skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at politics as a system, you can clearly observe that the victory (outsized) rewards for the progressive wing in US come from low income immigrants that the liberals bank on.

In fact thinking about it a little further, a California citizen would have been in a vastly better situation had it not been home to that many low income immigrants. Of course, that would've also meant hugely lower chances of progressive winning there.

To sum up, the progressives it appears import poverty when the region is doing rather well and then campaign on more taxes to alleviate this said increased poverty.

If this is not plain desire for political victory, what else could it be?
Well, it's not just Main Street that dislikes GS. They've done plenty wrong, benefited from the bailout, and are accused of being crony capitalists(1).

1-https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/trump-makes-america-gold...
Missed opportunity: "Are you positive?"
I've always done this. I never leave any important business files on my local PC, for obvious reasons. But there's all sorts of personal stuff on there (mostly from Web browsing). So nuke it all before turning it in. They're going to re-image it before giving it to the next person anyway.
If this is how you've understood my message, I guess it proves my point of how unreasonable some of SC fans are in discussions, seeking conspiracies everywhere.
> Also, Huawei in their early ages stole one of Cisco router's source code and priced out Cisco with an exact same product compatible with Cisco systems, one Chinese academic invovled in modifying admitted it in an article. One of the role model stories.

Source?
GS made about 10% on this deal which is an order of magnitude more than market. This almost certainly means that either it was not shopped to other banks or that the other banks wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. So while it's probably true that they lied to GS it was with a wink.
Not just dormitories, but many new buildings — I’m 29 years old and I can’t open the windows more than a crack in my apartment (built 2017).
I've never seen the whois info for an IP address resolve to the wrong country though. The owner is registered with the regional IP something (RIR if I'm not mistaken - like ARIN, RIPE, etc.) so that should be quite reliable.

Posting this I'm sure someone will take the challenge and can find an example where it wasn't assigned to the right country, but is it more than one in a billion IP addresses?

GeoIP databases on the other hand, the city and often even the province/department/state are very unreliable.
Looking at my post I see that it was lacking in reasoning, I'll try to post better in future. Thank you for your response! :)
Works for all those conservative states! My wife's from Louisiana and she can count on one hand the number of female schoolmates who made it out of high school, let alone to 21, without a child.
Correct! Concentration is technically called energy flux, and is measured in W/m².
Military hardware (the Tomohawk cruise missile, in particular) has had optical-only navigation since the early 1980's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM#DSMAC
It is unusual to see R in a list of languages characterized as being developer unfriendly, at least in this century. Best in breed metaprogramming and code introspection tools, an excellent debugger and profiler, a wide ecosystem of accessible books written by core language developers, an excellent (although I agree difficult to submit to) central package repository, high quality data serialization options, built-in report-making tools, huge and high quality standard library (even moreso if you consider the tidyverse a standard library), easy to use and efficient ways to dispatch to other languages, etc.

There are a bunch of weird language quirks, most stemming from its legacy as a reimplementation of S in the early days, but I would be surprised if it was viewed as developer-unfriendly.
Thank you! I wish more articles would at least link to the complaint. Here are the important bits:

> On 12/12/2018 at approximately 10:30 a.m., Tan contacted his supervisor, advised he
was resigning from Company A, and gave his two weeks' notice. Tan told his
supervisor that he was returning to China to be with his family as he is the only child to
aging parents. Tan told his supervisor that he did not currently have a job offer, but was
negotiating with a few battery companies in China.

> Tan's resignation prompted Company A to revoke his access to company systems, and
conduct a Systems Access review of Tan's computer activity.

> That review confirmed that Tan had accessed hundreds of files, including research
reports. The reports included not only how to make Product A, which, according to
Company A, is a complicated and technically difficult process, but also Company A's
plans for marketing Product A in China and in cell phone and lithium-based battery
systems. These files included information that Company A considers to be trade
secrets and outside the scope of Tan's employment with Company A. The review
revealed Tan downloaded restricted files to a personal thumb drive. In the course of his
regular duties and responsibilities, Tan should have used his company issued laptop.
Tan did not have authorization to use a thumb drive to download Company A files.
Tan's supervisor confirmed that nothing in the downloaded files was within Tan's area
of responsibility. Further Company A confirmed, through Tan's supervisor, Tan did
not have a work related need to access or download the restricted files.
What Is Glitter?
Is YouTube Fundamental or Trivial?
Punish Cop Accused of Sexually Assaulting Animals on Film
Uh, if asset prices go into freefall aren't business owners screwed?
How Do Free Apps Make Money in 2018?
The logic is that parents bear an outsized cost for providing an essential social good: the next generation.

When we are old, we will need taxpayers to pay social security, well trained healthcare workers, emergency personnel, maintained roads, etc.

Parenting is also especially expensive: child care, safety equipment, larger homes, larger vehicles, etc.

Without getting in the weeds on putting a better dollar figure on it, that's the case for subsidizing families.
Spilling something is usually a mistake, and often can be mitigated; the point is that mere repitition of error is insufficient to prove moral degeneracy.
At first nobody believed because there really was no concrete evidence. This was changed by Witold Pilecki:

> During World War II, Pilecki volunteered for a Polish resistance operation that involved being imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence and later escape. While in the camp, he organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities as early as 1941. He escaped from the camp in 1943 after nearly 2½ years of imprisonment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki

By 1944 the evidence was massive, yet Arthur Koestler still needed to write this piece.
The article starts by giving as example cereals fortified with iron.

A much better idea is to simply stop eating processed crap.
> Parallels with contemporary climate deniers is stunning.

You're right. I agree with you.

But–and I say this with all respect and no judgment–I think the insight here is not to point at one's perceived opponents and say, "Yes! This describes my experience with them perfectly!"; but to ask oneself who are the screamers in ones own life who get one's own glossy-eyed stare.

It is very difficult and often impossible to pop someone else's bubble, so we should all work hard on popping our own.

As for the average climate denier[0], I won't defend them, but I'll say this: They're wrong about the climate, but they're screaming about something.

[0]By which I mean those who are sincere and not well-funded, financially motivated deceivers.

Edit: Formatting.
Chinese too officials are billionaires, American top officials are millionaires at best unless they have money coming in before. You can only make so much on speaking fees and book royalties, while red families like Xi’s own and control significant portions of the Chinese economy.

Just reporting on such issues is why most western newspapers have been blocked. They don’t even bother trying to refute it, because princeling dominance of the economy an open dirty secret. It also puts better into perspective how the economy is managed in favor of their own interests.
Huh? This is very common. For example, look at these capabilities from DJI, one of the most important drone manufacturers: https://www.dji.com/products/mavic?site=brandsite&from=nav

What knowledge/experience is your speculation that flying by camera doesn't exist based on?
well, the NN knows the cat is there, a simple `if` then 'knows' what the cat wants.

nonetheless, nice hack!
The problem is enforcing such a policy when people inevitably end up having babies without a "permit". What do you suggest should be done to those parents and the kid? Fining them doesn't help, neither does throwing them into prison. Putting up the baby for adoption would be tantamount to the government stealing your kid and I don't think you can convince people to stand for that.
> But who is the author of this?

The writing style is very early 2000s, which kind of narrows it down. Based on the content alone there is no obvious reason to publish this anonymously, so maybe someone caught up in #MeToo or similar?

Based on the writing style though it sounds clearly like it's from someone associated either with Technorealism, the Cluetrain Manifesto, the Berkman Klein center folks, the Data & Society folks, or the handful of other prominent early bloggers who aren't closely associated with any of those. No one less than 30 or older than 70 writes like this though.
No, I think it's only downloading almanach data for faster GPS.
It ruined the safe guard of using the time tested tool of fact checking and having credible sources of information. And opened the flood gates to bad actors acting on irrational actors.

The internet is not some magical haven for information and knowledge. In its current form, it's comparable to information anarchy. It's not tenable.
I think he's lying and making up excuses because he got caught. He also misrepresented his role in the creation of the device (i.e. he didn't create it, someone else did, you can view their youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMxOmUcfOI). IMO there is no reason to trust anything that guy says.
> US states have their own governor, their own political counties, and in a good part and their own policies, besides the common group policies.

That’s also true of the sub-divisions of many European states.
They cancelled the ICO, not the underlying blockchain.
i highly recommend pyenv to resolve this issue on Mac OS and Linux:

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
They're definitely less safe without it though.

Also, I don't know about the UK's laws, but any sort of radiofrequency jamming is illegal in the US except in extremely extenuating circumstances (like war) that I don't think a roving drone would fall under.
At the same time if you get drunk, visit the roof of the empire state building and lean over the edge guess what? You’ll find you cant fall thanks to a tall safety fence.

Sure, your own residential roof is a different story, as is a dinghy.

The difference to me is the expectation of protection from obvious hazards in public and commercial spaces.

In addition to monitoring (a last ditch effort imo) it seems relatively trivial to install nets or fencing to prevent falls off cruise ships. Why that isn't alreay mandated given the statistics provided is beyond me.
Your last line about the Dems was kind of lame and pointlessly inflammatory; it gave an excuse to delete.

However, a number of comments downthread have also been rapidly flagged to death. The speed of it suggests a moderator has decided that his morals are so much better than others' that he has the right to silence others' views despite those views not breaking any rules.

It's common in any thread like this on HN. I suggest reading with showdead on (you can turn it on in your profile settings). You get a wider variety of opinions that way. It's nice to break the filter bubble.

In case anyone wants to avoid their own flag/ban, the hidden but eagerly-enforced rules seem to include:

-- You are not allowed to speak roughly when making a point against San Francisco ethics position (you're allowed to speak roughly in favor of SF ethics). (This is the hidden rule you broke.)

-- You are not allowed to give any notion that different population groups have any sort of characteristics distinct from each other (especially not IQ). Note that it's accepted in mainstream science that ethnic IQ differences can be consistently measured, but there is disagreement whether the cause is genetic or environmental, with significant support among scientists for both positions [0]. Basically, for moral reasons, HN requires that you support one side of this ongoing debate. It may or not be actually correct (scientists still arguing about that) but it is certainly politically correct. (Some commenters downthread broke this hidden rule).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
I would argue, that you inadvertently learn the names once you learn of the context. I would see it more as a filing system. If there is nothing it points to, whats the benefit of knowing it in the first place.
"What's interesting is if you did this for just about any other country, there would be a wall of star spangled banners."

Pure conjecture.

Making that statement however does tell us a lot about you.
There's a decent moneystuff article about how this is assumed to happen (with email evidence) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-09-21/bad-in...
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seems like the problem could be solved fairly cheaply with machine learning. Just have cameras covering common areas for falls and have a model that identifies human like objects and then shoot off a signal to a human to verify, then if it's actually a person who fell over board send someone in a jetski or something to retrieve them

Also remind's me of patrice O'neal's rock coat joke 13 minutes in(NSFW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-4k2SOD1P8
Java Unicode escapes are kind of a mess, and the raw string literals proposal only makes it worse.

Unicode escapes are processed in Java not just inside string literals, but everywhere in the source code. So, for example, the following program prints "Hello, world!" even though that line of code seems to be commented (\u000a is new line, so it ends the comment):

public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// \u000a System.out.println("Hello, world!");
}
}

Moreover, a \u000a inside a string literal is the same as an actual newline, so the compiler doesn't accept it:

Test2.java:3: error: unclosed string literal
String s = "\u000a";
^

But now with the raw string literal proposal, JEP 326[1], Unicode escape processing is disabled inside raw string literals, and \u0060 escapes (backticks) aren't considered backticks for the purposes of starting raw string literals.

So, with this proposal, Unicode escapes are in a worst-of-two-worlds middle way:

1) They can't be handled uniformly at a low level anymore, so a Java parser can't naively convert escapes while reading the source file, but

2) They must still be naively interpreted in unexpected places like comments and normal string literals, as shown in my examples.

What a mess.

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/326
In C/C++ you can easily do stuff that violates alignment constraints unless you totally avoid casts or packed structs.
... incidentally Hyperopt has the advantage of considering conditional domains; we might either do the same or combine Nevergrad with Hyperopt...
Notes about course “Structuring machine learning projects by Andrew Ng” Part II
Then things will simply have to change out of necessity, it's really quite simple. You don't seriously think people in 'low-IQ countries' aren't going to develop at astounding rates once the 'high-IQ countries' are gone right? Don't forget that modern western civilization came from the dark ages and modern Islamic civilisation came from the Islamic golden age. These things are cyclical, they come and go, there's really no reason to be panicking.
While you are correct, one could also make the (likewise correct) argument that pre-Internet information was not necessarily always fact-checked and true, but simply the version approved by the authorities.

In any case, I think we need a return to some sort of expertise or trusted authority system. Hopefully the internet allows for this to be independent of the political and corporate establishment.
Ugh, I accidently watched a skateboarding video on facebook about a month agi. Now my feed is full of skating videos and I can’t figure out how to tell facebook to calm down with skating videos and adverts
> I think that HTTP has been popular for so long that many people just refuse to admit that it's not suitable for handling complex dynamic data.

This exactly why I keep trying to get people to go and read Fielding's REST thesis - it starts off with describing different architectures, and lands on REST for hypertext specifically because it enables things like multi level caching etc. When you throw that out, other, different architectures make more sense!

It's all right there in chapter 3 (but seriously, do read the whole thing - it's surprisingly accessible for a PhD. Thesis) :

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/net_arch...
What you've written there would definitely be an exaggeration for the UK. I would guess that most university-educated British people would not be able to point out more than a couple of US states on a map. Very little interest in US sport here, as far as I know, except perhaps tennis and maybe golf, for a minority of people. As for films and pop music: hard to say, seeing as the same films and songs are probably being pushed here. Of course, a significant proportion of university-educated adults have no interest in films or pop music and couldn't name a single recent pop song from their own country (though they'd be able to name songs that were in the charts when they were teenagers).

US trivia finds its way very easily into UK news. Probably lazy journalists take anything off social media that is in a language they can understand and copy-paste, with the result that in the UK media there is more of that kind of story from the US than from the UK.

Trump's antics get reported. I'm not sure British people are generally aware of there being any other politicians in the US.
ISIS has been using drones a lot, for filming propaganda, reconnaissance, dropping grenades, and even drone suicide bombing.

I think this future is already here, it's just you only see them used in-theater because ISIS has terrible force projection ability and don't have any way of getting their drones and weapons into Europe to commit attacks there.
The myth is that 90% were involved in food production in any way. Butchers and millers and brewers and bakers are part of that 90%, they were not doing anything in any fields. But that myth is based on England under Roman rule, where vast quantities of food were grown by slaves and shipped to Rome. After the fall of Rome, people returned to farming for the local population, and so needed fewer farmers. The period is even characterized by the three orders: those who fight, those who work and those who pray. These were societies that had enough food production that a major portion of the population could spend their time praying instead of doing anything productive. And the "those who work" includes carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, etc. not just farmers.

And that's not what is in dispute anyways. Hoeing fields is. Farmer does not equal hoeing fields. Tillage was done as little as necessary, and was done mainly using horses or oxen pulling plows and cultivators. A hoe was used seldom, and mainly in the vegetable garden. As I said, we have actual period texts on how to farm. All the way back to Rome, Greece and ancient China. None of them describe the modern hollywood portrayal of mentally handicapped peasants spending their lives hitting the ground with sticks.

We also have records of actual farm manors and how much labor each farmer was required to provide for the lord every year. They worked less than us, and had 8 weeks a year without work which they spent playing sports and games in the village green. We have skeletons that show they were taller than us, which indicates better nutrition. But because the late 1700s and early 1800s saw massive numbers of people move to cities and suffer terrible malnutrition and poverty, everyone just assumes things were even worse before that. All available evidence says otherwise. Things have always been bad in cities, especially due to disease, but rural life appears to have been pretty decent and was the majority of the population. Localized famines were rare enough to be major historical events mentioned all across Europe.

If you are interested in the subject, I highly recommend https://www.amazon.ca/Life-Medieval-Village-Frances-Gies/dp/...
From an optical perspective, how does the argument dismissed at the start of the OP break down? Is there some reason the moon's light, gathered from a lens covering hundreds of acres, carries insufficient energy to light a fire in concentrated form?
Nothing wrong with a solidly irrational motivation. The desire to become parents seems to be a neuro-biological thing, influenced by genetics, random stuff and psychological factors.

I don't believe that getting children for the greater good is a massive thing.

And again, there still is no proven way to increase birth rates short of authoritarian measures.
>So you basically would mandate to label products with "x" / "non-x", even certain values of x are pure superstition?

No, whereas everyone saying mandating labeling is an authoritarian government act and they would rather live in freedom where companies don’t need to label, I say if people organize and want to pass laws mandating labeling of x, they should be able to do that...but when that Law doesn’t get passed because a special interest spends hundreds of millions lobbying and lining pockets of politicians and uses the same arguement was every other special interest (ie gun lobby, tobacco lobby, sugar lobby, big ag lobby) its a shame.

For the record I never once sided with gmo labeling or not, only agreed with OP that labeling drives consumer behavior, and if people want labeling they should get it. It’s everyone else who attacked me as an authoritarian for taking the side of consumer who want labeling...which I subsequently suggested is ironic that people who would take the sides of big corporations and allow them to operate as they wish over what people want is the opposite of freedom and is in fact authoritarian.
It's probably best its authorship is (for now) unknown, this way people can make judgements on their own rather than thinking is right or wrong based on how they perceive the author(s).
iPhone XS/XR demand is not strong
How does allowing you to delete your messages jive with the UX of other users?

If every user you sent a message to had a copy of your message would you expect those to be deleted as well? Isn't that the recipient's data?

Assuming you answered no is there a material difference when you store a single copy and do reference counting?

Discord's UI might be lacking but allowing you to delete messages authored by you but ownwed by another is already pretty privacy oriented.
As an American, I wouldn't expect heavily armed security everywhere in response to a drone. It wouldn't make sense.

Now if I saw police with trap/skeet shotguns aiming to take down the drone, that would make sense.
I like they way he challenges himself and his beliefs. If he presents a character with a contrary position, he doesn’t cheat. He makes them powerful, compelling, articulate characters and presents their arguments in the best light. He’s incredibly tough on himself and his protagonists or sympathetic characters.