skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, good point.

You can make the gist non-public by default (set public=false), and perhaps gists are the wrong tool, but something akin to gists seem like a good way to do something like this. I know Dave Winer was using the DropBox API in this way for some of his outlining tools.

But your point is well made, one of the downsides of the "web" as a platform is that it's hard to know what happens with the data you save to a random web application. I've had experience with product managers loading entire customer lists of emails into random "email validation tool"s, which were clearly just honeypots for foolish people's data.
Where would you suggest people go to search for problems?
It appears to allocate memory but never free it:

https://github.com/grain-lang/grain/blob/master/runtime/src/...

A lot of new languages start out this way, where they just assume memory is infinite and then eventually add the GC later. That's a really nasty ball of technical debt to be sitting on, and I've seen nascent language implementations die because they couldn't get past it.
My laptop has an optical drive, and I think it's supposed to be able to burn various disc types... but where do I find a blank CD-R? :-)
Violent criminality is 55% heritable: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-011-9483-0

So they're just under half correct.
I would not trust a company whose bottom line is proportional to how much personal data they collect to just honour an "anonymise" argument.

Not to mention, analytics still wouldn't require a cookie unless they want to know which other sites I visited, which is none of their business.
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Where does it say "quantum increase" in the article? "Quantum speedup" does appear, but this has a specific technical meaning and it is not being used in the colloquial sense. It means that there is an efficient quantum algorithm for solving the computational task but no efficient classical one.
Could someone ELI5 why FB is in the business of policing any non-illegal speech at all? Political, partisan, foreign-made, domestic-made, poor taste humor, memes, etc. -- why not just keep all of it? It seems like a slippery slope if they turn to active moderation, and they have everything to lose by selectively choosing one or other side of some debate.
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Why bother with pesky facts when there's astute sounding 'both sidesism'.
So all it took was an email, they didn't even require you to return the product before refunding you, and you're unhappy with that for some reason?
"The 'Resisters' Page also created a Facebook Event for a protest on August 10 to 12 and enlisted support from real people. The Event – “No Unite the Right 2 – DC” – was scheduled to protest an August “Unite the Right” event in Washington. Inauthentic admins of the “Resisters” Page connected with admins from five legitimate Pages to co-host the event."
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Yeah, there exists perfectly good vocabulary words for naming this stuff.

Yet for some reason facebook has chosen to neutralize their language. I wonder why?

BTW Infowars is still up on facebook, right?
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Words are a social construct...so I’m not sure what your point is?

Everything is a social construct then.
San Francisco is perhaps the most materialistic community on earth, full of people who don't care how bad things are for others if they themselves made it (and you can too!), full of people who want rights for gay people but don't care if gay people who aren't obscenely rich can live in their city. I would expect San Francisco to be the last place to deliberately help poor people.
Everyone but AI SpaceFactory went with a dome like structure. I liked AI's explanation about why not build a dome. Pretty interesting ideas overall.
There's no competition like no competition!
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They would have gladly accepted the money and turned the other way. 11k is rookie numbers. I'm sure they'll spend more tomorrow on the new page they spin up.
Uh, you have Visual Basic host and Powershell in Windows. No setup required and have an OK manual.

You have VS Code which is trivial to install and easy to use. Batteries included (unlike Python in Windows)
Just FYI -- getting a:

"Your connection is not secure

The owner of jitx.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website."

When hitting https://jitx.com/
Are you sure you're putting blame in the right place and not just falling into some manufactured consent?

Every day income inequality gets worse, workers are treated like garbage[1], wages are going down[2] with unemployment going down, people can't afford health insurance and even if they can they will probably still be broken as deductibles and out of pocket costs rise, 80% of all people are living paycheck[3], 50% of all people in USA are defined as poor or low income[4], 80% of the country makes under $65k/year while the value of our money becomes less[5], 1/5 of children are in poverty[6].

I really think this is a natural occurrence to the failures of this corrupt capitalist system that provides for the few instead of the many. Things are shifting left, and it's certainly not because Russia spent $50k on advertisements on Facebook. You can also argue that the UK was a far greater influence with Cambridge Analytica, but it's something people like to ignore.

These are absolutely our own policies having this effect.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/accidents...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/15/for-t...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...

[4] https://kairoscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Poverty-...

[5] https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2016

[6] http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html
Yep, don't forget that market friendly and business friendly (and especially big business) are two different things.

https://promarket.org/donald-trumps-economic-policy-pro-busi...
This reminds me of trying to rip Paul Simon's Concert in the Park some number of years ago. Everytime I ripped it, there was a minor glitch in The Obvious Child at 2:02-2:03. I also heard it on the CD. So I tried different drives, different machines, Linux, Windows, iTunes, Exact Audio Copy, etc., to no avail.

Finally I reassesed my assumptions and found a copy of the track in the wild -- hey! Same glitch. Then I emailed a friend who I knew also had a copy of the album -- same glitch!

Eventually found an obscure forum where someone also complained about the same glitch.

I always wonder how that made it out of the studio -- was it a glitch in the recording equipment of the concert? Surely they used multiple recorders?
Why is this stupid shit not in 3d ?
Foundations of Geopolitics by Durgin lays out the groundwork for Russia's current western strategy. Putin's been implementing it word for word.
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No offense, but that comment goes to show US centric HN is. This is like valuing Microsoft based on XBox sales, only that it plays an even smaller role.
The only few countries where people adhered to the clock like religion were UK, Germany, Japan.

The few countries where people did not give a shit were Italy and Brazil, with Italy being the worst. When they mean noon, they really mean late after noon.
These are kind of statistical lies. Flying on commercial airlines is very safe but almost everyone abuses the stats to tell a false story.

1. Per hour vs per mile is a completely different stat. Every hour in a plane is possibly more dangerous than every hour driven by a cautious driver. Of course it's true that you can cover far more ground in a 500mph plane.

2. Most Americans drive a lot more than they fly so even if they were equally safe there would be far more fatalities in cars per capita.

3. You can do a lot to mitigate your chances of a fatal car accident, like choosing a safe car, practicing defensive driving, not driving in the rain, not driving drunk, not driving at night, etc. A cautious driver will have a far lower chance than the average stat.

4. Also, driving is quite scary. I can't wait for a world with computer controlled cars that rarely crash.
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I think relationships can he harder for rich people. Since you get to pick and choose all elements of your life, picking the people you spend time around is much more available to rich people.

And people are often after your money, which can really damage relationships between people.

You never know if someone likes you for you or your money.
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On universities' LMSes
Firefox asks now wether to start playing.
We detached this generic political tangent from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654791.
Oh yes, XKCD style passwords are even better to spell out over the phone.
Maybe so, but please don't post shallow dismissals to HN. Especially of other people's work—this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
For the record, I do think WW2 was worth fighting. It's about as clear-cut case of national self defense as you'll find in the history books. Even people who are normally quite pacifist don't really dispute this in the general case.

But we're talking about extrajudicial termination of classified targets, in civilian settings, against whom war has not been formally declared. Some of them are US citizens or citizens of our allies. This is indefensible.
Like I just said, it's specifically not about the ads. It's about the farm of fake content creators. They don't work for anyone else because it's state supported and also not particularly skilled, just no real companies would do that kind of astroturfing.
Scott Aaronson is just one of the most awesome human beings ever. He is brilliant yet modest, and his writing is at once deeply enlightening and eminently accessible. The world would be a better place if more academics adopted him as a role model.
BTW I didn't mean to single you out. You weren't doing anything out of the ordinary :-)
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Bob (b3141 to HN) posts something brilliant. Alice (a2718) thinks he’d be perfect for a job in her company. The only way to do this now is to either reveal one another publicly, or use something like Craigslist missed opportunities. Proposal: Build something akin to the CL co-anonymous come model into HN.
I think because the Russians and Trump. Some people also mention white supremacists and other toxic people.
> For example, without the threat of forfeiture how do you ensure people actually show up to court?

You do it the way Washington D.C. does, and has for a couple decades.

> Without bail bondsmen how do you fund the extra police/marshals/sheriffs to find and arrest those who do not show up for court?

With general taxes, rather than taxes on the criminally accused.

> Without the ability to set bond amounts based upon offense characteristics and individual financial circumstances and criminal history, how do you prevent especially violent offenders with a likelihood of committing more violent acts while on pretrial release from committing new violent offenses?

Money bail doesn't prevent that; pretrial supervision or outright bail denial can, and so that's how you do it, choosing the least invasive level of supervision that provides adequate security in the circumstances.

> If you want to go the other direction and eliminate money bail, do you really want to police/prosecution to able to indefinitely incarcerate people until trial?

Before trial isn't indefinitely except at the choice of the accused, because of the right to a speedy and public trial.

> Do you want to seriously jack up the criminal penalties for failure to appear in lieu of money forfeiture?

Yes, I want to punish the actually guilty in preference to punishing the merely accused. Do you seriously prefer the other way around?
Sure, but we don't have a normal healthcare system, and we can't just convert it into a normal one, either.

It's a bit like big distributed systems. Before it is built, you can design it the way it should be done. After it is built, you can completely rebuild a new one from scratch, and migrate over to it over time. But it is incredibly costly, difficult, and impractical to retrofit the existing system to the point that it operates in a completely new ideal way. You can patch it, but the more patches you add, the more of a Frankenstein's Monster it becomes, getting slower, uglier, costlier, and buggier.

As much as it would be great to just upgrade the system per-state, the medical industry (as I understand it) is basically a national monolith. What I'm proposing, unfortunately, is patches. But I don't see a way around it other than rebuilding from scratch.
Programming does not have a nice alphabet because it has to be unambiguously defined for stupid computers to understand.

There is no such thing as a programming alphabet.
Seems like Ebay's status as a public company hurt it.
There's a benefit to starting out as an airline pilot.

Decision making is critical for a pilot, in the worst case hesitation can mean death. Robert Voit was a master at taking in relevant information, making a decision, and moving on. That's an essential skill for a good business leader.
People are different though. I have a degree and I hire/manage people, and as such I’m eligible to work as an examiner in my country. Our universities want business to cooperate with education, so parts of the examination staff are outside managers.

Because of this I keep fairly up to date with the art of programming, and I can easily go through an average programming book and it’s exercises, much easier than if I were to read through a piece of Lovecraft fiction.

Someone familiar with Greek mythology and no programming knowledge would have it the other way around.

Which one of us deserve respect? Is it the effort bit? So that I’m only impressive when I challenge myself?

I think it’s narrow minded. To me effort and challenge isn’t impressive on their own. What is impressive is finding out what you want to do, and then doing it. And if that’s reading 50 goosebump books in a year, or, going through the art of programming, we’ll then that’s about equal in my book. On top of that there is the self-improvement bit, I’m all for it, but only when you actually want to do it. There is nothing sadder, to me, than people who slave away in the self-improvement hamster wheel, not because they really want to, but because they think they have to.

It still doesn’t really have anything to do with book sales statistics, but I don’t think you can really say much about people, even if you knew the statistics of what they were reading.
The first hit on google is rather informative as to the terms meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
Haha, all this is irrelevant when you can always count on your government arbitrarily banning foreign companies.

Not really complaining. It's just business. And we need them more than they need us so they're turning the screws.
Yeah, I am pessimistic about the polity being the source of change. Classically, top-down reform from a polity involves some form of nationalization, which our last reform cycle attempted.

Excluding ethics / philosophy of that kind of seizure, it's just a hard computational problem to orchestrate a centralized reform of something so complex. It becomes impossible when the system being reformed gets involved, buying politicians on both sides to impact the future and influencing public perception. And how could they not? It's hard to even fathom the stakes: a highly centralized industry capturing 10% of US GDP.

That's why, at the risk of being a tech culture charicature, I think business innovation from outside the industry is more likely to make a dent than politics.
That's just testing that all of the test threads are awake after they run once. It only does one buffer operation (the `put` in `synchronized buffer`), and we trivially know it's "broken" if there are only puts and no gets. It's also using two threads for a buffer length of 4. This isn't actually surfacing the bug, just something that looks somewhat like the bug if you already know what the bug is.
I don't believe I did. It's not a conspiracy to point out that if the press is doing their job now by investigating things, they were not doing their job for years previously. If you don't do what you're supposed to for years, then suddenly change, is it a conspiracy to think that something caused that change?

It's not crazy to point out that the press hates Donald Trump, and that Donald Trump loves Elon Musk. It's also not crazy to point out that there's a general cooling of the public's feeling towards tech, and that journalists, particularly hacks, just go where the wind is blowing. It's not due to them suddenly doing their jobs, and it doesn't make them anymore correct now than they were six months ago. Elon Musk is now an easier target, that's all, and he's done them a service by provoking them at the same time.
His genetic examples look like European cities compared to the actual floor layouts, which are more like New World ones designed on a grid layout by central planners.

Perhaps there's wisdom in allowing cities to grow organically/chaotically after all.
There would be as much to prevent that as exists today. Very few people actually move from their hometowns, no matter how bad things get.
>> For ages, people have sought to convert lead to gold though alchemy. Some skeptics said that was impossible or uneconomical.

> Transforming lead to gold is possible, it takes a particle accelerator and a lot of energy but it can be done. It has been done in 1980 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California [1] although they started with bismuth instead of lead.

I know that (see emphasis above). The process you cite is utterly uneconomical. It is impossible to transform lead to gold in all practical senses.

> What is not readily present on Mars can be 'liberated' from it chemical bonds or deposited there by means of inbound objects rich in the required substance.

Again, the technology and resources required to transport an atmosphere's worth of matter to Mars likely have far more beneficial uses that a terraforming project, such as the construction and provisioning of large habitable space stations.
Not according to European universities, at least for the purpose of judging faculty CVs when making hiring or tenure decisions.
Maybe to make sure that life insurance pays out?
It's a pretty common acronym - there's a fund people invest in also called an IRA, and Boston excepted, they're investing in funds for their retirement, not the Irish Republican Army.
Poor Chad Rigetti
Thanks very much for letting us know! For now https://www.jitx.com works fine. We'll have to take a look at our web configuration.
Preventing use of known-compromised passwords
> It would be interesting to see what more art pieces can be done now that the basic rig is setup

At the end of the video he tears everything down and packages some stuff back up - I'm guessing he borrowed a lot of gear from the University.

According to the documentation[0]:

"Depending on who you are, building the machine and the control box is either the most or the least intimidating part of this. Since the hardware isn't too dissimilar to other CNC machines like 3D printers, I'm not going to go into too much detail. If you want to follow my design, consult the pictures."

> it would be really cool to “render” several-minute-long light painted videos now that it can be fully automated.

According to his comments in the YouTube video:

"Each of the animations I made took between 4 and 12 hours to shoot, one frame at a time. Each frame is 1-3 long exposure photographs of the machine performing the light painting."

Extrapolating from that, a several-minute-long video would take days or possibly even weeks!

[0]: https://github.com/Defaultio/LightPaintingMachine
He spews bullshit is all I've seen.

And from what I've heard myself, he says he worked in Windows and understands technical issues but his linkedin profile says he was a Business Development Rep ((who're always under the sales org and not a specific product org)).
The hard part for mainframes is that unlike Linux and the BSDs, you can't acquire a bunch of 4 year old Core i5 systems for $80 each (or sometimes free) and install a bunch of different OS varieties on them to test stuff in your home office or the bedroom of a bored teenager (example: centos hosting KVM VMs, debian + xen, freebsd on bare metal, etc).
Please describe some of those "more accessible" approaches and I'll probably tell you that they are already here and/or have already failed.

Otherwise the idea is completely not constructive.
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This is great. I did a major project in eighth grade about designing a school to make traffic flow more logical and the strict times they specified for student travel achievable. We were expected to leave a class, travel to our lockers, accomplish any necessary bathroom tasks and to travel to the next class in four minutes and 20 seconds. Failing to do so was a disciplinary matter, but it did not appear that the school or our schedules were designed with this sort of urgency in mind.

The main focus of my solution was to make the school a torus. Like many of my youth projects (writing a text adventure game...), I did not have the knowledge to solve the problems scientifically.
The first time I came across this it was touted as Clojure that compiled down to C++11. Now I'm seeing it listed as a generic lisp. I'm curious if that's due to the limitations of writing for embedded systems (using d-list instead of hash tables, memory management, etc.) or are there other deviations?
Is it really just business? Why doesn't the USA do the same to all foreign companies as well?
Their seat is gone. To another game they own nearly half of.
> So how do you determine who is a "flight risk"?

Since that's expressly a factor in deciding on whether to grant money bail and in what amount, that's not a new problem that eliminating money bail would raise, and money bail is (on top of all it's other problems)) imposingntial costs on different defendants people arbitrarily if we don't already have a reasonable solution.

So you can't really use that to question the elimination of money bail.
There is still Qt WebEngine as a "lite" Electron. Or if that is too objectionable you can use the WebView interface with a users browser and let the app run as a background process.
the russians are playing the various factions against each other, yes.

but they couldn't do it successfully if there weren't real, deep, vicious, and simmering rifts to begin with.

furthermore, the institutions responsible for generating public unity are, to put it lightly, in shreds.

people don't trust the media, and there is little in the way of genuine investigative reporting in any event. people don't trust the government's agencies -- nor are many of those agencies beneficial to the public anyways. local governments are facing unprecedented system failure; many can't provide basic necessities like clean water. territories like puerto rico can't count on federalism any more after being let down in their moments of great need.

putin didn't cause any of these problems by spamming propaganda on facebook.
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Competing against eBay is like saying you're competing in a 100m race against someone in a wheelchair. eBay has done nothing to make itself better in the last 15 years. New "features" routinely fail, and their APIs are a graveyard of dropped ideas. I hope Taobao expands to the US, eBay needs real competition, anyone working there should be embarrassed for themselves, more importantly the Directors and above.