skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I fully support that if I put something on the internet and I am the creator of such content, I should be allowed to remove that content I created if I wish.

I disagree. Whatever is put on the internet belongs to everyone on it, just because you made it doesn't mean you should have any kind of control over what people do with it. Enforcing redaction is obviously impossible but why would you even want to? You'll never get a guarantee that it's gone but also telling other people they cannot access information you originally created is kind of a jerk move.

The reality is that 99.99% of people will never care about their phony "right" to be forgotten and the 0.01% who do most likely do so because they posted something worth wanting to be forgotten, which will be picked up by interested parties and reposted ad infinum because that's what people do with that sort of thing (dox, embarrassing pictures, etc), while the information of the 99.99% who don't care will be lost when Quora inevitably stops existing and then nobody gets it.

>If anything its a battle on both sides, a battle to provide control to the content creators around the content they create.

They don't have any, and they shouldn't either - everything on the internet should be given freely as virtually everything is received freely as well. People should be allowed to retain or repost or modify anything for any purpose, and they pretty much do. Allowing "content creators" to control their work would mean any modification of it unacceptable to them (which encompasses a lot of territory) would be impossible to distribute, making remix cultures like YTP and others impossible. This is completely unreasonable, they should just learn to deal with other people using their work for things they never intended and move on.
Off-topic question: What output does deleting the "I'm OK with being tracked" node give the site? The only possible answer here is "Yes", so does deletion mean null? But whatever, the site is usable after that, so hey.
Serious question: what is it that you think has prevented practical use and why will that not continue to hinder future practical use?
Amazon has very good margins, what are you talking about? They bring in tons of cash every quarter.
1) I think it is totally possible that small scale effects can bug you at different layers of your neural processing: just because it is extremely difficult for me to perceive a sound doesn't mean my ears aren't being affected by it and even providing a signal to my brain with the information where it is being discarded actively.

2) They often don't? A lot of LEDs flicker at something like 60Hz. Sure: if you stare at the light you might not notice it blinking, due to the limitations of the sensors in your eyes that can weirdly "get tired" of looking at the same thing for too long, but if you move your eyes across the light quickly you will see it blinking as now you are getting a broken dotted line carved into your vision. I find this maddening when there are such lights in my peripheral vision.
Yep. Jira isn't an antipattern; inverting the first value of the agile manifesto is an antipattern, whether you do it for Jira or any other tool (or process).
The difference is, investing is nothing like a lottery. When you invest, you're putting money to productive economic use. There is some chance of loss, but that chance doesn't define the investment.

When you gamble, you're putting money on a random number.

Bitcoin is "meant" to be a currency, so it's really neither thing. But people are definitely gambling on its price fluctuations (just as people gamble with stocks, bonds, real estate, and other commodities).
And yet we still allow American goods in Canada.
Sit/stand desk, Ergodox (I have a loud clicky one with backlit keys for home use and a quiet one with no lights for travel), and an Aeron + a 3rd party headrest.
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The pain just comes regardless of whether or not you actually perceive why. For me it's kind of a cramping sensation at the back of my eyes and if there is no other light source (think christmas tree with cheap LED lights in an otherwise dark room) i will also get nauseous.

If you're shifting your view/moving your head you can easily perceive the flashes.
> lose zero-overhead interop

How many LOC is tokyo nowadays?
Everything you base your comment on is a huge assumption. You don’t know that humans are just an input/output system, you’re just using some kind of inductive logic to come to that conclusion. Because everything you see seems to have a cause and effect relationship, you impose it on the laws of nature. I’m not saying that the theory is false, but I can definitely say that you’re putting a lot of belief in it being true without any real evidence.

Taking your thought process and building off the idea that everything is deterministic, we can frame the concept of “free will” as something that’s defined within that image of reality. In this case, why should you deny the concept of “free will” within a deterministic environment? Why not just define it as the random process that governs all of our ideologies? Additionally, why should you show sympathy to those in worse situations if everything is deterministic?

If society feels a need to punish criminals and remove them from society that’s another deterministic outcome that you yourself should know makes no difference either way in the grand scheme of things. Why someone would be deterministically wired to counter an argument by using their belief of a deterministic world on HN is beyond me though.
> Compares equities to digital assets that function like commodities. Then ironically makes a gold commodity analogy

The startups that issue the digital commodities are doing ok and can still raise.

The digital assets they created would be valued more by their utility and scarcity, which would have ebbs and flows just like a commodity. It is fine that they dont have utility or scarcity, if the infrastructure and ux around them improves than they will and you can pick them up from the lows. There is a reason that commodity trading never made it into the retail investor portfolio, as there is no reason to have passive investment in them

As long as you, and the retail investor, continues expressing their unfamiliarity with this market through equity investment analogies, the information asymmetry will maintain massive and advantageous to those that do have a valuation model.
From my personal anecdata, they don't perceive the LED flashing directly. Objects in motion look weird under some LED lighting. Motion doesn't look smooth. It's like a weaker version of looking at moving objects under continuous camera flashes. The effect isn't super explicit, but moving objects become jerky. Try looking at a fan under the lighting of cheap Christmas LEDs.
This is exactly where I'm at. JIRA is a great tracking tool, but a horrible planning tool. I've moved most of the planning to Excel...
I assume the idea is that on the page visible behind the dialog are instructions to call some number, or open the download, or approve the extension the site wants to install.
There's also LiveView coming to Phoenix (Elixir). This might be a new trend in web frameworks.
I have heard some complaints about South Korea being a geritocracy - even by the standards of the US. I don't know the fine details but that sounds consistent with some of the other stuff like the porn ban. If they really are being run by a bunch of old men. I don't know nearly enough about the culture or context to know how true or widespread the perception is but it does sound consistent.
Don't they verify that you own the email address?
Well, the flaw could be that a significant percentage of the difference may have been lost in energy and infrastructure costs - which are of little value now.

Bitcoin burnt a lot of energy for very little net value. One could argue that proving distributed consensus to be a viable tool in world trade was worth the cost.
when i was a kid, i thought the stuff about freedom in rhetoric about america was silly and nebulous, but as i get older it seems more true. don't get me wrong, i hate the surveillance panopticon, drug war, and permanent security state as much as anyone else, but at least the government doesn't put you in jail for cheating at video games.
I really wish at least one of our representatives cared about being soft on privacy.
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It is already busted.
So does this make selling accounts illegal too? Isn't the workaround simply to not play on someone elses account, but to play on your own account and then sell it to that person later?
JIRA is not a drop-in replacement for good ol’ fashioned software design and documentation, and no one ever said it was. The author mentions things like
common models and complex cross-application components. Who ever said JIRA was supposed to somehow capture those things? It’s not! If you’re using JIRA for things like that, you’re doing it wrong.

I think the danger is that JIRA IS being used more and more as a design and documentation tool while we ngleglect using some of the more well-established practices of years past, such as use-case diagrams, class diagrams, requirements documents, wireframes, etc. We try to capture too much design in the various types of tickets, but that in my opinion is wrong because JIRA was not originally designed for that. In that way, JIRA itself is not a anti-pattern, but how we use it certainly can be.
That is a nice sounding meme, but it has little basis in reality. What is the probability that microsoft is going to go bankrupt 1 year from now? If your answer is "a very low probability" then that means that past performance does indeed indicate future results.
A Pattern Language is required reading. Ever since reading it I've dreamed of making some kind of rule-based generative architecture program- where a building is created according to selected patterns.
And what exactly are those? Please share.

HINT: I've been here for 10 years.
"No."?

Like it or not, it's a phrase that dates back to Mark Twain that has far more baggage than some strict analogy made up on the spot. For instance Chris Dixon here[1] suggests that Heroku and Akamai sell pickaxes, not dynamite as a service or scalable ore transport systems.

All I'm doing is defending the GP's use of the phrase, which was absolutely valid. Perhaps you'd have used a different analogy, but it doesn't invalidate his. No quantity of curt denials you care to throw my direction will change this.

[1] http://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-...
You can even remove it after i verify lol
I admire the author of this piece for being able to concentrate on the bigger picture of how JIRA is bad in important ways, despite the millions of ways that JIRA is bad in minor ways that make anyone who uses it absolutely hate it for trivial reasons without even getting to think about the bigger picture.

If you were going to decide not to support markdown, wouldn't that decision make more sense if you had front end engineers who were even vaguely capable of implementing a custom mark-up language?
It isn't about “memes” or “ignorant coders.” Please grow up.

The way goroutines work isn't compatible with Rust's core language goal of zero-cost abstractions. In order for a goroutine to suspend and resume at arbitrary points in otherwise normal functions, each goroutine needs its own stack. This is convenient but comes at a cost, and I certainly wouldn't say that it matches reality or is close to the system.

The way Rust implements async ensures that there is zero overhead. You can think of the compiler as constructing an elaborate state machine. Each task is a normal structure in memory, just a few bytes rather than an 8 kb stack. This means that by paying the cost of dealing with a somewhat invasive language feature, Rust async code is more efficient than the equivalent Go code.

This is part of Rust's core design. The language should be as convenient or productive as possible, but never at the cost of performance or efficiency even if that cost is very small.
lmao that ain't his reasoning muh brah. His point is about target demographics. The typical person who buys a knock-off -- is s/he such that, had the knock-off been unavailable, s/he would have purchased the real thing instead. Only if you answer to that question is yes will you assess the cost to be $100.

minor: 1. Coach (US), not Gucci (Italy). 2. The author is a legit economist (expert on monetary policy), content from his blog has been posted on HN regularly. He recently posted a series of comments on China. If you're interested check them out at:

https://www.econlib.org/parmesan-cheese-and-sunbucks-coffee/

https://www.econlib.org/how-should-we-think-about-the-theft-...

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/category/china/
I wonder if their obsession with video games (and I say this in a positive sense) will be a competitive advantage in the future. Like the Mecca for esports, where people can make a living in the industry instead of treating it as "silly nerd fantasy hobby" like here in the US.
How come they don't list Monero? They added a bunch of less popular coins, I wonder what's going on with that.
Is there much stopping pack files being compressed with something else besides zlib?
> I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning.

Not having to rotate my arm to see the time was one big reason I got an always-on transflective LCD smartwatch (mine's the Amazfit Bip) instead of say, an Apple Watch.
I had the same question and found this YouTube video filmed in slo-mo so you can see the flashing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo3eoRbojPY&feature=youtu.be

Perhaps some brains perceive/process the small, quick changes that most of filter out.
Not allowing JavaScript turns into a chore when you find out that websites break in non obvious ways. I do not want to manually enable/disable JavaScript when the browser is a means to an end for me.
> It's had 10 years and nothing about it has fundamentally changed

The usecase is censorship resistant financial transactions.

It is working right now, for people in Venezuela, for example. It is working for people who are attempting to make financial transactions, across the world, quickly and cheaply.

Tell me a better way to make censorship resistant financial transactions, over the internet, if you think this is useless.
Yes and also the most actionable info like document checklist is not available
Can you expand on your last point? What makes your experience frustrating?
To be fair to her, she played it because she heard her daughter listening to it and thought they would be able to bond over it. It must feel terrible to have your kid actively reject something they previously liked because they found out you liked it too, even if it’s a normal part of adolescence.
I’m actually surprised at how bad their ML model is. Funny to see someone else mention how overfit their model is. There’s literally no content discovery, it’s the same extremely specific topic. But you know what? I’ve also noticed this phenomenon on YouTube, maybe there’s something to it from an advertising revenue perspective.
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Yes some of the information is from Wikipedia but mostly it's from official website of the countries
Rome itself was partly/largely to blame - the idea of a unified greco-roman culture is a myth. When thinking about ancient science and technology, its useful to divide antiquity into three periods:

the classical greek period 600-350 bce

the Hellenistic Greek period 350 - 150 bce

the 'imperial' period 150 bce - whenever ce

Virtually all of the great scientific and technical achievements of antiquity were from the Hellenistic Greek society - the society of euclid, eratosthenes, archimedes, ctesibius, hipparchus, chrysippus, herophilus, supported by the Ptolemies in north Africa.

All this scientific work came to an abrupt end around 150bce due to the roman conquests, and the political atmosphere they created. Carthage (itself a cosmopolitan center of learning with close ties to the greek world) was not he only north african city razed to its foundations by Rome. Its easier to list the survivors: (1) Alexandria and (2) Rhodes. This completes the list. And the academics didn't survive: in 145bce Ptolemy VIII persecuted the city's greek elite so all the intellectuals fled, and the romans made a hobby of enslaving greek intellectuals, to have them work as copyists and teach their children to read.

Thus in a very short span of time, virtually all of the physical books were destroyed when the cities were destroyed, and the intellectual culture that understood the ideas was eliminated. There was a partial renaissance during the Pax Romana (ptolemy, galen, etc), but the understanding of the science was much more primitive and quickly faded with no state and cultural support.

As for technology - roman engineering was typically less advanced than greek engineering, and for technically difficult things the latin writing are both crude and wrong: their scientific engineering was done by importing engineers from the east. The antikythera mechanism (late 2nd century bce) is a good example of the decline: there is nothing of comparable mechanical complexity from the roman period, neither in archeology or in Heron.

See Russo[1] for very readable up to date academic scholarship on this kind of thing.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Revolution-Science-Born-Reb...
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I asked someone who uses Quora. the same thing and they said quora is for reading opinions and experiences and Stack Exchange is for finding the facts.

The only time I ever found the posts on quora valuable was when I was thinking about applying for one of the big tech companies and I wanted to know a bit about what the people who have worked there think about it. That kind of stuff would be off topic on Stack Exchange but thats also the reason why Quora is mostly junk because of a lack of quality control.
> The cars have to receive power from someplace. Wherever they are being energized, there is by definition a complete circuit to all cars being powered on that line.

Most, but not all of the time. There are dead segments in pretty much any system be it overhead or third rail.

> Likewise, wherever the cars are, there is going to be a large and reasonably well-defined impedance discontinuity on the power rail.

Nope. See Bill Wattenburg's demonstration with BART.

> Wind a few turns of wire around the cable that feeds the third rail, inject a pulse train with Gold codes or something similar that lends itself to autocorrelation methods, and listen for echoes.

What if you're not using a third rail?

Basically you seem to have solved the problem under ideal circumstances but not accounted for the myriad of failure modes one will encounter in the real world.

Edit: the other part you're missing is that the first C in CBTC is communication. Locating trains has been fairly well solved (inductive loops, axle counters, etc), communication as well is pretty well solved (802.11 in some cases). The secret sauce is in making everything reliable (think about it, the difference between 3 and 5 nines is a ton of pissed off commutere) AND in making sure everything behaves safely and in a predictable manner.

In more traditional automatic train control setups you divide the track into fixed segments (blocks). One train can occupy a block at a time. Depending on the size of the blocks you may have to keep a block or two of separation between trains. CBTC typically implies what's called moving block. Basically the train is the block. So now you've gotta keep track of all the trains, how fast they're going, how fast they're capable of braking, etc, etc. in order to determine safe spacing and speed limits. It's a bit like automated driving. The algorithms are the secret sauce, and bugs can be fatal. SF's Muni famously had some trains go down the wrong track in the wrong direction during first stages of their CBTC deployment.
Just block answers by Indian users. It will be alright again.
Have a big upvote from me. Your family sounds awesome, and, I guess, just the kind of family that I wanted growing up. A family that would be as interested in the world of Harry Potter and Tolkein as I was. Or in the music I found interesting.

I really like this style of parenting that I see here in the US where children are not treated "childishly"; are actually listened to and the parents try and build a relationship with their children by engaging in activities that all enjoy.
I used to lurk on quora. Once I read an answer to anonymous question, my feed started to full of those anonymous questions. I tried hard to curate my feed, by closing the questions I didn't want to see. But I got the same kinds of things still, albeit with different questions. Agree I saw some of those questions, but it seemed as if I could no longer curate the feed with what I wanted and the algorithm especially popular on quora feed couldn't be avoided. So I started logging out and viewing answers of users I am interested in the answers of by directly going to their profile. But quora started pestering me to login if I viewed more than two questions, so I gave up and stopped using the site. It is a shame as there are some good writers whose content is only available on Quora as far as I know but now I cannot read it without reading all the crap answers in my feed.
Have you used the website? It’s not racism if it’s reality
> phony "right" to be forgotten

That wording might be a tad harsh, but, essentially, yes, the "right to be forgotten" that most people seem to believe the GDPR provides is just an illusion. It only applies to very specific types of information gathered for specific purposes. It most certainly doesn't apply to the overwhelming majority of content posted to Quora.

That being said, there are other laws that could be at play here, such as intellectual property laws, but I'm assuming Quora either has you turn over ownership of anything you post or has you grant them an exclusive right to distribute it as they please. And if they were to decide to allow archive.org to archive it, you probably wouldn't have any right to request removal.

If you choose to disseminate information on the internet, there's no going back. You're broadcasting whatever you post with the world's largest megaphone. It's foolish to think you can reverse that process. If a government passes a law banning a book, people who've read that book still know what it said--and chances are there are still copies of the book floating around.

If you write something on the internet that you regret, that is your burden to bear for the rest of eternity. You chose to broadcast it with full knowledge of the fact that you would lose any semblance of control over the content the moment you hit Submit. It might not be ideal or fair, but that's the way it is, and laws aren't going to change it. Next time you're about to send a nasty email, think back to this comment, because what you're about to do is irreversible.

Edit: Grammar
Sounds like there's more overhead than work there.
That's called a cocktail!

The process of brewing beer produces interesting flavors. Why not take advantage?
The other reason is that it's turning into Yahoo answers ...