skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the fact that few, if any Americans share that concern is certainly very disappointing. I had thought Americans better than that in my younger years, apparently not.

I would not be surprised to know that this is correct, but the only thing I can do is speak to my own opinion.

That I see nothing inherently wrong with supporting the government or military does not mean I agree with everything they do.

Perhaps my beliefs are mistaken, but as far as I know the military does not act on its own accord but from orders of elected officials. This being the case, the correct action to me doesn't appear to be weakening the military but to elect people who you think will act in ways you agree with.

Developing military strength is a long term effort, and given the people I vote for likely will not win every time, I don't think going back and forth between supporting or not supporting the military makes sense.

Perhaps this is very naive of me, but I also think that it's entirely possible I don't have the context to know better than those who make these decisions, or I could frankly just be wrong. This being the case I trust that others are still working to the common good even if they do it through means different than I.

To be completely honest, I do not understand why we keep fighting wars or why we want to behave like we are the world police. Nevertheless this behavior seems to continue no matter which party is in office, so I can only assume there's a good reason for it.
Citizens United has got to be one of the most misunderstood decisions of the Supreme Court.

If Citizens United loses that case, then there would be little standing in the way of, for example, prohibiting the NY Times from running stories critical of presidential candidates within 90 days of the election.

Why? Because the NY Times is a corporation. If the Supreme Court held that corporations don't have standing to claim First Amendment protections, then the NY Times wouldn't be protected either.
I would not agree with this. I went to an elite business school and my Chinese classmates all felt there was far more opportunity for them in China with an American education.

They’re not stupid, they look at China and see an economy growing at 6-9% a year while the US is stuck at 1-2% and they know where the growth is for the medium-term. They also see a mature American economy that can be tough to crack even for native white citizens, so its not hard to see how their chances of long-term success are much higher in China than in the US.
Ok interesting. Maybe their plan is that once all the claims are in, if total valid claims amount < recovered coins, everyone (who filed) gets full amount back. Hopefully anyway
Sometimes there isn't any fog and you're just that guy with the fog horn :)
Freenode already has channels like ##math, ##physics etc where lot of actual lecturers and professors lurk. I've gotten all my math help past few years over there as the quality of help is considerably better than the tutors on campus. So what does "IRC University" mean? Have accredited classes? Or just the same idea ?
Germany also got rid of a lot of Jews and others that were undesirable for reasons not related to their political views. China is not doing that.
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The current US government approach to immigrants, legal or otherwise, would seem designed to convince immigrants to go elsewhere.

I think China will be fine given that it can simply shut down exports to the US if T​r​u​m​p's tariff pettiness starts to sting. Where, precisely, do you think your phones and computers are manufactured?
So basically, you're complaining that some people do have the ability to take a stand.

Here's the deal: Yes, some people are not as fortunate. That does not matter one iota in this conversation. Just because others have it worse does not in any way, shape, or form mean that we shouldn't continue fighting for better. You complaining about this is nothing more than you advocating a race to the bottom.
In what way is your product "tailored towards men" if it isn't using masculine stereotypes?
Go actually doesn't have any other way to clear a map!

Which, actually, is brilliant design! Now, I can find all map clearings with one operation. (I need to implement that syntactic search/rewrite tool I miss from Smalltalk.)
Technological Prowess, Lethality, and the Civil-Military Divide
The RAIL* model for user-perceived performance does a really nice job of distilling rules of thumb for latency into a handful of specific metrics / perf targets.

*https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/r...
The island of Canada.
If you're interested in this subject, track down a copy of Edward Zuckerman's 1984 book The Day After World War III (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1415128.The_Day_After_Wo...). It's now sadly out of print, but it's a treasure trove of great contemporary reporting on the U.S. government's Cold War "continuity of government" plans. ("Continuity of government" being the delicate bureaucratic euphemism for how they intended to keep society from collapsing if the bombs should fall.)

It was a mention of a secret, apocalypse-only regulatory code in Zuckerman's book that got me on the trail of the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations (CEFR), which I worked with the National Archives to make available to the public back in 2016: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/10/presenting-a-bit-of-histo...
It's not accurate that the military has a terrible track record regarding civilian casualties? Go ahead and offer your proof to the contrary, then.
There has been an update to the article:

Update 6/22: Samsung made an update to its statements regarding the NF1 SSDs. The drives are based on the Phoenix controller, they do not use a PCIe 4.0 interface, but rely on a more traditional PCIe Gen 3 x4 interface.
I'm well aware they are deprecated.

Besides taking my comment literally (I now have clarified), lets look at it from a higher level:

The concept of channels, usernames, private messaging in Slack is almost all directly inherited from IRC. There is some great new functionality on top of this core, IRC inspired experience.
Seems like a conflict of interest.
Just use little inductive proofs. How many days lie between day 3 and day 37? Is it 37-3=34 or maybe 37-3-1=33?

Well, between day 1 and day 3 there is 1 day. By finite induction between day n>3 and day 1, there are n-2 days, and analogously between days n>k>1 there are n-k-1 days.
The Starbucks sugared drinks are so sweet my teeth hurt. One day, I ordered a black coffee, it arrived pre-sweetened when I was expecting bitter. Starbucks had spit up on their floors after that drink.

Edit: Also, at one point I did a deep dive into my finances, and I realized I was spending more at Starbucks than I was on groceries at a grocery store. I ate out a lot. Started cooking home more, and made a rule about how much weekly to spend on coffee. That probably didn't help Starbucks' finances multiplied by all the financially squeezed millennials.
When our health insurance changed, our new insurer required that our kid try two other medications before it would pay for the medication he was on for ADHD, even though he had tried variants of the other medications without success. As a Canadian living in the US, the general way insurance drives healthcare here is pretty staggering.
Sounds like you have no clue what you are talking about.
FYI oxyclean is quite good at this, and so far hasn't damaged any of my clothes including dress shirts. The key is to soak the collar in very concentrated oxyclean solution (~1 full scoop or more per gallon) for several hours, and then wash the shirt like normal. Yellow ring disappears. I've even gotten pen ink stains out this way, which was incredible.
While I am happy about this ruling, I feel like it does not go far enough at protecting our privacy. Call me cynical if you want, but there are two things that are causes for concern for me.

1. The article says “Roberts noted that the decision also allows for warrantless cell-tower location information searches in emergencies and for national security purposes.”

This leaves the door open for any agency to claim that any historic GPS data was obtained for “national security purposes”.

This is troublesome because if the government is abusing their power there is no way to hold them accountable since they do not have to explain the specific reasons for accessing the data if doing so will “compromise national security”. It is a bit of a loophole in my opinion.

2. Another article (https://www.cnet.com/news/supreme-court-says-warrant-necessa...) mentioned “While the decision sets a ruling for historical GPS data, the Supreme Court said it does not apply to security cameras, business records or real-time location tracking.”

This means that any other data can still be obtained without a warrant under the CLOUD act which passed just a couple months ago.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/responsibility-deflect...
Your first serious Python project
You don't hear people saying things like "I want to be able to send/receive messages while offline on IRC" because they just use something else.

Just like you don't hear me wishing that PHP or Fortran had certain features.

It's not very good evidence.
I think insider sales are a useful guide when they’re unusual. Some insiders sell a little stock every month. Somehow you would need to extract a signal from the normal behavior. Larger or smaller amounts. Trend shifts or something
What makes this better than Tide? And what about laundry soap is "for men" any more than regular laundry soap is "for women"?
On the other hand, North Korea got nukes in a few years, while being two orders of magnitude smaller. If anything, I'd say people tend to underestimate how much (money, effort) a totalitarian state can invest if they think it's needed. Basically - all of it, and then some. Dictatorships can be more efficient in selected categories than democracies, and they often are - it's "in the long run" and "across the board" that they are worse. If you remove all the "checks and balances", you risk having an un-removable psychopath to be a dictator for life; but you also unlock the "full power of the state" to work on a single thing, which - in some circumstances - can give you amazing results.
> I heard from some people that it hadn't aged too well

Good, you'll know who to avoid in the future.

>In particular, the language used to describe drug states and events in cyberspace (such as the Kuang virus) was just so vivid and disorienting. (Or I guess "hypnagogic", to use a Gibsonian word.) A less talented author would have made it feel rote and computery, whereas this cyberspace felt more like a collective fever dream.

It's because Gibson doesn't come from a technical background (he famously wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter and had never even seen a personal computer at the time), but was a hippie deep into the drug subculture of the time.

I think being too into the technical side of things may actually be a hindrance when writing these kinds of books, and that Neuromancer resonated so widely precisely because it wasn't hung up on the details. It didn't need the right descriptions of technology, it needed to evoke the right kind of feeling and look at the right way of interacting with technology.
Let me tell you, that's absurd.

Oh?
Simple blockchain in Python
Yeah, his dissent was a really interesting read. I'd be curious if he would have changed it to a concurrence if there weren't already 5 justices on the other side.
That's my current plan! The math is taking a lot longer than expected.
I don't know. I have wondered that as well. We currently have a system where the most wealthy benefit and have no skin in the game. That seems wrong to me. I welcome any solution that makes people think about the entities they support.
> you have to draw the line somewhere

Can you back up that assertion?
I think the issue is really just that effective sandboxing is really really hard to pull off right without also severely limiting the capabilities of the language/environment in undesirable ways, even for simple applications.

Given that most of these things are volunteer projects and making strong claims about security is dangerous when you can't back it up, it's a tricky space most projects just don't want to touch.
Too late.

China dominates in the 'jelly bean[1]' chip business. This was the bread an butter for the dozen semiconductor shops in the Bay Area during the 70's through the early naughts. As fabs shut down they became 'fabless' and had their work shipped out to TSMC. Now they exist as a genre in China in much greater numbers than they do here. Companies that will make a couple of wafers of USB + ADC + random logic kinds of things.

And the innovation never comes from the chip companies, it comes from companies that are building the products. They go to the chip companies and say "Can you make a chip that does this?" and then a new jelly bean chip is born and if that product gets traction everyone decides to make one with their own bit of spin.

What is unique to the Chinese scene is that there are thousands of minute variations rather than any sort of ordered discipline. Transistors are free at the jelly bean chip level so there is no incentive to re-use or save on chips.

ARM has become the defacto microprocessor architecture because, in part, ARM will license it to anyone.

In the US all of these folks have coalesced into a few mega companies (TI, NXP, Microchip, Maxim) which don't have much in the way of competition locally. So innovation stops because conservative business practices rule.

This really became clear to me when I started perusing datasheet sites for the Chinese market and realizing there are hundreds if not thousands of chips for which there is no English data sheet. This is a complete reverse from the last century when nearly every data sheet was in English and getting a Chinese version was a challenge.

[1] Jelly Bean chips are those that are made in batches of 1 - 10 million with a set of functions that are fairly specific to their application.
The press don't go around surreptitiously recording people.

If the kid had started off the conversation by saying "I'm going to record this", then he would have been fine (legally speaking; the principle probably wouldn't be happy and likely wouldn't agree to it). Being informed that a conversation is going to be recorded and then proceeding with that conversation is granting implicit consent to the recording. The problem is he recorded it in secret, which means there was no consent.

In the case of journalists, when a journalist thrusts a tape recorder in your face and asks you something, it's pretty obvious it's being recorded, so answering the question is giving consent to the recording.
I have so many questions, and the article is so shallow.
The health industry in US is broken :( and in a foreseeable future it's not being fixed
Madagascar provides 0.3% of the world's coffee-- you'll be fine :-) http://www.ico.org/prices/po-production.pdf

Artificial vanilla flavoring (vanillin) is actually preferred for many applications where the alcohol in true vanilla extract can't evaporate off and will harm the flavor more than the extra aromatic compounds will help.
Why gesture-based interfaces haven’t lived up to the hype
Interesting read. The report is on tea tree oil and lavender oil, we definitely do not use these. I can assure you also that any essential oils we use are diluted into the product and not pure concentrate.
what campaigns do you think the US is losing? What materially have we actually lost?

There's no sign of a stable liberal secular democracy emerging anytime soon in Afghanistan or Iraq is there? At the cost of trillions upon trillions of dollars if you only want to focus on material things. But you can point at an American campaign, Somalia, Vietnam as I've mentioned, any adventures in Latin America... And then there's Ukraine, whose territorial integrity America guaranteed in return for giving up its own nuclear weapons, and yet the Russians waltzed in an annexed the Crimea without any trouble at all.

America does all these things when it is in no danger itself, and millions upon millions of innocent people die because of it, and that is why people have misgivings about working on drone targeting.
Assuming they were travelling to the US for business purposes, this may, however, seriously cripple their ability to do keep doing business in the way they used to.
Just not sure how you would argue their a monopoly and not Walmart? or a mall for that matter? or Google in search?
I've had exactly the same thing today in my spam box. I didn't open the attachment, but I assume it's regarding a negative article I wrote.

Everything I wrote was the truth, and I can back up everything I said, so I'm not concerned.
>That's a false dichotomy though.

Now I feel misunderstood. I thought it was a perfectly good straw man argument, not just a measly false dichotomy.

always_good's complaint was about an embarrassingly fake personal tone coming from a complete stranger representing a corporation. S/he didn't complain about a lack of brutal honesty regarding an obviously deceptive business model.

In any event, it's a joke. I agree with both of you. You don't have to be glaringly dishonest either in tone or in the way in which you structure your business model.
This is not something you can reason about from first principles. The parent is talking about how the DoJ actually operates, not a theoretical construct.

That said, most warrants to collect evidence are not issued to the DoJ, they are issued to state and local prosecutors, who are often more aggressive than DoJ is (in part because so many AGs are elected, IMO).
> syntax is designed to be familiar to people coming from C-like languages like Javascript, Swift, C++, C# and many more

Besides Kotlin, other such modern C-like languages are Java, Dart, Go, and Groovy. But because Gravity is dynamically typed, a better peer language comparison would be Javascript, Groovy, Dart, and Swift. Each of those languages was designed for a specific platform, i.e:

* Javascript for the web in 1995

* Apache Groovy for the JVM in 2003 (still used for Gradle build scripts)

* Dart for the JVM and for Javascript (and more latterly for Fucshia, Android, and iOS) in 2011

* Swift for iOS in 2014

It's good to see modern dynamically typed languages reject Python's indentation and Ruby's `end` keyword, and settle around curly braces for scoping.
Not only that, but passionate IRC people still hold onto the belief that things like TLS are "useless"[1]

1. https://www.quakenet.org/articles/99-trust-is-not-transitive...
> The problem is that no human can actually be that attentive to such a system for hours on end day after day. Uber set an impossible task for these drivers. We shouldn't let them claim the existence of these drivers as legal protection from their own obvious negligence.

Did the driver got a driving license? What does that driving license tell him to do in a car? That is FAR more important than what you boss tell you, it's the freaking law.

It's like saying if you kill someone in your car after a long day of work, you aren't responsible because your boss gave you an impossible task to drive your car after such long hour. You are still freaking responsible of your driving. Can't do it? Then don't do it, it's that simple.

Put as much blame as you want on Uber, it doesn't change the fact that she drove that car and killed that person.
Many psychiatric conditions have the same genes in common
Why Medieval Monasteries Branded Their Books
sounds like WB hired a team of dev that used a source code template
So you’re the guy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (2014)
Certainly the bulk of the blame falls on Second Life and the printer manufacturers for not validating inputs.

But there's another valuable lesson about interpreting binary/string blobs: don't make guesses about the format of the data from its value. You'll eventually get data that looks like one thing but isn't, and do the wrong thing with it.

I run into this all the time. Just a couple weeks ago I spent a lot of time trying to track down a bug where a programmer had decided to use a de-serialization function that would take the value of a JSON field, look for an internal object with that ID and either return the object it found or initialize a new object using the string as a value (and a random ID). So guess what happened when I tried to create a new object with a value that happened to be the same as the ID of an existing object?

The Win32 issue is just looking at the first few bytes of the input to determine its format (and how to try executing it) - it's somewhat hard to avoid here for legacy reasons, but a better design would use metadata associated with the input to determine its format rather than guessing.
Not really. A very large %age of Canadian Maple syrup comes from St. Josephs Island in Ontario.
Exactly. "Just use a good client that's always online" doesn't change the fact that almost everyone else on IRC goes offline when they shut their laptop or into a tunnel and you can't even send them a message while they're offline.

IRC has deficiencies that ensure that only a small cabal of power users will endure it. I prefer to be part of communities that are more accessible to more walks of life than the person who was bothered to install irssi on his spare EC2 instance.

People who suggest that IRC is the pinnacle of chat really seem out of touch to me. For example, look how every Twitch streamer and subreddit have a Discord and almost never an IRC channel.
Within math: geometry, discrete math, and set theory are very proof heavy and pair well with trying to understand logical reasoning.

Other math (algebra, calculus, stats) can be proof heavy, but may require a higher level of math/logic sophistication to get into (you'd be looking at textbooks targeting university juniors and seniors, maybe even grad students). Whereas introductory geometry often includes proofs immediately, as do set theory and discrete math.

Good luck in your efforts.
The book "Void Star" by Zachary Mason was published last year. A high concept pitch for it is "Neuromancer, but all the 80s stuff is replaced with 2018 stuff". I hope the author wouldn't be offended by that -- the book is quite original but the influence is obvious. It's worth reading.

I would basically be okay with somebody doing this again in another 30 years.
In practice this is very easy to achieve with IRC if you just use a BNC or otherwise have a client always running, for example inside of tmux. A lot of IRC users run their client inside of tmux, then they attach to it from any device, desktop, laptop, or phone, anywhere they are. It has all the same connections, history, etc.

Of course I mean 'very easy' for someone who is used to the technical side of things. A normal user of GUI webapps likely isn't interested.
Maybe. I just started meditating again.
>You don't hear people saying things like "I want to be able to send/receive messages while offline on IRC" because they just use something else.

Almost. They still use IRC - but they extend functionality "outside of IRC" with bots. You don't hear this because people make bots with .tell commands that supplement this functionality. The next time a user logs in the bot will /msg them something like "You have 1 message. Use .read list to see a list of unread messages" then they ".read 1" they can then .reply or send their own .tell

Anything IRC "needs" gets supplemented by a bot that takes care of the functionality.
No it doesn't. BLS acknowledges and discredits this misconception. This data is not relevant to your claims, instead it shows unemployment insurance claims reducing over 2017-2018.
Competition is welcome, deep stack knowledge from driver to model building is hard to come by (it's more than just matrix multiplies).

To compete with CUDA you need high performance drivers and people that can write them, and also be able to anticipate and keep up with the future needs of ML as well as hardware development.