skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a legit pattern. Compression of binary data. Encoding to base64 string. And packing into data uri. Golang out of the box has packages for handling the entire pipeline.

You get a small performance hit on page load from decoding. But its still performant and bandwidth-saving. For network constrained users this is a solution. Also consider the scenario where you are bootstrapping. Serving static content from a single server instance or S3. But still want to target a global audience ;)
Fetuses are not human.

They don't look human, they don't act human, absolutely none of them can survive as independent creatures (as most humans can).

If anything, they're kinda weird little monsters that invade women's bodies that could potentially become human, but human they are not.

Rather than call them human (which they're not), or a class of people (which they're not), call them fetuses and then the sophistry around controlling women's access to health care wears away a little.
Funnily in the UK with the NHS it's again the unexpected things. In this case it's paying for parking, it adds up quick, especially if your'e visiting someone who's in hospital for a while.
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What is the history of slavery in the Islamic / Arab middle east? When did those countries abolish it? I think it was fairly recent, some in the 20th century... I mean not counting recent the scandal from the guardian about migrant workers who can’t get an exit visa.

PS: I am curious why asking about continuing slavery in other parts of the world importing Black slaves is so heavily downvoted. Aren’t people equal regardless of where in the world they are? Why discourage concern and knowledge about slavery of people of African descent??

This is like when the Paris attacks happened and the world was lit up in French colors while on the same day the same group (ISIS) killed just as many people at a stadium Beirut, Lebanon and no one seemed to even mention them. We need to move past our navel gazing.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/middleeast/beiru...
Seems like your view of fetuses is that of parasites, not even subhuman as slaveowners had of their slaves. It's an odd, counterproductive defense of abortion.
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That's true for far more than political positions.
If we're really alone, does what we do / not do, have any real value? More anecdotal evidence for them could be said to exist than for God and if there are no ETs/God/higher powers, and we're just alone does any of it really matter? Isn't all morality / law just whatever elites/leaders have determined is the best way to control us / let them maintain their power? If there is no karma (bad people prosper, while the meek/good often perish) why not just go full-Machiavellian? Is the only meaning in this world the pursuit of biological urges / or money-status? If we're alone, what's the point?

By the same logic that priests having the power to channel / control the believers access to God have wielded tremendous power, the State would probably love if ETs were real, since it could then co-opt ETs into a mechanism for control. Or maybe the ETs can't be co-opted...
This makes me think the Web is dangerously close to becoming obsolete because it doesn’t embrace the new end to end encrypted, decentralized paradigms without central web servers and pins everything on http.
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This incident happened a couple of weeks before I was due to move back to the UK. The NHS gave me my final rabies shot for free at my GP's surgery. I walked there, so I didn't pay parking, but I'm guessing it would have cost less than $1500.
Youtube wants me to concede too much JS execution on too many domains (I block strictly), or else I can not skip the ads. It becomes a huge annoyance when I'm watching my favourite TV show that's also uploaded to YT and I have the same idiotic Grammarly ad in my face every 10 minutes. But I can easily run mpv <url> and watch, without looking at ads that are completely uninteresting and persistent enough to feel harassing to me (youtube is showing me grammarly ads since months, almost nothing else; so much that I loathe grammarly now).

Also when watching a video, with mpv (which uses youtube-dl for youtube videos etc., I can pin a small video window on top of all other windows and continue doing other stuff on my laptop.
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F1 hasn't been too bad; you can access live recordings of the Grand Prix, race highlights and sometimes even links through to third party retrospectives through their Youtube channel.
Has anyone read it and not found the dialogue bits meandering and superfluous? I found the other chapters acceptable but the useless dialogue left me feeling the whole book was pretentious and babbling.
According to this story, the last country to abolish slavery was Mauritania in 1981: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slav...
Hrm. I have AT&T fiber. It does not go down. Ever.

OK, it went down once right after install but that was due to a tech accidentally disconnecting me at the node while connecting a neighbor.
Three games' approaches to death come to mind immediately:

First, Braid, where your character can die in the usual way for a 2D platformer, killed by monsters or falling in holes. But the game lets you manipulate time, so the answer to death is just to rewind a few seconds while the music plays backwards and you come back to life.

Second, the original Monkey Island. Unlike the Sierra click puzzlers of the time (King's Quest etc) you couldn't die. But if you stood at the edge of the cliff, you fell off and got a Sierra-style Game Over screen... for a few seconds. Then you bounced back up on a 'rubber tree'.

Finally, there's the original ZX Spectrum isometric platformer version of Batman. In that game, if you died in a particularly frustrating way or at the same puzzle repeatedly, the game would sometimes give you a "Dog's life", an extra life as a consolation prize.

Interesting article.
What gives you the right to randomly move to places that have laws that satisfy you, if they are not all part of a (more or less) centralised government?
Not from what I know.
Fair point.

Apparently it's possible to trick Netflix into 1080P on Chrome, in at least some cases - https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/12/watch-netflix-in-1080p-on-...
Because in-person collaboration is more effective.
I actually tend to agree with this review - the record-player analogy for incompleteness is particularly bad. But what you have here is a young man high on his intellectual gifts playing in beautiful abstract worlds, imperfectly, sometimes pointlessly. It's that intellectual playfulness that makes this book special, since books are usually either intellectual or playful but rarely both.

Not to change the subject, but Frank Herbert's work has a similarly undeserved reputation for depth, IMHO. The Dune series wants to be about so many interesting, connected things: consciousness, religion, ecology, psychology, politics and speculates about (non-scientific) connections between mind and matter. Herbert had the good taste to not describe every detail about the world, but all of his considerable artifice is a very thin veneer on what is ultimately a juvenile power fantasy. There is really nothing there, philosophically speaking, even though, to my young teenage self, it really felt like there was.
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> why the downvotes?

I did not downvote you, but I think you are getting beaten because you brought up a potential hot topic (brexit) in a way that is unrelated to the discussion topic (copyright). The argument that parties could have been using similar tactics is IMO irrelevant even if true (and that is not clear to me either).
I'm a contributor to the WordPress A11y team, and trust us, we are trying. It's an a11y nightmare, and the majority of contributors to Gutenberg seem to not care. The goal is for it to meet WCAG 2.0 on merge, but that's running close. The majority of Gutenberg contributors think of the a11y issues as "low priority."

Because you sound like you know a bit about a11y, we could really use a hand. Accessibility meetings are weekly in the Make WordPress.org Slack instance. One of the problems is that Gutenberg's technology is very different than the rest of WordPress core, so some of the a11y contributors to WordPress Core are staying away from code-contributions to Gutenberg because of that (myself included). I've been playing around with node.js a bit to try and contribute, but it's very different than what I'm used to (PHP).
information transmission is free and painless and this cat is out of the bag. Why waste time trying the flawed process of trying to force it back in?
Just seems like a waste of time and an industry trying to undo something that cannot be undone. Feels rather King Knute.

Moreover the flaws and processes they would introduce into the system by automated flagging and removing of content will be open to abuse as another automated system that creates a vector of attack. There's no need to build it.
She shoulda just answered that it never rains in southern california. And followed up with what kind of croissant-bakery you'd like to stuff your mouth from.
In their defense, it is.
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I went to the BBC site thinking Erdogan's re-election would be on the homepage (a day or two after the election IIRC), nope, nearly all World Cup. So, it would certainly be on the News section, er nope; not in the European news subsection either. Searched and found one video which was propaganda level of support for Erdogan.

Might've been just me.

I don't quite see how the World Cup is more than a small news story. Why isn't it one item in News and then all the detailed stuff in Sport section.

(Yes, I'm watching it, yes I enjoy it, yes I love football; no I don't think the BBC should devote half the resources they are to it.)
Oh... ::facepalm::
This.

100 times, this.

GEB is an alright book, but nobody I know has actually managed to finish it. I Am A Strange Loop discusses the exact same thing, but does so with the experience of years of writing in metaphor, and more importantly, entirely in metaphor. All of the metaphors are well-crafted in that they are both a pleasure to imagine, can be recalled rather easily, and accurately map to what the author is trying to express. IAASL also distills the main thesis of GEB, so it is not only more expressive but much more to-the-point (Which I, too think is the main problem with GEB as a book).

I do not hesitate to recommend -- for all those that struggled with GEB, or all those that wish to read GEB, pick up a copy of IAASL, and then if you still wish to read GEB, try it after reading IAASL.
Between £100k-£120k it hits an effective 60% as the personal allowance is withdrawn.
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How advanced is facebook's "hate speech detector" anyway? It seems like they're just checking a blacklist of bad words and maybe doing some rudimentary NLP.
I was there. We had plenty of those kind of problems in those days. I also had the classical training of which you speak, but the industry was far ahead of academia in terms of actually dealing with that kind of thing. The reason pre-internet is relevant is that the penalty for a buffer overflow in 1995 might be a crashed app, or maybe a corrupted file. It was only later that the penalty became "getting pwned by some sophisticated bit of malware and needing to send monero to someone to get your compter back".
Is it still possible today to become a self-taught data scientist?
..the people who are officially not picking winners now, but effectively are.

It's time now for small businesses because small businesses are now at a massive disadvantage relative to large institutions, for reasons that are unrelated to underlying economics.

It's time now for the VC market, because VC capital is an essential ingredient for making the next generation of companies. If you looked at your major companies in 1978, there aren't many that needed VC to exist in order to be. If you go through the exercise now, you will find that a decent portion of your economy may have hinged on closing a few small (in financial markets terms) on getting funded by VCs at some point.

The liberal purist would probably argue that the availability of VC money is directly proportional to the potential returns to that money, which is in turn proportional to the value to the economy.

I'm agnostic about this in abstract terms. It might be true. In practice though, I think it isn't true. The financial market are limited by, but not shaped by economics. They exist almost outside the economy. That's why we have financial bubbles.
We use kubernetes to spin up the application that I work on (in private cloud and at some point in hybrid and public cloud) deployments. It’s an end user installed tool. In deployment, about 1/4 of the new installations fail because of some problem or another. Either the GPU plugins for NVIDIA weren’t loaded correctly, kube-dns won’t start because docker0 isn’t in a “trusted” zone in redhat (not being in trusted seems to cause iptables to subtly screw up container to container communication between the various private networks), or helm just decides that it can’t start.

Are we doing it wrong?

We’re using hyperkube and k8s 1.8 which came out around q4 of last year.

Almost all of these I can trace back to user error (ie we told folks to do X, they didn’t, and stuff broke). We’re now having to write a preflight checklist of sorts that the app runs through to make sure A bunch of stuff is “ok.” That in itself becomes brittle in my experience so I’m reluctant to do that.
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I use NewPipe, but my friend does not sideload apps or use F-Droid, that's why I'm asking for Play Store options.
Haha, erm... source?
>People with the unconstrained vision see a problem like poverty, but are sure there must be solutions out there, if only the right people can be found and put in power.

This seems to more describe a very limited range of people (as much of a range as a binary separation can convey) oriented entirely around the center of the political spectrum. The Socialist left dosen't talk about finding the right people to put in power, it talks about putting the people in power, over capital. They have no time to talk about taxes or tradeoffs or redistribution - to them, these are nothing but empty gestures that do nothing to change the power relations that make up the world.

I (and many in contemporary philosophy, sociology and anthropology) disagree with the assessment that Marxism is necessarily a "nonsensical" set of beliefs; we see it as a mode of analysis that must be constantly subjected to questioning (hence the origin of the Frankfurt School, post-Marxism, anarcho-Communism etc.). He didn't believe that all flaws stemmed from capitalism, rather, he believed in the materialist doctrine of history - that changed circumstances produce changed men (with some caveats).

Not only would Marx have markets abolished, he would render them useless; the market requires capital and money, it requires private property and all the relations that will drag with it - the double separation of the worker: separated from the means of production, and from the products of production. If this double separation is abolished, then markets can no longer exist.

But the dictatorship of the proletariat isn't a "dictatorship" as you may understand the word in terms of Hitler or Stalin, it literally means that society is under the dictation (direction) of the proletariat, not that there is some elite group which takes control and dictates things. The "wrapping up" refers to the concept of withering away of the state, which would happen in the case where the functions of the state have been transferred to the people. But there are other theories too, such as Kropotkin's anarcho-Communism.

But under no circumstance can you claim Marx lived a cloistered life; having the pressure of his father in particular weigh down on him to study Law for money, he chose philosophy, then exiled from his own country for publishing newspapers, he fled to London and with Engels collected hundreds of factory reports and studied them for theirty years in nearly abject poverty. This man was the very opposite of cloistered. But plenty of non-cloistered people have adopted his views and indeed many have been theorists too - check out Robert Tressel.
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GEB is one of the most overrated books ever. It's a painfully long, tedious, masturbatory, self-aggrandizing collection of loosely related tales. The idea of self-similarity is somewhat interesting, but certainly not 1500-pages-of-incoherent-ramblings interesting.
I have no idea how this won the Pulitzer prize, probably the judges just could not admit that it was too tedious to finish.
That's hardly the point. I disagree with cancel's distribution methods, and lack of providing the client as open-source; I would even go as far as to say that taking the position of "eventually charging for it" is probably one of the reasons why Discord has this policy in the first place. The fact of the matter is though, that these policies are destructive to any potential open-source innovation that would be to happen as well.

I understand that writing code is an artform that takes lots of practice and patience and also deserves a lot of praise. I'm not saying that people shouldn't be allowed to make money off of their code. I DO think that support contracts are generally a more reasonable way of achieving this goal. My problem with cancel's decision is that they're saying they may eventually charge users for an application which in all likelihood will get them banned as a result of Discord Inc.'s crappy ToS.
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In North America and Europe, it's common for motorcyclists to quickly layout routes when touring using google maps. They (google) have made a UX that makes it ridiculously easy (as compared to something like Garmins Basecamp -which should be used as shiny example of how not to design an UX) The issue is that you cannot directly save the maps in GPX format to upload to your GPS. So thiers a world of work arounds, some easy, some not, to get a KML file into your GPS.

If it supported GPX natively, you would likely capture the entire North American and European touring market in one fell swoop. I'm guessing you (google) never asked which kind of goes against the entire point of this article
>Though I'd disagree with the whole if it, if they went 'strictly SAT' or something, and suppose 50% of every class was Asian-American, whereupon Asian-Americans only make up 5% of the overall population of the US thereby meaning a 10x overrepresentation ... well - that's a problem by any social measure.

By this definition, that "problem by any social measure" already exists. The Jewish (undergrad) population at Harvard is 25% [0] whereas the U.S. Jewish population is approximately 2%. Given this already-existing 10x overrepresentation, would a significant increase in the percentage of Asian-American students vs the domestic population be a social problem? Maybe yes maybe no, it's a complex question.

[0] https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-co...
Do civilian government employees even get a pension plan anymore? I got an offer a few years back from a three letter agency in DC and I'm pretty sure they just had a 401k.
There's no point in staying in the US after graduation, if you were born in China or India. Because, instead of exploring your entrepreneurial interests during the golden years, you are shackled to an employer with an H1b, waiting to get a green card for at least 25-30 years after graduation.

Instead of spending time on the product, or building a team, you have to waste time with idiotic immigration laws that were not written keeping the current tech jobs in mind.

So, even if you see an Indian or a Chinese grad stay back in the US, there's very little chance that they end up being entrepreneurs funded by VCs (unless they are from the top 10 universities in the US and started on their venture well before graduating). Not sure about China, but there are quite a few examples of Indian nationals fed up with US immigration laws, going back to India and startup a VC backed tech product company, valued over $100 million.
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Whoever ensured the referendum was in the Tory election manifesto certainly was planning on Brexit happening.

You don't pay millions in to Tory funds, employ MPs and give pensions to ex-MPs and not get your way.
Such a way with words.
Good point. Yeah, it seems impossible for tech in the UK to compete financially...
The U.S. has Fair Use, which adapts to novel cases. The EU has enumerated exceptions to copyright.
What I find quite interesting in the discussion in the US about abortion is the extreme all-or-nothing view, on both sides. One side sees any abortion, at any time and any condition, as highly immoral, while the other rejects any limits on abortion as an insufferable limit on women's rights. The question is, when does the non-sentient fertilizied human egg become something more. Certainly not at the moment of fertilization, but "birth" seems rather arbitrary too.

I like your examples for questions, because they are thought-provoking. Let me add two more: Should a baby born a (2/3..) month (or a day!) premature be less protected than a baby born 3 days late? Would you rather save a five year old, or 20 premature born babies?
Or, what do you think about abortions done because the embryo is female.
Wow, not by a huge margin. I'm sure it will pass sooner or later.

It's really amazing how people have to keep these idiots that are _supposed to_ be there to guard our interests in check.

As long as parties are allowed to accept contributions, things like this will happen. It should be absolutely forbidden to give any politician any money--both while campaigning and in case of victory. That way they would actually work for us and not corporations.
I augment my long-term memory by truly augmenting my brain via blog posts on ryanmercer.com that I tag thoroughly, Evernote entries that are filed broadly and tagged thoroughly and by forwarding remotely useful emails to myself in Gmail with the search strings I'd likely use to find them in the future.

Obviously this requires connectivity but I'd rather offload the stuff to a server somewhere than carry EVERYTHING in my mind.
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I loved the dialogues; they were really helpful in explaining some of the more technical content and I loved the little puzzles and devices he scattered throughout them. The use of metaphoric exposition followed by technical description is brilliant for making reinforcement learning fun.
Best explanation for me so far. Problem I see is that the same resources constraints could be on the Subscribers (limited connectivity, limited uptime) and the protocol does not address it?
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Can you be more specific - exactly from what page should one start reading GEB?
What is now happening around Kubernetes is that various companies and projects are coming up with "distributions" of their own. These package the underlying OS, the Kubernetes binaries, and a number of built-in system pods that take care of various things such as logging, scheduling and monitoring. Red Hat's OpenShift is one of them, as well Weaveworks. Maybe try having a look at one such solution?