skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they took the truth of statement, i.e. HRC deleted emails from her private email server, and labeled it a falsehood using meaningless semantics as justfication. Acid washed vs. bleachbit has nothing to do with the thesis of the statement.

How is that not bad?
That's your perspective.

I've been very lucky in my life.

I was introduced to programming at a young age and found it immensely satisfying.

I've been conditioned to work hard towards my goals, and have seen the benefits therein.

I'm quite happy with my level of success, though I do intend to get much more. I believe that my lucky strokes have and will continue to multiply.

But I also believe that anyone else with my circumstances would have nearly identical results.

There's no "blame" to dispense.
>Constitutions can change; it was changed to get rid of slavery.

Not the same thing. The constitution didn't grant slavery, it just didn't restrict it. The amendment to stop slavery had no impact on the constitution that existed before-hand.

The bill of rights has never been changed.
You can always write a thing about SC and post it or post a thing about SC and comment on that. But hijacking posts with an unrelated thing you'd like to discuss or complain about just poops all over the ongoing on-topic conversations, please don't do it.
Why not both?

It's a horrendous waste of electricity, a pyramid scheme, and an enabling mechanism for sales of child porn and drugs.
Not to mention, Forbes "articles" are frowned on.

It's a rewrite of https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-fastest-path-to-the-ceo-job-acco...
Emacs likes pointer reversal tricks!

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/cc8ae51e6f62f86d0...

(Unrelated, but an amusing coincidence.)
I've heard that even Amazon Echo/Alexa isn't working.

Maybe Amazon shouldn't have joked about Alexa losing her voice in their Super Bowl ad. /s
That was not my experience. I spent 3 weeks in Iceland, and only met one person who was not fluent in English (even they were plenty conversational).

You're right that Akureyri is not a small town for Iceland, though.
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> But if you keep rolling the dice again and again and again, you're eventually going to get a good roll

No, this is a pernicious myth. A lot of people roll again and again and never get a good roll. Rolling the economic dice takes a lot of time. You can reasonably expect to get maybe 10 rolls before you age out. Even if the odds of success on each roll were 1 in 10 you'd still have a LOT of people (about a third actually) never getting a good roll. And the actual odds are considerably worse than 1 in 10.
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> we can do things to force people to avoid the risk factors and take mitigating actions.

Just like we forced people to stop drinking during prohibition, and we force petty criminals all the time to stop doing bad stuff once caught?

We'd like to think it's the former ("we can, but we don't"), but the reality is we can't.
You get off on the wrong foot assuming I’m trying to prove the counterfactual. This is a discussion of gender disparity in engineering, why would I be trying to prove what law would’ve been like if there hadn’t been measures to address gender disparity?

Rather, I used a counterfactual to restate an epidemiological inference. “City A introduced a sewer system in 1845, cholera rates went down. City B did not, and cholera rates stayed high. Had City A not introduced a sewer system, cholera rates in City A would have stayed high.” Obviously you can’t prove that last counterfactual—but that’s besides the point. It’s just another way of stating the inference that sewer systems reduce cholera.

City A is law, and City B is engineering. More so than engineering, law was strongly associated with men, because of the nexus to business, politics, and public performance. And both fields long maintained an uneven gender ratio by, e.g., hiring women to be secretaries rather than professionals. Law took explicit measures to make up for that discrimination. Engineering hasn’t, not to the same degree. We may draw inferences from the comparison.
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This guy has became annoying. At least to me.

> Laws come and go; ethics stay.

Ethics? Really? What are ethics? Who set them? Who enforces them? Where do they come from?

We should first agree that there is no god.

Therefore, there is no such thing as "universal ethics". Everything is relative to the person.

More like: Have a set of ethics and stick to them. Everyone is free to have his own ethics but if you are a serious person you should not switch your ethics because of the situation.

But then maybe your ethic is to be flexible toward the situation. Then you should change them every time the situation changes. Oh, this is messy better look up to what the law says.

> If you hear advice from a grandmother or elders, odds are that it works 90 percent of the time.

No. 90% of what my grand-father says and recommend is completely irrelevant to todays' world and harmful due to his lack of knowledge about finance, economics and the modern world.
Bear in mind I'm guessing here.

When you use your credit card or debit card in a store, you swipe it in a Point Of Sale terminal.

That terminal connects, via network, with payment processing software managed by Visa (and other card suppliers) to authorize the payment and move the money from your balance to store's balance.

If you were to create your own credit card, how would that processed? Visa is not going to process your credit card.

In order to have your credit card processed you would have to convince stores to upgrade POS terminals to also talk to your card authorization network.

That's just not gonna happen which is why Visa is not going to loose their lock on credit cards.

The only viable solution would be legislation that forces Visa to process other people's cards, maybe via some standard protocol, at a reasonable price (and that price would have to be much, much lower that Visa's fees to make that workable, because you want to make money on processing fees too).
I think what's really been shown is that ruthless centralization clearly doesn't work. China's trying to develop an alternative that includes some economic decentralization but doesn't include liberal values and democracy.

Western capitalism may be like a pack of wolves freely cooperating without leashes, but China's is like a pack of wolves wearing shock collars. Most of the time they're on their own, but they have to be mindful of what their master wants or they'll get zapped. That latter system might be good enough to compete with the West.
>More than twenty years ago I once went with a friend shooting around in the woods. That was extremely dangerous and stupid of us.

Why, did you and your friend not understand basic gun safety? Shooting in the woods is very safe with some simple training.
SPLC does an amazing job in identifying hategroups and their supporters, across the political spectrum, and should be a household resource on par with Google. Which doesn't mean they are infallible: I agree about Maajid Nawaz. As for Ayaan Hirsi Ali I for one find the quotes that SPLC attributes to her pretty extreme. Are any of them incorrect, or has she modified her stance more recently?
For the price they charge for that, though, they'd be better off buying one of the creative line boxes and throwing out all of the non-rectangular pieces. Which would be dumb to do, but apparently they want those pieces and none others.
udp is also used for web traffic, a very very large amount of web traffic - so you can't really block it.
> You keep saying this, but they're just over 5% of the total US population as of the most recent census.

5% isn't a lot. And it's 5% only because indians, pakistanis, bengalis, etc are classified as asian along with chinese, japanese, koreans, etc. In other words, "asian" population is inflated. So it's a lot less than 5%.

> It's over 16 million people.

16 million out of nearly 350 million isn't much.

> I don't see how you can keep making this argument with a straight face.

Because it's a fact. And as I said, up until the 1970s, the asian population in the US was pretty much 0%. Asians were banned from immigrating to the US.

> We must have wildly differing opinions of what constitutes statistical significance.

We do. But you also have wildly differing opinions with every statistician.

As I said in the other comment, as the asian population in the US grows, statisticians will pay more attention to them. Although the "out"-marriage rates of asians ( particularly asian women ) might prevent increasing asian population. But who knows.
So now we're going to blame Snopes for Facebook's failings?
>So if you wanted tech giants to have less power what exactly would you do?

It's really easy. This is the nuclear option, but it's very doable: eliminate their Section 230 immunity [1]. All of these internet businesses and platforms are running markets online, but they face zero liability for anything bad that happens on their platform. It's what gives Google and Facebook such high margins. They employ a relatively small number of highly paid software engineers and let the buyers and sellers take it from there on their marketplace.

If they were actually responsible or liable for what happened on their platform, it would mean they'd have a lot more policing to do. And policing costs money. Customer service costs money (which is why there's no one to call at Facebook or Google when something's wrong with your account).

Suddenly those highly efficient, zero liability two-sided markets have a lot more frictional costs, and that will ultimately limit their power because the flywheel won't snowball as much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
This is what price discovery looks like. If it doesn't pan out the way they want, I'm sure they will adjust in a year.
I agree with this article, but a healthy way to look at for me is multipliers.

Example, success will get you there, but luck is the multiplier.

Example lets say you work super hard and become a millionaire, you run a 2 million dollar company.

I think it's realistic, however your friend with the 20 million dollar company and 200 million dollar company probably didn't work that much harder than you, they just chose better fields and where at the right place at the right time.

Another example non-business wise is genetics. Example: you can work your ass off and be a really good basketball player, you'll have fun, you'll get admiration, but to be an NBA superstar you need a ton of luck involved ie lack of injuries, right coaches, right genetics.

That doesn't mean quit improving as a basketball player or quit that business, it just means try your best and admit luck is a factor.
I'm pretty sure they'd have to become banks to pull that off, which is a business most of them don't want to be in (though I think Paypal is already).
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That’s a very selective and intellectually dishonest defense. That was the original law, then extended by Johnson and taken in a different direction altogether by future leadership.

The current Department of Labor on affirmative action [0] clearly paints a very different picture that more accurately reflects the current meaning:

For federal contractors and subcontractors, affirmative action must be taken by covered employers to recruit and advance qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and covered veterans.

And here’s the dictionary entry for “affirmative action:”

efforts to make education and employment available to people who have traditionally been treated unfairly, for example because of their race or sex, by giving them some advantages over people who have traditionally been more powerful

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/affir...

[0]: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/hiring/affirmativeact
During communism in Poland there was 1 hour of religion classes per week. Classes were run in Catholic Church buildings. Now there are 2 hours of religion classes in school buildings. Pupils who do not want to go to religion classes can have a free time.

Do you really think that changing for example 1 hour of religion lesson per week to 1 hour of chemistry would change a lot?

I doubt whether the ethics lesson in your case would result in less religion intolerance. Someone who is that much ashamed of his own country should simply emigrate, as President Komorowski advised.

PS. Polish Catholic Church also overestimated the impact of religion classes for practicing Catholics. Now less people attend Sunday masses.
I remember a linux distro that pushed a 2.3 (or 2.1?) kernel and some tools on to two 1.44 MB disks. In involved booting dos, creating a ram-disk, decompressing with them some slow and esoteric dos program and then boot into the initrd with linload.

Cramping linux onto a floppy has been a challenge for as long as i use linux.
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Did you read the paragraph at the bottom of the page?

"three different universities...did not observe the same results as in the original study....The effect...may have been due...to unconscious cues...or may simply have been due to chance. They are very careful in their language to not discredit the original study but they advise that future researchers be more cautious...

Then the conclusion is "The original study still stands"!?! and deserves "slight skepticism"?

Sorry, I'm going with "outright disbelief" until shown credible evidence otherwise.
All of this holds up until you remember that Bitcoin is fungible and take these items into consideration:

1. There is no logical relationship between address A that spends to address B.
2. A could be part of the same wallet as B, or not.
3. A or B could be undisclosed addresses of merchants, or unrelated parties entirely. You may have to ask, and they may choose to tell you.

Defeating your inferences is trivial. A blockchain analysis may reveal that A sent to B, who sent to C, but there is no logical relationship between A and C based on this transmission alone. Moreover, A can send to B, B' sends to C. You derive no information.
We use a fractional reserve banking system. Currently the reserve ratio is 10% for large banks. Therefore when you get a loan, 90% of the money you get from the bank the bank conjured from thin air. Loans are backed by 90% nothing.
That's a fair point -- and it's great the web exists. Super-awesome, open platform. We're really lucky to have it, and here in the US, in a raw, uncensored form. Frickin' awesome.

But from a tech/convenience perspective, the web is pretty...janky. Native apps are where it's at. And those have centralized gatekeepers with absolutely no freedom of expression.

It's not just conservative-ish stuff like Gab that gets hit. Another example is Apple refusing to accept an app that sent notifications when the US assassinated people via drone strikes. I think this does real damage to the polity; this is an important political message that cannot be delivered by the most salient medium because of corporate censorship.

And in the artistic or gaming realm, there's all sorts of "adult themed" stuff that'll get you rejected from the store. It's like a return to the 50s before the various Ferlinghetti obscenity trials.

Do you think the app-equivalent of Lolita or Howl or the Tropic of Cancer of even American Psycho would ever make it onto the app store today? Highly unlikely.

(Maybe you don't think apps are as important as books, but I think they will be.)

(And again, more generally, the interesting thing is we seem to have rapidly culturally shifted, where many people value the desire to be protected from disruptive speech more than the freedom to speak without disruption.)
I didn't say Snopes was more or less respectable; my point was that they aren't engaging in "culture war" by doing what this article says that they're doing.

I'm not crazy about them fact-checking satire, but it's incredibly obvious why they have to--because people treat them as a one-stop-shop for finding out whether an article is real or not. For The Onion that might be easy to answer, but there are also a lot of terrible, unfunny wannabe satirical sites, and people do get confused.
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I see how that could seem like downplaying, but I just meant that as a hopeful observation that if the temperature rapidly corrects perhaps we're not as screwed as one might get the impression from the partial information. As it happens, the next day the temperature did immediately begin plummeting to our good fortune, and four days later now it is nearly 15 centigrade lower.
If you have the electoral majority to drag down the wealthy, then you have the electoral majority to lift up the poor. Using public policy to compel support for other public policy is nonsensical unless the former has broader support.
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I agree with one caveat- I think it's preposterous to say that the left is responsible for this- both sides participated in this nonsense and it's obvious that that is the case.

And, I think you have to take the context in which Donald Trump rose to power into account- to many (myself included) it's also preposterous that someone with a track record of failure, bankruptcy, and lack of experience could come to head our administrative branch...it's hard to have a conversation when the very idea of his election is so absurd, for better or for worse.

Another edit! I think it's misleading for you to present Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, et al. as things associated with the Alt-Right. These are very much poor sources of information and are very much so digested by a huge swath of conservative Americans.
> Is 21 million (according to 2015 census) an insignificant number?

21 million out of 350 million is a very insignificant number.

Also, that number is grouping chinese, japanese and koreans with indians, pakistanis and bangladeshis.

Do you think chinese and indians are the same race?
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Man, it takes so much effort to write up exploits. I discover 'em regularly, but really, the effort to write-up is the best security companies have these days...
Arrest and jail. Like what Xi did to Zhou Yongkang.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Yongkang#Downfall
Much better would be a copying collector, like a twofinger collector, because emacs doesn't have much foreign pointers for political reasons, which can be handled separately. No stack, much faster, much slimmer.
TIL the Onion has a liberal lean.

Maybe they make fun of Republicans more than Democrats but that's only because it's like shooting fish in a barrel with the GOP. There's more to mock.

(INB4 buttery males)
Assuming this is comparable to the above figures of 40k to 55k per year, and assuming 50 weeks worked per year, that comes out to 27 to 37 hours driving per week. Maybe not full time, but hard to argue that it's just a small side thing.
It seems to have just recovered for me, anyone else?
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What was the outage?
I assume your opinion is informed, in which case it is based on past information that includes outcomes. Your challenge, therefore, is asymmetric.
This describes methods to de-anonymize transactions passed through fiat interfaces that comply with AML/KYC. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
From the article:

> What more likely happened is that some trigger-happy activists who don't appreciate Christian and conservative satire reported The Babylon Bee to Facebook, setting off an investigation by Snopes.

Obviously not a definitive answer as to what happened, but it seems plausible. Surely Snopes doesn't proactively fact-check every single article posted to Facebook, they wouldn't have the manpower to do that. It makes sense that they'd fact-check only after people report the story to Facebook.
> The sense of wonder that I got... I wonder if kids have anything even close to those experiences today.

I have 3 kids, and I can honestly say yes, they do. Minecraft. It has simple mechanics, but can be pretty deep too if you want it to be. You can also build anything your mind can imagine. Add on all the fan created stuff, mods, etc. and it definitely provides the same stuff for the new generation.
His Jordan Peterson is also pretty solid: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/28/12-rules-for-l...
Have you been to Switzerland? It's densely populated.
I find the debate over English superseding other languages to be somewhat comical. On the one hand, sure, there are parts of different cultures being lost. But they're being replaced by possibly the best example there is of a language evolving over time due to power dynamics.

The accusation is often leveled against American cultural imperialism. But the language being imposed isn't a Native American language...it isn't Navajo that's being spread across the globe, it's the language that replaced so many Native American languages when the American continent was conquered. And while American English has undergone some cosmetic changes, it's largely the same language that was brought over by the colonists/invaders. So if it's an English language, it must have originated in England, right? But no, it's derived from the Germanic and Norman conquests with a smattering of classical Greek and the original Anglo-Saxon language. And its Latin origins even come by way of the Roman conquest of Gaul. Even the alphabet used comes from the subset of English characters used in German printing presses.

This notion that languages are something that need to be preserved is antithetical to the purpose of language and the history of the development of languages. We have many languages because, historically, we had many groups that didn't have regular contact with each other. And whenever there were groups that had regular contact with each other, language adapted to that fact and evolved. And now with globalization and the internet, we're beginning a phase where everyone has regular contact with everyone else. It's silly to think that language won't do what it's done every time you mix people who speak different languages throughout history. It isn't a process that happens overnight, but over the course of generations, languages that cannot impose a power dynamic will be lost to history or rendered irrelevant in the way that, say, Welsh is today.

We can be sad about it or try to fight it, but it's an inevitability and fighting that is ultimately futile.