skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is totally false. In modern techno-industrial society you have abundant freedom to do meaningless things--you have a ton of choices in how you fritter away your time in hedonistic pursuits--but in all practical, life-and-death choices, man is completely powerless and freedom-less at the hands of powerful organizations. But it is the freedom to exercise practical, life-and-death choices that is real freedom, which people need to experience to live happy and dignified lives. Purely for the sake of technical necessity, industrial society must have these practical freedoms wrested away from individuals and placed in the hands of powerful organizations. This has been a gradual process, beginning with civilization, but it has become especially acute and accelerated after the industrial revolution.
Kaczynski's knowledge of history is deep and extensive on this point.

I recommend you read his first book, "Technological Slavery" on this topic. You can check out his second book "Anti-Tech Revolution" as well, though this deals more with ecological issues in my opinion and less with human freedom.
The usual play is "when behind, join up with others and promote openness". That's what Google and Microsoft are doing vs AWS in cloud, its what browsers did during IE 6.0's reign, it's what Apple did with it's OS kernel, and so on.

It admittedly doesn't seem like a great fit for current Apple.
Isn't suggesting caution here just polite version of "be silent ot else"?
True, but gaining acccess to those is not that easy.
I used it a year ago and it still sucked. From an stability standpoint it was fine, except it had plenty of terrible ui decisions. Take driving in manhattan for example. A driver would like to glance at the directions and see turns and the directions the road is turning. However, this is not possible. 3d renderings of the new york skyline block the roads on the map so you cannot see in the app any further than you can outside your front window.
That he forgot the there was a real disturbed person on the other end who might come and kill him.
It can both, since exercise can end up becoming pathological for some, especially those with body-image issues
How is it foul play? I arbitrage USD and USDT differences because, historically speaking, a price disparity between the two has never persisted for more than a few days. I may be at risk if tether is actually not backed, but as it stands, there (was) enough money to be made arbitraging that it didn't matter.
Crystal has OOP features, but you don't have to use them if you don't want to. I do some scientific research in crystal and it is all modules with functions calling other functions and dealing with structs. I love the fact that I can create C-style structs with member methods in Crystal.
A qubit is a linear combination of |0> and |1>, and a qutrit is a linear combination of |0>, |1> and |2>. I remember Scott Aaronson once suggested building QCs with qudits (or qu-n-its with n>2).
> Even so, we need to instil fear into people in the West. We need to limit who they're legally allowed to sell the vulns to. Allied states: Yes. Defence interested parties: Yes. Some cybergang: Fuck no. We need to deny travel visas to the direct family members of other individuals in unaligned states that sell 0days to the worst actors.

So would that go to researchers who work on more theoretical areas(with a real world implications) things such as Static Analysis or Formal verification ?
What amazes (and saddens) me is that we don't seem to have not even a far fetched theoretical approach to dramatically improve rockets within the next few decades.
> All the software jobs that I had were opportunities given to me out of compassion and charity. But I wasn't qualified for them. I've always had attention span difficulties. Each of my open source projects were done out of excitement. I had an idea of how to automate something, and I just went for it, and could focus on it for weeks at a time.

What do you mean that you weren't "qualified"? For all of your legal issues, you sound like a brilliant and productive programmer. Have you seen opportunities (e.g. requests from people) to be an online teacher/tutor for programming, perhaps being funded through Patreon?
Have you seen sites like https://placeit.net?

Drop me a PM if you are interested in chatting more about such sites in general. I have been researching them for a while now.
There _are_ questions about solvency though, and it hasn’t dropped.
On the language level, Julia isn't statically typed, and it doesn't have ruby syntax.

On a tooling level, binaries are easier to deploy than the whole julia JIT and your whole source code.

And crystal has dynamic multiple dispatch. It's used a lot, it's great.
So annoying that the author links send me to twitter instead of a bio.
downdetector.com isn't even working for me: https://twitter.com/davywtf/status/1012778410714812416
I fucking hate pennies. Make it a federal law that all prices should be rounded down to 5 pennies and make smallest coin a nickel.
I don’t find it obvious that there shouldn’t be some hard coded expiration mechanism- lots of insects have effective experation dates, for example.
Surely this observation is meant to express some view, and the one that comes naturally to mind is that he's deserving of reproach for having "forgotten"
Another example is that the if the ref has ~20 seconds left in stoppage time, but the winning team has an offensive corner kick, the ref will just end the game. The last seconds have no impact on the result, but would come up as an inaccuracy in this study.
I heard a rule of thumb along the line of "don't do it three days in a row; if you have trouble stopping on the thirds day, start worrying".
Cards that cost $3. :|
Statistics. The article says mortality after 100 is about 50%. Which means out of everyone who reaches 100 years, only one in a million will reach 120 years. Since there are only half a million humans in the world who are older than 100 years, people over 120 years should be exceedingly rare.

So even if there is no upper limit to the human lifespan, and mortality doesn't increase after 100, it would be very rare to see people older than 120.
They are so not worth hurting my fingernails trying to scoop them up from my cup holder. I either put them into the little container some shops have next to cash register or I just throw them in the trash.
> Air conditioning will literally save lives. We need to get the infrastructure and economy in large portions of the world to the point where the vast majority of the population will be able to afford air conditioning and the infrastructure supports air conditioners running all the time.

This isn't wrong, and even LKY concurs:

> Air conditioning. Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.

> Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency.

Also note that we already have energy sources that can let us reliably run air conditioning without dumping CO2: nuclear energy. The climate problem isn't unsolvable, it's been solvable for decades, the only thing between us and solving it is our weird and irrational (burning coal or making solar-panels kills far more people) fear of nuclear fission.
that was my first thought as well, but it is interesting that the addiction rate seems to double for those who started as a teenager. I guess it makes sense that changing chemical balances in the brain when it is growing that rapidly could easily cause dependencies.
There's a mom and pop hardware store around here (Washington DC) that has random washers, nuts, etc. that only cost a nickel each.

Not that I've ever gone in and tried to only buy a single washer. I'm guessing the old guy might just smile and say "it's free."
The person you are replying to was referring to the murder victim. Since you didn't specify a subject

>They don't forget, they just don't care.

>A lot of people completely lack empathy, and our society hasn't done a good job at reducing that number.

Appears to also be referring to the victim. Are you actually talking about the killer here? If so you should specify that.
It's 30 °C which is still ridiculous to be called a "heat wave" from the point of view of most humans on this planet. And 15 °C overnight is considered "too warm", really?

> These thresholds vary by region, but an average threshold temperature is 30 °C by day and 15 °C overnight for at least two consecutive days.

As a German, I would say anything over 38 °C during the day and over 20 °C overnight is a "heat wave", and I think a lot of people down south, maybe most humans on this planet, may not consider this too warm. I remember visiting the Emirates for a week during summer... or working in the kitchen of a summer camp for disabled people in Oakhurst, New Jersey during the summer, without an AC in my room. The camp's kitchen's giant refrigerator room was a favorite meeting place for anyone who had access. The only way to sleep was with a fan running at full speed blowing right at me. Maybe that experience shifted my view of what a "heat wave" is. Oh, and in the Emirates they have "cooled swimming pools". I thought it was just a joke, but no, they really artificially cool the water of their swimming pools. I went into the Gulf water - for half a minute, then I went straight into the cooled swimming pool that I had scoffed at. Having grown up in East Germany and only knowing the Baltic I never knew that the sea could ever be too warm even to enter for more than a minute.

Yesterday or the day before, reading UK news (BBC or The Guardian) as I often do, I saw the announcement of the "heat wave" and the warning of temperatures over 30 °C(!) and thought exactly the same as OP, even if he got the exact number wrong.
That's great, thanks for that ...

... but in regular map view, metro stations should all be visible on the same zoom level and beyond. Not this whack-a-mole thing of zooming in and out to find stations. No settings should be needed there.
Man suspected of killing co-workers by poisoning their food
Are you aware of why Apple left the Google deal?

Google was withholding the latest features from the Apple version, including vector map data and turn by turn directions. There's also indications Google wanted access to user location data in return for some of these features, something Apple was not willing to compromise on.
I was specifically talking about the killer, and I was assuming OP was responding to the headline and making a general statement about Internet trolls.

I still don't see how that was confusing, but to anybody who needed a clarification: There you go.
The very first paragraph opens comparing this to "defying gravity". Your assumption were true it would make it very easy for others to win at all times. Think about it for a second: there is someone buying and selling, consistently at known price points.
There is one important difference: withdrawal from something like alcohol can actually kill you. Withdrawal from marijuana makes you an irritable asshole for a week or two.

The hardest part is understanding and coping with the issue that drives the user to use marijuana so heavily in the first place. If it can be understood what need the marijuana use is providing for, changing use patterns becomes possible.
Sure, but nearly anything that causes a chemical change can be physically addicting right? Once your brain starts equalizing for whatever imbalances are being created.
> They seem to be at least starting to route around it now

Isn't IP supposed to do this automatically?
>Under the veneer of societal abundance, the struggle to survive is replaced with the pursuit of abstract accomplishments (career, sports, fame, etc). When someone is not successful in these things, it's very easy to survive but not thrive, and in the absence of real survival pressure it's too easy to be left alone with ones thoughts and descend into a depressive downward spiral.

You grasped the idea very well. Life in the West gives you a lot of "false idols," way more than just plain income (in)security and social acceptance.

A lot of very well doing people are insecure about what you call class attributes: "have you sent your kid to an Ivy league college? is your MBA still hip enough? have you launched a tech startup by 30? have you appointed trophy diversity hires of a current trendy ethnicity to your C-Suite? is an apartment you bought shares the floor with influential people A, B, and C?" and so on.

I myself felt nearly crushed morally when my employer was unsuccessful extending my work permit in Canada after 6 years of my life there. I worked towards having "a perfect immigration case" since my mid-teens: from learning French, to having all and every pre-college education credentials that can benefit an immigration application possible, and yes, studying like crazy, wasting best years of life for a piece of paper.

Now, I'm feeling more or less recovered from that. Not only I came back with a heavy bag of cash, I was still doing more than 99% of locals just from "insubstantial" freelance gigs, had solid resume, and tons of calls from recruiters offering jobs in every country imaginable, and finally, after nearly 9 years of my life I could wake up at a time of my volition, and not what was mandated by job or college. That last thing was near surreal for me at the time.

But what was the best was not "prestige checkboxes" on the resume, nor an approving looks of female classmates from my highschool class, nor a trophy apartment I bought for pocket change when the Rouble was on its way to a seafloor. The best things from all of that were things of universal value: skills, life experience, being alive and well, fat rolodex, and knowledge "where to scratch fat cats" from places awash with cash.

Now I'm happy working in engineering consulting with a Chinese company, netting more than 99.99% of locals, having nearly careless lifestyle in comparison to what I had, and living in a city without gloomy weather. I can't believe that just 2 years ago I thought of my whole life as failure.

Another valuable thing, China has introduced me to was the entirely different, "BS Free," work culture centered on value: contract, payment, and CAD files in the morning — widgets ready in the evening, without any manager title holder in the loop.
I have the same issue with Apple maps (chicago). If we (tech community) can't figure this out or its a painful UI for us; what hope does Jane Doe have in middle america? Google makes it super easy to find and navigate our train system.
Yeah, I'm not surprised by DHS at all here.

I do think it's less subtle as POTUS has made it very clear he has zero qualms with lying routinely about almost everything, and with strongarm tactics and intimidation. But the culture of secrecy, intimidation, and public misdirection has been there from the beginning, and not just by happenstance but by necessity. If you can convince yourself, as a member of DHS/CIA/FBI/etc. that whatever project you're working on (like, say, wiretapping MLK) is for National Security, then the ends justify the means.
For context, also from Wikipedia

>For 2012, the US Department of Justice reported a 93% conviction rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate

I agree the high rate is troubling. We'd need to find a good middle ground. Too low and it suggests prosecutors are bringing spurious cases. Too high and it means difficult cases are likely getting dropped or the process is just for show.
>IME Google is really bad at traffic drive time estimates when there are situations where different lanes have different traffic.

Exactly, that's the one case where Gmaps gives me bad estimates, as there's something like that for me on my drive to work. The rest of the time, its estimates are very good.
A Data Structure Zoo
Overview and summary of runtime complexities and memory usage for Java, Scala and Python container classes/collections:
https://g1thubhub.github.io/data-structure-zoo.html
> In the past decade, his reputation has shown signs of renewed vigour.

I haven't seen anything like this "renewed vigour" in France. There was a TV documentary and an exposition in Paris for the 30th anniversary of its death in 2010, but even that went quite unnoticed. Romain Gary is still known today mostly for his trickery as Émile Ajar, and because some of its books are sometimes studied in school.

For the first time this year, I met someone who placed Romain Gary in his personal Pantheon. But I suspect his fan base is very small, unlike contemporaneous authors like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (who also had a heroic life) or Boris Vian (who also published under pseudonyms).

When I read "La vie devant soi" (The Life Before Us) as a late teenager, I thought it was a good but not great book, with lovable characters. A bit too lovable maybe, because it felt too nice and too sympathetic on all these marginal characters with a lack of anything deeper. But I think much worse of the three Romain Gary novels I've read since then. I feel he's always trying to be smart, to impress the reader. He can write a touching scene and break it for a witty word.

> In fact, when he was living in LA, he wrote in English, rebelling against slyly anti-Semitic criticism that he used the French language improperly.

I've never read anything about this, I'd be interested in the source. Romain Gary wrote "Lady L." in English in 1958, but he soon translated it himself to French, so I fail to see any kind of rebellion against the French language in this.

The text isn't clear on who thought these criticisms were "slyly anti-Semitic". R.G. did arrive in France at 14, so any language mistake on his part would be logically related to this personal past more than his family religion. Moreover, I can't imagine any prominent criticism with anti-semitic subtitle in the late 50s in France.
My favorite quote of yours is that quantum computers "have a profile of abilities so strange that no sci-fi writer would have had the imagination to invent it" - it's a great quote to inspire people to dig deeper into the (literally beyond classical imagination) concepts of quantum mechanics!
> certainty calls into question the street wisdom that pot isn’t (physically) addicting.

This isn't "street wisdom"; there's a massive body of clinical research that's gone into marijuana and investigating its effects on the body and brain.

Marijuana is one of the most-studied drugs in existence, far more so than most prescription medication on the market.
It's bad logic and bad journalism.

People have a 50% chance of dying each year over 105 translates to there is no limit to longevity?

Also, the critic in me makes me want to see the actual distribution because I would think there is a tail effect going on and a small group of people are just genetically living much longer.
weed before bed inhibits rem/dream sleep. when you stop, the brain gives you the saved up rem sleep and vivid dreams.

the rest are classic anxiety symptoms. i wouldn't focus as much on the weed as on what is troubling you underneath.

Seriously, working with a therapist to address the stress, abuse, trauma or whatever else will help quite a bit and the weed use will take care of itself. good luck and trust that your issues are resolvable!!!
Here's my attempt at a two sentence over-over-over simplification that at least gets people away from the "magic bit-sting that contains your answer." (It also harkens back to an old Einstein quote, so may be attractive to science writers.)

Quantum computing is a technique that lets you sample a problem's answer-space using "loaded dice," such that the problem's correct answers correspond with probability spikes in your dice throws. Right now, we only know how to usefully "load" those dice for certain problems, and it's pretty hard to do.
You don't need much CS knowledge for deep learning, in fact pure math/stats is more useful. I'd say CS knowledge is only useful if you do RL stuff and even then you don't really need it that much.
They could at least have a decent pricing. 299$ / Month for this is insulting knowing AWS X-Ray is built in Lambda and does it for Free.

Clearly I do not take any startups working in Serverless seriously if they don't have a serverless pricing themselves.

Serverless is not just Lambda. It's an entire philosphy and pricing model that goes with it . Here it's the exact opposite.
A Data Structure and algorithm zoo for Java, Scala, Python
Flask-ask makes it pretty easy.

https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask
>Within 24 hours without weed I become an intolerable asshole

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest the underlying problem might not be the weed.
There are a lot of crazy people in the world. The internet now allows you to reach and trigger them.

This is not victim blaming, just like police advice to "not show valuable possessions when walking through the bad part of the city" is neither victim blaming, nor surrendering of their responsibilities.
You'd be fined for littering.
The most blatant annoyance is that UI-wise, it consistently makes the wrong, unexpected choice in response to user interaction. And it behaves likes a blocking single threaded app that cannot download something and handle user interaction at the same time.

In addition, it's terribly buggy. Some things just go wrong from time to time with no apparent reason, and without non-cumbersome ways to recover from. There's lots of issues in the Apple support forums where the answer is just 'yeah, this sometimes happens, you'll have to delete this or that and re-add it'.
This is directly addressed in the article, good work not reading it.

> For this, we developed thresholds for the routine activities to determine excessive stoppages.

> These thresholds, which are based on how long the event usually takes on average, were intended to allow for a generous length of time before considering a stoppage excessive

20 seconds is more than enough for a throw-in, anything over that is not within natural gameplay. I don't think anything should be changed, but your critique is invalid.
Shouldnt the title include "Ask HN: "?

I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.

If you obtained something that is stolen, would you feel comfortable explaining to law enforcement or a judge why you have it and how you obtained it? Do you have the time and resources to deal with the hassle? Newspapers have plenty resources and experience in this area.

I would consult a few lawyers prior to handling information that was intended to be private.
Spain is probably my favorite country in the world for a number of reasons, and the next time I swing the pendulum away from career, my default plan is get a remote job in the US and live in Spain for as long as is convenient visa-wise.
After banging my head trying to get access to start using Amazon's product advertising APIs and product matching info APIs, I'd like to politely say: screw Amazon.

If you keep slapping away developers on one end, then don't expect us to get excited about building things for your products on the other end.
Agreed.

Similarly I've heard that police will often juke the stats, labeling deaths that are circumstantial as suicides so as not to investigate or try to get a guilty?

Or that once you're arrested rights are questionable when it comes to interrogation techniques and due process.
Im in a similar situation. I keep quarters since they are occasionally useful, but in general when lose change becomes an annoyance i chuck it in the closest baristas tip jar.
Pot destroys lives in part by being so apparently benign.
Not one of those admins, but generally the term "fibre cut" always seems to be related to "backhoe operator accidentally digging a hole through the buried fiber line" when the final reason for the outage comes out.