skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credible to whom?

After 2000 years of the indoctrination the defenders of the bible have got the art of defending the make-believe that is the bible down to a fine art. I did not say that everything that has ever came out of Richard Carrier's mouth is tantamount to the word of god and definitely to be believed. My point was that he asks the right questions, has done a lot of research that the bible bashers of this world haven't bothered to do and he has ways of discussing things in a non-black-and-white dualist way, going for probability and giving a value to how likely something is likely to be true.

Anyone with a serious interest in questioning assumptions long held by them about the bible needs to hear him out, to believe him or not, it is that questioning of faith that matters. There are plenty of atheists that believe that Jesus really did exist but he was an ordinary guy rather than of virgin birth and the son of god, an 'anti-capitalist rebel' of sorts.

What Richard Carrier does is to open up the idea that the whole bible is a contrivance, that this Jesus character did not exist and that his story was weaved together by religions that had gone before.

Logical fallacies are something we are all capable of. Your 'where there is smoke there must be fire' comment does not stand up to scrutiny.

Just twenty years ago it was not possible to talk about climate change in the world of weather forecasting and meteorology. That was actually way to controversial, and I am talking from being in the field twenty years ago. Yet by that point in time the idea had some scientific credibility for twenty years, and a century before that some had wondered what the consequences of pumping ever increasing quantities of carbon dioxide into the air might lead to, positing the 'crazy' global warming idea.

With the agreement of the Paris Accords the other week we have moved on from that, the 'fringe' view that was not considered 'credible' has moved on. Yet a mere twenty years ago people were saying 'climate change is fringe for a reason'.

There may be much to dislike about Richard Carrier, but to dismiss him without at least a link to a decent review of his work by one of these italicised credible scholars is a poor show.
Also a breakdown by country would be nice. I heard that most aren't in USA, but that's all I know.
Then who are the creditors?

The best analogy I think is that we borrow the money from our future selves. If we invest it well then our future selves will enjoy the wealth in retirement. If we fritter it, we will be destitute in our old age.
If the 2% is accurate (which I don't believe it to be. There's no shortage of people much more educated and informed than I that are talking about this), then it's certainly not "breathtaking" as I said. I had in mind a graph (which I inconveniently cannot find now) that showed inflation over the last 100 years prior to the US coming off the gold standard. There was basically none, but it has since sky rocketed.

I did a quick google and found this right at the top:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/the-consu...
If you think we have had laissez-faire housing policies you're completely wrong. Housing policy is probably less free than any other part of the market. We have an enormous number of zoning laws that prevent people from building what they want to build on the land they own. Whenever new housing projects are proposed they get locked up in court for years because the existing homeowners feel entitled to freeze their neighborhoods in stasis so they will never change.

Meanwhile the most expensive Bay Area cities are the ones that have rent control, because rent control is a form of price control and all price controls create shortages. Why would any reasonable person want to invest in building housing when the city government gets to tell them how much they can charge for rent?
But still predetermined at the moment of big bang.
IMHO, getting good at genetic engineering mostly negates the potential dangers of newly introduced bugs that stay dormant for a long time. After all we then have the tools to fix them.
Sounds like they wanted to be a little more aggressive rather than just putting lipstick on that same pig. By specifying the new method they can clean up the rough edges for performance or ergonomics without breaking existing code.
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Blaming the internet is absolutely unfair. Before, it was really hard to expose bad journalism, that's the foundation of the myth about times of good journalism.

Duranty was awarded with Pulitzer for blatant lies in the first half of XX century, and it took more than 60 years for this to be widely revealed. It wouldn't be that easy for him nowadays.
Getting the plastic-based glitter to not melt or burn on the grill might also be quite a challenge.
Wait a week or two? That's what they told to my father in the military some 40 years ago. He's still fighting the consequences of that pneumonia.
> I think that if discoverability would be there from the start, we wouldnt have things like Hateoas

Off you go into the heap of people that don't understand rest. Hateoas is in the original spec, if you haven't read it.

> Tho i understand its hard to get at first, some TLDR wouldnt hurt.

Maybe some reading of basic etiquette would help there too.
Yea fair enough. Alexandria always made a better halfway point for me, halfway ish between TC and F/MH.
Also there are apps to block social media while reading: Offtime app works great.
Oo nice, thanks.
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (of Moby Dick fame.) Incredibly well-written and hilarious short story about an apathetic office worker.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener

http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf
I tried nicotine toothpicks and they just made me feel sleepy and didn't give any neurological benefits. I don't really see why nicotine is popular at all.

Caffeine, P5P, D-Ribose, Astragalus, Turmeric... etc. are way better natural stimulants/nootropics. I guess people don't smoke for the same reasons that I take supplements.
To add to this, your questions are bizarre.

What do I mean by ‘Facebook tracking individual user behavior’? Um... I don’t know what to say to that. What a strange question. It’s pretty clear what is meant by that. It’s the primary focus of their business.

Next, “usually when you train a model you extract features for each event and then you apply your model at prediction time”. That’s nice, but when did we start discussing ‘training models’?

Facebook has a list of internet activity. It’s stored by user. They’re in the business of selling personal data. Nothing you said has anything to do with that. I have no idea what we are even discussing.

Whether someone can make an ad hoc a query by user is completely not the point and has nothing to do with anything. I would assume that they have extracted the information into other reports or data stores, obviously, not process trillions of lines of entries whenever they want to access it by individual.
1- Multi: yes, I'm planning to support it in the next releases.

2- Consistency: Yep, also there will be test cases soon.
3- Performance: at first, nothing will be faster than RAM, so don't expect that an on-disk store is faster than an in-memory store, but that doesn't mean that on-disk stores are very slow, I selected two storage engines called bolt and badger, badger is the default because it follows RocksDB design and rocksdb. for redix server compared to redis server, redix doesn't use an eventloop, but each connection runs in its own light-weight thread, so there no possibilities that you run a command and block the server itself, another note is: the underlying implementation of internal datatypes makes redix faster in some cases especially when you try to load large datasets, you will notice that redix has very low response time than redis, that means, in a highly loaded environment you find redix performance better than redis especially with the coming version because redix will lower the memory usage more and more.
Every day I improve it more and more, and thanks for the issues creator on the repo, they're helping me too in organizing my thoughts.
The way NDK related deployments work is still a joke in Android, despite some improvements to correct the situation.

Most Google native libraries targeted to Android, instead of using Android tooling integration, tend to be some link to a github repository with an endless list of manual integration steps, including making use of Blaze.

It is as if the teams don't know better, never used Apple or Microsoft's C++ SDKs, or at very least walked next door to check how one is supposed to do it on Android.
Keep in mind that Solzhenitsyn's books are primarily fiction and far from historical.
A while back because of shifting mobiles a lot ( due to repairing my mobile and also having a temporary replacement) I ended up making a rudimentary program to store shows codes and even qrcodes for reading from the mobile working in my Linux terminal.
https://github.com/lcabral37/terminalOathApp

It did the work and even today I use it every now and then, instead of pulling out the mobile.
The Year's Best Booze Is Coming Out of a Warehouse in Copenhagen
There's a growing class of apps that are clearly intended to be used as image boards, but don't actually advertise themselves as being intended for any specific website. One common pattern are apps that require that the user type in a certain domain in order for them to work. Most *chan browser apps in this way. You manually specify a domain and board code, and only then does the app function.

I can see this type of scheme increasing, as it puts a degree of indirection between the app itself and the objectionable content. There's a stronger element of deniability: the user is the one that's navigating to a separate website that hosts objectionable content. The app itself is "clean" so to speak (even though it's obviously not the case in practice).
Ok, we've reduced the title above to the salient point.
Al Gore made more from the Google IPO in 05/06 than from his climate change advocacy, which is something he pioneered since when he was a conservative Democrat from Tennessee. The idea that it’s a conflict of interest is silly in the grand scheme of things.
Or -site:quora.com if you are OK with pages with links to quora but you just do not want a result from that domain.
Nicotine is mostly harmless mkay
I started redix with redis protocol to make use of redis ecosystem out there. There is also a plan to make HA a native feature in redix with no external requirements, so I can keep redix a standalone DB server.
There's a lot of Wikipedia content that would match forbidden content in this policy too.
+1 to the book. There was a HN comment that said that the book is like a technical book of your mind.
For those who are interested more in the Buddhism there is a guy who answers 3/4 questions
on his podcast "Dhamma on air" : Bhikku Samahita https://www.youtube.com/user/BhikkhuSamahita
I suspect it’s deliberate, as it supports Google’s agenda of exploiting others work for free.
You’re right, it is a political hammer. The thing is, it never survives feasibility studies. The Tampa Orlando hsr has been a talking point for at least 20 years that I know of. There just isn’t enough people who even say that they MIGHT use it. But politicians love promising it and fancy 3D renders. Hsr in the states is exactly like that bridge to nowhere in Alaska everyone got on Palin back during Mcain v Obama. If they applied the exact same logic, not enough people will be using it to justify cost, we wouldn’t be having these discussions.

I just don’t see the appeal. First off, I’ve done long distance trains. They suck just as much as planes and they’re slower. The tickets won’t be that much cheaper than puddle jump flights. And since it’s a longer trip, a negative, it has to be cheaper than plane. There are still checked bags on a train. Still a 20 min on boarding process from entering station to train. That’ll get worse as more people use it.

I just mostly want to understand how trains are an indicator of a country’s tech prowess now. Or whatever fantasy they think comes with them. Trains are literally the symbol of old school social elite and unbridled capitalism and social control. God damn Vanderbilt? The car was the turning point of democratic maneuverability. People could go where ever they wanted and when. Well, that’s mostly true for Jeep owners at least. The hell happened?
Your English is perfectly fine. Thanks for the quick overview on the books. I haven't heard of any of them before. They sure sounds interesting and worth checking out!
Happy Holidays!
How about giving users a choice? Proof of age maybe? They could allow apps with questionable content after being warned and proving the users age.
my biggest concern is that Scott Meyers will not be around to explain all the new revelations (like concepts) to us mere mortals - he says he was done with C++.
Great explanation.

Think it went over the basics a _bit_ too much. Would’ve liked to see a bit more in depth. Great write up nonetheless.
It sounds like the money is going through the NIST and NSF, so presumably any resulting research will become public. If the government wanted to keep the research secret, I would expect the money to go to the CIA or somewhere else.
Don't you usually start a derivative market if the transaction costs of the original market are too high?
Reminds me of the site Mahalo.com which used to pay users for posting answers. Anyone heard of them lately?
Good points. By the way just for interest - I take this service regularly and for me it seems to take 2:15, going via Stoke. Furthermore I've actually never seen it go via Crewe, I didn't even know it did. This might depend on the time of day though - I always take it at the busiest times and/or weekends which might increase the journey time a bit.
> rise of constructivism amongst journalists.

In what sense do you use constructivism here? I assume it's not mathematical constructivism.
'I still recommend the book, especially to watch enthusiasts.'

I have no interest in watches but it remains my favourite book nonetheless.
You're right: there isn't much substance in my comment. I just meant to qualify the parent comment by saying that not everyone found this to be a "Best talk of 2018". A lot of good arguments for both sides were made in other places and it felt a bit obnoxious to reopen the argument here, where it's off topic. I should have simply stated that this is a controversial talk instead of adding my two cents.

Here's my understanding of one of your points: required fields in a data serialization format place an onerous burden on consumers. So in proto3, every field is optional, and this permits each consumer to define whats required for its own context.

Unfortunately, I can't find any connection between the dilemma at Google and the suitability of the Maybe type. You say this:

>The issue is that the shape/schema of data is an idea that can be reused across multiple contexts, while optional/required is context-specific. They are two separate things conflated by type systems when you use constructs like Maybe.

I agree - the value of a field might be a hard dependency for one consumer and irrelevant to a second consumer. But Maybe has nothing to do with this. If the next version of protobuf adds a Maybe type, it would not obligate consumers to require fields that they treat as optional. It would just be another way to encode the optionality, not optionality as a dependency but optionality of existence. A required input could still be encoded as a Maybe because the system can't guarantee it's existence. So Maybe is simply an encoding for a value that isn't guaranteed to exist. And that's exactly the scenario you described in proto3 - now every field could be encoded as a Maybe.

A second point that stuck out to me:

>I didn’t understand “the map is not the territory” until I had been programming for awhile. Type systems are a map of runtime behavior. They are useful up to that point. Runtime behavior is the territory; it’s how you make something happen in the world, and it’s what you ultimately care about. A lot of the arguments I see below in this thread seemingly forget that.

Your worldview here is very different from my own, and perhaps while this difference exists, there won't be much mutual understanding. I don't find any relationship between types and anything I understand as "runtime behavior". Types are logical propositions. The relationship between programs and types is that programs are proofs of those propositions. Runtime does not enter into the picture. That's why constraint solvers work without running the program.
To be honest, I was quite surprised because I heard that Der Spiegel has an „extraordinary reputation“ in the U.S. for the first time today on HN.

I am German and even when I went to school (before the „life-sucking Internet“ from a comment below) there was the saying that all you could trust in Der Spiegel are the dates and numbers (although this article suggests even that might be too much).

IMHO, there are much better German-language news sources out there (Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Brand Eins, to name just a few with differing political leanings).
You are being over-dramatic.

He clearly mentions Sean and even includes a couple of frames in the video of Sean working on the device's PCB.

Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo&t=70
Unrelated but Turmeric often contains elevated levels of lead compared to other spices. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/pdfs/mm6746a2-H.pdf
Constraint solving in the wild.
It is strange, agreed. Maybe they are ok with explicit images for educational purposes (anatomy)?
Well that is what copyright upholds. The problem is there is no simple way you can get a license for the video clip from the rights holders. And then no sensible way of verifying that license with the platform.
https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/inside_the_worlds_l...
It makes no sense to blame a game, that always seemed like an even shittier variant of "just following orders" to me. A game only exists because people play it, and only for so long as they do. It doesn't have agency, or consciousness, or responsibility, or anything. Let's say I "blame the game". Okay, then what? What does that even mean? The "game" is an abstract idea, so how do I punish it, how do I reason with it, how do I anything at all with it? I can't, so I don't.
The same rules obviously do not apply to all players. As there are only two mobile platforms, maybe we need antitrust governance.
The users can at least sideload it. Unlike appstore.
It was a very nice story (read it a year ago) but don't let it fool you, mnemonics aren't knowledge (just tricks).
Serious question: why is Twitter left unscathed? There’s tons of pornography and illicit activity on it. Is it ignored simply because of its size and clout?

This feels unjust because the enforcement is seemingly completely arbitrary. Why has Google/Apple decided to be puritanical with some things and not others.
Maybe you shouldn't use programs, devices and platforms that don't meet you criteria?
I think the point of that is to distinguish between stuff that is nudity but not of a sexual nature (like Aphrodite of Milos[1]) from stuff that could be deemed as corrupting young kids? But I’m guessing there.

As a European I do think the Americans get far to uptight about nudity. There’s nothing inherently wrong with nakedness, it’s not automatically sexual. Yet I’m constantly amazed how much casual violence is in family TV (Simpson’s, Tom and Jerry, etc). I find it weird that cutting a persons limbs off is more acceptable than a naked form. But I guess that’s a cultural thing.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo
Jonathon Blow had a really interesting but subtle response to this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk&feature=youtu.be
Hmm... Isn't this app called web browser? There is not much more than it is needed when it is for consuming content.
Around 200 now and it was Krakatoa, how the news missed that is beyond me but indicates the problem.

They didn't even know which volcano, which is the world's most famous.
anigbrowl is right. Please don't post in the outrage style to HN. Your comments would be more persuasive for being less flamey. This is a case of medium-is-the-message.

Also, please don't use quotes to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. That's also a flamewar trope and a vector in the unwanted direction.
External debt is not the same as national debt and does not in it self say very much about the health of the public sector economy, since it includes private debt including accounts held in the country by foreigners for business reasons, tax evasion etc.
This question is raised in the post, just using reddit and instagram as the examples instead of twitter.
It's not arbitrary. Below certain size (i.e. negative PR potential) you are at the mercy of Google as a software company if you choose apps versus web sites.
That doesn't make sense with such poor quality content and spam everywhere unless they spend a lot of time on manual cleaning. Data quality is a big part of ML training so I doubt this is any real revenue, if it's being sold at all. Do you have inside info here or are you guessing?
I was surprised they store a real recording. I thought they submitted some pre-processed form which saves bandwith, partly anonymizes the speech and then hands it off for recognition.
> nudity but not of a sexual nature (like Aphrodite of Milos)

Pretty strange to call this "nudity, but not of a sexual nature".

She is literally the incarnation of the concept of sex.
I urge everyone to look at this video. If this is the best the left can do, they are in big trouble. JP is much more convincing than this video is.

Also - I see this a lot - he is attacked on ideological grounds, while his entire argument is that the discourse should be grounded in science, not ideology.

Here's an example: many people seem to think that if you give men and women equal rights and opportunities, that this will automatically lead to 50-50 in STEM, health, politics etc.
The problem here is that extensive research shows that in the societies where the most equal opportunities exist (Scandinavia) the differences between men an women in those areas actually increase. This research has not been refuted by anyone.

Apparently when men and women are free to choose the life they want to lead, they make different choices.

Which leads to the question: should we really push for equity in the sense of equal representation or is that just another form of oppression?

Again: if this video is the best the left can do, they are in big trouble.