skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice if you were to expand that point. Is it for personal beliefs, or corporate policy, or something else?
The waste is radioactive for many human lifetimes however. That's the piece that seems highly irresponsible to me: assigning radioactive waste management to many future generations. IIRC, there are some reactors with waste which lasts less than a human lifetime, or generate waste which can be utilized or broken down with an additional reactor. I could get behind those. The solar waste problem is fixed with a recycling upcharge on purchase and some additional cost reduction on the technology. This is a tame problem compared to radioactive waste which will likely outlast the civilization which produced it, never mind the individuals.
I think there is a balance to be struk but I don't know what it is. As someone who frequented gaming forums in the late 2000s I've seen the dark side of 100% anonymous forums: there is definitely a lack of humanity that comes across in communities where anyone could be a dog. There is no repercussion to speech and there is very little context to conversations.

When humans interact we not only process the words that are communicated but the context: what is our social history, what facial expressions and micro-expressions are being displayed, what is the race and/or social standing of the people involved. All of this is lost in anonymous conversation.

Now, this definitely has it's perks, it allows for communication on a neutral platform, where racial and sexual discrimination is less likely to occur and individuals can choose which parts of themselves to reveal, but humans are not really built to communicate this way, and it shows if you've ever been on an online forum or in a chatroom of an online FPS.
Why did I have to read through several paragraphs of speculation and hand wringing to learn that a basic economy award ticket costs fewer miles than regular?
Yes, the dominant superpower of the past 50 years more than doubles its national debt on the back of two(official) wars that last nearly 2 decades, cause thousands of lives lost on the side of the west and millions on the side of the middle east . . .but sure, F.R.I.E.N.D.S not treating a Paleontologist as the second coming of Christ is the cause for a supposed decline in western civilization :/
>The major point of contention for me is the question of if it's Facebook's rightful place to regulate political speech,

Truthfully, this goes right out the door as soon as Facebook starts kowtowing to Government demands in order to continue operating. From the article:

>Facebook has removed posts critical of the prime minister in Cambodia and reportedly “agreed to coordinate in the monitoring and removal of content” in Vietnam. Facebook was criticized for not stopping the repression of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, where military personnel created fake accounts to spread propaganda which human rights groups say fueled violence and forced displacement.

While Facebook has walked back on the Myanmar situation, the fact stands that the initial response in these countries was to get comfortable with the Governments, not with the users and not with people they claim to serve. Facebook is a business, and I get that to some degree it answers to shareholders and chases potential revenue streams. But looking at some of the place that Facebook has been complacent, I'm really curious; is there honestly that much money for Facebook to chase?

Facebook __could__ be doing a lot more than it is if it honestly believed in protecting freedom and all that jazz. Their conversations about protecting users and such ring pretty hollow when repeatedly they just bend over to get a foot in the door in whatever country is the target for that year.
As pointed out in this thread, a lens has to return the modified object as it can't update it as a side effect. That is the reason no universal dot-like lens operator exists in Haskell but it needs to be composed based on the data structures that it targets.
I read that to mean "uses [a] physics", meaning a specific reaction chain, not physics the entire field. Kind of like talking about "battery chemistry" meaning Li-based, Pb-based, etc., does not mean "the field of chemistry".

Could it have been worded better? Sure.
The Top 500 run Linux, if I'm not mistaken?
Interesting. Besides 'Brownian' noise you are probably correct that whatever noise remains is to some extent the result of a lot of stuff that happened in the past that is too small now in influence to be identified. I never looked at it that way, thank you.
Maybe obvious to others but a central point I'm discovering is that corporations used to be relevant to a single region, maybe growing to be nation-wide. And if they were to go global, it would be one region at a time, tackling the unique issues of each region as they go.

But with web-centric corporations, they flip a switch and bam, they're online everywhere.
It works both ways. If there is less incentive for me to stick with a single carrier, I'll always go for the one offering me the best price, regardless of my status on any given carrier.
>Maybe we should all go back to blatantly stating who we are to make the corporations' information gathering worthless.

Google doesn't stop at your name and address, in fact that's not even what they are mainly interested in. Revealing your identifying information would just open yourself up to harassment, especially when a tech company leaks the top 10,000 list of the most-likely-to-buy customers of some embarrassing product.
> In that case I would register using a 3G/GSM IP which many people share

Be careful... some cell providers use IPv6 these days. T-Mobile US gives me an IPv6 address and a 192.0.0.x CGNAT address.
Nuclear power is dead for economic reasons.

Yes, I know, engineers are somewhat insulted by the public's refusal to accept their risk modelling. That's why this has become somewhat of a cultural fight. It sometimes feels like there's a segment of armchair scientists, forever stuck in the science-fiction of the 50s, and not noticing that the real world has long since moved on, to something far better than their vision of a nuclear-powered vacuum cleaner for every happy wife.

Even if you somehow manage to change the perception (which is unlikely, considering you probably wouldn't even accept "perception" as anything real worthy of consideration), it doesn't matter: Actual scientists have long moved on and, with a lot of help of forward-thinking politicians, invested into wind, battery, and solar technology, making it cost-competitive with even coal today.
You are smarter than you think
This blog post certainly is pretty flawed on attribution of ideas - it attributes word2vec as the first to introduce word vectors (which is.... very wrong).

"Word2Vec showed that we can use a vector (a list of numbers) to properly represent words in a way that captures semantic or meaning-related relationships (e.g. the ability to tell if words are similar, or opposites, or that a pair of words like “Stockholm” and “Sweden” have the same relationship between them as “Cairo” and “Egypt” have between them) as well as syntactic, or grammar-based, relationships (e.g. the relationship between “had” and “has” is the same as that between “was” and “is”)."
Facebook could take constructive steps like enabling duress passwords that would either wipe out the account or replace the content with some sort of alternate content.

Continuing down the path of policing content is a no-win situation.
You may want to check APL family as a possible option for prototyping at least.
So, what language is not an insanity?
> Even if there were no safety or environmental regulations at all, you still couldn't get there

I am not so sure. I mean, if you really do not have to care about safety and waste, how expensive it can be to dig up uranium, centrifuge it for enrichment and mold it to a shape that heats stuff around it?
C++ fell victim of the incremental approach to building a language. There never was a big picture. Ten years after the language had been conceived it was realized that it was STL that gave C++ its life the true meaning. C++ is the result of a very logical evolution (of C), which makes it, contrary to the popular thinking, very difficult to argue against its features on purely logical grounds. And the evolutionary road it travels is all paved with good intentions. But we all know where such road leads, and I would prefer an intelligent design in the first place.
Kind of curious about your position as I am in the same boat. Have you done any research while in your Master’s? If so, what sort of topics have you written about?
Many candies are very much intended for children. Bright colours, cartoon characters, etc.

The FDA, several state attorney generals, senators have all moved in the past few years to attempt to outright ban any flavored tobacco products (including menthol) specifically because they provide an easy gateway for children.

The most recent high-profile case I can think of is San Francisco banning the sale of flavored tobacco, including menthol, this summer specifically for this reason.
See also "NLP's ImageNet moment has arrived" (https://thegradient.pub/nlp-imagenet/) by one of the researchers involved in the papers surveyed in this post.
On that topic Nokia was a pulp mill and rubber company...
What might be the essential elements of such a campaign? In other words, if you believe in “white flight”, I assume you think they did so for a reason or set of reasons.

Have those reasons changed? Have the conditions changed? Other than relatively inexpensive land, what’s the motivation for a group who decided to move out to move back?
What about cooking frozen food ? How big is the difference ?
This isn’t an “anarchists unite” situation though.

That people in a group would unite to leave that group once they feel it has been corrupted or no longer serves their interest isn’t hard to predict or understand.

Many of them may be in favor of a common currency and free trade, while disliking the swift ramp up of military spending, austerity policies, etc. enough to leave and build something else.

I mean, it’s likely you were just making a joke, but... There are currently protests heating up to riot point across Europe over these issues, and I’m not laughing.
yup, that's the one i meant. or at least its predecessor. haven't checked on it for a while. very happy to see that this is still being worked on.
Piracy, Privateering and the creation of a new Navy [pdf] (2013)
Had a problem that I'd typically use Ruby for but needed to shed the GIL. JRuby worked beautifully. The only gotcha was I needed to use the JDBC driver for Sequel instead of the usual drivers. Obvious in hindsight but not so much with zero JVM development experience. I'd use it again.
What bothers me most about the discussion today is how tightly bound sins and virtues - even traumas suffers by one's ancestors - are to genetics.

So we now have not just a racism / sexism morality based on actions and statements, but a religious viewpoint (good / evil), eugenics (because it's all baked into our genes), and caste (separating and ranking various human phenotypes.)

History may not repeat itself, but it sometimes has a similar chord progression.
Another thing Facebook should have pushed back on is the idea that they should stand up to a coordinated and focused attack by major world powers (like Russia). Standing up for American businesses should be the purview of the State Department and the Executive Branch.
So odd, in fact, that you might have given some thought to the possibility that you had misunderstood the point. Notice the use of the phrases 'whatever they perceive', 'other people', and the fact that this is in response to a post about a particular way of approaching issues.

Contrast Heinlein's cavalier and hypothetical invocation of the necessity for making hard decisions to Admiral Nimitz's anguish over the burden of having to do so in real life, as revealed in a comment to Frank Capra, quoted in this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18237374#18247358
Auditing Solidity Code with Slither
Isn't concentrated solar power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power) an alternative way to harness solar energy and convert it into something usable? While not useful for installations like a home roof, I thought it made sense for generators and such.
I would agree that the node standard library is quite good compared to many other scripting languages’. It’s nothing on the gold standard (python), but light years better than what is included with stock browser-side JS.
Outline's ToS and privacy policy are collectively almost 2000 words.
This is why it's best to use something like Authy
> I don't think it's actually a pending question whether avoiding personal attacks makes people more likely to listen to a message.

That depends on the context. When you're talking about changing ingrained behaviors, emotional shock and awe can definitely be necessary and the shortest, most painless path to resolution.

the underlying incorrect assumption is that everyone will do the right thing, if only nicely and logically talked to. This is not true and obvious to anyone with experience managing large amounts of people, especially so when firing is not an easy option.
I agree with you so I would like it if you could please show me what criticism I made exactly. I can't find one in this thread and don't understand why you've suspected me to be malicious or my intent to be destructive.
You should cite a source for that. Where I live the cops are pretty on the ball. I recall one of them casually correcting my math on work-related problem when he was taking a report from me on another topic.
That's not entirely true. It works that way because your distro maintainer built a kernel with nearly every module turned on to support the widest range of hardware out of the box.
If it genuinely helps them, then why not? That’s what technology is supposed to be used for…
I think rewards and upgrades should actually cost less if airlines want to increase brand loyalty.

I signed up for Delta's frequent flyer program because i frequently took cross country trips and decided I needed to take full advantage of the fact that only one airline provided a non-stop route from my location to this destination. Being apart of this program led me to choose international flights with this carrier over others because I would earn miles.

Once another airline with cheaper fares took on this route I completely abandoned optimizing for miles and simply started optimizing for cost like many travelers do.

Miles take too long to earn for travelers who fly less than 5 times a year, especially if these flights are domestic. If I were guaranteed to earn at least enough points for pay for a round trip around 500-750 miles from my nearest airport in exchange for flying with one airline consistently I would definitely consider it.
Well, yes, but bear in mind that the absence of side effects is seen as a virtue in functional programming, and it is a point of view that I have considerable agreement with.
Blender 2.8
#Hacking the #Twinkly #IoT #Christmas Lights
Funny how the constitution of China is not enforcible. You cannot sue the government against its violation of constitution. On the other hand no one believes in the political rights promised in constitution anyway.

Edit: I am prepared to be downvoted. Running China mostly depends on the use of administrative branches. The law enforcement agencies, the prosecution agencies and the the courts are all subdivisions of corresponding governments, under the direction of corresponding party committee. The people‘s congress should supervise the government, de jure. But that only happened in a parallel universe.
Mr. Spiegel, you are no Steve Jobs.
Except participation on anonymous forums is wholly voluntary and you have no immutable paper trail to stalk you across the whole Internet. You can at whim make a new account and be a new person, and avoid the parts you didn't like on your last romp around.

Widespred persistent harassment only grew in popularity as real identities were plastered all over the popular sites.
Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take
Facebook can't stop the spread of authoritarianism, because it was designed in such a way that it can't help but be the perfect tool for authoritarian elements. They're (arguably wittingly or unwittingly) a digital stasi; listening and collecting everyone's conversations, tracking and collecting social interactions and connections between groups of people, tracking and collecting people's online interests.

They've created a tool where you can literally search entire countries for dissidents and demographics and political allegiances.

They've given powers that only authoritarian gov'ts have had to upstart authoritarian elements that haven't power in the region they're trying to over-turn.

I know this just sounds like sidewalk doomsayer stuff, but we're seeing these effects globally... this is no longer a "what-if" scenario.
Why Hasn’t Australia Had a Recession in Almost 30 Years?
Yep, UK and US are abhorrent when it comes to this. Where I'm from(Poland) it's literally illegal to print the full name and show the face of the accused until after the trial. Once someone is arrested all the newspapers can do is say "Arthur G. was arrested on suspicion of X" with a blurred out photo of their face. The penalties for breaking that law are substantial and newspapers have paid extremely heavy fines for breaking it so it's generally adhered to.
This will be fun. I’m glad we now have some performance improvements to some common methods. For those considering playing with Ruby, you should! One thing I’m surprised not many has mentioned what makes ruby unique and awesome, BLOCKS!
Blockchain vs. FAANG: Do Not Deny the Power of Blockchain
I think Facebook helped create some of this problem with the algorithmic timeline. Content is prioritized to drive engagement. What drives engagement? Hate, fear, outrage, and extreme inflammatory rhetoric of every kind.

Same goes for YouTube and its algorithmic recommendation system, which subjectively seems much worse to me.

If you program a computer to select social content to drive engagement, you are pretty much programming it to push negativity. Negative, controversial, and divisive content always gets the most attention. The media and entertainment industry have always known this and used it, but never before had the feedback loop been so tight and efficient.
> Just be careful, because if you are using Facebook with Tor, you run the risk of outing your real identity from things like your social graph, search queries, likes, and other metadata.

You can’t be anonymous from Facebook or from Facebook users (with or without Tor) without violating its ToS and worrying about being blocked and asked to prove your real/authentic identity if you piss off some random person online or get flagged by one of its bots that check accounts periodically.
Absolutely agreed. That's one of the ways that political decentralisation in open-source manifests itself.

I've made the argument elsewhere in this thread that it's the decentralised nature of open-source that makes it safe to use and build on and not the personality or behaviour of any one person. Do you agree?
I think they're relying on the theory that a lot of people will drastically over value miles in their mind when calculating which ticket to purchase.
Yeah I'm not sure it's an issue of 'discipline' rather than simple product fundamentals.
Globally, hydro is three times as risky as rooftop solar, there were ~171,000 dead from the Banquio Dam failure alone - http://www.nuceng.ca/refer/risk/risk.htm

Also, I keep seeing figures for rooftop solar and not solar in general, and the risk for rooftop solar is due to the risk of working on a roof. If solar was mandated in new build and major roof repair, wherever it made sense to install it, this risk can be greatly reduced as the largest risk is during putting the scaffolding up and taking it down again.
UK, you can be done in 3 years and if the Wellcome Trust are still running their program getting STEM graduates into Neuroscience you can get about £20k per year stipend and your fees paid (my wife was in the first year of this program).

I would say that getting paid to do your PhD and focusing on getting in and out as quickly as possible should be your focus (I am prepared for the downvotes, I was 2 years 10 months and started my business at 2.5 years). A PhD is a tool to entering academia (if you want) or getting a higher degree to stand out from the crowd in industry (the reason I did mine)/raising money.
Amazing Canadian-Vietnamese #vlog channel
one shot mode [1] for coverage will be handy in production as it has quite no overhead. Happy xmas Ruby devs!

[1] https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15022
Your apparent inability to do a simple search makes me think you just want to send us on a wild goose chase proving everything from first principle, or alternatively to saw some FUD around solar technology.

I mean, what answer are you willing to accept? Here's one investing as much energy as your question:

Yes, solar power is net positive.
>Sorry mate, but your terminology doesn’t line up with other English speakers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age

Your link very clearly says it does:

"The date range of this period is ambiguous, disputed, and variable according to the region in question. While it is possible to speak of a general 'stone age' period for the whole of humanity, some groups never developed metal-smelting technology, so remained in a 'stone age' until they encountered technologically developed cultures"

>Schizophrenia is not a “modern mental illness”.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

>Then why TF did you do it?

You did it: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy
Press reports that the drone operators were flying close to the control tower and flashing lights at the control tower.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/police-prepared-shoot-down-drone-0...

> Detectives were understood to have drawn up a shortlist of potential culprits after the pilot gave vital clues away by audaciously flying the drone right up to the air traffic control tower.

> In a move known as "buzzing the tower", it emerged the perpetrator had taunted airport staff by circling the drone around the building and flashing its lights, an industry source told The Daily Telegraph.
How do you check your code? Presumably, you’re not able to exercise the full range of inputs, so at some point you will have to look at the code and figure out what it is doing…
An attacker would still have to _do_ something with their new maliciously named constant, which would be as noticeable as any other malicious contribution. This is grasping at straws.
Noted. I guess as times goes on, it will be harder to find a cell provider that uses IPV4. They're really handy for anonymous accounts, especially with that sweet CGNAT which is dying out as more people tear existing infra apart to upgrade to IPV6
The Case of the Hidden Mongo Data
Ask HN: How to build a Web Startup?
What are the steps in building a web site?
Do you apply formal verification to your codebases to make sure there are to cleverly-crafted backdoors that still pass all the unit tests? Would be interesting to hear about.
If you can't stop authoritarianism just because authoritarians have access to targeted advertising, then there's a bigger problem at hand than just Facebook or any particular ad platform.
But they do already control what we see! The alogrithmic timeline is the exact feature that causes all this bollocks and its so mis-designed.
The money she made was due to the Alibaba investment, not the content business.
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