skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same situation here in Nebraska really, there's a single healthcare provider that offers exactly 1 plan that would cost me, a young, healthy, 23 y/o hundreds of dollars per month with a ridiculously high deductible. If I were to start on my own I would be bankrupt in months from health insurance alone.
> ...scientists and engineers; not computer scientists and software engineers, but the real ones.

That's a good one. And well-deserved.
It doesn't matter if the shareholders believe it is not the best move. It matters if the board believes it is the best move for the long term benefit of the company and its shareholders. The duty of loyalty does not require a board to do everything the shareholders want or to maximize short term profits. If a majority of the shareholders disagree they can vote to replace the board, but that doesn't mean the board hasn't met its fiduciary duty.
The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.00260.pdf

It's interesting that it's already used for optimizing for long term value when deciding whether a push notification should be sent or not.
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In that case, I'm definitely convinced to your side of the argument! If a civilian can buy it, I see no reason why a police force shouldn't be able to as well. That said, I'd love to hear any counter-arguments to this notion, if they exist.
Great advice. Side note:

To humor you, I clicked the bloated web expecting to see how large the web had grown with unimportant projects and whatnot.

After clicking through to disable adblock, I thought to myself, "What the FUCK is this guy on about!?" and then realized the point of the website.

Sincerely,
almostWhooshGuy
As a Chinese living abroad, I censor my internet voluntarily via custom ublock cosmetic filters that kick in automatically upon match of certain regex patterns. I call it my "outer great firewall". Very effective protection against hate speech
> Knowing what compromises to make in order to ship without creating a future nightmare.

Sounds like they were bad at that part
If you can afford it, get a less intellectually demanding job where you can automate your work; freeing up even more of your time.

This is one of products of this lifestyle: https://theymadethat.com
Please don't post your bad comedy routine here.
> Should we not care about his murder as much then?

Actually, the correction was so that people wouldn't continue making the mistake, not because his citizenship status is a critical point. The error is a distraction from the main point that is avoidable in the future.
The idea that high school students have good habits that lead them to good colleges that lead to good work behavior is a laughable one.

I say this as someone who won the "game" on every count with this. Near-perfect SAT score, perfect high school performance, 100% acceptance rate into the Ivies (Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Cornell).

These say nothing about me other than my parenting, background and ability to win games that other people made up. Any intelligence or ability or skill or discipline that I have is in spite of those things, not because of them.
I really like the layout of the website.
I fail to see how this would work. An object is a combination of state and methods acting on the state, and purely functional meaning no state.
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chess.com is running a "tournament" of the top computer chess engines to play out the final position of Game 12 and see how it goes:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/computer-chess-championship-...
Or scalable and decentralized systems that aren't secure (e.g. SMTP) :)
> SystemD was selected by the Technical committee, which was very far from unanimous in the decision.

I didn't know that. I thought the poll was open to anyone to vote for the relevant time window.

> Debian broke their social contract, showing that their priority was no longer with their users.

Isn't this a little bold claim? AFAICS, the poll has spotted the potential problems and general grievances pretty well (like binary logs, etc.), and concluded that these reservations should be addressed before systemd has included in Debian?

I'm not trying to defend systemd here. As I said in my comments, I disliked it first, and then I learnt and got used to it. My teammates has shown bigger reactions to it, and then they liked it too, after we configured it to behave the way we like. I didn't migrate to systemd voluntarily. It fell from above on me in a pretty hard way.
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I don't think it's entirely surprising. Not to mention desertification without proper grazing and crop rotations. Competition from mega farms. And the practices of organizations like Tyson, where farmers are encouraged to take out huge growth loans "owning" everything that costs money, and not owning the product itself. Add to this what the likes of the farming equipment companies are doing to lock in maintenance costs and ever growing expenses.

I think the first thing(s) that should be done is eliminate farm aid to farms that own more than X acres, or are owned by parent companies owning more than X acres of land. Significantly roll back the DMCA. Third, would probably be to re-secure those loans on better terms. It's a national security issue at its' core.
I agree. It's also good to have more diversification of science and technology progress. That way if one country gets an anti-science leader, it makes less of a difference to overall human progress.
Oddly, this company did none of these things, and everyone left.
Equipment is an insane cost. That's why there are so few new farmers. The start up cost is astronomical. A combine, for example, can run to $400-500k — a piece of equipment that taking up barn space for 48 weeks out of the year. Add in your tractors, planters, spreaders, sprayers … add on top of that your land costs. Many farmers don't own all of their land outright, they hold medium/long term leases. Miss a single year lease costs and you lose the land, which forever drops your future earnings, lowering your margins, and bringing you closer to bankruptcy. There's a minimum amount of land you need to farm to even break even. You add more acres in good years to maybe save up enough for equipment replacement, or a new truck.

When you lose the land, lease, or go bankrupt, your land gets snapped up by huge corporate farms that can run at a higher margin, driving down food prices over the long term, making smaller farms less and less viable.
They are not the same thing as a standard armored truck. The name itself gives that away (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected). Police do not need mine-resistant vehicles.

MRAPs have high maintenance and running costs. The simple fact that they are former military vehicles contributes to the military mindset of many police depts, something that should be avoided. Militarization of police forces is bad for citizens.
I'd love to be proven wrong but I believe that all nuclear plants have been loss making, even without taking decommissioning into account.

The use of nuclear isnt or wasn't always about 'cheap dnergy' but about energy security. Don't forget that we often don't think of tbe huge geopolitical costs of our continued reliance on oil.
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I don't know about something big...he'll only just barely be 5 then, and his attention span is pretty limited. But I can see trying to something that we can work on where we can make small amounts of progress every day.
I think this will only increase discrimination rather than decrease it. The less data people have about someone the more they will use their prejudices to judge them and will focus more on those subtle differences to get clues which will affect their decision.

For example, let's say the name and gender doesn't appear on the resume so you can't have a feel to the origin of the person. You will still be curious to know it even more. So you will look deeper into the text to look for any hints of language usage patterns . This will just deepen your investment into finding not so relevant differences even more and reenforce those prejudices when confirmed once the applicant comes to the interview.

It might be a good idea for screening for players in the philharmonic orchestra where you can test them behind a curtain and don't really need any human interaction, but for most jobs you will meet the person eventually, so it will just cause more damage.
> Ok, but what problem is cryptocurrency solving exactly?

Simple. It enables payments, to be more precise: Online Payments. Now you could do those using your credit card (like most people in the US do, or basically all of Scandinavia). That is, if you are able to open an account with a bank, and being issued a CC. However, this is not possible for many people. Outside the western world banking isn't available to the same extent as it is there.

In a world where more and more commerce moves online - thus enabling whole new businesses and economies - we can't afford to just let people behind. Speaking for Ethereum now, banking the Unbanked is a centrepiece of the project.

Also, wire-transfer isn't free in some places of the world, some projects seek to eliminate those fees entirely or reduce them to peanuts effectively.

It's basically democratising online payments and giving people access. Also some projects (like ZCash and Monero) seek to bake in privacy into payments, which is nice given that all Credit Card payments are recorded by private companies. I don't know about you but I already dislike online advertising, I don't want some company to know about everything about my payments.
Please. The Camry has 5.7 inches of ground clearance. The RAV 4 has 6.1 inches of ground clearance. That's not getting you over any fallen logs any easier.
I’m only a beginner in French, but doesn’t this syntax explode because of the other gender implications? Do you have to write things like “l(e/a) docteur(e) est grand(e)” or “L’histoire d(u/e la) docteur(e)”? And how does
this work in speech?
What's wrong with chrony and ntpd? Just curious.

BTW, how can I contribute? I might get interested if I have time.
In my case, it's return on investment. If I create some code for one city. Why not use that code for city X.com, city Y.com, city Z.com, ... I'm not saying it couldn't be done a different way. Using just one domain.
Additionally, it is not in Carlsen's best interest to finish the tournament. During the tournament he is a super star. After the tournament he is just some guy who has a chess trophy (i.e. most people in real life don't care).

This!
That image is a bit misleading. Those fonts all have a very different feel in the UI.

For example, I never really liked when Apple switched from Lucida Grande as the main UI Font to Helvetica, and I was very relieved when they replaced Helvetica with San Francisco.

I think San Francisco is a decent UI font -- it's much better than Helvetica. I don't particularly like it, but at least it doesn't annoy me.

The differences are subtle. If you show me short strings I probably wouldn't know them apart, but changing the font for the whole UI has a big effect.
Yes, words under copyright and defamatory statements. Not a huge expansion, covered under 'pretty much' in my opinion.

Fighting words is essentially a dead precedent, and all that remains is inciting imminent violence, which I mentioned.
> Ok, but what problem is cryptocurrency solving exactly?

There are many applications of cryptocurrency now.

> I'm already making day to day payments with USD, so why do I want to do it with cryptocurrency?

Historically speaking, because the US Dollar is printed by the federal reserve and they can print as much as they want, leaving you subject to their whims - look at what it did to Cyprus.
This is Financial Times, so paywall.

https://www.ft.com/content/0b02085d-d5b2-351d-81a2-1135025d0...

But google 'Bunge agriculture industry consolidation' (to be clear, I have no association with Bunge)

The entire global food system is getting squeezed and restructured. It's not just US farmers. But this is a real issue. This news is not fake.

That's all I mean to say.
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Rust had an optional GC once, they removed it. Nim is the answer to scrubs like me who thought Rust was interesting up until that point, since Nim is super fast and lets you allocate/deallocate directly (use of GC is optional) and has three different GC implementations to choose from (including a soft real time one).
I see that NLL makes the borrow checker easier to work with for developers, but does NLL actually change when objects will be dropped at run-time?
> It just means that all people are equally worth, not to some utility function, but absolutely as human beings.

In order to believe that worth can be determined independent of a utility function, you need a standard of absolute worth. Even religious statements of worth are based on utility to the deity. Biological statements of worth regard utility toward the population or ecosystem. I can't think of a non-utilitarian standard of worth that isn't arbitrary, can you?
You mean a company desires for you to buy more stuff from them...amazing.

But why would you think that removing the headphone jack, and including lightning headphones, including an adapter for two years, and supporting standard BT would entice someone to spend $150 when they go to the Apple Store instead of buying wireless headphones?
It's a trend -- Google employees raise voice more and more often. The Damore memo, the defense contracts, and now this. Clearly something is happening there.
> It enables payments, to be more precise: Online Payments.

anonymous, decentralized payments in a currency of finite supply allowing everyone to be their own bank.
What's in a Docker image?
Antlr-haskell: A Haskell implementation of the ANTLR top-down parser generator
Do startups make video? Video usage at startups
> Do you in good consciousness support the U.S. government?

What kind of question is that? No citizen supports all the actions of their government. Government options are a lot more limited than employment options.
As a lifelong US citizen I have to say that, while I want the best for the Chinese people in every respect, I believe it is fairly obvious that any expansion of the Chinese government's power would be bad for the world (specifically w.r.t. human rights). Many people in this thread seem to be advocating for the abandonment of the West's moral aspirations based upon the idea that a censored Google being available in China is the best thing for Chinese citizens. To me, this perspective seems to be incorrect and and strangely myopic. If we accept the premise (and not everyone here will) that the moral aspirations of the west point toward a more human-centric and democratic global future than those of the Chinese government, then it follows that individuals concerned with the human condition must not support an expansion of Chinese government power in the name of short-term corporate profit. Essentially, anything that increases the efficiency of the Chinese government, or lessens the pain of government censorship, increases that government's power and its ability to enact its goals and is therefore a net negative both for Chinese citizens and for the world. Providing censorship-friendly versions of western technology to non-democratic countries may be in the short-term best interests of the subjugated populations of said countries (and other parties such as shareholders), but that strategy is undeniably in the long-term worst interests of the world and its peoples.
I use mr [1] for this

[1] - https://myrepos.branchable.com/
A problem not unique to China unfortunately...
Facebook is operating exactly as designed. To hear people talk you would think Facebook was some kind of public utility or perhaps a system where Mark Zuckerberg does you a favor by hosting your cat pictures out of the goodness of his heart.

This is not so, you do not have a Facebook page - Facebook has a page on you[0].

The real solution to the power Facebook is probably regulation, but nobody wants to tackle that big ball of hurt.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2013/10/the_seven_realities_of_social_ne...
(I wrote this several years ago, today I would be harsher on some of Facebook's policies)
From the announcement: Built-In Security: We provide compute security barriers that enable multitenant workloads, and cannot be mistakenly disabled by customers. Customer workloads are simultaneously considered sacred (shall not be touched) and malicious (shall be defended against).

Step one, here is a guide that effectively removes all protections on the host system.

Win.
As far as possible, you don't put complex electronics in there. Motors connected by an umbilical cable to the operator, analogue sensors, etc. In some situations you might be able to use a mechanical or hydraulic system.

See: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20678838

"Most nuclear robots operate on power provided by a trailing umbilical. This means there are no batteries to change and no refuelling issues to contend with."

It's reasonably rare to have full or even semi-autonomous in nuclear due to the risks involved of something going wrong, or the thing just dying. Easier just to remote control down a cable.

See also https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/014399112112... for an interesting overview of robots used at Fukushima.
Outside of a very limited set of circumstances (sushi bars, or close longtime friends of the serving/kitchen staff), you're just annoying the staff when you ask to be surprised. It's a dick move to walk into a situation where the other party knows nothing about you, but they're still expected to impress you.
@pierpont_morgan looks a lot like a Russian troll account, too
What did you sell? Just curious.
Disagree. I think this is like saying Einstein shouldn't have been vocal about the Bomb. I think scientists (and scientific institutions) should use their visibility to make a social point, and that shouldn't at all undermine their scientific credibility.
The Toyota Highlander shares the Camry platform. The smaller-then-Highlander RAV-4 platform is not shared with a car model.
It's a little more complicated than that.

Yes, he was in a position that both engines and human grandmasters said was superior, with time pressure. But there's no clear line to force difficult moves for Caruana before the time control kicks in after move 40, and then it's a whole new game; Caruana gets a fresh 50 minutes on the clock and can potentially fight his way to an exhausting draw. Plus there's the risk that any blunder -- and remember this is coming in a crowded, grindy-looking middlegame -- loses the championship.

From that spot, it makes sense for Carlsen to try to go straight to the tiebreak games where he feels he's more strongly favored.
> If each vaccination you took came with mandatory remodeling of your house, directed by whims of some "artists", you'd see much more antivaxxers too.

I cannot concur strongly enough. (And I will likely steal this lovely analogy in the future!)

Security is important, and installing security patches is a good practice. But companies use this as an excuse to force the adoption of all sorts of other crap. I'm not willing to put up with that.

I understand that back-porting patches requires some amount of additional effort. But asking gigantic tech companies to support major releases for a few years at minimum should not be too much to ask.

In this regard, Microsoft and Windows 10 are by far the worst offenders. Microsoft develops and releases security-only patches for 1607 and will continue to do so until 2026, but these patches are only available to enterprises. Normal consumers need to either use Microsoft's problem-ridden biannual updates, or be insecure.

Actions speak louder than words. If Microsoft actually held security in such a high regard, they wouldn't hold security patches hostage in order to push other corporate interests. I thus don't feel the least bit of guilt about opting out of MS's entire update process.
sure, but totally beside the point.
> btw if I quit on Feb 1, I'm walking away from half a million dollars in stock. This has some serious monetary consequences for me.

https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1067469950594486272
Sounds interesting. I'll report on my results here once I have uploaded my otherwise end to end encrypted private and personal conversations into this unknown script...
Modern mma has a focus on fighting and not on displays. So it's really no surprise that you got good at a new discipline when you practiced it. It's really just a matter of what you are aiming for.

I think the skepticism is pretty rational. There are plenty of people who talk about a bunch of rubbish that makes them invincible. Things have really got to be tried to be prove, you gotta walk the walk, not just talk the talk.

Modern martial arts has a great history of taking things that weren't initially thought to work, such as Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, Judo etc, very seriously when they are proven to work.
Love this approach and points, thanks. I'm fully deep into the am routine, and at 8am when they wake up I'm a piece of meat that barely walks.
It's exactly the riot cop problem. On the cop side, the more armor you have, the less you see and the more hostile the world /seems/; this increases the chance of using force instead of diplomacy in any given situation.

On the civilian side, you get to feel like you live in a goddamned war zone, with the police as combatants. It's not a nice feeling.

My own approach is to treat cops as large, gun-wielding wild animals: maybe they'll be fine, but in any interaction there's a chance they'll fuck up your life permanently. And that's a direct consequence of having police on 'war footing' with the community, where the default reactions to problems are either violence or long-term imprisonment. And the ethics of this extends beyond my own interactions: if I see something illegal happening, calling the cops means putting people in extreme danger. As a result, I'm not going to call the cops for anything less than assault. Thus, police militarization works against actual enforcement of the law, because it estranges police from the population. (For a whole lot more, go listen to season 3 of the Serial podcast...)
Speed and trust. Trust in the algos that were devised and implemented through the history.

Older codes often had a parameter to control a number of significant digits to maintain. Perhaps a limitation in those days, but also it allowed to control error tolerance. Indeed, engineerig it is.
> (that is somewhat backed by my government)

I think you've identified one of the advantages of bitcoin. There's no counterparty risk, ie bail-ins. This is the commodity gold replacement use case where the carry on Bitcoin is lower and paid by others.
the experience you have described that occurs after about 2 weeks is a very distinct state of mind. I find that I can to a certain extent reliability reproduce it (1) whenever I have a deadline and I'm procrastinating, (2) occasionally after smoking some marijuana (3) and on long distance runs.
Get over it, Nature won. No amount of social construction theory will ever make individuals equal.
I disagree. I believe the most difficult engineering problem in the world is changing human behavior and decision making at scale. Not behavior in terms of "tap the screen more often", but actually changing how we treat each other, how we treat the planet, consumption and consumerism versus preservation and reuse. To that end, this is engineering, and they are on the right side of history.

Further, social activism as engineering is important. It's engineering behavior so we're more inclusive. Inclusivity is important because we need lots of perspectives on how to solve problems. The more perspectives we have, the better our solutions will be.
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