skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My response is the potential for abuse and the natural growth in scale and scope of oversight negates the utility of such control of media. I'd bet a thousand dollars for every violent act prevented through censure there were 100 arbitrary, social, or overly careful controls that had little real benefit to society.

If America took this advice they'd have banned goth music and violent video games in a 'think of the children' antiviolence bullshit narrative.

Not to mention the idea you can regulate your way out of 'fake news' (even ignoring the massive cost to culture, political freedom, and spread of knowledge) is ridiculous and naive.
Has Facebook investigated Peter Thiel's Palantir yet?
If anyone here is interested in this kind of thing then I highly, highly recommend "The history of Rome" podcast by Mike Duncan[1]. It's a fantastic look at the history of Rome, from before the republic to the fall of the western empire.

I haven't read the paper, in the 100s-200s there was a vicious cycle where the Emperor would keep his armies close for fear of a mutiny and because that is how his legitimacy was based. This would weaken the defenses of the empire, somewhere else some general would win a victory due to an attack on the weakened empire and his troops would declare him Emperor. Civil war ensued, rinse and repeat.

If I remember correctly Constantine saw an amazingly clever way out of this by basing the legitimacy of the emperor not on the army, but on divine right, so it's not the armies who declare an emperor but God. This set the stage for all that followed in Europe.

The Romans where freaking crazy.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast...
It's the same core editor with different pre-installed plugins, so I think criticisms of any of the JetBrains IDEs often apply to all of them. I have indeed seen slowness (depending on context), graphics issues, and focus issues in WebStorm, PyCharm, and others, but I still like them better than any other editor I've used.

Every language has its own implementation of code intelligence, though, so for different languages you might see significant differences in things like indexing time and the performance and quality of autocomplete.
Microsoft made a ton of money with Ballmer as CEO. I imagine the board was pretty happy with him at least for most of that time.
Fallacies physicists fall for
My understanding was that they are mainly interested in body-building.
> Why have we never seen Cubans commit terrorist attacks against Americans because the US "invaded" them in the 50s?

We have seen that. In fact Cubans were the stereotypical anti-US terrorists before Arabs (often sponsored by Cuba and/or the USSR, during the Cold War) took over the role.

In the Cold War, Cuba played a role in Latin America very similar to that Iran plays now in the Middle East.
If the standards are expensive to develop and maintain, seems better to require a license to implement a standard, or a fee to validate compliance to the standards. But anyone should be able to view them freely (if they are required by law)

Keeping them secret to practicioners-only seems perverse. And if they’re expensive, this is the effect.
I have used a bunch of carving axes - nothing matches the gransfors.
Time Is a Side Effect of Quantum Entanglement
Can you give a little more detail about the kind of information you’d like from the hardware?
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You can fix under engineering only when it is under control. Too much of under-engineered code may lead to bloated codebase which quickly becomes unmanageable.
Mindfulness May Make Memories Less Accurate
Every time I tried xdebug with PHP I had an awful experience.

Besides making the damn thing working, it was slow as fudge.

In comparison, recently I switched to JS/node ecosystem - everything was just working.
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MODX – critical update, open exploits
Asians have the highest median household income [by race] in the USA
Hey do you mind if I ask you you handled code signing for your Windows and Mac apps?

Mac seems relatively straightforward, but Windows seems like an absolute cluster.

I'm releasing my own free open-source desktop app built with Electron soon, and it seems like the biggest pain in the butt that no one seems to talk about.

Overall though I love the idea, upvoted! Might even give it a go. Solves some big problems I have with note-taking...I've resorted to Zotero + Cryptomator + Dropbox for my own setup.
Current antidepressant drugs are garbage by comparison but we're stuck with them for profit and stupidity reasons. In the meantime millions who could potentially be helped suffer and die. It's truly hard to justify the current situation on this research and the government's position in letting people suffer and die from such a horrific condition as depression when there might be a solution right before our eyes. Future generations will not look kindly on our stupid, barbaric, hateful society for this.
I use Go, Vue.js, Postgres, NATS, Redis, Keel, and deploy everything Kubernetes.

So far I am super happy with the stack, runs cheaply and requires pretty much no maintenance. Just tag a release on GitHub, Google Cloud Builder builds the image, Keel updates deployments and in a few seconds I have updated production with zero downtime.

While some people are happy with their copy/paste binaries/code to remote servers, I think a good pipeline to release and run your workloads makes working on side projects a lot more pleasure where you can focus on code and features. It also provides you with a valuable experience that can make you more money than the side project itself :)
You are correct. The outpouring against your position is simply defense of the premise that "centralized is 99% bad, decentralized is 99% good".

If that premise isn't true, if being decentralized doesn't always lead to a promised land, what then, does that mean for the companies or projects that promote decentralization as their main reason for existence?

As always, people need to defend their jobs and more importantly, their source of income.
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I have many degrees in computer science, and have used almost none of the knowledge in programming jobs. So, the content is fairly useless, practically speaking. I've also found the more I focus on theoretical elements while at work, the more useless I become. The actually useful elements are big picture, and can probably be taught in one or two classes. Much more useful than technical knowledge are the abilities to reason about systems and solve problems. In my opinion, the CS classes seem to be almost purposefully obtuse.
I heard a podcast recently about a wrestler who was born without legs. He was almost unbeatable at the high school level, due in part to (a) his very low center of gravity, (b) the ineffectiveness of many common moves on him, and (c) the fact that he could carry much more upper body muscle into the same weight class.

The other parents in the state were teaming up to try to get him banned for unfair advantage (!)
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Borg will remain orders of magnitude beyond Kubernetes until Kubernetes is completely rearchitected. It’s not scalability bugs. It’s decisions regarding how the cluster maintains state that hamstring it, and that’s so fundamental to everything it’s not a find/squish loop.

As I said in my comment, those major customers (one personal experience, three anecdotally, eight or nine I’ve consulted with) have quietly ruled out Kubernetes, either by trying it or prying it apart and deciding not to try it. That feedback isn’t coming. At Borg scale, Kubernetes is very much considered a nonstarter.
Raising My Child in a Doomed World
Good luck getting them to investigate a company owned by a major Facebook shareholder.
I used to play Ishar MUD back in the 90s. I think it still exists, run on a flash player.
It might be interesting to know that the Sanskrit word "desi" itself just means country
But it doesn't know what you intended. It's guessing. The consequences of guessing incorrectly could be very, very bad, as you are pushing your code to a remote host.

Again, the whole point of git is that it is decentralized; there is no requirement that you have one single central server that you are pushing to; there could easily be multiple places that you might want to push something to.

Using something as default that makes sense for a centralized VCS when git is not centralized is, imho, worse than bad UX, as it teaches incorrect assumptions.

Again, this is table-stakes knowledge for using decentralized version control.
not exactly.
Ah, to clarify: I would not bother ordering online, so it was a pleasant surprise to find the lower price in-store.
I never liked the name complex numbers. Something like dual numbers would have been much nicer and more descriptive.

By the way any idea why they don't mention the sedenion numbers?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedenion
Clickbait, sensationalist. Counterpoint: Amazon FireOS.
To use an example from the opinion, consider the ASTM standard for diesel fuel. ASTM has been involved in automotive standardization since the 1910s and 1920s: https://www.astm.org/COMMIT/D02/timeline.pdf. (ASTM was founded in 1898). The diesel fuel standard was first published in 1948. 42 U.S.C. § 17021, which incorporates it by reference, was enacted in 2007.

That’s not necessarily true for every standard, but in general the industry creates the standard because it needs to; the government comes along later and mandates use of standards that have already become widely adopted and time tested.
Text indented with two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim, which is intended for code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

There is no bulleted list format; just start the line with a bullet (such as a hyphen) and put a blank line between list items.
The Elon Musk Impersonators of the Internet
>Do I think Kubernetes is great if I have to build a CloudFormation thing to spin up all of its infrastructure and run it myself,

Yes.

>or would I rather pay big company to do it?

Also yes. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

Come on, you've used Borg. You wanna volunteer to going back to just using machines and VMs by hand, or worse, wiring up a complex and unreadable (Ansible|SaltStack|Chef|Puppet) playbook to set everything up?

No. This is why in the early days I was indeed running Kubernetes on AWS, by hand. As the tooling improved it only got better. I honestly wanted to have alternative choices, but Docker continually missed the point with Swarm and I just gave up on it.

>Your rebuttals are honestly more misleading, in my opinion, than my points, because you’re personally wrapped up in it and that’s coming across.

You are projecting wildly on this one.
I actually given that I have to deal with apps that should have been web based, but are not, 'cause dev convenience.

And having to untangle npm based builds to what used to be a simple set of scripts and HTML includes, because many JavaScript libraries assume a node based deployment and nothing else.

With those outcomes I do not consider it a good result.
It's so easy with all the stories of "discovering" around the 1300s/1400s to not realize that earlier cultures were actually interconnected and had appreciable impact on each other.
I am huge fan of Vienna on macOS. Currently I have my ~/Library/Application Support/Vienna symlinked to Dropbox in order to have my feeds synced across computers. I wish there was a better, more robust way.
I disagree with the point of view expressed in this NYT opinion piece, for many reasons, but find it interesting that it is becoming an increasingly vocal one. There was a similar piece in The Guardian, fairly recently.
But it is super easy to configure per-project virtualenvs, so you can manually install stuff and have it Just Work inside vscode.
That was always the core issue with Java for me. No matter how hard they tried to sell me that they finally fixed UI with Swing and whatnot, it always felt like Java apps lived in their own bubble, consumed massive resources and we're slow in general.

The best approach so far is Android and even then, I would say that the big difference between iOS and Android is precisely when the garbage collector kicks in and you get to see a phone with hiccups.

But of course, the Java language itself is loved by the academia as it conforms nicely to everything that is taught in proper architecture (even if it is verbose like no one)
Okay so I went and read the paper. They discuss generative modeling in section 5 and in the appendix (section 7.2).

Section 5 claims "the corresponding CoordConv GAN model generates
objects that better cover the 2D Cartesian space while using 7% of the parameters of the conv GAN". There isn't really quantitative analysis beyond a couple of small graphs discussing this any further. Section 7.2 and 7.3 visually compares the results between the generator's output of interpolated noise vectors in the latent space. The results look good but without quantitative analysis, they are very preliminary.

Generative modeling is tricky and I think in your first comment, the jump from a few nice images to CoordConv can "significantly improve the quality of the representations" is a big one given the sparsity of evidence in the paper. I'm not saying that you're wrong but your original comment seemed a bit misleading to me.
I get what and why of metaprogramming. I was specifically trying to quantify working without it. My reference to metaproblem wasn't what metaprogramming you want to do but rather solving the problem of a lack of it by switching languages mid-development.

How often has a commercial project been rewritten to gain metaprogramming mid-dev? I added commercial because personal projects have different objectives.
I've been running with React + Meteor for a project I'm solo-dev'ing, and it's been working out well.
What Hackers Do with All Your Stolen Passwords
Winning at football is exactly like winning a fight.

The member of the winning tribe will feel more confident that they will be able to win the next fight/feel more dominant, which correlates well with testosterone levels in my mind.
Well said.

The trouble with social taboos (even ones that exist for good reasons) is that it can be hard to understand who's being polite, and who's just stupid. Many people are stupid about many things, after all, even when there are no reasons to pretend.

Thus it seems valuable that there are places outside of such conventions. The internet has been very good for this -- things once known only by academic specialists are now open to anyone interested. Sometimes you return to polite society able to better decode what people really know.
Good work. It would be nice to be able to use the network and perormance tools offered by chrome.
Resisting the Depersonalization of the Work Space
Anyone else concur with yters experience ?
Exactly. Specifically, for biking or hiking, Google Maps are useless. Mapy.cz can be downloaded (in region chunks) for offline use and are generally a pleasure to use.
It'd be a nice theory but we actually know that as men get their testosterone levels lower they get to be at higher and higher risk of certain diseases. For example, testosterone is often cited as carrying risk of CVD and for many years we were confused why men with below low cutoff testosterone are at even higher risk of CVD than men just above high cutoff. As it turns out, estrogen, another sex hormone, pretty important for CV health is made through aromatisation from testosterone in the walls of blood vessels. Thus, surprisingly being low on testosterone actually increases risk of CVD through estrogen insufficiency. Yes, human endocrine system is complicated like that, and no, testosterone is not a fashion or something we can improve because we're smarter. We're studying AAS for about 70 years now and we still know pretty little. Testosterone and estrogen are "kinda" understood as they're mainly endocrine hormones. As for those secreted in para- and autocrine fashion (e.g. DHT) we still know not enough.
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Here is a video that covers this as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4U3h5wSxg
I've participated a bit in academic paper reviews over the years for some ACM journals/conferences in the computer graphics area. Initially I was pretty green and I often would not catch some of the problems that the more experienced reviewers would catch. I embarrassingly recommended acceptance to some papers that other more experienced reviews said were clearly crap. Over time though, I learned to be more critical by example from the more experienced reviewers. And eventually I sometimes would be one of the assholes on the review committee that wrecked people's dreams of publication.

I wonder if the rapid growth of ML recently has diluted the reviewer pool dramatically? There are so many papers submitted but so many of the reviewers are green that crap gets through more easily? I wonder if there is a growth limit to fields such that the paper review teams do not get overly diluted with green researchers?

(Has this paper even been peer-reviewed? If it hasn't been peer reviewed there is a good chance it is crap just by the law of averages -- most "academic" papers are crap. There is a reason the top venues that I was involved with have a rejection rate upwards of 80%.)
How is the standard verified in practice? If it’s a device, it could be license fee on the device. If it’s validated by a lab, the lab could pay a fee to validate to the standard.

But the standard should be freely published if it’s a law

I research many more things than I build. It seems bizarre to collect fees from me when I’m researching an idea rather than when I implement it
Watercooler Moments: How to design products that generate word of mouth
The literature stands on its own, aside from whatever personal political evolution occurred in his later years. In the 90s, it certainly appeared as though Russia was getting set up for exploitation by the west under Yeltsin. A nationalist move in ideology within that context is rational.
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Something I think should pointed out in the article is that the author tries to understand testosterone (I don't know why, since it's effects through maturation are actually quite a bit studied, there are medical textbooks on it) through it's effects on trans people and/or people abusing it or using it for rejuventaion.

If so, the picture is far more complicated.

This actually makes about as much sense as trying to understand Fourier transform based on how stupid instagramming is.
> I can't imagine that most folks are surprised by the general shape of most
defun statements.

The general shape of a LOOP expression is just a list of symbols and lists. A
complicated LOOP expression that uses many features at once doesn't end up
looking very Lispy, but a shorter one like (loop :repeat 10 :do (print
'hello)) shouldn't look at all foreign, especially if you write the keywords
as keywords, which many people do.

I guess when people talk about the regularity of Lisp syntax, I think they
usually mean that (op ...args) applies the operator OP to the list ARGS. LOOP
obeys this very well: the only LOOP syntax I can think of that breaks it is
`using (hash-key k)` or with HASH-VALUE. Universally accepted macros break
this rule all the time, though. By shoving everything into lists, they totally
abandon trying to keep with the (op ...args) form. If you see that regularity
as a great advantage of Lisp's, then it seems like you should be much more
bothered by the more "mundane" macros than you should be by LOOP.

(loop :for i :below 10 :do (print i))

Is less "syntax-breaking" than:

(dotimes (i 10) (print i))
Your link says the page is from 2009, not 2014 (2009-11-19 to be exact).
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I think they were created by God. God is a meta-intelligence, an intelligent being that can create other intelligent beings. Our intelligence is only capable of creating mechanical beings, which are necessarily not intelligent.

The second question does not follow. If intelligence is defined by the ability to do something non-algorithmic (i.e. create information), then AI can never be intelligent.
Imagine if unix was invented today and you would navigate a folder by reading it, and having a JSON encoded file of its content returned. Slow but so elegant and pretty.
I believe this might be the next big thing in EU, crafting specific legislation which allows people to "own the data" stored in various services.

The PSD2 directive is already doing this in the banking world. Banks are forced to provide APIs which allow 3rd parties to access customer account information (with permission from the customer)

For companies, it makes sense to be pro-active with these things instead of waiting for the legislator to force them to do stuff. If they are active enough, it might be that no legislation is needed.
"Google was terrified that Apple would end up ruling the mobile space. So, to help in the fight against the iPhone at a time when Google had no mobile foothold whatsoever, Android was launched as an open source project."

This is not a quote from anyone because it's false.
Andy started Android well before anyone knew iPhone existed (years). I say existed only because I don't know offhand when Apple started iPhone internally, so i can't say for sure he started it before Apple did, but i suspect that's true as well.

Andy left Danger in 2003 to go start to create Android. The first iPhone was not released until mid-2007.

Google was terrified, but it was terrified the carriers would end up owning the mobile space, because they already were.

Andy also didn't open source Android to "get a foothold in something".

He's literally said his reasons before.

Given how poorly researched just this simple paragraph is (it literally can't be true), it would take a lot of time to point out how bad the rest is too.
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I won't downvote you but I think people are because it's a pretty perfunctory claim, not to mention inflammatory, that 'extreme inequality' A) applies to the West or B) is plaguing the West (for whatever we mean by 'West' which itself is pretty broad strokes). But you seem to be mainly making a point about Nigeria, and to be fair, the trend in Nigeria is really bad. But also, to be fair, it's also an aberration as far as global poverty is concerned. The % of people living in extreme poverty has dropped from 44% in 1980 to < 10% today.[1]. Nigeria seems to be a rare exception where absolute poverty is increasing rather than decreasing.

But there seems to be an assumption baked into your point that inequality is the problem to optimize for, rather than actual poverty alleviation. And of course wealth inequality doesn't correlate very well with absolute outcomes in economic wellbeing. Cambodia has very low income equality (Gini index of 30.8%) and very high percentage of people living in extreme poverty (6.15%). Brazil, on the other hand has very high Gini index (51.3%) and very low percentage of people living in extreme poverty (0.5%). Those numbers are just from Wikipedia but there are plenty of studies done on how useless 'inequality' is as a measure of real world outcomes.

[1]https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/World-...
can you elaborate on your canary system? I speculate you would need to setup your own DNS. For correlating subsequent inspection, you would need to do some allocation of honeypot addresses in a ip(v6?) prefix and capture that traffic. Logging requests to unique subdomains on a webserver you control would be another quickly built and limited mechanism. Embedding prepared urls in Email comes to my mind as another method of counter reconnaissance on the whole network delivery path. Though you would want to inform the legitimate recipient. Thanks for the ideas.