skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not German, don't even speak German but stories like this bring me admiration for the German culture. Every country in the world has a "big shame", but I feel like only Germany faces their shame with dignity.

Belgium still keeps statues of King Leopold, Spain keeps statues of Cortez and Pisarro, Portugal of Vasco da Gama, the US is only now arguing about the statues for Confederate soldiers; Italy and France never did a real "mea culpa" on how they actually helped and collaborated with the Nazis, Brazil and most of Latin America keep ignoring the ongoing extermination of their natives, most Japanese try to avoid knowing what their country did in Manchuria during WWII, Turkey keeps denying the Armenian genocide, most African countries keep denying their active role in the slave trade ...

Germany has something to teach the world.
Assange is a hero? Last I checked he was working with Russia to support the Trump campaign.

Used to respect him a lot, lost all my respect for him and WikiLeaks when he got involved in trying to influence elections. That was not that site's mandate.
I have a faint recall of a DJB text with more in-depth discussion around the topic, thanks anyway for providing a true reference!
> Then again it could also just be related to reports of it causing some macs not to be able to reboot after install. The only fix was booting safe mode and manually removing the kernel extension.

Yikes, If that's true I'd bet that's the case. A bad kext that prevents booting would be a horrible experience.
I miss that skeumorphic design. I can't wait until this flat fad goes away.

It's like somebody hit the computer UI design world with a stupid stick. And all the designers woke up without the ability to see in 3 dimensions, and lived a life as Flatlanders.

Gestures are fantastic though.
Same here.

In my opinion, kanban tool should have taken off in popular usage, instead of tools like Slack.

If one is in a big org and using tools like Slack, you're most likely looking at yourself as a gigantic mess.

Kanban methodology in potential gives a better canopy style hierarchy to break out big into small chunks. I say potential because ultimately, none of this matters if there's no proper delegation and care at the top (let too many people create slack or groups or whatever, you're looking at chaos down the road).
Nature manages to cause weather patterns easily enough, why can't we?

Your question doesn't make sense. Many (most) things in nature are incredibly hard to model correctly. Just because they happen doesn't make it easy to quantify usefully.
If you use Asana, or are thinking of using it, the Board view allows you to implement Kanban. Asana use was pretty low before I started at my job, but once I introduced Board view + Kanban, adoption increased significantly.

A couple specific tips:

* Use a backlog/ideas/to do eventually column to store tasks whose time has not come. It's a great place to brain dump
* Make tasks bite-sized with actionable titles. More tasks completed = more dopamine hits = higher adoption = better tracking
* Review open tasks with your direct reports regularly. I do 1x/week
If I were Snowden I’d be really pissed to be in the same breath as Assange. Snowden gave up a good life to tell people about pervasive monitoring, while Asange was always a relentless self-promoter and scumbag who tried to have his cake and eat it too.
What about whataboutism?

This mindset isn't productive - these actions don't exist in a vacuum and to treat it as such pretty much absolves the other party of all guilt while the focus is on somebody else.

Hypocrisy isn't whataboutism.
Yes, the articulation is the only difference from a span-bolstered car with 8/12 axles.
Simulation is really needed for automated testing. I do not know how you would ever develop self driving technology safely without.

How else would you make sure a change did not break something g else? On public roads? Plus simulation enables situational injection which you also need.

Waymo being sister to Google makes it so they have the infrastructure to pull this off. The others do not have. Plus we do not have Microsoft, Amazon or Facebook developing who would also have the infrastructure.
This reminds me a bit of atomic orbitals and how they're based on spherical harmonics. I was curious why there were e.g., eight electron 'sockets' in the second shell. Eight seemed like a very arbitrary number to me and my high school chemistry teacher's inability to explain at the time did it's share to put me off chemistry.

Many years later I remembered my old question and started looking it up. It turns out that eight is the sum of 1+3+3+1 perhaps similarly to what's in the article.

Spherical harmonics ends up giving rise to a three dimensional 'overtone' series (borrowing from my understanding of music theory). In the first order there's only one mode of vibration. In the second order there are three additional modes. The summands above are something like positive and negative degrees of freedom for each mode in the second shell.

Here's a diagram of what the modes look like in each order:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OkDYbIhisZE/maxresdefault.jpg

...and here's an animation of a sphere undergoing the differing modes of vibration:

https://youtu.be/EcKgJhFdtEY

If I understand correctly, the math related to atomic orbitals can be described with 3 dimensions of space: x, y and z plus one more orthogonal dimension of frequency/time which would mean quaternions would be most directly applicable?
Can you go a bit more in detail why Net vs Free? I would LOVE to replace Linux (Fedora) with one of the BSD's. It's philosophy and everything basically suits me far more than anything else, but I need CUDA, I need Nvidia drivers, I like to play with ML, I need few more things like that which makes it a no go as far as I'm aware.
Coolest read of the day. Never imagined Linkedin as a game :-)
Scammers Are Using ‘Clash of Clans’ to Launder Money from Stolen Credit Cards
That went gloriously off the rails.
Waymo has insurance from Munich Re. Do not think liability problem.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/12/20/47...
Startup Trov, Munich Re to Insure Riders of Waymo's Self-Driving ...
Koko, Kanzi, and ape language research
Not really an excuse because I agree with the intent of what you're saying, but the federated system of the US means that the state department or president or whatever DOESN'T have the authority to tell the state of Washington whether or not to pursue the death penalty. That would have been the Federal government promising the actions of a third party it has no control over... which is pretty bad but a little different from outright intentional fraud.
‘Why are you still here?’: Inside the last Blockbuster in America
> Can't we all let our ancestors rest in their grave?

"The past isn't dead, it isn't even past", William Faulkner.

If you had read about the "ohu" in the article referenced by the link you'd understand that.

But it seems this place is becoming like reddit: no one reads anything.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29972742

They received special dispensation to declare it effective if it treated monkeypox in monkeys and rabbitpox in rabbits.
Whilst I agree in general, but depending on your internal clientele, I think it can be useful having someone dealing with those 5 minute jobs - if you can save someone a couple of hours work by writing an SQL query for them, you should. It'll improve your relationship with other teams.
When I read the title I was reminded of this

https://youtu.be/tVT2Xi1kwx0
I don't like it any more than you do. But was that a constitutional abuse?
Single cut.
> Both establishment parties are fully in support of doing the IC's bidding.

It'a almost like we have a shadow government spreading Fake News. Trump may be an idiot but a broken clock is right twice a day.
It may be time for video rental stores to make a minor comeback. Like vinyl. Netflix's online catalog keeps shrinking, and Youtube has been cracking down so hard that movies from the 1930s have been taken offline.
I always thought it was peculiar that the “net” one was not the security focused one.
You're welcome! I found the link here: http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/tech/fork.html
> Imaginary numbers are needed to take the square root of a negative

No, they are not. That problem is not well defined. A symbol is not a solution.

Complex numbers are needed to solve the polynoms of a higher degree. Eg. x^4+x^2=-1 can be simplified to y^2+y=-1 with y=x^2 which wouldn't have a solu
None of us are equipped to litigate the question of whether Ecuador is well-governed

False. This can be trivially derived from Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo–Fraenkel_set_theory
Well spoken. Thanks.
> Assange's little difficulties with women ... not everyone has a squeaky clean character

To be clear about his "little difficulties", he's been accused of intentionally breaking a condom he was using when having sex with one woman (both of them have stated that the condom broke) and continuing a sexual encounter with another person while refusing to use a condom. As the article states, he's escaped trial because he hid from Swedish authorities and they weren't able to have the case tried in a timely fashion.

I will think it's a failure of our justice system if Assange is prosecuted in the US for leaking information (especially if, as described by the article, it's by Sessions et al. as a precursor for a leaking crackdown) and not tried for the sexual assault case that he's actually been on the run from for years - because it means that anyone who's in a similar position to Assange can now get away with sexual assault, claim asylum for their political activities, and have the world ignore their "difficulties with women."
I don't think Slack is replacing proper project management; it's a tool for impromptu communication and help.
Do you have any research to suggest people can become an “acid casualty”?

This seems to be more lore than fact.

And recent meta analysis shows that psychedelic use has no negative impacts on mental health (and in many cases, is beneficial).
> EDIT: to answer some of the accusations below, you guys know nothing about me, my background, or my ancestors, yet most of you are quick to jump to conclusions. It's both funny and sad.

It seems like in the US, knowing (or thinking you know) the "race" of the person you are talking with is fundamental, and everything always ends up being relative to that. When you don't state your own racial background (or what you said didn't convince them) people will simply guess something on their own.

Just a few days ago, a black (half black? but I think it's the same, in the US) humorist used the exact same words as the far right always does when describing the French soccer team, but somehow it was different because of his skin colour (that was actually his line of defense). Them explicitly saying they are French, not African was not something he could accept, because, you know, they're black.

When I was in the US or Canada, people were always asking my wife "where she came from" for no special reason, and very few accepted "Canada" as an answer. I was the actual immigrant, but since I'm white I wasn't subject to that. For her, after having mostly lived in France where nobody would ever assume you aren't just French unless you explicitely tell them (or can't speak French at all) it was a horrible experience.

It's just something I have observed. Everyone seems to be obsessed with the other persons' origins, sometimes with good intentions (who actually cares about being praised for their parents' birthplace, though?) but it never stops and it's very obvious to anyone who isn't used to North America.

Not sure if it's really on topic, sorry if I got carried away a bit.
I can think of many where it turned out great for both.

It’s 2018. Everyone is always thinking of leaving. This kind of thinking just doesn’t apply anymore.
The gap between what he said and what he did was not small.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDs3CJAwI4
A blog post dated from 13 July 2017, one year later hardly anything changed.
I believe that was fixed in the most recent Mac version already - see the devs comments on the page. I have it installed on my MBP and have had no issues.
I still get a good feeling going to the Wikipedia page for smallpox and seeing the first two words of the entry:

"Smallpox was"
Can you elaborate on that? Provide sources etc.
Genuinely curious
What was the set and setting for your friend?

What was going on in his life at the time?

Who was with him and how did they work with his “freak out”?

It sounds like he lacked the set, setting and support to integrate that experience in a healthy way.
Facebook is developing an internet satellite after shutting down drone project
It is mentioned on the video
It's not really accurate to say he was trying to influence elections. His goal is to publish verifiable documents that bring transparency to important political issues. He did not take sides whatsoever in the 2016 election, and obviously would have loved to publish information about Trump if any had been leaked to WL.
bizarrely though they have pulled it for some reason.
My theoretical knowledge of computer science can be approximated to zero, as is my knowledge of math, but for some time I worked as a programmer with good results; in my best days I could write about two hundred lines of C or Pascal in a few hours, then go home without testing them because the machine wasn't available and be complimented the following day because they compiled and worked without any errors. I still felt I was lacking something so I tried to improve reading some books but all of them required high math skills I never had, so I quickly gave up. (Niklaus Wirth algorithms book probably is the only exception here)
I can perfectly figure in my head registers loading data and shifting them around, logic gates changing and combining values, stacks pushing and popping words, electrons flowing through components etc, and for example can diagnose problems in analog circuits due to say bad decoupling, ground loops etc. Figuring them is easy from experience but the math behind that is way harder; anything beyond simple equations is like alien language to me, and the very few times I grasped something beyond that I quickly forgot for lack of continuous exercise. Did anyone else encounter the same discouraging level of difficulty?
So my question would rather be: are there any good algorithms book for nearly complete math illiterates like me that would help to learn both in the process (and possibly not hate them :)?
Very amusing.

I'm almost tempted to delete my LinkedIn. I turned off all email notifications months ago so largely forgot about it, but a friend of mine recently said he saw my profile pop up in his feed about a work anniversary or some other 'engagement' thing they spam people with.

The photo on my profile is from 9 years ago, and my job title has since changed, in fact most of it is probably out of date.

I suspect my inbox is full of recruiters shouting into the void.
I would say yes. Most Russians want to see Russia succeed. For historical reasons a strongman or strongwoman have been necessary to keep the country together.

Many/most Russians would make that bargain, those that would not, have left. Some of those who left would still have Russia ruled by a semi-dictator than see it fall apart at the hands of a caring but ineffective leader.
Alas, I'm using AMD.
Me and my wife are trying for something like this, but we're using Notion.so instead of post-its since we already use it for a bunch of other stuff. It's lightweight and the Android client is pretty good.
You quote a political actionist, a member of a punk band, as if she were some kind of expert, investigative journalist or insider. She's not informed on the merits of the matter at all.
A good mindset of psychedelic use is that you’d like things to be brought to the surface so they can be worked with and integrated.

This is precisely what makes them such useful tools for things like PTSD and why it can be a bummer if someone does Molly at a rave and winds up with a memory of being molested and her friends are too busy doing K to talk with her.

In a safe and supportive setting, this is exactly what can help people heal.

It’s when things get uncovered but not fully released and processed they can occupy ones life.

A good psychedelic therapist or sitter should be able to help someone integrat a current or former bad trip.
Then again, to his credit, he eventually met his Swedish prosecutors from the safety of the embassy (and released the gory details a month later [1]). And there were genuine concerns from the get go that he'd get booted across the Atlantic had he stepped out of the embassy.

I've honestly no idea how warranted the rape claims in Sweden were - and to be clear, I'd tend to side with the women who filed them - but you can't just dismiss the whole thing on grounds he was escaping those charges.

In a similar situation I can't imagine anyone except the most naive idealist would have risked the wrath of US.gov (whose budget, remember, is on the order of magnitude of Germany's GDP) over miscellanea in Sweden (however important to the victims) that had 'excuse for extradition to the US' written all over it.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/julian-assange...
Yes - people (including children) are being denied their right to have counsel and a speedy trial and to not be deprived of liberty or property without due process of law. Those are human rights which the Constitution protects for all people in the US, not just rights for citizens.
Liberal America is a cult now, a church and assagne was found in heresy against its highest law: You shall not rape.

They know very well, to manipulate those who decide what they stand for and upon with their feelings and not on principle.
Exactly the same here. Getting to "lord" (level 20 as I recall) was an amazing feeling. Also exploring the newly-opened areas, like the icy town to the north. And when the Juggernaut came and there was a GM-played merchant who did alterations! So many things about that game continue to fascinate me.
Its undefined because it's not guaranteed to happen, that's the whole point, and that's what makes it undesirable. Rust has it right here: don't allow undefined behavior and make the programmer specify the behavior they want.

If they want wrapping overflow, fine. If they don't, great. Tell the compiler don't make it guess/assume/optimize/hope. What this article is arguing for IMO is not the concept of behavior that happens to sometimes work and sometimes not depending on the target machine (because thats crazy) but the functionality itself, which is valuable, and should be explicit and defined. The issue is the last-generation languages like C/C++ don't give you mechanisms to express what you want so you're left hoping the compiler figures out what you meant. That's not a world I want to live in anymore, we can do better.

UB is bad, period. Define what you want, make the compiler do it.
What counter argument is this? The i9 is a 6-core i7. That's basically all.
That was Chelsea Manning who did that, and the Assange fanclub tends to hate her for some reason.
I've actually run into different focus issues, stuff involving WebStorm multiple project windows on Mac and the wrong one getting focus.

For focus within the editor, I've been pretty happy, but it does take a little learning to get a feel for the keyboard shortcuts. Quick rundown on focus, at least on Mac (other platforms/keymaps are mostly similar, I think):

• Cmd+1, Cmd+2, Cmd+3 etc focus and toggle the different panels.

• Wherever you are, Escape gets you back to the code. Shift+Escape closes the focused panel and moves back to the code.

• Option+Tab switches between code panes.

• Whenever you open code from any panel, Enter will open the code and leave focus on the panel, and Cmd+Down will open the code and move focus to the code.

I find it easy enough to switch focus that even if an action ends up in a focus state I don't expect, it's just a little muscle memory to move focus to what I want.
How does changing the benchmarking software in any way not invalidate the comparison, when trying to compare two compatible hardware implementations? To see if the hardware has gotten faster, you must run the same software on it.

IMHO this "grasping at straws" is a sign of the end of actual performance improvements. From the start of the PC through perhaps the mid 2000s you could run the same software, and each new generation of processor would show a measurable (and often dramatic) improvement.
> Reality is its internal model of the external world informed by imperfect sensory inputs. Consciousness is what thinking feels like.

Problem is, these are vague claims that many would disagree with. It's not that simple. Why does thinking feel like anything? What does "feel" even mean?

The mystery is, why does moving physical particles in the brain sometimes trigger the perception of "seeing green" and sometimes it triggers the feeling of tiredness?

Or what about this thought experiment. You probably believe that a computer program can feel pain. But you can execute the program by hand, with pen and paper. Does this create the feeling of pain too?

> As far as I'm concerned, after Wittgenstein, philosophy has had nothing to do. All the "big questions" are either answerable scientifically as a matter of neurology or they're ill-posed and nonsensical.

I agree with the sentiment. I think most of philosophy is BS, lot of words about nothing and most questions are really about linguistic - once you properly define terms, the problem disappears. But the problem of consciousness is an exception.
The really interesting part in all this, is that we're still reduced to bouncing values off of imaginary numbers to obtain accurate readings.

We toss our known quantities into a void, anticipating that if some impossible, imaginary thing really can fill the gap, and if or when it does, we'll catch the rebound off of it, and the rest of the universe proceeds predictably.

Somehow, we're always put into a position where we have to close our eyes, fly blind for some undisclosed intervening moment of unspecified length, and when we open our eyes again, we're grounded by familiar territory again.

It really is kind of stultifying.
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Maybe it's because you can make it from mostly local ingredients and requires some skill to ensure it's made well. They also tend to exhibit an area's "soil characteristics imparted into flavor". It's more plebeian than snobbish wine so it exudes, in American vernacular, heartlandness.
I shudder to think what modern warfare would be like without biological weapons being banned.
Microsoft makes Telemetry updates for Windows 7 and 8.1 “critical updates”
> It can only span multiple clouds now because other clouds had to ship Kubernetes.

This isn't true. People were running open-source Kubernetes on AWS and Azure before either provider had a hosted Kubernetes service. In fact back when GKE was the only hosted Kubernetes service, more companies were running Kubernetes on non-Google platforms than on GCP (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/12/06/cloud-native-technologie...).

[Disclaimer: I work on Kubernetes/GKE at Google.]
> It was a trumped-up allegation

You’re quite callously dismissing two womens’ rape allegations.
I've tried it, seems to be much worse than intellij. Doesn't understand namedtuples. Doesn't infer types, doesn't check for unhandled exceptions. I'm disappointed. What's with this 'execution simulation'? They aren't better than simple ctags.
Open source licensing: What every technologist should know (2017)
Some machine learning conferences are now recruiting graduate students to be reviewers.
Few people die just due to antibiotic resistant bacteria. Generally someone’s immune system is compromised from something like cancer before they are at risk of death. And at that point it’t a race to find what’s going to finish the job.