skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the uninformed, Marc Lamont Hill is a university professor and CNN contributor who was fired from CNN yesterday after his speech to the United Nations in which he argued for "a free Palestine from the river to the sea" (meaning the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea).[0]

That phrase has been repeatedly used[1] by Hamas and other terrorist organizations calling for the eradication of Israel and its Jews; if Palestine exists from the river to the sea, there is no room for Israel. This statement is a variation on the phrase which Islamic apocalyptic fundamentalists claim the Islamic Madhi will pronounce in the last days: "Jerusalem is Arab Muslim, and Palestine — all of it, from the river to the sea — is Arab Muslim."

The Anti-Defamation League and other prominent Jewish organizations, both left and right leaning, condemned the speech. ADL vice president said[2],

"Those calling for ‘from the river to the sea’ are calling for an end to the State of Israel...It is a shame that once again, this annual event at the United Nations does not promote constructive pathways to ‘Palestinian solidarity’ and a future of peace, but instead divisive and destructive action against Israel."

Hill later claimed[3] he was not calling for the destruction of Israel. But other snippets from his speech[0] showed he in fact was arguing that the UN should permit violence against Israelis, and that peaceful protest was not the only way forward for Arabs living in and around Israel.

[0]: https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1067985406388510727

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_nationalism#From_t...

[2]: https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/242732/cnn-commentator...

[2]: https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/106823807625274572...
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Please do not remove the link underline in continuous text. It makes the links inaccessible for people who cannot perceive color differences.[1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F73.html
Yes, you're right float64 in the math package. So I've definitely run into this with float vs float64.

As for the int vs int64, I definitely run into what I describe on Project Euler. Probably using a self referential map[int]int when I need to suddenly pull an int64 and everything gets infected.

I realize it's just a matter of convenience for me, but I personally have no downside to int == int64.
Yeah, I mean the market is filled with VPN Service providers.
No, it is literally true that the threat of state violence is what props up the ability to own any property.
Why not PostgreSQL? It's also on RDS.
Who writes sales copy like that home page anymore? The first sentence describing your product is "it's unique"? That's the most important thing you want me to know as a visitor?

Ditch all the self-serving superlatives and tell me what it does and what it does for me, not how impressed you are with what you built.

I'm probably even in the target market for this product, but the home page is so terrible I won't be back to try to figure it out.
He (Patrick) missed out "People in the same family have unique names" as a general concept.

He pointed out "Jr." and "I/II/III", but how about Maria <middle name> <last name>?

Both my sisters' first names are Maria, as is my daughter and my upcoming one. My new daughter will have the same initials as one of my sisters (My mother, her sisters and my cousin also are all Marias, but luckily many of them have different last names).

So, if your form only has an initial for middle name, you could have a situation where a person living in the same household (i.e. same address) is indistinguishable for another.

So neglecting the middle name, as if often done, is terrible.
If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch "Silicon Valley" - Bill Gates
>usually the last option means compiling it yourself

The last time I did this it took so long I was able to write my own HTML parser while I was waiting (and I had never written a parser for a context free language before.)
Usually specialists are more like this, but not general practitioners. Also if you are privately insured you get premium service because the physician earns multiple times as much as from national health insurance. He now has time for you without jeopardizing his ability to pay off his office location.

Not too long ago, I still had my general physician who could sit down and talk it all through. He retired... and another one in another city did as well. Younger ones seem under much higher economic stress. Maybe also stress from peers?

It seems more of an emergent problem to be honest.
Eh! Somebody didn't read the title or the article at all.
Algeria fossils cast doubt on East Africa as sole origin of stone tools
So, coming from the science side of things where we 'program' DNA in order to design genes not found in nature, it's clear evolution works at many scales simultaneously. And those scales each need to be accounted for in order to traverse the large search-space. And in regards to this particular problem, evolution did not grant the complexity of multi-cellular life by doing any kind of random walk across a sequence. Life had a few billion years to come up with 'useful components' as well as 'good' heuristics and tools that commonly arrive at useful components. And then it reused that code, and started running different genetic algorithms on the same underlying code, but at another abstraction level upwards.

It allowed those components that were useful to be duplicated, redone, and rearranged to form higher-order tools. Where the components remained relatively stable, but were remixed, redone, reordered, and otherwise reused - with only slight modification to lock them into their new tool.

We see this with the results of evolutionary modifications to DNA. One of the proteins responsible for multi-cellularity is itself a mashup of 4 or 5 proteins found in single-celled organisms, but where those smaller proteins are repeated, smashed together, and otherwise remixed to form a protein with a new function that was synergistic with the original components. And that synergy allowed for the higher-order complexity associated with multi-cellularity [1]. And once that took off and proteins started to get large, the proteins would themselves be split up into pathways - and then those pathways would get duplicated. Etc. And this is just one mechanism real life has used evolution to scan that underlying space more rapidly than random walks.

This is actually what we do at Serotiny [2] - we don't design novel proteins by sequence (in the 20^300 landscape) but rather by functional domain (in the 20000^5 landscape). And I think there are mechanisms to incorporate that kind of scaling layer into a good genetic algorithm that allow you to traverse short paths by going upwards into the different space, and then coming back down when you need granularity,

And so, I think when going back to the algorithms, if you want to make them pragmatic rather than theoretical, many scales should be addressed simultaneously.

> “DNA is extremely important, but it makes no sense if [it is] not in a cell, in an organism, in an ecosystem.” Other interactions are at play, and this application of algorithmic information cannot capture the extent of that complexity.

Yep.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11466531

[2] https://serotiny.bio
What other snippets from the speech show he believed in permitting violence?
If 90% of shares are non-intervening that means hostile takeovers are now 10x cheaper to implement. It would be weird to be a company with market cap $100M, where $10M could buy a controlling interest in voting shares.
Clarification: there are two risqué thumbnails to other articles. One of them is a breastfeeding mother and the other is a nudist male seen roughly from the side.
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Jerk is a Swedish name that once was common in the region I grew up in. Now there are only 88 Swedes with the name left. It's short for Jerker (1522 people)...

https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/namnsok...
Even this argument isn't great, though, because a lot of the time it doesn't matter. Like, for HTML, the majority of the time the UTF-8 version will be shorter regardless because of all of the single-byte characters used in the markup.
>- Not having a field, if you don't need it. - Having a single Unicode variable width field for "how would you like us to call you" (so not necessarily a full or formal name), with a maximum length of at least 1K characters. - Having two such fields for "given name" and "full name", with the understanding that neither may match the legal name because of practical limitations. Which field you use depends on the formality required by the specific use.

I look forward to being in line to check into a hotel room while the clerk tries to puzzle out how to lookup the reservation for a guy whose name is just a string of emoji.
Exactly. And that's the level of thought running our nation states. Hence the competition idea.
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To a degree, yes, which is why it has to be secured properly, with state-of-the-art systems and engineering. I'd venture a guess to say this wasn't. But until we hold executives personally and retroactively responsible, nothing will change.
To be fair to Star Trek, the shows generally focus on the people on Starfleet vessels, not the civilians on planets. It's implied that war and poverty on Earth and other "developed" planets is over and the only conflict is in border regions where the Federation borders hostile civilizations. You may have a point in regard to fashion, however.
The simplest and best reply to the Darwin tweet is this

https://twitter.com/paraschopra/status/1068462375970443264

> Today’s Darwin would be like the original Darwin.
> Someone with FU money, not dependent on grants,

EDIT: added quote
I've gone through life with a surname that euphemistically refers to an intimate part of male anatomy. While I've never had problems with it (well, technological problems, at least) -- this writer with a slightly different spelling, has:

https://twitter.com/natalieweiner/status/1034533630071193602...
Perl6 too.
> 10% vs 90% of share votes being on auto-pilot shouldn't matter?

I'm not familiar with these non-intervention clauses, but in the 10/90 scenario haven't you made it much easier to seize control of the company? Now I only need 5%+1 of the shares to do as I wish?
I would prefer the mobile version if the sections weren't collapsed by default and there was a TOC.
Have any fines actually been levied and enforced?
Possibly add a merge trees feature?
> They chickened out on giving an actual example of a "bad word" name

Incontinentia Buttocks and Bigus Dickus spring to mind.
I think it's purposely generic to encompass many examples, besides the one that's most recent?
People who are aware of how pervasive tracking is wouldn't mind much indeed. The average user would be _infuriated_ of having to login every time they open a tab.
It sure looks like another case of anti-Palestine groups conflating criticism of the apartheid policies of Israel with antisemitism.

edit: As an example, look at the ADL's incredibly misleading take on the BDS movement:

https://www.adl.org/what-we-do/israel/anti-israel-activity-b...
Sure. I helped an older family member who was being threatened by collectors over some very old, unenforceable debt.
It's not any easier (to a first approximation), because the share price will increase as you try to buy in, and the lower fraction of actively traded shares makes them that much more scarce and ramp up in value that much more quickly.
Most likely yes, we just may not know about it.
> Apple's primary aim by limiting the access to the store isn't to make devs miserable, it's to have users trust the app store.

It really isn't. It's to prop up their own services through anti-competitive blocking, to maintain a level of terrifying censorship, and to rent seek on what remains.
Have to be careful comparing mature companies which show consistent and predicatable growth with those that are still early in that cycle.

While the revenue growth the last couple of years for Asana is obviously on an uptick you have to be careful that the growth is really a precentage not an absolute value. If they are growing 50% that's awesome, but if instead they are growing $25MM, from $25MM to $50MM, to $75MM, to $100MM that is a completely different story.

You need another dot on that plot to see which one it is.

Overall the valuations for SaaS companies are definitely well ahead of revenue but early on in a company's history that's ok as there is a lot of future growth potential.

However, listing that graph without a Y-axis label for revenue implies that it is well below $100MM in revenue and most likely that last plot is around the $50-60MM line.

So definitely an aggressive valuation for the time being.
For the uninformed, here is my completely biased take as a Zionist.
I just think it's a futile kind of paranoia. Your anomalous behavior puts you on some list. Writing about it here puts you on some list. As every admin knows so well, spying on user data is much too easy for that not being done all over. We'd need to tear down large scale digital infrastructure to make even a dent into the problem of massive abuse potential. Deleting cookies is cope.
the cli tool is free.
This doesn't work on mobile. Looks like a fixed-width single column page that's too wide, but can't check for actual reason now because am on mobile.
Thanks this will be very useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS

Went into force a few months ago.
Really aggressive feedback for a free tool like this. Maybe go for a walk and come back and read what you wrote out loud.
> So, I'm a medical student and I'm baffled by the number of people who come asking for medical advice.

My brother is a medical student, and I find myself asking him for opinion on medical issues from time to time. I do that when the problem isn't (or doesn't seem) serious, and I don't treat his answers as if they came from MD. The reason is simple: going to a doctor is an expensive and time-consuming endeavour, whereas I can ask my brother things casually whenever I come visit.

If you ain't gonna go to the doctor over something anyway, asking a medical student you know still beats trying to "research" things on the Internet.
It certainly sounds horribly inefficient. With my business I shut down a few years ago I shipped about 1600 shipments in 16 months while working a full time job with a lot of OT and still training 3 days a week with plenty of time to sit around watching tv on Sundays while also doing my own SEO, answering customer emails, looking for other product options, constantly monitoring competitors, manually cleaning 500+ pounds of LEGO pieces as part of an exploration at moving to another business etc.

(Never buy 500+ pounds of used LEGO pieces, ever, just trust me)
This is so obviously wrong I have no idea how to continue.
My first Linux distribution was Slackware 2.0, I used a myriad since then, subscribed to Linux Journal during its first decade, eventually as UI/UX developer I re-focused on Windows as main OS, although I still run Ubuntu on my travel netbook.

So I do know my way around Linux distributions.

Tweaking Linux is something I still have to do occasionally, like hacking around video acceleration, handling OpenGL rendering problems, or connecting to wlan routers.
Damn I'm gonna have to give that a go.
As a developer, do you really want to live in a world where "security is a top priority" at every company? Does such a world even make economic sense after accounting for the opportunity cost of the time most that developers would otherwise spend actually building new products and features?

While companies could probably do better than they are right now, hacks like this are probably never going to be eliminated. There are too many companies and too many developers for nobody to make mistakes, even when they're being mindful not to. Investing in solutions that assume hacks will happen seems reasonable to me.
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I think it's also more space efficient when dealing with foreign languages primarily.

For plain text, yes. UTF-16 covers the Basic Multilingual Plane in 2 bytes per character, UTF-8 covers the BMP in at most 3 bytes per character. However, since most (web) content is dominated by markup in ASCII, which is 1 byte per character in UTF-8 and 2 bytes per character in UTF-16, UTF-8 typically wins even with Asian scripts.

Taking some random zh Wikipedia page in UTF-8:

curl "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/威蘭運河" | wc -c
78543
curl "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/威蘭運河" | wc -m
71003

So, that's 1.11 bytes per character on average, compared to at least 2 bytes per character if it was encoded in UTF-16.

(Of course, adding compression is going to diminish the differences anyway. A very primitive compression algorithm in such cases would be recoding your UTF-16 to UTF-8 :p.)
Tracking the index on your own would be more than a full time job. You could do it automatically, but that just reinvents the fund

The S&P500 had 500 stocks. Do you want to vote ~1.5 times a day?
>“Contrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Ghandi and nonviolence," Hill said (see video below.) "Rather, slave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom. If we are to operate in true solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility. If we are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend itself. We must prioritize peace, but we must not romanticize or fetishize it. We must advocate and promote nonviolence at every opportunity, but we cannot endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing
As a process, that is a flat out awful one.
Microsoft uses AI to count fish in Australia, and get not eaten by crocodiles
> online voting

I hope they realize their error.

Online voting or voting from home by other means undermines the freedom to vote.

It opens avenues to vote buying and group pressure and all kinds of shenanigans. All the convince or increased voting arguments should be weighed against current and historical evidence of how voting actually works.

For example, women from traditional family structures will lose their ability to cast an independent vote at once. Even here in Finland where women received the right to vote very early (second after NZ) it's very common for electoral officials to see old sweet couple coming in and the man trying to check the woman's vote and throwing a angry hizzy fit when it's not allowed.

Being alone in the voting box is essential part of voting in democracy.
Interesting (but not really) that twisting his words made it to HN. Watch the video of his speech, it’s ~20 minutes (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzSv28z97o). He says, and is pretty clear, that peace is the key, but don’t idolize it because as other movements have shown, the oppressed need to fight back.
In the case discussed here (celebrities pumping ICOs) it would be easy to manage because they likely have affiliate links or specific urls. Even without those, the ICO could watch incoming traffic over a certain time and see the spike of IG visitors after a post.

In my original comment, I was more referring to advertisement like Tide putting up a billboard. How do they know it works? Well, I'm sure they do market surveys "Have you seen this billboard?" but it's probably full of bias. But in the grand scheme of things, it's just for market awareness as I said. Keep Tide on the minds of consumers.
The economics and game theory of this suggests that newspapers should be forced to cooperate with each other.

Cartelize on-line journalism. Make the 4th estate official. Create a pseudo-governmental entity like the US post office, Fannie Mae, or the Fed. If you have an Internet connection, you have the option, through your ISP, to pay $X towards journalism on the web. Your ISP will then cryptographically vouch for any request that goes from a paying subscriber to a cartel member site, such that the member doesn't know exactly who the subscriber is. If you're on a foreign network provider that doesn't participate, you'd have to get crypto keys and a standalone program (or browser add-on) directly from the cartel (that could make you identifiable), or go through a VPN that participates.

If a request comes in with valid crypto, the response is the requested article, with no tracking, and a cartel-fixed standard for ad content. If it does not, it is up to the publisher as to what to do with the response. Deny. Inject intrusive ads. Infect with tracking malware. If you didn't pay, you get what you get. Cartel members are paid from the common fund via analysis of the server logs, targeting X% of the total amount paid out as potentially lost to fraud (so as to not overspend on analysis and fraud detection). Baseline income is determined by quantity of eyeballs. The cartel can then dole out bonuses for quality--if one of your writers wins the Pulitzer, your paper gets extra money. And it's no big deal if bots are visiting sites, because each bot has to pay in order for its requests to count towards the circulation-based distributions.

I'm sure there are a lot of people out there willing to pay $10 a month or more for online journalism, but they don't want that whole budget to get sucked up by one newspaper, only to get locked out by all the others. And there are plenty of sites out there that can't seem to manage online subscriptions or micro-transactions very well.
My previous insurance had something like this, which I used 4 times. Every single time, the response was: "hmm... yeah.. that's.. hmm.. I recommend you go to a walk-in clinic. Here's a list of urgent care facilities close to you. Pick one and go there by the end of the day". Completely useless. I guess it has something to do with CYA policies.