skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What always gets me about the concept of 'virtue signalling' is that it seems to imply that the virtuous opinion is not sincerely held, because if 'virtue signalling' were to include sincerely held opinions, any statement on a moral issue made to multiple others counts as 'virtue signalling', and suddenly the concept isn't useful any more. For instance, if I say "murder is wrong", does this count as virtue signalling? Should it only count if I secretly believe murder is right?

Alternatively, virtue signalling refers to showing off our sincerely held beliefs to gain social credit, but I don't see why that would be bad either; we do many things (like make friends and show our accomplishments) to gain social credit, so why should voicing our opinions (with the effect of having like-minded people befriend you) be such an action to deserve the derision it gets?

It seems that "virtue signalling" is a very flimsy accusation; it is to say "you're lying, since nobody could possibly hold such a kind position sincerely". Maybe it's even an effect of an age in which we're so cynical that we expect anyone who holds a kind opinion to be acting insincerely.

The answer to accusation of virtue signalling should always be this simple: show evidence that I don't sincerely hold the opinion, then you might be onto something and we can start talking about social credit and instrumental rationality. Until then, an accusation of virtue signalling is as substantive as saying unicorns are real.
>No US military leader wants to fight a war; that notion is absurd.

It may be absurd but it's not unrealistic; there is historical precedent.

Don't underestimate the power of ideology to override rationality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
BBQ and Booze.
Yes, of course, what's not to like about that confusion?
A small intervention: to my (western) European eyes saying that CNN is far left or even saying that far left exists in the USA is a fascist affirmation...

That's to add a different "relative" measure.

Apart of that far left and far right are essentially the SAME, their "lower labor force" are fanatic people used as a weapon/Ford models workers by the very same "sponsors" who want dictatorship instead of free society.

If you read about or know someone who have visited both Franco's Spain and Chernenko's Soviet Union you will see that they are equally oppressive and use essentially the very same language, only with a little color variation in flags.

Do not forget that Lenin was massively financed by Kaiser's Germany, Stalin by UK crown etc just to stop socialism transforming it in a dictatorial regime with same symbols, not different by the hitler financing by German élites against socialism in Germany, mussolini financed by UK crown against a socialist Italy etc.

"left" is socialism, "center" is liberalism, the rest are only a grayscale of dictatorship movements disguised in various ways.
IFPI represents record labels, not musicians.
They are definitely not “much the same”. One implies that violence is the goal, the other that the capacity to be violent is necessary even when actual violence is undesirable. These are absolutely different in meaning.
Poor musicians.
QVC Vendor Reference Guide (PDF) answers your questions.

https://vendorportal.qvc.com/documents/10184/0/QVC-Vendor+Qu...
For your world, I think FP is a bad idea. GC is a bad idea. (Allocations after startup are a bad idea, too, and a language that allocates without being asked is a terrible idea.) Recursion is a bad idea. (Yes, tail-call-optimization can essentially turn it into recursion. Mis-write one TCO in the whole program, though, and your stack just became extremely unpredictable.) And considering Haskell specifically, in your world lazy is a terrible idea.

FP is a tool. It has potential to solve some problems. That potential won't be wasted, but the problems it will solve aren't the problems you have in your world.

On the other hand, FP could be just fine for writing the tools that will help you in your world.
Isn’t that what the space program was? “We’re going reach for the heavens and put a man on the moon [necessitating technology that can also drop a nuke anywhere on earth]!”
Because the spirit of the question about an inventor choosing to remain anonymous, rather than being 'anonymous' because it was 5000 years ago.
The names of the members of Bourbaki are now known, as per the Wikipedia link, so they are not an example of persistent anonymity.
Checkpoints: Fact-checkers do it a tick at a time (2009)
What’s the typical QPS like?
Surely this cannot be a new thing. I've been using six-wheel cam carts a decade ago. Did you put it in the Blockchain? Does it leak your personal information to foreign companies and three-letter agencies? What's the novelty here?
Suspending judgement on this individual's stance, it's refreshing to see someone that is basing their actions on clearly articulated principles.
BTC/USD is doing just fine. Nobody who knows anything about anything made any kinds of plans involving $20,000 Bitcoin. At ~$4k, it's still 10x where it was 2 years ago. Anybody remotely involved in BTC from it's actual inception (not the bandwagon shirt-losers of 2017) is filthy stinking rich now.
Google yields this http://virus.wikidot.com/dark-avenger-mutation-engine

But it sounds a bit more prosaic than OP made it out to be (maybe it's incomplete?)
Or any funding of any sort from any source, public or private, for that matter. It's a total garbage argument; anyone can require something you disagree with as a condition for continuation of funding, the military is not special in this regard.

It's basically akin to saying "don't get a job because if you do then your boss might eventually ask you to do something (that's legal) that you disagree with."

Ridiculous.
"GPS can keep incredibly accurate time."

Sure, as long as the satellites are up and you have line of sight.

Aside from hostile actors, space debris, solar storms and other threats exist. We shouldn't take for granted that our satellites are just always going to be there.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-would-happen-if-all-our-satelli...
By white people, apparently.
What's going on with the water situation in Flint? Has that been fully resolved?
Hmm, and Google makes many billions of dollars on their search engine every year. So all the little indy startup search engines must be making an ok living, right?

The music industry is very, very top heavy when it comes to income distribution.
What does it mean to "ghost"?
If this idiot got his way, we'd all be speaking Japanese right now.

Kuipers is further proof that the only computer scientists who go into academia are those who can't hack it in private industry. What a fundamentally unintelligent human being.
> No US military leader wants to fight a war; that notion is absurd.

I think your general point is good, but there are people, including people in government, who see war as a low-cost, acceptable means of achieving ends, including rallying domestic political support.

For example, at one point I noticed that over a short time hawkish Republican leaders in the U.S., including John McCain, favored increasing involvement in Afghanistan, attacking Iran (rather than negotiating), increasing involvement in Iraq, intervening in Syria, intervening in Egypt (IIRC), intervening in Sudan (in Darfur, though that might not have been contemporaneous), and intervening in Libya. If you look at a map, that's war in most countries from central Asia to near the middle of Africa's Mediterranean coast.

The GOP, starting before Trump, often vocally disdains the alternative to war, diplomacy. The Trump administration has taken it to a policy level worked to undermine the United States' relations with other countries and openly advocated, including in written op-eds from administration members, 'a return to geopolitical competition' - i.e., the state of things before WWII, which led to centuries of wars. They've abandoned treaty after treaty, and damaged the U.S.'s reputation so that they can't be trusted to adhere to future agreements (which I think is intentional, an attempt make the move away from diplomacy irreversible). The Trump administration openly works against the rule-based international order and openly opposes international law; the alternative to law and order is anarchy; the alternative to those mechanisms is war.

The Trump administration also has gutted State Department; they've attempted to gut its budget (Congress hasn't always agreed), they've cut and obstructed many programs, forced out a large proportion of talent (my vague memory is that they forced or urged out over a third of the most senior officers, who are, as I understand it, irreplaceable), and disrupted hiring.

Why would you destroy the means of diplomacy if you don't seek war?
The United States could certainly be less war-happy, in my opinion, but what happens if some group decides to declare war on another, or commit atrocities, and absolutely refuses to negotiate? Or what if negotiations take months or years, and more human lives are lost in that time than would be through war?

I'm not saying that most or even a significant fraction of the US's wars up until this point have been justified, but professor Kuipers seems to be of the opinion that violence should never be used to settle international conflicts.
The bridge itself is API stable. evaluateJavaScript:completionHandler: isn't going anywhere.

Historically, this hasn't been the case. Apple loves to deprecate stuff (although, thankfully, they are a bit slower to remove it). Before WKWebView there was a "stable" WebView.
The 1911 Solvay Conference photo illustrates just how exceptional a woman scientist was then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference she's there at the table with Henri Poincaré.
> Parallelizing our software is mostly a question of investment at this point.

This just isn't true - for some algorithms we are simply not aware of any way to effectively parallelise. No amount of investment is going to suddenly come up with a solution to that problem.

We're just lucky that games are easy to parallelise.
I wonder if there is some bloodwork or something that could prove/ disprove this hypothesis, haha. I don't care about the stimulation, I think coffee is legit healthy for you(as long as you don't add sugar). There is some evidence coming out suggesting the complex blend of chemicals in coffee might hold many beneficial compounds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15779133
Most of these tools cost too much to scale past 1M users.
From the symbol of the word along, no element related to gender
Perhaps a tutorial for drawing in this style or similar?
gp: Europeans feel guilty about the colonial past, so they try very hard to make the Chinese look worse.

me: How can it be worse?

Neither gp nor me mentioned anything being "okay", or blamed any party for completely irrelevant crimes (lynching or whatever). Might need to brush up on reading comprehension.
I planned a project for home automation in 2008, and many of my ideas are in the market today (like doorbell video, smart smoke alarms, etc.).

However I don't think I missed out because the bar for execution is so high in hardware, and the winners are most often large incumbents with networks effects. Like, even if I pushed out a product, I neither would be able to establish protocol standards nor would I have services like Alexa on top of it. Then of course is economy of scale.
Messages uses webviews and manages to do much of what Slack does with a tenth of the memory footprint. I still have not found any evidence for your claim that Electron and WKWebView use the same amount of memory.
The world's first search engine for sales tax (in Canada): http://isittaxed.com. I have over 10K goods and services in the database, for all provinces and territories in Canada. All told, it has cost me almost 4K to develop. Monetizing it has been more difficult than I thought.
Can you explain how you know that?
True, but to invent the bearing you need to invent the wheel first
Quoth Wikipedia:

Since 2002, the USAMO has been a six-question, nine-hour mathematical proof examination spread out over two days. (The IMO uses the same format.) On each day, four and a half hours are given for three questions.

Maybe the high school math curriculum is way different in the US, but as a Canadian in second year of university studying math, I had never written a single proof until my first year calculus and algebra courses. I have a hard time believing any kid, no matter how smart, could qualify through that exam without opening a math textbook and only doing homework on normal math problems from high school.
Yup, my 6s is going to stay around a lot longer than I thought. I've preemptively lined up possible phones for the future. LG v30 and maybe the newest flagship Samsung (if they don't pull a bait and switch).
No Android manufacturers have any business ditching the jack when they don't have a seamless integration with Bluetooth devices. Even Apple's pricey Airpods are just barely there and they still have their issues with connection and battery life.
DRM has turned the e-reader market into winner takes all, so now we are dealing with the natural consequences: market consolidation, lack of innovation, lack of price competition, anti-consumer features. And at the user side, people are now vested on their platforms, and thus want them to be the winner.
Historically, most 'for hire' inventions (i.e. invented by employees of a corporation) have been relatively anonymous. This also often extends to suppliers to major corporations. Every now and then you'll hear the story about how person X working at corporation Y invented something you'd recognize. (usually after they've retired or otherwise left the company... funny how that works) But generally the inventors don't receive much, if any, public credit or monetary reward. Granted, Bitcoin is rather unique in that the author has worked to stay anonymous but is effectively only slightly more so than most other inventors working for someone else.

edit: sure, you'll often (but not always) see the actual inventor's name listed in patent applications... along with their manager(s), one or more executives, the lunch cook etc.
> So why try to violently suppress it? That's never been an effective strategy. Just co-opt it, and make it promote whatever Chinese/Confucian values you want like everyone else does.

They also do that. The problem, from the regimes perspective, is that international Christianity (including and with assistance of domestic Christians already indoctrinated into the foreign varieties) keeps sabotaging their efforts to co-opt Christianity.
Even if memory usage is the same, there's a world of a difference when it comes to executable size, and for most Electron apps, I doubt the content will outweigh the runtime.
For native Chinese, “qiou” is perfectly pronunciable
> Nobody who knows anything about anything made any kinds of plans involving $20,000 Bitcoin.

Except for Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Barclays (see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-23/wall-stre...)...
don't masturbate over sugar tho
Instructions here:

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=329767
Find a good girl and get married!
> Africans don't need charity. The NGO industrial complex has failed to create modern states, it can deliver great help to badly affected communities but it can't leapstart growth.

Since this is a startup/hacker forum, what do you think about entrepreneurs moving there to not only start a business, while being ethically charitable and involved in the locally community (rather than just being a digital nomad). Would this be accepted culturally, or would I just be viewed as a rich foreigner trying to trick/scam the populace?

I've only visited the continent as a tourist, but am very interested in your perspective on cultural viewpoints. And followup question -- are certain African nations more open to outsiders than others?
Technically true but they would be more akin to a severe case of road rage. Those warhorses were kept isolated from others to be kept 'trained' in the right animal frame of mind and essentially meant to act like violent psychopaths - 'working as intended' was to attack anyone except the rider, even when the rider was unhorsed. There is a reason why they were rare, expensive, and why they also had separate general riding horses with much gentler temperaments who could actually share stables.

Romanticizing the past and thinking of it as an ideal that never really was and using it as a model is a rather dangerous pattern throughout history which has never really ended well.

One of the most common pieces of equipment for horses were 'blinkers' or 'blinders' - whose function was to limit their peripheral vision.
Of course if you are filthy stinking rich, it's because you participated in a distributed scam in order to defraud money from those "bandwagon shirt-losers."
You're running off on tangential points about absolutely nothing. Your original point was that your professional colleagues were bigoted against white conservatives. Now you're talking about politically-motivated violence in general and your critique of the courts and the mainstream media.

Did you get everything off of your chest yet? Did you or your alternate account have any other grievances that you wanted list?
Since that article seems both more informative and more neutral (for example, it says "China may" while the other article says "China to"), we switched to it from https://www.africanstand.com/news/africa/east-africa/china-t.... Also, this one is still up and that one isn't. Thanks!
Things I'd like in my code management tool
Also a port in Israel surprisingly enough
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/US-Navy-may-stop-docking-i...
If they go to that lengths then they're laundering responsibility away from the researcher, which seems to be his main thrust - the affirmative decision to do research for the military puts the responsibility on the researcher; doing it for a worthy cause and acknowledging the potential for good or bad puts that ball in the "worthy cause"'s court.
I’ve tried Twitter numerous times and I’ve never felt good about using it. The abuse is simply too pervasive.
Generate automatically async/await code from sync code with Roslyn
Interesting prompt. Researching, I discovered “The Invention Secrecy Act” — you can read more about it here https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-thousands-of-secret...

“Invention secrecy in the U.S. dates back to at least the 1930s, but it really took off in the ’40s, when the development of nuclear weapons was shrouded in classification. It became official policy in 1952 with the Invention Secrecy Act, which allows USPTO to keep patents deemed “detrimental to the national security” on lockdown. Under the act, USPTO’s commissioner of patents became empowered to flag patent applications—even those developed by private citizens—for review by government defense agencies, which could request that certain inventions be kept secret.”
This individual recommends that society do nothing even though there are other military powers. I don't agree. Edmund Burke had something to say about two centuries ago: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Absence of a military means a commitment to doing nothing. If all Americans don't take military funding, the result will not be a nicer world. The result of US society following this advice would be the subjugation of the US, and possibly all western democracies, by other countries. Where possible, militaries should not be used, because violence is a terrible thing... and that is something most military personnel already know. But absence of a military often produces means slaughter by another.

In practice, countries only independently exist if (1) they have a military or (2) they have an ally with a military who is willing to use it on their behalf. If a country is unwilling to work out its defense, another country will be happy to take it over.
There's an example column on the link, it has to do with the exact formatting of the offset.
I disagree that they are cheap for CPU - compared to AWS, GCP and Azure, you get much more for your money with a VPS.
“Let them drink laptops”
Maybe, but HN doesn't seem like the place to ask for illustration advice? It's confusing.
And the civilian world can do the same, fund research with a presumably benign purpose, turn around and sell it to the military.
What are you going on about man? Plenty of companies find AWS at various stages of growth and profitability. When a company chooses to trade velocity for margin varies, and with the looming recession, will likely have different patterns. So many startup wannabes have never lived in a funding scarce environment where costs really matter.
What precisely was the scam? Who and how was I scamming by mining coins with my GPU and some open source software I saw on slashdot that are now worth several thousand dollars each?
I don't know where you are learning your ethics, but misrepresenting yourself to a potential client is pretty standard, boilerplate fraud. Not criminal (usually), but it is a civil breach of contract.
At what price will the Bitcoin death spiral occur? (i.e. when it costs more to produce/handle Bitcoin than the revenue generated, so best move is to just exit the crypto industry).
I've seen so many local startups that are essentially scams:

March 2018:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/09/bitcoin-m...

November 2018:
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/washington-bitcoin-pio...
What's with the anti-Chinese articles lately? Got tired of bashing Facebook?
The post disappears completely for all users except the original poster.

From the original poster's account, the post still shows up in the 'new' list of posts and the post text is still present, albeit without a 'comment' box. This gives the original poster the false impression that the post is still visible/valid. But, for all other users, the post shows up as blank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763287
When moving from my laptop to my phone, I just open the settings tray, 3D touch the media control, tap the AirPlay icon and select my AirPods. Sure, that’s still a few taps but your flow is about as roundabout as you can get.
The wheel
Bitcoin is a non-correlated asset and should be in every portfolio
Interesting how when the cost distribution falls due to technological change, no one (or hardly anyone) ever proposes that small portion of that should be shifted to the artist / writer end of equation. I would be willing to argue that implicitly the average consumer has already pegged the monetary value of writer / artist's contribution as ~0 and that what people actually peg for value is entirely the physical product that is otherwise unrelated to what is encoded on or within it, which is why you get so many commentators who think purchase price should only ever solely follow the price of the media, whereas, on the production end, the writer /artist's cut has always been determined on the logic of what must be carved out of the price in relation to the production and distribution of that physical medium. So, in essence, when it comes right down to it, both capitalist rights holders and the consumer public, believe in a kind of pseudo slavery where what they want is produced with minimal to no financial impingement upon themselves (which, of course, only make evolutionary sense).
I assume there are a lot of famous technologies accredited to a company, I'd love to know the names of some of the engineers and researchers behind some of the great inventions that we simply credit to XYZ Inc.
What stops GS from replacing their fee-based offerings with a blockchain solution? Could this really be as obvious in hindsight as looking at Sears in the 90s not developing an online catalog?
"Scholarly consensus" != authorship.
Everyone had a scribe actually do the writing in that day anyway is my understanding.

Is there a symbol for the squiggly equals sign?
We lived out our fantasy to flip a house. We will never do it again