skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the US leveled an entire country

The US didn't level Iraq in fact. The Iraqis leveled Iraq trying to murder each other in a large civil war that the US tried for years to stop (it could have just left instead). The US lost thousands of soldiers and a trillion dollars stepping in-between those factions. The Sunni and Shia in Iraq have hated each other for hundreds of years and immediately began killing each other after Saddam's Government fell. Saddam's 'solution' for that conflict previously was extreme oppression of the majority Shia. The only rational solution is to split the country into pieces; until then the conflict will continue perpetually.

> has been occupying it for almost 20 years

You're inventing that.

The US isn't occupying Iraq and certainly hasn't occupied it for 20 years. The US has single digit thousands of troops in Iraq in mostly supporting roles, at the invitation of the Iraqi Government. It previously left at the request of the Iraqi Government during the Obama Admin.

Please tell me how the US can occupy Iraq with a few thousand soldiers, when it couldn't control Iraq previously with more than a hundred thousand soldiers.

> you think selling the oil is the only way the US has to benefit from the war. The US most of all, like all superpowers before it, wants control of the market.

The US had dramatically more control of the Iraqi oil market before the war, with the ability to raise or lower output at will, using the aggressive sanction regime that was in place against Saddam Hussein's government. If the US wanted more Iraqi oil on the market, all it had to do is relax sanctions or look the other way as countries cheated on the sanctions.

Now Iraqi oil output is heading to new record highs, with the US having very little control over it. In fact, in your theory the US has an incentive to decimate the Iraqi oil industry rather than see it thrive. The US is the world's largest oil producer and has the most to gain from that. Projections are for US oil production to climb to 15-18 million barrels per day, far beyond Saudi and Russia, over the coming decade. It would be a large benefit to US oil producers - keeping prices up - to not have Iraq producing so much oil over that time.

The post Saddam ten year era in Iraq - the occupation - was about nation building, a foolish exercise of a superpower. The same is true about trying to prop up the Afghanistan Government vs the Taliban (a nearly impossible task). The US has vaporized a trillion dollars in Afghanistan, there is no way that can ever be recouped. The US had prior success with nation building in Europe and Asia and ignorantly believed it could accomplish a positive outcome in the Middle East.
Fair enough, but the other statement I still stand by: I don't think that deal would've been signed off on regardless. My impression from working here is that pretty much any use of any data goes through a fairly rigorous review process. I'm sure there was a point in time when that wasn't the case, but today it sure seems to be.
Agreed. There are multiple parts of this book where I actually felt frustrated with the author I disagreed with them so much, but I still consider it to be one of the best web typography books I've ever read.

Highly, highly recommended.
> The assumption is that in a fair game, American's will find a way to win

Devil's advocate: the only disadvantage of US companies in China is FCPA.

Google failed in China because Kaifulee can not gift one iPad to a high rank communist party official. iPad were considered luxury at that time. Every other competitors do.

In other industries, some European joint adventures do govn't lobbying and media manipulation. Since media is controlled by the Chinese govn't, you must have "connections" or "guanxi" to pull things off.

If US can have exemption allowing companies have "convenient" business strategies in China, Chinese govn't and domestic copycats do not stand a chance.
Indian here, who loves to cook.

I do not know the book the GP mentions about, but the best cookbooks happen to be in languages of the region of India, where the food is consumed. If you can find the English translations of these, that is your best bet. The other option is to buy regionally produced (often no photos, poor print) english books. You need to roll with the ingredients being called as-is, and need to repurpose it.

One such popular book, which has been in print for 65 years, is called "Samaithu Paar" (Loosely "Try to cook"). The original book was in Tamil, but Penguin has published an extract of sorts in English - https://penguin.co.in/book/non-fiction/the-best-of-samaithu-...

On the second school of "poorly produced, but in English" variety, at least for South Indian cooking, I suggest the books of Mallika Badrinath. https://www.amazon.in/Books-MALLIKA-BADRINATH/s?ie=UTF8&page...

Having read a few "award winning" Indian cookbooks, they are largely food-porn variety of books, and I find them bulky and of little use.
I really love this and would want to use it. However, how do I make sure your service would be around years from now? Any tips for people in the same boat as me who hesitate to put in a lot of efforts in something if there is a risk that it could be all for nothing?
One can also save the QR codes and or secret keys at enrollment in password managers for future proofing the totp auth codes against phone loss.
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Midnight Commander (mc);

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git;

tmux;
I don’t see any reason this wouldnt be possible, you’d just have an attribute whitelist for each tag; the biggest headache would be that you can’t really implement it incrementally since it’d be a whitelist: at best some tags turned on, others off, for attr validation

And I imagine its quite a bit more work than just the tags
You know what the really stupid thing is? Looking at the attack surfaces and data values and compromise histories, and having been inside Google to see how it treats PII and been inside a cloud EMR provider to see how it treated PHI, I'd move my data out of that EMR and into Google in a heartbeat. If you're saying that Google would need to learn about a brand new truckload of paperwork, sure. But HIPAA is neither necessary nor sufficient for privacy or security.
...but the result is emblematic.
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Not everyone wants to be a "hacker" as you put it. Some people just want a safe career and to make good money. Nothing wrong with that.
I have a EC2 instance who's main purpose is to run a screen session. I ssh to my EC2, and load that screen. I have every server I manage in it's own "window" inside this screen. I run screen on each of these machines, so I can hop between inner and outer screens.

The main screen instance is started with:

screen -S outer_screen

I then create a screen session for that EC2 with

screen -S inner_screen

I pop open new screens with this handy command:

screen -S outer_screen -X screen -t newmachine ssh user@newserver.example.com
>So we get an array of problems: we are all, in a way, paying for the party: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz.... Already prestigious schools like Hopkins compete primarily to raise their own prestige, rather than improve access. Why do most such schools admit fewer students per capita than they did in 1950? Why are they so interested in discriminatory children-of-alumni admissions?

Thanks for raising these issues, as a well-evidenced contrast to the "usual" complaint that our society provides too much access to higher education.

I largely agree with your analysis. The question isn't too much or too little. It's: who gets how much of what? If some students are deprived of vocational opportunities while others are stuck in understaffed, lower-tier institutions than their abilities warrant, society is leaving productivity and human well-being on the table in both cases.
Horn speakers are afaik among the most efficient, and they have designs compactly enclosed in boxes, essentially folded horns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_loudspeaker#Exponential
This reminds me of XSLT. What are the benefits of this over that?
Amazon.cn is doing online retail business but it not successful by any means.
It's crazy to me that big Tech Cos keep building massive offices and don't mind that there's not enough housing built to match. Those rent/housing prices drive up the wages they have to pay.
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The actual quote from Linus is

> "Its a complicated world and the only way to deal with complexity is the open exchange of ideas."

I'm not sure that the title can be derived from that. Also, in many publications the "quotes" are not 100% textual quotes, so don't even believe in the them.
Just a note, C++ Builder, Delphi and it's open source counterpart - Lazarus (cross-platform) are still here and involving.
When your apm dips under 100 though, it probably won’t be as fun. Think chess blitz matches
> So likewise, Facebook's choices in how it presented content (giving equal weight to the NYTimes and fake news generated for profit in North Macedonia) and mechanisms for maximizing likes, views, and engagement, allowed lies and nonsense to blossom on its platforms.

Isn't that the default choice everywhere? On HN links from NYT and trash sites look the same. On Youtube videos from ABC and conspiracy theorists look the same.
I might have missed something from the news, but what does "did not hesitate to commoditize disinformation and propaganda" mean? Did Facebook do something other than just allow users to post content, just like Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, or any other social media website?
Regarding the similarity function used: I haven't studied it myself, but read this a long time ago:

http://www.benfrederickson.com/distance-metrics/
Meditation teaches key skills like mindfulness, self awareness, radical acceptance, emotion regulation, patience, discipline, and more.

Headspace is a great app to get started because they walk you through and teach you the skills slowly but surely. You can also skip around to what you need most after you learn the basics.
It’s already happening. My parents regularly deal with days long outages with PSTN service. Hell, in the middle of Albany, NY Verizon landlines were broken for 1-6 weeks due to some legacy hardware failure.

The companies want to replace the copper with wireless service because the regulatory environment is more profitable, even though they sell fully depreciated copper at $40/mo.
This looks to me like you got hung up on one specific word and ignored the substantive point being made.
It's absolutely astonishing to me how bad these books are. Not simply the weak plot, two-dimensional characters, and cliched writing, but grammatical and punctuation errors, continuity errors and logical mistakes.

I really don't think I'm a snob or a pedant. I happily read cliche-drenched hard science fiction and horror. I don't think it's too much to ask for subject-verb agreement and proper punctuation. I don't think it's to much to remember what kind of vehicle the characters are traveling in within the same paragraph.

I suppose it bothers me because when a writer has that little respect for their own work, I feel like I've been scammed. I've been sold a product the manufacturer knows is defective and can't be bothered to fix.
In each of the teir 1 companies minus Amazon and Facebook you’ll get that and more. Most large t2 companies give all those benefits as well, just with less RSUs and free stock bonuses.
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I don't follow this line of reasoning. It's his money, not taxpayer money. If he simply held on to the money, he would not owe additional tax on it either.

Perhaps it will eliminate his personal tax bill for 2018, but his yearly income is far less than $1.8B, and his tax bill is only a portion of his yearly income... the tax implications of this gift are only a small portion of the amount.
Do you have any tips for finding a meditation group or retreat recommendations?

Would a yoga class count as meditation?
> So if A0 wasn't built to access them, but stockfish did in the match, then that would be an unfair advantage.

Why is that an unfair advantage? AlphaZero developers wanted to prove that their AI was better than Stockfish.

They failed to do that. If AlphaZero wasn't built to access Tablebases, then they should have built it to access tablebases. Don't unfairly gimp Stockfish because you're lazy at programming.
That's an inflammatory statement that offers nothing productive. There's no political party against science, and there's just as much non-scientific dogmatic content from both ends of the spectrum.
This is addressed in the article to which the posted one links: http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-...

> But there’s a limit to how loud a sound can get. At some point, the fluctuations in air pressure are so large that the low pressure regions hit zero pressure—a vacuum—and you can’t get any lower than that. This limit happens to be about 194 decibels for a sound in Earth’s atmosphere. Any louder, and the sound is no longer just passing through the air, it’s actually pushing the air along with it, creating a pressurized burst of moving air known as a shock wave.
> Remember that if stockfish uses tablebases and opening books it's really "cheating" by using human knowledge.

I thought the "point" of AlphaZero was that it was better than the sum of human knowledge.

By the way: tablebases are computer generated. There is no human alive who knows all combinations of 6-piece endgames. Tablebases are brute-forced endgames, created by computers to be used by computers.

Stockfish itself was only really designed to play the midgame. Its designed to be used with both tablebases and opening databases.

> It was not RAM but just the hashtable size also their "test" has been replicated by plenty of people.

Citations please. I'd love to see a "proper" test of AlphaZero vs Stockfish.
Inane bureaucracy and primadonna users make change difficult.

Doctors can’t be bothered doing anything differently, and they often don’t work for the place they are providing service at, and don’t have reliable access to email.

As doctors get swallowed up by medical networks/cartels, fax will shift to EMRs and patient portals that will leave you wishing for a fax machine.
The History, Controversy, and Evolution of the Goto Statement [pdf]
You can estimate pretty well even on average hardware by keeping the same 875x ratio using time odds. However, what is a fair comparison to either side depends on who you ask.
This is an excellent article from Scientific American about a proposed mechanism for the End-Permian mass extinction, the largest in Earth's history. The author describes how deoxygenation of the oceans may have allowed hydrogen sulphide, produced by anaerobic bacteria, to spread through the ocean and atmosphere, suffocating oxygen-breathing life and also compromising the ozone layer.

The whole article is thought provoking, but in particular the illustration on page 6 is not to be missed.

In the context of people asking what the worst case for global warming is, this is always what comes to my mind, rather than sea level rise or polar bears. The proposed mechanism is deoxygenation of the oceans due to rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, in turn caused by extreme volcanic activity.
If you check the article again, it addresses this: the desk is stocked from donor companies in the Senator's district because it has to be, due to Senate gift rules.
The problem is HIPAA doesn't allow one to share data without a reason - in fact it's only to be ACCESSED with a reason even by those with privileges to do so. I would trust Google to keep data safe, but brazenly asking for data without a defined use case is in blatant disregard for the regulations we operate under.
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The underlying fact is that everything is subjective and trying to enumerate every possible situation that someone may react to is impossible. Why is it not the responsibility of the individual to learn more about the movie by checking the ratings and synopsis?

Can you explain what exactly a trigger warning would even contain that somehow helps here? It seems that if a single movie can unwind a "years worth of progress" then the situation is rather critical and movies are the least of your concerns. How do you label everyday life with such warnings?
That's funny because I probably spend more than an h/day on HN sometimes, and I wonder if it's equally as pointless or even worse than FB. At least on FB I can keep in touch with people in real life, on HN I get to participate in semantic arguments with strangers.
When I was younger we used to go to these warehouse parties in the industrial zones of the city. Nobody was anywhere around after 8 so it was pretty much a free for all.

Anyway they would set up these massive speakers and absolutely blast the music. There was one guy who would occasionally show up, tripping hard on god knows what, and dance with his head pretty much buried in the cone of an 18" driver. I mean like non-stop for 5 or so hours.

As we got to know more of the regulars we learned that he was deaf, and by doing that he could feel the music and all it's intricacies running through his body. Always made me smile after learning that. Never got to meet him though, because he was always, well, way off in space so to speak.
Just about everything that Americans and Europeans were sold on about China, when it came to their entry into the WTO and acceptance on the global stage, has turned out to be a lie.

Not only has there been zero democratization, it has gone rapidly backwards during the Xi era. Nearly all human rights - the few that had been tangibly acquired post Deng - have been revoked in China. In the decade prior to Xi there was actually some limited freedom of speech occuring online, that is mostly gone at this point. They've cracked down on pretty much everyone and everything, even disappearing Marxist students protesting for better worker protections recently.

It was a very foolish premise by the West, to think that all nations want the same things culturally. That you can prod and shape the direction of nations/cultures in such a manner.
On decent systems, "Warning"[0] will hit the resonant frequency of most residential spaces.

0) https://www.google.com/search?q=an-ten-nae+warning&ie=utf-8&...
Data science is about drawing conclusions from data, not the size of it. Most data science happens on datasets numbered in the hundreds rather than those in the millions.
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A large function of a college degree is simply getting past the Baby Boomer gatekeepers that own your future job.
Not with your low APM :)
"But please lets look at the facts. [...] They fired Stamos"

They didn't fire Stamos.
Check out: https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-command-line-apps

You’ll be sure to find something useful.
/r/chess on reddit has been good at finding and linking useful commentary.

For example, here's a good move-by-move analysis of game 6, including (around the 33-minute mark) an explanation of the "missed" win:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzaG0Ia_fs

And tl;dr for those not following the match: a chess engine analyzing the game found a line Caruana could have used to force a win in game 6 (the actual result was a draw), but it required making such an unnatural and normally bad move (trapping his own knight in a corner) for a relatively distant payoff that commentators pretty much all agree no human would ever have spotted or played it in a live game.

Here's Garry Kasparov, for example:

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1063576827850096640

But had Caruana played the incredible 69.Bd5 Ne2 70.Bf3 Ng1!! they would request metal detectors immediately! No human can willingly trap his own knight like that.
A classic humblebrag. I shall post on reddit.
"And I am not sure hard pivots are good for anyone"

Except, it was good for Slack and its investors and all of its users. Slack is oddly acknowledged in the first paragraph and then quickly forgotten about. There's a good "Masters of Scale" podcast about the Slack pivot and the Flickr pivot (which was also a hard pivot).
They could buy it themselves... I am sure they can afford it.
Exactly! That was my point.
If a even a small fraction of the effort spent on trying and failing to cope with the realities of degenerative aging was spent on the current crop of plausible approaches to build medical biotechnologies that can reverse degenerative aging, then the world would be a much better place.

Aging has an monstrously high economic cost, and is probably the only area of medicine in which the ratio of that cost to the amount spent on R&D to try to reduce that cost is vanishingly small.
The confusion in this thread about the old PTO vs new unlimited PTO makes me wonder if the next generation will even know what was lost. For anyone still confused, the old PTO is basically extra pay with strict conditions on how it can be used. For example, under the old PTO, if an employer gave 4 weeks vacation, then if the employee quits after one year, they get the 4 weeks in cash value, it's like another month of salary. In the new unlimited PTO system, the employee gets nothing. Unlimited PTO is a downgrade for employees. The theoretical benefit of unlimited vacation often ends up with less vacation taken than before because there's no strong policy an employee can use to argue for taking vacation. Previously, since there's often a cap on vacation days, an employee could easily argue they need to take vacation or they are losing money. Now they have to beg management and they have no strong position. It's issues like this and others such as non-competes that really shows the need for either a union or association like lawyers and doctors have.
Perhaps this is the goal.

Locating the offices in areas with high housing costs is an effective way to discriminate against people with families. Such people might not want to dedicate life fully to the company. Getting people to live in apartments means that there is no gardening or home repair to do, so one might as well head in to the office and do some more work.
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Your comment made me think of the Bournville model village that Cadbury's built for their workers in Victorian times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournville
For the OP to have returned the book, the vendor must have accepted the book for returns.

By providing a returns policy, the vendor is presumably able to generate increased trust and provide sufficient value by doing so, as a customer may not have made the purchase at all without a returns policy.
>>> Also, it makes no sense for a college to have to pay for campus police. Who came up with this nonsense idea?

Who should pay for police services on a college campus? I live in the shadow of a big ten university with the population of a small city and a huge number of public events including home football games. They college pays no property taxes. Paying for campus police, ultimately out of the state budget, is a way to cover the cost of that service, which has to come from somewhere. A community of that size needs a certain amount of police service.
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