skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do me a favor and stop right here before going further and defend this position.
On firefox I couldn't even enable reader mode on this page.
In Anathem, to deal with spam the advanced pre-collapse society intentionally built machines to send out an intended message along with millions of tweaked variants to combat spam by making everything untrustworthy at first glance.

I personally think this state of affairs is the solution for the misinformation regime we find ourselves in. We need to combat bots with more bots that tweak and churn the messages promoted by everyone else to forcibly lower the superficial credibility of all information.

My hope is that by doing this, we can supplant the misinformation regime with a white noise regime that is no better or worse than pre-Internet communications for superficial (aka unsigned) traffic.

FWIW, this strategy is commonly used to counter traffic analysis of communications channels (e.g. encrypted military links), so it's not a new idea and it does work.
This is your veto-proof Democrat Monopoly over California politics.

Democrats value people over corporations!

Keep resisting.
not a js guy - any reason this needs any lookup table at all?

quick googling seems to suggest simple bitshifting could be possible..
What's Next for American IPOs
Given that Thanksgiving 2016's bandwidth is unremarkable, maybe Thanksgiving Sunday of 2017 had some sort of external factor, like weather-related flight delays? Though I didn't find any news specifically calling out flight delays, this was the closest and pretty vague:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/sunshine-us-fog-flight-delays-west...
But it's still correct to be wary of plants, the fact that you typically eat them raw makes them the most common source of infection.
That's a counterproductive distinction to make because you lose the soundbite game.

If you have a paragraph to make the point it's reasonable, but pushing back on the rebranding of lesser bribery as "lobbying" is a very important first step.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YXwg0n9e7E
Thanks for the feedback! I'll think about adding more of a high level overview in the first step, with rough pseudocode of the end result.

That said, I don't think I want to have a step where "they write pseudocode", because a lot of people would just skip that step without thinking about it.
I don't have a lot of knowledge of the hard forks, but I can see that it could definitely change the potential demand of BTC. Is there a BTC fork in your opinion that is most likely to succeed?
Utah is pretty different.

You can’t afford to live in San Francisco on a teacher’s salary. If it were possible for all homeless people to get housing in San Francisco, does that apply for all teachers, too? For everybody making minimum wage? There just isn’t enough housing in San Francisco to provide it to everyone with a low-paying job in the area, regardless of how it is paid for, regardless of whether you overthrow capitalism and institute an all wise dictator.

Either we need to build lots more housing in San Francisco, or house the homeless somewhere else, or accept a permanent homeless underclass in San Francisco.
A good friend of mine is just starting what looks like will be a hard and long battle with cancer. Seeing the breakthroughs give me hope- but I also know they may not be ready in time.

It really does feel like in 20 years, we'll have cancer knocked out. But that's just too far away...
That's a complete lie, but okay.

https://medium.com/metodixtech/ios-how-to-downgrade-and-save...
It sounds like you are in a good position - you can have total control over what you work on. You could even write your own grants and get other people to research what you want alongside you. Since the traditional PhD path isn't showing that much success, doesn't it make more sense to just research what you want?

All the papers are free online and authors will generally discuss their work with you if you have intelligent questions.

BTW, this is what I do. I freelance about 20% of the time and spend about 50% of it reading physics papers. So far I haven't produced anything new, but I have greatly increased my intuitive understanding.
It should have the effect of discouraging bad behavior by any party in the contract as well as encouraging a more succinct and simple contract.

I am constantly amazed at how much 'boiler plate' stuff needs to be re-defined in each and every contract (at least in America). It's as if the concepts of a standard contract, where one thing is exchanged for another or payments are made on a term, doesn't exist.
That assumes that progress in civilization is a forward path and that there are no local minima that are both extremely difficult to get out of given the institutions that got them there and dangerously unstable. Entropy eats away at systems no matter the path we chose and there is no guarantee that the end result of our current path won't be worse than a traumatic reshuffle now.

I'm not advocating revolution, having seen the end result of one first hand, but to say that revolution is shortsighted entirely misses the forrest for the trees. All complex systems, be they biological organisms or deep learning neural networks, need randomness injected into them or they will fail to respond to the randomness of the environment around them. In the case of societies and organisms, that could very well mean extinction.

It's a risk-reward calculation like any action.
The list in the parent comment was "legendary geniuses." Crick was certainly not that. He did a physics degree then did a bunch of half-assed work in biology. He stole some data, confounded the idea of gene and open reading frame so thoroughly that we're still trying to undo the damage decades later, and summarized a lot of early molecular biology results in an oversimplified way (the "central dogma") that we're still trying to teach people the real nuances of. On the whole he and Watson were probably a net negative for science.

As for polymath, he certainly wasn't that. I've done physics, biology, statistics, software engineering, violinist, composer, dance historian, learned a bunch of languages, and written a novel. I'm a pretty pedestrian level polymath, and Crick was nowhere near me.
Yeah, but they offer extensive coverage and are reliable - also somewhat expensive. To get such thing for NY - you need to drill a lot more tunnels and fast and make sure trains run on time.
Our systems look more wide than deep, and the breadth happens both in FE and in BE, so our diverse FE apps communicate with a relatively diverse set of BE services — we’d like those interactions to look unified no matter where you hit the system. In other words: we have a large number of microservices without a consolidating middleware.

Compared to other frameworks, Conjure more easily retrofits into HTTP/JSON service boundaries (no surprise based on its origins) and, IMO, provides great ergonomics for mixed FE/BE teams, especially where FEs are big and complex with lots of BE interaction.

In terms of audience, we’d hope this helps FE/BE teams with easy to use and ergonomic API defs, and think, as above, it’d especially help others who have existing surface area to convert to declarative APIs, even if only as a stepping stone.

On the BE/BE comms point: we use Conjure for all RPCs in our systems — while JSON is obviously not as compact as Protobuf or Thrift we’ve found serialization and transmission are rarely bottlenecks, and that, instead, a unified format and common treatment for clients is a boon for operability and stability — and often times also for aggregate system performance.
IIRC the past few outbreaks have only been for romaine lettuce. Iceberg and green leaf seem to be have relatively fewer incidents, though I'm not sure if this is due to something about the supply source, the way it's used, or the way it's grown.
It's pretty easy to leave below your means if you are really engrossed in research. The hard part is finding the time to spend money.
This. Cache is the least of their worries in aerospace. It's common to see satellite IC's dosed up so high on the ol' Gamma that the silicon MOSFET junctions themselves start disintegrating.
What was Richard Nixon like as a person?
Vox has a great piece on how the NYC MTA got to its current state of affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COLMODzYX7U
If it means anything, reading the first part of it inspired me to want to contribute to it, if at all ever possible, because I believe Django is important enough to sustain and to recognize these issues before they evolve into problems is good idea.
California was always going to burn–but it should have happened differently
I'm going to second that. I don't ever consider CTH, and there's a pretty strong body of programmers who feel the same way. There's too much risk in it.
This article is almost a year old, but it explains why using a utility token will put most companies at a strong competitive disadvantage.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tromero/2018/01/09/why-your-ico...

It's not a feature. It's a bug.
Ok, so I could imagine rent control would work fine in (e.g.) the bay area if there was also
(1) Government-built (or heavily subsidized) housing to get around the fact that rent control limits the capitalist demand for new housing
(2) Strong central government to force out NIMBYs for the greater social good

In this context, would you agree that rent control seems counterproductive unless we were to switch to a socialized economy overall?

> There is no capitalist solution to this problem.

I'm curious if others here would agree with this; I don't have a strong opinion yet.
I had Sling TV for awhile. It was good enough. But, it didn’t have as many local channels as DirecTVNow in my area.

DirecTVNow was flakey the last time I used it on either my RokuTVs or with my Roku sticks. It worked better when I would AirPlay it to my 3rd Gen AppleTV or watch it using the app on my 4K AppleTV.

My wireless connection in the same area as my TVs never dips below 159Mbps so it’s not my bandwidth.

My AppleTVs throughout the house are all connected via gigabit Ethernet throughout my house.
More shoes than that.
The maximum fare in Tokyo is nowhere near 2.75 USD. It's kind of a moot point because there is no such thing, lol. But for example the fare from Nippori to Kichijoji, which are both comfortably in Tokyo, is almost 5 USD.
It happens a fair amount here in the hills of Southern California, although at a much smaller scale than I understand happens down under. The goal here seems to be to burn out a buffer around homes rather than using fire to manage the whole forest.

The flora is quite different, too — a coastal live oak takes way longer to grow back than a eucalyptus (and is also less ridiculously flammable when established). So burning huge swaths here would generally not be a great thing.
To me the biggest red flag there is the php. After developing with typed languages, a dynamic language is honestly a pain. Cron is easy to replace if needed.

Like I would feel much better if it was python, golang, java or C#. Javascript I feel like is the new PHP. Another issue is what I call the COBOL syndrome, where your career future isn't as great. You can still be a shop with a relatively good career future tech set that is old, but it has to be the 'right' old things unfortunately.

Do you at least use something like Hack to add types?
It depends. Some networks pay the cable company, other networks get paid by the cable company and others just ask for a spot and share ad revenue and allow the cable company to advertise locally.
My wife is Brazilian and I showed her this comment. She says the Brazilians were just giving you a hard time and that they don't find those terms offensive.
While I totally appreciate a zero-config, subscription based, AI arranged pre-recorded, modulated sounds bundle, my personal preference would be to gravitate towards an area where I can control the mix. Something like https://asoftmurmur.com/

The reason is that my choice of music depends on my mood. e.g. If I met a cute girl on my way to getting a coffee in the morning, I want to listen to birds chirp with the sound of waves in the background. But if I am feeling my usual lethargic morning self, I would go for singing bowls in a coffee shop sound mix combined with a distant thunder.

It goes without saying how grateful I am to people who put in the effort to understand psyche and it's connection with music so that we can all be more productive.
Blowing Up: How This One Fund Blew Up Overnight – And What We Can Learn from It
So controlled burns are definitely done, but it's difficult. There's issues with air quality after a burn, waiting for ideal conditions, and sometimes even losing control of the burns. Don't know how that compares with Australia.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/california-will-se...

https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-he...
How Japan’s prime minister plans to cope with daunting demography
That fact is unusual...

Not at all. European socialist parties have been migrating to a, as a previous commenter put it, "cultural" agenda: feminism, LGTB, eco... some of the issues are favorable or neutral to workers, but some others, like inmigration policies are actually harming, or at least perceived as such. The result is that these parties are sinking and their votes going to both extremes of the political spectrum.
Quite surprised to heard that. That's interesting.

I travelled few times from Shenzhen to Heihe and back without having to produce my ID even once. Just a year ago, I went Beijing to Heihe by bus, and again I only needed cash. And you can for sure travel around Guangdong on regular rail (non CRH,) and buy plain paper tickets without any barcodes for cash at few remaining standalone ticket departments. And access to the train platform on regular rail is way laxer than on CRH.

I don't have a specific need to travel without paper trail, nevertheless, sometimes, I have a need to travel with 4+ huge bags full on electronics, maotai, clothes, and other mass consumption items whenever relatives on the other side of the border request provisions from the land plenty. And that attracts a lot of unapproving looks and solicitation of humanitarian aid by impoverished officials, security personnel, and town Bubbas.

As for moped number plates, I know that individual cities require them, and issue them themselves. There are no nationwide moped number plate system as I know. On what is Chinese interstate network, and even on toll roads, I do frequently see people riding without number plates. And if you travel on smaller roads, and not on a highway, there is close to no control, and no random ID checks.

As for 4am checks, quite a number of people in Shenzhen did get them. The famous South African youtuber SerpentZA living in Shenzhen had a number. So did few of my coworkers. And it all times, the guys coming are not your chill policemen posted at streets, but Teqin, other Chinese three letter agencies who are totally not against manhandling you face to the floor.

As for Chinese name, you know that you have a full legal right to use your legal Chinese name if you have such?
99% Invisible has some amazing episodes on this topic. Apparently controlled burns used to be a tjing, until society collectively decided all wildfire is bad and started the abstinence approach of sorts. As a result fires are a little less frequent, but much much much bigger when they do happen.

And they’ve been happening more and more anyway.

Wildfire is a natural part of the ecosystem in CA as well. Forests need it to stay healthy and clear the underbrush. But humans decided fire is bad because we like to live in fire areas.
The Federal Minimum wage has remained at $7.25/hour since 2009 when it was increased under the Obama administration.
> (this box of cereal was purchased at our store).

Think of the impact on forensics when every single article contains its source of origin.

Time to start a company selling an invisible privacy spray for your cereal box that coats it in UV ink and obscures the original invisible barcode...
Easily double that even, if don't use cache (4.4mb on a mobile device, while testing just now).
MIT president Paul Gray asked Harvard President Derek Bok for the return of the apparatus, which was also a bit hilarious:

______________________

Dear Derek,

Word has come to me that your campus police are holding some property which rightfully should be located in the MIT Museum. Can this be true?

Surely you have little use for a makeshift device constructed from vacuum cleaner parts, points from 1967 Mustang, and a handful of marbles. We, however, being the sentimental sort, would take great care of indeed, we would enshrine--this symbolic highlight of the 1982 football season. Please give it back.

Sincerely yours,

Paul E. Gray

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1982/12/9/boks-mail-ballo...
> This is only true if you spend too long navel gazing.

Not at all. "Now" can only have meaning withing a spaciotemporal frame of reference. We are used to operating within a single such context and our language assumes that.

Your point 2) explicitly brings up people from two different contexts discussing what "now" means.

While language that assumes a single spaciotemporal reference frame will continue to be used and to be useful, that doesn't make it useful for discussing systems with multiple frames of spaciotemporal reference.
Im a wldland firefighter from the northern Rockies, just returned from a deployment to the Woolsey incident (LA and Ventura counties).

Yes, prescribed burns are common in the off season for all fire districts. However, CalFire has some unique challenges [1] that most of the other states do not have to deal with when it comes to air quality and sufficient water conditions during their shrinking off season.
https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-he...
It doesn't. First to clarify what the CMB is. It's basically just heat residuals that seem to indicate that the universe was much hotter in the past. The problem is that these heat residuals are relatively homogeneously distributed. In terms of thermdynamics this makes perfect sense - the entire temperature of an area will gradually converge, like a pot of boiling water will eventually reach room temperature.

But physically what we observe does not make any sense. Like you probably know, nothing -- including action -- can be perceived to travel faster than the speed of light. The sun is about 8 light minutes away from us. If it somehow just suddenly disappeared, we'd still see it in the sky and continue to revolve around, what would 'now' be nothing, for about 8 minutes. The observation of its disappearance and the effective causality of its disappearance (and its effect on our orbit) would happen at or very near the exact same time.

The problem with the CMB is that areas of space that should not be causally connected since light itself has not had time to go from one to the other, seem to be causally connected. In other words, with our boiling pot in a kitchen room - the eventual equilibrium that the kitchen reaches (if we assume that that entire little region is all of the space in existence) is going to vary quite substantially whether you have an e.g. 100 cubic meter kitchen or a 200 cubic meter kitchen. We should observe both sides of space acting like two independent 100 cubic meter kitchens, instead we seem them behaving like a single 200 cubic meter kitchen.

This is a major and unresolved problem that threw much of what we know out the window. It directly contradicts the big bang. To 'resolve' this, we started creating a arbitrary special conditions. Cosmic inflation is one of these. There is absolutely no reason to believe that cosmic inflation ever happened - its sole and only reason for existence is to work as a 'fix' to make what we observe fit what we thought we'd observe. This makes it illogical to use derivative things as "evidence". In particular the nature of our current CMB is in no way meaningful evidence of inflation, because inflation was hypothesized, after the fact, in no small part to fit the CMB to what we thought we'd see! In other words calling the CMB meaningful evidence of inflation is trying to provide support to a hypothesis by suggesting that the observation said hypothesis tries to explain is meaningful evidence of that hypothesis.

Any not completely idiotic hypothesis will obviously be 'evidenced' by what it tries to explain. But we have a major problem when that 'evidence' becomes all you have to rely on, and that is exactly the case here.
Which I think is a dangerous train to be getting on.

The GDPR is likely only the first such law, other countries will also enact some form of privacy laws. And the first round of lawsuits from the GDPR are still underway. Once those have gone through, things should hopefully change quite a bit more still, as most companies are still in violation of the GDPR.

And if that all does go through, the business model of Google and Facebook is going to become much less profitable.
This is a great idea. I'm going to do the same when I fly out Thanksgiving as well. Thank you
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I’ve halved romaine lettuce and grilled it before with olive oil, salt and pepper topped with a light Vinaigrette. Quite tastey but difficult to grill. I’ve done it twice.

My wife’s eyebrows were raised both times. She thought it was weird but didn’t think it tasted bad.
I'm afraid it is true regardless, at least in cosmic scales. "now" is entirely dependent on your reference frame, and it is possible to construct two frames of reference such that if they could instantly communicate they would receive eachother's responses before the original messages were sent. See: Tachyonic antitelephone [0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_antitelephone
I looked in to this in general a couple years ago. At least that that time the lending agencies that were NOT banks and actually HAD public statements as to the terms/conditions being offered __ALL__ included that. You might just not see them in Stripe/PayPal worded as such, but the liability is pushed entirely on the seller.

This is where a contractual fulfillment tracking system would be useful, a matter of public record as to whom is paying whom and if the other side(s) in the transaction held up their end of the deal. The sort of thing that witnesses would sign; like your bank, their bank, and regulatory organizations (for some special or large value transactions).
Taking over the Rose Bowl scoreboard in 1984 also ranks up there.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trbimg...
I think the confusion here is related to the idea that you can infer something happens even if you cannot observe it happening. If you know it takes light 8K years to reach you, and you can right now see a countdown process which will go off in 4K years, it is reasonable to assume the event already occurred in the process frame of reference. Of course, the certainty of that hinges on the inevitability of the process, but that could viably be on the same scale as the certainty of a direct observation itself.

Basically, our ability to accurately predict the future is not confined to events in our own frame of reference, so the difference between what is known to have happened and what is predicted to happen need not be very large.
I'm confused -- in what sense was this the "second half of Watergate"? I don't see any obvious relation to Watergate as it's usually known.
> So much going on

It's all part of the plan, man. Keep 'em distracted with too much info. It's like a law firm burying you with boxes and boxes and boxes of discovery, which has little or nothing to actually do with the case at hand. It's effective, and tiresome.
find a small group of people that are excited about what they are doing -- then go from there
Maybe I misread your comment. What did you mean by "Given the US's $20 trillion GDP, that's quite a lot"? What is "that" in this sentence referring to?