skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities don't have to be loud. My neighborhood in Tokyo is the one of the quietest I've ever lived in but minutes from places that are denser than literally anywhere in the United States. Not having giant streets, as well as nuisance zoning [1] pretty much solves that problem.

[1] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
Yes that was my point. Just move to Swedens largest city, Stockholm, and cost of living goes up significantly. But nowhere near the 200k/year salary range.

Yet here I have what is called the Øresund region, with Copenhagen across the bridge. So I still much prefer to live down here.
which is ? People make mistakes ? People are unperfect and need to improve ?

i don’t see any other common point among all those examples, and the talk didn’t give me any either...
Fascinating about that history is how splitting up standard oil was lucrative for rockefeller, as the combined income of the smaller companies was larger than of the single monopolist. If more of these acquisitions occurred as mere ownership of competing entities instead of trying to roll them all into a single business the overall profit for the shareholders would probably be higher, since the competitors would capture more of the potential market.
Actually - someone did make me get circumcised. I was forcibly circumcised as an infant
Is that ability so bad? In real life, people can refuse to socialize with you too. That is current state through. It is possible now and was for ages.

What is not possible (except for those with blue tick) is to block accounts with few followers or new accounts etc. So it is easy to create swarm of accounts even after being blocked.
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I really enjoyed the talk and it was very relevant thanks. But the speakers vision is almost improbable in my opinion. Not because it's not possible but because the target consumers won't bother for it. Majority of population are already out of touch of their senses with how they use technology. Kinda like how the VR is now marketed, even though the initial ideas blew everyone's minds.
Research: When getting fired is good for your career
This becomes especially apparent when you're in a country with a different language and alphabet (Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, etc). Even if the device successfully pronounces it, you can't look for it on street signs.
"cursed with your original nationality?"

Just out of curiosity, where were you born?
Er.. that's exactly what he said in the post you replied to.
> On the other hand, it no longer takes months to travel West and half your family generally doesn't die of dysentery on the way there.

And yet the state of modern air travel is such that it's a still a toss-up which is worse.
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I am a Data Scientist and Computer Scientist looking for a Graduate Program to get a PhD in Machine Learning, or any job that allow me to get a PhD.

If it is possible I would like to contribute to open source projects and in project for social good.
Reddit is blocked by most if not all major ISPs in Indonesia, which breaks the site without the use of a proxy.

Maybe scrape Reddit server-side? I’m not too sure if that would work but just a suggestion.

I really like the idea, though.
backlit screen. I heard of e-ink for the first time from you
It is one part lack of perspective and one part revolting against the establishment. We live in times of peace, prosperity and human rights thanks to US indoctrination and global military umbrella.
The FuzzyLog: a partially ordered shared log
Just got the electricity bill. I am mining at home. The electricity company told me that my electricity is about two thirds renewable energy and one fifth nuclear, the rest (exactly 8.2%) is unidentified, perhaps fossil energy. This energy is not cheap, on average 28 cents/kWh, but should I ever reach ROI on the mining appliance, I still have a net gain. If difficulty still rises, I will switch to mining at night only (20 cents/kWh), and even later I will need to speculate on rising prices to justify continuing mining.

It's a hobby, probably not profitable in the end. But hey, FOMO.
Meh, trump administration removed anything regarding transgender people on government websites as well. I think someone with deep pockets has something against anything that makes a generation question anything. Either that or people really have messed up priorities where funding should be cut. It’s not like either of the two impacts the budget. What a meaningless democracy if everything can just be undone after one election.
The legal system cannot help at this stage. I have met this guy http://www.oldsquare.co.uk/our-people/profile/james-chegwidd... who successfully defended two boys’ right to choose in the UK (this was only made possible because their mother DIDN’T want them circumcised and their dad did).

There is no legal basis for circumcision but unfortunately the law cannot help in this case as it reflects public opinion.

Check this out written by the author of this article
https://youtu.be/sQQTIpBWqvY

I am considering retraining from software engineering into health policy to combat non-therapeutic infant circumcision in the UK
Open Identity Plafrom: Access management, directory services and so on
This is fine for turn by turn navigation though. All that text would just be a distraction when you're driving or riding.
This article smacks of confirmation bias

All the neanderthals who didn't die are still here w/ intact teeth
Summary of the article: "Why do we need screwdrivers? I have a hammer, and everything looks like a nail to me!"

There is also the added irony of discussing this article on a site that follow the exact opposite of what the article says is the one true solution for the future of web development.
This one weird trick turns your Google Home Hub into a doorstop
Right? Pure content. I'm saving it as inspiration.
> That's such a strange thing to say - isn't that a very reasonable expectation? Even in the outside world, the expectation is that you won't be dealing with assholes every minute of your life when you participate somewhere.

That depends, I can't go into a ghetto area or a bar and say what ever I want and not expect people to react, regardless of how right I may be. I'm sure that this is an unpopular opinion but posting on Twitter is actively seeking out the ass holes and loud idiots.
It's not deceptive because they show you the picture first. They have the most beautiful high resolution product photography that leaves any potential buyer in no doubt about the bezel proportions. There is absolutely no opportunity for deception to occur, unless the buyer is a complete fucking idiot who thinks the real thing is going to be better than the photographs because they also read a few words of marketing hyperbole.
No, I'm saying people selling something as "AI" doesn't mean:

a) it'll work,

b) it's actually any sort of AI,

and that, for example, even reputable companies like IBM can peddle all kind of shit as AI.

So, IBM was used as an example of a common practice, not as some logical axiom that "because they did it, nothing AI will ever work". Example != logical necessity.

It does, however cast doubt, especially for such a thorny problem as "lie detection", that nobody has, thus far, solved.
Xi Jinping urges China to use artificial intelligence in race for tech future
I'm a bit unclear on the criminal penalties section. (I'm using the draft linked in joatmon-snoo's comment)

There is an annual report that the company must file with the FTC. That report must be accompanied by a written statement from the CEO, the chief privacy officer, and the chief information security officer certifying that the report fully complies with section 5(a) of the Consumer Data Protection Act.

The criminal penalties for those three officers arises if they so certify the report knowing that the report does not comply.

What confuses me is that there are two levels of possible penalties.

The first level is if one of those officers "certifies any statement as set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of this section knowing that the annual report accompanying the statement does not comport with all the requirements set forth in this section".

That can subject them to up $1 million or 5% of their largest annual compensation of the past 3 years (whichever is bigger) and/or up to 10 years in jail.

The second level ups those limits to $5 million, 25%, and 20 years. The conditions for the second are word for word the same as the first level except the word "intentionally" is inserted before "certifies" so it becomes "intentionally certifies any statement..." instead of "certifies any statement...".

I'm having trouble seeing how an officer could run afoul of the first without running afoul of the second. How do you certify the report without intentionally certifying it?

At first I thought the distinction was going to be whether or not the officer knew the report was bad, but no, both cases require that the officer knows that the report is bad. The lower penalties are for certifying a report you know is bad. The higher penalties are for intentionally certifying a report you know is bad, so the distinction is whether or not the certification is intentional.
Have a look at OpenStreetMap :D
Have a zero tolerance policy on
relationships between colleagues.

Here is an interesting though experiment: Remove all humans from this planet who are the direct or indirect descendent of a couple whose relationship started at work.

Conjecture: the planet would be depopulated.
Original post title: AI in China: Xi Jinping and 25-member policymaking body Politburo have a “group study” session about AI

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Xi said China must develop its own AI technology, saying it was important for economic development, social progress and global geopolitics.

“AI is a vital driving force for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and accelerating AI development is a strategic issue to decide whether we can grasp opportunities,” Xi was quoted by Xinhua as saying.

Xi said China must ensure that it “occupies the high ground of AI core technology” and could firmly keep the technology in its hands by leveraging “China’s massive data and huge market potential”.

He said the country should use AI to upgrade its manufacturing, adding that it could be used in China’s pursuit of a leaner and greener way of economic development.

Xi also encouraged government agencies to adopt AI.

“We need to enhance the combination of AI and social governance and develop AI systems for government services and decision-making,” Xi said, adding that public security was one field in which it could be used “in depth”.
Yes, when your app is a highly interactive SPA it makes sense to do everything on the client and ignore server side rendering. But when you are just building simple dynamic admin/crm-style sites with some extra interactiveness sprinkled on top I still reach for my trusted Thymeleaf in Java or ERB in rails.

Thymeleaf and ERB are a lot more than "just string interpolation". Thymeleaf even uses valid xml attributes so it's not a completely different language.

My pages load and paint fast. Most pages don't need all that interactivity. In most projects I have 1 or 2 pages that are interaction-heavy and for those I usually shell out to Vue, and have my server-side templating inject the source JSON in the <script> tag so an extra request for fetching the data is not necessary.
This is the worst class of managers I have ever experiences: engineering managers with little dev experience. They rose quickly and became managers fairly early on in their career. They got excited by the opportunity, but then realised early on that they mostly attend meetings and write e-mails.

They miss coding, so they try and code between meetings, but without knowing our engineering practices, code reviews, agile methodology, ...
My scout leader always taught me "never navigate by woods". The reason? It doesn't take long to chop down a forest and invalidate your assumptions.

I remember taking part in 2-day team orienteering competition. We had walked very accurately on a bearing to where the checkpoint should be, but it wasn't there. My friend had taken the bearing on the corner of a wooded area. Looking more closely at the wooded area, we could see a large area of tree stumps next to it...

(We reorientated ourselves, found the checkpoint, and came second in the competition.)
I don't care directly about chromosomes, they are put an extremely
good proxy for one's reproductive abilities, hence an extremely good
biological correlate for sex (i.e. reproductive role).

I care about fertility, because reproduction is more-or-less the
single most important duty every human has. It is also difficult a
space to navigage, therefore all indicators and heuristics that help
me appreciate his/her sex efficiently, makes navigating this difficult
space much easier, hence is a friendly gesture.

Here is an interesting question for you to ponder: Why do basic facts about human biology upset you so much, so much so in fact, that you use the act of procreation as an expletive?
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What's the best starting point in your opinion to get "into it"?
This article is self-defeating based on its own content and the experience I have developed over the last 20 years.

I beg the author to deal with a typical real world application. Not low scope startup stuff but the thousands of 500+ endpoint typical enterprise stuff that 80% of the market actually comprises. This does scale out to the startup and web stuff as well.

This approach introduces a lot more pain from experience:

1. Having to maintain and upgrade SPA type frameworks is hell and you have to do that sometimes (think Angular upgrade hell). Can't afford to start again every 5 years.

2. The performance, and the article actually states it, is shitty at the best of times. All it takes is one client running mandatory IE11 on Citrix and you lose a customer.

3. Most of the complexity is hard complexity that has to be there to process rules. Rules are way more complex than you want to run on a client in some cases.

4. They are incredibly difficult to test. Go try testing a big SPA with selenium for example.

5. Security boundaries are terribly difficult to enforce when half of your application isn't inside your control.

Having done desktop development for a number of years, the worst turds I've seen are in that space and the SPA brings them all to the web which is one of the most hacked up evolutionary disasters we have ever created.

Really our responsibility as engineers, architects, developers is to give the user the best experience and that means the fastest and most reliable one. SPAs are neither. KISS is a mentality we should be using and I can build a better user experience without SPAs.

Greg Navis knows what he's talking about.
> It should be a button to downvote content that doesn't contribute to the discussion, or is spam, or morally bankrupt.

I am not sure it's a viable approach. If we think a comment shouldn't be there in the first place, reporting it should be the way to go.

Then I think a lot of people have very loose definitions of 'morally bankrupt', in that from their POV people in their right mind shouldn't be disagreeing with them.

All in all having the upvote/downvote button as "push up"/"push down" button seem sensible to me. If the platform owner wishes people get more exposed to controversial ideas, they can tweak the effect of downvotes or adjust the thresholds of what is highlighted or pushed to users.
I recommend the 6502[1] if you're just starting. What you learn applies almost everywhere, and it's very much a what-you-write-is-what-happens sort of processor. No branch prediction, no caches, no fancy features. Its op-set is very small and highly expressive. They still make them, in fact.

That said, whether you choose to start with it or RISC-V, from personal experience SiFive's implementations are phenomenal. I used one of their free-implementations, and I was blown away by how easy it was to use their automated tools to build a core exactly the way I wanted. Not as easy as generating a NIOS core, but much more capable. With an Artix-7, I had a very capable low-range processor in about an hour.

[1]: https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
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This is an idiotic article. Read carefully before you decide what you think.

1. Scroll anonymously reposted a poorly-written article from DNA. (First link in first sentence)

2. Look at the facts quoted in the article. "Banks know that Microsoft MIGHT be sharing". (emphasis mine) What does the title say? It doesn't say what the banks say. Banks know that it COULD happen under some circumstances. The article title omits any sense of uncertainty and says it definitely already has happened. Those are different.

3. The article quotes a number of 3,036 requests for "Indian customers in the US" which means NOT PEOPLE IN INDIA. And certainly not customers of RBI in India (which the article would have you believe). Indian nationals living in the US have a different expectation with respect to US law enforcement.

4. Microsoft has issued a strong and clear rebuttal.https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/setting-the-record-straight...

This was wild conjecture, un-sourced anonymous writing, and it was poorly fact-checked. It looks like the author saw a single document that they didn't understand. Then they wrote a bunch of conspiracy theory bogey-man nonsense that has nothing to do with the document they saw.
I like how person mentioning a practice of downvoting for unpopular opinions got downvoted for unpopular opinion
Longshot Systems | Multiple Roles | Marylebone, London, UK | ONSITE | Full time

At Longshot Systems Ltd we're a small startup building advanced platforms for sports betting analytics and trading. Having developed a lot of our core platform infrastructure we are looking to begin expanding our trading strategy development activity.

1) Senior Machine Learning Engineer | £80k+ (https://longshot-systems-ltd.workable.com/j/529141E6D2). You'd be turning prototype trading models into production-ready systems, designing and building the tooling & frameworks to support strategy research and development as well as architecting the high-level design of the strategy software to minimise trading latency and scale effectively. Our ML stack is Numpy/Scipy based and communicates with our core infrastructure, written in Golang, by RPC. The ideal candidate will have a strong software engineering background, with broad experience across a range of topics related to general high performance computing such as multi-threading, networking, profiling and optimisation.

2) Senior Machine Learning Researcher | £80k+ (https://longshot-systems-ltd.workable.com/j/23F31D6A82) You'd be designing, testing and implementing new high frequency sports betting strategies based on machine learning models. If you're the kind of person who enjoys knocking up a prototype model based on something you read the other day in a research paper you'll enjoy our working environment; you'll have a high level of autonomy to research whichever methods you felt would be best suited to the problem at hand. A strong mathematical understanding of the fundamentals of Machine Learning is very important for this role and ideally you'll have experience in doing research on cutting-edge models either in industry or academia.

Website: https://www.longshotsystems.co.uk
Responses to the Dreaded Sales Objection “It Costs Too Much”
The real question is how do you get programmers to not write sql injection vulnerabilities. And IT to apply critical updates. And a data scientist to not leave and unprotected mongodb or s3 around. Or a programmer to not set up a default password. Or someone with admin access to not click on random links and check the domain before they enter credentials. Gross incompetence is the root cause of the vast majority of data leaks.
"popular figure" -> "public figure"... is probably more correct these days.
As someone who lived in China for many years, I can say that while the people are generally nice (which is true for every country), the government is the definition of evil. The fact that you don't see innocent people thrown in concentration camps because of their race, or people having their organs harvested, etc. doesn't mean it isn't happening. In fact, by living in China you're less likely to understand what's happening because the government aggressively censor anything they disagree with, rewrite history, and silence those who dare to speak up.

What I, as a foreigner, did experience in China was me being denied by 9 out of 10 non-4-5 star hotels, landlords refusing to let me rent there, even call my Chinese friend to inform him that foreigners are not allowed in the building when I borrowed the place during Spring festival. I've also experienced my weixin posts being shadowbanned, I've known two people who got deported (one simply because she refused to sleep with the disgusting visa officer). There's no process of appeal. You can try to go to court but they'll always side with their own, and if your visa gets denied then they are under no obligation to tell you why or for how long. While it's possible to enjoy life in China and live there for many years without issues, one day it will all come crumbling down.. it doesn't matter if you study at the best university, or work for a top company, or have millions invested in the country. The fact that they can so casually kidnap the interpol president, or their most famous movie star, should tell you that normal people, whether foreign or Chinese, doesn't stand a chance, and it's only a matter of time before the social credit system ends up affecting you and other people who choose to live in a bubble.
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The easter egg that I love is the actual, physical reference to the Spaceballs movie.

https://cdn.instructables.com/ORIG/FYX/9FR4/JNULHKMJ/FYX9FR4...
Echo chambers are a problem, at the same time, communication across levels of closeness are different.

This is what Twitter needs to get right.

A tweet from a friend is different from a tweet from a famous person. Conversations happen differently. (And it seems they have some different behaviours for these tweets)

Killing the like button won't help.

Taking abuse/harassement more seriously helps, especially things like the obvious targeted DM harassement in the article.
I am not a lawyer but checking out some sources it looks like you’re not allowed to do that. Relevant law should be law 110/75 article 4.
I’m not too sure what you’re talking about but the article is about this confusion.
But it is not your thread. It is Theirs. If someone doesn't want to talk to you, that is their choice, and you should leave and talk to a different person.

I don't continue talking to people who don't want to talk to me.
The mind hack aspect was important for the transition from the pensions and ad-hoc systems that came before them. Now that superannuation has near-universal support, any employers (like yours) which engineer an un-hack to the system aren't going to tear down the social license for super.
Redefinition of the kilogram unit