skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some racist guy: "If the black people and immigrants had just stayed away and not come here, I wouldn't have to be racist all the time. Nowadays, you just act out like a racist, and people see it -- and wow, suddenly, people accuse you of being a racist? So then I have to get even more racist. Super racist, in fact. This is their fault, too, don't you get it? They're actively trying to make me as racist as possible."

You: "This argument is incredibly logical and sound. I see no way someone could disagree with it."
so how many companies are actually accepted into the course?
It's good for short-form humor. Does that fall under (2)?
Nationalistic flamebait will get you banned here, same as the religious flamebait I just warned you about elsewhere. If you need to post like this on the internet, please do it somewhere where they don't mind if you set the place on fire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It looks like you think that older approaches to open-source collaboration (like many of the GNU projects are using) are more or less as user-friendly as GitHub. I don't have the data to prove that they aren't, just an intuition.

Perhaps the last argument I have is that I've heard a number of times about moving a project to GitHub (for example: the Go language or Vim the editor), but decidedly less often one hears of projects moving away from GitHub towards older forms (such as the wonderfully documented https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html). Despite the great documentation, I'm somehow not drawn to hacking on it to fix a small glitch, due to the overhead that entails. Mind, some of that overhead would be incurred just once, as it is general to the mailing list approach to collaboration. That, I believe, is another advantage of a project being on GitHub: for almost all projects there's a standard way of sending your patch: make a pull request.

About your counterpoints:

1. True. I was thinking of the bug trackers many mailing-list oriented projects have, which often require creating accounts just to file a bug.
2. I was more referring to things like (1) where to find the clone URL and (2) how to send a patch (the make a PR button is always the same).

Removing friction (even small frictions) will enable fishing for the long tail of small fixes. On the other side, I do not believe large contributions are greatly affected by the differences between these systems.
Well, agreed...
No, it also affects POWER 9 and the ARM A75.
the founder of greenpeace (the one that left when it become a money printing machine) advise that we use more wood. even trees growing for paper. the only down side of tree farming, acording to his manifesto, is the disturbance of original wild life and flora. but that can be easily resolved locally.

if left alone, a tree will produce over 80% of it's O2 in the first 3 years. even if it lives 1000 years. which is exactly how old they are when farmed. It's the best O2 for the buck you can get.
If you have to severely rework interfaces very often, your area may indeed be very fast-paced; e.g. so fast where reasonable design and planning is impossible. (I can name a few areas like that, e.g. trading algorithms.)

If you, in your very fast-paced environment, ever do code reviews, you likely noticed that showing the thought process, or separation of concerns, in separate commits helps reviewers wrap their heads around your changes. Adding commits that address feedback also helps the review process. Another feature of multi-commit development is when you notice that e.g. a particular feature won't fit in the next release, and you take only these changes to a different branch.
I do the same thing, and if I’m craving something sweeter I just add a small shot of simple syrup, which is incredibly easy and cheap to make. As a bonus it tastes much better than corn syrupy crap.
Taking patients off benzos without properly tapering them off can lead to death. Some clinics are putting their own liability worries ahead of patients' well-being and risking patients lives in the process. It's not every place, but the places that do this clearly do not have the patients' best interests in mind. It's hard not to think that it's because they are dealing with addicts that they even consider such actions. The way addicts are treated at some clinics is simply unbelievable. They are lied to, disrespected, and ignored. That's bad enough but putting their lives in danger based on something that's allegedly common knowledge but hasn't even been studied is beyond preposterous. However as you say, they are raking in the dough so what do they care. It's not everywhere, but it's like that at a lot of clinics.
You are comparing 2016 China numbers with 2018 Netflix numbers

Yes, but it's all Chinese services combined, not just their top 1st. Unless every of those Chinese subscribers pay for the same service, Netflix is still probably the 1st worldwide paying video service.

But talking about active users, iQiyi now have more than 500 million active users.

Which is small compared to YouTube's 1.8 billion.

But fair enough, maybe YouTube and iQiyi are the biggest players; foepys was still at least half-right.

It does seem that iQiyi is using HEVC for high-res content as well, so the point still stands :)
But Twitter makes it so that's all up in your face. I haven't used Tumblr hardly at all, but it seems like it's optional to participate in that, since things are a little more partitioned.

Anyway, I'm interested in hearing more about the radicalization thing, which I haven't actually observed first-hand, but several people in the comments here have mentioned. What interaction elements do you think lead to it?
Agreed. Myself, I've been on pills and quit without issue. I can smoke tobacco(cigs, pipes, nicotine gum, etc) for weeks or months and just put it down. Quitting weed was rough. No sleep. No appetite. Depression. Aggression. Then all that went away and I felt like my mind was razor sharp. I could finally start to get things done and negotiate my way through life.
NVDA also has a significantly higher market share than AMD does right now, that doesn't change that $200-300 is still the most common price point for consumer GPU purchases.

Current Steam user survey results (now that the over-counting issue has been fixed) shows the GTX 1060 as the single most popular GPU installed by active Steam users with a 12.5% market share, the GTX 1050 Ti and 1050 take second and third place with ~9.5% and ~6% respectively that means about 30% of Steam users have a current-gen GPU in the $200-300 price range.

So yes, volume != profit, but the consumer obviously trends towards more reasonably priced cards. Cards in the Titan price-point that NVidia is trying to sell the RTX 2080 Ti at are so uncommon that they get lumped into the 'other' category of the Steam survey - and since I highly doubt magic like doing integer operations in tandem with FP32 operations is going to bring that much of a performance improvement to the majority of gaming workloads in tandem with the really weak raw numbers of the just-announced cards (fewer TFLOPS on the 2080 than the 1080 Ti selling in the same price bracket) it's obvious Nvidia is really taking the piss with their pricing. You're paying more for raytracing, that's it - and while it's certainly a cool feature I don't really see gamers caring that much until it becomes usable at that $200-300 price point.
Thank god for Justworks and Gusto
What's truly hilarious about this is that this EULA can't possibly serve any purpose... since Intel microcode blobs are RSA encrypted and signed. Only Intel CPUs can decrypt and consume them, and they can't be modified. It's not like it can be reverse engineered. I have to wonder what exactly Intel is worried people will do with these blobs.
Any public social platform that wants to be the new thing needs to add a discoverability component for new users. I signed up for mastodon.social a while back, and had no idea who to follow. So I stopped using it.

I notice all the commercial ones have a discoverability component when you join to solve this problem.
> That being said, with the exception of public transit systems like the NYMTA, etc., essentially all of the rail in the US is privately owned, and was privately funded.

Government grants to railroads have a rich history. The B&O was partially owned by the state of Maryland (and had an exemption from state taxes!). Most of the western railroads were financed by the government giving them adjacent land to their tracks for free.
The purpose of the AMD models is to keep Intel on their toes and get better bulk discounts out of them. Dell doesn't actually want to sell AMD product and complicate their production process.
next-gen consoles are likely releasing 2020
Why the Brain Hates Slowpokes (2015)
Healthy competition in the family... or probably setting things up for a merger one day...
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle and ignoring our requests to stop. We ban accounts that do this, regardless of their politics, as I've explained many times (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). Would you please not create accounts to break HN's rules with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A Perfect Mess: Why Disorganized People Are More Creative and Productive
Why California's privacy law is a mistake?
I had a very similar experience except I was a student at the time. I had no job and therefore gradually my sober life became less and less. I'd stay up later into the night, wake up later, and light up earlier. Eventually I got to the point where I was high all the time, but not happy. I had to move house and ran out of weed so I just decided not to get any more. The next couple of weeks were weird. I couldn't sleep properly. But things got better. I've smoked a couple of times since but have no desire to do it again now even though I know it does feel good.
That’s great but you are a tiny tiny minority.
Could you help by pointing out where they talk about not obtaining baseline/control data? After a quick glance, they only seem to mention using a within-subject design.
Got the same. Not cool.
Have you examined organic cotton?
I-710 in Los Angeles is another freeway that's taken 60+ years (proposed in 1954), and at this point I don't think it's ever going to be connected to the I-210.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_710
Yeah. The only way things will really move forward (in terms of privacy, freedom of speech and general quality of discourse) is if people host their own stuff rather than relying on a bunch of large corporations aiming only to improve their own metrics and save their own sorry reputations.
We were also accepted and then rejected. Doesn't exactly instill confidence.
But that does not work in practice. Social groups need cohesion to function. If you fracture that cohesion, the group may split to more cohesive subgroups which may not be tolerant of each other. Their belief systems may be so incompatible in such way (by malicious design or otherwise) that peaceful co-existence becomes impossible and infighting ensues.

The history of our species is full of that scenario happening. In the grand scheme of things every war fought ever is a variation of that.

Not all of us are ideal, and most of us act in chaotic and irrational ways. Usually we don't see it or care much about it, unless we see it in others and we think its something to look down to.

Among us there are individuals who are suspectible to thoughts and ideas, which if presnted correctly, can alter and sway their values, identity, beliefs and behavior.

How do we defend a social group, which inherently has individuals as described above in them, from a info-social attack against our group cohesion? Because education can never be a perfect solution due to human factors. We are all different and respond differently to different ideas and content presented to us. Furthermore, some of us are naive and gullible by their nature, while others are careful and reserved, even paranoid.

How do you defend against an adversary which optimally targets crafted (often truthless) messages at receptive subgroups of different personalities, backgrounds etc.?

Think of social networks, content in apps, ads, blogs, HN/reddit/etc comments, ....
I think I'm in the same boat as you - but I'm hoping for 1.5x performance and a bit less heat / power usage.

I think I'll leave the "4K" gaming to the Xbox One X.
With this much money at stake it will be committee'd to death and a new underwhelming standard will be upon us...
Got the same. Wow.
I wouldn't call this sophistry, but I do disagree with your logic here:

> Jill cannot post the exploit before Bo'M has a chance to protect their customers, because Bo'M already had a chance to do so.

Software has bugs...I can stick a file server in a pdf by poking at the file-headers. This doesn't necessarily mean we should stop using pdfs, nor that poor hiring practices at Adobe are to blame.

My argument was merely that the language used in the article seems too categorical for a topic as complex as this one. I understand that big corporations often rush to market instead of doing due-diligence, but in certain realistic situations, this article would be advocating anarchy.

I personally like electricity & running water, and so I disagree with the black & white take presented.
I am fine with doing nothing even as a non-user. Recently things have been getting boring but I find it pretty hard to take the initiative and get to know more people. Its the same process all over again (meeting a new person; finding common interests etc.) which bores me to death.

Not sure what to do in life at this point. I see some sense in just participating in the circus and wait till death comes.
This is a sort of tenant of the modern state if you look at it a certain way. Ultimately the threat of violence is invested in the state to ensure the law is followed.

It is not a pitchfork and torch mob that should come after you should you appear to have committed a serious crime, but rather the government's police agencies that will come to arrest you, very physically if need be.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
>> Your ad hominem attacks against Nina Teicholz, like "I wouldn't trust that lady to tell me what to eat" and "she's a journalist" don't go unnoticed.

That sounds threatening. Could you please clarify- who is it that noticed and what happens now that they noticed?
Profitable carbon sequestration by making useful products from trees (and eventually storing the carbon in landfills). Makes sense, at least at first glance.

How does the energy used to transport and process, say, paper compare to the energy used working with electronic documents?
... strictly speaking you’re certainly correct that there is still a significant non-food use for linseed and the other vegetable oils. But there were only limited food uses for polyunsaturated oils before deodorization and hydrogenation techniques were figured out in the early-mid 20th century. People might [have] measured out a tablespoon for their cooking pan, whereas today people use these oils prolifically.
AMD really partners more with Intel than NVIDIA at this point. I think Intel buying AMD is much more likely than merging with NVIDIA.
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Again, we regret having made this error and raised your expectations unnecessarily. We hope you continue working on your startup and that Startup School is a huge help.

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Not sure the number was specified, but seems like >100

Since 100 will be chosen to receive the 10,000$
The few times I've tried it I experienced paranoia lasting several hours, and when I became aware of it I additionally experienced anxiety because I couldn't tell whether I was voicing these thoughts about people around me or keeping them inside my mind. I would then proceed to develop violent scenarios in which I had to attack and fight the people who were making me feel paranoid; the anxiety increased because I suspected they could hear me muttering such thoughts, so I was trying to clamp my mouth shut, deliberately painfully so I could remain aware of it being shut. Last time, I thought I was being very clever and quick to see all these paranoid connections, but when I happened to pay attention to a clock I realized that each sentence/proposition took me about 2 minutes to "think", examine word by word, and self-approvingly re-think.

Further, when someone was speaking near me or to me, I felt that I could catch at best one word per sentence; relatedly, their motions appeared disjointed, jumping from position to position in space, a hand would be open then closed without intermediary steps.

So, no thanks.
the whistleblower gets some significant % of settlement
It isn't that hard to install a blog on a shared hosting plan or VPS somewhere. Just find something with CPanel and some sort of auto installer (I think it was called Fantastico or something) and Bob's your uncle.

Don't even need to know how FTP works or how to code anything to do that...
In practice that means that the tolls are expensive enough to be a PITA for poor people all the time and a PITA for everyone but the rich during peak times. See the DC area for examples.
I was an engineer at a design services firm. My 'boss' was 500 miles away, along with the rest of my team. People threw bugs and tasks at me and I did them. At my company, I'd walk in, go straight to my cube, and sit there all day. Occasionally I'd get social. Even when I was assigned to other projects working with local teams, or even leading teams of people, I managed to make it work. People just got used to me being that way I guess.

I wasn't really hiding it. I have long hair(usually worn down) and had a reputation as being a party guy. But I had an outstanding technical reputation and that shielded me from scrutiny. I was making my company a lot of money and as long as that continued I don't think anyone really gave a shit.
Good stuff in there (browsing ToC). It does have a focus though (hint: there is more to the internet than www). For example, I can't find any obvious discussion about MTU.

I suggest saving this one for a little later in your journey towards networking enlightenment.
Hey mate Li doesnt "officially" hire remotely. There have been very rare cases where existing folks left to go work remotely, but hiring this way has been very rare. I am happy to chat offline to see if there is anything we (our recruiters) can do?
>Because plastic is so cheap, producers will pay the tax, continue using plastic, and pass the costs onto consumers.

This is not how it works. To what degree the tax gets "passed on to consumers" is based on relative elasticity of supply and demand in that market, not on the price of the good. You can read about it in absolutely any introductory microeconomics textbook.
Who happens to own the car, the driver or a service provider, is inconsequential in assessing the big picture consequences of more cars on the road vs. more sustainable options.
Politics aside, tumblr is impossible to have long-form conversation on. Sure, it has longer posts than say, twitter, but replying to a chain makes makes things almost impossible to read. [0] Furthermore, instead of following content per se, you follow blogs that are likely going to be insular. Tumblr is just as much of an echo-chamber as Twitter is, if not even moreso.

This is quite different from reddit or hn where you see a plethora of topics and submissions from different people related to a topic, and which are upvoted/downvoted. Both reddit and hn's UX allow for long replies and discussion, at least until the thread becomes too nested.

You can see the difference in any reddit sub that is geared towards text content instead of link submissions, but especially in /r/AskHistorians and similar. Not that reddit and its ilk don't have any issues, but at least its possible to have longer discussion there.

Mastodon is a semi-decent alternative to twitter, but 500 characters is still a tad too short. I suspect they'll make this configurable in future updates. Pleroma [1] has a 5,000 character limit by default, which is configurable. However both of these still suffer from subscribing to people, not content aggregates where anyone can post.

So for social networks, Mastodon looks promising if you don't care about the popular culture of pathologically blocking other instances. If you aren't on an instance that doesn't block other ones, you can end up being in an echo chamber easily too.

For actual discussion though, I don't know what's better than reddit or hn, even with the problems that they do have. Centralization isn't always bad, although reddit is slowly making itself unappealing, especially once they finally kill off the old design.

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/PvO3Hcu.jpg

[1]: Pleroma is another decentralized, federated network that interfaces with Mastodon, GNU Social, and other Fediverse networks.
Prediction markets are a really cool idea.

I don't know that there is much value to running it on the blockchain though.
I couldn't agree more. It's actually really fun too. I'd love to see more people finding new concoctions and sharing syrup recipes. We've got a few companies covering entire store shelf space with 10 variations each of the same 8-12 ingredients.

There's no better feeling than letting a friend try a soda you made yourself from scratch and watching their eyebrows go up in surprise because your cocktail of flavours is awesome.
The plastics that are broken down by bacteria have side groups or chains that make it feasible to attack them chemically.

Now the question is if something can break down PTFE.
Interestingly, this is to some degree an Apple problem. Microsoft has no problem supporting printer drivers from Windows 7 (or before) in Windows 10, or Windows XP drivers in Windows 7. It's so very Apple to regularly throw out history.
You are confusing democratic socialism with social democracy. This is a common mistake, but you should understand the difference.
The NDP constitution refers to democratic socialism only in the following sentence: New Democrats seek a future that brings together the best of the insights and objectives of Canadians who, within the social democratic and democratic socialist traditions, have worked through farmer, labour.... This doesn't mean they adhere to democratic socialism. In fact, only a minority faction of the NDP is committed to democratic socialism, namely the NDP Socialist Caucus. I couldn't find a source for PQ adhering to democratic socialism, but would welcome any references. The Liberal Party and its provincial counterparts are definitely not democratic socialist.

Second, even if the NDP and PQ adhered to democratic socialism, that would not mean Canada is democratic socialist. The fact that the Conservative Party adheres to conservatism, for example, does not mean Canada is conservative.

Third, Canada is not democratic socialist because democratic socialism is incompatible with capitalism. Democratic socialists are committed to the systemic transformation of the economy from capitalism to socialism, including the elimination of private property. There is simply no realistic chance of Canada transitioning to a socialist economy and eliminating private property in the foreseeable future. This doesn't mean it couldn't happen eventually, just that it is not feasible under Canada's current political climate, government institutions, and legal framework.

PS: Did you mean to refer to Bloc Québécois (the federal party) rather than Parti Québécois (the provincial party)?
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