skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that actually true? I have no experience in grad level math but in my field (security) people frequently cite all sorts of non academic content. I've personally done it a lot of times and never heard anything about it from reviewers.
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The irony is that people pay for such a device. They should get paid instead.
I'm a beginner at Go but I think it is fascinating and full of real-life lessons like this.

In general, strong play has a lot of forcing moves that demand responses. Being obsessed with having the last word is akin to allowing the other player to dictate when and where you will play, which is a substantial advantage for the other player. Go is won by area, not capture, so often a weak-looking sketch of territory is more effective than a lot of direct squabbling over little stones.

It's also easy to overplay. Being greedy is a good way to lose everything in Go. So a good game can have the flavor of a negotiation. There are even a lot of standard trades that aim for equality between the players.
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Your iPhone is not listening to you right now, but your Echo is. That's a big difference.
And people wonder why I've argued that, at some point, IT needs to be a certified and regulated profession like lawyers, doctors, engineers, nurses, pilots, accountants, electricians, plumbers, teachers, etc. If the future is going to be built using software and data, it's probably going to be essential that the general public have some agency -- public or private -- to safeguard the public interest.

It takes years of dedication to be a professional electrician or plumber, but anybody off the street can build an application that aggregates personal information and isn't subject to any sort of regulation or oversight or system of professional ethics.

That doesn't just safeguard the public. It also safeguards the employed individuals when they say, "No, that is not allowed under the ethics of my profession."

This isn't about "let's make the government save us," it's about creating a legal framework to protect the interests of the public and give ethical considerations in data management and software design some legal backing.
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What OS do you run on it? I have a (personal) T460, but I'm looking to get a new work laptop, and I'm considering trying to swing a T480. I've had great results running Ubuntu 18.04 on my T460, but last I looked, the T480 was having some compatibility issues.
You may want to add an addendum to your original comment; until I read this I misinterpreted it as actually arguing for not recognizing their humanity, and I'd imagine you're getting downvoted for the same reason.
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I meant [exploitative] health tourism as that's what the term usually refers to.
Ah yes, people didn't kill other people before guns. What a great world that was!
Yes. There are different degrees of bad. I'll take the hardware walled garden and data protection over the other bads.
I'd argue that the weaponisation of personal data and hyper targeted advertisements/disinformation are making all of those issues worse. It's what has created the current wave of climate change denying nazi sympathising maniacs to grow.
He used to sit on the floor of his office with the lights off under a giant moving box and brainstorm math.

Reference: personal communication
show HN earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18291302
> Only in a situation where interminable growth is required in a race to the top.

The key is that they choke you out... They have more engineers, more R&D and a better product because they have more revenue.
Off-topic: your app is one of the few mobile apps that I've bothered purchasing/donating to. Tons of time spent in the original and 2nd version.
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We went to a gynaecologist to figure out what the best day was to get pregnant (ie. most fertile). Turns out with a different than standard monthly cycle, you gotta time it a bit different as well. Who'd have guessed? After that, it was a hit within a month. Now, our gynaecologist has to respect our privacy...
I could not be the same after reading your essay. Thank you sir.
> The problem is that people start a career as a J2EE programmer in their 20s and expect to coast and never update/learn new skills.

You hit the nail on the head here.
The thing is, it's not just "a razor's edge from just poverty". If you use Hans Rosling's four-part income definition, "just poverty" represents a 4x increase in income from "extreme poverty". For Americans who might make hundreds of dollars a day, the difference between a dollar a day and four dollars a day may not seem like much. But imagine instead what it would be like to change from $100k/year to $400k/year. That's the ratio, but the effects are even greater than that.

It's access to some rudimentary health care. It's maybe a bicycle for transportation. It's a gas stove so you no longer have to use firewood to cook (speaking of deforestation...). It's maybe getting a cash-paying job so you can quadruple your income again.
Parent comment isn't even talking about first man - they're talking about apollo 13.
While we're talking "old skool" hackerdom, does anybody know/remember Voyager, of the "Hacker's Haven" BBS? I spent so many hours on that site back in the mid to late 90's, making the long-distance dial-up call by beige-boxing off a COCOT phone in a gas-station parking lot, in the wee hours of the night, hoping no cops would pull up and wonder what was going on with the super-long phone cable running from my car to the payphone.

For anybody who wasn't around back then, a "beige box" wasn't actually a "box" involving tone generation like a blue box or a red box. It just meant clipping onto the red and green wires in the demarc box and connecting to an RJ-14 plug to plug into a phone. It worked well with COCOT's (Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephones) because the phone line for a COCOT was just a regular line that you could make long distance calls on. The mechanism that made it a pay-phone was all contained inside the phone itself, as opposed to a "telephone company payphone" where the actual line itself was special. Thos were the ones you could use a red-box on, to simulate dropping quarters into the phone.
This use of data seems reasonable if the company is truly following the constraints described. The way I read it fever rates were sold to advertisers with zip code granularity. Advertisers could then target markets, but not individuals.

It doesn't sound like users would experience creepy invasions of privacy like "I took my temperature and then every website I visited had a NyQuil ad." Instead, there would generally be more ads in one city versus another.
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Apple was never a player in the ad market, so which of these "well-designed compromises" went against their bottom line?
Indeed, could you expand on that a bit?

Even if what you meant is expected time complexity for the single insert operation is O(1), that surely cannot be the case. What would be expected time complexity of N inserts then?
I don't find it odd, I don't plan to volunteer my living brain for patch clamp experiments :)
How do you get access to a known good copy of the app?
I mostly didn't want to drill holes in the bumper.
At least in the deeply embedded space, in context 'state' is commonly used to mean 'persistant state'.
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> They're literally the biggest tech company in the world. Couldn't they build their own?

A search engine is a big enough process—and difficult enough—that you can't just throw money at it and expect it to work in the end. They could try, certainly. And maybe they'd succeed, and maybe they'd fail. And maybe they'd succeed but end up with a successful business unit whose goals are opposed to the rest of the company's.
How much time do you spend before buying something (say headphones)?
How much time do you spend before buying something (say headphones) online or offline ?

As in how much time do you spend looking for reviews, recommendations, blog, videos on YouTube about the product or any service?
Be nice. Implying that I’m not thinking is rude.

I never said that the Americans didn’t have the correctly sized force for their situation, I in fact pointed out that our numerically small armies were partially explained by weak neighbors. I was disputing the idea that we had a “large” army, which we for certain did not. You are correct in pointing out that “large” is not the same as “effective”, but that wasn’t the point I was making.

You are correct that European powers would have a very hard time projecting power over the Atlantic. If you had said that America was highly capable of defense because of its army and the high logistical cost of mounting an invasion across the Atlantic in pre-modern times, I would agree with you whole heartedly. France’s disastrous invasion of Haiti would also be a nice example to back this theory up too. But you said “large” and large in this context is an absolute without other qualifications (unlike say “effective”), which can be examined numerically.
The hnprofile tool also does sentiment analysis if you want to compare that. Seems like over the last year electron discussions were indeed much less favorable than qt discussions.
This just throws gasoline on a raging inferno... But here in Indiana, I can legally walk into election central and ask for the voter registration of everybody in the county.

The data contains: Full legal name, address, phone#, email, and Drivers license OR last 4 of SSN.

This would be a breach notification anywhere else.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bloomington/comments/9qqvmz/tilin_i...

Edit: seriously, why the downvotes? We're talking about a legal breach that leaks PII if you choose to exert your right to vote.

Buying listening posts is voluntary. Voting shouldn't leak your PII.
On the contrary, in any circles where precision in language is appreciated or grammar is important, it has been called out as incorrect for years. I remember being hit for it on college papers 20+ years ago.

It's simply incorrect.
Ahh, that was the one place I did not look, thank you!
This has been my experience exactly.

It's a little shocking how common the groupthink was, and no one dared speak against it, so it's nice to see people speaking freely here.

Agile makes me want to leave software entirely.
> Probably depends a lot on living in the right part of the country / world.

It isn't probably. It's most certainly.

However, your scenario is ideal but not possible for many. Financial literacy and responsibility goes a long way in being able to live without working (one day).
As many equivalently ambiguous examples could be formed with he or she, particularly when there are more than one person of the same gender.

There is ambiguity in all natural language and we work around it quite effectively with either assumed knowledge or phrasing which removes the ambiguity (while often adding other ambiguities which aren't plausible so ignored).

Stallman says himself that he can understand his examples, and a couple aren't even ambiguous. He's adding in hypothetical other people to make them ambiguous.

Stallman has highlighted a problem with English and happened to use singular they as an example. He hasn't highlighted a problem with singular they.
"Golfer born centuries after game's invention wins tournament" would be another great headline.
I had fun thinking about what the different color 'boxes' were e.g. blue boxes, beige boxes etc. I don't think I ever used a blue box, but I messed with payphones and tapped into landlines pretty easily
What can I say? Does a smartphone make me a hypocrite?

You make an extremely valid point, though. What I would actually like (and what seems really hard to find) is a dumb phone with a 4G hotspot and which does not run Android in any way, shape or form.

Any suggestions
I have been using Django for 7 years.

You don't need node.js / npm. (I never have).

If you need more asynchronous processing on the server side then node.js might be worth looking at (though you will need to do server side programming in JavaScript rather than Python. Python is far more pleasant to work with in my opinion).
Django channels however will give you the option of asynchronous server side code (and there are some other options for Python).

If you are at the learning stage I would forget about it for the time being.
You know amazon’s only objective is to sell you goods from their site. No matter what they do and what they say, sooner or later they always will gravitate towards that. So I don’t ever will believe them. Just like I don’t trust google. When times are tough and they have to make a choice the decision is easy for them and their board, it’s never in the user’s favor.
Offtopic but it struck me as strange that the author would choose to use Go for this example instead of chess, which would be much more familiar to people. Almost like a subtle form of intellectual "flexing".
You joke, but there's a ton of web devs who think this way.
To all the other suggestions I'd like to add:

http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
Did people here read the whole thing? This is some good reading! "The whole state would be evacuated" if even one live spider, as opposed to an "ex-spider" were found. That is good stuff! This made my day.
Part of bsdmainutils: https://github.com/pexip/os-bsdmainutils

I believe that, like "fortune", the intent was to provide useful/interesting info on login. The country-specific ones are more useful: https://github.com/pexip/os-bsdmainutils/blob/master/debian/...
yikes!

It's always been surprising to me that their isn't a built in "undo" to `rm`

e.g. why doesn't `rm` just move files to /tmp?
It looks like people are wrapping WebComponents with React, but isn't that the wrong direction? From what I understand, since React's rendering has been abstracted, we'd just need ReactWebComponents instead of ReactDOM, where the rendering engine directly utilizes WebComponents and its native Shadow DOM implementation.
It doesn't matter how easy a particular procedure is on an iPhone or anything else if the person trying to use it is so scared of technology that they don't even try.

I know many people (yes, most of them older) for whom the idea of trying to look at an unfamiliar process on a computer (including smartphones) and see if it's something they can do themselves is just a completely alien idea. If it's not something they're already familiar with, it's Scary Technology Stuff, and they need a Technology Person to handle it for them.
That sounds similar to some of the gender politicking that someone pointed out in Mastodon.[1][2] I'm still not sure at this point if some of those don't just represent some next level trolling.

1: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/7391

2: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/7391#issuecomment...
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A software control prevents your iphone from spying on you, and a software control prevents your echo from spying on you.

In both cases you aren't really sure it's the case, you wouldn't know if it were suddenly disregarded or circumvented, and you're just trusting in the good behavior of your chosen provider.
Dendritic recordings per se aren't novel, but the human brain aspect here is.
Ask HN: What features would a perfect messaging platform have?
It seems today that messaging is extremely fragmented between many popular protocols/services like Whatsapp, SMS, Messenger, WeChat, email, Signal, Snapchat, etc yet there are still many new messaging apps being created everyday to solve legitimate pain points. What features are lacking or missing in these popular offerings that you think would be essential for a one-size-fits-all messaging solution?
Its all about trying to get everybody to do what is PC (sorry I don't know any other word). And blaming them when they resist organizing their own mind and behavior around somebody else's issues.

Blaming folks for not falling in line with a very tiny point is unreasonable. Arguing around it with moralizing and appeals to guilt is manipulative.

That a neat summary in my opinion.
How do you know that it was a brown recluse? I'm not disputing, I'm just wondering if it was assumed based on the injury or if you were able to find the actual spider.
What do you mean by hash? 4chan posts use an incrementing id per board, so if you put >>>/sci/3751197 you have a unique identifier for the post (sci being the board and 3751197 being the post number). For convenience you could link to an archive site as well, but they're known to die every few years.
Because they're typically militant social justice types. Not everyone wants to interact with people under that kind of microscope, it's tiring and life is short.
> in the novel, 1984 you didn't have a choice if you want a televisor in your home, or not.

This makes a lot of sense I recently heard a comparison between Orwell and Huxley that stated that they differed mostly on how they believed control would be taken.

In the case of Orwell, he believed that control could be punished into the population and that they'd comply for fear of being punished again. Though, Skinner had evidence that this wasn't really feasible.

In the case of Huxley, he believed that it could be rewarded into the population to the point where the population would crave it and seek it out.

Feels like Huxley had the right idea. People are paying really good money to buy these spy devices to put into their homes.
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> Samsung told owners of its Galaxy Note 4 phone to install a new version of Google’s Android operating system intended for the more recent Galaxy Note 7, but which rendered the old model sluggish. Likewise, Apple told iPhone 6 owners to install an operating system designed for the iPhone 7, leading to problems for owners of the older mode

A bit of a scary precedent. The 5m fine on Apple for intentionally reducing resource usage to such a large extent without notification seems kinda reasonable. But the 5m fine for both Apple and Samsung for their updates causing slowdown on older devices is a different issue.

If I were a company fearing that suggesting an OS upgrade for an older phone would cause slowdown on that older phone, I am now incentivized to not suggest that update. We might want companies to support old OSs forever or stop adding resource-intensive features or feature gate them or whatever. But short of legislating that specifically, all this does is make old phones even more of a liability than they already were.
Indeed, I also know someone like this and he's pretty much universally regarded as a self-important loudmouth and an idiot.

Sometimes it is better to remain silent and thought a fool, and all that jazz.
> ...constant surveillance of a targeted group will be systematically abused...

I'm interested in how you would define systematic abuse vs. just plain abuse.

Police forces have adopted new technology for many decades now (e.g. radio, high-speed police cars, helicopters with search lights, RDBMSs, body armor, DNA sampling and matching, speed measuring radar, tasers ...) and, while it is probably true that all of these technologies have been abused by the police at times, can we also say that they have been "systematically abused?" What does that mean?
The newer Macbook Pro's (Macbook's as well AFAIK) contain a larger touchpad. Apart from the horrible butterfly keyboard (that was before breadcrumbgate or whatever it was called; the noise alone, horrible!) I ended up mistakenly touch it numerous times and if it sits on your lap I suppose you could end up touching the trackpad mistakenly at that point because it sits very close near the edge (small 'bezel'?).

The Apple Magic Trackpad 2 however is the same size as the trackpad on older MB(P)s, and it has Bluetooth and USB (lightning). You can put it on the left side of your keyboard or laptop if you wish to, just like you'd put your mouse. I cannot compare it to Apple Magic Mouse though; but I can say I had a wired Apple mouse (one button) which I used with a Mac Pro G5. Not my cup.
>I'm entirely sympathetic with his preference for precision when at all possible. One of my great pet peeves in modern usage of language is the lack of precision of usage, which I think leads to a lack of precision of thought and communications that creates bad feeling and wastes time unnecessarily.

I have this same feeling but I also recognize you can be as pedantic as we want to be, or you can be happy and get along with normal humans.
Do you know when this landed and/or if I need a flag to enable it in Node? I'm running Node 11 and get an error when trying to run a function with a SIMD instruction in it.

I hacked up a WAT file with this inside a function body and compiled it with wat2wasm --enable-simd

(local $2 v128)
(set_local $2
(i8x16.splat (i32.const 8))
)

And I get an error "invalid local type" when I try to run it within Node.
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I'd guess the reporting is also biased, there is not much to tell in the cases of people who have won and just lead a stable life afterwards.
Google is making it easier to wipe out your search history
Academia has always been built around the ""authority"" of its references because you can't re-prove everything from the ground up in one paper.
It depends on the scale of the problem. An hour is entirely too long to waste on trying to figure out which API method to accomplish a given task, but not nearly enough to spend on properly architecting a new system.
Why are structured light sensors not used instead of color camera images? Because in sunlight it becomes impossible to see your own projected IR light. So they stop working.

And projecting a 3D 360 degrees point cloud from a LIDAR to a 2D image is weird. Why take that loss when the algorithms can just work on the point cloud.
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He's definitely no bullshit but he's not very good at contextualizing the stuff he writes. Instead of writing "we did X in Y situation and it worked out great, but it probably wouldn't work well in Z situation" he just says "X is awesome, everybody should be doing it".

And that's the story of how I came to work on a team that maintained ~16 unnecessary microservices.
Gee, I wonder if this is really deliberate/by design. Apple and Samsung seem to be legitimately committed to delivering high performance products. And it's great that they're providing software updates -- imagine the flip side, that would be planned obsolescence for sure.

I've worked at places that do performance regression tests and there's usually some small threshold that's tolerated (<1% or something, let's say). The cumulative effect of these might be enough to have significant impact.

But another problem is that they're probably doing more target testing on the new designs than the old designs and they might not notice/care enough about the impact of features on old targets' performance. If they're not maintaining independent software branches for the ease of delivering updates, then they risk introducing performance regressions on old targets.
It's a message board, not a business case.

If you have a long-duration, pre-negotiated contract with carriers, where you are essentially financing the $500 phone cost every 18-30 months via the service plan, the marginal cost is the metric that matters.
It is also great tool to turn oceans into oxygen-free death zones.
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