skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright ;) My argument is purely based on observing the past and the present. Georgia has a history of slavery, one might argue the state has his wealth build on that, the peach being the symbol of it. Virtually all of the slaves had African American heritage and self-speaking low income.

Of course slavery has become illegal, segregation rules as well. But obviously you cannot make the past disappear instantly. Nowadays there are areas in which there are only black people living, those areas are unfortunately poor and large. Presumably a lot of crime happens there, which should also be no surprise because the area is so poor. People get imprisoned, even worse, sometimes the police has a negative bias towards black people.

So yes, and nowadays the state endorses putting the people back on the field? These seems almost insulting to me. Probably it's easy for me to think like this, I don't live in the U.S. but on the other hand probably all developed nations have a archaic past. It's one thing to deal with it and another thing to pretend it didn't happen.
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> Personally I think we'll look back on these massively open networks where everybody can reply to everybody as an anomaly.

It's cyclical.

- The internet and online communities (BBSes) started out decentralized.

- Then came AOL / Compuserve / etc. Centralized platforms.

- The web broke up those platforms and shuffled everything around.

- Then the current Google / Facebook / Twitter megaplatforms arose and that's the state we're in.

So it's logical that we're ready for a decentralized cycle but over time, users will forget why decentralization is good and another big platform will rise.
> > The BitSequence type holds infinitely many values. In fact, it holds an unconscionable number of values. It has more values than String does.

I like the typo of 'unconscionable' for 'uncountable'.
Could you explain what you mean by ‘disrupt molecular energy transition’? Would be interested to know.
I got it confused with Daily Mail. Downvotes warranted.
All true. Bicycles can go 20mph, vs pedestrians' 2mph. Not a good fit. Scooters have to be even worse (heavier, worse collisions).
While not an iOS user, it is definitely cool how many one off projects you can create using Raspberry Pi. I do wish some of the full kits (case, power adapter, micro sd) would come down in pricing slightly as it tends to bump up towards more powerful, but less supported (and more difficult) options when you consider the full system price.
Apple falls after Chinese court bans sale of most iPhones
> Based on which precedent did you arrive at this conclusion?

we are already being classified, grouped and given tiered services according to whatever bucket we fit into today.

insurances are on top of that already with banks a close second. as their ability to mine large datasets increase and cost decrease, they will keep going deeper into profiling.

if you want a concrete precedent, there's this
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/02/admiral-t...

and this is what comes next:
https://friendlyscore.com/about

in a more general way, the china social score is a preview of what's to come, even if it'll be less blatant in the western world.

this might not be yet a political issue, but it will have deep impact on self censorship, and that in turn will: http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html

Lol, downvotes with actual primary sources. Hivemind News is becoming more and more an echo chamber instead of a place for actual discussion.
Why are they not just paying people the opportunity cost CPM that they would have recieved? Can I also have some free money?
That surely helped but as always, some enterprising folks found a way to "launder" the goods by feeding the banned products to poultry and then feeding their remnants and droppings to cattle.

Compare US position: https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2017/07/22/USDA-Feed-n...

VIC position: http://agriculture.vic.gov.au/agriculture/livestock/beef/fee...
Why do you think human-style learning can scale? Human brains are terrible at basic arithmetic like raising 3 to the 6th power.
...A version of this is probably already happening in the criminal underground.
+1 for "exercide"
I read on the Layoff they had about 11.4k applicants, and 90% of them were accepted. Looks like the first wave is out starting Dec 28th.

With such a large cut it would be weird to be rejected, I would feel an awkward mix of jealousy and loss to go back to work afterwards.
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I haven't found actual specifics, but a quick search on Google Patents reveal that Qualcomm has a similar one for the image control/resizing.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140306903A1/en?q=appli...
I was scared that tech pedants would need to find a new place to bicker.
You could possibly automate an aggregator that takes the various sources, see what at least all of them agree on and then spit that out as 'just the facts'.
This can be solved in a udev rule [1]. For example, this is a rule I use to always bind my P1 (smart energy meter) at the same port:

KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*", ATTRS{interface}=="P1 Converter Cable", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="USBP1Cable", GROUP="tty", MODE="0660"

[1] /etc/udev/rules.d/50-ttypermissions.rules
Ironically, I've never gone to blockbuster and failed to find what I was looking for on the shelves. Meanwhile, staples that brought me to Netflix disappear regularly. I've been a subscriber to Netflix since it was a mail order service, and that original hope that there would be one repository with all the content--literally online blockbuster--never materialized, and I fear at this point it never will.

I wonder why Spotify was able to easily and immediately license practically everything; it's not like Columbia and Atlantic records are exclusive to one service or another like with video content producers.
That's why I prefer the more wordy -- alternatives, like --verbose
And did your professor tell you a story about pipetting glacial acetic acid by mouth? I'm beginning to suspect that maybe it actually happened to someone else. Or maybe it never happened, and got invented from whole cloth to justify the purchase of thumbwheel pipette controllers.
Good edit. Hadn’t thought of that. Changed.
I went backpacking around S.E.A. for a short time in 2002. It was just before the digital boom.

No phone, just dropping into an internet cafe once a week. SLR with about 50-60 rolls of film. Info came from a tatty copy of a guidebook, word of mouth, and reading the lonely planet forum. Absolutely zero digital distraction. Lots of long bus/train/boat journeys with a book for company. It was heaven.

I went back in 2008 and did the trip again. The digital boom had arrived. I could already sense that what I'd previously experienced was lost for good.
Balderdash, as others have more graciously pointed out. How wrong do you have to be before having your nonsense deleted from HN?
They've been on Mastodon for over a year. I think they just wanted to be able to see their Nextcloud stuff from there.

https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud
So.. they finished laying the groundwork for their 5g network, and now they won’t need 7% of their workforce until 6g starts to go in 6-10 years?
With UI, the devil is always, always, always in the details. Always.
"BDS" stands for "Boycott, Divest, Sanction" according to a quick search.
It must be refreshing to be on the right side of history with the likes of Louis Farrakhan, who is anti-white and anti-Semitic. See his tweet about being anti-termite. In your last sentence, are you admitting that Twitter doesn't yet ban far-left groups for cause? If so, shouldn't it be you explaining why you aren't saying a word about a double standard?

Twitter claims to be a neutral platform, and eventually it may be equated to a town square, so legal questions will arise even if it is a private business. Also, once it starts editorializing its content, it may become responsible for the groups it seemingly endorses / condones.

Twitter is not only censoring extreme groups, so it isn't sufficient to say that a handful of people deserve to get banned. We know that people now generally, even on free-thinking college campuses, self-censor because saying anything controversial can get your life destroyed. We have set a dangerous precedent with "acceptable social commentary" because anyone can be vilified for their ideas even if they are polite and well-reasoned.
On reflection I think my comment sounds rather thoughtless. You clearly have an interesting philosophy. Could you explain it a little more? You say

> I just want to encourage the practice of authors allowing everybody to read their books.

And yes, that would be great. You're hoping for a world in which essentially voluntary paid contributions (e.g. for paper books) is sufficient incentive for authors, correct? I say essentially voluntary because in your world an electronic copy would be available to everyone for free.

My main question is: how far do you depart from the conventional incentive structure of capitalist/market-based societies? Do you think food should be free, also paid for by voluntary monetary or in-kind donations? Or only digitally-encoded information? Can you explain why information as a commodity should be treated differently?
Daft (but serious) question - have you ever written a game?

If so, try selling that and learn from the results. Then use incremental improvements on your process. You will probably find that even with a decent game developed, it will the marketing and sales that determines success or not - after all nobody will buy the game if they don't know about it.

The only other advice I can give is try piggy backing off something that's already a successful franchise - for example tools for WoW, Fortnite, even original Doom. For example, look at what Romero has just announced with Sigil.

Another option try to reboot a franchise like was done with Shadow Warrior and even ROTT - what classic game could do with an update? You need to make sure you square away the licensing deal of course.

You are setting yourself for a very tough challenge - good luck!
Do you really think that courts in China are independent? Yes, no? If no or maybe, then China warned USA, mess with us and APPL is going quite a bit down. And APPL is the first...
It predicts the next word based on the previous ones. A classic AI task.
And what's wrong with that argument? Democracy and voting aren't unquestionable goods. Just look at what became of most of the non-democratic countries that the US decided to "liberate" via forcing them to adopt democracy over the years.
At least the described severance benefit might be on the correct order of magnitude to be considered reasonable and not totally and odiously evil,

“As part of the separation program, the employees will get a salary of up to 60 weeks, bonus and benefits, depending on the length of their service, Verizon said.”

This is why I always advise people to negotiate significance severance benefits up front, on the order of 6 months for junior employees, a year + bonuses and continued benefits for experienced employees.

Companies absolutely agree to severance amounts like this, even for new grads, and sayingno to a company that won’t is just doing yourself a favor.
The company can continue to operate, but that'll probably depend on the equity structure. Not a lot of incentive for founders and key employees to stay-on and manage a "lifestyle" business if they only hold a minority stake in the company. In that scenario, I think the investor-owners would probably want to recoup some/all of their investment quickly in a sale to a competitor rather than slowly over-time by milking and growing cashflow.
Have some empathy. If something almost ran you over a few hours ago, it's perfectly normal to have a visceral dislike for it.

As far as requiring these things be in bike lanes, it's all well and good to say that. But at least in my city, there seems to be a ton of confusion from bike riders, cars and pedestrians alike about what the exact laws are, let alone reliable enforcement of these laws.

Cops are rarely going to see misuse anyway, so that wouldn't have helped the parent poster.
So?

No need to be unnecessarily pedantic, you knew what they meant.
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I don't get it. What prevents us from doing the exact same approach for the natural numbers? I.e. represent the naturals lazily via the successor function and use the same exhaustive search as the OP for BitSequence. Of course if the predicate doesn't stop evaluating successor(x) for any finite x then we're out of luck and the computation doesn't halt, but this caveat also holds for OP's BitSequence, as others have pointed out in this thread...
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Google has acquired one of India’s most popular train tracking apps
Knowing that this would happen eventually, I created an archival copy on GitHub soon after his death: https://github.com/jdjkelly/www.aaronsw.com

I can hardly believe this was six years ago.
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They aren't laying off people, it was a voluntary separation

It's just another layer of corporate double-speak.

The same way "fired" became "laid off."

Until the early 90's, "laid off" applied to factory and seasonal workers, who were expected to be recalled when production ramped up again.
They're definitely useful. Also, even at the low end, often better than onboard simply because they get so much less interference. There are also some really nice higher end options if you ever want to do multi-channel mixing/capture.

Aside: for anyone considering a hackintosh, USB audio is about your best bet in this space.
The worst thing is to keep beating up the dead horse. At least in the gaming industry, you can clearly see some companies "milking" the brand of games, Bethesda and Blizzard have been doing nothing else recently IMHO. But as long as it sells I guess the company is still satisfied with chosen politics, even though it's profit over quality.
In September, I left my job in San Francisco and moved to Sacramento to work on a social bookmarking app called Vested Yeti. A user described it as "Pinterest without the Uggs".

Website: www.vestedyeti.com

Users can create flows which store web pages that they want to organize and share. In a nutshell, it's bookmarking that's more visual and shareable. Here's an example flow that I made out of the current top posts on HN:

https://app.vestedyeti.com/flows/a32ca8e5-9114-4d40-88ba-28e...

I'd really appreciate any feedback or questions.

Note: Posted last week, but flagged because of too many booster comments. Lesson learned :)
>It probably boggles a lot of people's minds that even 20 years or so ago, taking off on certain types of trips to many parts of the world meant, at best, infrequent contact and, often, essentially disappearing

This was a highlight of travel back then in my mind. Full and complete disconnect from 'the world' back home. There was no guilt trip about lack of contact either - it was just accepted that there would be an email as an when an internet cafe could be found.
Perhaps this will be of interest: https://thecorrespondent.com/

I donated to them on the weekend, after watching The Daily Show interview with a founder.
Thanks for replying (some people have downvoted my question, which is weird).

I don't completely understand your answer, due to my ignorance of the immune system. I thought the immune system could target specific proteins (e.g. how snake venom vaccines work) rather than using the proteins to identify target cells. Is this correct? I as assuming such a mechanism would be able to do something useful with the target.

The other part of your answer I did understand, and that was helpful, thanks!
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I am currently reading the trilogy and second the recommend.

It is told from the point of view of Tiro, slave of Cicero and inventor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tironian_notes.

The conceit of the series is that it is actually a biography of Cicero that in really was written by Tiro but has unfortunately been lost to history since. (We know about it by references to it from other ancient works.)
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photoshop -> filters -> find edges -> some tweaking of the tone curve
Just semantics. But telecom companies have been in the business of shrinking since ATT split up in 1984.
It is plausible chickens have less moral weight than whales. But it's not exactly because of intelligence -- it's their capacity to suffer. I know intelligence is very tempting to use because it's a very good proxy in the extreme cases (e.g. a sponge vs. a human), so it's usually our first intuition.

But if you probe into it, I believe you'll find it's an artificial distinction that rather quickly falls apart. If your moral values ascribe negative value to the suffering of, say, both a human and a dog, then the only consistent viewpoint is to ascribe negative value to any suffering of a materially similar quality -- i.e. what matters on a moral level is the capacity of suffering for the species or individual.

There's a few uncomfortable thought experiments you can think through on this topic. E.g. you can imagine genetically engineering a human as dumb as a chicken, or perhaps a traumatic brain injury causing that, but with their mental capacity for suffering just as intact as yours or mine. Would their suffering count for less? Why would it?

As for chicken vs. whale, it may be the case that a chicken suffers less than a whale. More primitive intelligence may imply more primitive suffering. But what if it doesn't for this case? How confident can you be it does imply that, given both how chickens react to pain and stress and the neurological research that's been done on them? And even if it less, by how much? A factor of two, ten, forty, a thousand?

Those questions may seem too philosophical, but they can't be ignored in the face of a recommendation to eat 40 extremely-poorly-raised chickens per year instead of 1 reasonably-well-raised cow. And given all we know of animal cognition, it's reasonably to assume chickens have a lower capacity to suffer (and also to assume it's the same -- there's still uncertainty), but not so much lower that that calculus is anywhere close to being worthwhile.
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I wouldn't be surprised if giving the occasional interview is something the author is doing to keep their publisher (or their publisher's marketing department) happy.
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From the article:

> My initial impression is that the ROI does not justify the effort.

> It depends on how strongly users respond to the feature, because it'll create a noticeable amount of work for writers.

The author is probably correct about the ROI not justifying the effort, but I think UI design should also be considered as an input for whether users would respond to the feature. The UI as it stands is technically functional and easy to understand, but not exactly effortless or convenient to use. In particular, there's quite a jarring difference between the modes during switch, making comparison impossible.

An inline UI next to/within the content, with some logic to ensure the nearest content to the control stays at the same scroll-position during change would help a lot with this.

e.g. Expounder (linked in a sibling comment) looks to be a much nicer UI implementation from my quick glance at it.
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And this is very much still present in the latest version on my iPhone anyway. I still see a big prompt to turn on Web & App Activity I order to “Get the most from Maps” — which includes saving “Work” and “Home” favorites. Boo :-(
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I'm interested to know what problems you've had with the sync clients. In my household we use it on a mix of windows, Linux, Android, and iOS devices and it's extremely smooth.
Everyone has a different level of "acceptable, manageable biases"
It either comes down to personal philosophy (such as freedom of information), or fake internet points (or fake internet fame).
No, not what he says at all. He implies that everything you need to know to vote can fit on one side of an index card.

The point is you don't need to follow the news to make informed voting decisions.
Or maybe some of those investors used the money to send their kids to college and now they have to re-mortgage their house to cover the clawbacks.
You can't mention Brad from Bon Appetite and not mention "Half-sour Saffitz"! She recently got brought back onto the team to continue her "Professional chef makes oreos/twizzlers/twinkies etc" videos.
I'm only watching the TV series on HBO. It's about two girls growing up in post WW2 Italy, and it feels like it's filling in the part missing in the Godfather movie series where the women's lives should be. At least from the TV show there are sympathetic portrayals of complicated characters, from recaps I've read the book series is enormously popular among women, and most of Italy is watching the live broadcast, and it's caused crowding in places in Italy mentioned in the books due to people going on My Brilliant Friend location themed tours ala Game of Thrones in Croatia or Lord of the Rings in New Zealand.

The article writer implies the books are a joint project between a man and his wife. I think part of the controversy is the trolling opportunity - some people might think it would be trollish to suggest the author is a man or men's rights activists would relish it being a man. This brings the controversy to the level of the internal Google Damore memo.
How do they manage to keep sending data back? Is there a really really directional antenna that points at the Earth?
Sometimes people do get put into situations where buying earlier than optimal seems like the only option. However, people often use a variety of excuses to buy a house simply because they want to buy a house (even if they don't have the necessary funds for risk management).

-We are having a baby, so we need to move out of our 2 bedroom apartment and get a 3 bedroom house
-Our rent is increasing so we need to buy a house (even though the mortgage is often more than rent)
-We need a garage for our cars, so let's buy a house
-We have money in our savings that isn't earning anything for us, so let's buy a house and put it to work.
-We don't like sharing walls with neighbors, so we need a house.
-Our parents say we are throwing money away at rent and should buy a house so we can build wealth.

Each excuse has some validity to it, but none of them really mean you need to buy a house RIGHT NOW.
> What’s wrong with that argument?

At an individual, probably nothing. But at a macro level, apathy is equivalent to a lack of legitimacy, which is a big problem. If the cancer of apathy spreads too far, the entire system comes crashing down.

It’s like a party where your job is to bring one of the mixers. You don’t bring yours, nothing that terrible happens. No one brings any, and the party becomes a disaster.
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My comment sort of blew up and I didn't word it as carefully as I should have. I want to be clear that I was just summarizing the Redditor's comment, not presenting my own opinions (since I haven't really had any interactions with anyone who's all that wealthy).

The point I was trying to get across was not that you need $10 million in order to live comfortably. I was just saying that having that level of wealth won't really provide you with any additional material goods. The only thing you gain at that level is more financial security. At that level of wealth you could go through a divorce and have a major medical emergency all at the same time, and still come out of it with enough to be able to live in a nice home, have a vacation home, travel in first class, etc.