skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even without that his ideas were a daft excuse for starving the poor because it was the 'convenient' thing to do for the people in power because feeding the poor actually working the farms would cut into their short term profits. Look at the Irish Potato Famine. The disporia emigrated and helped drive industrial booms and some like the Carnagies became wealthy. This points to the policies not only being a humanitarian catastrophe but a vast squandering of resources. The events came to a head after the actual man's death but he still bears some responsibility and his followers the remainder.

Meanwhile Ireland is /still/ down in population compared to its peak. Given the evidence I can't help but judge Malthus and his ideals as both stupid and evil. I suppose that describes a lot of downward historical trajectories actually - people in power do something selfish for short term gain because they don't see or care of the costs, ruin the lives of everyone around them a thousandfold and eventually themselves before permanently damaging their institutions.

On another note food is so far from being the limiting or driving factor for population it isn't funny. What truly drives reproduction are the actual incentives - even back in ancient times farmers had explosively sized families while the urbanized tended to have more modest sized ones simply because of other resources constraining. Neither human labor nor water, nor arable land are in scarce globally although all three are mismanaged some.
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Or, more importantly, and in the case of the Government of Pakistan when dealing with sites like Telegram.org, an ISP can simply drop the connection.
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Of course, just not in America right now which really is at it's peak for adoration of celebrities, conspicuous consumption, and prosperity theology/philosophy. If any of us peons start handing out pedophile accusations at the next family or work meeting, how would that go down? We'd be invited to a. take a time out or b. to get stuffed.

It's worth reading the book of Job.

God: "No, FU, you do not get to question me! No matter whether I may have made bad things happen to you on purpose, or I merely let them happen while taking a bet with Satan. Who are you? You've done nothing. I've done everything. All of your accumulations are incidental to everything I made possible. And they have nothing at all to do with sucking up to me. Sometimes wicked people prosper. Oh and thanks for playing to the best of your abilities. Hey Satan, you owe me a $1 I won our bet. Oh and Job since you didn't question me, you get double the bounty. Good luck with those 14,000 sheep you've got now!"

Obviously a human wrote it, and humans have been grappling with these questions for a long time. Are rich people better than poor people? And if god lets wicked people prosper then are we all responsible for holding rich people accountable? Or should we take bribes and let them get away with things?

And right now American is absolutely to its core worshiping the wealthy. It's full on idolatry. Rich people are ethically better, morally better, they are higher class, they deserve more breaks from the rules that apply to the everyone else, hey cut the rich guy some slack! It's in business. It's in every day life. It's taught in evangelical churches. God wants you to be rich! What can god do? Anything he wants! What can a rich person do? Almost anything they want! What does everyone else do? Serve god and the rich. Clearly the rich are very close to god!

The wealthy are deified in this country. And it's totally perverse to me. Hilarious I'm an atheist, loving the book of Job! I really look forward to the day when America can tone down this money cult.

God really did make a bet with Satan though. Check it out. Prosperity theology is Satan's idea.
No doubt phone can be compromised, but listening to everything one says isn't its designed purpose. It's the intended use of the "smart" microphone that's fundamentally untrustworthy. Even if everything works exactly as intended, recordings are available on the owning company's servers and they are subject to discovery, lawful or otherwise.
> "ask for forgiveness not permission" stuff won't fly with many judges...

According to the article, the courts have steadfastly protected this behavior for 90 years.
Not a federal judge and not an impeachment, but a judge has been removed for a controversial ruling recently: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/06/judge-aaron-p...
Based on a BP study, the US had the "largest decline" of CO2 emissions in 2017, where largest decline is in absolute terms for that period only, not in relative terms.
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It probably wouldn't be too hard to put something together with a JavaScript bookmarklet and their archive page. http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/list.htm
I wonder what happens if you have a keyboard issue AND your logic board dies at the same time after the first year? Will they replace the logic board for free, given that the keyboard was malfunctioning?
I don't quite understand why 'true mathematicians' fail to get the point. Any ideas?
Do you still lock your doors at home, even though a thief could simply throw a rock through your window?
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It's more like parody. The moment I read their PR, I though - REALLY!? Am I stupid or Apple's PR team is full of hypocrites?
It was clear to me that there was a phase change when the iTunes store came out - wow, was that 2003? Anyway, the reason I am not rich is because I didn't believe in Steve Jobs, so I didn't have the faith to hold AAPL stock forever. But the iTunes store was the point at which it was clear something spectacular was happening and Apple was moving in to a new world, compared to the days when the WSJ constantly called them "beleaguered".
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Control is used even more than Escape. Control should replace caps lock, and escape should replace the control key.
not based on an active appraisal of the way progress in AI work already is judged.

I don't think that's accurate at all. From the article:

"Adjacent to engineering is the development of new technical methods. This is what most AI people most enjoy. It’s particularly satisfying when you can show that your new system architecture does Z% better than the competition."

The ImageNet competition results from 2012 was the major turning point that exploded AI research, specifically in that computer vision was able to beat human level classification. Similarly for Chess previously and more recently Go.

Goodfellow's work with GANs and Pearl's work in Baysian Causality are the only major exceptions I see right now that are not based on the competitive improvement around a baseline. No other major scientific field approaches it this way.
People aren't born with prejudices, they have to learn them. The most common source being religion. Without religion we wouldn't have had witch trials, the Crusades and a lot of other really miserable shit. What it didn't outright invent it codified and reinforced, it's just another way of making people afraid in order to control them.

> God did not create us in his image; we created him in ours.

Apparently you don't understand religion at all. This is exactly the opposite of what they believe. Your idea about man creating God is the atheist position. Fundamentalists believe the Bible is the inerrant word of God and his will must be obeyed. They differ only in interpretation and level of conviction.

Some people will use X to justify their behavior but most people are just too stupid for that. Evangelicals come to mind. They just believe whatever they are told because it makes them feel good or special. It's sheer intellectual laziness that allows their though processes to be corrupted or completely bypassed by religious dogma. Once it reaches a tipping point in the population you enable people like Hitler and Trump who will take advantage of the movement to get what they want.

> There are more religious people than SV/tech people trying to help the homeless.

The don't want to help, they want to assuage their own guilt by doing as little as possible. And you can be sure the only homeless they want to help are straight and white and don't live anywhere near their gated communities. The make token donations so they can forget about all the harm they really do by electing idiots who invent bathroom laws, anti-abortion laws, try to keep gays out of the military, kill people by taking away affordable healthcare, give huge tax breaks to the rich and millions of other shitty little laws.
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And an archive.is link of that one, for good measure:

https://archive.is/g8jV7
I would recommend it. I've used it at home for a bit, I only recently switched away from it on my workstation to Antergos.

I still feel that 16.04 was a bit more traditional, and I liked that a lot. If you're happy with 16.04, I'd reccomend sticking. I won't be upgrading my machine at work for a long while, which is still 16.04.
> forced obsolescence

What do you mean by this? My 5S device from 2013 will support iOS 12. The battery might be dying but it is replaceable.
Windows and Linux are not apples to apples. One you pay for and one you don't.
If you are reasonable comfortable in Linux and a developer, I'd strongly recommend Arch with i3 window manager. Pacman is fantastic. The initial setup is a bit of a pain, but it's so much smoother and more stable from that point forward.
>"Except you don’t need to, generally."

Generally except if you commute/travel via long distance by train or bus and there is only one power outlet per passenger, and you need your phone as a modem for your laptop. Or at an airport with limited outlet availability. Or at a coffee shop with limited outlet availability. Or if you prefer to back up to your laptop locally via iTunes.

>"Unless you are the .025% of iPhone owners that do development, your complaint really doesn’t matter."

Telling people their view doesn't really matter on account of a statistic you completely made up? Dismissing others people's views because their use case differs from your own? Brilliant.
Interesting -- if you've got a link, please post it.
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I'm confused. My 2012 MBP already came with a 256GB SSD (lowest possible standard configuration) and it's soldered, like the RAM. Did you mean a 2011 MBP?
Yes, and different hardware that they connect to.
It doesn't. If anything China is teaching the world that it is perfectly possible to have thriving entrepreneurial spirit under censorship and surveillance. This would be hard to accept for people in western world but we are learning that not only democracy is overrated but also freedom of expression is not the pre-condition for the economic progress. Historically, we have had several authoritarian regimes where science, art and economy flurished and freedom of expression was limited. In fact, virtually all regimes before 1600s would fall in to this mold. The Grand China Experiment is showing cracks in our dearly help beliefs and frankly its quite scary.
Will Elon Musk run for US president in 2020?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWp4suB60fg

skip to 1:18. That's about 55 miles high view, similar to Blue Origin. It's nice, but perhaps not $200k for most people.

This is sped up view from ISS, which is 250 miles up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g

Yeah I think a lot of people will gladly pay $200k for the second view... actually probably much more.
I know this isn't related to hate speech, it was done to protect someone's family, but in much of the world, various forms of speech are regulated (by judges or elected officials).

To me, anyways, there's overwhelming anecdotal proof that having some limits on speech correlates (and more than likely contributes) to a safer and more just society without any virulent side effect. This is not a slippery slope.

I think it's good to be vigilant about these things and scrutinize judges and officials though.
In i3 it is very easy to adjust the split ratio. hit mod + r and you are in resize mode.
No problem with a guy telling his story. I'm just saying there's no reason for me as a reader get anything out of it as we don't even get good explanations on why doing X, Y, or Z failed. Just for me as a reader a startup failure story not including the product / market ... could have been entirely the product / market for all we know.
In case you weren't aware, many of the Instagram users who appear to be on permanent vacation don't actually make much money from marketing and are actually part-time sex workers. Their lifestyles are funded by johns or "sugar daddies".

(I'm not making a moral judgment here, just pointing out the reality behind the illusion.)
Approximately 8 federal judges have been impeached in the last century:

https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/impeachments-federal-judg...

That doesn't include how many resigned facing likely impeachment.
For others clicking the farbag.com link, your browser might auto-download an *.au (audio) file.

It's just a toot.
Well we certainly need fewer dysfunctional families, but if we want more smart people we need to encourage more smart people to become parents.
Judges and elected officials routinely regulate free speech. Every court sealed record, every copyright performance enforcement, every liable/slander ruling, every pornograpy lewd speech law/FCC regulation, hate crime and bullying laws that limit what anyone can say, tons of national security arms export that restrict wide gamut of things like CPUs and maths algorithms.

Some of those I agree with. Some I don't. Point is Supreme Court has rightly ruled Free Speech is not a absolute right. It does not trump all other rights. Nor all the duties/responsibilities we put onto governments.
The paragraph before that mentions that it is often appeals courts who have protected the behavior, as various trial "...Judges have issued similar orders before..."

Incidentally, no one would wish to see the cop's family harmed, but it's not like this plea agreement came as a surprise to them, so they already had time to reorganize their lives for security. That makes the seal difficult to justify. Also, the risks they face are mostly due to the cop's actions.
I just installed Xubuntu on it. I suppose it uses the integrated GPU by default? As far as I can tell, it was the switching between GPUs that was causing the machine to crash on macOS. I recall having installed gfxCardStatus on it to stop the switching, but it wasn't super-reliable.

Anyway, it works pretty well now for some dev work and light browsing. Hope you manage to fix yours!
Socioeconomic status is far, far more important than genes[1]. If you want more smart people, give people more money.

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/under-the-influence/...
He mentions 14 real estate properties. Those will keep generating income for a long time.

If he is living on that and not using up his principal it sounds good
It isn't.

This "retiree" has monthly income of $8K+.
Is it 3 or 4? Is 2 enough?

Let’s say the last message in your example is dropped

B would have 3 acks from A while A only has 2 acks from B.

Will A attack? If not, B is left attacking on their own.

Similarly, what if none of Bs messages make it back to A? How does B know to attack?
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To those that are unfamiliar with the Chinese terms,

- 差不多 culture (Chàbùduō) = Fail Fast, Fail Often Culture

- rely on 关系 here (Guānxì) = rely on the old boy network here
Trump gets to appoint them these days.
Then why not just remove all reimbursements for food instead of penalizing just one group?
He could be the future President of Mars.
Not having children removes the grandparents. Hard to be a grandparent unless you have children.
I think running a long term support distro is silly for non critical devices.

I personally use Debian Testing, maybe take this chance to try it? I've never had a stability issue across the 4 different devices I use.
I do. Manjaro (arch-based rolling release distro). The installer is second to none except maybe suse, the hardware detection is also second to none, having worked for me with all kinds of combinations of cpu/vid card. It has one more thing that is super awesome as well, which is the easiest kernel management system I've ever messed with. I also really think that rolling release is the optimum current release model, another reason I like it. It has access to the aur (arch user repository).

I highly recommend the xfce4 version, (most user issues on the forums are kde based and not manjaros fault) even though I am fully over on awesome now. I also don't like lightdm that much so I like replacing that too. In general, that's the arch principle (KISS, remove the cruft, use what you want, replace things and customize them)

Source: someone who distro hops all the time, maintains all kinds of systems, and who has been using manjaro as a daily for ~1 yr.
The word you're looking for is Hamiltonian mechanics.
I tend to need checklists while I'm away from my computer, and would prefer something quicker on a phone than opening a text editor.
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That still strikes me as highly silly. I mean people have always been afraid of missing out. From the tabloids, gossip, to the land-line era complaints about teenagers and phone bills. It is at most a slight exacerbator with the information flow in a similar way to group think and selection biases.
A lot of the comments mention reasons. In my experience, once you get used to a lisp-2 programming in a lisp-1 feels limiting: you can’t just write

(def str “foo”)

In Clojure, because you’ll shadow the builtin definition of str (which leads to really weird bugs). But, this means that there’s one more thing to think about when naming your variables.

Additionally, I think we’re pretty used to “separate namespaces” for nouns and verbs in normal languages: it’s fairly rare, for example, for the word “run” to be ambiguous between its noun use and it’s verb use, in the context of a sentence.
true mathematicians don't do practicality. https://xkcd.com/435/
Where's the proof of that? I've known people who at some point would have met the diagnostic criteria for alcoholism, and yet managed to moderate their drinking on their own without quitting or going to AA or anything like that. Obviously that doesn't work for everyone but I wouldn't glibly dismiss the possibility.
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I'm interested in fashion history and had not heard of this. It didn't last, bit it leave behind a legacy:

“This is the beginning of the T-shirt art era”
What kind of "censorship" though? Wouldn't excessive patent laws and lawsuits be a kind of censorship?

By that token, the average Chinese person is more free than they would have been 50 years ago. I don't think people realize how restrictive China was back then and how free they are now.

Sure, they still have a long way to go, but to say that they are getting "less free" is incorrect.

Ask any Chinese if they would rather live under Mao vs living now.
I would suggest Fedora if your going to use gnome it has far better consistency in my opinion. Ubuntu have switched to installing default apps like system monitor and some others using snap. There's some inconsistencies if you use other GTK themes besides the default.
A profiler will pinpoint the source of performance problems even when you can't recognize them by inspecting the source code.
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How about IBM? There are a number of companies doing fundamental research. Check out any academic journal.
So in the end the permanently coupled tuple of cars is handled as a single car, it kind of proves that every car must have a toilet? Or perhaps the next manager reiterates the rationale and decides to put just one toilet every two car tuples...
$500 with a required contract is a subsidised device; it doesn't really matter how you phrase it. AT&T paid for it to be exclusive and the retail price would have been set taking that into account. If it wasn't there'd be no reason for Apple to allow a carrier exclusive with a required contract - the buyer would own the device.
> I'm certain that until pioneer, m-audio, etc. jump on board, they will lose consumers.

I am sure Apple must have thought of that before pulling the plug on USB A. The point is this is classic Apple move to let go old tech and embrace new.
So unless you "create" a completely new language or chipset, you are merely just "building" things?
I used to be a cyclist. And while I was a cyclist, I used to think the same. Then I found out how some states have laws that allow cyclists to treat stop lights and stop signs as stop signs and yields respectively, and how helps a little bit to separate car traffic from cycling traffic.

EDIT: but no, this thing about patience rings a bit false to me. Patient in the sense that I'm not in as much of a hurry to get where I'm going, yes. But stopping after having built up a nice head of speed, knowing that I'm going to have to expend more energy to get back up to speed...
That's interesting and matches my a priori expectations. That (effectively) makes it a way of compressing grain, rather than just masking lower bitrates. You have to store information about the analysis for the decoder to work, and so there are the usual tradeoffs that come with compression.
Yes there is trivially - give the end user the budget to buy their own. However there are some real logistical disadvantages to that approach as well and frankly many workplaces are far too hierarchally minded to the point of being insulted at the concept of asking the employees what they think.
Keeping a plaintext “did” file
This red herring is exactly what doesn't work. It's not a key - there's nothing tactile.
This is how I feel about it. If the touch bar were above the top row of keys, it could still be useful for innovative things like video scrubbing, etc., but yet let other users move quickly with physical keys for day-to-day tasks.
I don't think that's the case on the XPS-13 9350 with the FHD (1080p) display.
Sorry but just because an article or opinion piece does not make censorship the central point of an article does not mean it is a piece of propaganda. I've been to China, while many people are certainly annoyed by the control, most seemed to be so for purely pragmatic reasons. "It hinders business, I can't get what I want", and so forth. Rarely have I seen someone go into a lengthy speech about government overreach or free speech. You simply should recognise that this is fairly low on the list of priorities of people in the country, most just want to get on with their lives. We should allow people to talk about the Chinese tech ecosystem without having to pay their due to Western audiences in the foreword.

The ubiquity of smartphone consumer technology is portrayed fairly accurately. You really can do almost anything with your phone in almost any place (although I can't speak personally about rural areas, I've heard people mention it a lot, especially in the last tow to three years.)

The open source edge that China has is primarily in hardware, not software, especially in Shenzhen. The knock-off culture allows you to bring something to the market or have something manufactured in virtually no time at very low cost. It is still primarily a manufacturing city rather than a services city, although that seems to be changing.
Yup. When the Chinese remake a product, it's called copying. But when others copy a product, it's called "remaking."
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What happened to webm, which apple doesn’t even support yet?