skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine is a genuine reply. The fact you think not is very hurtful. Not every single thing people vouch for is meant to be taken to a philosophical extreme and evaluated at boundary conditions to check for contradictions.

I don't view it as "an extension" of my argument because it's not my place to defend it. I didn't come up with it. It's not my argument. It's not theirs either. They aren't defending the goths and furries. Neither one of us have a stake in the matter. It's a waste of everyone's time.

I'm not a follower of Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative. Please don't take the arguments I say and extend them to an extreme degree and evaluate at boundary conditions just to prove that yes, my philosophy must have contradictions at the fringes, thus my moral framework is flawed and not the right one.

I'm not a follower of utilitarianism. Please don't take the arguments I say and take an assumed utility function and declare that it also evaluates to "eat poor people to solve world hunger and overpopulation" just to illustrate that my philosophical view must be a cold and heartless one at the fringes, thus my moral framework is flawed and not the right one.

When it comes to moral philosophy, once can't be too rigid in following this practice, otherwise you wind up in a boring absolutist-nihilism or a boring absolutist-relativism world. The depressing fact is that we are all hypocritical creatures, the real "living" (in my view) in life is each of us coming to terms with that. The world is full of color, where people apply different moral frameworks for different kinds of problems. Using the extreme fringes of moral philosophy to evaluate more mundane problems of morality is not the only line of ethical reasoning.

Edited to add: So this is why I don't engage in these kinds of online discussions anymore where someone extends my argument without my input and now I am expected to defend it. I fundamentally view them as a different and unproductive kind of discussion that doesn't lead to insightful reasoning. I used to engaging on the internet in this way, but it's taken me about a decade to fully realize the relative unproductiveness of it all.
This contract is a combo MSA/SOW. It covers both.
Brexit: Updates as MPs reject withdrawal deal
Can you just ban all crypto conversations? Thanks
Not quite. In this case she was, in fact, a "witch". She did the cyberbullying.

It's never made clear, however, if the first guy was actually guilty of what he was accused of. I think that's more of a witch hunt, because we're vilifying people based on a single accusation - without proof or corroboration. Of course there may be more to the story here, it just hasn't been told in this particular article.
Common theme: Preventing future crime.

I think that is wrong. Personally. People should be judged for their past, not their future.
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"People overeating" needs, itself, to be explained. Why are some populations so much more susceptible than others? Why is it exploding now, and not last century? If you want to answer those questions, you're forced to reckon with all of the other explanations.
Flow State: Two hours of music that's perfect to work to, every weekday
In the SF Bay area, they are generally on par depending on what features or points of interest you want to find. Some locales are shockingly different. Shenzhen China is much much better on Apple (Google and Bing show roads in the river - completely misaligned) but Shanghai is almost useless on Apple, but very detailed on Google (assuming you can even get to Google in China).
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What project isn't interested in knowing how large their installed userbase is?
I've been using SSH since SSH-1 was released in 1995. I've never seen anyone verify a host key, ever!

Also, when I reinstall a server and keep the name, I preserve the keys from the original server.
>Noone needs etherium or any other crypto tech.

You can make transactions that would normally be blocked by your country's legal system or zealous traditional payment processors.
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CxJS uses the same concept for charts, form validation, and other inter-component communication.

https://docs.cxjs.io/charts/line-graphs
Any pics you can share?
I'll reword it this way: the more you know, the less you have to rely on experts, or at least the degree decreases. But the practical angle of this is that one will still have to heavily rely on experts until they reach a non-trivial point in their education/study of the topic. It's not realistic that the average person master every controversial topic in order to vote fully informed.
I discussed this once with Stroustrup. He mourned that the word "macro" had been "polluted" (his word, though I completely agreed) by the preprocessor and said "templates was the best we could do within the constraints of C".

This was in the mid 90s and things are a lot better these days but still, I had better macro support writing Lisp in the 1970s.
It's an issue of scale. If someone acts against societal norms and is "called out" for it from within their social group, that can be a good thing. We all sometimes need a reminder that we're acting like a dick.

Bring that to the scale of social media and it's a disaster. Suddenly thousands of anonymous strangers are piling on them and they're ostracized from their social group, out of a job, a home, etc.
Vibrators and chill: how Netflix is targeting older viewers
Am I seeing this right? They're selling insights into your data, but providing no examples or previews of how that data might be visualized? If thats the case and its not just my browser acting up, Im not going put time and effort into running a trial.

If the team is reading along: You have to make me SEE some actual value output here. Time is precious.
That and from a purely data privacy angle, Apple is legitimately better than Google.
I mean, you are absolutely, 100% incorrect. It's textbook fallacy. X is tough, Y was tough, we survived Y, and therefore we can survive X.

The planet has never been through warming as rapid as what we are going through in known geological (not human) history. There was a paper hosted and copublished by NASA to that effect in the last month. It's literally unknown how much life can survive the velocity of the change that is in progress.

What "history books" should I read about climate science, too?
Yeah, but the point is sort of that the interesting ones are not simply "code is law," since there is an element of trust involved in them. They're code + human oracles.
The "just" is unmerited. That was always the difficult part, necessitating the most gargantuan act of exaptation in the history of life on our planet. It was never very likely to work.
Blog, tweet, participate in tv, radio shows “, join a political party, join an activist group. Really pick any assembly of people and contribute to the agenda in with any means available. Be a leader.
Seems like they've decided what to do but can't agree how to do it. I wish them luck figuring it out. To an outsider this whole thing has seemed like a giant folly from the beginning, but what do I know.
> They were using an open source map company, not google maps. By that standard, I feel this is probably a privacy regression.

I'm not sure this is a fair comparison. Open source is not the same as privacy-friendly.

Apple makes privacy a core-tenet of their product. I do not see the same stance from Mapbox.
The previous poster is correct. Software cannot be proven to be bug-free. This was considered axiomatic when I worked at IBM as a mainframe programmer on software that ran ATM machines, Social Security checks, etc.

You should definitely read up on the halting problem.
I've found Apple Maps to usually be terrific with public transit -- with the caveat that they don't have transit data for nearly as many cities as Google does. For a while I considered Apple to be slightly ahead of Google, as Apple's system could tell you which exit from transit stations to take when you were walking/transferring, although I believe Google's caught up with that since.
Were it not for the silly Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011 this would be the end of the government, there'd be a resignation, a visit to the Palace, and an election on the way.

Not now. The impotent government will limp on, and on. We'd either need the DUP withdrawing their support (no sign yet), or Tory MPs voting against their own party (one way to resign) in a vote of no-confidence in the government. Or the govt losing enough seats in by-elections to lose their DUP supported majority.

I really don't know what the LibDems were thinking pushing for this Act.
Except for stocks, bonds, options, futures, and forex. Wall St is the only authorized online gambling establishment.
Properly is like what, assembler?

No-one is advocating that. There are dozens of fast, high-level programming languages to choose from.

Today, dynamic programming languages are the most popular - and often (not always) the least performant and least power efficient.

What does energy efficient mean? Here's one perspective explored in a paper:

Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: How does energy, time, and memory relate?

https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages

Here's the related Hacker News discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249289

Dynamic languages benefit too from attention to energy-efficiency and speed in their evolution.

When PHP 7 was released, Rasmurf Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, said the performance improvements meant fewer servers, smaller memory use and reduced CPU activity - all of which equalled less power or electricity consumed.

When you consider the millions of servers in use, that additional language efficiency adds up to a substantial saving in electricity use. You can watch a segment from his presentation where he talks about this here - and the calculations he made of potential CO2 savings:

https://youtu.be/umxGUWYmiSw?t=15m16s
you can create a lending business, deploy a token on the Ethereum blockchain and force users to pay fees and collateral with your token and lend USD, "oh shit of course", the margins and profits will be better using this route instead of the traditional way
Not trying to be a smart ass here. I'm in a very similar boat as you, but have had / worked for other startups too.

- $300 negative a month is very, very little cost for running a SaaS. You have fixed cost up front.

- No marketing means you have not really started yet "for real".

- Any real traction takes at least 3 years.

- Having a product is step 1 in the 100 step SaaS trajectory.

You just need to take a break. Get some perspective. Then you will see you have just started out and it is waaaaay to early to give in.
That was mostly the reasoning me for me doing the same for my mom and dad. 7-8 years later, there hasn't been any bad things happening, aside from a "Microsoft support" website that wouldn't go away.
I had the same thought when I saw that. There seems to be a trend to seal and lock down classes preventing any kind of extension. It sort of misses one of the main benefits of OOP and I know what I'm doing.
> Weight gain and loss is a matter of simple physics

That's obviously true. But we have some more elements involved:

Appetite, which is affected by hormones; and gut bacteria, which are often less numerous in obese people and affect appetite and the processing of food.
DDG's entire schtick was privacy and they are switching from open data + commercial sources to a commercial company.
That's a myth often repeated in an attempt to "sell" the network as a usecase - but where is this happening in the real world?

The regions with widespread poverty aren't going to be enthusiastic about the fees, and wild instability that comes with crypto database tokens, Ethereum and so on.

The real use case is obviously money laundering, but everyone wants to try to spin the marketing into unrealistic areas.
Cool so how would I use these to circumvent the great chinese firewall with my SOCKS tunnel?
we are not "disagreeing" that develoeprs have freedom to talk to customers. but if a developer spends most of their time doing something other than development, there are other inefficiencies going on.
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Have you seen those pop ups with a button to consent to cookies and a link to a privacy page where usage of 3rd party services like Fullstory has to be disclosed? That's your opt-in.
In about 600 million years photosynthesis will stop working killing off all plants and we'll lose oxygen from the atmosphere. In a billion years the oceans will start boiling away and plate tectonics will stop.

The next few hundred million years is all the Earth will get before it loses it's amazing uniqueness and turns into another boring rock.
The halting problem generalizes to, roughly spoken, the fact that you cannot generally know what a program does (you might be able to tell for a specific program, but I can always give you a program where that fails).

What this means in this context, for practical programs, ones you are "likely to write as an SDE", is that it is in general impossible to know in advance whether your program has bugs or not.

So, the notion that a program can be proven bug free "if you write enough tests" is kinda funny for programs of even moderate complexity, ones that you are likely to write as an SDE.

Aside: This "how does it matter in the real world" attitude reeks of anti-intellectualism and annoys me to no end. It does, you just don't know how.
A bit of a test case for me, coming from the domain of games / 3D graphics programming, as to whether a language has a 'sufficiently powerful' generics feature set is whether it is possible to implement a generic 'short vector' type as used in any type of graphics programming. I think 'good' generics / metaprogramming support should let you meet most of these goals in a generic 'short vector' type:

- Support 'n' dimensional vectors (2, 3 and 4 are the only ones commonly used in 3D graphics and games).

- Support a choice of underlying element type (at least float, double and int but it's handy to be able to support custom types like a fixed point or rational type too).

- Support operator overloading for natural expression of things like adding two vectors.

- Be very close or identical in performance to the equivalent hand written variant for every combination of dimension / element type (excluding optimizations for particular SIMD element widths etc.)

- Not be significantly worse for debugging than the equivalent hand written code (this is as much a tooling issue as a language issue).

It's possible to meet all of these requirements in modern C++ without using any particularly exotic metaprogramming functionality. It's impossible in C#. I don't know of any other language that meets these requirements as well as C++ although I'm not really familiar with the facilities offered by e.g. Rust.
Ethereum will have a new upgrade on the 16th of January and is well on its way towards the 2.0 vision of a PoS consensus, sharded chain and eWasm / EVM execution environment over the coming months and years.

Posting stale criticism (3 years old) about a technology that is still evolving at this time strikes me as FUD.
Signal's support docs have instructions for various brands of phone. Really shouldn't be necessary

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318711-Tr...
No it won't affect most people but it will affect some; which is a whole lot better than none.

Also, it would disproportionately affect upper class and business travelers who are frankly more likely to get things done. Make it a burden for Bezos and Zuckerburg to travel and they'll raise more than enough stink. Toss in my company getting pissed at how much time I waste on paperwork every time I do an overseas trip and things could move.
Are you sure you're not being too trusting to your country? Are you 100% sure nothing happens "behind the scenes"?
Unsurprisingly, there is no notion of UX/UI design or user research or usability testing in this process at all. It makes the assumption that developers are good at everything, including all non-programming tasks.

This is all too common in software development, and decidedly old-fashioned thinking in the modern world of design driven development.
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I'd suggest instead taking Brian Harvey's lectures on same.
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It’s almost like the EU is a failed experiment and it’s time to dissolve it.
You should try reading the link first. The TSA is not the issue under discussion. It's Customs and Border Patrol that's the issue.
I would not consider word embeddings to be state of the art anymore.
Word Embeddings are like TF-IDF when word embeddings came out. Have a look at BERT model that just recently got published and is outperforming all kind if NLP tasks with one main Architecture.
I would consider BERT language model two levels higher than word embeddings, as it considers full context sensitive embeddings, dependent on the text left and right of the word in parallel.
The problem with this essay is a fact that Brooks completely elides, namely that "call-out culture" only exists because the existing institutions that were supposed to be dispensing justice were completely failing to do so for this category of offenses.

The Harvey Weinsteins among us could go merrily through life abusing dozens of women, and those women had no legal, social or cultural channels open to them to seek redress. All those channels were in fact lined up against them -- coming forward in such cases would just mean that the woman would be put on trial, both figuratively in the court of public opinion and sometimes even literally, as the abuser's lawyers could drag them into court for defamation or libel/slander. Not to mention that the victim would frequently become unemployable as other powerful people closed ranks to defend their friend, the abuser.

I don't disagree with Brooks that what has emerged is basically vigilante justice, and vigilante justice is by its nature coarse and indiscriminate. We don't want a society where vigilantes are roaming around dispensing justice. But when large numbers of people who have suffered wrongs have no institutional channels through which they can seek justice, the emergence of those vigilantes is inevitable. People will only suffer in silence for so long.

Brooks' solution is that we should "embrace rule of law," but by that he seems to mean the laws as they stand today, and what that misses is that those laws are not protecting half the population from systemic abuse. If he wants people to respect the laws, the laws need to change so that people who don't have a way to seek justice in our system today can have one tomorrow. That would be good for everybody (except the abusers, at least).

But here, Brooks is conspicuously silent. He has lots of things to say about how we should all respect the law, but offers no suggestions on how to make the law worthy of respect. So for the abused, his "solution" boils down to: accept your fate. The problem isn't that you were abused, it's that you spoke up about it. Be quiet, sit down, shut up and contemplate the Majesty of the Law.

The irony of which is that Brooks' approach only guarantees the further flourishing of the vigilantes. When people can't look to the law to protect them, they inevitably look elsewhere. By his own logic, he, of all people, should be clamoring for the system to change so it protects those who are not protected today. That would be an actual effective way to foster respect for the law. Otherwise you're just telling the prey to have more respect for their predators.
To get around the linking to news sites problem, couldn't search engines just not provide ANY links to news sites? Who defines what a "news" site is? Is there a strict definition? Anybody with a website? If it's something I have not read or known before, it's "news" to me no matter how old or from where.
Society is inundated with pseudo-science like this on a regular basis, trying to shift blame to the ludicrous when the actual explanation is remarkably simple. Perhaps the willingness to cling to the absurd rather than the simple is a reflection on some aspect of intelligence?
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I really think that you're about 8 layers way deeper into a context that simply isn't the case here.

I don't think the article was written as some sort of Republican or any kind of attack on ... whatever it is you think it is.

I think this really is more about behavior and our choices and the consequences in this day and age. That's it.

In some strange way your post also seems a bit like how the call-out stuff happens. The context of some event is skewed and there's no way for some folks to see anything else.
University of Wellington (New Zealand) 'PredictIt', like the University of Iowa 'Iowa Electronic Markets', operates with the specific permission of the US federal regulatory agency (CFTC) that would otherwise regulate their tradable contracts. See for example:

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7047-14
Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

When you use Apple Maps to go anywhere, you do have to duck :-)
I live in the USA, which has very relaxed alcohol laws. I can walk into most pubs/bars in my city and find people getting extremely drunk for example, as well as a retail liquor facilities.

There are huge social consequences to drinking. If you look at an entire society you have some people that will have problems with it and some people that won't. You may fall into the "won't" pile but surely society benefits if we prevent a large number of our members from falling prey to addiction.
It's this type of partisan mentality that got us in this mess.
I'm a privacy nut but their search engine is unusable, i feel like for every 3rd search i need to switch back to Google to get proper results, Bing is a lot better for programming/computer answers.
Is the Justice Department still opened during the shutdown?
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Or not. Pretty sure it wasn't willpower, delayed gratification, and discipline that kept people from being fat back in the 50s or 60s. Something changed in the food, or, worst case scenario, abundant cheap food means it's easier to get fat now than ever before.