skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Complaining about the cost of respecting user privacy is like complaining about having to clean up after your company's pollution or carbon emissions.
Not even close. Chess is a relatively easy target for AI: the rules are well-defined, all of the pieces are visible to both players, and while the state space is massive, it's a tractable problem.

Now look at something like DOTA: while each avatar has specific moves, the combination of when you play them, how you chain them, and where you aim them is very unclear; half the time, you've got no idea where your opponents are due to fog of war; and the state space is infinitely larger than chess' (which is already huge to begin with).

In short, we're just getting started. Chess was always just a stepping stone for the AI folks -- a chance to show how a machine could reason. Buckle up -- it's gonna be a wild ride :-)
Ok, I got it. We just don't have such animals here, and volwes, who could catch a cat, are rare.
I assume that doesn't include working for NHS?
A bigger question is if Netflix can continue to thrive in a world where all the large media companies create their own Netflix-like streaming services. Disney has their own coming soon, apple, Amazon, Facebook, Hulu, Comcast, etc etc. Content costs continue to rise, and competition will be fierce.

Netflix has a great head start and knows its audience well. But much larger companies are knocking on its door.
Don't forget the voters who elected them. Do you see the voters running to the polls and voting for someone else when crap like this gets passed? Of course not. Therefore, the voters implicitly consent to it.
Infectious disease is one area where fear of the unknown is rational. We don't just need to defend against existing diseases, but also diseases yet to emerge. Just because CJD is rare doesn't mean that the next prion disease will be, so it would make sense to take measures to prevent transmission of prions now.
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Hi!

I was tired of all the existing alternatives so I built a better Secret Santa organiser. This one works with mobile numbers, so you don't have to bug your friends for their emails.

Once the participants receive their assigned Secret Santa they can message the app what they would like to receive and the person that will be gifting them receives that message anonymised.

I have been getting conflicting feedback regarding this SMS solution and the need for paying for the messages. What do you think? Does this improve the existing solutions or not?
> That's reasonable but this means trauma no longer matters after all the years because it's the maladaptive behaviour that actually does the harm

You can't really know that for certain, even if it seems reasonable.

> it might be possible to stop behaviour and the harm without revisiting the trauma or lay the trauma to rest without correcting the behaviour and removing the harm.

Agreed, "might be" being the key phrase. But it might also not be possible, or it might even be more expedient or more therapeutic to revisit it.

Point being, it's not nearly so certain as you initially claimed.
Why the language of refuse? Are you inferring there is inherently something bad about games on the web?
Yes, if anything they should be the one trying to spread the knowledge. The fact that they are doing the opposite leads me to suspect their comments are Submarine Comments of the PR industry.
Also such sites sometimes play audio instructions trying to scare or deceive a user.
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The people who wrote in do not represent the voting public, they're just a vocal minority. The voting public elected these lawmakers, and will happily re-elect them.
Calling anyone who isn't brilliant an idiot is a bit. . . uncharitable. Most of us here, myself included, (and probably you) are not rockstar/ninja programmers.
Let's not talk past each other. An app can remember preferences and searches locally, without synchronizing them to a central server. Requiring that the server remembers those searches only if you agree to having your activity tracked is a dark pattern.

Which is what we are talking about.
> Who thought $5/movie was a good idea?

Is $2 vs $5 really that much different? You saved the time you spent going to the rental store and using a DVD. Plus, $5 to rent practically any movie on demand without trailers is pretty good IMO.
This maybe speaks to OP's point.

I don't want to weigh in on whether they overextended themselves or not. 2008-2009 were rough years, and financial situations that didn't work out during that period would probably have been fine any other time. Also, let's cut some slack and presume that they were doing the best they could with a difficult set of circumstances.

With that out of the way, I think it bears mentioning that, while it isn't illegal to encourage people to overextend themselves, that's what everyone related to the housing industry seems to be doing. Realtors don't want you to be conservative with your money because they earn a percentage of how much you spend. Bankers don't (or didn't) because they don't (or didn't) give a rat what your chances of covering the mortgage are -- they just needed you to be able to make payments long enough for them to sell the loan to Fannie or Freddie or whoever. There are all sorts of do-gooders who have decided that homeownership is not a mark of prosperity, it's actually the path to it, and consequently have (or had) a tendency to get a bit too cheerleader-y. Even other homeowners, the victims of the housing boondoggle if ever there were any, are a part of it, because thinking of your house as an investment goes hand-in-hand with believing that of course home prices should be taking a one-way trip to the moon.

(Tangentially, that last aspect has me starting to suspect that the house and condo market is something of a Ponzi scheme that we are collectively pulling on ourselves.)

I don't know where I'm going with this, so I guess I'll throw one last thought out: The contrast does seem pretty stark to me. The rich are getting justice, and everyone else gets victim blaming.
Another good "countries of the world game" which is more based on maps is: http://click-that-hood.com/

Especially the Africa variant: http://www.youdontknowafrica.com/
As others have pointed out, there seems to be a marketing push. To deliver on ones promise of a blog post with impact the most simplest solution is to use "Apple", particularly as XCode is a convenient bogyman.
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When I subscribed in Canada a couple of years ago, I was struggling to find good content. Today, I find it more annoying that I can't keep up with what's coming out.

The user interface makes it hard to discover and track stuff that interests me. It's weird, because the UI is actually OK, but it just can't handle the volume of new stuff coming out every week. Only the stuff that Netflix wants me to find out about trickles onto the main view.
There are "believers" on every continent ready to surrender their free will in exchange for some promise - security, certainty about the world, assurances they are the master race, etc..
Heat pumps are usually more efficient than incandescent bulbs at heating.
Since there has been ongoing process in concentrating power in the federal government, which itself concentrates its power into the executive branch - and there appears to not be slowing down or reversing - the question is not if, but when the us will be under single person rule and what shape will it take.
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It's actually relatively simple. Proteins, very roughly speaking, are things that change other things into something we need. You could think of proteins required for breaking down sugar, which do more or less exactly that: they take a molecule of sugar, break a part off of it and hand it to the next protein in the chain.

What makes prions so weird is that they are a protein that has been mismade (misfolded, generally). That something is being made broken isn't that weird in biology. Mostly, the body degrades them pretty quickly. However, prions, while not being able to do what they're meant to do, can take well-made versions of itself and break them in the same manner.
> On the other hand humans have built-in special processing stages already.

Yes. But there were cases where human could perform function elsewhere that was usually done in special site when thst site got damaged.
11.2.1. But I guess in tech, that's the wild-west stone age where you couldn't expect a browser not to be taken over by a site ...
Why not? Every letter could be a check digit. The drawback is that the same location will have many possible location codes, of course.
I don't think that's systemic analysis, the governmental form of Republican Rome was based on small freehold farmers. Once they were displaced by the slave-powered Latifundia, the Homo Novus would have find a way to translate their economic power into political power, displacing the patrician class.
You could still do scripting akin to Bash scripts on OS 7 and above via AppleScript[1]; which worked a little bit like WSH did on Windows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
At the molecular scale, everything is effectively made of springs (molecular and intermolecular bonds). Proteins are a big complicated tangle of springs, and that means they have multiple possible configurations they can spring to if you let them relax. If you bump another protein of the right shape against them, you can nudge them into a different spring configuration.

Think of "slap bracelets", those curved metal strips that spring around your wrist. If you push two straight ones together, nothing happens. But if you push a curled one against a straight one it will make the straight one curl up too. The curled slap bracelet is acting like a prion.
Your analogy is wrong. If you were to translate what the author of this article said onto your author/director comparison, the author would keep writing books because others have written more/better books than him and so would the director keep making films in order to elevate their relative status. The reason for always wanting more money isn't for the self-satisfaction that creative types feel when they produce a work, but to elevate your status above that of those around you.
Indeed. When I visited New York and Chicago I was surprised to find that GPS is totally unreliable. I would find myself walking several street corners without getting a signal.

I'm used to European cities, crowded, but without skyscrapers and in my city GPS is very reliable, but I realized that's only because we don't have tall buildings.
Who has been destroyed in this fashion?
Which classics are you talking about? I think more people want to watch "Thor: Ragnarok" than they want to watch "Casablanca".
That sounds eerily similar to Plex and their focus these days.
That's "how" not "why". Most major services tailor queries based on the source IP, for some reason when archive.is does it to cloudflare queries it's either broken or purposefully broken. At first I thought it might be something to do with 1.1.1.1 in the archive.is network but then I noticed cloudflare queries on behalf of clients don't even source from that IP.
That didn't happen under Steve though... that happened under Tim Cook.
I use shairport-sync on my iMac to stream Overcast from the iPhone. There is a huge latency and the connection drops out every once in a while. This should have been a built in feature.
We take measures now, for tissues where prions are a possible transmission risk. The article mis-represented that. But:

(1) there are only so many resources to go around. Should we be devoting them to vanishingly rare things rather than things that might actually affect you?

(2) prions will never be a wildfire plague. They have little or no tranmissive ability, by nature of being absolutely naked protein. One step up from that - encoding the protein for space constraints and encapsulating it - is called a virus.
Huh. This is basically an advertisement for aquarium antibiotics.

Why aren't preppers building phage libraries instead? Isn't that more workable with limited resources than antibiotics production? You basically just need a DIY bacterial culture medium (such as soup stock), glassware, and dirt.
I stopped eating beef from that time due to that mad cow outbreak. A few years before that I was worrying about the Ebola outbreak in Zaire.
I was no where near these regions either.
As kid and into my teens I was pretty paranoid about disease and death.
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The Earth doesn't "want" to do anything. It's a collection of physical, geological, chemical, biological, etc. processes that can exist in a variety of semi-stable equilibria - some small number of which are amenable to human life. There is no evidence of any intentionality of any sort, no teleology, no preferred "healthy" state.
aaronsw.com ought to be declared a heritage site.

He is one of a kind.
Since they had this mechanism, did they also have regular clocks with gears in ancient times?

According to Wikipedia, they only had that kind of clocks since the middle ages, but if they were building a mechanism with gears to keep track of other planets in ancient times, surely they must also have done so for local time?
> Any specific reason you want to switch to them?

OP just told you the problem
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>What makes prions so weird is that they are a protein that has been mismade (misfolded, generally).

And science doesn't know how they get misfolded in the first place then they basically go "hey other protein, boop you're like me now, let's burn this mother to the ground" and then you get something similar to the 'corrupted blood incident' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident except you lose your mind and die.

As far as saying we know how proteins misfold, I'm going purely by what I've read both on and on wikipedia as I'm not an expert in proteins and amino acids...

>It is not known what causes the normal protein to misfold

Second sentence of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
Couldn't you "kinda" achieve the same with MGRS?

I've seen a few maps where the first page states what grid zone and 100,000-meter zone the map is in (for the honolulu-example, "Honolulu" would imply 4QFJ).
I had project in college on Prions. Some interesting things I remember:

* Kuru (laughing disease) was transmitted from cannibalism. Women and children of the tribe were more likely to contract it because they were more often given the less palatable parts of the bodies, which included brains

* Some countries do not trust American cattle because our standards for Prion screening are too low

* Kentucky has issues with Prions because Squirrel brains are a popular dish

Try not to eat animal or human brains and you can dramatically reduce your chances of getting Prions
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>Think of "slap bracelets", those curved metal strips that spring around your wrist

Wow, I've not heard someone mention those in probably 2 decades.
The 8700k cost might have as much to do with supply constraints at Intel's end as demand side issues. There are certainly workloads where the 8700k is a better choice than AMD's offering (and vice versa), some companies locked into the 8700k in advance, and some people are Intel fans. I expect the price to drop in a few months when Intel finishes expanding its 14nm fab capacity. They'd expected to be building their chips on 10nm by now so they'd moved chipsets up to 14nm.
This whole article seems like an offhand way to get people to stockpile aquarium antibiotics. This guy is obviously on Big Aquarium Pharma's payrol.
The suit was filed before the latest generation of iPhones was shipping (hence they are not affected), so it definitely predates the arrest.
How about "Paid Programming" as a term instead? Submarine might still be better. It as article intended to deceive the public as being a journalistic act, but one which is really a piece of advertising. Active deceptive acts by corporations should always be identified and called out.
Bit of a tangent but if this period interests you, Robert Harris has a trilogy of excellent and entertaining novels starting with Imperium that trace the rise and fall of Cicero's life, a peer of Crassus and Caesar. Highly recommended!
>> If I have 20 minutes to kill, I'll follow some food vlogger on YouTube.

There's a lot of time waster content on Netflix now compared to before. They have a bunch of 20-30m reality TV shows (some of which are pretty good), and they have some even shorter form content as well (for example, Mike Tyson Mysteries).
`with_milk` and `with_sugar` are booleans that people have (lots of) experience with. this seems to help us think about this stuff – we've seen how milk/sugar "work" many times, and we've already internalized some model of that situation – we already "get it" on an intuitive level. hence, reusing that model for general Boolean variables reduces the cognitive effort required[0].

for a similar example, see [1]. summary: a study presented people with a logical problem. they failed miserably if the question was about abstract math-y stuff, but got it right most of the time if the variables were like `X is underage` and `X can buy beer` (explained in the "Policing social rules" section)

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[0] as a bonus, we can quickly sanity-check if our reasoning is correct – if there's `no (milk or sugar)` in my coffee, there's obviously `(no milk) and (no sugar)` in it!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task
What's the difference between airplay 1 and 2?

Is it quality?
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A quick Google search came up with Subbly and Cratejoy. Do those not satisfy the criteria?
>His family said in a statement that he died after "a battle with depression."
I've never found any of the autocompletion packages emacs had useful, mainly because their implementation continuously broke and they never felt solid. The story is completely different in visual studio code or visual studio for that matter.
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When technical means will stop working they will issue the laws that make e2e devices without backdoors illegal or not easily obtainable. Not completely apples-to-apples comparison, but look at all the iPhones and androids where you can't have root and can't load another OS, can't side load apps in apple's case. In China you already have to have an app on your phone mandated by government at all times. And if you opt to have a "freedom phone" -- your life will become quite inconvenient (with some services impossible to get). TL;DR: even if e2e everywhere happens, it means nothing if you have to have a mandatory app on your phone.
Posting the truth about Google compensation gets you automatic downvotes for some reason here. Google / Facebook / Netflix etc compensation helps the industry significantly by making sure that even software engineers in Pittsburgh make multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

But also, compensation is a sensitive topic. I don't know of the other posts you're speaking of, but people don't like having compensation history go with their comments.
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> salicylic acid

I could be wrong, but isn't that the main ingredient in Stridex? I used to have oily skin (before changing my diet) and I could've sworn that I used salicylic acid as a chemical exfoliant.
See they're going to be looking for army guys, cue peter dressed as a clown in the jungle
Technically they did sell some 10nm chips in 2H'17. It's just that the GPUs didn't work at all and the CPU cores had poor yields and worse power usage than 14nm so they got shuffled off to obscure OEMs.
Given that prions are proteins, why can't we use immunotherapy and vaccinate?
He seems to be implying that this is a net good for tech companies to be funding research that doesn't directly affect their bottom line. I don't know what you read.
I doubt they'll kill flutter, and even if they did, it's still going to remain open-source. Plus it looks like it has a number of internal customers, so it just seems unlikely to get axed anytime soon.
> It’s unfortunate that news organizations as reputable and prominent as the NYT only get on these stories so late in the game. This information would have been more useful to the public back in 2013.

It's likely The Times just didn't have enough, or access to, this data to do solid reporting.

If there are people in and out of the industry who are willing to share data that can advance an important story, these things might get out faster.
By the Win95 era there was. In the 3.x and below era people tended to either be in DOS or be in Windows rather than running DOS in Windows. Or at least that was my experience, YMMV
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Ironically, I never intended on paying for YouTube, but once I switched to Google Music, (paid,) all the commercials disappeared.

If I had to choose, though, I'd continue paying for Netflix and put up with the commercials.
Mine often gets stuck on the college anxiety channel, which only shows reruns from 30 years ago. I'm glad I'm not paying a monthly fee.
I hope they don't succeed. I like telling old people "Well nobody has been to the moon in my lifetime". Since the moonwalk was a defining moment in their generation that thought really hits home.
Many people at the top of their field suffer from depression. Floer was a 28 year old tenured professor at Berkeley when he killed himself.
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It's also support typescript
It is also an are where our innate fears, fears that modern society tells us are unacceptable, might have a place. There is a deep-seated fear of diseased people that once kept us healthy. Modern science has given us an understanding of disease that means there is often no need to physically separate paints where we know the disease is not easily transmitted. The shunning of an aids victim, or a child with cancer, is totally unacceptable in polite society. But prions, and especially research into possible links to various forms of dementia, suggest some dark futures. Maybe it isn't a great idea for the kids to visit grandma in hospital.
Multi-room streaming and better lock-in to prevent projects like this one from being possible with open source.
>And people complain?

They're not competing against 20 years ago, the value proposition has changed. (Although 25 years ago there was "57 Channels And Nothin' On").

They're competing against a giant glut of content. Whats the marginal value in watching the latest hot Netflix show over everything else at my fingertips on the internet? Is there something inherently better about the 22-minute format? A movie's 3-act structure? Or a miniseries carefully crafted with plenty of plot climaxes but no plot resolution so you sit there and binge it? Do those shapes of entertainment earn a special place that commands a premium? Does the spectacle enabled by their production budgets?

I actually think they do have an edge, the social act of watching something together with people in the living room. But that's it.
You're likely seeing a version of the headline meant for social media.

Regardless, this is a better headline style wise.
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If you want to check for flicker, there is a great app called VISO Flicker Tester
But prions aren't code. DNA is code. Proteins are factory robots, and the prion protein is a factory robot involved in the process of making factory robots.

Neural proteins are very complicated, so they need other proteins to help them fold properly. One of these protein-folding-proteins (PRNP) can be mis-folded in such a way that it mis-folds other proteins in the same way that it is mis-folded itself.

When most factory robots break, they simply stop working and they get recycled. But when a robot-making robot breaks in just the right way, it starts producing robot-making-robots that are broken just like itself.