7 districts, 2 (eastside and westside of the state) comprise of almost 40% of the landmass each. 1 district to the north of denver and one to the south. 3 that make up the denver metropolis.

It would be alot but its the 2 outside districts that probably would be the toughest to get
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Popular New Amazon Service Just Comes to Your House and Kills You
I'm in Canada, when I'm using data it says LTE on my (yes) GS3. Haven't really paid attention to the cell tech since CDMA was a thing though so couldn't tell you if that's legit LTE or just marketing.
> He can legally act using the powers of his office, but we can shun him.

Yes, he has legal rights. And they exist whether I like his actions or not. I don't have those legal rights...
Is this a sarcastic comment?
> If it seems appealing it's only because there is a dearth of productive investments available.

...or perhaps property investment is encouraged by the tax system, is favoured by lenders, etc.
I'm seeing a different page at the Tor address than at the regular address. The layout is different:

https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/

https://www.nytimes.com/
I know I've used old phones as baby monitors, wifi cameras, Roku and soundbar remote controls, alarm clocks, and streaming video clients. And all that was just using regular Android versions. But I could imagine using an old phone as a wireless print server, or something. That would be pretty cool.
I agree. I wouldn't see this as being for average anonymous users using some mass market service.

It would only be useful in cases where people are willing to pay a price (in convenience) for security, understand the tech well enough to use it, and have some relationship with the domain owner that allows out-of-band verification of cert changes.
Brilliant innovation! You just boosted the valuation by another billion dollars.
This is a recurring theme in Matt Levine's Money Stuff.

One thing that I occasionally mention around here is that every bad thing a public company does is also securities fraud: If you did the bad thing and didn't first disclose it to shareholders, then they can claim to have been defrauded by your failure to disclose it. (If you did the bad thing and did first disclose it to shareholders ... why?)

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-22/stock-buy...
One could say he will be a great at the IRS as he has extensive and hard to acquire knowledge on how people work around the US tax code. He can use that to catch cheaters. Or one could say the revolving door revolved some more.
The first step to that involves educating the media that the big scary dark web isn't just for drugs and other like minded Bitcoin slinging criminals.
I'm unable to spend much time commenting atm, but what I will say is that unlike the Economist, you are the one editorializing. Factually, capitalism/globalization has benefited lower classes materially, but has stripped them of agency. While you are right globalization is not entirely new (e.g. mercantilism, the East India Company), what is new is private, multinational actors being able to choose which set of rules they can play by.

That is genuinely new, at least at scale. Private actors making states compete against each other to lower their taxes and sue nations for enforcing health codes a la investor rights trade agreements.

While trade is good, extractive trade is damaging. The American industrial midwest is a good example. Capitalists first moved jobs overseas, and then automated what was left. We still have strong manufacturing, but few people doing it.

This level of inequality, lack of agency, and lack of hope is incredibly corrosive to democratic values. You can see it for yourself in the election of our leader, the grievance of the pepés, and the general ascension of the right. The fact that this kind of thing is taking place globally across the trilateral powers means there's something systemic at work, it's not a quirk of American circumstance.
Yeah, employer pays the same 6.2% and 1.45%, respectively...except for the additional 0.9% Medicare conditional, which is withheld from the employee only. The self-employed effectively pay double out of pocket.
I haven’t looked into it, but since Reason essentially is OCaml and you can convert between them easily, are these improvements not automatically brought to OCaml?
The PISA test (at least when I took it) measures math skills in calculation, i.e. the kind of applied mathematics that academic departments write off as too trivial. Nonetheless, those are the skills that are required for Deep Learning as well as accountancy.

You could make an argument that high performers on the PISA test would find AI and accountancy too boring and would go into pure mathematics instead; but I don't think those proportions would be different between countries, so a higher potential (schoolchildren with good math skills) should still translate into more AI researchers, on average.
Well, first off, their endurance is currently not even good enough to replace DRAM, let alone replacing critical path transistors. They also take significantly more power to switch and are much slower. They also tend to be highly unreliable (they even have variable write time!) and hard to manufacture. Really, the only useful advantage they do have is their theoretically incredible density, but even most of this comes from the possibility of 3D stacking (also possible with transistors) and from the possibility of a crossbar memory, but crossbars have epic sneak path issues.
HN has only been around since 2007
From the post it would seem the very low usage numbers had more to do with it than anything you did.

"Scott Helme found in August 2016 that very few of the Alex [sic] Top 1 Million sites were using HPKP (375) or the Report-Only (RO) variant (76):"
Yes because most Indians can speak Hindi(Urdu is similar to Hindi). Hindi is the second or third language for many non native Hindi speakers.
Quick question from a newb: whats the reason for using Reason? (Ignore the pun)
Afaik Magna designed a similar car concept 8 years ago already, but nobody picked it up. German car makers prototyped similar designs but they had to move to Chinese companies to get them actually built.

Technically it's easy, much easier to control, much cheaper, but you need the loading infrastructure (no hybrid, limited range) and strong political support. Since Israel cancelled their nationwide e-car project, nothing much happened since, but Tesla.
No it isn't. They are arguably currently at odds with the Conservative government over a range of issues. Do you know how strict the BBC's editorial guidelines are and the procedures they have in place to try and ensure impartiality?
Corporate interests can lobby daily because they’ve got capital. Ask most people to lobby daily and they will ask you how they are supposed to pay rent if they are busy lobbying and not working.

The problem is the accumulation of capital. The more capital you have, the more influence you can buy, the more capital you can accumulate, the more influence you can buy.

The idea of parties is to be a lobby group for the common man. The population delegates lobbying to a dedicated group (a party) of their choice. This group represents (or is supposed to represent) the interests of their voters. In the meantime, the voters can go back to work and try to earn money to pay the next rent.
This year I assisted some displaced workers in SH whose jobs were being moved by a Fortune 1000 company from PRC to Malaysia. The exodus is real and companies have to diversify their risks.
"Messenger used to receive bugs reports on a daily basis; since the introduction of Reason, there have been a total of 10 bugs (that's during the whole year, not per week)!"

That's truly amazing.

Interesting how Elm is inspiring other frameworks and languages. First Redux and now Reason's error messages.
Shelter Sorts Dogs into Hogwarts Houses, Leading to More Adoptions
You stated: “That type of person is not deterred by tax rates.” If they are not deterred by tax rates, why would they be deterred by 100% taxes? I was simply restating your position in explicit language.

As you say, these creators are taking risks. What is their motivation for doing so?

There are two possibilities:

They are motivated by payment in material - money. Taxes take away the earned money, so this becomes less of a motivation.

They are motivated by payment in spirit - thanking them and appreciating their creation. Taxes preclude this type of payment for two reasons. They are taken by force, so it would be like a thug thanking you after taking your wallet. They are morally justified on the basis of altruism, in which case they are merely a corrective action for how the person should have behaved in the first place - we don’t say thank you to the thug who returns your wallet after being caught by the police.
"Even the likes of Luxembourg and Monaco have to go after illegal tax avoidance. "

Monaco and Luxembourg are not 'low tax' countries.

They are 'tax shelters' for foreigners, not for locals.

And other things.

But you still pay high Euro taxes, VAT and all sort of things like hidden taxes.

Source: myself, ex-Monaco resident + worked and stayed in Lux.
Well in fairness, our talk probably wouldn't have been accepted by either Black Hat or DEF CON if we omitted RansomPKP. Or any of the HPKP suicide stuff.
The evaluation model of both is quite similar though (reduction), and you can see it in the similarities between Core Haskell and Core Scheme.

AFAIK, there are very few truly built in types in Haskell. Most everything can be built out of data constructors and functions. That idea of many things being in language user space is pretty Lisp-y IMO.
Why did you work for them for a few years if they were engaging in fraud?
Have you forgotten Rathergate?
Thanks for replying. I was however hoping for something more substantive though.
I don't see the point.

A hidden service is set for information can not be safely presented on the public Internet. Like what The Daily Stormer did.

If one just wanted to bypass blocking or hide himself from evil third parties, he could just use tor browser to open NYT's regular domain instead of the hidden service domain, no?
Rationale here: https://reasonml.github.io/guide/what-and-why
From some googling, I'm guessing jonathonf means https://www.propellerheads.se/en/reason a commercial music and audio editing package.

Not https://www.reasonco.com/ that appears to sell hardware.

or other 'reason' initiatives.
In contrast, Santa Clara County's VTA gets a farebox return of about 12% of operating costs... and that includes nothing toward capital equipment or debt service.
When you say "obliterated", doesn't it really mean that people in these villages liked the music from the radio more than their local stuff? Why label people's preferences with such dramatic words?
> rather than Arabic numerals.

Just a minor correction, they are Indian numerals not Arabic.
Kind of fucked up how you can joke about the murder of millions of people.

Replace Korea with Israel and now you got yourself a Holocaust joke.