skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simply hearing the message "you're not free in your country...get out" is far from enough for the average person. They are completely inundated from birth with worship of the Great Leader.

There's an awesome book called "Mig Pilot" by John Barron that details the story of a Soviet defector in the 80s. He talks about how he believed everything from the US was actually propaganda. He didn't even believe the grocery stores were real. It's a fascinating read.
Yeah, that was a pathetic self-justifying post. "Sorry, won't do it again." would have been better. Losing their next bonus would be better still.
There was another article recently about using deep learning to see if people are too depressed and are at suicide risk. It's a nice idea on the surface but it a bit dark thinking that maybe there counterpart to it, that is another AI algorithm which makes the person addicted and depressed to start with.

It's a bit like a parasite - it needs to control and extract usefulness from the host but not let the host die quickly because well it won't get the resources anymore and it would die with it.
This may be true of US gov't bureaucracies, but isn't necessarily true of governments in general.
Ever Wondered What President Trump Wants for Xmas? A “Mistress for Christmas.”
I doubt FB will change how their feed works because of this publicized incident. Perhaps Zuck will make a post about how they'll try and improve because they care about people.

I know a lot of people that work at Facebook and they're all highly intelligent. It's a great place to work at but incidents like this makes me question if their talent is all being put to good use.

The algorithm has definitely a lot more "machine" learning to do to prevent these incidents from happening again. Close friend, related to death and health, gofundme campaign all scream that the statuses should've been shown. (if FB can be so good at showing relevant ads, why can it show relevant feed)
> Also, telegram isn't encrypted as far as I know.

Sure it is. There are (optional) E2E one-on-one secret chats. Doing E2E for a group is obviously a bit harder, as that's broadcast or multicast encryption -- think the DirecTV problem -- but the protocol itself is encrypted nonetheless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(messaging_service)#E...
>right as that country is trying to pin them--a country with zero conflicts in 60 years--as the world's biggest threat.

What's the implication here? That the US is somehow unjustified in being alarmed by NK becoming a full nuclear power, soon with worldwide ICBM range?

Think about the situation in that country. A small cabal of crooks lives like kings while the rest of the country suffers a never ending reign of terror, involving public executions in school yards, horrific labor camps, total surveillance, punishment of whole families, etc. The guy in charge is a sicko who executed his uncle with an anti-aircraft gun, and probably had a good laugh throughout the whole thing. The previous leader, his father, did such things as kidnap South Korean actors to force them to put on shows for him. These are deeply deranged people.

Now imagine that regime on the verge of collapse, for one of the many possible reasons that could happen. The cabal of crooks know that they will all be executed by the North Korean people for their crimes.

How sure are you that, when that moment comes, the regime won't launch nukes against all of their longtime enemies, just for the hell of it as a parting fuck you to the world?
All that data collection is a leaky abstraction. People share browsers, look up stuff they have no ongoing interest in out of one-time curiosity, buy something as a gift, search for something they actually hate to find something about it to say in a debate about it, buy tickets for a movie they don't want to see because their friends want to, click on something outside of their interests just because it went viral, etc.

And all that real world demographic data that gets bought and sold and tied to these online identities, it's not very accurate.
But see my post above, suppose that it decides that it can get a strong burst of engagement from all the sympathy posts, would it chose to kill off some of its hosts that have outlived their usefulness (from an engagement perspective). Does facebook have enough power that it can chose to kill off certain people? Are there examples of people committing suicide solely because of their facebook feeds (I guess how would we know)
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Living in America? That'll explain it and I am not being facetious, it's a shitty country if you are not making decent money and even then be careful.
Yeah I got that wrong. I mixed up users with customers. Thank you for pointing it out.
How does this go with running the JS on the SPAs that make up a large portion of the web today?
Telegram's key feature is encryption. https://telegram.org
This is something that's been on my mind as well, and I think an issue to take seriously by those at the levers.

A friend recently took his life, and his FB account was deleted so I can't verify anything, but I can't help but wonder. Was there anything he had posted that I didn't see, that could have told someone (me) how he felt? It was loneliness apparently, and took all by surprise - how much did Facebook play a role in that? I'd do anything to have been there for him - I'd be devastated if an algorithm had prioritized my alt-right classmate's latest infowars share over a quiet plea for help because it generated more engagement.
VDOM is cheaper than a naïve DOM approach, but a lot more expensive than an efficient DOM approach.

Let’s use as our context TodoMVC (http://todomvc.com/), and the action of adding a new item to the list, after having typed something in the box and pressed Enter.

The most efficient solution to adding an item is to craft a single new <li> and insert it in the right place into the list.

One extremely inefficient DOM approach would be to replace the entire list in the DOM, iterating through all the items and making a new <li> for all of them. This will work OK for a very few items, but once you get lots of items, it makes adding items very slow, because the browser is having to throw away a large number of DOM elements and insert a new bunch of DOM elements, applying their styles and all.

The VDOM approach is to have a virtual DOM that can be comparatively cheaply crafted, and rerender the entire list, but using that VDOM rather than the actual slow DOM; then, compare the old rendering and the new rendering, and apply any changes to the DOM—in this case, that will mean that it does finally craft that single new <li>, inserting it in the right place.

The VDOM approach is inherently doing more work than is strictly necessary; but it does so and has become popular in recent years because it makes it decidedly easier to write that code, and makes it harder to make mistakes, because you’re only defining how to render a view, rather than how to render a view as well as how to synchronise changes in the data.

So long as you’re sensible in what you do, Overture is much faster than anything that uses a VDOM. But you’re responsible for hooking things up so that it knows that, when such-and-such a property changes, it needs to be redrawn in such-and-such a fashion. That can be hooked up in many ways; the most blunt is to say “when any property changes, redraw the entire view,” and the most fine is to say “in a todo item view, when the text of the item changes, replace the contents of its text node (which we stored a reference to when we drew it in the first place)”—and you’re not going to get more efficient than that! But as you can imagine, there’s a lot more scope for making mistakes which lead the view being out of sync with the data.

It’s all about tradeoffs. The VDOM approach lets you develop things faster, while the efficient DOM approach produces a result that runs faster and more smoothly. There are good arguments to be made in both directions; but I’m glad that we at FastMail focus on making it fast for the user.

The Ember team’s work with Glimmer is an impressive hybrid of the two models; the Why Tracked Properties? section of https://glimmerjs.com/guides/tracked-properties is a really good summary of some of the issues around VDOMs, and how Glimmer engineers around them. I like Glimmer.
Any good tl;dr's?
The information was transmitted.

It was never received.

And therein lies the difference.
They don't have zero computer education or infrastructure though. Although the details will never be known, they've been known to have a pretty strong education system. I know this example can be considered moot, but their IMO (International Math Olympiad) performance has been stellar, so if they can apply the same methodology to Computer Science and Education, it's possible that they have some skilled "hackers."
I think that the "lack of value types" is probably an overrated difference these days.

Empirically, I've found that value types generally only offer a tangible perf benefit when they're the size of a pointer or smaller. There aren't a whole lot of spots where that comes into play. Primitives, sure, but Java also has those. Beyond that, maybe you'd see some difference in code that does a lot of date calculations, maybe. I've done some slightly obscene and shameful optimizations around packing data into 64-bit structures in the past, but those are pretty special cases.
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Algorithms can have their downside.

Sometimes I miss some important emails just because the emails are classified as spam and moved into spam folder.
Saw the same countless times during Internet 1.0. In one case, a small uninspiring Florida bank said they were starting a website. Stock went from 8 to 92 in a day. It's called a bubble folks. Study history lest you get permanently burned when it explodes.
Easy. Don't make discounts or other a priori judgments about the other person based on gender. Outside of childbirth, and certain extreme physical activities, assume no difference between carriers of XX and XY chromosomes. Age, culture, experience, etc play by far a bigger role, and make the real difference.

For me, this works reasonably well, and meets about equal (quite moderate) resistance from tradition-minded people in countries as different as US and Russia. (This also illustrates that a culture predominant among engineers likely differs less between countries that between different social strata or education backgrounds in the same country. Compared to this, inter-gender differences can be very safely assumed to be zero.)
Today I have published a post on my Facebook page. It was my two book recommendations of the books I've read in 2017. The covers were added as images to a post, and there were four paragraphs of text, first one explaining what I'm doing, second and third one a really short reviews of the books, and the fourth one asking my followers to recommend books in the comments. Knowing that it won't reach anyone, I have also purchased an ad (3 euros, one day), targeting fans of the page and their friends.

Organically, it reached 149 people (smaller posts reach 3-5x as much on average). It reached 1,471 by a paid promotion. Number of people who liked, commented, or even clicked to see all four paragraphs is 45.

My point is: you're a minority. And people who post like that get punished greatly by their algorithm. My ad was even postponed for like 30 minutes because images contained "too much text for an ad" until I clicked on "manual review" because I saw in their help pages that they let book covers slide.
How many users does Amazon have?
I don't follow links to medium.com for that reason. I'm getting old and grumpy and medium.com posts seemed authored specifically to irritate me.

I'm not part of the new world so I guess I don't feel at home there.
It's not that alcohol is good, it's that it'd be better than khat for Yemen.

For example: Yemen has 35 cars per 1000 people to the US's 797. Yemen would have to leapfrog through several stages of development for drunken driving to become a blip on their public health radar.

Half of that country currently doesn't have clean water, and they're draining their acquifers dry … to grow khat. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

Cholera outbreaks and a water-scarcity exacerbated civil war are simply a different class of problem.
> For long-running, batch-oriented programs, though, where there are no pathological corner cases, the usefulness of cProfile diminishes. It becomes hard to distinguish signal from noise with regards to the cumulative call counts and function time. Additionally, cProfile only captures function call entry and exit times -- it doesn't do line profiling, and thus, won't be able to depict abnormally expensive lines within a routine (this can be common with NumPy and Pandas; a seemingly innocuous line will actually have a very high overhead behind the scenes).

From https://github.com/tpn/tracer.
The way you've framed the situation, IMHO, really speaks to the difficulty of FB trying to find a universal usecase that is applicable or satisfactory to everyone and to every kind of social relationship.

You posit that FB could be the "most effective way in the history of mankind to tell everyone who knew someone that person has passed on". Sure, but why stop at death? FB could also be the most effective way to tell every mutual friend when your best friend:

- Has a child

- Gets married

- Gets a new job

- Has a death in the family

- Loses their job

- Gets divorced

- Seems to be depressed right now.

The fact that FB has been highly-effective push notification has been key to its success but also one of the things that sometimes bothers people when it comes to privacy and other issues. You might argue that death presents a special case -- and I would generally agree -- but I would most definitely argue that significant parts of FB's userbase (which consists of basically every country and subculture) would disagree. FB's tweaking of things so that death is pushed as a priority would not make everyone happy, and every tweak means that something else gets untweaked, of course.

That said, it's worth pointing out that FB has recognized its potential to be a new kind of obituary/memorial service, and all of the complications and downsides of that. Here's a pretty good whitepaper on the difficulties: https://research.fb.com/publications/legacy-contact-designin...
It's essential to remember that many wars begin with errors of attribution, and many of those errors are intentional or at least reflect a strong bias in the accusers. Examples off the top of my head:

* 'Remember the Maine' instigated the Spanish-American War, but much evidence says the Maine was destroyed by accident. William Randolph Hearst, a leading publisher of yellow journalism, famously promised a compatriot: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war".

* The Gulf of Tonkin incident instigated American involvment in the Vietnam War.

* Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, which didn't exist, instigated the Iraq War.

In today's case, I trust the source much less than many of those who have made prior errors. I also note that it was a the head of Homeland Security, a political appointee, who made the accusation. It was not the head of the FBI or an intelligence agency; it is not represented, at least in the reporting I've seen, as a consensus of the US intelligence community; I also note that the White House has left some distance between itself and the accusation - it's not made by the President or his National Security Advisor, for example.

Also, the very serious accusation rings of hype. North Korea has acted especially badly, largely unchecked, for more than a decade, which is false and a political swipe at the prior President. If that part of the accusation is exaggerated and political, I wonder about the other parts, and I wonder about the accusers ability or willingness to separate politics from very serious policy.
if the value of FB is practically zero (you say "near"..) then just "delete"* your account.

*obviously FB would never allow that, but you can stop (or severely slow down) the firehose of information you are sending them by doing this.
0% chance I'm going to read a story that is formatted as a series of tweets.
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> something that could probably handle HTML4/CSS2 might not be all that difficult

As someone who did a lot of the work to implement a from-scratch HTML4/CSS2 engine, I struggle to come up with words that would adequately express to you just how much you are underestimating the difficulty of this.
My company uses Mercurial still and TortoiseHg is the best thing about it. I can sling big piles of commits around, patch, graft, and search, it's all so easy. I hope it works as well for Git or Git can catch up.
I remember reading about Bull, interesting stuff.

> Bull then started work on the "real" PC-2 machine, a gun that was 150 meters long, weighed 2,100 tonnes, with a bore of one meter (39 inches). It was to be capable of placing a 2,000-kilogram projectile into orbit.

Also noticed you were downvoted, can't figure why anyone would do that. Maybe they disagree that NK can employ black hats, but why not just comment on that in a reply...
It's like those trailers you see offering dog grooming services. So you have a shallow bath structure and a choice of salt or fresh water. You put the turtle in, let the hydrojets gently wash over it, then you rinse and return to owner. I haven't yet worked out how to handle to handle Galapagos Island Giant Tortises yet - probably need a hydraulic lifting platform and or a hoist. Of course you write a smartphone app with GPS and booking - rather like Uber. All mere details ;-)
Heck, even pay the guy 100$ and say you are taking a huge risk here.
Before anyone gets excited about getting a practical quantum computer soon, it should be emphasized that while they're experimentalists, this news is only about a design they have in mind to use with their SiMOS quantum dots. There's a gap between that design and the status quo of their physical quantum gates in their lab.

Their gates (both single and two qubit gates) are slow and their fidelities currently are below the threshold required for surface codes. There're also big questions about the readout fidelities (which is way low at the moment) and suppressing crosstalk.

That being said, quantum dots in Si/SiGE and SiMOS is a very exciting field these days.
>What's the implication here?

That North Korea is justified in building up their arsenal to protect themselves from a country that has actively sought to topple other governments it simply just doesn't like.

That vast majority of threats North Korea makes are "If America does this, we will retaliate." Meanwhile, American politicians endlessly call for preemptive strikes on Iran and North Korea because they've allegedly been on the verge of wiping out humanity for decades now. I've stopped buying the bullshit, but the "Kim Jong Un got gout from cheese and died but only before killing his uncle with an antiaircraft gun" headlines keep rolling.
I really think you have this wrong. At the least, you need a better defense of your position.

Assume for the moment that the number of USD in circulation is fixed. (Presumably we agree that if the government prints or retires currency they can change the value of USD, so let's remove that as a factor). For the sake of argument let's say there are 10^13 USD at all times.

Every year America produces some amount of real income. Let's just call that 1 A, measured relative to some fixed basket of goods. And let's say the government collects .2A in taxes.

Now, you are saying that the value of USD is not constrained by this situation. Suppose that almost everyone switches to cryptocurrency and 1USD = 10^-16 A. Then at tax time Americans have to come up with 0.2A=2x10^15 USD which is 200x more than actually exist. So people will need more USD than they have and will have to bid the price up.

Thus, given a fixed money supply and that the government doesn't literally instantly spend every tax dollar, there is a floor on the value of the USD proportional to total tax collection (and thus to the size of the economy being taxed).
Centuries, since the Enlightenment.
Author here. 1.0 has been out for a while now, and I'm very committed to API stability. 1.1 (or 1.0.1) should be out as soon as I have some time with mostly minor fixes here and there.

I hadn't considered doing a comparison matrix, but I haven't done a '_' lambda since it seems redundent with the one in fn.
There’s a difference between hating them hen poor, and being self-interested.

That being said, the effects are often the same. And self-interest is an acceptable excuse for people that want to ignore their impact on those around them.
> The restaurant should pay more than minimum wage.

Perhaps, but it sounds more like that your minimum wage isn't set to be a living wage[1].

That's the important part - minimum wages should be set so that someone who is working full time (~40 hours/week) should be getting enough income so that they can afford a modest standard of living for themselves and a family too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage
While the DPRK cultivates their talent, we indict ours: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/03/researche....

As someone else here has noted, it is impressive what DPRK has put together with comparatively limited resources. It makes me wonder what the cyber-landscape is going to look like in the coming years as the U.S. continues to ostracize the already scarce few who actually know how to reverse engineer malware, AND have the ethics to properly report it.
I don't think it's a question of why. That's board and difficult to pin down. However, there's plenry of studies on what happens when we sleep. Post-day processing _is_ one of those things.
Basically, the timing is just how a human being does exhausting work, isn't it? The exact minutes aside, you work for a bit, then you need a break (5 minutes is nothing, really). After a while, you need a bigger break. It's how I do it, without thinking (and admittedly, whenever I break that kind of cycle too drastically, I get unproductive).

I feel like a lot of these "life hack" kinda things are essentially just little pieces of entertainment/motivation you need to muster the initial energy needed to break a bad habit. Pomodoro sounds fun, it means tomato. It might let you fiddle with an app. You can track your progress and have fun charts to compare with potentially exciting results. And you have a story to tell people when they ask about your work.

The actual benefit of partitioning your day into exact 25 minute intervals is probably negligible, but while you're dealing with all this, you're actively working on being more productive and that alone has its benefits. It's probably a chicken-or-the-egg problem or even a plain old placebo effect, but it seems to work. Especially engineering types (as most people on hackernews) tend to have a problem accepting how convoluted psychology is, but sometimes just the decision to try to fix something fixes it.
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echo-chamber is all you need to know (besides basic understanding of social psychology and psychology overall)
I wish they had a year in puts. Or two. Hell of a gain there.
It would be great to have more native support for FP (flat map is a glaring example I run into a lot). It would help if there were 1) a less verbose anonymous closure syntax 2) support for a multi-line closure.
What about taxing more the inheritances and capital income and taxing less the work income?
Reading something like this: I feel like TWTR users need to find a better product.