skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The salt of the earth doesn't give a shit about the local government; they just want to be left alone for the most part.

The issue is getting the signatures in the first place, which requires canvassing, which requires paying someone to organize all of that. The last example of a successful canvassing that we had was a grab at a monopoly over growing ops, which was funded partly by a former member of the boy band NSYNC.

The other hurdle is approval by the legislature. In Ohio it's not as simple as "get signatures, get on the ballot".
Possible steps in that direction https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/08/trump-endorses-marijuana-...
Have you tried Flutter? That's looking promising.
The status page is currently timing out for me: https://status.posthook.io/
It's Airbnb!
There was a published paper in CGO 2011 on load-bearing NOPs by Google.

https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub37077
China-based campaign breached satellite, defense companies: Symantec
"Are we really saying that Tesla, a company building highly sensitive software, is not employing basic branch policies?"

I suspect they aren't. They're trying to hit a number. Elon is on site personally stepping on anything that might impede that goal. They're in desperation mode, running a car company like a startup, erecting tents to house parts of the plant, firing contractors left and right. Are some of their coders banging in changes with little to no review and pushing to "production" -- such as it is -- right off master? Would not surprise me at all.

I don't know what to believe. On one hand Elon claims they've got some sort of admission from someone. On the other I remember the theories he entertained when a Falcon 9 blew up on the pad; “We literally thought someone had shot the rocket.” I tried to explain how infeasible that would be but people don't want to hear it; lots irrational thinking around all things Musk/Telsa.

Anyhow, sabotage isn't uncommon in big plants. Grievances emerge and people sometimes pull some Bolt Weevil stunts to hit back. Usually manufacturers deal with the problem as quietly as possible. Elon, knowing perfectly well his email would leak, decided to make a splash instead. Maybe looking to line up some excuses if they miss the number. Who knows...

"That is a far more worrying issue"

Not for me. We have filled the world with safety; everyone playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules. Nice to see an exception. Yes, even if it costs a few lives.
Edit: I wrote x1.* instances. I meant i3.* instances.
>> You think horrifyingly painful medical conditions are extremely rare

>Yes. In particular, they are much less of a concern than the epidemic of people killing themselves with opiates.

Wow. The only thing I am slightly comforted by is the fact that if you or someone you love lives long enough, you will likely come to regret those words. Because almost all of us will eventually suffer from severe, horrifying pain if we live long enough. I don't want anyone to suffer from severe, chronic or acute pain, but I do appreciate the compassion and enlightenment that usually results from such suffering.

By the way, I do agree that he picked a bad example patient, since there are thousands of people with horrific diseases, organic diseases, who are being denied adequate pain relief at the present.

Finally, in case it's not clear, it's completely possible to be compassionate to both people with severe chronic and acute pain, as well as to those people who are dying from addiction issues. But as we'll continue to see, eliminating prescription pain medication will do nothing to lower the opiate death toll, since most addicts are dying from illegally manufactured heroin, carfentanyl, etc.
Bay Area subway and rail costs: Why are they among the highest in the world?
An asylum seeker under US law is anyone who requests asylum within a year of entry. There is no question that these people are legitimate asylum seekers. Many of them will not meet the criteria to be granted asylum, but that does mean that their requests are not legitimate.
Politicians are more often mirrors of society than agents of change. Demand change from them, they aren't reading Hacker News. If they refuse change, campaign against them.
Seems more like at-as-a-service?
The crime isn’t seeking asylum. It’s entering the country illegally.

The asylum part is irrelevant for anything beyond creating a sob story for marketing politically divisive messaging.
Export Shape in Slide to SVG and Inserting Item to a List at Specified Position
Which is a terrible engine but makes thing beautiful.
People getting hooked on prescription opiates is a single digit percentage of the patients prescribed. It is a large double digit percentage of opiate overdose deaths. Thats what happens when you take something reasonably safe and overprescribe it by orders of magnitude because of criminally misleading misinformation from Purdue Pharmaceuticals.
I agree FWIW, but I suspect capitalists would be fine discriminating blindly against all colors of a lower class. Race has always been an effective means to this end in America: if the people feeding your wallet are at each other’s throat, they might not notice who’s pocketing the cash.
I'm European; I think the word has a little different meaning here than it does in the USA. It has nothing to do with political correctness. It's common (in most European languages including both Slavic and Latin ones) to call your girlfriend a "partner" here. The word means that you're in it together ("business partner" is also used, BTW), whatever it is; when your girlfriend becomes a wife, she still is your partner (or at least you hope she is). Sometimes the word is used to empathize that he/she isn't just "some random" boy/girl friend and that it's a long term serious relationship.
And thank goodness for that!
If we want to tackle black boxes, the problem isn't so much WebAssembly as it is Canvas itself. As to whether the benefits of that outway the problems it introduces... eh, people can decide that for themselves.

Not to diminish what you're saying because I agree with you, but I'm less upset about malicious site operators (they could always have been doing this even before WebASM) and more concerned about the beginner (or advanced) programmer that's looking at this thinking, "sweet, I can write my app in Qt, hit an export button, and everything will magically just be fine."

Honestly, I'm not even upset at that developer - they should be able to just hit a button and have it magically work.

I'm upset that Qt isn't rendering any of their stuff to the DOM. CSS is good enough to handle this nowadays, it can't possibly be easier to write their own rendering engine from scratch than it would be to just use the tools that are already built into every browser.

They should be using Canvas only as a fallback when nothing else will work.
An interesting question; here is one negative datum: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/06/no...

I find it interesting that lead use also seems to follow the trajectory of drug usage / permissiveness in the '70s: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/06/15/grass-roots-the-rise-and-...
Does anyone know any good studies looking at this in different countries?

For example, lots of communist countries had ridiculous levels of lead pollution. Does this show up in their crime & IQ stats, as articles like this suggest it should? They also (sometimes) took great effort to mix up the population, putting all social classes in the same building... which would help avoid one complaint here, that obviously people who could afford to do so chose not to live in the most polluted bits of American cities.
For all we know it's this pattern of behavior that has motivated this current pushback by Microsoft staff. I'm sure you're aware that some political issues attract wider attention than others, and that while people rarely march in the streets to protest the NSA the same is not true of other agencies.
For me it is specifically this.

Here is a class:

import React from 'react'

export default class class ChooseFontLevel1 extends React.Component {

constructor(props) {
super(props)
}

render = () => <span>foo</span>
}

And here is the (almost) same class, with the boilerplate required to use Redux:

import React from 'react'
import {connect} from 'react-redux'

class ChooseFontLevel1 extends React.Component {

constructor(props) {
super(props)
}

render = () => <span>foo</span>
}

function mapStateToProps(store, ownProps) {

return {
fontPreviewsCache: get(store, `fontPreviewsCache`),
}
}

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
return {
onTodoClick: id => {
dispatch(toggleTodo(id))
}
}
}

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(ChooseFontLevel1)

To use Redux I need to entirely restructure my code.

And if the comment is "You don't need all that stuff", then why is it an option at all?

Also mapStateToProps is poorly named and confusing because it isn't talking about anything to do with ReactJS component state, although it's a reasonable assumption, it's talking about the Redux state... there's a bag of confusion for you and enough to make a beginners head spin because their head was already spinning about what ReactJS state is.

I'd also suggest that Redux has made a rod for its own back by calling "the thing that gets data out" as "reducers", instead of something like "getters". "Reducers".... argh we're now in computer science land and not the land of the practical programmer. A reducer, what is that? Beginners certainly don't know and you have to learn and become experienced with Redux to come to understand that in fact a Reducer is

Equally, cognitive load would have been reduced if actions were named "setters" or something familiar and similar to the actual functionality.

Redux itself isn't that hard once you understand it, but it's put up big cognitive barriers around itself so that you need to be an expert to eventually discover that you don;t need to be an expert.
Eulerian magnification should show artifacts of the slow down.
VLIW compilers construct a "bundle" of instructions which are to be executed simultaneously, and thus must be completely independent of each other. The VLIW compiler must further space "bundles" apart such that any use-bubbles are respected (i.e., a load won't be ready for 3 cycles, etc.).

EDGE compilers construct "blocks", each made up of many instructions which are tightly connected, and send the block to an execution cluster which will dynamically schedule each instruction within the block as it sees fit.

Communication of dependencies across blocks is more expensive. Hopefully there is enough parallelism across blocks that you can execute multiple blocks simultaneously, in addition to ILP within the block itself.
"The bill will likely receive Royal Assent this week..."
“Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint decide to cut out middlemen and sell directly to location data consumers.”
I was lukewarm towards the rights of undocumented immigrants prior to Trump. But his actions in dehumanizing a whole class of people who are desperate for help and support as "criminals" have changed my views. As a father, the screams of children being separated from their parents is haunting. I hear the cries of my own daughter. I can't even begin to imagine her trauma if someone forcibly separated her from me. This is barbaric and inhumane at such a fundamental level that I know how anyone can support this.
I am not a doctor, but I do appreciate you sharing your perspective.

Thank you.
I think I recall reading that manholes are round for the same reason. More resistant to erosion of the ground or something than square shaped holes.
Technically Elizabeth is the Queen of Canada. Her titles elsewhere don't mean anything. Otherwise, she does indeed have to give royal assent, which will be done via the Governor General.
They tried and failed pretty recently. It takes a while for people to get on board again when something fails so miserably like that. It took healthcare 15 years to come back after it failed in 94.
Don't worry, you can still pay outlandish prices for top tier A-Z support, where you can argue for a week with a drone that no, their system is not properly following the HTTP RFC, and here's the TCP dumps to prove it.

Imagine if we didn't have an operations engineer who knew how to trace down the problem using a TCP dump. Or if it had been a developer who was, by the proper "DevOps" hygenics, denied access to the boxes to run TCP dumps.

Yeah, they're fixing it. No, we don't have a timeline.
Another source of lead pollution that I wasn't aware about until buying a house on former orchard land is that lead arsenate was used as an insecticide against the coddling moth for several decades. It is a large issue in Eastern Washington State where a lot of former orchard land has become schools, housing and parks.
I didn't mean the dropshipping is inherently morally murky (which I'll get to in a moment), but that Theive.co harvesting all their user data, then selling that to other companies to use for marketing and whatever else you can do with the data is morally murky.

I used to work for a company that was intending on selling all their user data to third parties (anonymised, of course) as an extra revenue stream. It definitely made me uncomfortable, my boss fully intended to sell as much of the data as legally possible. It was one of the reasons I left the company, especially considering the nature of the data we held.

Now, back to dropshipping. Falsely representing your product as "normally $80, now free if you just pay $10 for shipping" like in the linked podcast is false advertising. It's also probably illegal, you can't put product costs into shipping costs. It's a pump and dump scam. It's like the classic fake watch scam run on street corners all over the world, except you're now wheeling and dealing on the internet instead.

Selling a bunch of drop shipped Hawaiian shirts by using clever marketing, that's fine. The shop I mentioned made no misrepresentations, they didn't claim they were bespoke shirts made in some little village on a Pacific Island. They didn't claim that they were offering a massive discount.

But if you claimed that you were some bespoke Hawaiian shirt manufacturer who's just started up, and you're giving away shirts if you just pay shipping and tag your mates in the post. That's sort of sketchy isn't it? You can see the moral difference here? Maybe you buy some likes and followers on Facebook or Instagram to make you look more legitimate. Put a couple of stock photos of your "employees" in some remote village in the Solomon Islands. Maybe claim that your shirts are ethically sourced. Are we getting into morally wrong territory here?
Maybe for the average consumer market, but there are lots of industries who currently use simulation software and are slowly moving to VR and away from expensive multi screen (very permanent) setups.

Take "Verification of Competence" activities used to on-board and train people who use specific plant/machinery. If you want to work on a mine driving a large truck, you'll usually have to do a virtual test to show your prospective employer that you can efficiently pilot $500,000 worth of machinery.

Health and safety training in complex plants. Run simulations on an immersive virtual model, rather than sitting at a computer screen.

Train driver training. Drivers need to do a particular number of trips to learn the route (accelerating and braking for turns, stations etc) this can be in field or virtual but required to ensure safety.
Ah shoulda mentioned I looked at part 1's minified code and assumed the same for part 2. Thanks for clarifying :)
From what I’ve seen and heard the answer with lead is an unequivocal no - once lead exposure has occurred, the damage is done. It’s compounding and irreversible.
Unlike Stephen King, Dick's books aren't very easy to read from cover to cover,

Perhaps, but PKD's short stories are EXTREMELY easy reads! They have been collected in various forms over the years, and I can't think of a single thing on my bookshelf that's more of a blast to re-read once in a while.

Here's the collection I have. There are others; this is just the one I've got:

https://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Reader/dp/0806537949
That depends on the field. Researchers are encouraged to publish artifacts with their paper in some fields to increase reproducibility. For example, most big programming language conferences (PLDI, POPL, OOPSLA etc.) let you submit your artifact, get it evaluated and award your paper with a badge noting you also have an available, working implementation.
There has been a tremendous amount of work and money and success on this. https://www.edf.org/health/interactive-chart-forty-years-sou...
To anyone reading this who wants to try DBSCAN, give its more recent brother HDBSCAN a go. The H stands for hierarchical and it's way better when dealing with clusters that aren't very similar (think big vs small).

There's an excellent pip package that seamlessly integrates woth scikit-learn too!
Could you explain why you think the class-oriented interface is better than the data-oriented one?

Personally, I don't see it. The class-oriented one is more official looking, but classes almost require instantiation and introspection to be understood at runtime.

Can JS classes even be generated at runtime? I'm sure they can, if you desugar them, but the class syntax isn't composable.
Interesting read, but I did want to touch on this paragraph at the end.

> PS: I am willing to bet the recent issue with YouTube Piracy filter blocking MIT courses and the Blender Foundation are the result of The Machine being the ultimate decider. Even though YouTube's support team clearly knows that these don't violate terms and conditions, the Machine decided otherwise. And they will have to fight it to death to bring the videos back online.

According to Blender the issue is that YouTube is requiring them to switch to monetized. No more free rides once you're that big.

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...
Never hold a PP balance. If you receive money into your PP account, treat it as unavailable unless you successfully spend it on goods or services.
Never link your PP account to a bank account.
Only fund your PP account with a credit card, so you have some protection when things go wrong.
> I wonder how many state has to legalize it before the federal government in USA is forced to change their classification.

It's already arguably legal under federal law under the equal protection clause because congress legalized it in DC. As far as I know the feds aren't locking anyone up for possession of small amounts.

E.g.: https://novacriminalattorney.com/marijuana/marijuana-legaliz...
Yup. Plenty of houses have asbestos siding and lead paint - neither of which poses a significant danger to the average adult as long as it isn’t disturbed. (Asbestos siding is durable, fireproof, and holds paint well too!)
Hotmail success, yes.

Amazon success, yes.

Yahoo, had alot of money and continuously pissed it away on poor choices (Mark Cuban, just to name one. 5MB limit on email).
>The assertion that America is only for people who are already here is both radical and relatively recent. That's what's crazy.

Benjamin Franklin directly puts forth and supports the notion of America as a place for white people(British/saxon) in the 1750s.
If you love importing whole South America into the USA why won't you just go live there? And leave people, who wouldn't be thrilled to have Pablo Escobar as their neighbour alone?
Could you elaborate on why you believe security tokens to be a bad idea?
They are from Siberia
"You know, it takes a lot to travel from Siberia"
That hasn't been true since 1982.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Act,_1982

Edit with more details: in the early 80s, Trudeau senior got the British government and Queen out of the way to changes in Canadian law. We choose our own Governor general who has the authority to give Royal assent to any laws we pass without involvement of anyone in England.

Our current G.G. is Julie Payette, a former astronaut.
Agreed. Also, companies don't just fail for any random reason, and unless the underlying assets have been destroyed in some way, they still will retain their value. I'm struggling to even think of a reason why Amazon would fail, but let me try to think up a scenario.

Jeff Bezos and his top advisors get extremely complacent and happy in life and begin spending all their time playing golf or flying rockets or etc. Basically, they stop running Amazon as a company somehow (which would be a violation of a lot of laws since they're a publicly traded company).

The thousands of engineers and staff continue to sit at their desks and do nothing for a few months and just watch Netflix all day.

Simultaneously, Walmart, Sears, RedHat, and like 7000 other companies that compete with Amazon join forces to begin wooing over Amazon customers from all walks of life.

Eventually the checks start bouncing, developer salaries go unpaid at Amazon, the stock tanks, and the company goes bankrupt. Whoever was long Amazon probably faces financial ruin.

The real estate and physical assets are auctioned off to the highest bidder, and consumers may or may not benefit from Amazons lack of presence in the marketplace anymore
I had a related experience wherein I asked Paypal for a debit card. They denied my request and locked my account (with money in it) until I provided a multitude of documents to verify my identity and ownership of my bank account.

Of course, they could provide no information about why this happened or how to avoid it. I became a lot more conservative about using Paypal again, and never did make another request for a debit card.
Or this is one of those historic moments where human civilization enters a new phase of international value creation and value transfer with monetary policy forever decoupled from government. That is the crypto narrative. ICOs and security tokens used for international crowdfunding are part of that bottom up borderless future.
As I understand it, Haxe is best suited for writing cross-platform games, not applications that use each platform's native widgets. That would make it a non-starter for me because of accessibility.
It has become a pretty common complaint lately that people should only have their protests in places where the only people that will see them are the people that already agree with them.
The point here is not the raise, but the promotion itself. It's leverage for joining other large companies ("I was a Senior SWE at Google, so you'll need to offer me a Staff SWE role"), and as the OP notes, it lets them come back to the new level without having to go through the promo gauntlet again.
Just wait until China imposes tariffs to services from US headquartered companies.
I also associate him more with existentialism and other, more general fiction than science fiction. I've mainly associated "science fiction" as adventure stories that incorporate new technological gadgets.

Philip K. Dick goes more in the direction of some new invention and its effects or consequences to the human condition. Not that this doesn't happen in other science fiction, but this is just what I've seen in my limited experience.
The easy way to fix this is to contact Facebook and declare Mark Zuckerberg deceased, no?
How DeepMind's Latest AI Hints at Machines That Think More Like Us