skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you're saying that moral good is doing what an individual thinks is good at that moment. So for example if I am a crusader and I think that killing non-believers is a supreme good, then I am moral. But if I think that killing is wrong no matter what and I still kill then I am immoral?
My way of not being addicted to Facebook.

(1) Set a ridiculously long passphrase that you'll do your best to memorize. Mine is 42 characters a la FHeCYERKCbdk289!# etc.

(2) Install plugins on your browser that disable Facebook features that you consider pure poison (in my case: Facebook newsfeed).

(3) Log yourself out of Facebook but keep yourself logged in to Messenger (if you're the chatty type like me, I consider it to be ICQ or MSN and as innovative as MSN was back then, yes I used MSN :P I'm from Europe).

(4) Download a slow crappy browser and put your main Facebook account on auto login.

(5) Create a second account with as few friends as possible, and get into the groups / whatever you find important that brings value to you. Set that second account to auto login on your main browser. Don't invite friends, but do let your friends know you want access to the groups they are in as well (if you find that important).

(6) Do the same for mobile.

This system allows you to: use the part of Facebook you consider valuable (in my case Messenger) and will put you in the situation of only using Facebook when you reaalllyyy need to but otherwise won't.

The only discipline you need to have is to not put yourself on auto login on your main browser. You also need the discipline of typing a passphrase every time (have fun on mobile!).
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I have to make a correction in my earlier comment (can't edit any more). I previously stated that this has nothing to do with topology or continuous functions or compactness but in fact it does. It's actually a kind of Baire space. I'll try to more precisely explain this part that's only vaguely told as a story in the original article.

So topologically a continuous function (from a topological space to another) is defined as one where the preimage of every open set is open. (This definition for real numbers is equivalent to the traditional epsilon-delta definition.)

Now for bit sequences we can define a topology via neighborhoods: a neighborhood of a bit sequence is simply those that share a finite prefix. Then an open set means that for every point (bit sequence) in it, there's a finite prefix such that all sequences with this finite prefix are in the open set. Compare this with the traditional open set definition for real numbers: a set is open if for every real number in it, there's an epsilon-neighborhood such that all real numbers within this neighborhood are in the open set. In fact it's the same definition once we choose a definition for neighborhoods.

Then for booleans we just use the discrete topology so any subset is open.

So what I was saying in the parent comment (function only examining a finite prefix to produce a boolean) basically implies that it's continuous: for every possible output boolean, the preimage must consist of a union of neighborhoods with finite prefixes. So if a function only examines a finite prefix of a bit sequence, its preimage cannot be more than a union of neighborhoods.

(On the other hand, it is possible that a function chooses to examine more than just a finite prefix and still be continuous. In this case we don't know that the function will throw away information gleaned from examining the infinite sequence. It just won't terminate.)
Exposure to uncomfortable situations works, but you need to do it properly.

Some people find a cognitive behaviour therapy model useful.
I doubt your cell plan works from any point on the planet with WiFi access.
It's not a replacement for an address, it's for places that have no address.
The bigger problem is that a authentication dialog is a window modal, which makes the entire browser inoperative. If it wasn’t for this, you could simply close the tab with the malicious site.

This broader issue is reported on the bug #123913, which is 17 years old. The bug is old enough to drive.
In my experience, learning to tolerate physical discomfort translates pretty well to mental resilience as well.
The court's press release: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...
The actual ruling text is available via: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/documents.jsf?num=C-621/18

One possible effect of this is that other countries will now try threatening to exit the EU, hoping to pressure it for special opt-outs and rebates. (As the UK has succesfully done in the past.) If they can revoke the invocation of Article 50, it would seem that they have nothing to lose.

Although the complete disaster that Brexit has been so far coupled with the hard line taken by the EU and even by third countries like Norway (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/07/norwegian-p...) do look very discouraging to countries looking to try this. We'll see how it plays out.
Reinventing the wheel without any clear advantage.

Plus codes don't seem to have any advantage over widely used MGRS (Military Grid Reference System). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Grid_Reference_System
She was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016 -- not one of the most influential writers, but one of the most influential people.

So it seems fair to say that she is one of the most famous writers in the world. That you haven't heard of her probably says more about you than it does about her.
The larger the alphabet, the larger the risk of glyph confusion.

Here's the alphabet they chose:

// The character set used to encode the values.
var CODE_ALPHABET_ = '23456789CFGHJMPQRVWX';

It omits easily-confused glyphs like "0oOD", "1lLI" etc.
I don’t agree with his point, but I can see it. For years CPU performance has largely been irrelevant, but they convinced the market to over pay on underperforming hardware.

Intel inside is great marketing and creating different brands of processors like i7 vs i3 independent of form factor pulls the focus away from absolute performance. Getting software manufacturers to customize for your chip again gets out of playing the actual head to head game.
Learn and practice meditation. It’s the only way. I can highly recommend the book Mental Resilience: The Power of Clarity [1] by Kamal Sarma It comes with a CD (yes they still make those) to help you early on with some guided meditations while you build up.

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> my friends’ addresses

I guess this isn't really aimed at you.

As https://xaddress.org/ says, "4 BILLION PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE A FUNCTIONAL ADDRESS ACCORDING TO A UNITED NATIONS ESTIMATE" (Not sure why they say it in caps, sorry.)
I deleted my Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts just this weekend. It's not that I don't like the service Facebook provides (I liked Insta in particular), but I don't want to be a part of the data harvesting, privacy destroying, democracy usurping empire any more. I don't believe Facebook has your best interests at heart. I don't think Facebook is good for society.

Also I read recently that they have a crisis internally amongst their staff with employees considering jumping ship. Additionally, new graduates no longer consider Facebook as the premium place to work. This may start to hurt them in the coming years.
same
https://geogee.me/-ze-a1-ac-za-a2-a4-za-a3-b8-zg-af-bd-zg-b5...
Yes, classic Mac OS truly did not have a command line interface of any kind. As a consequence, everything your application did must have had a GUI command or preference corresponding to it.

Command line interfaces are powerful, yes, but they're also a crutch. It's very easy to hide certain features by exposing them only through command line flags or what have you. On classic Mac OS you could not do this; you needed to attach every feature to a GUI control of some kind.

As a consequence, people came up with all kinds of GUI tools for pro/expert users. Linux, comparison, treats GUI users as second class citizens and tends to relegate them to only the most basic functionality.
> It’s so large that it can hold an infinite number of disjoint copies of the natural numbers inside it!

Nit: you can embed infinite copies of the natural numbers inside the natural numbers as well, with room to spare. Consider the primes raised to integer powers.
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Ah well. If the absolutely not politised Time magazine has placed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, then the guy you replied to is a dork. No questions asked! ;P
And, what so???? I can't understand the reason for such fascination.
Both frameworks support API-centered design. Your question doesn’t make much sense without knowing what your requirements for an application are, beyond 5hst it be rendered to the user as a single-page.
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You can now do this from the command line using bless(8).
> the only crisis a tech company could possibly face is declining usage?

Indeed. How about European Union regulations making it illegal to targeted advertisement people online; without an easy opt-out.

(from personal conversations with EU bureaucrats I know they _really_ dislike the fake news phenomenon and derived profit)
I can believe you've built valuable software without a "ticket system", but not without tickets, whether you called them that or not. You need pieces of functionality that get agreed between the business and the developer. And while it's possible to keep them in both your heads, it's easier and more reliable to record them in writing.
Assuming link karma counts, then it seems like you could spend a couple of hours writing a Selenium script that would check the XX most upvoted HN websites for new content every minute, and then copy the title field and URL for HN submission. I suspect running that for a few hours every day would see you climb to the top very fast, and it would require very little maintenance.
I've downvoted you, but only because it's what you would have wanted
This is what I understood: Imagine your address is "massive heart will" but your next door neighbor's address is "correct position delay".
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Mediation can teach you this.
I don't blame any writer for wanting to be anonymous. In today's world, your race, gender, sexual orientation, age, hair color, clothing style, political affiliation, birthplace, and any other discernible group identity will be used to analyze, market, and categorize your work into the appropriate tribalist-identity.

To quote from Ferrante's Wikipedia page:

Ferrante holds that "books, once they are written, have no need of their authors." She has repeatedly argued that anonymity is a precondition for her work and that keeping her true name out of the spotlight is key to her writing process.

Some people just want to write a book...and have it be read as a book, not a sociopolitical statement. Call it the "craftsman ethos", if you like.
I'm not so sure, I think I'd rather be spied on by my own country.
He is still active in the chess community. What i meant was he could have become cynical and stopped acknowledging the game altogether now that he is rich, retired, and involved in politics.
It's an interesting situation. I wonder if Apple will bend over and give up user's privacy, or will exit Australian markets.

Google and Amazon will definitely sell out the users.

(and I'm not an Apple user)
Tools drive the way they get used, and JIRA naturally guides teams into micromanagement. Have you tried a more lightweight cards-on-board tool (like Trello)?
You have completely not understood anything I have written, and your example makes zero sense. Pointing out the flaws it what I can make of it - you are talking about currency conversion (this is two different monetary systems and cash positions in both). Second, your example is again talking about 2 different systems and by that metric, everybody has been losing money during the equities bull market because Bitcoin has outperformed the S and P every year bar 2, and when looking at raw purchasing power, still has outperformed even after an 85% crash. Obviously this is stupid, because in the context of the monetary system those investments were made, Apple and Tesla have done fine.
Well, Google wanted to run their software in China until their employees disagreed :)

So maybe it depends on the employees?

Either way, anything we'd comment would just be speculation.
This is normal in many countries but it's extremely uncommon in theUS, where as you implied the ground floor is typically the "first" (in the numerical sense) floor.
> That you haven't heard of her probably says more about you than it does about her

Sure. It says I'm out-of-touch -- and doubly so when it comes to whomever Time Magazine thinks is influential.
Sure, that was like 20+ years ago. I'm saying today, he has no reason to keep writing about chess and yet here we are.
This doesn't seem to work in the UK. The closest box to my house partially covers three homes, and would be interpreted as my neighbour's.
To some degree, but not quickly and reliably.
This is a good question. I'm very curious to see the impact this has too. Personally I am appalled that this legislation went through. Very scary precedent.

I want to think Australia shot itself in the foot here, if big companies will be exiting or if Australian developers are looked over for projects because they don't want to deal with this backdoor BS.
I've worked with artists, and that's precisely how it works. https://www.foundry.com/products/flix/new-releases is basically a visual pinboard. It allows storyboard artists to collaborate, give crit, and iterate on an entire movie.

Later on in the pipeline, the modelers, animators, lighters, texturers all have to take the storyboard input, combine it with the vocal cues and make an artistic thing.

There is an agreed upon style guide, with a very close feedback loop (dailies, weeklies and monthlies). all managed by something like https://www.shotgunsoftware.com/ or ftrack. which is basically Jira + MS project love child.

Its the same with software, There is a style guide (well should be, you can use this tech, with these standards, deployed and monitored by these tools) which lives outside of Jira. Jira is then both tracking tool (so the buisness can see progress) planning tool, so that decisions can be traced, tracked and adjusted, and notebook.

I can understand the hate for Jira. I was at a company where we changed workflow every sprint. Its dispiriting, annoying and wasted on average .75 of a day a week. Thats not the fault of Jira, that the fault of the people who take the religion of AGILE and impose it.

Process should be mapped to the system, not the system mapped to the process.
Yes, people try to manipulate you all the time. My point is - it's fair game. It's exactly the game that all of us are playing all the time, it's pretty fun, it's challenging, and I see no point in painting someone as immoral just because they're winning at it.
I don't know how it is elsewhere but my bank does monitor my transactions. If something suspicious happens they block the card. Also by default you can only use it in Europe.

I trust my bank more than Visacard. But the reason why creditcards still exist at all is because they are the only payment system that is universally accepted. Its old technology but it works precisely because its so simple. Hell there are air liners that only accept creditcards! Visacard knows that they have a monopoly.
I posted in another comment about how I believe the author is wrong. But what you mention having “read recently” would arguably count as aspects of a “media narrative”, as there isn’t data (beyond interesting anecdotes and conjecture) that employee discontent is at “crisis” levels. Only FB’s internal metrics could conclusively prove that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589702
> Minor assumption failures can suddenly matter alot.

Indeed. In fact this is nowadays painfully obvious in Fisher's maximum-likelihood based estimators -- they do not have nice 'continuity' properties that will give a graceful degradation. We figured out how to deal with this once the problem was recognized.

However, we see the same problem raising its head in some of the deep neural net literature. Tiny variations often does not cause tiny distortions in the output -- thats cause for some legitimate concern.
The argument is basically, "all actual Turing machines are finite, because the universe/computer memory is finite".
I love Clickspring. He's basically the single reason I use Patreon.

I have bouts of insomnia, and when I do, I found that listening to either Chris (or Bob Ross) while lying in bed help me tremendously to get calm enough to fall asleep.
I really hope Apple leave, otherwise they have no significant distinguishing feature.
Knowing your neighbors address tells you nothing about your own address. To be able to get your address, you need a smart phone, and at that point you could just send me a pin with your exact latitude and longitude.

Approximate locations are dramatically more useful for navigating in much of the rural developing world. "How do I get to village X" will have an answer for 10 miles around. "How do I get to X lat/lng?" will be met with a shrug, both from google maps which will suggest you drive through a field and from anyone you ask.

If you can make something that works at the village level, you can bootstrap people getting their location. If the first word provided approximately "country" level information, the second provided approximately 1km bands (what you get if you evenly divide the three little words partitions), and the third gave you the 3m resolution grid, people without addresses could know their approximate address from others.

Basically, there's a bootstrapping problem and a usefulness problem. Right now, no one knows their 3 little words number. To become useful, most people need to know their 3 little words. How do you cross that gap? One way would be to have it be useful to know "2 words" or some approximate identifier for your region and then after locating you approximately, your service provider can tell you your last word.
The way the law reads, we won't know if they have installed backdoors for Australia as they aren't allowed to notify people about it.

Mind you, if they all exited the country - along with Netflix and Facebook then I'd imagine the bulk of Australia would suddenly take a serious interest in it and the law would get revoked.
For the first two: not much, and somewhat. The commenters are correct that this logic is much more easily expressed in Haskell, since it has better support for this kind of programming. Swift is able to do this because it has lazy evaluation as a opt-in feature as well as the parts of the type system that matter; I don’t think you would be able to port this to C easily.
They are looking at ways to clamp down on leaks and stuff internally from what I hear. They will just get better at hiding projects from the employees going forward.
They already been doing that for couple of years. Maps already knows which floor I'm on in certain malls if I have the gps+wifi on.
True, all are human constructs. Prosecuting bank robbers is done under written laws though, we don't prosecute bank robbers with an appeal to morality. From the emails it seems like fb broke some laws and they can be punished for that, but imo they should be punished for breaking written laws, not based on a nebulous morality which varies from person to person.

To what extent written laws reflect morality is another topic of course.
Those posts are created automatically

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589702

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
One thing I do respect about Apple is that they do try and protect their users.
Cobra kai and impulse were pretty good. But YouTube said they will be investing less in original content recently so I don’t know what will happen with good content like this...

Netflix on the other hand every time I think I’ll cancel, comes out with a bunch of new shows to watch and I seem to enjoy.
GPS elevation data is pretty poor in my experience. Especially inside buildings.
This is a very common numbering scheme in some countries (at least most of Europe) but very uncommon in the US.
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ah, thanks. Not sure how i didn't notice that one. There are a few rendering issues with some of the svgs because I am rendering them as a svg sprite. Will add that to the list of fixes.
The AU Tech community is outraged but that's too late #aabill
+1 for your post. I DID do a double take on the author's name though. I read it Kama Sutra at first..
> No. Whatever the unknown unknowns are, they're not going to be that hard to work around.

Please try some humility, for real. This isn't some guy's backyard train model project. This is a 24/7-running subway in one of the busiest cities in the world. Errors that result in shutdowns can cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in economical damage. Accidents can take hundreds to thousands of lives.

This attitude you have is the attitude of every single commenter who asks why Dropbox has "so many employees" when they "could build it in a weekend". It shows a huge amount of disrespect for complexity you aren't aware of; and by extension, things you're not aware of in general. It's the same attitude you find in project managers who don't understand XKCD1425 and "just want it done now it can't be that hard". The attitude of anti-vaxxers who dismiss expert opinions to rely on their gut feelings.

I don't know why it's so expensive, I haven't seen the breakdown, but my default reaction will be to dig further, rather than to dismiss people who have worked on subway systems infinitely more than me and casually throw in a "Nah, it's just keeping track of some train cars, nbd".
Isn't this the thing that was added that lets police and intelligence agencies hack other machines legally?
I thought that was the only decent part of the bill as most of those attacks become narrow and direct in contrast to the problematic broad information gathering the legislation also authorised.
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I find them a lot more human-friendly, but I guess that's subjective. The example from the wiki page you linked:

MGRS: 4QFJ12345678

Plus Code: 835M+Q7 Honolulu
My exact thought. This is identical to MGRS, except that you lose the "cartesian coordinates locally" feature.
There's no need for a dichotomy between "meaningful poorly-paid work" and "unethical pointless well-paid work." It's perfectly possible to work at a nonprofit that is "beneficial to society" while simultaneously optimizing your own personal financial position.
Investors in the COP24 are the least interested in climate change
The COP24's website (https://cop24.gov.pl) shows a list of partners, in which many are deeply involved with the current issues regarding climate change.

These includes:

* PGNiG: A petroleum company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGNiG)

* PGG: Polish Coal Mining company

* Orlen: Oil refiner and petrol retailer. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKN_Orlen)

* JSW: Coking coal/coke producer (https://cop24.gov.pl/partners/jsw/)

How can we trust an event that aims to work on climate change when it is financed by companies that are responsible for this?