skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if some people are predisposed to nicotine while others aren't.

I also tried to smoke, felt nothing good. Hot fire stick that dries out my throat for zero benefit. And I mean zero. I'd look at my friend and be like "WTF is the point of this again?"

But it wouldn't surprise me that other people do feel something.
Probably one of the few people that read the whole thing, but the argument is, in my opinion, pretty weak. It basically boils down to making some kind of equivalence between metaphysics and pure mathematics. Of course, it ignores the main force of mathematical progress: theorem-building. Metaphysics might be "interconnected in much the same way" as Dr. Baron argues, but let's not kid ourselves. To argue that metaphysics is as "conceptually interrelated" as mathematics is is a real stretch. Just consider volume: it's estimated that around a quarter of a million theorems are proved every year. That's real, measurable, progress; what's the metaphysics equivalent?

The distinction between "internally applied metaphysics" and "externally applied metaphysics" on page 14 is a shameless red herring. The only thing we ought to care about, given the preceding section on applications of pure mathematics is "externally applied metaphysics," but in typical philosopher fashion, Dr. Baron equivocates for a few unnecessary pages. Finally, let me leave you with this gem: "All three cases are examples in which scientists appear to be doing metaphysics. Computer scientists build models of objects and categories in order to provide the resources for artificial intelligence to successfully navigate the world, or make judgements [sic] about it." Yeah, that's not metaphysics; it's pretty much just regular taxonomy (and, by the way, the term of art is labeling). TensorFlow models have nothing to do with metaphysical models, and this is exactly why philosophers get such a bad rap. They extend far beyond the reaches of their knowledge base and don't even have the courtesy to look up "machine learning model" on Wikipedia.
Jordan Peterson repeatedly and strongly denies the existence of any white hetero cis male privilege. He also refuses to acknowledge trans people and gay marriage, he somehow ties feminism to Muslims because "women desire strong men", and he lashes out against any art that challenges traditionalist perceptions of the world and society, tying it all into his "cultural marxism" conspiracy theory.

His list of absolutely nonsense racist, bigoted and misogynistic statements is basically endless, it's in everything he says.

He leans on the MRA/MGTOW side of things, which has a clear and documented link to the alt-right right, a neo-fascist movement.

Regarding trad right, that is simply an ideology of exploiting the working class for the benefit of capitalists, to the overall detriment of society and life in general.
I wouldn’t call Wal-Mart a “center of power”. They’re essentially a market player, and are powerless in the face of market forces. CIA, Kremlin, or even Wall Street (with their ability to extract wealth out of society via laws paid for in bribes) are centers of power, in the way that they really get to impose their will on others.
They are crazy at Google. They banned my game TrumpTweetTrumps, because they said it was pornographic. It contained a mini-game called 'Make Ivanka Come', the objective of that mini game was to ring a bell and make Ivanka come to the desk, so her father can get his daughters advise on making policy. Just a comment on the nepotism seen in the current US government, nothing pornographic. Apple are even worse though, they censored like half of the game's content on the AppStore, including an actual tweet from Trump. A tweet he sent out on an app he downloaded from the AppStore, i.e. Twitter. And that is accessible through an app promoted in their AppStore, i.e. Twitter. Grab-a-pussy mini-game was also banned and many more, I think on AppStore like half of the 8 mini-games in the App had to be removed or completely changed. I could go on complaining about this forever, but I can't be asked to type it all up again, there's so many messages being sent back and forth between me and Apple employees on their stupid resolution centre. To sum up, fk Google and Apple, your thoughtless policies are not applied consistently (basically if you profit from an app, anything is allowed for that app) and they have a bad impact on society as a whole. Satire can have powerful impacts on people and drive them to do good things. Satire is essential!
Which biography is that (I assume he never got a chance to write his own?)
Let's hope that this story reaches someone at that company who can actually do something about it, as it seems as if the organization has grown so large that only a few higher managers can affect things.
The kind of students who have the means to study abroad are more often than not (in my anecdotal experience, in the Netherlands (which has a different scholarship dynamic too)) already pretty Westernised. I also know that myself, given I got to leave Turkey.
A Philosophy Of Software Design by John Ousterhout. Pretty short, but interesting and does a nice job at dissecting the mistakes we make that lead to software complexity.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of...
Unbiased authors are mythical beasts last seen before the fall of Atlantis.
because you just tried to pass off your analysis of the situation coupled with a bunch of assumptions as solid stock market analysis

stop trying to guess the market

> would rather get out now

That sounds like a really bad idea, even if it dropped 50%-60%.
Edit: my comment was wrong, ignore it.

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You need to get a bit more in touch with history; that statue has nothing to do with "sexually gratifying". It was in the days when minos culture fashion looked like this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=minos+culture+fashion&t=ffab&iax=i...
All the agencies mentioned in the article are related to anti-terrorism, Investigations and Tax department. They could get any data previously too, with warrant but now they can track you without warrant.

It doesn't means anything for normal IT work .
What's the consensus view of homeopathy scholars on the efficacy of homeopathic "medicine"?

A group of people with an agenda writing volumes of tautological speculation doesn't make it credible.
> Most email being transmitted on the Internet is in unencrypted form.

Really? I use Hotmail, GMail, and Yahoo, and all of these use TLS so it is encrypted in transit.
I don't think sex is particularly messianic, but I also don't see why censoring and policing nominally adult content should be Google's business - literally or metaphorically.

This is just one example from a growing list of questionable moral behaviour and outright abuse of monopoly power.

The political reality is that Google has serious trust and credibility issues on many fronts.

The more this kind of thing happens, the more likely they are to turn into antitrust issues.
That is if you find the .apk from a source you trust, and this is not a simple trick.
Here is the link which share my sentiments about these type of articles
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/02/neural-network-ai-simple-g...
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That's funny - I literally couldn't find a coffee shop in Peckham yesterday while my kids were at the cinema.

Plenty of lunatics, drug-takers, and drunks, though.
Derivative of what, though? There's no index to track that people will agree on or can't be gamed.
In the Tumblr ban threads, people mentioned that all of these companies should simply make their progressive web apps and give the finger to the puritan idiots calling these decisions. I agree.

The questions, however, are: how much growth can be achieved without play store/ios app? Is it viable? If yes, how? Can art be more important for a site (and it's investors), than immediate, quick growth?
It is also an example of the USA shoving down its morals to the rest of the world. Especially areas where partial nudity is accepted. One of the very first things in life a baby does is searching the nipple (which is darker than the rest of the breast) and sucking on it. Breast are very much part of nature and human life, yet we censor it as if it is something which shouldn't be seen. At the same time, we have no issues with all kind of violent games. Hello double standard! That you wanna have that in the USA is up to you Americans, but let me as European at least apply the norms of my country. You would not expect anything less as American!

But yeah... Civ cultural victory, and all that...

In EU there's already been complaints about Google only allowing their Play Store and hampering 3rd party stores, and Google lost that lawsuit.
Nicotine is biologically addictive.
Well, obviously the US is not going to tell its creditors to go screw themselves. They'll just re-structure the debt in a less favorable for the creditor way. And the latter will agree to that because it has no better options.
I’ve read somewhere that celiac disease can cause psychosis to some people. Wasn’t able to find actual detils on it tho.
For how simple WFC seems to be portrayed, the only reference I can find is for use in other code. Is there any simple, but still code, examples of this? Or is it always quite a bit of work to get going?
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I have no doubt whatsoever that historians could easily demonstrate that the statue was not created as a form of pornography. It’s a religious icon.
> and that police roam the streets shooting citizens at random.

In a sense this this is not so divorced from reality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#...

So if you ignore the context, it does seem like police roam the street shooting citizens at random.
I can only assume YT bends over backward to cater to the copyright claimees so that the major labels keep uploading their copyrighted content to official channels.

Basically, at some point this conversation happened:

Label: We don't want to upload our music to YouTube because we're afraid of piracy.

YouTube: We promise that won't be a problem. We'll work with you to ensure you'll be happy with the state of things on YouTube.

The current system was born of that and nobody gives a hoot about the small/medium players who get screwed over by the insanity.
My university economics rusty but it’s not bad analysis, the current market does not have the indicators of cyclical downturn (just read from any central bank of X, aka the pros) and a risk averse person given the uncertainty combo of brexit, Chinese stimulus, unprecedented interest rate lull, (locally to me and maybe you Australian housing market changes), and a US president that may fire the CB head any day or do [unprecedented act] really not the worst idea to take some low risk options.
You just don't respond the way that most people do to nicotine. Not every body and brain responds the same way to drugs.
dw - Deutsche Welle. "Germqn Broadcast". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle

A broadcast service for promoting the language and culture to an international audience. A bit like "Voice of America". DW is financed by public funds that was allocated on the state level (ARD).

The have offerings such as a "slowly spoken news with transcript" podcast, in German language.

https://www.dw.com/de/deutsch-lernen/deutsch-aktuell/s-2146
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> 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).

And random acts of violence in even light comedy shows that shun everything sexual. Really grates me when they're celebrated instead of prosecuted for an assault.
This submit pretty well encapsulates all that is wrong with Medium, in my view.

First of all, they seem to have some new loginwall interface that makes you provide an email address (or authentication through a social media provider, so hello to all the Facebook adware instrumentation crap. That process includes a photo interpretation captcha with images that, on mobile, are blurry to the point of uselessness. Next, assuming you DO successfully navigate a captcha set, it dumps you too the generic Medium landing page, NOT to the specific article you originally clicked on.

Then, trying to find said article by its title puts you through a fuzzy search algorithm that qualifies far, far more articles that actually contain just your search terms. It's almost as bad as Netflix in that regard.

Finally, by narrowing down the search term as much as possible, I find an article with a very similar but not the exact same title. I drill down into that article, and it ends up being just a typical Medium book list full of Amazon affiliate-tag links.

Result? Accelerating Medium abandonment rates.
much more probable than what various religions tell us.
Can vouch for Circadian Code. The first two third of the book is accompanied with practical actionable items and helped me to gain control on my sleep.
F-droid is generally trustworthy, and has put a lot of effort into this.
> because you could trivially make a "view"/slice template type to fake begin/end to any pair of iterators.

In C++, that was not trivial at all. Implementing a custom container with iterators (which you'd have to do for this - you can't just propagate iterators as is) is very verbose, since there's no syntactic sugar for it, like say generator functions in Python.
> and the single parameter one would call the two parameter one with .begin() and .end() for you.

Doesn't work with arrays, since they don't have member functions.
Cool, I did this several years ago. You can check LedisDB or RebornDB. But now I switch to TiKV, hope you can support it later :-)
The first time I smoked I felt the same: nothing good. But eventually I got hooked. You become addicted and feel terrible while not on it. Once you're on it, you're good to go for a while again. (I eventually managed to quit.)
Wait I’m confused,

Weed: killed few people
Opiates: killed many people

I’m saying 1) should be illegal and 2) should not

How you actually treat criminals however, totally for the Nordic model, not the USA model.
I agree that other forces are at work behind the rise of loneliness and alienation in modern society, but I think Facebook exacerbates these problems.

Facebook ultimately encourages you to carry out social interactions online with people who aren't physically present. It's very easy and convenient and next thing you know your eyes are glued to your phone so often that it starts to replace physical interactions. You go out and spend half your time texting instead of talking to the people you're with, or maybe you stop going out at all.

But we are animals after all, not buckets of bits, and physical presence matters. It directs attention, priorities, investment, it gives people unique opportunities to bond. Anyone who's had a long distance relationship can tell you that they're fraught with challenges because you just don't get to spend a lot of time together. So maybe socializing in cyberspace, while it has advantages, simply doesn't have all the benefits it has in meatspace.

For my part I now put meatspace connections first, and aside from work, my calendar revolves around meeting other actual humans in person. Even if we don't share all the same interests, maybe even if they get on my nerves a little, I lived most of my social life online for a long time, and I like meatspace better. My Facebook usage waxes and wanes and I don't feel it makes me depressed--but if Facebook relationships were all I had, I'd be practically suicidal.

I think that FB is a crutch and a mild vice. And like all vices, the solution is to replace them with something positive.
Ranges are nothing more than bounded enumerables (iterables in C++ parlance).

An unbounded enumerable would be represented by some way to obtain a forward-only iterator - also an existing C++ idiom.
I hate how so many MMO game homepages are basically 100% oriented towards current players with news and community features...meanwhile the "marketing" side is a generic "photos" and "videos" with no context or summary of the game. And the videos tend to have no context and are often also oriented towards experienced players, as they show advanced game play.

Or worse the "about" page is some fiction storyline from the game with no indication of what game play is like, or how it compares to other games.

Some major games do this and it's shocking. Must be nice having such good word of mouth and press coverage (ie, written reviews, youtube videos) that you don't even need to bother making a nice marketing page.

I wonder if any of those have proper marketing "funnels", landing pages, analytics, elsewhere etc and just don't care much about using their homepage for sales. At last Star Sonata has a nice big CTA at the top of the homepage but otherwise is lacking a true central landing page.
If programming was like blacksmithing there would be a lot of self-built kind-of-working-but-not-really-finished-yet hammer factories, and an inexplicable upsurge in lame horses.
Several flavours are linked to lung damage.
To be fair, it is very common to hear "well, why don't you just use Boost?" in response to the criticism of the C++ standard library. It may be an external third party library in name, but in practice it has long since became stdlib++ for idiomatic C++, and a testing ground for new libraries to be eventually adopted into the standard.
+1 Existential, thought provoking, yet fast-paced and a over far too soon. A must read for anyone interested in contemplating a near future where all the power of our smartphones is in our head, always available. Yes it’s about AI, but the humanity of the bot makes it easy to see we don’t need artificial general intelligence to start seeing a universe like this one.
Keep reading. GS’s internal controls failed.
Yes https://www.kaggle.com/nulldata/tsne-alternate-umap-3d-viz-o... this has links to R UMAP implementation
temperature_in_c would do, so would latency_in_ms, or distance_in_km.

I think an API is not for humans in general, but for the specific sub-group of humans that are programmers (and machines obviously). So some disconnect from humanity as a whole is, I believe, acceptable in API design.
> What makes /this/ profession so different from any other?

No credentials. All it takes to be a programmer is appeasing somebody in a 30-60min interview. What other white collar career can you say that about? It takes more to be a truck driver.
I much prefer having separate operators for namespace/module qualification and member access. These things seem like they have something in common, but in practice, IMO, the languages that separate them are much cleaner.

Whether :: specifically is the best choice of such an operator is another question. But there aren't exactly many options left, and this one is firmly established by now, even outside of C++.
Personally I dislike nearly all kind of 2FA for a very simple reason: they add a dependency tie with something big, powerful and outside my control.

For instance I perfectly agree to have an extra, branded, physical token, to log in to my bank, I totally refuse to use a mobile app on my phone to do the same.
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Exactly. It seems like we may want to develop more accurate models of how changing DNA and its environment affects its expression through (t)RNA, proteins, and reflexively itself, before making massive "production" changes in one go. In other words, perhaps we should be more methodical and patient in our approach? Curious what the experts have to say about this.
> it would have the exact same issues,

Disagree, say you are a Patreon and also host the videos, games. If you wrongly block your users they move, if they move you lose money. If small youtubers have some videos removed YT won't lose as much since other videos will be pushed to the viewers, the issue is that YT loses a ton more money if they upset large publishers or some political party.
spending quality times with loved ones,
China and in general "productive Asia" grab the worse of USA/UK model and push it to the extreme, that's the real problem for them, especially for their citizen.
The system didn't correct anything. Not one of those presidents went to jail, not one of those who followed them learned anything, and none of the issues were stopped because of it, their had either already happened or are still an ongoing issue.
Glitter is terrible for the environment, and easy to avoid by not using it.
You can thank SESTA/FOSTA for all this. Past precedents don't matter anymore; there will be heavy-handed policing now everywhere, if only to firmly establish intent should it ever come to court.
The Spiegel has a lot to explain, and blaming it on Relotius alone is pathetic. However,

> It wasn't like he sat down on a desk in Hamburg and started dreaming out interviews,

Seems that he sat in Fergus Falls and started dreaming out interviews.

https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-m...
Can you expand on that a bit and give an example? It sounds like an important point..
> It was in the days when minos culture fashion looked like this

The Minoan culture is more or less contemporaneous with the Mycenaean Greeks who fell in the 12th century BC, ushering in the Greek Dark Age which lasted about 400 years.

Wikipedia dates the Venus de Milo to the late second century BC. Aphrodite is not even attested in Mycenaean records.

You're off by over a thousand years.

As such, I'll respectfully reject your suggestion that I need to get more in touch with history.
The try again button works reliably for me on Firefox Mobile.
What is the difference between an extra branded physical token and a 2FA app, such as Authy, on your phone?
Something to note: Reddit is rated M and Instagram is rated T for teen. What was Artstation rated as?
Meanwhile usability cries in a corner.
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This is true for retail. However if a fund structures it the right way i.e. one property one company, the transaction costs could be similar like a share purchase deal.