skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not ideal - I'll agree with you on that. But pragmatically I think it's really more of an illogical debate than one that makes any practical difference. Elected officials are still all too easily swayed by lobbyists and we see all too often that elected governments can get away with pushing unpopular legislation (UK Snoopers Charter, for example) if they want to.

The problem with democracy is people vote once every few years and see that as their voice being heard. In the meantime governments are free to do whatever they want just so long as they can win back public support in the weeks leading up to the next election.
I remember late in 1999 I overheard a guy talking to his friends about how he just quit his job to become a daytrader.

I saw a note on Quorum yesterday saying pretty much the same thing.

Makes me think.
Safari is heavily optimized for Mac, so porting it doesn't really make sense.
The whole concept of templating language on top of YAML is suspect anyway, but I wish Salt had just gone with Mako as the default templating language. That way you could write plain Python in your templates and not have this horrible misuse of Jinja.

I also have come to agree that a DSL is the best solution, though Puppet's particular DSL is not a great example. Projects that re-implement the same thing from scratch like mgmt[1] are on the right track, but probably won't gain enough traction.

[1] https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/language...
> Trying to do the same with a data-driven model is a hard sell

Just finished a SLAC Public Lecture [1]. Dr. Arkani-Hamed mentioned that the LHC produces about 1 billion collisions every second. Of those, about 10 per second are top quarks. Certain theoretical particles are expected to be detected at a rate of one per minute or hour or even day.

Blindly data mining amidst those kinds of frequencies doesn't make sense. There is a reason the scientific method starts with hypotheses.

[1] https://youtu.be/t-C5RubqtRA?t=33m18s
If the article is a one or two sentence article then you can't quote all of it.

If you've quoted an insubstantial portion then the law already says that's ok.
Isn’t it essentially the prototype for all modern browser dev tools though? As in, they are all substantially similar to what Firebug was like, and Firebug existed before any of the others?

I could be getting my history wrong, but from what I remember Firebug was absolutely mind-blowing.
Mozilla too gets to write certain bits. WebAssembly is all Mozilla. I guess Google has more resources to invest in Chrome is the bigger difference.
The geometric approach is promising. I am working on a project that implements it. It is still a work in progress but things are moving along quite nicely. You can read more about IEML at https://pierrelevyblog.com/my-research-in-a-nutshell/the-bas...

The researcher, Prof. Levy, is French :)
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The relevant part should be Amendment 746

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COMM...
No, it's a fundamental point.

The Commission (a vast body of appointees controlled totally by just one man) is the only EU institution that can actually initiate changes to the law. Every other body merely gets to slow it down. This means that if something is on the Commission's agenda, it gets proposed, and if the Commission disagrees, the views of the other institutions are worth nothing.

This setup is very clever because it allows the EU to look superficially democratic without actually being so. Look at all the people saying "write to your MEP" on this thread. It's useless, because of the following process:

1. The European "Parliament" cannot initiate changes to the law (i.e. it's not really a parliament). It can ask the Commission to do it on the Parliament's behalf, but the Commission can say no or propose something different.

2. Therefore, political parties in the EP don't have any real policies. They can't: creating a political party that e.g. campaigns for better immigration control is meaningless in the EU because the Commission will just say no.

3. Therefore, the sort of people who go to sit in the EP and try to win EP elections are basically yes-men, people so enthralled with the whole concept of the EU they just want to be a part of it in some small way, along with a small collection of people who are there only to troll and try to get their country to leave at the EU's expense, like Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen.

The entire system is designed to LOOK like a democratic government but without ever having to respond to what voters actually want.
There's probably billions of lines of Javascript code out there, code many people paid a lot of money to be written. Javascript isn't going anywhere.

What might happen instead is that there will be a sudden burst of front end languages running on WASM, which will allow some front end people to completely avoid Javascript.

It's hard to predict what the adoption of those languages will look like, there's a million factors in play and few of them are technical.
Besides what WebAssembly offers as general purpose VM, in an ideal world TypeScript would take JavaScript's place.
My advice is to learn as we humans learn best, through imitation.

Find some speakers that you admire, with online content, or videos. Next take a ~5 minute segment, which has a start and finish.

Turn off the video and formulate the same argument on your own, either in writing, or by recording yourself, depending on your goals. Now go back and compare to the original.

Whilst tedious this will highlight your own shortcomings, and the genius of those you are emulating far quicker than any passive approach, imo.
A lot hinges on how you define fairness. Is it unfair if a higher percentage of <racial group> is flagged as “criminal activity risks”, to use your example, than of <other racial group>? What if it aligns with reality?

No matter how accurate your metric is—nay, because of its accuracy—people will be mad at you because it reflects an underlying reality they are in denial of or believe is itself unfair, and want to rectify by requiring fictions elsewhere.

I don’t envy people working on this because you by definition can’t win. Some of the powerful political forces, on the one hand, and the demands for accuracy and effectiveness, on the other, are irreconcilable.
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>not a thing, by the way -- there are indentured servants, and slaves

I was making a point, akin to "wage slave".

Just because you entered a contract doesn't mean you weren't coerced into it (the inverse is the perennial argument of those OK with no minimal wage and sweatshop labor).
This is an interesting insight.

Yes, as industry has changed and retail has changed, city layouts should change too. It’s not just suburban malls that are affect by changing retail.
The EU is acting as a cartel.

It is unhealthy.
This is just a re-writing of "if you say there is no truth then what you say isn't true"

But that's missing the larger point which is that perhaps we shouldn't look at things as being true or false but instead useful. In other words "there is no truth" is, of course, neither true nor false but just a perspective that's useful (just like believing in truth can be).

I am fine with the incompleteness of this perspective (i.e. it's never fully resolved) and I would argue that philosophically there is no way around it (I can take any claim you make about truth and deconstruct it) and show that it's based on an apriori frame of reference.

So you have to think about it differently than "Truth" to understand the point of postmodernism.
Hmmm, if ASUS started selling 1080Ti for $500 instead of $1000, I am sure that would have resolved itself pretty quickly ;-)
I like javascript and think a lot of other people do as well so it probably won't go away just because of web assembly. I don't see too many people writing c# in browsers. I worked with c# backend and javascript front-end for 4 years and got sick of having to create classes for no other reason than because c# needed a type and other things like that.
> Because it only concerns them if they enter any agreement with this fictional entity, and they're free to choose to do or not do it.

Incorporation is a legal agreement between you and a government representing people around you that effectively acts as legal shorthand to create a basic set of rules and obligations.

If you just want it to remain your own fictional entity no-one is stopping you from inventing whatever rules you want as long as it remains in your own head, and nobody are requiring you to disclose any details. But you can't incorporate and expect to be able to dictate your own terms.

And the moment you enter into any kind of business under the name of your fictional, unincorporated entity, you're also entering into agreements with people on its behalf. If you do that on behalf of an entity that have no legal existence without making it explicit that said entity have no legal existence, you're harming people by tricking them into agreements where they lack legal protections they expected they'd have.

And if you do make it explicit, sure, I'm sure you could find a way of doing that which would be legal, but nobody would do it as they'd have no legal recourse against a non-existent entity if it doesn't hold up its side of the bargain. Feel free to try.

To put it another way: Nobody would accept entering into a contract with the Magic Kingdom (the fantasy place, not a legal entity of the theme park) unless Disney or a subsidiary is also party to the contract so they can sue Disney if the Magic Kingdom does not deliver on its obligations.

> Because people that lend you something would have to sign a contract (out of their own free will) where it clearly states that they're lending to a virtual "kingdom" of yours, where you can dismiss any debt you want.

They can't sign a contract with my virtual kingdom, because it has no legal existence. Any such contract would likely be void in the best case, or involve fraud on my end in the worst case.

However, if they sign a contract with me, they're just routing around my delusional "kingdom", and we're back to the point that I can't demand of society to accept my new type of corporate entity - I can't invent my own shorthand, because nobody else recognises it.
I am having trouble identifying which part of this text is relevant to the original complaint about the bureaucratic burden imposed by this law on owners of websites with user-uploaded content, e.g. Hacker News.

If it's regarding the "insubstantial parts" clause, that language is immediately neutered in the next sentence: "Member States shall be free to determine the insubstantial nature of parts of press publications." TL; DR Watch twenty-eight national regulators each interpret the law according to their own whims. In the meantime, pay your European lawyers every time a user quotes a BBC article in a comment.
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False analogy: pi exists in nature, we just discover it; while the web is entirely man-made - and as such, can be mandated.

Someone could legislate that all websites should be blue and http headers should be made of emojis, there is nothing in nature that would stop that from happening. In fact, network protocols themselves are basically laws for machines.
Thanks for the reply. I agree with your assessment but not your characterization.

You seem very plot-focused. One of the things I like about Murakami's writing is the somewhat random, unfinished quality. It's like life in that respect. The plot is generally incidental; his novels seem like they're meant to evoke an atmosphere and a feeling.

In other words, we are frequently dropped into the middle of an otherwise unremarkable character's life where they experience a turning point in their view of the world and (in many cases) reality. And then life goes on. In other words, the plot is only there to support the character's internal journey.
Yes, 1<<-3 can be detected as UB at compile time when doing constant propagation. But that wasn't my point (you could declare this expression invalid, no need for UB). I was pointing out that UB is not about "meaningless yet syntactically valid constructs" (if there is such a thing at all; I won't argue). UB in general manifests at run time. So I was only proposing a reformulation.

> In any case, C, in fact, often does have a runtime. What do you think executes main()?

Sure, that's why I said it has "no runtime" (in quotes). I'm not trying to split hairs here.
We don't have downvotes for disagreement. The guidelines clearly point that out.
I'm stuck with Chrome for more of my daily browsing because have been using Chrome browser as my password manager as well for non critical application accounts. Now every time I browse those apps/sites using firefox, i do not remember all of those passwords and need to go back to chrome again. And I been too lazy to go through the forgot password song and dance too. Is there any way to move the Chrome saved passwords over to Firefox?
Well, as a Leave voter I'd say that's not quite an accurate representation.

Clearly, 51% are sufficiently convinced it's bad to want to leave.

The remainder are not made up of people who think it's good. Many of them also think the EU is bad or deeply flawed in various ways, but that either leaving is too risky due to the EU's stated guarantee of severe retaliation, or that the EU is bad but the UK could stay and fix it.

In my own family we split down the middle. Two voted out, two to remain. The two remainers voted to stay only because they feared the economic consequences, and the promised recession that was supposed to follow any vote to leave (it didn't). Neither of them are especially keen on the EU, although they don't dislike it either. They didn't really think about it much before.
We can't know the truth but we can be it.
>It's the priests and priestesses of postmodernism that gets people's backs up isn't it, not so much the concept(s) itself.

Yes, that. Especially since the concept itself was never meant to be something one can opt to follow or not follow -- just a description of the reality we're in.

It's not that we're "postmodernists" that is, but that we live in a "postmodern" world -- and so we can't be anything aside from that.

As for Peterson, I see him as something orthogonal from postmodernism.

He is someone that talks from a traditional values standpoint in an era where different norms are becoming the mainstream. He doesn't say anything outrageous, in the sense that what he says would be common acceptable wisdom 30 or 50 years ago (and for tons of people still is).

The whole outrage is not because he's saying something inherently outrageous, but because he dares to publicly stray from the mainstream while still being mainstream.

Somebody could say the same things in a 1950 classroom or the president could say them in 1970s and nobody would bat an eyelash -- even among the leftist and more progressives. Heck, the Monty Python made fun of "gender identities" for example in the late 70s, and those bunch was and is as progressive as they come: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c
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They do not. Reddit has that rule, HN doesn't. (and old statements from moderators saying it's ok)
This is your personal interpretation and you might be right. But in reality, if it's not defined concretely enough (like in this case), courts will decide. Until then, everybody should rather refrain from linking, quoting and commenting.
Reminder: The WSJ is owned by NewsCorp, who owns FoxNews and NYPost
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Just tried this on my (much slower) Intel m3-6Y30 (microsoft surface) processor and it worked in just over a second. What Julia version are you running? Speed has been improving steadily with new releases.

> Unfortunately, in most scenarios the actual execution speed (where Julia is far superior) is secondary. People just tend to run larger experiments over night;

I don't think there are only two scenarios, one requiring instant feedback and dependent on fast startup time, and the other where programs can be run overnight. There are infinite cases in-between. And crucially what about programs that take several days if not weeks (such as the biomechanical data analysis I do in my work)? Execution speed for me (and many others) is essential and doing this work in Python is a pain (I was using it for the same kind of problems before I switched to Julia).
Anyone got a source that isn't behind a paywall? I can't find any of those quotes from the blurb on the web, not even from the ACLU themselves.
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[joke] Plot twist: A cousin of both Jensen Huang and Lisa Su was arrested in Taiwan for propelling price of BTC in the past year using bots running advanced Deep Learning. [/joke]

[not joke] Jensen and Lisa are family. [/not joke]
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Lets rename "Deep learning" to "Statistical Compression"

The previous name for what is now called “machine learning” was predictive statistics. But a better name for deep learning is “machine intuition” since it seems to work pretty well but can’t be readily explained
Most of said languages are already adopted. You can expect languages running server-side to target WebAssembly first.

The other great thing is that WASM libraries written in all sorts of languages will be available to all of them.
There's a lot of research out there that the reality is more subtle than just "free speech is free speech".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Its more like "How can I better understand the git protocol?" "By implementing it myself".

This was clearly labeled a learning experience. I doubt this person even intended it to be found as fast as it was.
Eventually all that will be left in the oceans are jellyfish.
> The description you gave is of a dysfunctional organization.

True but irrelevant. In my experience organizations are just like people in that every single one of them is dysfunctional in some capacity. You find ways to work around the dysfunction when it can't be fixed and life goes on.
Slippery slopes are real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Seeing the number of people using the phrase "link tax" in here is fucking baffling. This is a propaganda phrase that doesn't reflect what the law actually says.

If you think the law establishes a link tax you should be able to link to the article that does so.
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It may well do - there certainly are circumstances where the US will be lower.
hahaha I was looking through the comments to find someone trolling that tiny part of the comment and found it! internets is so predictable these days
It doesn't mean "deep and meaningful".

It would not be nearly as well funded were it not for this misconception on the part of budget holders, and everyone involved in ML knows it.
Yes, I want an all in one solution that's open.
I get back my original salary with this calculation.

75,000 / 2000 = 37.5 (average 2000 work hours PA)

37.5 * 2 = 75

Add three 0 and 75,000
RTX is going to obliterate it.
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Why would it do that? Javascript is more appropriate in the early stages of a project. You don't want to go to the trouble of declaring types everywhere only to realize everything has to change. Once you stabilize you can add in typescript, which is the great thing about it.
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I Am So Mad. I have had a new workstation purchase waiting for the cards to calm down and now I read this? We get no new technology and prices where a 1080ti equals the retail price of a Titan and now they have 300k to much inventory?

NVIDIA needs to be greeted with a Linus salute again. They have been horrible for Linux and horrible on me having a new workstation at work.
No, the issue is that young people and educated people are statistically Democrats (by large margins; I won’t comment further on why most smart/informed people are Democrats.)
And young and educated people want to live in cities because it seems like creative and technical jobs benefit from being near other creative smart people.

On a larger note, did you know that Steve Bannon was funded by billionaires to propagandize and radicalize young white male tech workers? That was his pitch for Breitbart as he raised funding. And he was funded by a billionaire (Mercer) who spent the money to get votes for cutting billionaire taxes. When do you think those young tech workers will figure out that they’ve been suckered?
I'm not going to disagree with you that there are serious faults with the way the EU is structured, but...

> The entire system is designed to LOOK like a democratic government but without ever having to respond to what voters actually want.

The same could be said for any major democracy I've followed. How often is it UK voters get the policies they (we) want? Who actually voted for the snoopers charter (etc)? What about American voters? Policy over there is often biased against the average voter. The depressing reality is that normal voters opinions don't generally amount for much when it comes to law making.

I think Sir Winston Churchill put it best when he said:

> Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Your experience serves as a valuable lesson that everyone should keep in mind. If you aren’t completely aware of the risks you’re taking you should be wary. Information security is something lot of folks are oblivious to in even the basic sense. So I completely understand how your situation happened and why you have an aversion to it. However, I still think there’s value in the phrase but it should be used judiciously. There are plenty of low/non-risk situations where the obstacles are entirely bureaucratic.

That said I think your cautionary tale is really valuable and your uncompromising view toward the phrase actually serves to emphasize how serious everyone should take it. If I were you I wouldn’t change a thing. Actions can have real and sometimes dangerous consequences.

We should always try to understand what we’re putting at risk (as much as we can) so at the very least we can weigh the unknown risks even when asking permission. If you can’t even list the risks off mentally that’s probably a good sign that you should stick to asking permission.
Because it's not tenable and not desirable for any countries' laws to apply to the internet.

Imagine what would happen if China decided that it made a law outlawing any and all mentions of the Tienanmen Square Massacre and decreed that because of that law, all websites which serve information to Chinese people should comply or face massive fines?
Case in point, I suppose! Thank you!
Which "compromises" the key, according to current Certificate Authorities policies. Once again the problem boils down to CAs being the sole "anchors of trust" in the current certificate system.
This is the second comment formatted in a very similar way, responding to the same points in the same way. Having learned about troll farms, I have to wonder how many HN accounts are run by people sitting in cubes, posting talking points and paid by the corporate lobbyists who are pushing these laws through the EU parliament.

teamhappy, your arguments make no sense. Obtaining a license to quote a news article? YouTube's content filtering held up as an example of a system that works well? These are ridiculous statements. I hope you are getting paid well and don't really believe this stuff.
There are lots of parameters in about:config to tweak scrolling (unlike in Chrome). Try searching for 'wheel'