skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's inherently dishonest for a single voice to represent something so manipulative and fluid as if it's a person.

What are you referring to when you say "something"?

It's strange that you find dishonesty in these personal assistants but then shared a subversive piece of propaganda as an "amusing" video.

The video you shared is suppose to be a friendly fireside chat by two everyday gentlemen trying to objectively discuss the manipulative subversive left leaning nature of the digital assistant. The video however is a form of propaganda and manipulation because the two gentlemen are clearly very right leaning in their ideology and sit there being quietly outraged when Alexa answers questions in a manner that is in opposition to their ideology.

To you it's a "huge mistake" for child to interact with a "manipulative" computer as if it's a person with actual opinions, and thoughts; but it's ok for you to share "amusing" videos of guys being mildly outraged that a computer is respectful of a transgender person when they clearly disagree with showing Katlin Jenner any form of respect.

If anything this video is the type of subversive manipulative bullshit that people should be fearful more so than a stupid little hockey puck that most kids find to be silly and frustrating.
Not yet, but that might be a good feature. Also, the goal is to have an extensible data model where you can store whatever metadata you want to support arbitrary external bug tracker.

Please open an issue so we can discuss that.
Yes, people keep acting like this is new and the internet was a complete free-for-all before, but it wasn’t, not even close. In the early days, anything commercial was out of bounds. More recently, most mainstream platforms disallow things like images of people’s genitals or unauthorized reproductions of copyrighted works. This is a minor adjustment to the details, not some big change.
Whats up with the do/while loops? Does that just make the return syntactically valid?

Apologies, its been a while since I've touched C/C++
quick question: is there a clearing house of this data? I've been wanting to get at football, hockey or soccer data but finding a data source has been daunting.

I could scrape pages, but don't really feel that is the best way to go about it.
In the absence of a national ID system or local registration requirements (a la France), how do you tell the difference between a visa free entrant and an illegal resident?

> criteria consistent with the needs of the UK

So, would you be imposing the existing rest-of-world spousal visa requirements on people who are already here with their EU spouses? If the answer is yes, do you accept that you're going to force a significant number of Brits to either lose their family or emigrate?

The existing Home Office system is already an inhumane disaster area which has no clear idea what "the needs of the UK" are.

> don't have to foot the bill for healthcare (which they don't)

Isn't this dependent on the EHIC system? What's happening with that?

Aren't you uncomfortable with the idea that being domiciled somewhere for a couple of decades wouldn't come with voting rights?
> No one wants "In case you missed it", or to know what someone just liked

Power users don't want that; plenty of others do. Not everyone reads their entire timeline - for a lot of users, twitter is like TV, instead of Tivo - you just flip it on and watch whatever happens to be on.
I doubt you'll get right-wing stuff, this looks like it will be handpicked by some human, and only enabled for tweets they deem too controversial. i.e. Alex Jones says something, and then some human at Twitter HQ slaps a CNN tweet and a Snopes article next to the tweet without any permission from Alex Jones.

But in truth I don't really care if they want to shove tweets from nazis or communists or liberals or potato salads in my face. I only want to see what I follow. Is that too much to ask for?
This is exactly how I understand it.
Fantastic reference! Thanks for sharing. As an ETL specialist I've looked for a composable solution but only found Luigi. I wanted something simpler, more integrated, like IFTTT. This has the feel of Yahoo Pipes. I think Singer is the answer. ;-)
Very well aware, but one has to get a SoC that had Microsoft's blessing, for which I assume they charge a lot.
I am conflicted with this because I fall on both sides of this particular fence.

On the one hand, I despise when platforms are over-run by people spouting ridiculous things and driving everything into heated discussions.

On the other hand, I place an extremely high value on individual freedom and feel that because platforms like Twitter are SO large and have SO much control over the public narrative that we can't allow the platform to start picking and choosing lest we end up with their version of the "truth" being the only available version.

I wish I were smart enough to know the answer to problems like this, but my current rationale is that these platforms should only be banning genuine bots and people spouting hate speech with genuine evil intent IE - "Hang XXX person because of YYY racist/sexist/garbage tier human being reason"
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The article says it's karst.

(Sinkholes occur when an already-significant underground cavity, typically formed by water dissolving the rock, gets close to the surface and the roof falls in.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole
What's the benefit of hardware-based security tech? Is it actually doing anything special, or just doing what security software is doing, but in hardware?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/154136/why-use-apparentl...
Recently I came across some code that checks quite a few boxes in this guide. Check it out: https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/c/c/k.h
https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/c/c/odbc.c
This is dealt with at the bottom of the article. It's a C FAQ: http://c-faq.com/cpp/multistmt.html
But you can't turn it off. That's the issue.
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Convenient to Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis

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http://researchpark.illinois.edu/about

http://researchpark.illinois.edu/news/champaign-named-fastes...
Probably, but it's going to require a LOT of capital.
I think it's because he doesn't know. They're just holding onto the tiger as best as they can.
>And nobody wants a stripped-down, locked-down version of MacOS-Lite.

That's what everyone was saying before the iPad launch and look how that turned out. Personally, I would hate an iPadBook, but I can see it selling really well. Especially among students.
Do ARM chips have ME or PSP equivalents? It would be great to be able to buy a new machine and use something like coreboot without having to use hacks to disable ME.
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Actually, I run Thunderbird on Linux and have frequent issues with it pausing and hanging on me. (Among other issues related to it seemingly just having trouble handling large amounts of email -- but that's not important to dive into here.)

Let's not act like other complex software isn't also likely to end up with similar issues.
Well spotted, good question!

It's also been asked in another thread on HN, I'm quoting myself here:
"eno has neither indentation nor closing tags of any sort, that means if you use a section to group some values, you need to start another section to end the previous one (no closing tags!), that's why there are fieldsets, which allow short groupings that automatically end with the next field/list/fieldset."

Hope this explains it :)
> Performance generally corresponds to active area and, hence, power

Then how come ARM won on mobile?
> "That is like saying you only want to pay taxes towards the roads you drive on yourself."

People who use roads should be paying a lot more for their usage and they should be paying much more directly. So, in short, yes.

The current system is far too diffuse, masks enormous externalities, and generates incredible waste.
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Cool. So I can take your book, summarize, sell the summary without having to get your permission first?

The same thing is true for podcasts etc then? Say, I summarize 2 hour podcast into 15 mins?
For virtually all of Julius Caesar's military battles, the only troop numbers we have available are from Caesar himself. There's slightly more information about Napoleon's battles, but he was also legendary at self propaganda, and I'd bet a fair number of Wikipedia articles on his battles were based off biased sources.

All the other details brought up of why a great general might be misranked are avoiding the massive bias inherent in the data.
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Twitter is old enough that we are now holding people accountable for things they said in years past, to the point of ruining careers and lives. No reason why someone running a company should receive a free pass.
They have physical IP with verified, fab specific implementations for most of their cores. The press release state that the coming cores are also covered by that program.
He didn't say they did, he just said Arm Mac. As in, Arm-based Mac so Arm architecture, whether that's designed by Arm, them, or fairies on the moon it doesn't matter.
It's interesting, Qualcomm brands these as "always on, always connected" and I didn't quite get what that meant until recently. It truly means that these are almost more like phones/tablets than traditional laptops. Closing the lid does not halt the OS and put the CPU into a low-power mode, just like your phone it only blanks the display. So your "apps" (programs) can still execute. Great that there's minimal latency to checking email or similar stuff.
It's not even remotely controversial that students at top schools are overwhelmingly more well off than average. At Stanford theres roughly the same number of students whose families are in the top 1% of income as those in the bottom 60%.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-c...
Apple is focused on making iOS better, rather than making MacOS worse.
This is the most reasonable comment. Train their immunity system, you cannot protect them from tech forever.
Yes? Provided you're using your own words rather than making large direct excerpts.
The latest last straw was when they locked my account and demanded I photograph my drivers license to verify my age because I accidentally clicked the calendar drop down on my business account. Now my business is associated to my real birthday. Why do I want that?
If you click through Chisel you can find a few active projects. You're right about discoverability though; It's not great.

Fossil's neat because it really tries hard to be decentralized. Because of that the repo is really all you need. Hosting isn't so important when code, bugs, forums, and wiki can be moved by copying one file. The downside is that there's no FossilHub with thousands of projects using similar UIs and conventions.

As far as Fossil hosts go, I know of at least one more: https://secure.hydra.ecd.space/
> Most of the plunder was taken back to Europe and either tucked away in private collections or presented as gifts to royal families. Queen Victoria of Britain was given a pet Pekingese dog, the first of its kind ever seen in Europe. Unabashed by its provenance, she named it Looty.

The "looty" is going back to China via museum heists. The only way this art could be preserved in European collections is to temporarily remove it from museums and keep it hidden away. IMO, if China wants its looted art back they should reach out through official channels and negotiate their return.
Louis XIV did a good job of dominating the nobility to consolidate power, and he fought wars to show it. He was the one who said "The State is Me," which goes to show a prototypical concept of The State was already developed. But he was only able to do it by such great expenditures of wealth and willpower that it ultimately bankrupted the country and led to the Revolution.

He commanded those resources because he was supremely rich. The State's relationship with its citizens is different from a king to his subjects, and doesn't require such great expenditures of wealth to maintain consolidation. The State was developed by kings, but once mature it no longer needed kings.

It took a while still after that for The State to reach a level of domination over society that allowed it to engage the entire country in war, which wouldn't have been possible had it still been subject to a king. The State is more like God, and kings are subject to it.
If they had used Mir as a test bed like Chalk is for Rust, it might have made sense.
try "some algorithm". Twitter would never be able to hire enough people to hand curate that.
This appears to be the consensus. I am going to give the directly sending a letter method a go.
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There are two sets of people who want to track programmer tasks, and they're quite different already.

The most successful company I worked for used two systems. There was an "external" user-friendly one, where customers could file issues and track changes and tie them back to contractual requirements and such, and there was an "internal" developer-friendly one, where programmers could talk about what line of the source code forgot to add one and which changeset hash introduced the bug.

Our partners wanted to file issues at the level of "I need to have some way to be able to do XYZ", and they shouldn't have visibility into source code and programmer assignments and internal roadmaps. Our programmers broke these into "Write a function to do X()" and "Add a database table for Y" and "Z.c crashes when you leave the title field blank", and they shouldn't be exposed to customer data that was part of the request.

It worked tremendously well, and I'm surprised this split approach isn't more popular. git-bug looks like it could be a great solution for the internal one.
Literally exactly what Arm is talking about in this roadmap.
How many Billion dollar companies haven't been started because a brilliant but poor entrepreneur was unable to take the risk? How enormous is the societal loss because of this? Frankly I find your position disturbing.
if questions like "what is list" keep you up at night, maybe switch to a statically typed programming language
Are you Polish? Because what you wrote is mostly wrong.

Polish is probably the Slavic language with the most foreign influences, at least compared to other western Slavic languages or Balkan languages I've seen. Czech language is more "pure" exactly because it was reconstructed from peasant-speak when nationalism became fashionable and educated Czechs turned to their language.

Meanwhile Polish language was continuously used by all layers of society all through the partitions, so it accumulated lots of foreign influences as the fashions changed (from Latin/Italian/German/French/English). It's a significant cultural phenomena, to the point that people in 16th century already complained that everybody uses "makaronizm" (Italian or Latin words) to show-off that they know foreign languages.

Polish language wasn't forbidden for majority of the territory that was occupied, and in these parts where it was forbidden - it was only forbidden for a period of time, not the whole time.

> The partition is also the cause of famous Poles having French names - Frederic Chopin, Marie Curie.

No, it's not. Chopin's father was French, and Maria Skłodowska-Curie (as she preferred to be called, at least when she was in Poland) married a French guy named Curie.

Also - Polish language had small reforms every few decades, but I agree it's overdue another, big one.
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I think that's a pretty poor way to think about the time period between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. Napoleon won many battles but ended up losing to the military and financial power of Great Britain (the so-called fiscal-military state). Basically Britain was able to fund its fighting effort by selling bonds instead of extorting 'gifts' from the nobility. Britain may not have worked in the same way as France, but I'd argue that Britain's was better and France never really recovered.

I'd also argue that the real reason Britain won was the overwhelming power of the Royal Navy, especially after Trafalagar and the decades long blockade of Europe. Keep in mind also that Britain overcame Napoleon even while fighting the sideshow of the War of 1812 against the United States. A good book on this would be In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars - James Davey

Napoleon may have famously bragged that he couldn't be stopped, but he was and lived the rest of his life in disgrace on St. Helena.
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Related: The Lwow School of Mathematics before before WWII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_School_of_Mathematic...

https://culture.pl/en/article/maths-madness-and-the-manhatta...

HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16666079
Beautifully said. I was appalled to realize the shallowness of the author’s methods. Then upon this sandpit they attempt to construct the un-caveated thesis: “Napoleon is the best general ever”.

Is WAR even useful for comparing agents with different numbers of data points?
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But isn't that a tremendous endorsement of Stanford? That they have recruited so well and changed their cost structure so effectively that even the poor can attend?

How do other top-level schools compare?
> My current favorite ballpoint is the Zebra F-701

Another lefty here. I like the general look of the F-701 but the plastic click mechanism bothered me. I replaced it with the click mechanism from an F-402. I also used the F-402's clip because it's plain metal without any branding. It seems to be a fairly popular mod: there are even guides online [1].

I'm not the biggest fan of the ink, though. It's not terrible, but I much prefer Uni-Ball JetStream ink. I used SXR-7 refills but had to mod each one.

I really wish I could find a nice understated pen body that takes JetStream refills. The Ti Arto is the closest thing I've found, but I'm not totally in love with how it looks and I'd like to be for >$50.

I switched back to just using Uni-Ball JetStream 101s because I write a lot and it was a hassle to mod each refill. They don't feel as nice as the 701 and they certainly look a bit cheap. On the upside, I don't worry about losing them, though.

[1] https://clickypost.com/blog/2015/2/1/how-to-hack-the-zebra-f...
Bugs storage and management is entirely disconnected from the regular code and branches. That said, it probably make sense to be able to tag a bug with the branches that are affected.
In fact, Jack gave a rather lengthy interview on the Sean Hannity radio show just a day or two ago. He came across as fairly even-handed and it was clear the difficulty of the situation and striking a balance between an open platform and removing posts which cross the line (threats, violence, illegality, etc.).
The main issue is that it isn't possible to codify what is genuine evil intent as of yet (and perhaps, ever).

So until then, everyone has to choose between erring on too much or erring on too little.
Haven't you heard? It's ok to be racist as long as you say 'just kidding!' afterwards, but don't forget, this doesn't apply to racism targeted at anyone other than white people.
You pay for roads which Thieves, Street Racers and other criminals use on a daily basis, where's your outrage for that?
An interesting and little-known fact is that the Danube in Germany does exactly the same for roughly 155 days per year [1], which is called "Donauversinkung" ("swallowing of the Danube"). Between the towns of Immendingen and Fridingen on the Swabian Alb the water just disappears underground [2]. This started to happen around 300 years ago, and until the 1870s nobody knew exactly where it went. They then did experiments with Uranin and ultimately proved that the water re-surfaces in the Aachtopf [3]. Now, the water from the Aachtopf flows directly into Lake Constance, therefore into the Rhine, and therefore into the North Sea. Normally, the Danube flows into the Black Sea, which essentially means that on roughly 155 days per year, the disappearing water moves the European watershed [4], which I find highly fascinating.

E: as the Danube laters flows through the once independent state of Württemberg, and the Rhine through the once independent state of Baden, there was also a nice court battle between them because of the lost water in the 1920s - the "Donauversinkungsfall" [5] ("the court case of the swallowing of the Danube")

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Sinkhole

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Donauver...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachtopf#/media/File:AachTopfP...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_watershed

[5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donauversinkungsfall
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Interesting, but totally irrelevant today. Battles are not important. Today's leaders fight wars. Modern warfare, maneuver warfare, is all about preventing the need for the set battles. The great general today is the one that wins without the need for direct open confrontation. The greatest victory occurs not after two armies run at each other across a field, but when one side surrenders before even seeing its opponent.

Maneuver warfare defeated Napoleon. Win all the battles you want. It won't mean a thing if you are still standing in Russia when winter comes. The greatest general looses all the battles, and nevertheless wins the war.
Software based is very vulnerable to the evil maid attack.

BTW, Google uses hardware-based security on all of their servers:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/16/google_reveals_its_...
I'd posit Genghis Kahn has a better claim to the title, given he is a direct ancestor of a sizable percentage of the world's population.
I don't think that can be answered usefully if asked this generally. What kinds of data, what application, how is it accessed, ...
I think they really wanted to use the Wins-above-replacement model but realised they couldn't apply it without knowing the prior probabilities of victory. I agree completely that training of troops matter, morale matters, food and water matter, terrain matters, the technology available matters just as much (steel vs bronze, longbows vs composite bows, cavalry vs infantry, pikemen vs cavalry, musketmen vs pikemen etc). But they don't have any hard data on any of these so they made a simplistic estimate based on troop numbers. An example where this breaks down is in the Battle of Zama, where Hannibal had a numbers advantage over Scipio (40k to 35k) but not in cavalry (4k to 6k). 2k Doesn't sound like much, but it made the entire difference between a small defeat and a catastrophic end to the entire war.

But there are a couple of other issues with the model

1. This model gives more points for fighting multiple small battles and winning them unconvincingly. Whereas it's obvious that a single crushing victory that completely eliminates an opponent should count for more. By that metric, Alexander's few victories should rank well above Napoleon's multiple small ones.

2. How much of the General's success can be attributed to himself and how much to having able aides? How much did Murat contribute to Napoleon's success, or Antony to Caesar's? Unlike a modern basketball team where you can measure a player's impact by seeing the team with and without them, it is difficult to quantify how much or how little Murat contributed to Napoleon's victories.