skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of a social credit score is fantastic. I too believe it would decrease the rate of crime (although that's only a small part of its potential benefits). You don't need to be uneducated or Chinese to see it.

The problem is the way the system is implemented. It's centralized and managed by an authoritarian government. There's no way they can craft a fair and balanced system this way, whether they have good intentions or not.

I think it's a good idea to make people understand the risk of centralized systems (especially when it's for something as important as this), but we shouldn't scare people away from great ideas such as social credit systems.
This is often because they use a bunch of third party software that adds a lot of bloat. For example Firefox devtools uses redux and you can notice the perf issues.

Another issue is many js devs don't know how the Jit compilers work. Using classes is usually more efficient than plain js objects if you are doing a lot of mutations.
> Then you don't have to practice or actually "be good", you could just get lucky, and thats enough for most people - they aren't looking for challenges in their games, just dopamine kicks

I don't think you understand how either type of games work. You really believe "dopamine kicks" play a bigger role in casual games than in hardcore ones?

More casual games lean on the fact that there are more aspects to derive fun and value from than just being "better" (being "good" is relative) or just overcoming challenge. Skill, practice and challenge all play a part even in casual games, they simply are not such overpowering factors compared to hardcore experiences.
Unfortunately, BoA products are subpar, including Merrill Edge. The interest rate for the savings account is nearly 2% lower and the mutual funds available have either high expense ratios or transaction fees. While that 0.6% bonus on credit card spending might give me some hundreds of dollars annually, I'd be sacrificing thousands of dollars for it.
I believe its exempt from sales tax but not the various excise taxes
I've worked with three in my career. At startups they tend to get promoted into upper management, which is a rare sign of justice in the world.
Hey, that's not fair to RDR2! I actually bought it the day it came out because it _didn't_ have a huge day one patch. I think it was only about 4 GB, which is barely a blip on my ISP's arbitrary data cap. Fallout 76, however, had a patch that was larger than the disc itself, so that was an easy "pass" for me.

Edit: I just checked, and even now that they've added multiplayer to the game (which didn't come on the physical disk), the patch for a new installation of RDR2 is 8 GB. Meanwhile, Fallout 76 is 50 GB and COD:BO4 is 65 GB.
> you should ask an expert on obesity. I'm not one, so if their judgment differs from mine, I'll stand corrected. But until then, I'll be of the opinion that most obesity cases are not genetic.

You're saying you have no expertise in this, haven't spent any time reading the literature or consulting with experts, but you nonetheless are going to continue having a strong opinion on this question? What is the basis for this opinion on a question of fact? Hopefully it's not than the fact that fat people are icky and so must be morally at fault for their failings?
That depends on where it is cut from, but overall whale meat is very dark - almost black - and pretty lean, marbling being rare.

If you don’t overcook it, it is extremely tender, but quickly -very quickly- turns rubber-y if it spends too long in the frying pan. You can eat it raw - with a spoon, almost.

Taste is slightly liver-y, and if the meat is old it can take on a cod liver oil-like taste which is rather unpleasant.

I mostly eat it like beef (meat room-tempered, nutmeg-browned butter in the frying pan, meat in pan thirty seconds either side to get a nice surface, then pull aside to rest for a few minutes prior to eating) or as a stew - onions, black pepper, whatever mushrooms I can find, whale meat diced, fry for a short while, add copious amounts of heavy cream, simmer until potatoes are done, yumyum.
I've seen this occasionally in the deserts of the United States, though usually in poorer communities and neighborhoods. Perhaps electricity is cheaper there, since that's where it's grown (solar farms).
I'd be curious to see that article and what "clubs" the author is going to. I've been to plenty of clubs in multiple cities where it's still exactly like that. You talk, eat, and drink while the music plays in the background.

The only "no talking" Jazz events I've been to are true concerts with generally hefty ticket prices.
> Who needs to break crypto when you have a baseband processor relay back location, audio and video?

Not exactly a citation for the exact claim, but several people in this thread make the assertion that Qualcomm processors have some kind of location tracking service running on them, running under a parallel OS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684

I think that's pretty close. The baseband processor is just one of the many hidden nooks that can run privacy-invading/security-breaking code outside of user view or control.

Also, I think it stands to reason that the baseband processor has everything it needs to at least relay a rough location: the list of in-range towers ~= user location, and it has full control of a channel to relay that information.
Unfortunately not, my grandparents are very naive rural southern Christian types. Not to say that there is anything inherently wrong with any of that (there isn't), but to say that they're not highly biased and closed minded is untrue. Let's just say that their main news source is Fox News and they don't have interest in questioning what the MSM tells them.
I can go back further. My first experience with a free non profit shell provider was nyx.net in 1992.

https://www.nyx.net/

I could dialup to Peachnet - a free Gopher server provided by the University System of GA and somehow navigate to it. It was a six step process to get there and I had a macro to automate it.

It was a 7 bit connection and I could only use Kermit to transfer files. I still haven’t found an interface as clean as the “nn” news reader I use to use to read Usenet.
Author, have you seen MedMen?
There was only 1 dotcom bubble. Which crypto bubble are you referring to? Because there seems to be one every 2 years and every time you hear the same talk about the bubble is over, it's all worthless, etc and yet it recovers, surpasses, and diminished previous highs.
All champions, including the free ones on rotation, are balanced with each other (in theory); there is no real-money-only-champion with blatantly-boosted stats as is often in more P2W variants.

See Jarwain's comment in a sister thread.
Ask HN: Anyone took sam oven's course? if so what do you think?
The photos have a striking similarity to what I've seen in Soviet Union as a child, in the end of 1970s. I can easily imagine myself one of these children on the photos, doing the same things.

Of course, not all parts of Soviet cities were as rundown, much like not all parts of Glasgow were as rundown.
Nobody in business cares if you are doing proper AI or dumb curve fitting. What matters is the complexity (engineering debt) and performance (accuracy, robustness).

Online learning, sample -
and energy efficiency are unrelated to training times. Like said: nobody cares if you ran Vowpal Wabbit for 1 hour or 100 hours, as long as you are not constantly babysitting it and calling that paid work (or have the unusual requirement of daily retraining while using an online model).

> simple dot product is always going to be faster than many matrix multiplies

If you care about this (because it is profitable), you rewrite in lower-level language or predict with cloud GPU (which will be at least comparable to simple dot product, while adding performance)
At a certain point you'll end up wanting fancy clocks too. I believe this is what Google does with Spanner.
I wonder if I should start contributing to qubes-os. I'd really like to add something to isolate non-gui projects in docker instead of VMs.
Then those people are actively seeking to maintain the supremacy of the black market, despite decades of evidence as to the inability of such measures to reduce consumption. Maybe people who have such ignorant and baseless beliefs shouldn’t be heeded.
I just updated the documentation slightly, how to set up and start the HTTP-server without docker.
ZZT was such an influential game/editor for me.

I just wish they woulda stuck with his original "Epic MegaGames" name, much better to have a funny name than one that can be read as a bit too self-important.
The image of the father smoking with a child on his lap is disturbing.
Yeah, I think there are a LOT of reasons. It's just a bad game. Seems like a cash grab more than an actual desire to make a good quake game. Reminds me a lot of Street Fighter 5 vs SF4.
Cant tell if this is supposed to be a social media site or what. No examples, no nothing. Why would anyone sign up without getting a detailed explanation?
I use a Synology NAS too. It's already 5 year old but working fine, still getting updates regularly.

The Hyper Backup is a wonderful tool (comes with Synology) that you can use to create multiple backup strategy, to another portable hdd, various cloud providers, any host with rsync etc, with or without backup version and rotation. The user experience is pretty neat.
I totally understand what your saying so I will explain some objections to this idea.

Information asymmetry is power. Usually the less powerful use this asymmetry to their advantage. Would you play poker with an opponent that could see your hand?

Second and more cultural is that western societies do not trust governments. This has nothing to do with the atrocities of the 20th century but actually the objection to the old monarchys. America was basically created out of this objection to government.
But to steal millions from those people you need a lot more resources and a risky plan. Whereas to steal BTC from someone like you, you need a wrench to the head for some convincing, like in the linked comic.

I mean to steal millions from someones bank account you need them at the bank and even then you get a trail from bank transfer to another account etc. plus the bank could reverse transaction when police gets involved. While if they can access your wallet they can transfer anonymously to another wallet that no one knows who it belongs to.

So the person you are responding to has a point, I think.
We use Truedentity (https://www.truedentity.de) which is pretty robust with smartcard and palm vein pattern to make access secure. It uses EJBCA as backend for PKI and it's possible to configure redundancy with it.
I gave a talk on multi dimensional subjective cryptocurrency modeled on the peer to peer web of trust. Might be of interest to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ENERyV7xA
When people move into expensive housing, they also move out of wherever they used to be living -- often some place cheaper where they lived when their income was lower. Any increase in supply helps.
How do you discuss politics and other modern needs with close-minded older people who haven't been paying attention to the world for the last 50 years? Climate change, technology, modern civil rights, etc.
It appears to have been added in the Windows 10 October 2018 update, at least as a publically supported API.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/project...

"Minimum supported client: Windows 10, version 1809 [desktop apps only]"
If you read a byte without EOF and have a variable length of 0 afterwards, you read a NUL.
Latent heat of fusion is typically 100 times bigger than specific heat.

I couldn't find a source for peanut oil, but [1] has values of around 200kJ/kg for various vegetable oils. Heating 1kg of water by 5 deg Celsius would take only 22kJ, so the oil should be a lot better.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02549465
> In Red Hat OpenShift Consulting, we openly advise against “One cluster to rule them all” and the vast majority of our customers heed our advice. ... My colleague Raffaele hinted as much when describing the problem as a matter of availability, disaster recovery and federation [0].

To be honest, I should have realised this would be so.

> At least in OpenShift, multi-tenancy is a solved problem when cluster right-sizing has taken place. RBAC, node labels and selectors, EgressIP, quotas, requests and limits, multi-tenant or networkpolicy plug-ins go a long way.

Well, as you can guess, I am not convinced that this is really solved -- it looks like multiple discretionary access control mechanisms that need to be aligned properly, instead of a single mandatory access control mechanism to which other things align.
PVC and ABS aren't recommended for hot water, nor are they particularly well suited to sustained UV exposure. It'll work in a pinch, but if building something permanent with the luxury of options I'd ignore those.
Eh, that move is definitely nice for developers, but it's still self-serving. They're in an uphill battle against steam's moat, and increasing rates is a way of attracting more developers.
To me this is 'just' an optimization. If sorting by ID means 'sort by creation time' then you are just optimizing a timestamp in an entity. Overloading the ID, IOW. For the 'create the ID in the app' yes, but that is orthogonal to the ULID, AFAIK.
Tim Sweeney often complains about MS being a threat to PC gaming, yet there is still no Fortnite for Linux. Also, Epic store doesn't support Linux (yet?).
He doubled down repeatedly, telling at least one journalist to go investigate Unsworth. It was clearly not just some random insult, but an earnest accusation.
Reporter from CO here. I think this is the crux of the matter. If the points about a strong underground market in the article are true, it's (IMO) due to a weakened attempt at decriminalization. Very much like bittorrents before netflix/prime were widely available with large catalogs.

Here in Sunny CO, the prop was a Constitutional Amendment, guaranteeing the right of each state citizen to grow and possess their own Marijuana, which lead to sales. -Only two cities (Colorado Springs and a mountain town IDK)- created local exemptions against retail sales. They are now suffering with badly damaged roads and limited tax revenues to fix them, compared to cities right next door that capture all the sales.

Hampered decriminalization does not rid us of the black market. The [THC] black market is _gone_ in CO because who needs it? Questionable products, limited availability, difficult logistics...no, you go to the local store and five minutes later can be higher than 5280'.

EDIT: As CP says, there were more than two cities banning sales. Actually a lot more than I knew. I'll stand by my conclusion though. The full list is here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:11yRzRk...
As long as China keeps growing and people's standard of living increases I don't think people will care. The system will face its true test once they have a major economic crisis and people will have doubts about the system. Until then most people will happily go along.
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All managers see is that the work is getting done and no one is rocking the boat, they have zero incentive to look under the covers and see what’s really happening, then one day their unknown crucial engineer walks and they wonder why none of the self-promoting rockstars can do the bread-and-butter work, and what exactly those guys have been doing all this time.
I've been curious about what manifold learning (sp. now that we have UMAP) would do to that kind of workflow's performance.
And of course that black market is on average actually cheaper, often by 2x than the “legal” sources. Nobody gets taxed for growing a little on the side, or buying on the black market. As usual local greed is strangling an emerging market with the potential to net billions. As usual small operators are kept behind until the big boys (Altria et al) can dominate the market and slash prices and quality.

IMO that’s what this is about; a delaying game until federal laws change and the multi nations can take over.
Champions buy you playstyle, not straight advantage. At best, they give you options - but by the time you have played enough that a reasonably varied roster improves your chances to win, you have earned plenty to afford a varied roster. If you pay for hero it's because you want that hero, not because you need it.
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Well Python 3 broke compatibility so you don't have to start at Python 0.1 alpha, but yes, completely understanding Python is also no easy task. I write Python almost every day and have taught courses using it, but I know of features that I don't understand. There are probably more that I'm not even aware of.
Nice one from the interview:

"I don't habitually use any cell phones or tablets. If it doesn't have a keyboard, I feel that my thoughts are being forced out through a straw."

:)
And those people will be perfectly happy until it affects them.

As a society, we tend to protect people from themselves because the other option is to let them die on the streets when they lose it all. Making people have insurance and using banks and payment systems that have built-in protection, is far cheaper than providing welfare for those that would otherwise be scammed out of every penny, irreversibly.

You can be a self-serving ubermensch the same day you opt out of all social help.
> Each component is encoded with the Most Significant Byte first (network byte order).

This seems a surprising choice. Even the PowerPC now supports little endian. I would guess that 95%+ of all software is running in a little endian system and that any software that would use ULID is going to run in a little endian system. Other than for historical compatibility, I don't think there is any reason to use big endian today, and definitely not for greenfield protocols.
Thanks for all that personal info, while your at it why don't you just tell us that private key too?

Seriously, you're here asking about security but you're giving us all your details. Your gmail is even known. Security through Obscurity is a real thing, and you've just painted a huge multi-million dollar target on your back.
Even if we were to accept the paper's conclusion, we should take into account that for many people a vegetarian or vegan diet is an ethical choice, because they are concerned about the killing of non-human animals for the purpose of ingesting their carcasses.

If a person lives within a community of perpetrators of an on-going mass-killing of non-human animals (that they themselves may have previously participated in), is it then unreasonable to be more likely to display symptoms of mental disorders, such as anxiety or depression?

Should we not be distressed by awareness of the pain of others?

Claude Etherly, who was piloting Straight Flush, suffered from anxiety and schizophrenia after dropping the bomb. His letter exchange with pacifist philosopher Günther Anders is worth a read[0].

[0]: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/projects/anders/...
How many milliseconds of downtime per day would be 99th percentile likely to occur in the scenario you describe?

What percentage of milliseconds in the day would that be?
The weak point is not your gmail account security. It's that now that you've announced that you have X million dollars in a form that's easy to transfer to an anonymous account, they could show up at your house or kidnap your children. The thing stopping that from being more common with USD is that international transfers will be stopped, law enforcement can track accounts, things like that. Bitcoin has none of those protections.
I wonder how this pdf was produced... Word for Windows 1.0 wouldn't have been able to do those tables.
Yes, indeed so. That's why I answered in the java thread. Sorry for not making that clear.
I don't know how much milk a breast-feeding mother makes, but I'd guess it's on the order of a quart a day. I can guarantee my wife does not drink 1000L of water a day.

Which I guess is a way of saying that these numbers factor in a lot of externalities that don't get factored in to other parts of the discussion. So the value judgment ends up skewed much more than it should be.
I'm personally fine with local control, and despite the negative tone of this article, it all sounds pretty normal to me.

I live in SF, where there are a variety of shops. The ones I walk by all seem clean, orderly, and well run. Certainly more so than some liquor stores I can think of. So I'm happy to have them as neighbors. That said, I understand why other cities would have been more reluctant to license. Not everybody needs or wants to be a pioneer.

If we're still having the same problems 5 years out, I'll be more concerned. But personally, I'm a big fan of subsidiarity, the principle that decisions should be made as low down in the power structure as possible. [1] That different people are deciding differently right now is how we'll learn the best ways to do it. There's no urgent problem here that requires a centralized solution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity
If you copy-paste some code, Eclipse can manage the imports with one command (ctrl-shift-o if i remember correctly). In Idea, I haven't found a better way than to visit each line that has a new type and import each class with alt-enter. Idea seems to have more features, but Eclipse has the smoother workflow.
Very true, and completely irrelevant. We're talking about a counterexample to a universal claim, not a universal claim that runs counter to the original claim. The comment I responded to said (paraphrased) "I don't see how you could be more efficient by removing a channel of information", and this is what I disputed, providing a theoretical explanation and a simple example. The fact that examples in the contrary direction exist (as you point out) is not disputed by anyone.

FWIW, as far as the specific upthread topic goes: despite generally preferring a pretty barebones development environment, I prefer syntax highlighting.
>I tried bringing up the Stasi, and he didn't know what I was talking about. 1984, had never read it. Secret police... they apparently only go after bad people.

And why would they? Why should it be obvious that a (presumably young) Chinese person has read the fiction of a British author who fought a civil war in Spain and wrote a book about his personal feud with Stalinism? Are you well versed in Chinese literature, what does the average American know about the politics of China in the last 100 years?

Instead of repeating this decades old Western meme of thinking that our lessons are universal, maybe accept that it genuinely might not be relevant to them, that we don't need to educate them on Orwell and privacy the way we're not educated on Confucianism?

My personal experience in China is that most people perceive the social credit system (and similar sanctions) as a good way to restore every day trust in a rapidly developing country that is plagued by corrupt and slow courts.

China is not America or Western Europe. The state plays a different role in organising social life and people have different expectations of it. Let's debate it on this basis instead of bringing up our highschool reading curriculum.
What part of "time and time again I find" was so unclear you had to bring out the "without knowing anything"s and the "can't be bothered"s.