skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine it'll actually work out perfectly fine for them. Not doing business in all of those countries would be suicide for any company. I mean, look at Google. Even they are caving to China now. and the demands these guys make are less egregious than the ones China makes now.
> Also, think about how you’ll want to control modules. If you intend to shut them down, query their health, etc.

One way around this (which might be useful even if there are multiple handlers per module) is to have explicit layers to the onion.

That is, make the health checking stuff etc, belong to an outer layer that is different from where the application exposes it's API. The layers can still "grammar" (i.e. message protocol), but they are separate endpoints.

I suspect (but do not know) that this lets the event protocol evolve more independently of the management framework. Which fits in with the OPs noble goal of keeping version 0 minimal. (In fact I think she wants to ignore what I called the "management framework" entirely).
I found I had the exact same experience with poetry. I used to had poetry, because it was something that I was forced to read in school.

Now, years after leaving high school, I actually find myself reading poetry for enjoyment. It's possible to read it and not sit there and analyse every word of every line. Sometimes it's nice to just read a poem and leave it at that, in the same way you'd listen to a song without delving into the lyrics.
Fake accounts are clearly a thing, you are right, so it seems silly to then assume that the police and justice systems wouldn't be aware of them or assume they were impossible. What do you do in any other scenario where you've apprehended wrongly or are wrongly suspected?
Beautifully illustrated.
"It's been swell, but the swellings gone down".

It was a fun 25 years for me personally. Time to re-think my entire online existence and take up knitting or something.

I don't even do anything "wrong", I make games, and tinker with electronics, but I do NOT like knowing that every single private chat I have is monitored, collected, stored, and searched. I've used lots of encrypted chat programs and encrypted data storage because MY stuff is MINE, not theirs.

They don't let us read their private documents and emails, or read their private chats. Increasingly, it's the people in power who are caught being the ones doing fucked up things to children (concentration camps in the US, child rape rings in the UK, etc)... yet WE are the ones who have to give up all privacy, all rights, so they can monitor us?

In the great words of my countrymen: Yeahnah.

It's despicable how our (AU) country's sycophant nature has dragged us down the authoritarian well with the US/UK. We had a chance to stand up on our own, with a good strong economy while the rest of the world struggled with the GFC, our own tech companies showing they can stand up on an international stage, and the beginnings of a world class fibre network that would've propelled us into the future comfortably.

Instead, we get this. Bow down to your masters, do as we say not as we do, and be happy we're not locking you up (yet) for wanting to talk to your wife about personal medical things in private, or store your personal belongings (photos of our kids, banking details, passwords) in a secure place where no one steal them. Why won't we think of the children?! Says the same people stealing them, raping them, and ruining their future.
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"It's always easy once you know the answer."

The hard part is figuring it out.
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endless amount of reasons, such as?
This post is really well-timed for me.

I've been trying really hard to up my reading numbers to what I remember them being 5 or 10 years ago. As a part of that, I've been trying to keep an even spread of fiction and non-fiction.

The other day I decided I should also revisit books I remember loving as a kid that I haven't read in decades. Specifically, The Count of Monte Cristo and Mysterious Island. I started the latter the other day.

One of the things that strikes me again and again while I read this book is how much it embodies great improvisation; the characters are all "yes men" in the best possible sense of the phrase. When one character encounters a problem or has an idea, the rest are quick to say "yes, and!" to go on to cooperate to find a solution.

This is especially amazing considering that the book is set at the tail end of the Civil War.

I can't imagine a book like this being written today. The characters are so humanist in believing that they and each other can accomplish anything they set out to do; they cooperate without struggle; there are no hidden pasts or ulterior motives threatening them. It's really quite refreshing and invigorating. I wish I could read aspirational(?) fiction like this all the time and feel like my mood would be much better for it.
This effort is just a stunt: http://www.deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-a...
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The advantage that the Dollar has over Bitcoin is that when dealing with the US Government, it requires dollars to be used. So the banks get FDIC insurance on US Currency deposits, and taxes to the government must be paid in dollars.

So in essence, there's a legal requirement to use dollars when dealing with the federal government. So while the dollar is technically currency by fiat, it's also currency by legislation.
Correct me if I'm wrong adamnemecek, but it sounds to me like you're referring to something like how we don't need to read Newton's Principia in order to pick up the essential ideas from Newtonian Mechanics—by participating in our culture for long enough, you're going to pick them up. Is that right?

It seems like a bunch of people are replying thinking that you meant one would pick up trivia about the classics like which Shakespearian work some quote came from, rather than some distillation of important concepts or whatever.
Yep, you said it. The issue isn't actually scanning labor exactly. I was a sysadmin for a mid-sized academic library's digital archives. We had 11 students working 10-20 hours a week (less during exams, more during break). The burden wasn't the money paying the students, it was the digitization tech (painting and large prints need plotter sized scanners + in general dealing with very old stuff is problematic because of heat and light damage). Books use sheet feed scanners if you're willing to debind them or flat bed scanners if you aren't. Video digitization is a shit shoot because of the number of formats and mechanical failures in hardware. We were just buying any spare machine we could off eBay and local TV stations because no one could repair stuff.

And even when you have the content digitized, hardware costs for arrival and ingestion, and librarian time for the metadata citation are also limiting factors.

The software most libraries use to present digital archives, CONTENTdm, is supremely bad as well so there is some understandable trepidation about having content scale faster than the interface to serve it does. I don't know if I signed an NDA but there were some truly bad architectural decisions for scaling, and at the time the back end was this repulsive binary flat file format. We often had issues with failed writes breaking whole collections.

Storage is also a huge premium. If people are going to scan this stuff, they're going to be saving at ultra-high resolution JPEG2000 or TIFF, not just web resolution JPGs. At least this side of the equation has gotten easier over time as storage gets cheaper.

I had a lot of fun in the job (enterprise storage + this being around the same time that H264 took off) but I did get the sense that the level of investment required to make progress was prohibitively more than what was available.

This would seem to me to be a great case for a large foundation offering a digitization and open access grant specifically to scale and cover a project.
Chess can also be solved algorithmically (the first algorithms for solving games were specifically for the solving of chess games). I don't think a game being solvable by an algorithm detracts from its quality as a game (though 2048 might be a bad game for other reasons).

I actually am struggling to think of a game that cannot be played by an algorithm (aside from obvious games like tennis). Even Jeopardy could be played by a computer.
Google Cloud's BigTable is like this. I don't remember how long scaling up took but instead of telling it how many "IOPS" to provision, you tell BigTable how many compute nodes you want. Once you hit ~80% on a node, the latency would rise, until you added another compute node. Since storage/compute was decoupled you wouldn't have to "wait" for a rebalance either.
I'm pretty sure they're going to define it as: if it's in the interests of the US State Department then it's very good. Everything else is disinformation.

This is utter insanity. Do they have nobody in the room willing to raise their hand anymore? These institutions need to be reformed, now.
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> Assuming, of course, one believes in the myth of the informed voting public.

They have to at least believe in the desire to be informed. I agree with your point and optimizing for eyeballs means you're gonna optimize for what people want to see. But as we've seen lately, if that machine driven optimization goes against the wishes of the squeakier of the wheels, it is considered intentional favoritism or at best negligence. Internet advertising is the popular scapegoat these days when cognitive dissonance amongst the loud is all that remains.
This is similar to the word hashing used in deep structured semantic models. [1] This works by representing a word as k-hot vector of trigrams that form the word - it is able to generalize better to unseen words than one-hot whole word embeddings probably due to word morphology as the other answer in this thread suggests.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
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There was dirty money created by demonetizion. We have not yet accounted for

1. Cash in Bhutan and Nepal where indian currency was widely used.
2. NRIs who legally held INRs but the cost of exchange was too high
3. Residents who have loose cash lying around - under mattresses, long forgotten jeans and missed the deadline for exchange.
Yeah.

As I learned more about science and actual spacecraft, I got increasingly frustrated with science fiction and anything related to spacecraft. But there is a spectrum of realism.

For example, with Babylon 5, the fighters had inertia, and would often face in the direction of the enemy while travelling in another direction. In contrast, Star Wars spacecraft fly around as if they were aircraft in an atmosphere, which isn't surprising given that older war movies were an inspiration for its battle scenes.

Later, I was reading about molecular nanotechnology, and then considered the idea that un-augmented meatbags like us travelling among the stars is absurd. From an energy expenditure perspective and practically perspective. Basically, if we have the technology to travel to the stars, we won't be humans anymore.

And these days, I just look for shows that feature "good writing" in the sense of dialog and overall plot.
If you can biuld large enough nanotubes that you can weave them into rope, you can engineer in any properties you want. Anything from graphite dust to diamond is an option.

Fyi, the military has a specific way to lace boots so the laces can most easily be cut to remove the boot.
That was fun. The Expanse got a lot of the those things right, and where it didn't at least made an effort to.
How did you handle deployment and version control?
> That's $33,000 per homeless person per year!

This is a disingenuous way to represent spending. Much of the spending goes to keeping people off the streets, to shelters, and to medical care.

If you spent a money and everybody but 1 person got off the street, would you say that they spent a quarter billion dollars on 1 homeless person? No.
Huh? I'm new to much of this but keep thinking the Lagrangian is incredibly elegant: a tool which boils the determination of a physical system's behavior down to minimizing a single definite integral. That takes my breath away.
> at some point a person has to convert a Bolivar to a Bitcoin and back

But most transactions can be done without Bolivars.

> And a dictator can make most of those conversions illegal, if he so chooses.

Dollar conversions in Venezuela (at black market rates) are already illegal, yet they exist.

How did Brazil fix its inflationary spiral, and how does this invalidate Venezuelans using cryptocurrency due to an intransigent government?
> I find it between puzzling and concerning that the mention of cash being used in real estate deals doesn't mention why.

Can you not imagine legitimate reasons for doing this?

A small business owner makes a deal with a property owner to operate the business out of the property on a payment plan where the profits from the business buy out the property owner over time. The customers of the business pay cash so the business pays cash.

The buyer or seller doesn't trust the local banking system (e.g. because they have seen recent evidence of not being able to withdraw their money from it).

The banks charge some fees that can be avoided by cutting them out of the transaction. Even small percentage-based fees add up to a lot of money on real estate sized transactions.

The seller is also the buyer of a different property and they or the other seller wants to transact in cash for one of the above reasons, so they would prefer to have cash from this transaction to use for the other one.

In theory the transaction could be made to involve the banks by everyone doing extra work for no reason, but at the margin that scuttles the transaction and even when it doesn't it still generates overhead that dampens the local economy makes peoples lives harder unnecessarily.
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Do any of you commit a regularly monthly amount to investment in equity instruments such as Vanguard total index fund VTSMX? This is supposed to be the most failproof method to create long term wealth. If so, I'd be curious to know how difficult or easy this process is ? I have used Ameritrade and even though you can setup recurring debits from the bank, you can't automatically buy every month. There are these robo advisor companies but even they don't have this feature of automated regular buys. Like I can't just submit a trade like 'Buy $500 VTSMX every month' and the broker does the rest. Am I missing something ?
A good motivation to get self-hosting!
“The success of Technology of Orgasm serves as a cautionary tale for how easily falsehoods can become embedded in the humanities”

I only skimmed around so am perhaps misinterpreting their tone, but the authors seem to emphasize the vulnerabilities of empirical research in the humanities specifically, but I’m wondering if any field of research is not vulnerable to widely propagated falsehoods, or at the very least, poorly verified findings.
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That is what I mean with "no guidance". In this case, you have a common best practices question that you have to figure out by diffing the two pieces of documentation yourself. The information is usually there.
It seems that there's a key point of contention. That link claims:

> But the vast majority of plastic in the ocean is made up of particles one centimeter and smaller, remnants of larger pieces broken up by ultraviolet light, the corrosive effects of seawater, and physical abuse from wave action and marine creatures.

But the posted article claims instead:

> "Research shows the majority of plastic by mass is currently in the larger debris," as noted on The Ocean Cleanup website. "By removing the plastic while most of it is still large, we prevent it from breaking down into dangerous microplastics" that can absorb toxic substances and travel up the food chain.

So which is it?

And even if the claim that "the majority of plastic by mass is currently in the larger debris" is wrong, because they didn't sample deeply enough, doesn't the argument that "removing the plastic while most of it is still large, we prevent it from breaking down into dangerous microplastics" remain valid?

The risk of structural failures generating more debris, and problems with anti-fouling treatments, seem manageable through good maintenance. Or better design.

But then, what to do with the debris collected? Recycling per se does seem hopeless. I mean, we aren't even recycling much regular plastic waste, because it's mixed and contaminated. But maybe just crack it down to simple hydrocarbons, and make sure to capture the metals and halogens.
Definitely! I often wonder about the evidence (who knows if the dinosaurs had computers and mechanical flight for a short time(geologically speaking)?) How could we?

[Edited to make it clear I was talking about airplanes]
I was replying to a non-factual ad-hominem attack, so I thought it required more explanation.

Now I'm being attacked again, with a non-factual personal slander.

Lovely.

My post is basically textbook politics, it's not my opinion. I think my examples are pretty reasonable.

'Libertarianism' is an extension of Classical Liberalism, it's not a conservative movement (in terms of political ideology) and there's no debate about that.

'Republicanism' is 100% a Liberal ideal by definition. There's no wiggle room there. To be a 'Republican' literally means to be against the Monarchy or even Constitutional Monarchy, which is right at the core of Liberalism.

'Pursuit of Liberty' is not a conservative objective, it's Liberal, i.e. 'Classically Liberal'.

The only debate is what some of those words have come to mean through the lens of pop culture media, and that's all pretty foggy.

'Republican', the party, has little to do anymore with 'Republicanism'.

In particular, 'Liberal' has come to mean 'Left Wing' and 'conservative' usually 'right wing'. And since there are only two parties in America (and they are both more or less Liberal), and because party allegiances have changed, and because Americans don't ever learn political theory in school, and because the American press confuses the issue even further - it's a mess.

It's nuance, but it's not that complicated.

European political parties especially their naming - are generally more consistent and clear. When you look at the European political landscape for a bit, things are easier to grasp. Things start to make more sense.
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But it's still an apt comparison. People live for long periods on the ISS, and the amount of space isn't likely to get any bigger during their mission.
Thank you.

I will sift through those links to find the first kernel.

I'm guessing it was a chain of independent sub-systems starting with I/O.
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True, but the US is very different from China and India.
> Should governments continue to encounter impediments to lawful access to information necessary to aid the protection of the citizens of our countries, we may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative or other measures to achieve lawful access solutions.

In other words: you better implement a backdoor now, or things will get ugly in the future.

The worst part is that I can see several companies falling into the trap and implementing stupid backdoors, that will be exploited by governments and script-kids alike.
that's old, and already covered at length. check this if you're interested:

https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/a-peculiar-survey/

https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/environmental-impact...
The court holds that the plaintiff must demonstrate reasonable evidence the defendant was the person using the computer.

In this particular case, the defendant ran what amounts to lodging, was deposed, and it was immediately figured out it wasn't him. The complicating factor is that because his lodging was medical in nature, he was not able to hand over guest information.

I mention this context because it's unlikely you would be able to get out of being sued by saying "Well maybe it was my roommate LOL"
I was. I was far enough away from the epicenter that it felt like a pigeon fart. I knew the magnitude was greater further south, but I didn't think it warranted further consideration. It's only after feeling a 7.0+ one that I developed this healthy(?) sense of preparedness.
They did it because they didn't want to duplicate Ninja's functionality. It does partial rebuilds, it's been heavily optimized for just doing that, and it's a Google-created project that they're already using for other non-Bazel projects.
The federal government should actually open a public forum for people to just talk. It would be interesting and cheap as experiments go.

There are no true public forums anywhere on the web that I'm aware of.
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These are all good points, but considering that humans are already ingesting microplastics found in seafood and rice, at least someone is trying to do something about the problem. Beach cleanup does not help solve this.

It may already be too late due to the incredible amount of microplastics already in the Earth's major bodies of water and the fact that science doesn't know how much it will impact the ecosystem or create/exacerbate human medical problems.
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We're only 1 to 1.5 orders of magnitude away from having a material strong enough? Maybe I've been working with computers for too long, but that sounds excitingly achievable.
Personally,

Salt, pepper, and tomato ketchup,

three necessary add-ons to finish a "fresh of the griddle" omelette,

describe gender inter-relationships better.
Your response being downvoted and thus less likely to be read - and with enough downvotes incapable of being read by those who haven't opted to read "Dead" comments - is a power given to the community to self-moderate. That power is also used to drown out opinions (ie. creating an echo chamber). Your response was civil, made in good faith, and had no reason that I can tell to be downvoted. If downvotes couldn't silence people, or prevent their opinions from being read, you would be correct. But because they can - it is a tool people can use to form an echo chamber.

If you browse through heated topics where the HN demographic skews towards one side of the argument, you can see the echo chamber at work simply by turning ShowDead to "On" and reading every comment on the thread. If you browse with ShowDead "Off" you might not be aware of how frequent replies are silenced for no reason other than not agreeing with the echo chamber.