skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, the US is extremely sensitive to things like nudity, swearing, identity political issues, and at the same time callously tolerant about violence and commercial interests.
I won't get into the other stuff, but:

> You must also ask yourself: why, after all these years, is a substantial quantity of government info still secret? So secret that 'swamp drainer' Trump won't declassify it?

1) Because he's not a swamp drainer, he's a swamp monster.

2) He didn't declassify these documents, time did.

3) Because the vast majority of intelligence data is secret (for a substantial amount of time), regardless of motive.
To store the cardinality of each block we would need 2 bits per block, for a total of 12 bits.

I don’t follow this. Each block, or 4 bits, can have a cardinality of 0-4. Yet 2 bits can only store 0-3. What am I missing?
Leaving any files uncommitted before a complex operation in git is a really bad idea (make a temporary commit if necessary). It's almost impossible to completely lose committed data, but pretty easy to destroy uncommitted data.
True. Porn didn't invent lust...it just perfected it, heh.
I've done this with League of Legends. I find that it corresponds very closely with times in my life when I am depressed[1] about some other aspect of my life. When I feel out of control, and the game provides a stable environment with known rules, where I have a great deal of agency to impact the outcome. It's a trap, if course; in real life, ignoring problems is (usually) not a good strategy for resolving them.

On the flip side, though, when I'm not playing as part of one of these sessions, I like my relationship with the game. Especially, it's a great way of keeping in touch with a friend long-distance, which is normally something I struggle with[2].

[1]: In the colloquial, not medical, use of the word.

[2]: Somewhat, I also put less effort into long- distance friendships by choice; putting in lots of effort to keep in contact with someone who I wouldn't otherwise interact with becomes a chore and I don't get as much out of it. Since I would still be gaming otherwise, this doesn't become a chore, and regularly using voice chat makes it even better, compared to a game like scrabble where it's just text. (This part not being unique to League, of course; any other real time team game would do the same).
You can shop around for products. Doesn't work that well for infrastructure.
Can someone give me a concise explanation why a language this influential and talked about is not used for regular programming ? What are its disadvantages ?
"No wonder the world's brightest minds are working at companies like this."

This is a pretty absurd comment that would only really fly on a place like HN.
Well, I wouldn't trust Telegram with something really secret and/or sensitive, but as an every day IM/calling client, it sure got even more sympathy from me by this.
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Isn't whey protein a currently-fashionable fad diet plan?

It is in no way an equivalent to Soylent or other nutritionally-complete products, because it's not nutritionally complete.

Their purposes are different. Whey protein is great if you need to bump up your protein intake in a really convenient fashion. Soylent and friends are great if you need to get a balanced meal in a really convenient fashion.
a lot of videos i watch seems to be sponsored videos (lately, there's been lots of 23 and me, and squarespace, skillshare and a few others).

How come these videos are not violating youtube's policies?
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If the compromise of the secret servers causes the entire network to go down, then that secret is a weakest link, so it's not "security plus obscurity".

I don't know much about Telegram's system, but if it is run on centralized servers, then that is a serious weakness...adversaries who have the capability to find and disrupt can exploit that so even though the communication may be end-to-end secure, the entire system however is not resilant against such attacks.
"Old languages still have great value"

The author picked only those old language which still have great value.

The author did not include such languages as Algol, JOVIAL, MUMPS, SNOBOL, or TRAC. There are a lot of old languages with little modern value. (Then again, a lot of new languages have little value.)

Since the author did not include COBOL, should I infer that "great value" doesn't include "getting a job developing legacy systems"?
may be probablistically by loading up an incognito window (or use a vpn), and see if ads show up (removing adblock of course).
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I haven't heard of any recent crazy snippers or school shooting in France.

You can't shoot guns if you don't have any.

The US culture IS strange. You even have this word, 'packing', short for being armed. Having a slang for that is very, very weird from an european point of view.

Hell, here, the worst you get for somebody being mugged is that they used a knife.

Guns are only for the mafias, which is definitly not day to day operation.

Don't get me wrong, i like going to the shooting range. But I woulf not like the content of the club safes to be on the street.

But I agree with one thing. I've been to the US 5 times, and the cops are scary. I have to go next year, and I don't feel confortable at all, even just passing the border.

It's not a good sign for your country.
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>I'd like to see a true free speech platform with violence/nudity sectioned off according to the local laws, and then let the advertisers decide where they want to spend the money, instead of treating them as children who don't know better.

A true free speech platform wouldn't have any concern at all for laws regarding content or any specific cultural mores - laws exist to limit the freedoms of the individual for the good of the community, not to define or enforce them, and the web doesn't belong to any culture but its own.

I think you could still have tagging or filtering for such a platform, but it might need to be a service or market of systems in and of itself, either community driven or local to each user, and not something enforced by a central authority.

Of course, that means first treating all content equally - including objectionable and illegal content, because that's the real and for many uncomfortable consequence of free speech.
None of the major US carriers have contracts anymore, since the start of this year.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/verizon-kills-two-ye...
People who skirt those judgement will always exist, but having the 'we are the law' kind of rule sucks for a community.
Now we get downvoted for stating the obvious in HN. I wonder how much more down the drain this site will go before you consider removing the downvote feature. It's down to vindictive teenager schoolyard now and its getting lower still.
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I wrote a simple library for finding surprising moves and wanted to re-analyse one of AlphaZero's games against Stockfish.

Just tell me if you want to see more games analysed like that.
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Seeing as most ICO are ERC20 tokens on the Ethereum chain you are most certainly incorrect about your deflationary theory implying appreciation. Since most ERC20 tokens are 100% premined and sold during the ICO, there is no concept of "mining" with those ICOs (except maybe Minereum :p ).

Please avoid making generalized statements, especially ones that are flat out wrong.
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`rebase` is simpler than `merge` in larger teams/projects, as the history will be much cleaner.
I had a client make the changes they wanted to the site in chrome dev tools, then just send me screenshots. After ranting to a few friends, they had the same experience. So I built this Chrome Extension :D

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of it!
Um, no, that's yet another falsehood in that interview; The term DS is much older, and stems from Peter Naur, anecdotally coined in the 1960s and with a provable [edit: removed wrong ref] paper in 1974 using that term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science
It's still not perfect but most messages to the tax authorities can be send electronically via Elster. Companies are even required to do their filings electronically and can't do them on paper anymore.

Many tax authorities will communicate with you via email if you sign a form that you understand that email is not encrypted (for regular questions, proper applications need to be done via Elster).
4chan is entirely fictional. When go there, you expect to read lies and bullshitting and thathappened. And you know that people put that out there not for the sake of influencing others, but for the sake of entertainment and fun.

4chan is like a pub without regulars. You can't go there to meet specific people.
Nope. It is true. The board has the power to hire and fire the CEO. Sometimes a founding CEO has sympathetic friends on the board and can arrange the company to be able to nominate board members.

BUT, board members are not answerable to the CEO. The CEO answers to the board. That is one of the reasons for a board of directors...
What screenwriting podcasts are these? They sound interesting.
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If you're self-employed the tax rate is ~70%, at least for lawyers in germany. Source: My self-employed gf.

And no, she does not earn 5 figures, 4-6k gross per month with 1 part-time employee for the bureaucracy stuff (bills, phone service, faxing, scanning etc.). With a 60 hour week.
A common misconception with "Security by Obscurity" is that it's always a bad thing.

It's only a bad thing if the obscurity is critical to the security of what you are protecting. For example if you make your API completely open, but obscure it inside an app and make the domain hard to discover e.g a random string that's obviously not good.

However if you use obscurity as an extra layer in a system that is secured by other means such that removing the obscurity would not have an adverse effect on the security of the system that's fine. Hence there's no reason not to obscure things to make it more difficult for an attacker as long as that's not all your security.
They're not a secret, I'm surprised this is so high up on HN:
https://www.youtube.com/intl/en-US/yt/about/policies/#commun...

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en

The only thing I found confusing was the unwanted creators for the alleged secret meeting. GradeAUnderA is hilarious[0] and has a few videos that point out the drama in YouTube. Keemstar is toxic. I don't know about the others and I can name quite a few channels that should be on YouTube's unwanted creators list (if such thing existed).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XyH8MJARcM (NSFW language)
> Either all major video game consoles are toys, or none of them are.

It seems that you're approaching this from a mathematical logic standpoint - if we have a definition of A, then either each X is A or is not A, and since (1) definition of "toy" is based on certain characteristics and the set of "video game consoles" all have the same values for these characteristics, then they either are toys or not.

However, the things we're discussing here are based on subjective feelings and nuance, and are also recursive - in this domain, we assign the statement "X is A" a higher probability just because people in general agree with the statement "X is A" (think Wittgenstein's "meaning is use").

Using mathematical logic in such domains is not very constructive.
"But the offer alarmed Swedish media companies, which warned that the deal gave Facebook an advantage over competitors, and Telia an edge over other telecom operators."

ISP's have a million and one other ways to be anti-competitive. Example, in New Zealand, one of the major ISP's runs 'Lightbox' a streaming competitor. If you sign up to any of their plans, you get free Lightbox.

This incentives the customer to not use other streaming services. You can talk about zero-rating all day long but no amount of neutrality regulation will prevent something like the example above from happening. What happens if Comcast decides that Hulu Plus will be free with their broadband? It has the same effect as if Comcast decided to zero-rate Hulu on their network.

For their to be real changes in the American ISP market, you need competition.
What I don't understand is why don't they allow advertisers to accept showing their ads on these more explicits videos? They were ok with it for a decade but all of sudden they're not? I'm sure most non-American brands would be ok with it, even many American brands would be ok with it. I'm sure Google has the ability to add such a simple feature to their video ad platform (it's basically a checkbox with a boolean that would say "restrict to family friendly content" or something). Am I missing something?
No. I really don't want to shop around when I've been hit by a bus and need urgent medical care. I want to know that whatever hospital the paramedics take me to is going to be equipped to handle things, and that I won't be handed a crippling bill afterwards.

I also don't want to shop around for roads, police, fire service, garbage collection, or any number of other things provided by my taxes. I definitely don't want people less well off to go without those things because they couldn't pay. The point of taxes, and particularly progressive taxes, is to ensure everyone has access to services while placing the burden for that on those most able to afford it. That isn't particularly well implemented in many cases, but I strongly believe it should be the goal.
I don't know anything about Belgium but it's probably similar: If you have a branch located in Germany (which is definitely the case if you are the sole employee permanently living there) you need the pay the same taxes as an equivalent German company for all income derived from there.

The Belgian tax authorities must allow you to invoice from the Estonian company (that's part of EU freedoms) but it probably won't save you much taxes.
FTTC is copper. Otherwise we might as well consider DSL to be fibre too.
The problem is banning something also affects those who do not have a problem which in this case most likely is the overwhelming majority.

I'm raised with internet porn and I don't believe I have a problem. Why should I be banned from watching something I enjoy?

I don't buy the crap about porn changing people. Sure you can say that for yourself if you got addicted but you can't just throw that out as a general truth. Porn has been around for a long time now and I don't really see people behaving different today.
Here's another factual error: Data science is from the 1960s, and was used first in a paper published by Peter Naur in 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science
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Fantastic article! Absolutely hilarious! I highly recommend reading the Christmas papers by the BMJ from other years.
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There's always been a bit of debate around this but it usually comes down to the combination that the major implementations of Smalltalk were commercial and development was image based as opposed to flat file based.
https://qz.com/37015/how-school-killings-in-the-us-stack-up-...
Maybe we are just ignorant of the good interstellar friction reducing technology.
That show is full of so many inappropriate examples for children, it is unreal. I have banned my kids from watching it.
Well, "more user support" doesn't mean it's better, just that they need more of it. The big names have all the basic users who likely call much more even for basic things like Windows problems, while the small ones get to concentrate on relevant issues with more knowledgeable user base.
Even if I wanted it to double, I don't think that would make it more likely to actually happen.
I think the likelihood of machine power available being double or quadruple what it is now is pretty good.
We do have one local monopoly, KCOM in Hull.
I wasn't just thinking about security against seizure or tampering of messages, but rather that since the servers could be taken down if discovered by a powerful adversary, then the network would no longer be functional. So it is not a very secure messaging tool to use if the threat model is to provide a reliable means of communication against a powerful adversary who could identify and take down the servers.
I haven't used telegram for a while, but the last time I used it e2e encryption was only an optional feature (secret conversation) instead of the default option. How does this compare to Signal or Whatsapp which both have e2e enabled by default?
You can always use SPL for more strict datastructures (since 5.3): https://secure.php.net/manual/en/class.splfixedarray.php
My problem with the staging area is it produces commits which never "exist" (that is, that code was probably never compiled/tested in isolation).

I'd be happier if the staging area was handled at the filesystem level, give me a directory which at all times contains the staging area, so I can test it.
Would you like to provide some of those examples ?

edit:proved => provide
It's not only lld, the clang compiler has a similar issue. It pretends to be an old version of GCC (4.2) with the predefined macros __GNUC__ and __GNUC__MINOR__, since a lot of software check for the presence of the __GNUC__ macro or its value to enable modern features. That occasionally confuses software which expects features first introduced in gcc 4.1/4.2 to be present when these macros are defined (see for instance https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16683 or https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24682).
>> As a general practitioner, I have often wondered why some patients immediately attempt to consult their GP about minor ailments of short duration.

Typical dismissive attitude of most GPs in the UK to make you feel guilty for consulting them.

Having sick children can be worrying and minor ailments can actually be more serious in a child, so it's hard to know when to ride it out and when to seek a second opinion.
> The language semantics are trivial to pick up once you have a good foundation

Eh, I disagree. It may be trivial to "roughly know" the semantics of most languages, but some languages have rigorous semantics that are complex enough as to prevent beginners (or even most programmers) from learning the full rigorous semantics; this means they're forced to rely on the "rough semantics". For example, many gotchas listed at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/530530/python-2-x-gotcha... come from the "rough semantics" most people have in mind not being an accurate reflection of reality. (Not picking on python, I still think it's a great teaching language). In contrast I took a course designed to be a first CS course, taught in Racket, and while beginners will of course spend most of their time learning the "intuitive skill" of programming and knowing what a program means, it is nice to have something to fall back on when those skills fail.
Scala is a perfect example of how NOT to design languages.
"Any language intended to spread hate." Could that be any more vague? Does encouraging people to hate DRM or hate cancer count under that? Clearly not. So what does 'hate' even have to do with it?

Really its because "Hate speech" in and of itself is a dumb phrase. AFAIK It only refers to an incredibly small subset of hate. It does not refer to hate. And often refers to mean-speech instead of referring to the emotion hate at all, which is even more frustrating.

I'd rather we just throw the phrase into the dumpster where it belongs and come up with something better. Good terminology combats extremism.
> No idea how much extra it would cost

I thought the "European delivery" scheme's attraction was that it is cheaper than buying the same car in the US - because you are driving it around Europe, it's imported as an used car.
My reply was for the parent poster who already showed an intention of trying Linux or Windows. :) . I know a lot of people here scorn Windows.
These are the first two in google results:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564498/

https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...

I have more references at home but cannot reach them now. There is a also a doctor here in Turkey who tried fecal transplant on an autistic kid. She was optimistic about the results but reluctant to publish just for one patient. This was months ago. I don't know the status now.
For the middle-class the estimates are that about 8% of your income goes to VAT.
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Recently, I experienced this kind of excellent healthcare service while on holiday with my partner in Bali.

She got sick so we phoned a clinic. Immediately, we were asked to come down. The doctor talked with us about theories for what was wrong for at least 20 minutes explaining why it was x and not y casually.

He ran a blood test and within half an hour came up with a likely cause. He sent us home while he had another test that would take longer but would confirm his suspicions from the first test. After getting back those results, he texted us on Whatsapp with a picture of the results sheet he received. He then had a medication delivered by motor bike to our hotel.

After 1 week, he followed up again on Whatapp asking if my partner was feeling okay now.

The whole thing cost 40 euros including tests and medication.

I would love to pay 400 euros for that service anywhere in the West.

Maybe Peppa Pig is the right idea and health care just needs to up their game by removing red tape.
The same doctors then fight extremely hard against the expansion of the roles of registered nurses to tend to these minor ailments that they’re too good to treat.
> like it or not, it's pretty cutting edge

As with your other examples it has antecedents, just poorly executed. Acer, Microsoft ( Windows Sideshow, 2008) and Razer had all experimented with an adaptive secondary LCD.
That was exactly what I thought.

Plus I sleep better if I only eat a light meal in the evening. I tend to have a very light breakfast, decent meal at lunch time, light meal in the evening. I keep the sugar out and carbs low.

I guess different things work for different people.
I am writing Smalltalk code lately. I find it useful to think of Smalltalk as an operating system, like Linux or Windows or Emacs. It has a different way of doing things, and learning this is both frustrating and rewarding. It brings back vague memories of learning Linux for me.

It feels like a nice way to break out of the bubble of that Rob Pike famously lamented in http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf.
keep them. trust me you'll be happy you did in a few years. if it really hurts put them on an HD or SD and give to a friend to give back to you in a few years.
A common mistake for us Germans. Especially if one hasn't worked in an English-"speaking" environment (US/UK/..., international company or publishing in English academic proceedings/journals) and/or learned how to write idiomatic English.
Abusing and over-using relative clauses is a favorite speaking and writing technique in these parts. ;)