skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the purpose of a ranking system is to help decide questions like how much should be spent on education, then obviously it doesn't make sense to include spending in the ranking. (And this is not a strawman, the article mentions that Paul Krugman for example smartly pointed out that states that spend more have better rankings.)

> There are a lot of aspects of education that standardized testing can't (or won't) measure: access to extra-curricular programs, funding for art/music departments, technical education, etc.
> these tests rarely include questions about "controversial" topics in history or scientific ideas that are opposed by Christian fundamentalism.

These are legitimate criticisms of standardized testings, but not excuses for ignoring its results, if you don't have better data available.

> Then the bad data is used to justify the ideological position. Law enforcement works the same way.

Maybe instead of using "bad data", like how many crimes are solved, on law enforcement, we should just ask how much is spent on it - the more the better?
> How about actually leaking documents on day, I dunno, how the Chinese government is trying to brainwash Uighurs and erase their culture and religion?

Wikileaks legitimately may not be in a position to acquire such documents to leak. My understanding is that they mainly distribute documents provided to them by others, and has never exercised much editorial discretion. If Wikileaks is best known in the US/Western Europe, it'll likely only acquire documents related to those regions.

For a Chinese person to leak documents about Xinjiang to Wikileaks, that person must first know about them, then be able to contact them, then be able to send the documents to them. I wouldn't be surprised if Wikileaks itself is blocked by the Great Firewall, and that its typical communication channels for leakers are blocked and/or difficult to use from the PRC, which makes the whole process doubtful.
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Amazon's Secret Data Center Locations
Wow, you can do that??

There ought to be an unofficial Windows 10 Settings app that uncovers stuff like this. Somehow Microsoft isn't quite getting it right and they ship Windows 10 with two different ones...
Fraud prevention, compliance, and security are the actual hard parts of running a cryptocurrency exchange. Doing these things well has largely determined the winners and losers in the space. I don't know of any major cryptocurrency exchange that outsources them.
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I was orienting my post more towards the commenters who would rather comment "we are doomed" and "nothing will change", but you are absolutely right to point out obstructionism.

That said, I think my initial point still stands: Everyone needs to do what they can to both reduce their own impact, and to pressure governments and corporations to reduce theirs.
As a contractor in the UK, I paid less tax than an employee would. HMRC brought in IR35 to try to combat that, but at the time I was contracting (early 2000's) most contractors were still paying less tax - I'm not sure if that's stricter these days.

I was in London working in web & finance at the time, so it was a fairly distorted market. I did get bitten by the dot com crash, but even so I was only out of work for about 6 months or so and that was a pretty extreme event. Realistically in the current environment job stability in a major IT centre like London is so good that contracting is pretty safe. In a more unstable market there would be a higher element of risk, for sure.
Amazon is making local governments to compete against each others for data center locations, so it's in the public interest to know the locations. For example, you can compare at the location, electricity cost, infrastructure, tax schemes and tax revenue etc. in local level and see how important they are for Amazon and maybe even estimate the benefit of having Amazon.

The location of Amazon data centers is not hidden from it's large competitors, or any adversary.
Yeah, he even goes on to say that later....
The US doesn't suffer from a very high level of corruption. So yes, it's a reasonable argument for moving more of the work to the US.

Transparency International ranks the US with Belgium and just behind Australia and Iceland on corruption.

Russia is #135, below Ukraine and Myanmar.
> The real issue is that nobody has proven this wasn't going to occur anyway.

Are you saying that the contribution of CO₂ levels to warming isn't established, or that the human role in increasing CO₂ levels isn't established? Because both of those are very well established.

> This is always the downfall with climate science in that there is no explicit proof that anything man does to the planet would alter what was going to occur anyway.

This is only true in the sense where “explicit proof” is restricted to pure abstract domains like math and not applicable to any domain of material fact; to the extent that it is possible to “prove” anything about what would happen in counterfactual alternative conditions in the material universe, though, this has been proven.
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The big pluses are the huge range of libraries that make developing analyses easier, faster, and more reproducible.
Python has some fine libraries, but its leagues behind whats available in R.
This post is gold:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/comp.lang.lisp...

As a fan of lisp and smalltalk myself, and as "one of the few programmers who has worked in CL commercially in this century", I take my emacs hacking sessions as the most similar experience to it I can have in a daily basis, but in the link I posted, Kent Pitman says:

"I don't even find Emacs itself to be equivalently self-documenting and
easy to get around in, much less the many systems that Emacs touches."
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How can someone write a book about the benefits of leaving social media if they have never experienced them or the process of leaving them?
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Humans do not wage wars against animals, they use(d) animals to win wars.

Well what if in the future AI's use humans to wage war between them? That's a far more frightening future than human-weaponized-AI's I think. Food for thought.
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Hopefully, some aspiring psychologist or neuroscientist will be able to quantify the effect. My hypothesis is that this is driven by an information seeking dopamine reward cycle and that for some reason we lose the capacity in our executive function to regulate it. Much like an addiction. There is so much digital distraction. Similar to ADD perhaps? You can also see this in modern movies, shows and cartoons where the pace has quickened. It's hard to watch old movies or older cartoons etc... Watch old episodes of Sesame St vs new episodes and you can see the shift. And even then kids get bored of new episodes with the ultimate addiction being youtube. I actually don't find youtube too bad in moderation because kids do take ideas and try to play with them in the real world. You just have to be sure they aren't overexposed and exposed to ideas that are not healthy. What I am saying is that I do see imaginative play despite youtube or that incorporates youtube.

So in this hyper digital world it feels like we have less time. Even though time remains the same. There is always something seeking our attention and for the most part it is unimportant but we can't ignore it.
Hey, your site looks cool, but could you clarify what advantages it has over other free hostings (shared PHP/MySQL/static) or just Github Pages?
I am 100% sure that the two things are completely independent. Apple's R&D is probably between 12-18 months out on new products.
The Luxembourg ones are perfectly well-known data centres.
Interesting idea. It would be a learning opportunity for all of us to know what libraries/frameworks are being used to create these website. Maybe this is something you can add to the aggregated feed.

Also, quite a few of them seem to be down. I would suggest marking them as inactive.
For anyone else that also had no clue what UPL referred to, it's "Unauthorized Practice of Law": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_of_law

I don't see how providing a script with the usual disclaimers is any different than receiving the same advice, with the same disclaimers, from an individual. The biggest difference seems to be scale as before a non-lawyer could give advice "in the small" (i.e. people they can actually talk to in person) but with technology you can reach thousands.
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Several decentralized OT systems [1] can avoid the TP2 constraint on transformation functions.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2914099
Not sure exactly what type of "design thinking" you are looking to learn. In my experience, a lot of people think about design only as it applies to visual/UX. Design Thinking, on the other hand, is more a way to problem solve and understand the issues at hand (and of course, how to solve them).

One resource I recommend is IDEO.org...it's tailored more towards humanitarian type Design Thinking, but it might be a good place to look depending, of course, on your needs ;)

https://www.ideo.org/approach
Absolutism is unnecessary, two people eating half as much beef is just as impactful as one of two people going vegan.

I don't think eating less meat is impractical, certainly not specifically just eating less beef, by far the most environmentally impactful one.
Which reminds me of the article on HN a few months/years back about how you could identify most spies because they all appeared the same way in embassy listings (which was all public information).

With a lot of things like this, you're really squatting at a particular point in the effort-reward curve. You're not going to make something of this scale absolutely secret; there are hundreds of people involved, deliveries of material over years, and ongoing services. It's not like Amazon can bury the workers on site after they finish their work, like people always claim the pharaohs of old did but probably didn't.

But being a little secret might solve some problems, so if there are low-effort ways to make it a little secret, you go ahead and do those. You make a shell company, even if it has a stupid name. You don't tell contractors or delivery people who the real owner is. You don't drive up to the building in a car that says "AMAZON1" on the license plate.

It's not going to keep the place totally secret, but if it makes a few things easier - you get fewer break-ins, you have fewer troubles with the local planning boards, whatever - it's probably worth the tiny bit of effort.

(Also, did you know that Dick Van Dyke is still alive and active? He's in the new Mary Poppins.)
Right, where are the tag names specified? What if a new column is added, and my reader needs to handle both formats?

Also, seems like specification-by-example, unless I’m missing something.
Here are some demo dashboards, will link to them on the home page soon.

Presentation Mode
https://demo.chartpoet.io/presentation/frB1lGMWa_q7/

Dashboard Mode https://demo.chartpoet.io/dashboard/frB1lGMWa_q7/

Raw Data Mode https://demo.chartpoet.io/presentation/frB1lGMWa_q7/
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I'm going to assume a lot of these warehouse workers would rather have more money in there pay packet now then a share or two which need years to vest with an unknown value.
>I've definitely noticed it myself. I have a much harder time reading novels or any long-form content these days, and I suspect it's due to consuming lots of very-short-form content on a daily basis

I'm curious. Is your difficulty reading long form in paper form, or on a device? Have you tried reading actual paper (or even an ebook that is not "connected")?

When I switch to physical paper, it's almost as if my brain goes into a different mode.
It is still a marketing class cliché [1] however debunked

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/chevy-nova-that-wouldnt-go-3078090
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Yes. A blocking loop will allow the CPU to power down until an event arrives. A non-blocking/busy loop will continue to burn CPU cycles and the CPU will be busy and cannot reach lower power states.
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You're assuming that anyone with these sorts of documents:

1) wants to leak them (most of the Chinese people who I've met in China, especially those who work in a government or military capacity, will bend over backwards to defend China from any level of perceived foreign criticism)

2) has the capability to leak them (most Chinese people are unlikely to know much about Wikileaks)
This article compares FastR to GNU-R v3.4.0 -- but there were some important changes in v3.5.0 (see http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/r-350.html).

I'm not even sure GNU-R is the most important comparison (although it is an important comparison). How does it compare to R with Intel MKL? How does it compare to other (faster) languages?
> And since the time between the two phones was so short, there's no way Apple copied Essential here.

It's quite possible, since such copying does not have to start at the public introduction.

It may be coincidence, but you absolutely can't rule out copying just because the time from one public release to the other is too short for copying which started with the earlier release.
Like others, I'm confused to the reasoning of the leak. What public good does it promote? What can anyone do with this information that is productive?
I’ve been baffled by how brittle static site generator tools are, and how forcefully they push their workflow/concepts onto the user.

I gave up on Jekyll when I tried to hook it up to hit & push each published site as a branch patented to the site branch & the corresponding master commit that was used to generate it.

I ended up fiddling with my SSG and exploring software designs that make it easy to add in weird extra behaviour. I really like how Dist::Zilla (Perl package publishing tool) allows so much flexibility and reuse, without many strong opinions of its own (mostly that packages are a collection of files and that prepare plugins should run before publish ones).
> ... fancy foreign lawyers are expensive, and of course they tacitly know this is a scam so they'll charge plenty to help facilitate it.

I would hope that knowingly being a part of something like this is the type of thing that gets one disbarred.
Good interview and he illustrates at least two problems that are not unique to Reddit: 1. Cancerous “growth at all costs” as the single metric/goal, and 2. Inability to make decisions, leading to always running defense against the press and competitors. Who hasn’t seen one or both of these in their own companies?
Interesting, I haven’t had a timesheet since I was an intern during college almost 20 years ago.

I didn’t realize that timesheets we’re still a common part of being a salaried employee in tech.
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The purpose of NASA is to dish out pork to congressional districts.
Seems to be outdated. One of the folks named in the document as responsible for a China site is not working for Amazon since a few years ago and is now at Google Cloud, according to his linkedin.
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I mean, that's a question humans have been asking for nearly our entire species' history. Generally, it's a lot more fun to be around 'smarter' people than 'dumber' ones, so education is somewhat prioritized.
According to the article:

"Those making, say, $14 an hour prior to the increase may only receive a $1 raise, which fails to make up for the loss of benefits."
I don't think they said "everyone".
For diagnosing, I like building up a cumulative distribution function (CDF) plot. If you're collecting data either for percentiles or thresholds you likely have the data already. If you're setting thresholds, it's a useful plot to judge how likely a given threshold might trigger an alarm.
An interview on BBC Newshour said that a normal Soyuz landing could go as high as 6 G's, and max acceleration this time was 6.7 G's. So certainly on the rough side (6 G's is bad enough!) but not that far out of normal. Even a shock of 9 G's is expected to be survivable, although that would take a lot more recovery.
> Seems like using ‘Vandalay Industries’ is a terrible idea.

I think it's more of a joke instead of a serious attempt at keeping the ownership hidden.
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Holy crap that's an A-level domain. How'd you guys get it?
I don't think this was a single developer mistake (that would be easy to spot), instead this was a solution for a problem so it was a requirement for the new update.
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I used Smalltalk/V at the university, a couple of years before Java sprung into existence.

Pharo just to occasionally check how much it has changed since those days.

Yes, Smalltalk does provide a similar experience to Lisp Machines.

Also if you read Xerox papers about Mesa XDE and Mesa/Cedar, one the goals was to provide a developer experience similar to the Lisp and Smalltalk workstations in the context of a strong typed systems programming language.
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Have you ever read Noel Ignatiev's talk "The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To To Abolish It"? He talks about the issue of the position of poor whites in society, curious how you would feel about it. http://racetraitor.org/abolishthepoint.html
> There is much research (once you sort through the partisan fluff from research institutions with obvious bias) that supports the positive impact of revenue per student on academic achievement on standardized tests.

Standardized tests are already included in the ranking.
F-35 jets: US military grounds entire fleet
Personally I am most worried about the coordinated rhetorical push against "toxicity". It seems far too vague and exploitable and promotive of a centralizing agenda and increased control. There are complete assholes of course but everything about the solutions seems like a pretext for control akin to "think of the children" while their spending and other efforts make it clear that they aren't something they are interested in helping or protecting but in use as a shield.

It brings to mind YouTube's issues with advertisers and their clients being fools. People head away from the stale inoffensive mass market of television and then they start complaining about their brand being associated with it. Rather than realize that is where the traffic is try to reshape things to what they already left.
US's and Russian's modules are separate, their life systems are separate. So an emergency in one module will not impact the other.
I highly doubt it happened because for sure they have camera surveillance, it's just frustratingly dumb to accuse the others in your own shortcomings.
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The Challenger and the Columbia both had catastrophic failures during launch and re-entry respectively. Of course those were shuttles and not rockets, but still as far as space flight goes, the statistics were against them.
America’s most powerful tech execs join $500B Saudi Arabian mega-city project
Thanks! It only took me 11 years to get the courage to at least _attempt_ to ship something. And although I am no position to look for investment, as in I don't have access to a VC/investment environment, I can dedicate at least 2-3 years to the product, bootstrapping it.
Is there a recording available somewhere or an image of how it looked?
Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
It's a trillion dollar company headed by the wealthiest man in the world with ties to the pentagon and owns the washingtonpost.

Why is it that whenever wikileaks leaks anything, people whine about it?
The way China arrested Interpol’s boss has harmed the country’s image
Maybe he is, but he spreads his message and communicates in the absolute worst way for anyone to actually listen to him or take him seriously. Which is really a shame.
Feel free to go read your precious article again by the way. It has been edited to reflect the fact that actual people with strong control over this decision have said that it is not as the article originally implied.

Hacker News? Every correction had zero upvotes. But now its the next day. This story is no longer on the front page. Anchoring effects are taking hold. Will Hacker News even ever know there was a correction to the article?
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[Disclaimer I own a small amount of Intel in my IRA account]

If you have ever been in an investment club (basically friends who get together and exchange ideas on what stocks to invest in) you have probably had the 'revenue/income' discussion.

Amazon is the poster child for 'net income doesn't matter' as it has reinvested most of its margin in itself over the years to grow.

So it can go either way.

TSMC does pay a dividend which Intel doesn't so from a financial trading/investing point of view you could argue that TSMC is a better stock to hold long as it will generate income.

From the 'future of the business' point of view re-investing more would seem to be the wiser strategy. Time will tell.
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I think the article talks about idle time itself, when there's no workload. OS doing bookkeeping means CPU isn't idle.
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I'm pretty sure glassdoor is a conspiracy by FAANG executives to confuse their employees. If you believe these numbers you will not be able to get what you deserve when negotiating comp at these companies.
The two-way connectivity was between documents (or actually, pieces of media, regardless of type), not in the "we're all authors" sense (the latter was common back then, and in fact the early web browser was also an editor and server).

The Xanadu idea was that if a link was created from A → B, it would be visible in B as well. They have some cute 3D renderings of XanaduSpace on their website that makes it clearer: http://xanadu.com/XanaduSpace/btf.htm

Lanier further claims this would make Google redundant (since you'd "just see where most of the links led" - it's not clear to me how you'd do that without processing (ie, scraping with a bot) all the documents and their links), and also Facebook because, apparently, what we were missing is a way to see who is linking to our content, so we can "meet people who share out interests" (personally, this is what I see forums or Reddit being used for, whereas Facebook was primarily about people you knew personally).
> its potential to compromise security?

It's a bingo.
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>>I don’t know if you remember this but we sparred a couple of times on HN few years ago.

Hey, I apologize if that was something that hurt you in anyway.

I discovered Lisp a few months back, I had of course heard of it long back, but kind of discovered using it only months back. I don't code in Lisp at day job or full time. But many of my problems related to understand data structures and algorithms have vanished since I started thinking of them in Lisp.

Mostly because I started to think in terms of recursion well, and other list manipulation stuff feels like it just comes to naturally. Not sure why this, or its unique to me. But for some reason I find it very easy to think and work with trees and graphs when I think of them as lists.

Always looking forward to learn and do more.
This is what they do already right?

NASA doesn't actually build any rockets anymore - it's all contracted out to various companies.