skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by American and Western interests, you mean the values western society is built on, the answer should be pretty simple: national security is no excuse for secret courts, secret prosecutions and secret rulings. It's also to be expected that this society is going to provide more opportunities for leaks in the first place, as opposed to more totalitarian societies. Not that there isn't sufficient grounds for arguing that distinction has already blurred for the most relevant purposes.

It's also to be expected that WL's every move is scrutinized. But anti-WL action went much, much further, including a complete financial boycott from above. That was years before any allegations of Russian meddling ever entered the picture. The US has openly targeted them for years, but if they hold any grudge about this in return in the form of not pulling punches and maximizing publication impact, it is supposed to reflect badly on them? That seems more than a little unbalanced.

The skepticism only goes one way. WL has a perfect track record in accuracy. Their own story however is regularly misrepresented and misstated. Plus, never forget that it was a Guardian journalist who was dumb enough to leak the crucial password to the full diplomatic archive, in the same book where they admitted to being too dumb to Google how to open a 7zip file. Such their missteps from the traditional press are casually excused in a game of closing ranks that reminds one more of cops than renegades. So much for the enlightened and free press: they needed a bunch of crypto nerds to show them how it is done, after the tech industry stole their collective lunches, and they handed over control of their platforms and income to hordes of shady surveillance capitalists.

The traditional press' warmongering and American mythologizing is also a naked fact. So much that they even held off on the Trump bashing for a while, when he was banging that drum, calling it "presidential".

So who is really using power over whom? Who is using truth for whuch cause, and who is publishing self serving fluff pieces instead? Why should we worry about WL, when the American fish is clearly rotting from the head down, and those who are supposed to stop that are incapable of doing so?
For ML practitioners, how much more/less difficult is this than predicting calorie content/macros from pictures/video of food? Because that seems like the holy grail of “calorie counting” apps, to seamlessly track (within a small margin of error) what your macros for the day are so far, thus helping you make intelligent choices about what to eat & portion size. Especially since those apps are great for sticking to diets, if it weren’t for all the mind-numbing data entry.
I bet you used The Art of Digital Design:

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/pd...

I started with this design for my relay computer, but evolved it to be even simpler: no accumulator.

http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/arch.html
It is safe to say that social media is a young person's drug. There is an addiction factor that they cannot walk away from. The only thing that could displace Facebook is vaping if somehow that were mutually exclusive.
Prosecutors Have Prepared Indictment of Julian Assange, a Filing Reveals
No, you're just misinformed, ignorant, or being disingenuous. There is a large community whom claim this, and I even linked you to the PM of Iceland claiming that he has been conspired agaist. His story is very much contested and debated. Many claim one of the rape victims in fact claimed to have been coerced and subsequently recanted(1).

1-https://medium.com/@helen.buyniski/free-julian-assange-or-yo...
Why do you think no one did? That just says that she didn't.
Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching [pdf]
I was about to say the same. I'm able to login at meta but not the others. Admittedly I haven't paid yet so I thought that might have been the culprit.
The Jetbrains IDEs let you do this pretty easily, at least for Python and Scala (and presumably for Java & Typescript.)
Incorrect. There are no higher peaks than everest, so it's prominence is the same as its summit. Dry prominence would be measured from sea level, wet prominence would be based on the lowest point in the ocean floor.
Overload control for scaling WeChat microservices
I use a curved 40" 4k monitor. It's the same dpi as a 1440p 27" display and has the same real estate for productivity as 4 1080p monitors.

Then when I play games it melts my face off and is fucking incredible.

I really want a good 4k gpu
The concept that masculinity can itself be positive shouldn't be too hard to comprehend either but here we are.

> men have no problems whatsoever speaking their mind in regards to criticising women or feminism

You haven't spent much time in democratic party meetings then.

> The problem is that men who oppose feminism often don't even bother to approach its concepts on their own terms at all.

And at which point do the "real feminists" stop and agree that it's just a fringe group of feminists that have an axe to grind against men?

> ...that's not an attack on men, masculinity in general or on any healthy masculine traits.

Um, it is?

Just look at the framing, claiming that TM "restricts" males. Why is the assumption always that freedom to express is always what people need and will always be a positive outcome?

Humans need structure in life, some more than others. When you try to deconstruct every social norm around a culture you will have a large amount of men who will find themselves lost in a landscape that is actively discouraging them from fitting within the beaten path laid before them.

Maybe the reason men are killing themselves isn't because they don't cry more to their mates but because they are thrown into this modern world that is actively trying to push them towards transcendence of the human condition.
You can buy used ones from someone who has bought it with a prescription.

It can be preferable to going through the "proper channels", since it can take many months to get the machine through the US medical system, and you need to get some goddamn SLEEP.
This is a fascinating paper. It demonstrates how rooted deep learning is in classical mathematics, and how libraries like TensorFlow/Keras/PyTorch/etc. have both helped and hurt its progress. A software developer can build and train a neural network in under an hour with these libraries, with little knowledge of the underlying math. We take for granted that the implementation is optimized. Imagine if the built-in Python sorted function took O(n^3) instead of O(n log n). It wouldn't take long for someone to point out a better approach. There's a huge need for people who excel at math and can program and have time to do open-source.
Starlink wouldn't be in violation of net neutrality, so the comparison with Free Basics isn't the right one.

It will take off if it's better bang for the buck at any market segment. That can be Rs. 100 a month or Rs.2000 a month. If it's better than the alternatives people can get at that price, they'll use it.
Exactly. Going on a tangent here but this is exactly what I tell gun control proponents. Deal with the root cause of the problem and leave gun owners be.
Hotdog or not hotdog
I think it is time to Lean In and do something, like put your customer first.

Honestly, after integrating with your platform 6 years ago, I realized that if you want to post something privately on FB - you just don’t post it.
Weirdly, the nasal pillows don't work for me — my AHI is higher when I use them instead of my nose mask.

Fortunately, the masks/pillows aren't super expensive, so folks can experiment.
Facebook doesn't just come out and offer students contracts. They have to apply and do a phone screen and travel to the office and spend a whole day interviewing. There are so many steps where it's still easy to be opposed but they're doing it anyway.
I think in a lot of cases it’s the only tool for the job. I have a hunch that a significant majority of the machine instructions executed in a given second globally came from C source code, and a large portion of that is running on something “weird”. It’s somewhat funny, “commonly portable” C is portable across the most uncommon C execution environments.
>Would the average joe/jane, given the offer of a "low" 140K salary at a FAANG, turn it down on ethical grounds?

I mean, I'm pretty average but I did that for a tiny bit more money considering equity at a startup. I think it's not an unreasonable assumption to make if your competing offers are similar, which a lot of people in this position do. I don't think there are many people who only get Facebook offers.

The calculus is different for interns though, on account of the massive signing bonus.
A good list, I liked especially the non-western-philosophy-canon sections, the books I hadn't heard of.

A bit more explaining why everyone should read them would be nice - I'm not convinced in many/most cases that everyone should. "Buridan's monumental work is the best introduction to late-medieval Ockhamist nominalism" doesn't go very far in that direction. I don't think most people will get much at all from attempting Spinoza, Hegel, Kant, Sartre, Popper, Frege, Wittgenstein's Tractatus etc. But then, offhand I can't think of a book I'd say "everyone should read".

There's a welcome inclusion of some non-western traditions, but the odd omission of the Chinese classics. I guess those guys - Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu etc - wrote well, so they have readers, not academic interpreters so much. I feel very lucky to have discovered them as a teenager, before getting into western philosophy. And come to think of it, I'd say they're worth reading by 'everyone' much more than almost everything[0] on this list, and are much more enjoyable to read.

[0]The ones I'd heard of, anyway. I look forward to checking out the ones I hadn't.
This sense of simplicity is certainly lacking.

Seems like you should be able to say "new values of y are entered by users, x is the sum of all y, z = 2x, every night text me the value of z" and compile that to a cross-platform native UI + cross-cloud api gateway + serverless function + persistence layer in a few lines of code as an afternoon exercise in an elementary school class, and such a runtime could extend its use cases to a decent portion of the CRUD much of industry toils away at, without having to itself become essentially complex.

There's lots of assumptions in our systems that are counter to simplicity, or simply counterintuitive. People expect things to be declarative (a = 0; b = 2; a = b; What? But a can't be 2 and 0...) persistent and consistent by default (what do you mean I have to save to disk and re-load it every time, why do two people both think they have this same table reserved, wtf is a partition), replicated by default (why can't my database be like google sheets... wait, why can't it BE a google sheet?), safe by default (why is this negative when it only ever goes up... overflow? wtf, why is that even allowed!? Wait, there are special things called bignums... why isn't that just every number all the time?) etc.

It seems lots of production software for humans that operates on human timescales can take the performance hit that these more ergonomic set of assumptions would require and many would be better off for it.

They could be the initial set of assumptions in an academic setting so you don't have to trip over the machine all the time in the early stages. You could then pare back one at a time with exploration of the benefits of the trade-off and cases where they are necessities (e.g. higher txn rates than a synchronous multi-master datastore could handle) so that instruction in the realities of computing come in bite-size and are paired with ample motivation to get over each hurdle (instead of upfront pain followed by latent payoff).

Without scraping the sharp edges of implementation detail, we could focus on design of these things -- both in terms of considering performance or maintenance headaches and in terms of applicability to real-world usage -- so there'd be more commonality between the fiddler who means well "non-coder" type who has unmaintainable SFDC schema or pet spreadsheet hell messes and the annoyed reality won't succumb to his ideal "software engineer" type banging out strongly typed highly normalized models in their ivory tower with no sympathy for end user (and yet also nothing to which they can apply their proud knowledge of algorithms or data structures or machine sympathy).
Yeah and even in browser one can quite easily open the website using facebook.com. No need to search on google for it really.
Can this be used for faster earth mover distance calculation?
Design flaw? No, I think it's called "transparency"
> Evaporation of nondistilled water will leave mineral deposits behind

This is true, but it will take weeks or months, depending on your water quality, and is easily cleaned if you know how.
I would say anything that discourages people from getting basic preventative care is a bad thing even if in your strange world HDHP is somehow closer to 'real' health insurance.

HDHPs as I mentioned encourage people to bet against their own health, that they will never get in an accident, or their body won't decide to crap out on them and so forth. Additionally they defeat the entire purpose of insurance which is that the people at risk are subsidized by the healthier people; if you separate the two pools then the healthy pay marginally less while the unhealthy pay a lot more.

For example, would you consider HDHPs that don't cover vaccines to be a good or a bad thing? It's a routine checkup, yet we've established that in general it's of greater benefit to society if we do get those routine checkups done.
Well that won't work, lampposts don't have faces...

(sorry could not resist)
Speaking personally, two things have kept me from permanently deleting my Facebook account: my contact list, and apps that require FB sign-in.

Facebook's core utility as the web's primary identity provider, and the network effects underlying that position, form a tremendous "economic moat."

The amount of time users spend on Facebook.com and the iOS/Android apps may decline and cut into their revenue, but their core platform isn't going away for a long time.
[Release v1.1.0]A distributed single-sign-on framework
I guess it was somewhat subtle, but my post was intended as a joke.
Two suspicious things about these claims:

1) In Facebook's official response [1], they say

> Our relationship with Definers was well known by the media – not least because they have on several occasions sent out invitations to hundreds of journalists about important press calls on our behalf.

But somehow neither Sheryl Sanders nor Mark Zuckerberg [2] were aware of this "well known" relationship.

2) If Definers' job were really as benign as exposing faux-grassroots criticism, why mask the connection to Facebook by going through then? Why wouldn't Facebook respond directly, as they did to the New York Times exposé?

[1] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/new-york-times-update/

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-says-he-didn...
If you can't figure this out for yourself then god help you.
Thank you for sharing this information. I think I have also read a nice information about this topic at http://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-robo.... We could really sue the caller because of their annoying robocalls, as long as they are legit businesses.
You didn't have to "go there".

But since you did...

Well, it's been whitewashed there, as you might expect for an information source so prominent in the public eye.

I'll be damned if I'm going to try to unpack the enormities contained in the idea of masters awarding slaves cake for the best performances of their own mockery, here on HN, on a thread about FB.

I'll point out that the wikipedia section on "Fancy ladies" opens with a warning that "This section's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia."

These details have only recently escaped the Grey File. I didn't suspect about "Fancy ladies" until I read certain passages in Sam Clemens' uncensored autobiography when it was finally published in 2010. They sure don't teach this stuff in school.

My meta-point stands: should I feed you more details until you see the horrible truth, like some deviant that gets off on violating innocence? Should I keep my mouth shut and look forward to a day when all the nightmares have been forgotten?
She doesn’t address any of the specific facts that investigators found among:

* hiring Republican lobbyists to make a good name for FB

* Sen. Schumer’s apparently personal involvement in protecting FB

* the firing of Alex Stamos, who surfaced Russian Inflirtration

This is just another vapid “we’re sorry, we promise to do better next time” posts. Completely meaningless... does she really think SV will be fooled by this crap?
There was no compulsion to comply since the charges were filed ( under seal ) in New York state and there was no extradition agreement with Afghanistan.

Despite that the Taliban had been in negotiation since 1998 and repeatedly offered to hand Bin Laden over to a third country.

SCR1267 did not authorise military action.

Everything you have written is true, yet misleading.
I worked on an application that transitioned from shareware to licensed way back in 1998. The revenue jumped between 2x and 10x with that transition. I can't imagine it's gotten any better in the intervening years.
I guess that would be survivorship bias? There are at least twice as many people living and "everyone here hates Munich and doesn't want to live there". I even know someone who works in Munich, but lives in Berlin. Jedem das seine ;)
Probably worth revisiting with Q-learning
Oh dear.. I don't know what to believe. Hasn't Facebook reached the whole 'check with legal' thing yet? I mean seriously, I've worked with companies the size of Facebook and vetting vendors/vendor relations was always a thing, especially for touchy matters (large transactions, government relations, government contracts, PR, anything that touches politics, PACs etc..). I find it hard to believe upper management legitimately has total ignorance.
I think the lack of left-right symmetry was the surprising bit.
I can't quote it but i can tell you my two independant sources namely Birgitta Jonsdottir ( former Icelandic MP, and one of the people who noticed it ) and Amelia Andersdotter ( former Swedish member of the european parliament, and my ex partner ). Both are highly accessible so you can get your first hand confirmation yourself.
The atomic bombs were dropped as a result of a dangerous political movement gaining power in Germany. That's the sort of thing people are upset about Facebook enabling now.
If you are looking for a completely framework-agnostic rich text editor, then check CKEditor 5 (https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/). It comes with it's own UI library which you can swap freely with any other UI thanks a to highly decoupled architecture.
Newer developers actively contribute more to open source than veteran developers
(To preempt: I'm not complaining, I have lots of imaginary HN points)

The voting on this is amazing. It's gone from +3 to -2 to 0 and back up and down a few times in just a couple of hours.

It'd be really, really interesting to see the patterns of what else voters are voting for.

I don't think this comment is particularly controversial (it's a direct response, doesn't attempt to interprete the evidence, made it clear the evdidence depends on your starting point etc etc). Notably the only reply at this point at least partially agrees with this post (I think?)

I guess being part of a controversial topic leads to spill-over in voting. I suspect it's particularly pronounced in this case, because Assange's actions have made him vilified by different sides of politics at different times, and so there is always something to hate on?

I find it really fascinating, and I'd love to be able to dig into the data to see what exactly is going on.
It was always about the customers. The users, however...
CRUD mobile apps with Angular 7, React for Angular dev,composition in TypeScript
Do you need Hessians or Jacobians for computing the earth mover distance, then a definite yes. Otherwise, I would doubt it (though I do not know exactly.)
This is bad. Because other countries might take the same approach. What if China, Iran or Russia will start prosecuting US citizens for posts on the Internet that are against their laws? Like critisizing Communist Party? I don't see the difference between US prosecuting Assange and China prosecuting those who, being infinitely malignant, publish illegal, misleading information about Communist Party or Tiananmen square events thus bringing the authority and good name of the Government into contempt.
I didn't ask about users in densely populated areas. Imagine two villagers on opposite sides of the world communicating via Starlink. Would it be cheaper per bit for Starlink to offload the data to the nearest metro area, from where it can travel around the world by fiber, till the closest metro area for the receiver, at which point it gets sent via satellite? In other words, use satellite only as the last mile on each end, not for the backbone.
Bar-Raising as a Principle
> WL essentially can't do that because it releases the source material in essentially raw form.

But they can decline to release certain groups of documents that go contrary to whichever narrative they are trying to build.
You can buy used CPAP/APAP machines from Craigslist or wherever used things are sold. Or so I'm told.

You should do it so your wife can sleep at night instead of hearing your snoring, even if you don't care about being healthy yourself. Sheesh...

There are many, many stubborn guys who refuse to try CPAP machines for years and years, and regret their lost years enormously afterwords. When you get to your sleep doctor, he can tell you what an archetype you are.
Days in seattle
Useful Magento 2 Indexer Commands
>Also when I open up the 'tree' section, each line starts with file permissions in the style of 'ls -la'. Is this b/c the system is fundamentally tied to POSIX? (I've used git with no problem on Windows before - so I don't see why it would be)

Because the file mode is stored in git. The tree view is a representation of the git tree, and the mode is a property stored in the tree.
By far, the best response.
Sublime Text 2 comes to my mind.
This is an entire (delightful) series: https://ngnghm.github.io/index.html

I have often wondered how a hypothetical alien would perceive our computer systems... It's wonderful to see someone has thought about it too (and they made it fun to read about!)
This was a lightbulb moment, and I realized the contradictory stance I have - no oversight on social media but I believe in gun control/regulation.
People and tools.. and what tools are dangerous enough to be regulated, the thing with social media regulation and censorship is that seems so closely tied with free speech and free market enterprise so any oversight is revolting to me, but given the effect fake news has - I realize it can be as dangerous, if not more, than guns.
Argh, I keep reading that (your second sentence) on here. Maybe that's true in the US? It's certainly not true in many countries, at all.
This seems to use only one image of each recipe (unless I'm misreading the code).

That seems to be a pretty big flaw.
> If true, this suggests that previous articles about assange being 'practically free to go', and 'just staying in the embassy for attention' were misinformed.

But those were always false even considering only the overt facts, and without the US issuing an extradition request (which there is still no indication it has, though there is an administrative error that seems to indicate that there is a sealed indictment); depending on the point in his flight from criminal process you examine, he was always either going to face the Swedish extradition request and/or the British bail jumping charges once he wasn't shielded from British authorities.
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