skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trick question: They're not meaningfully christian, they just claim the mantle like a shield.

This reminds of nothing more than Rev. Moon's wacky Unification Church, which eventually founded the Washington Times and bought the UPI wire service to appear legitimate (and, at least in the case of the Washington Times, curry favor with conservative politicians).
Not necessarily, one could skip paying for insurance, registration, inspections, license renewal, etc. for a few years and pay it all off with a month or so in jail.
Here is an article on the subject: http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html ("Why Chinese is So Damn Hard")

And evin bad spelers can riit undrstandabbel englush.
So many federal agencies have their own SWAT teams that they have a hard time keeping the teams qualified due to limited access to suitable firing ranges around DC. Agencies like EPA, USDA, and Dept of Education have SWAT.

Seems like only FBI should have SWAT.
The score is currently 2 wins for white, 11 draws and 6 wins for black. There is a total of 56 games involving eight engines.
Well, it’s not as if going to this mock prison magically absolves them of their day-to-day responsibilities, except they get to pay for this “priviledge” and get back to their normal lives when they check out.
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How do you know they’re not the majority?
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https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1051560132235030528

> Tether ... is currently in the early stages of a bank run.

Still think that's true?

As for this news, as long as they're honoring withdrawals, it's a good thing. Before, tether was relying on bitfinex to convert to usd.

https://tether.to/tether-reopens-account-verification-and-di...
I think he was annoyed/bored. He is basically playing against a computer for an increasing number of moves. By the time the theory ends, the game is near-decided. Chess960 reveals the natural talents over the memorizers.

The chess lovers complain and complain, because everybody's style is starting to mimick closer to the objective best moves.

It is also a psychological move in trolling Caruana (part of the game): "You did not even try to win with white in your last game before the rapids. I'll draw in a superior position because I love my chances there."
If you were black you probably wouldn't give a shit about tech to the point of being an advocate. Statistically speaking, you wouldn't have a whole different perspective on what issues are important enough to pursue.
Is Google always listening? Apparently yes. Fake news, coincidence, or reality?
Took the new job. Wanted the chance to learn from new people.

It was the right choice.
You can bluff your way through English spelling and let the computer fix 90+% of it and let human readers fix most of the remainder. Can you do that with Mandarin characters?
In practical terms: what kind of performance difference would one see between optimized C(++) and optimized Fortran when running exactly the same algorithm?
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The major problem with using the chess.com data is they don't take into account the time factor. When Magnus offered, the draw, Fabi had exactly 15min 42sec time remaining to play the next 10 moves. That's less than 2 minutes per move, versus Magnus having between 2x-3x that amount.

It is hard to understand just how significant of a handicap this is unless you've ever played competitive chess at a national or international level. The human mind starts to break down and freeze up when it is forced to make critical decisions in limited time. This was already starting to happen in the game leading up to the draw offer, as Caruana took more and more time as his positioning was worsening.

The end result of this is one player being forced to make a rapid series of moves in a "time scramble" while the other player has the luxury of checking and rechecking his calculations. This gives the player with more time a massive advantage in practice. We're talking at least 100-200 rating points.

If chess.com wanted to do a fair analysis, they should have handicapped the White computer with 3-4x less compute time. I guarantee the results would have been significantly more favorable for Black then they already were.
Apple’s gross margin is typically around 37% or 38%. I don’t see how charging a 30% service fee is going to improve profitability.

Apple is trying to grow profits via paid services like Apple Music or Apple Pay, but those are optional upsells, not rent seeking.
arbitrary country x, apart from all the ones that already have FTA with the EU I suppose.

It is complete FUD
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Even if it doesn't, T-Mobile only wouldn't bother me (as a current T-Mobile user). The pricing is great and the international roaming works a lot better than T-Mobile's own slow but unlimited solution.
You could do an extended stay at a monastery... Probably a more pleasant experience.
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> in EU we don't experiment with people, without their concent and in order not to cure them, but to find how to build a stronger race.

"Involuntary Sterilization and Castration in Sweden and the Nordic Countries"

"In 1934, the first sterilisation act was enacted in Sweden followed by the first castration act in 1944. In 1972, Sweden became the first country in the world to enact legislation for the amendment of legally registered sex, however preconditioned on sterilisation. In the implementation of all these laws, voluntary and involuntary interventions have been made with legislative support... The involuntarily castrated [in the period 1972-2013] have still not received any reparations from the Swedish State [2018]"

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/node/394

It seems that authists and trans people were actively targetted for a long period of time.
There's an excellent episode of the games design round table podcast (http://thegamedesignroundtable.com/2013/02/14/episode-14/) where Jon Shafer (designer of Civ 5) and Soren Johnson (designer of civ 4) discuss this problem - amongst other things.
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Design has always been painfully slow for me as well, despite the ease with which I can implement a design handed to me.

If you actually do want to get good at design I recommend just building five or ten nonfunctional web designs based on already built sites on the web.

I bet you'd get better at laying out a decent site without bootstrap or anything else relatively quickly.
DNS has always been available over TCP. The DNS packet header has a Truncated (TC) bit that tells you when you should query over TCP, as UDP responses are usually truncated at ~500 bytes.

DNS over TCP can often provide better throughput and lower latency, especially on networks with a lot of packet loss (which can be your network if you're, say, batch resolving IP address PTR records from a log where your DNS UDP requests overflow the kernel and NIC TX buffers).
The difference between police officers and the rest of those groups is that all of them but police officers are self-selected and unenforced. It is entirely feasible to have a police force that break laws only negligibly by enforcing the removal of individual police who break laws.
I certainly did not expect you to have built a project around quantifying repo quality. Interesting.

Wonder if there are cross-cultural differences in starring/issue-opening frequencies, since the assumption here is that there are none
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It's not necessarily a sampling issue. Of course they could work with scientists that go back. You work with them, then they go back. The implication is clearly that the parent could have already worked with scientists that have gone back and that isn't occuring.
Reposting this from a comment thread below which mentions the chess.com "what would have happened" computer playoff, as I think the HN community (who are far more well versed in computer chess than I) would benefit from a better understanding of how high-level competitive chess between humans actually works.

tl;dr: In order to fully appreciate how bizarre Carlsen's draw offer was at that moment, you need to take into account the time factor, which (to my knowledge) the chess.com computer analysis ignores completely.

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The major problem with using the chess.com data is they don't take into account the time factor. When Magnus offered, the draw, Fabi had exactly 15min 42sec time remaining to play the next 10 moves. That's less than 2 minutes per move, versus Magnus having between 2x-3x that amount.

It is hard to understand just how significant of a handicap this is unless you've ever played competitive chess at a national or international level. The human mind starts to break down and freeze up when it is forced to make critical decisions in limited time. This was already starting to happen in the game leading up to the draw offer, as Caruana took more and more time as his positioning was worsening.

The end result of this is one player being forced to make a rapid series of moves in a "time scramble" while the other player has the luxury of checking and rechecking his calculations. This gives the player with more time a massive advantage in practice. We're talking at least 100-200 rating points.

If chess.com wanted to do a fair analysis, they should have handicapped the White computer with 3-4x less compute time. I guarantee the results would have been significantly more favorable for Black then they already were.
The Second Edition of this book appears to be complete. You can get a free PDF from the authors site.
From the opposite point of view, police officers have been put in impossible situations.

Consider: a neighbor calls in police to a domestic dispute. The police are fairly certain that showing up will escalate the violence, but they aren't allowed to not show up (indeed they would be liable for anything bad that happens if they don't), and yet they are also potentially liable for the violence that happens when they do show up.

I have a friend who is a cop, and one of his pet peeves is being called in for those threatening suicide. He is not a therapist, and indeed the only thing he can do that a therapist would not be allowed to do is respond with violence.

In general he says that ~20 years as an officer has seen increasing amounts of people calling the police for issues that grownups ought to be able to resolve on their own.
It's more of chore to be avoided.
So we are talking about perception above all else?

Great, but there are use cases for armored vehicles. Whether its an MRAP or a Bearcat.

There are always going to be barricaded persons, hostage situations, active shooters, riots, and natural disasters that need responding to and those seem to be the best tools for the job. The goal is to get as close to the subject as possible without anyone getting hurt. From there you can control the scene and use it as a position to de-escalate.

If these tools are being used inappropriately, I am all for legislation to curb that.
I really wish there was more published about why it did/didn't work -- I saw the other posts about similar studies that all seemed to fail, but the details seem really scant.

It's still unclear whether the problem was with the implementation (the experiment) or the method.

If there's spooky action/unintuitive reality at play here it's the job of a good scientific study to pull it out and lay it bare.
Closed issues do not necessarily imply that problems are being addressed. Sometimes issues are closed because the maintainer has decided not to address the problem. Sometimes the project simply uses an external bug tracker instead of GitHub issues. Some projects do fix bugs reported in an issue, but they don't have a dedicated person managing issues, so they remain open long after the problem has been solved.

I think a high star/open-issue ratio is only a very weak indicator, that you should only use when you have hundreds of repos to evaluate and no domain expertise to decide which actually solves your problem.
I only work with robotic astronauts.
True story. I met a guy who was looking for a tech co-founder and had an idea that will use blockchain. I challenged him on the reason behind the use of blockchain and he literally said "Investors like to hear buzzwords and at this time, I am looking to raise funding". His idea wasn't bad but he couldn't justify using blockchain to implement it. I pressed him further and asked if he was willing to implement the idea without blockchain and he just wasn't interested. he said "blockchain is the hot thing right now and I want to build this using blockchain". So in other words, it was more important for him that blockchain was used than focussing on the actual idea.
Replied at wrong level. I am going to leave it.

No pressure.
> This is a good metaphor, but it's not perfect. You haven't explained how or why you'll be burying $1000 exactly 21 million times, every 10 minutes until 2140.

That's an engineering problem. ;)

And it's also beside the point. One has intrinsic value, one doesn't.

> Or why it becomes worthless immediately upon decryption...

The reason the number is worth something is because there's real money tied to it. Once the guarantee of value disappears, the value of the number also does.
Yes, through the “noalias” attribute. Rustc uses it, well, when it’s not buggy at least. It’s currently turned off pending an upstream fix; we’ll have it back on when it’s fixed.
Perhaps one has to have had grown up in a Communist state to see the parallels. This is something I would be very happy to be wrong about.
Because we have a constitutional right to said guns so we don't take removing them lightly. That said if someone has any history of violence, crime, or mental disorder I'm 100% in favor of removing access to weapons.
You can get a 6-feet lightning cable from Five Below b&m.
"1000" is an idiom for "many" in Chinese. it only evokes that to you because "1000" isn't an idiom for "many" in your language.

In English, we'd have a "Million Dollar Talent" program and a Chinese would say it unfortunately evokes "Millon Dollar Baby"
I appreciate demos that show off the minimal effort path. It's a good way to take measure of a stack. If there's a quick golden path, you can tell the stack developers are thinking about how to make their users (app developers) more productive.
As far as I recall, SpongeBob was the only animated show that every member of our family liked. RIP.
I thought this was a neat idea (below). Imagine if investors had voting privileges but speculators didnt’t.

”Tech titans including Reid Hoffman and Marc Andreessen have financially backed the creation of a new investment framework called the Long-Term Stock Exchange, which would give shareholders greater influence over a company the longer they hold shares.”
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This is fantastic; thanks for submitting it!
Nazism is wrong, though. So is a good majority of what far right nationalists preach.

It's almost, but not quite, false equivalence. You could make a moral relativism argument, but at the end of the day the global zeitgeist is moving towards the "good" that some people associate with liberal values, and always has been.

From an anthropological standpoint, I'm with you - the ideologies are indistinguishable. From a moral standpoint, I disagree strongly - one is generally Bad, the other is generally Good.
For smaller depts that cant afford a custom Bearcat, I'm sure the smaller space and height burdens aren't too bad compared to not having armored cover at all.
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So the story is really about discovering an elaborated money laundry operation using shell company and online fake store.
“DynamoDB is the only non-relational database that supports transactions across multiple partitions and tables.”

Uh... this is just not true.
I think that's more of a problem of degree -- it's hard to pin down where harmful bias starts, but if you can do that, then this makes the anonymization solution even more applicable.

The question is whether the school is offering a harmful bias -- people get screened by school, GPA, etc all the time but at the point that society agrees these are harmful then you can just anonymize them out. It gets murkier on the moral/ethical side but I think that's the nature of the problem, not a problem with the solution.
> So we are talking about perception above all else?

Perception resulting from conscious, deliberate actions; or, viewed another way, nonverbal communication. Yes, it's key to police work.
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> It still irks me that something as rare and prestigious as the World Cup (and Olympic Hockey) can get decided by shootouts.

Even without the shoutouts, football is a very random game (compare with something like Tennis). And this is amplified by the tournament format. I like how experts take this game so seriously and come up with deep analysis when there's so much randomness in the result.
Sorry but 100k is just absurd. A computer science AS degree at any decent California community college is about $1500 instate tuition, and would be vastly more respectable and useful.
A counter-bias on the conditional step could indeed assure a correction.

Let's formalize it a bit, I think this helps clarify.

Let A be the hiring propensity, B be job preparation (education, experience, what have you), and C be the "blinding factors" Helsinki is trying to address.

As a model we would like the joint propensity for everyone to be normalized. In other words, P(A,B,C) would be about the same.

The joint propensity P(A,B,C) would be expressed as

P(A,B,C) = P(A | B,C) * P(B | C) * P(C) [0]

Helsinki is making the first term, P(A | B,C) independent of their "blinding factors", or, in other words, P(A | B,C) = P(A | B).[1]

The remaining terms P(B | C) and P(C) are unaffected. It is P(B|C) differential that many arguing for what I call non-autarky "social corrections" (we do something as a society).

Since Helsinki's decision affects _only_ the conditional probability P(A| B,C), the other factors are still at play, and P(A,B,C) remains at issue.

There is nothing that can be done by Helsinki's hiring department for P(B|C) in the short term -- people are dealt the hand they have, life isn't fair, and so on. Completely true.

By blinding themselves, they set P(A|B) to be flat on C and no "equalization" of P(A,B,C) can be observed.

A truly egalitarian society would have P(B|C) = P(B). However, we aren't there. C, what Helsinki blinds themselves to, matters for qualifying life experiences.

The model that is being argued for by you and others I believe is formalized as a conditional independence model, namely that the propensity of hiring is independent of race, conditional on life preparation:
P(A,C | B) = P(A|B) * P(C|B).[2] Note though: bias still persists: P(C|B) = P(B|C)*P(C)/P(B) -- we can't get away from that P(B|C) term in either model, and we know qualitatively that P(B|C) != P(B), hence why a correction can be positively argued for (rather than solely from emotion or duty).

Anyhow, that's the model in mind, and I'm open to being wrong/corrected. Thoughts?

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After thinking about it more, it seems that the ultimate goal of Helsinki is to make P(A|B,C) = P(A|B), not the latter model.

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[0] Chained conditional probabilites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_rule_(probability)

[1] Independent variables definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_(probability_theo...

[2] Conditional independence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_independence
> You still have a boss, the fact that it is you helps with fewer things than one would think.

Worse yet, you now need to satisfy customers.

Not that that's inherently bad. In hindsight, though, it certainly lets you appreciate the times when you had a boss and life was simpler.
Understanding people. Forgiving them for being human.
> You can't go buy a brand new automatic.

Also the ones that are on the market (pre-86) go for tens of thousands of dollars to start. They are basically coveted by rich collectors who show them off at designated "machine gun shoot" days at specialty ranges.

> but my understanding is that it's trivial to modify to become automatic

It's not trivial. Requires decent gun-smithing skill, the ability to craft an auto sear, and some extra parts. To my knowledge no one has been confirmed to have done that and convicted of it in recent history.
Those of you considering the appeal, consider that there are retreats you can go on which structure your time and give you rules to follow. You don't have to make it look like prison.
As a former researcher I am not surprised to see another nation capitalizing on the counter-productive politicization of US science.

I used to be a researcher and writing proposals suddenly started taking up much more time around 2010 to 2013 because each grant became much smaller. Each grant also became more specific in what science you were expected to produce, which essentially made us all contractors for NSF plus DOE and winning a grant was sometimes more about politics than producing excellent scholarship. This pushed a lot of great scientists out of the field.

After I left research radical leftists started a more expansive politicized attack on science that is further politisizing who gets tenure or grants essential to making scientific progress.

- Biology as a subject is the most affected right now [1], because biology shows that there are biological differences that contribute to individuals choices in a way that invalidates the univariant equity doctrine political explanations. Women on average does are as capable as men in the sciences, but they differences in choices increase the more equal the societies are.

- Science as a competence hierarchy is under attack by the equity initiatives [2], making it so that the most important factors for getting grants and tenure is often not competence.

The fact is unfortunately that these programs have been shown to not increase the production of great science [3]. Moreover, these efforts further demoralize and alienate scientists.

We should at this point not be under any doubt that unless we defeat the politicization of science the US will not remain competitive. We should ask ourselves if we want to be equal on a sinking ship or make life better by allowing everyone to compete as individuals regardless of which identity you think they belong to.

[1] https://quillette.com/2018/10/18/trans-activists-campaign-ag...
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/when-wil...
[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/when-wil...
Ask HN: Anyone in GM IT scared about the layoffs?
I've heard they're cutting 15% of salaried positions in NA and 25% of executives but they haven't said if this will specifically affect the tech folks in GMIT.
this is fantastic, thanks. I can definitely attest that Chinese people are very proud of the difficulty of their language. One possible factor that isn't mentioned: I believe that culturally, the Chinese value learning and education more.