skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sort of in between, it's not as clear cut as you make it sound.

All of these processors ultimately depend on their banks, who are super strict. Banks are super strict because money is an insanely regulated industry. Banks are directed by regulators and lawmakers. They do not take any chances.

Services like these each somehow coincidentally (not really) come to the same conclusions because they're all trying to appease the same industry, directed by the same regulators. If they lose their banking relationships they are dead.

It's not a conspiracy and they're not really making individual decisions either, it's just how modern banking works.
> these organizations would self-manage their own social media infrastructure

What could possibly go wrong...
Why would anybody bother to criticize them if they're going to jail at the end of their campaign anyway (as is the premise in this thread)?
Actually, that helped.

I didn't write my comment to be mean, or anything other than frank.

No, you can't be told to stop writing letters and sending faxes. Once, I was part of a group doing exactly that. 10 a day from each of us over many weeks. At one point they actually put in the newspaper, "tired of hearing about...", to which we continued, "tired of bad policy x

Then we worked to get that person out of office.

And we did.

All just civics. No worries.

None of us would have thought to phone their home, or do those things at their home. The public work was at issue. That person as a normal citizen is like any of us. No worries there too.

If your concern is a personal social media page being used to circumvent law, maybe!

IMHO, the legal test would be whether the content is about thr office, or is actually personal.

Baby photos, high school reunion, new car, cats.... personal. And they could easily make that private. I would. No reason not to really.

I do not see that as an issue at this time. Public figures have plenty of options, and the incentive to make it personal clashes with the need to be public to be reelected, etc...

I shoot add it is definitely unwise to go ahead and run for office using your personal cell phone Facebook accounts as a starting basis.
A hashmap is in its simplest form just an array.
Please describe the VR equivalent of what I did last night, I legitimately can’t picture it:

For 2-3 hours, me and two other people sat cuddled on a couch, alternating in a pretty free flow way between speaking with each other, speaking about the show we were watching, and just watching the content passively — based partly on small tactile, visual, or auditory invitations to shift attention.

VR seems to propose completely removing that dynamic and human contact, that free flowing interaction, with distance and barely more than passive consumption of content.

Because I can picture the AR equivalent, and that situation is the bulk of my TV time. So for me, I just can’t see what VR is offering outside of a few really limited times I want to be deeply in a fake world, alone.
What's your source? Most urbanists I read at least in the context of San Francisco definitely advocate building taller. Maybe not skyscrapers, but at least 4-6 stories. And the "formula" for that type of construction uses a concrete first floor.[1]

I'm not against the urbanist vision per se. I've just found that it's very "politicized" and they tend to not want to talk about CO2 impact of dense urban construction like it's some kind of attack. Like, I got downvoted a bit for my comment. Why can't we talk about this?

[1] http://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-one-plus-f...
Is this even a surprise, the industry moved to a per user model a while back, inc Bitbucket. So its unlimited private repositories but you pay big time to get more than 5 users sharing that repo.

It's surprising most people here aren't picking up on that. If you have more private projects on that make money. It's more likely you have more collaborators that you have to pay.
> Would the fight for digital liberties really be _that_ encumbered by a location in Kansas City, Austin, Atlanta, or even a generic Valley office park?

Probably not, but it's hard to convince your entire company to up and move. SF is not perfect, and there are big problems with it, but there are also lots of nice things about it and it's a known quantity. Personally I do want to leave soon, but to where is a big question with no obvious answer.
If you can, you probably should! I've come to believe that the best chances of getting a financial benefit (as opposed to just an experience benefit) from working at a startup is to be a founder. If you're "just" an engineer, it's unlikely to be worth it.
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"Computers that even your nana and grandad could operate"

Hmm no. My grandad had worked out the video recorder, my nan not so much. She has a dumb phone, but never turns it on, nor charges it.

Agree with your final paragraph. Wonder if 'Surround' cinema would work as a marketing term?
What IDEs/toolchains do you tend to actually use/see used in industry?
I think I would be satisfied with the distributed consensus model in these blockchain systems if someone could solve the non-repudiation problem.

In many of these blockchain systems, the 51% attacks only applies to money in motion. I can't move all of your funds out of 'your account' unless I have stolen your wallet, and if I have stolen your wallet I don't need to change anything else about the network. I can just spend on your behalf.

Lacking that, I can convince you you got paid for services and then claw them back by making the network change their mind after the fact. I can repudiate all payments to you with a 51% attack, by voting again on what transactions just finished.

Congress has rules about votes. If you have a quorum, everybody sticks with the outcome. If you don't show up, you don't get a vote. To make that work, you have rules. A quorum is defined and static. Obstruction is not allowed - no secret votes, no locking the doors.

It may be as simple as this: When my transaction is settled I need to know the health of the system. If some definition of quorum is met I know my transaction can't be hijacked. If the network was degraded a revote is possible. I need to wait for more confirmation before rendering services.
> Lack of Double-Blind Studies

"We know there is a placebo effect wherein patients do better when they are told they are receiving a treatment: the patients' expectations play a role in their recovery. To make sure we are studying the effect of the treatment itself and not the patients' expectations, it is better to give all patients the same expectation. So we tell them, for example, "take this pill, it might be experimental drug X or it might be a sugar pill." The double-blind part is important because we don't want the experimenters to subconsciously tip off the subjects as to what group they are in, nor to treat one group differently than the other, nor to analyze the results differently."

one thing that always strikes me about double-blind placebo based studies is that they are often testing a substance with a detectable physiological effect against an inert substance with no detectable physiological effect.

this methodology seems fundamentally flawed. if you want a true test you would need to compare against a placebo that has a similar (or at least detectable) physiological effect but is not expected to produce any efficacious outcome. otherwise the person getting the real drug feels the physiological effect and gets a placebo effect while the person getting the placebo does not.
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You didn't do anything wrong and don't have to apologize in response to an uncivil comment that asks if English is your first language. You could reasonably instead have clicked the timestamp on the parent comment and then the "flag" button.
Because forcing people to breed isn't exactly an efficient tool.

Also - a population highly burdened with a lot of children tends to produce less value. It keeps more people out of work.
Is your claim that manufacturers should be allowed to sell products with complete fabrications on the label because most of the time it is "good enough"?

If manufacturers want to sell Cat 5E (or lower grade) cables they are free to do so, but the market won't accept the higher price they want to fetch for those cables.

It also means the manufacturers are either incompetent (doing no testing) or are knowingly testing the cables but not bothering to test them to the specification they are claiming on the package. Either way that's a crime.
A proof of GMP square root
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong
Hooray decentralization!
Nobody wants to back up their money. Just use a bank and never worry about it.
Seems like it would be very difficult to make back your $300k with a double-spend in one hour, based both on my intuition and the fact that it doesn't appear to be happening.
I've never heard of an org sending something like this to the media. Can you cite a few examples?
Lots could go wrong, but a lot could be learned from this and it's a chance to make the internet work the way it was originally designed to work.

Walled gardens are an aberration.
What?

If I have $100 in an investment at 6% yearly and $100 in debt at 4% yearly, after 1 year I have $106 in the investment and $104 in debt, so $2 more than I had a year ago. If I pay off the debt now, I have exactly the same amount of money I had a year ago.
So if we take existing natural gas plants, and ignore the emissions, they are identical. We've been ignoring emissions forever. So I don't see what is a "black swan" event at all about fusion. At best it's a drop in replacement for what we have now. But it looks to be immensely expensive, far more expensive than renewables plus batteries.
This lie that Wikileaks never published that stuff needs to die.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cabl...
Not as far as I can tell. As it comes with a loss of Pages and wikis for private repos.
How long is "long" in this context? 5ft? 50ft?
Is it possible that 78% should have been denied? What rate is acceptable? If the doctor approved 78% wouldn’t that also be concerning? One of the biggest areas of fraud is in disability claims. I am not saying that 78% denial is accurate, but what evidence do we have that it isn’t?
For very important presentations, recording yourself can be useful too. It can be excruciating to watch it again, but it forms part of a powerful iterative loop.
Simply not true. Rails continues to be the choice for many companies who don't base tech choices on what the latest bandwagon is.

JS is mess.
Came here just to write that.. its very painful to read something like this. Its contradicts with how most people see text when reading.
I notice that "wikis" for private repos isn't supported. What happens to these wikis when I downgrade?
I've always wished I could use the Professional Development budget employers give me to donate to open source projects. Not that I feel entitled to it, but I think some employers could get enough employee engagement and outside attention to justify it.
Yes, they indicate paying customers.
Ok, so now how do I hack my eyes so that I see enemies better in FPS games?
It was absolutely correct. The state can increase its expenses, but it doesn't happen automatically when the tax code changes. The main point is that when one group pays more, other groups benefit more.
most likely due to

1. they need to recoup enough from insurance companies which pay out a percentage of the list price

2. they do not expect individuals to ever pay their medical bills which are at list price

i have no proof of that but this would be my guess
ANSI X3.64 plus almost 30* years of oddball extensions. For a long time, "ANSI codes" or even just "ANSI" was almost synonymous with that (increasingly loosely defined) standard, at least in the context of terminal graphics.

Now I'm not sure that still holds, but I decided the post title didn't need to be even longer and more arcane :)

* Edit: That should be 40, actually. Time flies.
I'm not convinced such a bomb would be routinely used. It doesn't break MAD. The current trend in warfare is towards precision strikes, and this is pretty much the opposite of precision.

I am convinced that, in the case that there is a global thermal nuclear war, it would be much better for humanities' long term prospects if there was no radiation involved.
If I had disposable income I'd get a https://ooni.com/
Another article confirming iPad Pro is pretty good for graphics designers. Yep. Still not gonna code on it. My iPad Air is still good enough for my entertainment time, and my laptop is still better for coding.
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What makes you think there would be any such prestige earned?
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What brand of pizza steel would you recommend?
Surprised to hear about false positives, that's supposed to be impossible by the design of Dialyzer (it only reports provable type errors).
I trust the recommendations by a panel of professionals much more than my gut feeling in this. Specially given the complexity, the stake and this broken appeal system.
I'm looking at syllabi for "Administrative Law" right now, and for instance at the University of Michigan, as top-level "sections", the course breaks down to:

1. what a government agency is

2. administrative adjudication (due process is a sub-bullet under here)

3. rulemaking

4. when and how rulemaking and adjudication is exposed to Article III judicial review

5. the scope of judicial review for administrative actions

6. how agencies relate to the executive

Under that rubric, this doesn't look like an "administrative law" dispute except that it involves "due process", but then, if that makes something "administrative law", wouldn't lots of cases that aren't conventionally understood as admin law cases be admin law cases?

On the other hand, there are no ALJs involved here, no county agency rule was drafted determining how Facebook was to be moderated, no question came up as to whether the County Supervisor's moderation was an exercise of powers granted to executive agencies explicitly by the Louisiana Constitution (do they have one? or is it all still French law there?), &c &c.

I'm nerding out here, if it isn't clear; I don't think this debate is vital the the outcome of thread. :)
C++ Headers are Expensive
I think the same reason table top gaming works so well, you might see a lot of advantages to "wall-mounted" gaming. Most existing games could work well, just sending a bit more of their existing depth buffers to AR systems. Certainly easier than what a lot of VR ports of traditional 2D monitor games need to go through (particularly if they hope to avoid motion sickness concerns).

Also, as I said, I think the safety factor of AR pushes it to be more useful in "full room" games than opaque VR, and there's a lot of room for interesting games in that space, and probably a higher ceiling in terms of interested players in AR than in enclosed VR because of the safety/motion sickness/etc issues.
I've wanted to use Ember, but I've never bothered to sit down and learn it. What ever happened to Glimmer? I remember it being hyped up as a crazy fast virtual DOM, but I haven't heard anything recently.
I think one of the issues is you're never sure what someone is about to do. There is something about seeing someone take control of the drawing space where in VR your avatar would begin motioning towards the board or pickup the writing utensil.

Sometimes I'm hesitant to start scribbling on the drawing space because I don't have the social queues to not step on someone else's thoughts. Maybe this Whiteboard app solves that?
Ever heard of overnight loans? The more cash you hold, the more you can finance.
I'd argue that if you're not doing a home setup, you should use fiber for anything 10GBe+. Less latency and power draw.
Having done it for non-work related code development and personal use past 3 weeks, I would recommend trying it.

Not having a mouse may be cumbersome sometimes, but I’m starting to really get used to the touchscreen to the point that I almost find myself trying to touch my MBP’s screen.

iPad Pro also supports the Smart Keyboard (which in itself is great to type on) as well as regular USB keyboards (with the Lightning/USB-C to USB adapter). I was able to use my Pok3r keyboard just fine.

For shell access, definitely check out Blink. Even using VI isn’t bad as you can remap your `~ key to ESC. Most of my work is done remotely anyway.

The only downsides are the occasional apps that don’t support full iPad screen scaling - so they appear like iPhone apps.
If you are likely to make errors due to having to review too fast to properly evaluate claims, I'd expect you to lean toward denying claims so that your error would mostly be denying claims that should have been approved instead of approving claims that should have been denied.

That's because if your errors tend toward approving claims that should have been denied, your are going to have a higher than normal fraud rate among your approvals, which might raise suspicion that you are in cahoots with the fraudsters maybe taking bribes to approve them.

Denying claims that should have been approved, on the other hand, probably has little risk of getting you personally is trouble.

Hence, there is an incentive when rushed toward denial of claims.
They both last for a couple of years.
Interesting. What if they use a subreddit as their forum and then let Reddit do the censoring for them? Would Reddit in this case be obliged to keep all posts there whether they violate their TOS or not? Looks like you're saying they cannot since the TOS would lead Reddit to violate constitutional rights of users.
Bipolar 1, job search of over 2 years. Looking for suggestions
Hi,

I've been searching for a role for well over 2 years now. During my search, I was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 which allowed me to get professional help and narrowed what I need in a workplace to be healthy. I moved out of my previous state (reason was personal). I'm out of all money I've saved up from my previous jobs and survive off of contract work I sell locally (usually basic IT work).

I'm a quick learner, am very good at reading body language, contribute to open source, and attend meetings.

I dropped out of college and am almost through with an online program but am unable to pay tuition currently. I can do loans but am struggling with bills (especially health) so I'd rather establish stability first.

I feel extremely agitated at the majority of conversations in interviews (I prefer genuine connection) and refuse to do another damn coding assignment.

All I want is a role that will accommodate my mental disorder, provide growth, operate ethically, and pay market rate. Feedback (if any) is usually I don't go with the flow (I'm stubborn), lots of passion but lacks experience (I have a diverse background), or "skills/qualification doesn't match".

I'm not willing to compromise on what I need in a workplace as I don't want my disorder to impact my physical health as it has in the past with hostile environments.

Stories? Advice?

Looking for feedback that is helpful for advancing the status quo besides roll over and deal with it.

EDIT: I have 5-10 years of experience, go to conferences, and present when I can (public speaking <3).
> Would it prevent a public official from creating an account on a social media site which only allows members of one political party to leave comments?

It's hard to tell exactly where the boundaries are for this sort of thing, because (AFAICT) the existing public forum law that is being applied to social media hasn't dealt with the analogous issue with physical forums clearly and unambiguously.

That particular example seems pretty likely to be out of bounds, though.
I don't believe they are. It's pretty easy to go downgrade if you want to, though.
I agree with you, and this was my initial response when i started reading the post.

VCs also get far more information about the company and can demand way more control. How many employees of a startup get a board seat, even if you're non-founder employee #1?

Even those diversified portfolios aren't going to have huge returns in most cases.

I think the lesson is that if your value proposition is exchanging your skills and time for money (ie, an employee) you can't parlay that into startup style returns without essentially winning the lottery. If you can pick the next unicorn for employment purposes don't waste your talents on actually being an employee
You don't get to just add an event loop and start writing async code in Python or Java. It opens up its own can of worms now that you're straddling the sync and async worlds. Compare working with Netty (async) to Jetty (sync). It's certainly not trivial.

That Javascript is async-everything is one of its best and often overlooked features in these comparisons.

I think this snippet encapsulates a lot of why Javascript is actually very pleasant on the server:

const results = await Promise.map(urls, (url) => process(url), { concurrency: 8 })
.then((results) => postprocess(results))
It’s not very often you get a chance to take down a currency.

In 30 years from now you’ll be able to brag about how back in your day you took down entire cryptocurrencies with 51% attacks.
I like this. But...

“As a further example he states that the difference in IQ between holders of the Ph.D. degree and 'typical college freshmen' is comparable to an effect size of 0.8.”

Boy, there is a lot to unpack there.
For instance, though not specific to HIV, and not exotic from a physicist's perspective, but certainly exotic in terms of taking physics into account at a different abstraction layer when compiling down to DNA:

DNA seems to be able to detect lesions and mis-matches based on conductivity of electrons down the double-strands themselves [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741234/
http://immutables.github.io/ makes great use of this feature in Java
And it looks like you'll be able to enable it for your monitor even if it's not one of the expensive certified ones.