skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
glad you like it. :) As expected, progress is slow these days but you can see my most recent work on my twitter account if you dig through my RTs.
> The only people not motivated solely by money are those who used the very tactics that are in question to amass enough not to care... Or simply have no stake in it, Or have a stake in a competing company.

What an absurdly preposterous thing to say. Money is a motivator and a large one for many, many people, but it's ridiculous to call it the sole motivator for everyone.
as one of the few native english speakers in my grad lab this was definitely a job of mine.
You could look up videos on YouTube of police deploying an AMRAP to an area with an active shooter (a shooter with military-grade rifles and armor) and using it for cover. That's how they save lives.
> really what it will do is give advantaged people even more advantage.

Small quibble: it will persist the existing advantage through the offer stage. Then income differentials could/would apply. The blind approach is not a guaranteed proximate cause towards increasing bias, but rather an entrenchment of existing bias.

But, agree that amplification begins shortly after point of offer.
Two easy ways to encourage foreign talent. Put huge investments into English training within the country. Or as they could. Put huge investments into a far simpler language such as Esperanto to create an easier to learn (world) language. Secondly, drop the firewall so that foreign talent and local talent don’t feel so divided.
So you think cutting off limbs of live humans — referred to as “logs” by the Japanese — is science?

You could have just said: “what do the Nazis have to do with Chinese academics conducting research at universities?”
Pretty sure it's from The Gateless Gate (I recognize it, which means it's probably from there).

Zen tales tend to present a couple major challenges to the reader:

1) Going into them cold isn't exactly intended. The characters are usually named for a reason, and it's expected that the reader/hearer will already know some things about the historical persons in the story, possibly some other tales about them, from reading histories and lineages, and so on, providing more context than is apparent at first if you take the stories per se.

2) There's often at least one relatively easy-to-pick-out though rarely explicitly stated lesson in them, but also one or more metaphorical or allegorical readings, at least one of which will be a "canonical" reading, i.e. your teacher will expect you to come up with it after some consideration before moving on to the next koan/tale—they don't expect that every student, or even many, will come up with a totally new and valuable metaphorical/obscure insight to the koans they present them, as that's just not realistic and no-one would ever advance if that were the expectation.

An easy example of 2 is (from memory so this wording will suck compared to the real thing) the "what should I do now?" "have you eaten your rice" "yes" "then clean out your bowl" one from (IIRC) Gateless Gate—simple surface reading of first-things-first and the importance of routine-following, but one available deeper reading of this as a Zen "challenge" (many of the koans/tales are) where the question "have you eaten your rice?" is actually asking, as understood by both characters, "have you attained enlightenment?" or similar, and "then clean out your bowl" has to do with banishing hubris or something along those lines.

Point 2 especially fairly speculative and arrived at purely second hand—I've not practiced Zen Buddhism—though I'm confident enough in it to present it here. Take that for whatever it's worth.

[EDIT] further, the point of their contemplation is in taking the journey to the answers, in part for the value of the journey and (one supposes) in part to train in the kind of lateral thinking that's so vital to these "zen battles". So just having a list of "answers" alongside the text kind of defeats the purpose, though they're definitely not intended to be as obscure and hard to follow as they are if you go into them with no background on (basically) Buddhist historical trivia.
You say 'cheating is wrong'. Fair enough, you can see 'right or wrong' as binary. Or you can live in the real world and understand that things are a little more complicated than that. With all the information you have out here (more than your hypothesis) you can make a fairer judgement. And you don't do judgement without introducing the living anyway because only what's living can judge and be judge-able. It's a social thing to judge right or wrong. So you have to take into account all the system. The living.

Now I'm not going to do the math for you.
Link to thread: https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/106709609717109965...
This just seems like a messier version of Freenet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
IBM PC-XT Emulator on an ESP8266
I agree that Rust is more like C++, especially since C++11, than it is like C. Rust has type deduction, closures, iterators, and Traits (which behave a lot like C++ class methods).

> I would like to see a simple language that fixes C's biggest problems. I think that would be really interesting to work with. Nobody seems to want to do it though, or if they have, they haven't been able to get any attention.

Honest question from an embedded C developer who's learning Rust, but still very beginner:

Wouldn't using a subset of Rust provide the same thing you're asking for?
Stephen Hillenburg: the naive genius who made SpongeBob a cultural titan
1. Yes, but if the "women" stats only come from a question about self-identifying as underrepresented, your "automatically" doesn't kick in. If women don't check that box, you don't know they're there.

2. I get that, I'm just surprised it's so pronounced. With most statistical distributions, when 0 (flavours of underrepresentation) covers 92% of responses, you'd expect 1 to cover a major chunk of the remainder, and that doesn't appear to be the case here.
You would not be able to work with Chinese scientists that goes back. Sampling issue.
The United States did not kick the Republic of China out of the United Nations in 1971, the UN General Assembly did. The US voted against Resolution 2758.
Currently Hover for domain names (but will soon be transferring to Cloudflare Registrar when it's available).

For hosting, currently Linode, but I am also working on deploying to Digital Ocean in tandem for extra resiliency. I'll use failover GeoDNS to balance between the two.
Should they have had a perfect idea of how many others were non-heterosexual?
Probably should have done a lscpu instead. On recent arm distro's lscpu knows how to decode the part/variant/etc and it also pays attention to the cache and numa topology.
Sometimes yes sometimes no in general.

If government of uk is so easy there is no politics.

Also if you just say government, think china. 1/5 humanity. No. Government can be very powerful.

But even there it could be sometimes help sometimes in the way. Politics is hard. Democracy especially you can have variety within like a federal system (Scots and north i is a bit different from England not sure wales) is good.

Life is hard to analysis even one person. For millions. You can believe what you want. But look at facts and read situation and change course. And make mistakes all the time.

Wonder whether is an option to remain. Planned exit or no deal seemed more realistic.
I remember all the effort it took to make gradients and borders, fuzzing about with images, hating it, but still doing it because the results were worth it. Then we finally got gradients and box and text shadows, a lot of other things, like some crazy future utopia.. and material design was invented. Humans are weird sometimes.
OMG, your last paragraph brought tears to my eyes. Did your parents not tell you? (Can someone else, ... I cannot do it!)

Seriously though, human's have been replaced every few years since we showed up. As long as AI's don't annihilate each other I think we should just be proud parents and stop worrying that they are going to grow up and want the car keys.
The cars are obese just like the people. It's sickening.
FOSS is free as in toilet
This could be a form of discrimination against native born applicants. A person's "mother tongue" is not some trivial matter. Many Indians I've worked with are not as fluent in English as they claim to be. Communication skills matter. Trying to even the playing field so that people who are not native speakers of the local language is ridiculous. I have worked hard to improve my own communication skills and consider it a very valuable skill when searching for employment.
I was imagining a potentially offline scenario where the blocks are physically recorded (i.e printed) and attached to the package as some kind of barcode or QR code. I suppose you could also deal with a scenario where the digital record is primarily transported with the shipment as well.

A tamperproof log with certain commodity hardware might be easier than guaranteeing secure network access to every participant in the chain.

One example I've seen in the wild is Walmart investing in blockchain for food safety. This is me in a sense trying to reverse engineer that thought process/system to figure out what benefits it might bring.

Looks like the system I'm thinking of is roughly a Proof of Authority system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-authority). Your point about blockchain being unnecessary here is one of the points brought up in the Wikipedia article under Comparisons.
>but for a while there was some kind of internal struggle there between the 'statists' who wanted everything to remain as it was or to simply reduce energy consumption and the 'realists' who figured if they were going to be against windmills they were indirectly pro-nuclear.

Well, history will probably say that the actual realists where those that were promoting reducing energy consumption...
Killing 3ve: How The FBI And Tech Industry Took Down A Massive Ad Fraud Scheme
I could probably write one of those with just 'if' statements.

if "facebook" in $Title:
print ( "I deleted my facebook years ago and it was the best thing I ever did")

if "uber" in $Title:
print("Uber has only $dollars left of runway. They only have $months left before they'll need another rescue")

if "I made" in $Title:
print("Why would I use $new_app when I could just use $old_app_from_90s? I really don't like the trend of using $technology instead of $older_technology. I hope $technology dies a cold death at the bottom of a ditch")
Free speech is a value, not just a legal right.
Very strange how the NY Times "Times Pick" comment (in the middle of the article) literally makes claims that the article itself contradicts:

> If the Boeing emergency manual dictates that there are cut off switches to disable the system and return to manual control, it would be a training issue with the flight crew. Boeing obviously added this flight characteristic to the planes for a specific reason and also documented how and what it could do after their own test flights. Wondering how many airlines are not going through the entire aircraft's training publication to understand this system.

Which is a little odd as the article itself said that Boeing's new M.C.A.S. system was not in the manual and or training documentation. Boeing's very carefully worded statement is a deflection, they're essentially arguing that even though they added a new undocumented system, that existing protocols for other problems (runaway stabilizer trim) could be used to resolve this one.

How do the NY Times pick the "Times Pick" comment? Is reading the article you're commenting on not a prerequisite?
Either you don't understand what arbitrary code is or you're just too angry with Apple to want to understand it. But apps either run static code or use the Safari JS engine to run code. That's all the flavors you have. Statically compiled Swift code is much easier to deal with than whatever creative things somebody can come up with with JS.
I believe that is a reference to the movie "Hackers"
China already has a history with Esperanto and has hosted 2 Esperanto World Congresses (http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-07/26/content_38959660.ht...)
No, because, in the end, you're looking for a perfect marketplace curated by perfect human beings that also scales to millions (billions?) of transactions.

I hesitate to say it's impossible to scale this way, but all of the forms of editorial control we're looking for the Amazons and Facebooks of the world directly impact their ability to scale.

You may say "that's fine", but of course they won't win on price against the thing that DOES scale, so there needs to be some outside force acting on it. Regulation, or every single consumer deciding they prefer X level of service over Y level of discount, or similar.
How representative do things seem to you? I seem to recall that black people were 13% of the U.S. population, so you'd expect (all other things being equal) about 1 in every 10 employees to be black. On the other hand, Asians are about 5% of the U.S. population, so you'd expect to see about 1 in 20, but everywhere I've ever worked it's been more like 18 or 19 in 20. I've never assumed that's due to prejudice, though.
I had to get my car towed while out hiking a few months back. As I was chit-chatting with the tow truck driver, we got on the subject of work. I thought he was joking when he told me his time working as a park ranger was the most stressful period of his life. This was after him telling me that being a tow truck driver meant being woken up in the early morning hours to go on a multi-hour driver multiple times per week, especially when the conditions were bad.

It turned out he'd been a park ranger at a state park in a rougher, rural part of the state. He told me me that large groups of teenagers would hang out in the park in the summer. They'd get drunk and start these massive brawls with each other out in the woods, and my tow truck driver would be the only person around to respond, often in the early hours of the morning. Budget cuts meant he was the only one of course, and local police weren't going to bother driving way out to the park. He seemed like a genuinely compassionate person, but he said a lot of the time, he'd just have to let the fights happen because he was so outnumbered he couldn't break them up. He told me he only lasted a few months.
> Actually the content of the article makes this comment slightly unwarranted

I don't think his/her frustration was with the article, rather with some of the HN comments on the article.
I've read that police departments were literally given these vehicles. I challenge someone to call BAE up and actually get a price quote and delivery timeline, here's the website to get you started. https://www.baesystems.com/en/product/rg33-mineresistant-amb...

My point, is these were given to the police. While a civilian may technically be eligible to buy one for $500k (bulk pricing) but we realistically have no opportunity to purchase. So the parent's comment applies.
This is the kind of story where a corkboard with photos and yarn is required to follow it. I couldn't keep up with all the interconnected players and LLCs.

The most bizarre part is Newsweek. I've known for a while that it isn't what it once was. What I didn't know was how much it had fallen. Similar to when I see "Polaroid" branded products, where it's obvious the name is the only thing left of that company.
> they even warned us to not let our dog on the lawn because it was so toxic

In my area those are called the TruGreen lawns, and they dominate much of the city 3 seasons out of the year. Those little signs that tell you to keep your living creatures off of them for a week after application, or longer depending on weather. I don't, however, think that anyone bothers to notify the squirrels, rabbits, opossum, and birds about those limitations - they will all continue to frolic on doused areas, eat and drink from those areas. Not to mention the impact on insects, the impact on the soil and water.

All for what? Fewer weeds?! It's disgusting to see such callous disregard for our environment being perpetrated as a matter of routine.
> Which is exactly why a genetic test would be more accurate!

Accurate at...what?

They'd be less accurate at measuring IQ than actual IQ tests, and they'd be less accurate than IQ tests plus evaluating parental socioeconomic background at predicting academic performance.
I am surprised Alexandra Elbakyan did not win this because of her work with sci-hub. What could be the biggest disobedience of all other than freeing science from the grasp of Corporate profithood by sacrificing your own freedom of movement?

Specially when the award is given by a science lab.
That seems unlikely, ARM topology has been a bit messed up. So lstopo is confusing what are probably cpu clusters with sockets.
I think those Google enployees should take a step further and ask the US to stop trading with China.
But what does one do? I'll admit not reading every word of TFA, but the gist I got was "FB has X% of black devs, but among FB users, blacks are Y%, where Y > X." Here's my problem as being an on-again-off-again hiring manager: there aren't any black devs to hire in the Seattle area. The only black person who wrote code that I've ever worked with since moving to Seattle 18 years ago was a guy I hired. And I've worked at Microsoft (where the UserEd person on one team was black). 18 years is a long time, but I can't say for sure that the guy I hired isn't the only black person I've even interviewed in Seattle. Now, I grew up and worked around Indianapolis, where the ratios in programming shops were about what one would expect. Microsoft in Charlotte, NC: plenty of diversity (okay, blacks) at that satellite office the three years I was there. Had a black woman as a manager, now that I think back.

But Seattle, and maybe the whole west coast, man, something weird going on here. And as much as I'd love to bang on FB, my experience says that maybe it's not their fault.
I’ve realized the same thing. Do you have any google search alternatives?
I do the same, but sleep at 4am and wake up at 12 (I work remotely and that's when I start work). Late night is the best time to be creative, for me, since there's absolutely nobody to distract you.
Yes, just joking, of course.
Interesting link nonetheless, thanks.
Shameless plug: my friend and I are working on a UDP game networking library purely in Rust, built on Tokio: https://github.com/conwayste/netwayste

(at the moment, it's tightly coupled to our game, however)
Yes, the police break laws. Republicans break laws. Democrats, Muslims, Trump supporters, and Python programmers break laws. Any large group of people contains law-breakers. It's not a useful statement.
Could this be used to ingest NOAAPORT?
Because I can avoid problems with spilt oil by not getting into the sea near my coast.

Not so much with a nearby nuclear disaster.
maybe there is a lesson buried in there about letting a child with no previous experience having that much control over a global advertising corporation.
The actual indictment is here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/press-release/file/1114576...
I don't know, but this service seems like it will facilitate & stimulate development of that market.
The article moans about Carlsen’s Game 12 draw offer but it’s ridiculous. He had a plan going in to play for a draw, and given how much of an advantage there was (a modest advantage that by no means guaranteed a win, and which would still be hard to spot by human players), he knew the risks in continuing to play and appraised it to be more prudent to spend that risk budget in rapid games where he has a superior record.

There is no drama in this at all, and it’s hardly bad for competitive chess. This title matchhas produced exciting games and creativity, and yes also blunders. It’s been fantastic to watch!

Carlsen stuck to his overall match plan. That’s all that happened. Now it’s up to Caruana to prove he can hold his own in rapid games, and frankly he should feel confident that he can given his overall performances across the 12 matches so far. Carlsen is the favorite for sure, but it looks to be a great set of rapid games.
What's the time? Measuring computer clocks on the Internet
Fear? No. It's disgust at the brazen rationalization of outright discrimination based on some holier-than-thou moral attitude by saying group X is better or worse than group Y because of history that has nothing to do with the individual. Why must people be considered as a member of a group instead of their personal character and actions that they're actually accountable for?

Perhaps what's most insidious about ascribing group victimhood is that you must also accept the converse, which is group responsibility. Are you suddenly going to be held responsible for any wrongs that your group has ever committed? Are you truly certain that's what you want?

You are ignoring that life is not fair, and never will be. We cannot control the bodies and circumstances we are born into. But every individual has the ability to make the most of their opportunity and achieve their goals, and quite a few in history have proven that they are able to accomplish far more by effort and will than any natural advantage otherwise. That is the best we can do, and unless you create some matrix world where we are all exactly equivalent clones of the same capacity, that is all that is possible.
More background on Oakland: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Oakland-PD-s-Harleys...
Better than? Not necessarily disagreeing, but I'm not sure what the alternatives even are at the same level of abstraction. I mean, there's PNNL's global arrays [1] but that's higher level, or Sandia Portals [2] which is lower/transport level.. Perhaps there are newer/alternative options I don't know about?

[1] http://hpc.pnl.gov/globalarrays/

[2] http://www.cs.sandia.gov/Portals/portals4-libs.html
See, now we're talking about something more specific and useful. Those are pretty interesting.
I know a big wind farm north west of Dallas. Descartes identifies only a few of the actual wind turbines. Is it a limited demo?
No. I was talking about existing genes interacting with rapidly changing environment.
What protesters were willing to do in the 60s or in 2018 is orthogonal to ensuring that Google maintains a workforce of "moral" people.

Suggestions that those who think that Google is going down a dark path should leave will just result in moral evaporative cooling, which leaves everybody off worse.
2018 ICDM Conference: Record attendance, humanoid robots, and hammerhead sharks
NASA Mohawk Guy
One example I often give is the nabla operator from vector calculus that is in one form or another used in any fluid dynamics code. If you define nabla as a function that operates on a Field type, and Scalar and Vector types extend the Field type, then nabla can be coded to return a gradient (Vector) if passed a Scalar, and divergence (Scalar) if passed a Vector. Polymorphism is an elegant way to implement this.
Wow! So basically, someone managed to risk police offier lives with their ill thought out plan and people on HN are applauding them?

What should a police crew use against a criminal equipped with high caliber armor piercing guns?
The integrity of a hard science like physics is rarely compromised by political persuasions. I have little idea how his positions on the bomb would have affected his ability to produce unbiased scientific results. The conclusions of those papers have little ramification on the ethics of nuclear weapons.

But if you're trying to do research which investigates the social ramifications of a movement like #MeToo, then a biased researcher will seek out methods which highlight how positive and powerful the movement is, while ignoring metrics which make it look weak, unpopular, or causing negative impacts. Getting the title "Doctor" doesn't magically remove one's bias, especially when there is a systemic bias promoted by the institution at large.