skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the thought the other day that what we're seeing here in the West is like an informal version of China's social credit system, and perhaps that something like China's social credit system is almost unavoidable when everything is hyper-connected like this. This is what humans do, and when you connect them all at scale they do it at scale.

The specific mores and taboos don't matter. People get hung up on this being a "liberal" thing, but go to a very conservative part of the Borg hive mind and you get the same behavior. Criticize Donald Trump on Reddit's conservative forums and you are instantly brigaded, shamed, or banned.
That's the complain: they could do it, and be liable for it, if they wanted, and still be profitable.
> Further, it’s extremely hard to statically analyse selectors to see whether any rules are broken (or even a typo!) this means constraints have to be enforced via code reviews and education, which is a harder problem to solve and scale. We should use a computer's assistance us on this, and not rely on humans being infallible (they’re not!)

Is there a more general name for the argument in defense of a technological movement on the grounds that it prevents users of said tool from making a certain mistake, and that mistake is so disastrous that we see it necessary to implement a drastic change with wide-ranging demands on an entire class of users or eliminates them entirely from the user base?

I see this kind of argument prop up all the time in these types of discussions and something about it just fundamentally irks me, but I can't put my finger on it. It's kind of like Google's AMP, where instead of making incremental changes to the technologies in question, we'd rather draw an arbitrary line between "good" and "bad" uses of that technology and create a fork or subset of that tech where only the "good" uses are allowed.

For a less controversial but equally relevant example, see Crockford's "Javascript: the Good Parts," which irked me at the time as well for the same reasons, even though it became universally accepted (although not-so-universally applied).

I'm trying to come up with an example from my favorite language (Ruby) and I can't. Ruby's approach seems to be to discourage "bad" use cases by making them ugly (ex. instance_variable_get) rather than preventing them outright.
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HN's value has really declined with the appearance of all the paywalls the last couple of years where there's no simple workaround. I've stopped clicking on WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg articles. Would be nice to just be able to filter them out of the view.
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As a former purist who's adopted the styled-components implementation of CSS-in-JS, I can say 100% that maintaining styles has become an absolute dream. It's not terribly different from CSS (meaning, if you need to extract a stylesheet it's just a few lines of code) and its ability to do autoprefixing and Sass-style nesting out of the box is a massive time saver. Coupled with CSS variables, it's an ideal toolset for authoring styles.

I've spent over a decade fighting with CSS. Sass was a welcome upgrade. CSS-in-JS is a welcome next step.
Politicians don't actually write laws, they have legislative assistants (that work for the body itself usually). I think the entire law is stupid, but how is it his fault that CL took the law and notified its customers in the most obnoxious way possible?
Yes, men in the middle cannot be trusted. Especially ISPs. Most mean well but are incompetent. Some don't mean well and are incompetent. ISPs that mean well and actually know what they are doing are relatively rare.

If you have a device with wifi, most of the time you are on untrusted networks. So, it makes no sense whatsoever to default to some random isp's DNS just because the wifi you are on is suggesting that you use it.
> it dawned on me that waterskiing is done on a single ski

Isn't waterskiing on a single ski called wakeboarding? Where I grew up in Florida plenty of people waterskiied on 2 skis.
Writing laws feels a bit like a monkey's paw. No matter how well written a law is they often have unintended consequences or are implemented manners that weren't imagined.

I don't think the bill's author/sponsor is fully to blame (they aren't guiltless either). Centurylink certain did not have to implement this requirement in the way it was done. The most depressing aspect to this is the lack competition. The author is unable to move to a competitor which did not behave this way.
Jon Ronson's book on this topic, So You've Been Publicly Shamed, is another insightful look at the wild world internet-fueled shaming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You%27ve_Been_Publicly_Sham...
I'd hope this is one of the things Apple audits against in their app review process.
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Taught myself riding at an adult age with a lot of pain and preservance.
In my experience the hardest thing to do on a board is standing still or going really fast straight.

Regarding your problem just try and go back directly instead of standing on your heals. And then do it slower and slower till you can control the action.
I like the spirit of this article, and it is ludicrous that a project appraisal would be so high for this anyway.

The UK has had vehicle-mounted ANPR for over a decade.
> - Why are limits defined the way they are (with epsilons and deltas)?

> - The book will probably touch lightly upon the Mean Value Theorem -- why is this important? What's the point?

> - Why is the chain rule true? It reads dy/dx = (dy/du) (du/dx). Yay! This is just cancelling fractions, right? Any "respectable" calculus book will insist that it's not, but most students will cheerfully ignore this, still get correct answers to the homework problems, and sleep fine at night.

Which "respectable" book(s) would you recommend for those who want to dive into this details? Is Tom Apostol's Mathematical Analysis? good for learning these kind of details? (They say this book is "respectable", but I would like to hear your thoughts about it. Thanks).
I attempted to organize resistance within the dns/network group when my former job had us implement this but did not get any support. Oh well.
FYI, here's the agenda of these people:

https://www.firstthings.com/about/

First Things is published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. The Institute was founded in 1989 by Richard John Neuhaus and his colleagues to confront the ideology of secularism, which insists that the public square must be “naked,” and that faith has no place in shaping the public conversation or in shaping public policy.

The Institute’s mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports:

* a religiously pluralistic society that defends human dignity from conception to natural death.

* a democratic, constitutionally ordered form of government supported by a religiously and morally serious culture.

* a vision of freedom that encourages a culture of personal and communal responsibility.

* loyalty to the Western tradition that provides a basis for responsible global citizenship.
+1 for metabase. had to turn off autoscanning though because it starting slowing down other queries when scanning a large table frequently.

we also use pgweb linked elsewhere here for engineers.

btw, we built a sql statement to spreadsheet + charts interface. DM if interested. intuitively - i think others may find it useful.
The comparison we make is to residual networks, which I think is valid. First, we do parameterize a theta that changes with time, using a hypernet. But this is equivalent to the way sampo wrote the equations above - you can just feed time as another input to the dynamics network to get dynamics that change with time.

Second, I agree that general feedforward nets allow dimension changes, but resnets don't. This model is a drop-in replacement for resnets, but not for any feedforward net. If we gave the wrong impression somewhere, please let us know.

We didn't make the analogy with RNNs, because I don't think it fits - standard input-output RNNs have to take in part of the data with every time step, while here the data only appears at the input (depth 0) layer of the network.
Last year in Colorado, skiing alone, I met an 80-year old instructor on a ski lift who was nice enough to take me under his wing and teach me more advanced form and technique for two days. I'm from Switzerland and have been skiing my whole life, but had never had a lesson. Having a pro teach me the fundamentals was an absolute revelation. I highly recommend taking a class if you can!
>"And we are willing to pay for it, but only if we have no way to personally avoid the obligation ourselves. And the same is true of our peers. We're an entire civilization of would-be free riders. So we're stuck because nobody will personally commit to pay unilaterally, even though we all want to. So how do we make ourselves happy? How do we get together and sign a contract to pay for it, without defecting on each other?"

How do people get together to invest in anything in this world you describe? How do you get 100 people to invest in your real estate venture without defecting on each other?

Sorry, but I don't see it. It seems like a solved "problem", even when there is no desire guaranteed to be fulfilled at the end.
This strikes me as a much more sane approach, which makes me really surprised that somehow I haven't heard about it until now.

To me, the biggest problem in CSS that makes me not completely dismissive of JS-in-CSS is scoping (although BEM does kind of tend to solve that problem pretty well for me already).

Dynamically generating the class names seems at first glance at least to be a good solution to that problem. Doing it as part of a compile step would be better than doing it clientside or serverside, but obviously that's not really feasible for most dynamic applications. Possibly there could be a Babel step that swaps out references in source code or something.

But yeah, I'm interested into looking into this more. Thanks for letting me know!
It's non-cash, though. It costs them on an accounting basis only.
> Google didn't shut down Google+ to preserve user privacy

They accelerated the planned shutdown for exactly that reason.
Love this site well done. Concept and design is pretty nice.
Discord Store to offer developers 90 percent of game revenues
Alexander Suvorov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov#Assessment

"He had a great simplicity of manner, and while on a campaign lived as a private soldier, sleeping on straw and contenting himself with the humblest fare.[43] Suvorov was adored by his men and considered victory dependent on the morale, training, and initiative of the front-line soldier. In battle he emphasized speed and mobility, accuracy of gunfire and the use of the bayonet, as well as detailed planning and careful strategy. He abandoned traditional drills and instead communicated with his troops in ways that proved clear and understandable. Suvorov also took great care of his army's supplies and living conditions, reducing cases of illness among his soldiers dramatically."
Really interesting read-- this reminds me a ton of the New Criterion, which is constantly publishing articles of a similar style [1]. It's composed in this verbose, sometimes satirical New Yorker-style of writing, and offers such a stark contrast to what's normally cited as a "politically right" source, like Fox News, which I find pretty abhorrent in quality.

Thanks for linking to this; it's immensely important to learn >1 side to an issue, but with the quantity of shallow writing out there, it can often be a challenge.

[1] https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/12/offense-archaeol...
Hmmm, so if I were on CenturyLink and in the "SOL" category the following could have happened.

Attempting to email my state senators to express a political opinion? Freedom of speech: Blocked.

Buying from a company online, located in another state? Interstate commerce: Blocked.

Trying to run an online business? Blocked.

Trying to contact my kids? Blocked.

My elderly grandmother is dying and family was trying to Skype me in since I couldn't make it? Blocked.

The number of constitutional laws, federal laws, and moral laws broken here is mindbogglingly astronomical.

Good luck, CenturyLink.
Jake Carpenter according to apple podcast app.
The blind leading the blind....
It is generally bad practice to write laws with specific technologies listed as solutions, because then the law is easy to skirt by using another technology, or the law becomes stale as technology changes.

That being said, this law already had a specific expiration date, and there was little fear that email would be an old technology by the end of this month.

They should have written a better law.
I'm sure it would be their top priority to tell everyone that the bug was exploited.
It doesn't even include a messaging platform!
For anybody who isn't comfortable learning a small amount about diversification, index funds are probably the easiest way to guarantee an average return. Probably a good choice.

Still not a panacea, course. What was the ROI on the S&P 500 between, say, 1997 and 2009? Ouch. We've been on a beautiful bull run for the last decade, at least up until a month or so ago. I wonder what the next decade or two will look like.
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Is there some benefit to greater America from their existence?

Are you asking if there's a good reason why these small towns should exist?
>>Genuinely curious on your view: what is an appropriate response?

CRIPPLING fines to start. Or shut down the freaking company if you can't secure it. Not everything is forgiven with a "we're sorry for 27845th time." Private pictures can and do ruin lives. (We can question the wisdom of posting private pics on FB but after all it's a huge company and they said they're private)
Why I chose not to become a digital nomad
You can click into any web-dev related discussion on HN to find someone trotting out their thinly-veiled assumption of "everyone is incompetent except for me".

When I read the title of the submission, I immediately envisioned the typical "I thought we learned CSS belongs in its own file, why are web developers idiots?" comment.

Everyone is always trying to unmask each other as incompetent because it spares them the effort of being open-minded, of resisting the tempting repulsion of new thoughts, and of understanding why someone might prefer something else.
I did a CS undergrad at the University of Manitoba. Then took some time off to do a startup and was in the army reserves. Then when to UBC to do an MSc in CS + Stats. My Phd was officially in the made-up-sounding subject of "Information Engineering" at Cambridge, but really I just worked on Bayesian nonparametrics the whole time. I didn't start working on deep learning until my postdoc.
That was a real bank. Historically savings accounts are in the 2.5-5 range.
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We still have to depend on CAs to 'follow the rules', and the client has to support it (does your mail client verify Cert Transparency? does your backend microservice?) and be connected to the Internet, and Google, etc.

There are better ways to handle it, I think, but they may involve changing how we both sign and verify certs.
Apple says iOS update will avoid Qualcomm patents, China iPhone ban
This NRI came back to India, only to leave again in frustration
And not everyone is 100% focused to be a designer and again not everyone works at the highest average salary region.

And even without those points, Adobe's pricing is just off from other professional tools.
Out of atmosphere what the U.S. Military considers atmosphere.
That's still misleading, at best, for CenturyLink to claim that the law "requires them" to do it this way. There are easier methods to provide the notice (email or with a bill), and there's nothing that could even be contsrued as encouraging them to do this DNS hijacking in the text you provided.
Do we have anything more than the company's word for it that it was a bug?
opened up savings with ally a few months ago (september i think??) and dumped in a sum of ~10k saving for downpayment. Been easy so far, rate has bumped up to 2% and we've made like 50 bucks or so. Not too shabby compared to the negative thousands in my portfolio!
As a fellow European, I think we'd do well to remember history - the previous global hegemon, the British Empire, was very similar in most regards. Arguably the domestically least repressive major society of its time - albeit also measured against a very low standard - and just as guilty of immense atrocities abroad. In terms of everyday security and freedom for the common citizen, smaller islands of civilization seem to do better on short timescales.
I use SASS in my React app, but it runs with CSS modules in webpack so you have no worries about class name collisions. It will rewrite a class name like 'wrapper', to 'MyComponent_wrapper_<shortHash>'.

The SASS is still sort of a parallel codebase in a sense, and doing things like defining constants in SASS that also need to be consumed by the Javascript isn't easy like it would be in pure Javascript.
Note that since Unreal Engine costs 5% if you aren't on the Epic Store, Epic's 88/12 offer is still a better deal for UE4 titles, as they'll be a 85/5/10 split on Discord's store.

But it's exciting to see the price war really launch, and it shows Epic games made a hugely consumer-friendly move by attacking the 30% cut model. I'm really excited to see them tackle Android next year as they've stated they plan to.
So confusing:

Iceland is in the Schengen Area, and the EEA, but not the EU or Eurozone
Such phenomenal work.

BTW, for anyone on a Windows machine, getting this to work is very trivial.

There is a unix only library for locking files (fcntl) which prevents it from working on Windows. I mocked it in the path and made a function that returns 0 to test it.

Obviously adding a check for os and switching to a cross platform file locker would be a great contribution. I'll see if I can make that happen in the next week.
That's a good question... I have often wondered if many of our environmental/political problems would be solved if we helped everyone move to major cities.

But the city environment undeniably makes many people less happy. Studies have shown a link between urban living and mental illness.

So it might be nice to maintain options for humans who thrive in a more rural environment.
I think if you look at the definition of goodwill, it explicitly does not include brand value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting): "Examples of identifiable assets that are not goodwill include a company’s brand name, customer relationships, artistic intangible assets, and any patents or proprietary technology"

edit: https://www.economist.com/business/2014/08/30/untouchable-in... - we're both right. Brand is on balance sheet as an intangible, but it doesn't reflect all brand value (and in an acquistition that's frequently reflected in the goodwill). I know that goodwill can reflect expected cross-selling synergy, expense reduction from redundancy layoffs, less pricing pressure, etc, also.
There are probably specific exceptions—milking a job for a limited period for some reason for example. But in general yes.
Agendas are like you-know-whats... everyone's got one.

I wouldn't say I agree with them on everything but this is definitely on the sane side as agendas go, especially these days when vast numbers of people seem to have eaten the brown acid. They also deserve a bit of credit for being pretty up front with it.
But they aren’t. Most home sales in the US follow caveat emptor. If you buy a house from a private seller and then later discover mold in the walls or a crack in the foundation I wish you luck in getting the seller to pay for the repair.
Even basic formulae behave differently though.
For what it's worth the submission title here ("Turning small towns into tech hubs isn't working") doesn't appear in the article.

The basic reasoning of the article:

...the high-tech industries powering the economy today don’t have much need for the cheap labor that rural communities contributed to America’s industrial past. They mostly need highly educated workers. They find those most easily in big cities, not in small towns.

In a report published in November, Mark Muro, William Galston and Clara Hendrickson of the Brookings Institution laid out a portfolio of ideas to rescue the substantial swathe of the country that they identify as “left behind.” They identify critical shortages bedeviling declining communities: workers with digital skills, broadband connections, capital. And they have plans to address them: I.T. training and education initiatives, regulatory changes to boost lending to small businesses, incentives to invest in broadband.

...the authors concede that they may not be up to the task. “I don’t know if these ideas are going to work,” Mr. Galston acknowledged when I pressed him on the issue. “But it is worth making the effort.”

The article is essentially laying out the idea of encouraging the tech sector to develop in rural communities and says it might work, but notes that even proponents aren't certain. The pressure of agglomeration is high in the tech industry, and that concentrates jobs in big cities.
Counterpoint: I hear there are some startups thriving on Vancouver island in a few small towns.
>But in a world where there are known, novel attacks against the integrity of microchips that would make it difficult to verify even in the presence of microscope images of a decapped chip, I'm not sure if this really gives us that much reassurance that the chip does what it says

I find myself saying this a lot lately but I really think that stuff like this is going to lead us to chip fabs being national strategic industries in the short/medium term future.
Off the top of my head I'm thinking that there's a serious lack of thought in these use cases, especially string manipulation which I could imagine becoming painfully slow as the database grows; any manipulation of the projection like this is going to incur a large performance overhead.

It would be quite good to see this blog post, or a response to it, evaluating the SQL codes performance on different datasets.
1. As the other reply said, we just mean an ODE solver whose internal operations are a detail we don't need to worry about.

2. This paper only had proofs of concepts and toy demos.
But our follow-up paper, FFJORD [https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01367] we used the continuous normalizing flows to get SOTA efficiently sample-able density models.
"Move fast and break things" does not work in the heavily regulated worlds of healthcare (e.g. Theranos) and finance (now Robinhood). FB and GOOG have massive lobbying operations for this very reason, as they don't want advertising to become like finance and healthcare.
Small towns cannot be tech hubs, because that's not even what a 'hub' is. It would be the end node, or an outlier constantly. I'm from a small town but we have one huge industry which employs around 80% of the local community. The rest of the folks are in construction, service industries, schools, etc. No amount of effort would turn that region into a tech or innovation hub without it also turning it into a city.

Instead of trying to shore up the weaknesses of rural communities how can they play to their strengths? A small community and lifestyle has lots of benefits over living in the city but you have to value both working in tech (remotely) _and_ what a small community has to offer.
I wonder why you thought Mac's share is declining. Mac in 2009 wasn't as mature as now with both their OS and third party apps.
The middle class in the us started growing in the 1860s, and it was in the 1970s that it started turning around.