skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
George Soros in George Soros' own words [1]: "I fancied myself as some kind of god ... If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble. ... It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out."

He also did a very forward interview with 60 minutes. This [2] is a transcript of the video [3]. A couple of quotes from him there,

- "I think I’ve been blamed for everything. I am basically there to make money. I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of what I do."

- "Whether I or somebody else does whatever is happening in the markets really doesn’t make any difference to the outcome. I don’t feel guilty because I’m engaged in an amoral activity which is not meant to have anything to do with guilt."

And you can find countless similar quotes and discussions from him. I respect him since he is honest about his motivations and beliefs which is something that cannot be said about the vast majority of people, let alone billionaires. At the same time he is undoubtedly a textbook narcissistic megalomaniac whose sole interest in the world is George Soros. And he will happily and openly share his willingness to engage in awful actions if he thinks it would benefit himself. Consequently, I can understand why many - particularly when we put on these charades of virtue - would find him a less than desirable person.

[1] - http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/04/opinion/oe-ehrenfeld...

[2] - https://pastebin.com/MMFmtPzd

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyczwuTQfo
Do authors get bonuses for releasing fiery volatile articles at Bloomberg or something?

Actually, yes: https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...

It isn't necessarily nefarious, it's a metric for gauging how important a story is and to direct their staff towards reporting on important stuff. But nevertheless, it does happen.
He's right about how data pipeline work is regarded by most ML scientists. It often ends up being extremely hard work and is regarded by others as useless grunt work. There is no big reward, constant overtime due to unexpected issues and lots of stress.
My TAke on this all is that, yes, Mister Xi is bad...

But Hackernews is probably being spread with "Guided-Stampede" , you know, It is like a stampede when all the bison run following the one before him without knowing where is heading...........

Happened in the old wester movies with the cows. If you shoot a rifle at the bovines, for example.

Or if you let a napkin fall in the ground, sometimes, and this is true.

But this Stampede is "guided" , is not spontaneous, It must be whatsapp or facebook Religious groups "Reinforced Opinion Formation" Spammed messages, if you know what I mean, Reinforced , yes.

The kinds of The Brexit, Hungary, Yellow Jacket, Brazil, you know whoever......

This is to make people believe Chinas economy is collapsing????????? !!!!!!!!!!!

Did I miss Any headline here, really???????
We had the exact same problems with building VRS systems in the 90's. A system would runder under DOS written with turbo Pascal. A system would hold 8 cards with 2 lines. The progam had to run in a loop to keep feeding the voice buffers and handle the events from the cards.
Honda presents new battery chemistry that could succeed lithium-ion
As an engineer I do feel that just because a risk is diffuse, doesn't make it better. I.e. if coal kills more people, it's objectively worse.

But I'm not sure if you can say that definitively. Peoples feeling of the "badness" of an outcome matters. And you also have to consider that dying a bit earlier might not be as bad as some of the immediate consequences a nuclear disaster can have to people of all ages.

I'd be all for building more nuclear, but I feel like it's just unrealistic to expect a sudden revival of nuclear. I think it's likely more productive to focus more R&D and investment on solar/wind and storage.

Solar/wind+storage also has some really nice benefits like being more decentralised and does not depend on a steady source of fuel. This has big benefits for developing nations as they don't need to build out big centralised grids.

Accelerating solar/wind+storage could have a bigger impact on the developing areas in e.g. Africa, as if their choice is between coal and nuclear, they may be more likely to go for coal as it's just much simpler for a nation that's not as advanced.
This is kind of funny how this article focuses on China and totally leaves our surveillance capitalism (Google, Facebook) out of the picture. If this article was unbiased than we would see example how the AI threat impacted the last election in the USA as well.
Are any companies planning to release new steam machines? I believe I read none of them sold well enough to warrant new models.
iOS 12.2 Beta: Progressive Web App Capabilities
IIRC when he was at SGI, he worked very close with Alexander Stephanov on the STL.

Edit: right, he implemented the rope data structure in the original STL, which never made it into the standard.
I don't see why hypothetical people have any moral weight. Future people aren't as important as present people, no matter how many of them you imagine, because they aren't real. IMO the sole reason to care about the future of humanity is that a great many real, non-hypothetical people want to have children, and because those children will be born without their consent, we have a duty to provide a livable world for them.
Detained blogger revealed true picture of Chinese information warfare
Excellent article! The first 3 § are a little off-putting but then it gets great.

This amused me: "She grew up in a family where, when concerned if the milk was OK, they wouldn’t look at the expiry date but instead sniff it."

Everyone in our family always did this and so do I; I never realized people did otherwise. If it smells good (or doesn't smell at all), eat it. If it smells kind of bad, wash it. If it still smells bad after washing, then throw away.
The video posted above shows this more clearly, all four wheels

The video shows nothing. It only shows "before" and "after", not "during". It's totally fake. The video doesn't answer the question of how the wheels magically get on top of the sled.

Is the body somehow jacked up to lift the car off the ground? If so, how is this done safely? Most unibody cars can only be jacked up by lifting at very specific points. You can't just slide a large piece of metal underneath to lift the car. Well, you can, but you'll probably damage the car.
Except very special and rare situations, the driver should be personally liable for a ticket even if on the job. Traffic laws apply to individual drivers and not vehicle owners or contractors.
Multiplayer on PS4 requires paid subscription too. Both platforms give you 'free' games each month (with only the previous gen games on xbox still playable if your subscription lapses)
Front of House Sound for the Prodigy with Jon Burton [video]
Memory controllers can be implemented in the soft logic, so should not require a hard memory controller or SoC FPGA.
I'm with you on this one. A very nice read on an interesting topic, but there seems to be no point to it?

Maybe it was meant as a sort of excursion into enterprise sales for people who have no idea on how those work and align with customer sales?
Of interest to HN folks: the number of computers, apps, digital gear, and networking goes into live sound nowadays. Even the final mix is transported digitally from the desk output to the amplifiers at the side of the stage.
Thanks for posting an upvoting this. I sent an enquiry to the local group when I read this, and they just called back. She’s signed up for a French Conversation course and is very excited about it.
https://outline.com/t7xjLD
I think each of your stated benefits ought to be prefixed with "In a perfect world...". In the real world people don't make perfect decisions about things, and even where they do, requirements often change. Particularly the core decision about where the borders between the services lie and what service is responsible for what. Re-architecting a complex microservice architecture is such an undertaking that instead people will often just live for years with an absurdly mis-shapen design, still having to live with the pain that re-appears any time they need to e.g. make synchronized changes to multiple services.
> It sounds like AVR, by contrast, has some parts of the address space that are (x) only and others that are (rw) only, even though other RISC-V processors don't have this restriction. That seems odd to me.

AVRs have three separate address spaces (program, RAM/data, EEPROM), i.e. the address "0" exists three times. Additionally their registers live in RAM.
agree with you. The issue with this is that anything even close to a little bit controversial will start to go down faster.

As a result, we will end up with closely selected, safe, politically correct article on the main page where debate can be kept to a minimal on safe topics.
It's wild that 50% of the article is a verbatim publication of the defendant's press release. Is that normal?
I should have written 'The Leftist Party' or 'Die Linke' instead of 'the leftist party' because I was actually referring to the party and I'm sorry I got carried away with this cheap America slur.

As a German I can assure you that from within leftist circles no one would think of Die Linke as a communist party . They'd rather think of KPD but that party is not existing anymore so I went with the least fringe party that actually has some kind of consensus on communist ideas. Everyone I know who is affiliated to Die Linke is aiming for socialism and doesn't support any communist tendencies. From what I read and heard the same holds true for a majority of party members.

I know that parts of the general public don't recognize that or don't care, which is probably due to the usual disproportional media coverage for more extreme wings of less politically centered parties, but that doesn't change the real circumstances and I really don't get how the public opinion would be an argument against a factual statement.

I understand that your message wasn't supposed to be nuanced but just let me clarify it then, would you?
Seven times? I would get mad as hell after the third one and go fetch it myself.
It seems pretty clear. The fingers on the sled go underneath the wheels of the car.

Watch 1:12 in the video. You can see the white-tipped prongs around the wheel

Here's a side view.

_O_ _O_
In my 20 years in IT and finance, I've always had a fair number of Indian coworkers, though mostly American-born or raised and US-educated. Some of my best buddies come from that pool. A couple of interesting points to note about my last two jobs though: the first was a small startup in NYC with ~15 employees, founded by two Americans. They had zero Indian employee! I mean there was one Indian-American guy, but he was gone as soon I joined. A lot of talented young folks, but they lost most of them and they eventually went to Canada and Eastern Europe for new blood.

My second was a ERP startup also in NYC much bigger than the first and fits your narrative -- the founder was Indian-American[?], a Princeton and HBS graduate, who had made a wad load of money in outsourcing business. Most of the principles reporting directly to him were also Indians who had worked at Cognizant and Infosys previously and whose technical or management skills were ..umm.. not very good or non-existence. The company still hired mostly H1Bs straight from India and Indians graduated from well-known US universities. They hired a lot of kids with advanced degrees, but who weren't clearly from top of the crop -- for lack of better words -- or passionate about their chosen field. Some were good, but many questionable. There were also new recruits with a master in CS (from US univ) could barely write a single line of code and had to be trained to perform monkey work from clean slate.
I didn't know about outline and now I love it, thank you very much.
Well, the WHO estimates of total casualties of Chernobyl were consistently and significantly downgraded every decade after the disaster as more data of the actual effects came in, so it seems like we are currently vastly overestimating the risk.

It now happens to be that the indirect, psychosocial effects of the evacuation and economic losses due to the plant closure caused way more total health problems than the radiation. We now see similar trends at Fukushima.

And no, that doesn't mean that radiation isn't dangerous, people definitely died from radiation in Chernobyl (not in Fukushima), particularly the personnel and rescue workers.

However, the danger of low-level radiation seems to be vastly overstated. The Linear Non-Threshold Model (LNT)[1] for radiation damage seems to simply be wrong, which is not surprising as it was never based on data in the first place.

That of course also affects how we should think about nuclear waste, as the idea that we have to isolate it 100% from contact with the biosphere is predicated on the LNT.

And as someone pointed out, if we actually crash back down to a Bronze-Age society, nuclear waste will be the smallest of our problems, whereas if we remain an advanced industrial society, we will be able to deal with it, better each year.

However, the bigger point about nuclear waste is that there is just so incredibly little of it. With BFR, we can probably start chugging the worst bits of it into the sun if we don't want to re-process.

In fact coal plants actually produce more radiation:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model#Cont...
Normal members can participate to the election too, according the website. The differences between regular and associate member are 1) the associate’s name and address is not publicly inspecatble, while the regular member’s is; 2) Associate members cannot vote on resolutions.
The LaTeX Font Catalogue – All Fonts, by Category
Writing a better code with pytorch and einops
> How do you manage your digital life? What services do you use instead?

I don't have anything that I consider to be a 'digital life'. I didn't replace social media with other services. I meet and talk to people in real life. I get in touch by knocking on their door, or calling them on the phone. I spend my time going on walks with my wife, talking to my children, playing card and board games at the kitchen table, painting in my studio, and making furniture in the garage. We go on hikes, and explore the mountains and deserts in the area.

I interact with far fewer people, and in many ways I am far more isolated than I used to be. But that is the point - deeper interactions with the immediate world around you is often more fulfilling than superficial interactions online.
Battlefield V New Release [Online Game Code] (-50%) on Amazon
That would have been no problem in a car. But pre 2000s civilian GPS was useless for street level navigation.
> I still believe social networks have a future, but that this future will have to be based on radically different business models, ones that do not see users as a commodity to be bought and sold, and that instead, respect them.

I don't accept the assumption that a social network must have a business model, or that it must be a business.
http://blog.danwin.com/free-python-guides/

http://ftp.ntua.gr/mirror/python/topics/learn/non-prog.html

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/
> You post an article about open societies and then I can't access it without subscribing - LOL

While I also dislike being forced to subscribe to read something, free access to publications and open society are completely different things. After all, you had open societies before the digital age, when the vast majority of newspapers were paid.

Obviously, the two are linked, but I'm not even sure whether gratis access to all journalism encourages an open society or discourages it. (You can imagine just-so stories for either case:

1. free access to articles → everyone can read them → better informed society → open society

2. free access to articles → high quality journalism goes out of business as they have to compete against zero-cost alternatives → misinformed (or even deliberately disinformed) society → people less likely to fight for openness.

)
One effect of linking game and real time was seen in Dark Souls on PC (at least it seems like that's what happened): the game was capped at 30fps. Once people hacked out the frame limiter their character's gear degraded at a higher rate.
UK could ban social media over suicide images, minister warns
That, there are things that are great for everything, is a false belief. Everything is compromise. If something is good for everything, it is optimized for nothing. Power users don't want good. The need 100% optimized for purpose, the #1 best. Which, btw, means giving control and power to the user. The UI and design worlds push for the opposite extreme. All control (away from user), scripted, "experience" to the user. Those professions selling point "we know what's best for users". A sentiment which doesn't work for power users.
Use machine learning to talk to a cat in While True: Learn()
https://lobste.rs/s/mekmai/how_i_abused_2fa_maintain_persist...
Honestly, I think the truck drivers are also a victim of this system. They have to deliver what's handled to them in a tight schedule. Often breaking some rules and sometimes being rude on trafic is the way they found to meet the requirements and don't get punished.

I'm shure they could avoid doing a lot of those things, but blaming and punishing the truck driver is not fair.
Also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

IBM and the Holocaust
How to quit YouTube addiction . Social media is still doable imo but YouTube is just a dopamine doze I can’t seem to quit
Indeed, thanks for the clarification!
So? let's make any modern-ish technology illegal?
Precious!
And on top of that, remove most of the paper manuals that come with the phones. They can be put as .pdf files, right on the phones.
> It turns out that maybe the open societies weren't as open as they thought.

Or that an "open world" isn't as stable as predicted.

Would we even have the same "open" societies without China's repressive society and their willingness to finance western consumption?
A Tutorial for Using Vue.js in a Rails Application
Is the issue esoteric languages or just languages you don’t use? Which languages do you use?
My favorites are the Show HN. I get to see something that someone else built and read about how they did it.

They are often about things that I have long forgot about but have/had an interest in (e.g, programming on TI-84s).

I can’t work on everything that I want but at least I get to read about others doing it.
Sure. I think the point is that these aren’t OSM contributor “signups”, they’re Foundation memberships. The Foundation is not as big a deal in OSM as it is in Wiki(m|p)edia because the project is intentionally low-budget and hands-off.
Matt Hancock is largely pro-technology, and has put in place things to increase the use of technology within English health services. This includes requiring products to be interoperable and promotion of app-based alternatives to doctors.

Tech campanies who dismiss Hancock as someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, or as someone making a populist "think of the children" appeal, would be making a mistake. He is calm and considered, and if he's making these comments it's a clear warning to the industry: improve your self regulation, or face government imposed regulation.
From the Midwest.. ha. yeah right.
Yes, Sir. This is the thing. One datapoint here and there doesn't make a Theory...And there are many variables...

shops open and go bankrupt everyday everywhere...
Edge Detection in Computer Vision
Bypass file upload filter with .htaccess
Phones come with paper manuals? Isn't the bulk of the paperwork that comes with electronic devices like that compliance/regulatory documents in like 13 different languages?
I'm under the impression that sustainable paper isn't that bad on the environment.
Yeah. The SU was much smaller than the US-led side (~300m vs ~700m), it's very different with China, so that will be interesting.
Simpro-scene: ide for visual creation and simulation of spatial processes
No, it wasn't useless.

Again, coupled with differential corrections (available for free over radio) the resulting precision was in centimeter range. The reason it wasn't used was the physical size and cost (for hand-held navigation) and the lack of supporting hardware in cars (no user-facing on-board systems with screens and UI).

SA was _not_ the reason for the lack of consumer-level GPS adoption.
Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers
> Spending those ten minutes in the morning reduces my ability to do my day job because I've used up a significant fraction of my day's useful thinking budget.

Like the term “useful thinking budget” - will steal that if I may. To me that type of thinking is usually deep and involves much lateral thought than logical. It’s usually where I establish “focus” on something I’m working on and usually where creative breakthroughs happen on things blocking me.

But it only happens when I’m alone, relaxed and undistracted which is usually the shower in the morning. Going for walks also helps. Also it seems to require feedback “did this idea work in practice?” which creates positive reinforement that my ideas are worth having. Just endless producing ideas without testing them is undermining - used to do that in my early 20’s
I hope this sparks a lively discussion on the pros and cons of social media, but on a meta level I’m bothered that this is basically a book release announcement dressed up as an article. Why not just do an honest book review?
TS Tricks: Type Safe Reducers
My favorite posts are the ones about passive-income, and anything science related. Especially in the latter I'm amazed by the diversity of the people commenting in here. You can pick the most advanced and niche topic and there will always be an expert here who can elaborate on the subject. There's no other place like HN in the entire web.
What I’m most interested in is knowing how moderation works behind the scenes. It can’t be that dang and sctb (and other mods I don’t know about) read every single comment. Yet they rely to comments that violate the guidelines and warn users.

There must be some software analyzing comments based on different parameters (length, downvotes, scans of problematic words/phrases, and more...machine learning/AI too?) and flagging them in a queue for attention.
It hasn't. Declined a lot over past five years. There are days now not a single front page article is motivating enough for me to click on it.

I'm sure HN has grown audience and in general appeal over same period

Both that wider appeal and my loss of interest is due to subject shift of content. From mostly high s/n, tech and startup articles to human interest, "life hacks", and long form. From stuff that is directly useful (to a niche audience), to generally applicable entertainment.
Not sure why there was no direct link to the style files in the pdf... http://hanno-rein.de/archives/349
Are You a Turing Machine?
Short answer is that, like everything in life, it is harder as a parent.

I've meditated for ten minutes a day for a few months now and written 500 words a day so far this year. The chain method absolutely works (I'll stay up late at night staring at a blank page until I get to my 500 words) but it can be a chore. I go through with it because I know that once I break the chain that makes it easier to break it tomorrow.

I'm hoping that my current work craziness calms down a bit in a few weeks at which point I'll be scheduling these two things on my calendar in the morning and not start the rest of my day until they are done.