skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolute free speech is not a sustainable position, because it conflicts with other basic rights, freedoms and laws.

Would you not accept that directly inciting violence against specific groups or individuals must be banned?
Apartheid killed very few, 7000 is the number I can find (then 14k during transition). This doesn't square with "needs to kill increasingly large number of people". That's my only point.

It doesn't matter because it doesn't justify apartheid, just shows that you don't need to murder lots of people. Having bad countries outsource key government roles to good countries doesn't need to involve any sort of tiered citizenship or segregation.

Current murder rates seem high and are likely underreported. (For instance, Guatemala won't record a homicide if the person doesn't die right away but is helped by aid personnel.)

Further, apartheid isn't a case of what I'm proposing. They were running their own country for their benefit, not as a humanitarian/client setup.
Utility to choose the right plot for your data
Adobe often show things like that, maybe a little less advanced...
This is nice with a small picture in a video, but for now you always end up disapointed when you try on high res pictures where quality is important...
How long do you think Toys R Us would have taken to die a slow death? How many customers would they manage to serve, and how many employees would they manage to employ during that time?

We got 14 years out of full Toys R Us experience out of this, and the writing on the wall should have been clear in 2004; how many failing retail giants had a good long term outcome from this type of buyout?
I believe he was being sarcastic
What I hate about Apple is no transparency. Google has a dashboard with everything they collect in one place and can remove and even download.

Apple terms let them collect tons but no dashboard. No transparency. No way to download.
I started to explain why safe spaces are necessary, but I realize that "Muh safe spaces" isn't an argument.

In a world where my rights are debated, my family is attacked, where I've been afraid for my life and well being in public spaces, where some of my acquaintances have been murdered in public spaces, and where some of my safe spaces have been bombed, I don't understand why my request for a place where I don't have to fucking deal with that shit is so bad.
This is written as if the entire purpose of buying Toy R US is to drive it into the ground.

Those buying it, and those providing the loans to buy it, lost a lot of money on a bet that they could turn it around. They lost the bet, and so be it.

The previous shareholders got paid and were able to move their capital out into something they believed would provide better returns.

Sure, a lot of people lost their jobs. On the other side, a failing business that could likely not afford to pay well went out of business, and someone else will come in, buy the property, and need new employees.

This isn't as bad as the article makes it out to be. If anything, its good that capitalists tried to turn it around, quickly failed, and now everyone can move onto other things.

Slowly fading into oblivion over decades is not a good thing either.
Entering transactions manually is THE POINT of HoneyMoney. You need to pay attention to your money to change your habits. Manual tracking forces you to keep your money under your regular supervision.

There're a lot of tools which will automatically import your transactions. HoneyMoney chooses the different way, trying to make tracking and planning a habit, promoting the idea that nobody can do this work for you.

It just tries to simplify the process and make it enjoyable.
It's already only about 70% funded, per the article.
Search for the title on google.
FileMaker Pro

Access

Rational Rose

Logic Works ERwin

App Maker

PowerApps

OutSystems

VisionX

Mendix

QuickBase

... and a zillion others.

There’s nuance in a spectrum between non-technical end-users developing simple workflows and forms, and trying to run an entire business on it with business rules, interoperability, standards, etc.
Why China Cracked Down on the Social-Media Giant Bytedance
How many people believe Pizzagate is real? Shall we litigate the exact numerical definition of "not many?"--which is what I said, not "none."
Most viruses out there are bypassing AV.
Indeed I was going from the article.
Yeah, I still like xterm the most, even if it's not the 'best'.

I use it with the font size set larger.

xtermfont: -fixed----20-

Some of the fancier terminals I have tried had key bindings that interfere with applications I use. It was enough of a hassle I prefer to just stick with plain old xterm.
That's part of the "fees and interests" bit which is paid to the fund, not the general partnership. If it is paid to the general partnership, it interacts in a complicated way with the fund so as to ensure that if something like this happens, the GP reimburses (or through high water mark effects) pays the fund that money.

TL; DR Nobody on the Toys 'R' Us deal teams at these firms is happy about this, and all will find their lives in the industry a little bit harder going forward.
Personal assistant/home automation system/car software. Which is to say it started as the second of those, added the first, and then the third. And I should just call it a personal assistant at this point.

I also contribute to Sandstorm.io in various mostly non-code ways when I have a little time lying around.
I don't think people see enough with regards to the situations they are called to judge, so I see local politics of a small town barely scaling okay that way. People do trust their memories, but I don't think journalling is going to improve civic judgment that much.

Most of the issues discussed in the presidential elections are way beyond personal observation. Are we to throw our votes to the wind since it falls outside our experience?
https://www.commercial.hsbc.com.hk/1/2/commercial/online-ser...

WeChat != WhatsApp but it is as close as it gets to the 'Messaging Service as an OS/platform' paradigm as it gets
That really stinks. It's amazing how many otherwise modern US cities let transit infrastructure linger in limbo. That was my experience in Charlotte too, though at least they've finally rolled out another leg of light rail to help somewhat. Seattle is the only place where I've had the option of living very comfortably without driving, and man its a game changer. Though I don't know if it's my long term pick due to costs of housing. What kind of alternatives to Boise are you looking at?
Not that ideal when you want a diversity and one of your devices is not from the same company
Code isn't going anywhere.

As long as computational operations exist, there will need to be a language to represent those operations. As long as that exists, there will be more languages to streamline that, and so on and so forth.

Computers are not magic. They do not think. Even if they did, they would be constrained by the same fundamental linguistic bottlenecks that we human beings are.

To illustrate this point:
I will concede that no code solutions are possible when every human being achieves Buddhist Enlightenment.
This would be the human equivalent of a no code solution. No one communicating, or orchestrating external experiences to create an epiphany. Just an internal realignment of values.

Another illustration:
Convince all of your neighbors to agree with you without communicating to them in any way.

Coding is a fundamental axiom of information transfer. If you aren't doing it in some fashion, you aren't DOING anything. If you are doing it, then you are constrained by your encoding scheme. The thing that trips up most users is that they aren't consciously aware of their own encoding schemas, and are typically resistant to adopting someone else's. In the article's case, they are asserting that "visual" programming is not code.

Which is dead wrong.

It just means the new code is your visual motif or paradigm. (E.g. A box means X, a line means Y.)

Underlying that visual implementation is...nothing else but more code!

You will never compute without code. You will never COMMUNICATE without code.

This entire article is just a visual representation of a complete vacuum of common sense.

Note the irony:
My response is an example of resistance to adopting the author's encoding scheme. It is likely that his point is not communicable to me in its current phrasing because we have fundamentally different experiences and knowledge structures that get decoded from the same visual representation (the article). Or it is being clearly communicated, and it's just BS.

(E.g. when I see the phrase "no-code solution", it translates to me as a hypothetical solution that doesn't require communication of information according to a fixed set of schemas to orchestrate desired computing behavior. This is dead on arrival. If we are communicating, coding happens.

Either the author is mistaken, or I am. The only way to know for sure is for he and I to COMMUNICATE, establish a common coding schema between us, a "common sense" if you will, and to clear things up so we can both confidently say that we are saying the same thing about the same thing.

TL;DR:

No-code happens when world peace does.
> It's somewhat ironic that free trade was apparently okay when Germans and Austrians were buying up Eastern European banks, or when the Spanish were buying up mines, or the Americans buying steel plants, but is suddenly worrisome when the Chinese want to renovate railways.

China doesn't believe in free trade. They never have. The trade that exists today between the EU and China, or the US and China, is very far away from being free trade.

The looming scale is probably the biggest concern. It appears China's economy is going to continue getting a lot larger, doubling in size in perhaps just the next 12 years to ~$26 trillion. It'll be far larger than the EU economy at that point. If China's activity in Europe is already at this scale with a $13.x trillion economy, what will it look like in another decade or so?

Being under the economic foot of a Communist dictatorship that is very aggressively rolling back human rights, and Germany or Austria buying some Eastern European banks, are two dramatically different things. Germany and Austria are fairly liberal, democratic nations, with solid respect for human rights.
Hosting providers still don't really use distributed computing. Cloud hosting providers do, but mainly because they are great at selling the idea that the customer should help the hosting provider save money by accepting increased complexity.

What you're describing, clusters based on commodity PCs, have existed in some form since shortly after commodity PCs were introduced. Clusters in general have existed since 1977. The thing is that most computers were big and expensive, so there was practically no hardware available to make clusters on the cheap until the 90's.

The NOW workstation you reference was the progenitor of Beowulf clusters, developed at NASA in 1994. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24321665_Clustered_...] But vendors were making similar clusters at the same time, because they all had to solve the same problem: handle workloads too big for a single machine. The Tandem Himalayan and IBM S/390 Parallel Sysplex were also both introduced in 1994, but those were big commercial products, not commodity clusters. Many other commercial cluster solutions had been produced in the previous 10 years. So it's not exactly some mind-blowing paradigm shift, and more an increased focus on reducing the cost of computing, which has always been the pink elephant in the room.
Thank you, I will give that a read tonight.
If you’re interested in additional reading along these lines, Robert Anton Wilson (of Illuminatus Trilogy fame) has a lot of interesting material.
Pardon me, my bad.
We have front page stories in the NYT, WSJ et al that hinge entirely on 'unnamed sources' '[gov org] senior officials' and 'people familiar with the matter'.

Video should be easy because it's either real or it's not. For stories based on secret sources, we never get a chance to ask the source if they really said that.
People do underestimate it, especially people who see themselves as critical thinkers. Your conscious mind might know that a photo or video is fake, but your unconscious mind still gives it some credibility. Our ability to remember and process facts is much worse than we think and we're highly prone to creating false memories. No-one is immune to these shortcomings.

Fake images on social media are much more than just a nuisance - they represent a fundamental threat to liberal democracy. Our brains simply aren't evolved to cope with convincing but fake images and we don't have any effective countermeasures.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.10.006
> The very notion of all men being permanent suspects of a crime would rightly be considered abhorrent

Maybe so, but it's default policy. For instance, in any domestic disturbance or abuse case, the man gets removed from the situation.
In 2003, in the pit of a recession, Toys 'R' Us was still profitable. It got caught flat-footed by the proliferation of Walmart/Target and online sales at the same time.

Bain and KKR's turn-round strategy was largely a joke: They basically floated a bunch of trial balloons to the press, arguing that they weren't going to just be a toy store anymore (basically become a walmart or target) but that was scuttled. After that, they just decided to control costs as tightly as possible. Very little innovation.

Prior to the buyout, there was a team inside Toys 'R' Us that was trying to clone Amazon's e-commerce success. It died with the buyout. Bain and KKR thought they had a better plan: they didn't.
With tenthousands of corporate developers from RedHat, Google, IBM?

Do you seriously think Torvalds, Stallmann and a few dozen enthusiasts could maintain all of the Linux ecosystem?
> Is this because (a) LabVIEW is high level and C is low level, or (b) because LabVIEW can't handle some complex algorithms?

It's high-level in the sense that you program by choosing a set of components. A very apt analogy might be Excel and VBA: It would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to accomplish some tasks using Excel, and if you're using Excel as a "programming language" you will find yourself reaching for VBA to do certain arbitrary tasks.

> If someone uses a programming language for more than scripting (or in a visual language, sketching) they should learn to program. It makes no difference that the language is visual.

Sure, but saying people should do x is basically absolving yourself of the problem and throwing your hands up in the air. They don't do x, so it's sometimes our job to figure out why they don't x and how we can encourage people to do x over time.

LabVIEW is very much presented informally as "program without learning how to program" (very similar to the article), so people using it don't feel as though they should have to learn basic programming fundamentals.
I know it was only 1 guy, and an extreme example at that, but he is 61. Getting 30 years is great. Most men won't get to 91. He can also consider early retirement at 62.
Don't bet it all on one horse if you can help it.
Presumably your engineers didn't want to move from world a where they understand why things break to world b where any change even to a landing page could cause a cascade of failures due to automation that depends on that page.

A world where such failures causing production to fail become more likely because its challenging to predict ahead of time who depends on what and it what way.

Where they presumably have to then debug the mess.

Your engineers were right and unfortunately you are probably wrong about dumb ideas not selling.
Gee. Thanks for the porn in the "Recommended Threads" at the bottom of the page :/

If your work scans your web browsing for certain words etc., don't click the link.
Open the "web" url in incognito, then click on the WSJ link from the search results
But Linux only worked because there's many companies contributing to it.

So which company would have the resources and reasons for contributing to an entirely open social network, with no way to monetize it?
It looks like the whole app is re-rendering every frame instead of just having the stroke properties animate:
https://perfht.ml/2vEbUc6
My own career is an example of this, by all accounts and measurements used in HR in the US I shouldn't be earning as much as I do or as successful or sort after in my field.

Its always a shock to colleagues when they ask where I went to college and my response is that I'm still on my gap year that started 15 years ago. When I go into the details of what happened throughout that period the bias towards college education disappears.

And the paper is correct, I fully understand that my skills on offer are on par or better than what any C-level or senior exec can offer, but I only realized this after a few years of interacting and working with these people.
snowwrestler is right though, the real power of the fake videos stems from the immense trust we have that a digital video (or photo) portrays the truth - I believe they can usually be used as evidence in court?

Perhaps it's a time for a renaissance of film? Or a service that detects doctoring, like Snopes for video (I imagine these AI video doctors probably leave some detectable characteristics in their pixel manipulations).
Manually tracking expenses seems harder than it actually is. For example, I just collect all the receipts for 3-4 days, and then spend 5 minutes to enter them in batch.

All the recurring transactions are planned once, and then you just confirm them with the real amount.

Basically, we're talking about 15–20 minutes per week for increasing your awareness about money and to keep your financial life under control.

This is work, nobody will do it for you. You just need to decide if it's worth it to you personally or not.
Not a bad approach, but if you have a virus that hasn't "shown itself" yet, then it could infect or otherwise corrupt the back up HDD's, right?
If you are a rank and file employee, I would suggest divesting entirely from your company's stock. From a risk perspective it's extremely dangerous as you are already dependent on your employer for your source of income. In the case that they do poorly you have the potential to lose both your income and your savings. Unless you have the ability to seriously affect the stock price, you are putting too many eggs into a single basket.
I think the same can be applied to Cucumber testing: having to write “natural language” tests in one area and then a bunch more code to interpret that dialect.

Why not express tests directly in code like everyone else instead of pretending business people will ever write them, understand them or know their limitations? Cuke seems like extra busywork job security rather than GTD.
Ask HN: What would it cost to build and maintain a Facebook clone?
If you take advertising out of the equation, there does not appear to be complex technology behind Facebook. That got me wondering what it might cost to replicate and maintain a Facebook full-stack clone.
That's potentially the loophole that could work: The end user gets paid the ad money, and has direct access to the datastore that the advertisers are using in order to edit out bad or undesirable data.
The sqlalchemy orm and asyncio are incompatible. There are packages like aiopg that allow for sqlalchemy to be used as a functional sql layer.

If you want to use the orm parts of sqlalchemy, the idea is to use thread executors and handle detaching of objects if you return them to event-loop code.
In dollar amounts:

> GE’s pension obligations, nearly $100 billion at the end of 2017, are underfunded by almost $30 billion.

Yikes.
The Last King of Wurm Online
These two things aren't in necessarily in conflict. Using moderation to prevent threats, harassment, bullying, and hate does not prevent diversity of thought.
Utility that lets you select the best plot for your data. Simple website at http://plotfor.me/picker.html
Using singleton objects as default arguments in Ruby
Thank you. I'm trying to simplify the process and make it enjoyable. And just having fun while doing it :)
I'm not saying it applies to everything. I'm not talking about you getting into a fight with your neighbor and the blockchain will help you settle things. But when two financial companies (for example) enter in some kind of contract the majority of the work involved can be automated on a blockchain as soon as there is one they both trust. source: I've worked for banks trying to do specifically this.
Still, I recommend the book. You can't deny the statistical significance of the polls. There are a few far-fetched pieces of evidence, but that's to be expected with sociology.

I think the main issue is that we're trying to measure changes over a long period of time across a wide swathe of people. Those are two very difficult areas to study.
Science is science reporting. Normal people can only understand what is reported. If you want to read the actual papers, prepare to spend a couple hours to barely understand what is going on. Most people aren’t able to do that for all of the hundreds of papers published each year that could be relevant to their lives.
So what? If I didn't have access to any news outlets for the past 2 years, my life wouldn't have changed at all.

Let's say there's a percentage of the population X% which is capable of being tricked by the current level of fake news. Do you think with new technologies, X will increase drastically? I guess that it will not change at all.
This looks like a failure with portfolio construction to me. Keeping a lot of your net worth in the stock of one company is not a very good strategy for diversification. This is especially true when it is the stock of the company that you are working for, because if the company gets into trouble, you might not just lose your job, but also your savings.

One easy improvement your this particular case would have been to roll some of the money from GE stocks into bonds and do a classic 60:40 split. If he really wanted to stick with that company, he could have even bought GE bonds since their default risk is reasonably low.
Yeah, there's a lot of availability heuristic, where you can easily see and recall the multi-billion dollar behemoth that exists today, but you can't see what it is preventing from existing by the resources it consumes. Just because Toys R Us was big and maybe you have some fond memories of it doesn't mean that it needs to exist. You can also see and easily bring to mind the acute pain of Toys R Us collapsing but tend to discount the ongoing low-level pain of slow death and stagnation.
> We threw away flash because the iphone was underpowered, only for it to be replaced with the horror that is modern js centered webdev.

Also a sad thing: Flash sucked for building UIs, because it did not have a set of standardized elements and interactions built in. I'm thinking of all the trivial details like mouse pointer changing when you hover over a text field, or a text field that supports arrow navigation, selection, copying and pasting, a context menu, etc.

Now the browser, as a runtime, has all those expected UI interactions built into all the standard HTML components. And what does the web crowd do? They throw it all away by building their own half-assed reimplementations of every UI element. There's lots of man-hours being wasted replicating the problems of Flash.
How can the EU punish a business with no EU location? An American company is not bound by another countries laws
Isn’t it just as entitled to refuse learning something because you will only use the language you want? Even if it’s forcing a square peg in a round hole?

Cmon tho, any competent engineer can switch between languages without many issues.