skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's some journalism on the matter:
Washington Post: "China is creating concentration camps in Xinjiang. Here’s how we hold it accountable.": https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/china-is-creating-co...

NYTimes: "China Is Detaining Muslims in Vast Numbers. The Goal: ‘Transformation.’"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-m...

"China’s Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/world/asia/xinjiang-china...

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/02/07/reeducating-xinj...

The parent comment calls this evil. Whole-scale internment of an entire population without any legal due process; resulting in deaths of those who resist; does fit the bill.
You can do push notifications in browsers. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API
I create my own "home" area so nothing messes with it.. only my stuff resides there as no program knows where it is
> One is natural, one isn’t.

Yes, but not the one you mean.

Cow milk: can consume it straight as it is produced by nature, right out of the cow (but chilled is probably tastier). Can consume milks from lots of other animals, too. The only reason adult animals don't frequently consume milk is probably just availability. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/64822/are-humans... has interesting info, including adult wild birds finding they could peck through aluminum lids to get milk and wild gulls consuming seal milk.

Soy milk: consuming a liquid produced by soaking, cooking, blending, and straining a plant part that is unsafe for humans to eat until processed by heat or fermentation. https://healthyeatinghttps://healthyeating.sfgate.com/happen... Then if you're buying it from a market, it has probably been packaged into a plastic or plastic-lined container (like commercial cow's milk) and processed to be shelf-stable for months, all to provide a close similarity to that "weird" drinking milk as an adult.

"Natural", although often overloaded and used politically, can't quite stretch that far.
I don’t get why would anyone carry that much crypto currencies on their laptop. Fake story or crooks ?
> Vox only gets around it because they don't pay 90% of their writers.

Is this true? Where can I learn more?
We do have rather interesting incentives in our society to induce so many talented people to do essentially zero-sum game trading instead of science or math.
To the point where writing one large sigma and listing indices under it at the start of each line would significantly slow you down? I found I had to do this mentally during my own relativity class, just to figure out what each expression meant.
If the server side developers gave a s#!t, they'd just optimize for all clients. No need for clients to request it.

Also, are any of these limits going to apply to XHR? Or can I just use a loader and eval to get unlimited JS? And if the limits do apply, I assume that means gmail and maps simply stop working at some point?
Well, shit, so you're saying all of that Itanium was a waste of time?
You can argue the same about blocking ads. Yes, not having ads and javascript is very different user experience. Very much not the same internet. But why would you want it any other way, why go back to that ad-riddled annoying slow insecure manipulative web that the vast majority apparently use?
That was my understanding. Censorship got seriously going during the Meiji Restoration in 1868. And it got strengthened after Japan's surrender in WWII.

And it wasn't just sex that got censored. It became illegal to criticize the occupation government, object to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, complain about Japan's loss of the war, etc, etc.

As I understand it, that's what the 50s monster movies were about. The monsters were metaphors for the nuclear and firestorm attacks on civilian populations.

Those laws no longer exist. And so Miike gets into those issues in a few films. "Izo", for example, begins with an extended fast-motion contemplation of WWII, ending with the nuclear attacks. But "Izo" is more generally about the absurdity of nationalism, and how it's used by the powerful to control the masses. Indeed, it takes on all forms of authoritarianism, including religion.
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Do you have one printed in a reputable peer reviewed journal?
My program is not X-based, it is not designed for Desktop. Why should XDG apply ?
Certainly it would seem that most holdovers no longer have objective arguments that would tip most people off JavaScript on the cost/benefit scale. I believe it's worth considering that most of the people left with that viewpoint may have a.. psychological need to keep JavaScript off. Very strong personal preference or otherwise. And that's fine!

I get the fatigue though. At this point we are pretty far out from this being a real bottom line issue; not since most businesses even stopped requiring Javascript be disabled. We have finally arrived at the promised land; SNI, Javascript, and greenfield browsers. Rejoice!
Can someone do it the other way? UC Berkeley was forced to take down countless hours of recorded lectures because they were violating federal law by not having a provision for blind or deaf people to listen to them.
Compatibility with C extensions seems to be the most difficult thing for an alternative implementation to achieve. PyPy struggled with this for a long time, and IIRC extension compatibility also caused the failure of Dropbox's Pyston.

Is there really no situation in which an alternative implementation that only supports "pure Python" would be useful?
There is no right answer.

I took a job a year out of college in SF at a below market salary for more equity. I'm no longer at the company, and it's still private, but it has done better than expected (at least when I decide to leave) and I was able to sell a percentage of my stock via a tender offer end of last year for a very high return. My total comp as a very jr person was more than Sr engineer would typically make at a big co.

It's all a lottery. And if you're trying to do the math and calculate opportunity cost I think you'll most likely be disappointed.
Snaps sound good in principle and aren't a horrible solution when they work, but despite the tagline ('Snaps are universal Linux packages') it's not clear that they work well outside of Ubuntu: they aren't sandboxed unless Apparmor is present, and despite their touted 'universality' have a hard (and unnecessary) dependency on systemd.

At this point, Guix and Nix seem the most promising for cross-distro packages.
> In 2007, a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dissent claimed that when a black woman said, in terror, “He finna shoot me,” she may have been referring to something in the past, when in fact “finna” refers to the immediate future.

This one is ridiculous as well.

Here's the quote:

>“I need police. . . . Me and my mama’s boyfriend got into it, he went in the house and got a pistol, and pulled it out on me. I guess he’s fixing to shoot me, so I got in my car and [inaudible] left. I’m right around the corner from the house.”

Here's the judge's argument:

> I hear the words: “I guess he finna shoot me.”

>the statement contains no auxiliary verb (e.g., “is” or “was”) connected to “finna,” which I understand to be a slang contraction for “fixing to,” much as “gonna” serves as a contraction for “going to.” See, e.g., http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=finna (last visited Apr. 19, 2007) (defining “finna” as, “Abbreviation of ‘fixing to.’ Normally means ‘going to.’”).8 The lack of an auxiliary verb renders determination of whether Gordon intended to imply the past or present tense an exercise in sheer guesswork.

http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/07a0181p-06.pdf

The majority said that "he's fixing to shoot me"/"he finna shoot me" means that there is an ongoing attempt by the defendant. The dissenting judge said that's not something you can definitively conclude absent an "is" or "was" given that the rest of the statement was in past tense. So when the author of the article writes:

>when in fact “finna” refers to the immediate future

It's obvious he hasn't actually bothered to go and read the opinion. Or I suppose it's possible that a professional writer doesn't understand that you can use future tense when recounting stories in the past.
That isn't necessarily true that local is better environmentally - even assuming that bulk freighters will still be carbon sourced. It may feel flattering to just think of everything in cozy communities and they may taste better from being fresher but it is more complicated than just shipping miles.

There are other variables involved including farming efficiency, transportation efficiency, and the logistics of distribution. Going to get your groceries from a 5 minute away grocery store that gets their groceries from thousands of miles away in bulk shipments may ironically be more efficient than driving an hour away individually to get groceries from the local farmer's market. Essentially for the same reason that concluding that buses are worse than cars because they get lower miles per gallon is incredibly wrong.
would having the phones all lined up in a box like that cause any significant detriment

When I saw that picture I thought the same thing.

But since their goal was to document how bad the reception is, any extra interference could only help make their case. :)

I put a smiley there, but this did seem very haphazard; not a well thought out setup.
Electronics Are 'the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World’
This smacks of somebody looking for a problem. If it's not a problem when you don't look, and you have to go out of your way to look, how is it a problem?

Anything where your own way of seeing it creates the problem, and you can't describe the problem any other way, you're not ready to pitch it as a problem to other people. Find some harm independent of your perception, and then you've got a reason for people to listen.
"the first thing that made me smile about the U4919DW wasn’t even the screen itself, it was the buttons"

ok then...
I'm curious what makes you think this. I think millennials have sat back and allowed hospitality & travel companies to get away with much more than ever.

Hotels and car rentals now have non-refundable rates, something that didn't exist 10 years ago. Many hotels add resort fees, extra service fees, charge $7 for a bottle of water, etc., that they never would have tried 10+ years ago. Airlines have long had non-refundable fares, but penalties have increased tremendously. Anecdote: a friend of mine booked a weekend trip in 2009, the return flight was Sunday 12:30 am. When I pointed out to her that was essentially Saturday night, she got on the phone to change her ticket to the last flight out that same Sunday. $40 change fee. Today that would almost surely be $100+ on any US-based airline.

All these extra fees aren't aimed at millennials specifically, but I sure don't see them resisting enough to have any of these companies reverse or reduce some of their fees in response to consumer complaints or dissatisfaction.
Yes traditionally oatmeal is soaked overnight, but how many of these producers of oat "milk" products will take the time to perform this extra step?

I first found out about soaked oats from _Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods_ by Sandor Ellix Katz, but interestingly it is an older practice, we now know improves digestability (excerpt from page 118):

> Oatmeal (or "oytmeal", as my father always calls it, in imitation of his immigrant grandmother) is the quintessential comfort food. It is soft and mushy, harkening back to that long ago time of infancy, when all our food was of such a consistency and lovingly spoon-fed to us. In early modern Europe, according to an article by Elizabeth Meyer-Renschhausen in the anthropology journal _Food and Foodways_, porridges were generally fermented and eaten as a "sour soup"[10]. Fermenting oats before cooking them not only makes them more nutritious and digestible, it makes the resulting oatmeal much creamer as well. For the freshest, most nutritious oatmlea, coarsely grind whole oats yourself when you are ready to use them, though steel-cut oats or rolled oats will work fine, too.

[10] _Food and Foodways_: "New Chapter Health Report", Elizabeth Meyer-Renschhausen, 2000
It's the law of large numbers. Virtu's infamous net trading profit histogram showed the firm had one losing day in over 3 years: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-10/holy-grail-trading... (1)

Again I've seen the same just running a single HFT desk within a larger firm. The only time we ever lost money was from rare technology errors. Trading equities, even if one position spikes 5-10% bad on news, you will still make money, because it's just one little position out of the thousands of tickers you trade. Even guys making far fewer bets in asset classes like FX only ever lost on extreme dislocations like the Euro/Swiss unpeg.

If you make a large number of bets, even with just a tiny statistical edge, you will be consistently profitable. RenTech probably isn't profitable every day, but I bet over a year they make at least as many bets as someone like Virtu makes in a day, so it's not surprising that they never have a down year, provided they have the edge.

1: Now does this mean Virtu the business made a profit above cost every day? Probably not. But it does show that consistent trading profits are achievable.
This gets more interesting... Googling for "Thursday Feb 2, 2019", "Thursday February 2nd, 2019", etc. returns a surprisingly large number of results containing that exact string (but fortunately, far less than the number of results containing "Sat Feb 2 2019"). If it was a widespread issue, we should be seeing more news about it throughout the rest of the month.
Good for them. But can anyone tell me how this is different than BPM plus Hellosign? Helloworks is heading in this direction and my company does similar workflow internally.
I think CSP shows self regulation doesn't work in practice. At least not without incentives which don't currently exist. Therefore it's more practical to put control in the hands of the user agent.
The ML field today is all about results. Get the high scores and figure out the math later. Not that there is anything wrong with this, we still at the stage where we're banging rocks together wondering what works and what doesn't, and the theories will come later.
It's pretty ridiculous how long we've been stuck with javascript or dropdown datepickers.

I realize it's subtlety complex to internationalize but it's been a common input on forms for so long you'd assume native browser support would have been present in every browser at least a decade ago. It's baffling to me that you still can't reliably use the input type of date due to lack of support.
Thattutorguy – Making Math Tolerable
That is part of why it pisses people off - that so much of what uses JavaScript is completely unnecessary and often a haphazard security risk.
How would your Python derivative differ from RustPython?
> You mean like Go and how people compensate for lack of generics? Generating code?

Not to mention how mocks for unit tests are generated. Golang is a step back from Java and .NET
> But Go is just a tool.

Yes, but there are better tools suited for the job. Ironically, or perhaps not, Java or .NET would have faired better due to maturity of debugging and introspection tools.
I get multi-mode suggestions all the time, although the precise mix of options it suggests does depend on the points you're looking to travel between.

Not sure about their scooter coverage though; I don't use it for that.
It is not that no legacy students would get in purely on their academic achievements or that being a legacy is a golden ticket. The legacy admission process seems to serve no reasonable purpose and to be in direct conflict with Harvard's other goals with its admissions process. It would be better to fill that 14 percent with randomly selected applicants -- at least that would given Harvard a control group to measure the impact of their admissions criteria against.
It is definitely possible, though it becomes much more difficult at scale. Asymmetries in financial markets are pervasive, and it is technically quite difficult to methodically explore that space analytically. Going deep mathematically into modeling these things is beyond the ken of most funds. For the most part, they are biased to search for patterns in parts of the phase space where it is relatively easy analytically. Motivated individuals that want to search the technically more difficult parts of the phase space still find plenty of gold nuggets because so few people look there or the scale of the opportunity is too small for other funds. RenTech is just really good at systematically mining parts of the phase space that are mathematically out of reach of other funds.

While 80% is extreme, 15-20% is not and I know many people that can do that consistently. Anecdotally, one strategy I developed many years ago that was designed to be easily applied to retirement accounts (so that close friends and family could, and do, use it) has returned an average of 20% annually through boom and bust, outperforming the S&P500 every single year. It didn't require being super-clever, just observant and analytical.

I think we tend to overstate the difficulty of getting a good return to scare people away from pursuing naive and/or stupid strategies in a futile effort to find easy returns.
What are you guys thinking "eventually" might end up being like?
Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by Only Known Police Client
This is especially funny.

DMK, which is presently served exclusively by LCC, is in Bangkok proper.

BKK, however, is NOT in Bangkok proper.

When I booked with AirAsia, it always said "Bangkok - Don Mueang (DMK)" in the booking page.

This is 100% your fault.
Canada's largest Bitcoin exchange has lost $190 million in assets because its founder died and nobody else has access to the cold storage wallets.

https://www.ccn.com/190m-gone-how-canada-biggest-bitcoin-exc...

Traditional banks do not have the "one person died/ran away to the Bahamas/whatever and now everybody is out their deposits" problem. Banks have other problems! Banks have loads of problems. But banks have to exist in a world of piles and piles of regulations, and you have to realize is that most of those regulations exist not because regulators are bastards but in response to someone screwing over someone else in the past. Banking regulations and banking practices have evolved for reasons, and if you don't understand those reasons and try and invent banking from first principles like all the people in the wild west of crypto have been trying to do, you are going to learn real fast that there are things you did not account for.
I'm worried about tying public transpiration to companies that aren't / don't know if they're at all profitable.
Well, that was always the plan. A little bit like the classified and sports sections were paying for that Bagdad bureau.
You are making the following argument:

1. Anthem Insurance stole from policy holders.
2. Ergo, Zurich Insurance stole from Mondelez.

If you are going to make a claim that all insurers are systematically stealing from their customers, I think you are a long way off. So Toyota sometimes ships cars with bad breaks. Ergo all car companies are trying to kill drivers?
So what is the meaning of "ML experts" if all they do is trial and loss experiments! Is Math PhD just used for hiring signal rather than actual requirements to do ML projects?
> If this were true, all of the explicit locking mechanisms in Python's threading module would be pointless.

Not true. You can have serialized access to the same data structure that still have data race.

But as long as each Python process doesn't keep its local copies for those shared data structures, like free lists, no explicit locking is required if GIL is presented.
I used JavaScript white-listing for a few years, but now I only use an add-blocker - which is way less work, and solves most of the issues. Monetization from ads was nice while it lasted, it got destroyed by click farms and spam sites. You can no longer earn money from ads unless you are big enough to talk directly to advertisers. For small time content providers I instead recommend something like Patreon instead of ads. I think we need to invest some thought to micro-transactions though, as right now 10% or more of every transaction goes to middle-men.
But not all genitalia. For example, there's the Kanamara Matsuri ("Festival of the Steel Phallus").[0] And some anime includes extremely detailed genitalia.

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanamara_Matsuri
It's more succinct, and the thing is that in most physics, repeated indices really almost always are sums. When you're doing fluid mechanics or anything like that, it's tensors all the time. The terseness is nice once you get used to it.
I don't understand how a result concerning infinities can apply to a finite number of data points represented by finite (bounded - probably by 2^32) integers processed in finite time.
You obviously have some kind of very very dull axe to grind. I happen to think that universal search of all knowledge is a thing of significant benefit to humanity.
Uber has a very large investment in mapping technology and would surely like to expand its applicability, this could very well be the first push to start competing with google maps.
>They were nice before they had the monopoly. Now they don't care.

Google was never nice but it didn't matter before the monopoly. They would literally ban and shutdown all accounts based on automated 'strikes' but most users had other emails/search engines/maps/whatever.

Now that Google has firmly entrenched itself, it's impossible to jump ship. Look at the other thread about Google Analytics and integration with Google Ads; its quite a difficult task to switch from GA
Shadow DOM v0 was kind of a mess (the fragmentation you mention), but v1 kinda washed all that bad taste away and is a pretty sane API. I don't see libraries building on a feature as "fragmentation," however.

Slots are a powerful feature that has to be used carefully. But it's a great API foundation for a lib (which is a tendency for web platform drafts, ex. WebGL and Web Audio.)

Customization is just CSS, I'm not sure about the comparison to React. For Shadow DOM styling, we're almost at the point where the last big problem (selective and scalable piercing styles) are getting solved.

In any case, the world is better with Web Components than without. Combine them with ES Modules and you have an great ideal for the web platform to strive towards.
The reals are infinite. Float/double

So, while I think your question is interesting and good, I don’t think integer size is a strong counterexample in support of a different conclusion.
What's even more sad about the Twitter thread is that AirAsia Support is responding to everyone that commented in the thread. The responses must be automatically generated and triggered by any one of the comments... Something is definitely wrong with their system.
From the performance-perspective it would be useful to also limit javascript execution time per some time-slice. Parse/compile time should be included in that of course.

From a privacy perspective javascript should also be limited to the same origin. That way you can run local trackers when a user visits the site but not do tracking on 3rd party sites just by loading some cruft into the page.

Ads can be served in iframes, without javascript or cookies (cf. sandbox attribute).