skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But subjectivity could very well be an illusion.

This sounds like a contradiction. What is being illuded? If there is no subject, there can't be an illusion.
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> tons of negatives for society

Can you expand on this? I also can't really parse what your second paragraph is trying to say. How do businesses that rely on ads undermine organic product discovery, and what conflict of interests could they have?
> The menu is functionally completely broken.

Works fine for me on Firefox Nightly.
If you think the FSB is after you then you'll need better countermeasures than just running Tails on your own machine.

For the rest of us, Tails and Qubes are big improvements over an HP laptop with Windows and its ecosystem of bloatware and spyware.
It makes me wonder why would Compaq / HP, or whoever was owner of DEC at the time, have let this valuable asset go for so little...
There's a lot of assumption about future behavior here.

I think there are a couple reasons to be hopeful about court systems taking a more nuanced view of this technology: 1) it cannot be denied that it is imprecise, and 2) it's pretty easy for laity to understand (at least in principle) how it works. DNA evidence is effectively magic by comparison.

I actually think the imprecision is an asset for this technology. I would much rather this tool be 95% reliable than 99.99% reliable. The former inherently requires law enforcement to work harder; the later tempts "oh the machine said so it must be right".
They say that they brought some new search features to mobile, though I would prefer if they fixed their search on desktop (or in general) first, as it only returns results from recent messages.

Until sometime in 2016/2017 it was possible to look for specific things at whatever time (e.g. 2011) and now even things from <3y ago don't return anything.
Yeah not just another dimension but another dimension with special properties.
Well, break is an explicit statement that will force execution to continue after the current block. I.e. it breaks out of the current list of of statements.

I'd argue that flowing through cases is a very implicit behavior. It would be the only control-flow behavior in Python where execution continues at a sibling block. I think it kind of follows from the way switch statements used to be implemented using jump-tables in C, and is pretty surprising for people who learn the language today (i.e. those who didn't learn C by first learning assembler).

I'd argue that flow-through should be made explicit, e.g. using "continue" -- if it's a necessary feature, which is yet another discussion.
Wow you just made me feel old :-)
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To implement Option 3, it most likely suffices to remove any mention of self.fall in https://github.com/aroberge/experimental/blob/master/experim...
> raises some concerns about whether the product provides any value at all.

How? Spending on fb/insta is no different than print & tv. Air BnB ads are probably 5x as effective on FB than on a billboard, how does that say anything about their product?
This is a strange comment, to me.

What should they have done? Reached out to the family of the anonymous follower? What does the "popular Instagram influencer" owe to someone who enjoys his/her photos?
Since you can also use numbers, shouldn't that read "all permutations (...) 36x36 = 1296 .com domains" ?
Take your $85,000 car into service and they destroy it
> I can say we spent a ton of time debating this but we felt that the fact one is an enterprise file share and the other a document database service focused on mobile and web would mean very little conflict for customers.

How about naming one as Cloud FileStore and other as Cloud DbStore?
I’m not in the US, but I do remember. The thing is I remember other disasters relating to energy, including yearly deaths from pollution. It’s not as though gas, oil, and coal production or use are somehow safe, free from catastrophic failure, and subsequent deaths.
At least through 1992-1993 the registration was free, all it took was an email to a bot at InterNIC that handled the form.

I remember having a two-digit handle with InterNIC, too bad that wasn't worth anything. =)
There was actually no registration fee at all until 1997. I registered several domains that were "free" and remember having to pay $99/year for them at one point...
I only use firefox (for privacy reasons). But the macbook-burning-a-hole-in-my-pants behaviour that firefox creates on these sites has led me to using mpv with youtube-dl to watch most of youtube and all of twitch. If you have both installed you can just do a 'mpv https://www.twitch.tv/username' and it will work quite nicely. You might need to set up mpv to get the best quality, I think putting 'ytdl-format=bestvideo+bestaudio/best' in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf is sufficient. HTH.
The JSON thing they have fixed - I think I didn't make it explicitly clear in my comment. But it was that tree view for quite some time after the new devtools revamp.

About the full browser hangs - maybe it was my own system, but I usually had Slack and Gmail open. And those tabs already ate a lot of RAM, making FF sluggish. Opening the scripting tab on my own dev site used to make the browser just get stuck. Devtools didn't use to respond either, but clicking on the close button sometimes worked, so I had to hope that I could click on the cross button without triggering the dreaded "This app has stopped responding" dialog.
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I believe they were done by email or online form (edited to be more accurate), but were all verified by a human and entered into the database manually. So you had to wait for the processing run to get your domain in, which was at the whims of the person who had to process them.
How about zstd?

https://github.com/facebook/zstd
Your question presupposes the existence of a subject and is therefore circular. An "illusion" does not need a subject, it's merely a fact that, taken naively at face value, entails a false conclusion.
Where I disagree is with jury nullification. If I can convince a jury of my peers that although I may be guilty, the law is immoral, I can be found not guilty.

Good luck getting a judge to do that.
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It's an illusion in a similar way that multitasking on a single CPU is an illusion.
> consciousness is essentially an illusion

This sounds like a contradiction. What is being illuded? If there is no subject, there can't be an illusion.
I see two problems with your argument.

One - you are giving humans and plastic a lot of benefit of doubt. Time and again, it is demonstrated that human convenience trumps environmental concerns. So governments can have state-of-the-art recycling facilities but getting people to co-operate is an uphill challenge.

Second - the nature of plastic itself. You are basing sustainability on cost to environment in production but not taking into account the cost of disposal. The world is rapidly moving towards sustainable sources of energy and thus energy consumption is becoming less of a concern. Glass, cucumbers etc can be sustainably disposed off or recycled but plastic can't be - at least not all kinds currently in use/production.

And the cucumber example is a little disingenuous. A lot of the cucumber product is fast moving and fly off the shelves rapidly. Number of cucumbers being actually consumed is >>> than the number of cucumbers being spoiled. But the environment has to deal with sum total of all the plastic used to wrap the cucumber - even those which were consumed rapidly and would have not been spoiled at all.
I think the fact the FDA has rejected plenty of drugs for companies who have been “working the system” is proof enough.

Generally manufacturers are scared of the FDA. They have a lot of power and aren’t afraid to use it.
Piling on what others have said, the Web wasn't even a thing until the early 90's. There was minimal commercial value in a domain name at that point, so no incentive to squat on it and try to extort money. What did your average business or person care about a domain name in 1987? It wasn't one of the most critical pieces of your brand, as it is now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17390527
Yup, they sure were.
> Zapper’s two biggest limitations are that it does not currently support conditional rendering or nested templates (like foreach loops over the elements of an interior list).

Sounds useful.
Works for me.

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Is it stealing if the person gives it to you?
What is EDA/ASIC design tools? AutoCAD?
There is speculations (interpretations) that quantum processes are random. But we can never be sure since we still don't know the true nature of reality.
It’s suprising that even Auchan in France doesn’t do this.
Look closely at their announcement: you will see "enterprise" a few times there.

While it doesn't make sense from an Individuals perspective, for enterprises it certainly is pretty affordable.
Nah, I like GDPR.

Companies say they take privacy, security “seriously” and just look around you.
Not op, but:

> Do you have "feeds" with pictures that correspond to a specific interest of yours? (Is Instagram actually the best place to find interesting pictures on a range of topics?)

Yes, the explore page has tabs for topics.

> Do you post a lot yourself or is it virtually all "consumption"?

Both. Consumption of all my different interests from small and major content producers. Then I post my photos to my ~150 friends.

> Would you say the identity of the posters plays a significant role (friends, celebrities... ?) or is it really more about the content?

Content for me, but I do seek out some specific accounts because I know what to expect.
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Thanks everyone! Setting `general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel` to false and increasing `mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount` x 4 did the trick. I'll be switching to Firefox for now.
>I don't think that's correct.

It is:

https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/
https://www.apple.com/iphone-7/specs/

>I can see the coarse nature of the screen quite easily and it's highly annoying.

You are probably confusing it with a 3GS or something else. Apple has been selling “Retina Displays” ever since the iPhone 4.
You can't see the pixels in any such screens at any reasonable viewing distance.

>…the size is also too small to be of much use as a smartphone

That's not a statement of fact. The SE sells very well and not only because of its price.

>TFA is responsive to screen size, but there's only so much you can expect a website to scale. Just like a current website will look bad on a 8k monitor, it will also look bad on a smart watch screen.

That's not how responsive design works, that's just bad design. There's no technical reason to specify a minimum/maximum size and work within that range.

And that's not what they did either. Their CSS is responsive, they just added a <table> element (which is notoriously bad on mobile) that can't scale beneath 334px with current font/padding/border settings. That's just laziness or ignorance.
I'm with you, but it does seem like he's referring to "Lord of War" more than "Gun Shop Owner." The guy selling RPGs to known criminals isn't the same as the guy who sells me my AR15s
Ubiquiti runs a demo of it here: https://demo.ubnt.com/manage/site/default/dashboard
It's always intriguing to see these things, and how some prey on basic math skills.

My girlfriend's mother dragged us to see a presentation associated with one of the "Flipping" TV shows.

They, of course, wanted to invite you into their program. It was "hugely successful". How successful?

"We've funded $100MM of house purchases for our members! We have nearly 8,000 members across the country!"

Well, $100MM in support sounds awesome for most things. Then you think about it more. And let's be generous to them, say the average house they buy costs $100K. That's 1,000 homes they've funded.

But hang on, they have 8,000 members. And they boast that some of those members have flipped 20+ homes each! That means, wait, less than 1 in 10 of the people who "joined their ($4,995) program" ever flipped a house through them...

That's not the kind of math they like you breaking down at those seminars for the other members during the meal break...
Print & TV ads don’t stalk me everywhere I go nor steal my personal information so I don’t mind. They are also vetted by the publisher to weed out bad actors so there’s a low risk of scamming.

Web ads, on the other hand...
I think its worth adding some additional phonetic context around this remark (I made a similar remark and my coworkers thought I was making a racist joke).

The reason native Japanese speakers struggle with "R" and "L" sounds is because they just have one phoneme to work with, which sounds (to a native English speaker) like a combination of "R", "L", and "D". If you aren't exposed to phonemes at a young age, it is difficult to expand your set later in life.

An analogous difficulty might exist for English speakers if a Chinese company came up with two product names which used the exact same sequence of syllables, but had "tonal" differences in pronunciation.
Please don't encourage security nihilism[1].

There are very real measures people can take to protect their privacy, and convincing people otherwise creates harm.

[1] https://noncombatant.org/2016/01/28/against-security-nihilis...
> there's experimental data to back it up

To back what up, exactly?
I had a similar experience.

After ~18 years of Java I was feeling very burnt out. Initially it was the concurrency model and how it was being widely used. This itself drove me to find alternatives.

I started off knowing that Go, Scala, and Clojure (among others) offered cleaner abstractions on this. I figured I'd learn them a little and see where that took me - Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks was the book I first looked at.

It honestly didn't take long, but something with Clojure just clicked with me. Concurrency aside, the REPL experience and immutable data grabbed me and said "Keep learning this language!"

So I took an old game that I'd done in Java (with OpenGL bindings) and started rewriting it in Clojure. Loved the experience and kept working on any problems I could find to try out the functional approaches I was learning.

The punch-line is I fell in love with programming again. I was able to find my passion, to realize again why I went into this field. Slowly turned the career direction and now work full time with Clojure.
What about giving me an easy option to export my messages while you are at it?
I didn't read the article (yet) but this quote "drug companies commit to researching how well their drugs work after going on the market" means (correct me if I'm wrong here) that drug companies get to use the market as guinea pigs ? Do you take it to mean that? Others?

I mean, there is no way that can be true, is there? The FDA is allowing private, for-profit companies (many with an already checkered past) to utilize citizens as their motherfucking lab rats? Ummmmmmmm.....no way.

Don't we (the people, right?) get to vote on this or something? This doesn't seem very just.
> Is the implication that if you didn't tip, then the service was bad?

Yes. That is the implication.

> it should be a given that the service adequately good in the normal course of business

Yes, as you say, it usually is adequately good. What about when it isn't?

Not all service is good. Not all service deserves tipping and not all service is going generate repeat customers.

As for myself, I'm all about the food. If the food is good and it gets out to me in a timely manner, I'm a happy camper, and I'll tip 20% (at a tipping-type location).

What about the times when the service is egregiously poor? You could choose to contact management. Surely they would want to know why you won't be eating there anymore... You could tip 2 pennies to communicate to the server that their service was poor... I've heard both of those suggestions.

I choose to communicate this by lowering the tip I leave, and in the absolute worst cases, leave no tip at all. Perhaps there is a better option. I don't consider leaving a 20% tip to be that better option.
"They" can't target you if they don't know who you are to begin with.

A milquetoast public persona coupled with extensive Tor usage is quite privacy protecting :)
Man, If I had a nickel every time someone used that reply...

> If there is no subject, there can't be an illusion.

A common misconception, but incorrect. An illusion is simply a fact that, when taken at face value, entails a false conclusion. There is no reason a computer system can't be deceived by an illusion too, even one without "consciousness".
For that matter, /8 blocks were given out, if not quite like candy, certainly with considerable abandon. A fair number of the early universities and companies who registered ended up with complete /8 blocks all to themselves.

[EDIT: Duh. Of course, it was actually Class A blocks at the time.]
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Ugh. Does discussing ontological repercussions of anything ever brought a practical result?

Especially with such lack of logical rigor as shown when even otherwise decent scientists are talking about consciousness...

Mathematics has much more consistent definitions of categories and similar concepts with real measurable results and applications.
You're doing it wrong. Hire an agency who knows what they're doing.

Your "ad" is just content marketing. This difference is you pay with your time (or others time) to create it, rather than paying for it to be put in front of other's eyes.
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Why not figure out why plastic ends up in the ocean and solve that problem? Motor oil in the oceans is far more dangerous than plastics, but no sane person is advocating banning lubricants. Instead laws and practices were developed to ensure used oil doesn’t end up in storm drains and water supplies.
>> If you are being actively targeted by state actors(fbi,nsa,cia,etc)

The FBI is currently investigating hundreds, thousands, of drug-related crimes. They aren't deploying advanced firmware exploits on a daily basis. If you buy a laptop from a local store, and then run something like Tails from day one, the chances of them installing a firmware exploit remotely is nill. If you want to run Tails on your 5yo desktop that you use for Facebook, minecraft, porn, and for running your drug empire... then ya. Be worried. But running Tails on a new machine is safe.
Mass hysteria?
At which point do you start wondering what corners Intel cut this time?
None of that speaks to the quality of the product being advertised.
>...web form...

Note that this actually precedes the web by several years
People seem to dislike both ads and paywalls. I'm curious if sites will find another way to monetize eventually.
Alcohol is a very social drug, and thus has a fair bit of social self-reinforcement as a habit. Heroin is basically the opposite of social. Ever hung out with someone while they were on heroin (and you weren't)? They're no fun at all, though I'm sure they're having a great time (not that you can tell from the outside).

Of course that doesn't cover the other dangerous ones, like crack and meth (dangerous primarily for their potency), or the less dangerous ones like all (most) of the psychedelics.

Even though I've been internally debating it for ~20 years - I'm still not sure where I fall on the debate. Certainly our current policies are far too draconian for substances that we can show demonstrably to be less dangerous than drugs available legally, but where do you reasonably draw the line?

What does a real world, all-drugs-are-legal marketplace look like?
I think it's more like, "there is no reason to suppose there is anything beyond this line because everything can be explained without crossing it", which is logically valid.
Yes, they were done by email and were a massive pain in the ass. There was a text file template you'd fill out and email it to ISI. The domains were free but you had to have working nameservers for them and that was the tough part. As a young undergrad in 1993, I wanted to register a few but couldn't find anyone to serve DNS for me. The Vanderbilt IT staff was unwilling to help and I didn't know anybody else until I met my buddy Bob Collie (who owns bob.net). I ended up registering cjs.com, grateful.com, eleet.com and some others but let most of them expire when I couldn't afford the annual $70 per-domain fee that Network Solutions started charging after they took over from ISI. The only one I kept was bikeworld.com, which I had registered for my dad's bike shop. He still uses it today.
> Man, If I had a nickel every time someone used that reply...

Perhaps the reason you see it so frequently is because it's obvious?

> An illusion is simply a fact that, when taken at face value, entails a false conclusion.

An illusion is simply what fact? What does it mean to take it at "face value"? What "false conclusion" does it entail?

> There is no reason a computer system can't be deceived by an illusion too, even one without "consciousness".

I think you're equivocating here. What definition of illusion are you using?
GCP encrypts data in transit [1] & at rest between GCE nodes [2].

I do not know if Cloud Filestore offers encryption on the NFS application layer.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-in-transit/#vir...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/
This is a problem if you work with an international team, especially if you talk over video links which are usually less than ideal.
> I'll bite: argument from authority can be reversed - if Brian didn't mess up the language design, these sort of "code drivels" wouldn't have appeared

i dont know, awk has its faults -- but blaming it for C?
As a commenter pointed out, these things are always handled by insurance companies. Tesla's insurance company isn't going to do anything until your insurance company, or an attorney, calls. It's not about customer service, it's about the color of money. That's how things work here in the U.S. You would think someone able to afford a Tesla would have learned that by now.
For us at Phaser (https://phasersec.com) chatops was a revolution.

1) git push master
(Gitlab CI to run tests, builds...)

2) notification received when CI pipelines finished

3) @bot deploy api production (in our messaging app)

if errors happen:

4) @bot rollback api [commit]
Everyone without much direct experience of what consciousness is will continuously become the "old guard."
AT&T “Mega-Office” in Chicago “touches every single resident of the city”
Absolutely. strncpy is a very badly designed interface. Is it documented? Yes. Does that make it any good? No.

Principle of least surprise. Idiot proof. Semantics that match common usage. Call it what you like.
You have to be careful. If you only feed data that has the associations, both humans and machines will find them. This is the entire premise behind introducing double blind studies. Turns out you have to actively try and falsify claims if you want solid results. Not just try and confirm them. :)
I've tried it all. VVR was okay for like a few minutes. I didn't feel any illusion, flipping a pancake and such still felt like a wiggler. It's not just "feeling" like being able to move it, 6DoF enables an entire class of interactions that is impossible on 3DoF (e.g., having your hand doing something even if you're not looking at it).
You can select "Edit entry" in LastPass menu and copy the password from the popup window.
Unfortunately, the feature to export your messages is only available to Facebook's data partners.
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I said that because I forgot the strlen was there. I was wrong.