skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still on the frontpage of https://old.reddit.com (for those who subscribe to default subreddits) - /r/pics, /r/videos and /r/documentaries (maybe more) all occupied the frontpage for many hours with focus on the Tiananmen Massacre, and seen /r/pcgaming highlighting the investment as well.

Project idea for activists: a small code snippet that everyone could easily include on their websites that ran every year from April 15 to June 4 (with special emphasis on June 4) highlighting the Tienanmen Massacre.
In the hands of a trustworthy government that data would actually be useful to curb ethnic violence because you know where to deploy forces in the event something happens.

Then again, "trustworthiness" is not exactly a strength of an average African government so far.
That law is already being eroded in this country in the name of child porn and sex trafficking.
Not Voat.
I share your sentiment of surprise.

Bezos' pretense that he's standing up for the powerless doesn't ring true to me ("If in my position I can’t stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can?") when contrasted against his attitudes towards his employees' working conditions.

This story to me is Bezos did something, that while increasingly common in modern America, remains viewed as a foolish thing to do. Nothings going to change that, not a criminal extortion attempt by AEI, not even a heartfelt medium post. I see no dominant strategy Bezos can choose that avoids the Pyrrhic conclusion of his private photo being shared widely across the Internet on services he helped create.
Almost certainly these are still archived somewhere accessible, like wayback machine.
reddit is the best example for jumping into conclusions.

here's a video explaining it : https://youtu.be/8BIYsdulTgU
> The blackmail attempt happened during ongoing negotiations with over potential legal claims against one another.

This is where AMI's argument falls apart.

1. The photos were somehow acquired without permission. Meaning Bezos and/or Sanchez were victims of some sort of (likely illegal) invasion of privacy.

2. AMI is threatening to publish the photos despite not having permission to reproduce the photos from the copyright holders (Bezos/Sanchez).

3. AMI is making this threat on the dubious legal grounds of "fair use" by claiming that nude photos of a businessman's girlfriend are "newsworthy" because that somehow speaks to his business judgment.

4. Aren't seeking a monetary settlement but instead are asking the victims to (i) sign a legal document stating they have not in fact been victims of a crime at all[1] and (ii) make a public statement that is both against their interests and untrue.

That is _far_ from a good faith negotiation and it was only one way. AMI has no claim to release against Bezos or Sanchez, they're only offering to not do what they legally can't do anyway: publish pictures they do not own without permission.

[1] From proposed settlement terms: "AM affirms that it undertook no electronic eavesdropping in connection with its reporting and has no knowledge of such conduct."
Are there examples of companies that said “this is enough money” and stopped concentrating on having ever increasing profits every quarter to satisfy VC or stock investors? I think of this a lot lately. It seems companies don’t want to just do what they do well anymore and be satisfied with that. Can someone give me some inspiration? Companies that have such pride in their work that they aren’t constantly looking for the next thing they can take on to grow and instead just focus on being the best and most ethical at what they do? Are there examples that this business model is actually more sustainable than the one where you are constantly trying to grow to more more more?
Thanks! Invisible parallel code is a good idea. Less code to write.
Wow, I didn't expect to be taken on such an emotional ride. Great article, thanks for sharing.
Which tool do you use and how do you run the meeting ? For example is it everyone speaking and writing simultaneously..or is it people writing during the 30 minute study time, etc ?
Honeybees can count to zero
Prime now tells me the tips go directly to drivers. I guess they do in a way. What a lie.

Prime now tips https://imgur.com/gallery/mGeZmm1
I am not a lawyer, or a US citizen, however I thought settlements are about discussing terms to avoid a confrontation in a court of law.

Example: accept the terms or we’ll submit these pictures as evidence.

I can’t see how this isn’t illegal and literally blackmail. They are threatening him to make some pictures public, in order to embarrass him and to damage his marriage, and not in the context of a lawsuit, but in a newspaper.

And if these threats are legal, then the legal system is broken.
I own German Bundesanleihe and I wonder what stops anyone buying units that were released 20 years ago. Some of them yield around 4%. Of course they expire within the next 4-8 years which is still enough time to profit. Maybe I'm missing something...
> Digg ... was the original Reddit.

And Slashdot was the original Digg.
High fat diets can cause insulin resistance. So can high protein diets. Overall blood sugar regulation remains similar across most macronutrient ratios as long as calories are controlled, as cells scale their receptivity to insulin to maintain homeostasis. The number one controllable factor is calorie intake (minus calorie expenditure), not macronutrient breakdown, and there isn't any one priveledged breakdown that universally works for everyone to control calorie intake.
What
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I think 4chan extensions were doing that for a while though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19111707
I think the concern shouldn't just be about censorship but also about political interference. First Russia and now China. Foreign ownership of media is a national security concern.
Not really. They could have all that biometric "data" but it yields very little information of value. In the majority nothing blackmailable (except maybe their children out of wedlock), and for the foreseeable future not a lot of potential for ad targeting or ecommerce...

The problems start when you have to use that Id for things like Internet Access etc. and the government starts censoring and actual surveillance.
That’s my guess why they were blackmailing in the first place. He already knew they were illegally obtained and they knew that would blow their deal with the government. They weren’t taking any additional risk, more like playing a risky game they thought they could win. Maybe they thought the richest married man in the world wouldn’t want to deal with the embarrassment of having his dirty laundry shared with the world. Seems like he called their bluff.
They have not changed. Well, same wolf, new clothes made by sheep.

They persecute religious groups, Muslim, Christian, and Buddhist alike. They control their laborers, harvest organs from prisoners, and they've been occupying Tibet since 1949 and actively pursue families that send their children to Buddhist schools.
Simple. You can only get old bonds on the market, where that surplus is priced in.
>but at least they executed it competently.

and gave all their users to IG
Software engineering teams work remotely. Why not others?
It's not weird if you think of AMI as a fundamentally predatory organization. They don't know how to operate outside that frame.

A leopard knows it can't afford to get kicked in the head by a zebra. But hunting is the way it evolved to live. Even if it has a close call or gets injured, it can't afford to stop hunting.

AEI had a close call with the deferred prosecution. Im guessing the organizational culture or business pressures do not allow the company to alter course significantly for years required.
You really don't need DNA information for a genocide. It may not even make a genocide or racial violence worse.

After all, racism is rarely fact-based.
http://meiosis.js.org - this is the best way to manage state
Fixing Random
It's not their fault Reddit UI leaves [deleted] tombstones. Reddit even makes the WTF-level UX decision to show threads and threads and threads of [deleted] comments because a mod deleted top-level comments.

I've used scripts like it a few times. What I thought was clever was that some of them edit the comment before deleting it. It's trivial to have a is_deleted=true flag, but far less likely to store comment revisions.
A leaky toilet on the International Space Station is about as fun as it sounds
AI nowadays is curve fitting using gradient descent :p
This reads as passive-aggressive and incredibly self-centered. People don’t owe you their content, and it should be understandable that someone might want to remove their posts from a site that they no longer support. If it’s the rewritten text that bothers you, that’s just the unfortunate consequence of sites that scrape reddit live.
Part 2: https://ericlippert.com/2019/02/04/fixing-random-part-2/

Part 3: https://ericlippert.com/2019/02/07/fixing-random-part-3/
So, I see "choice" through the lens of "school choice". An argument for charter schools is that parents should have a "choice" about where to send their kids. Instead of a government-run school, let multiple schools exist, so they can compete to provide the best services - because capitalism.

This page argues "Capitalism is a system of voluntary exchange, predicated upon the right to own property."

Where is the property ownership in a charter school which rents its space from the government? None that I know of.

Does this mean that we must reject any attempts to associate "school choice" with any benefits of "capitalism"?

I happen to believe the argument for school choice focuses on the wrong sort of "choice". A large school can provide many choices. I can do shop classes, and be in the chorus, and take home economics, and AP calculus. In my junior year I can decide that I would rather not go to college and switch to a vocational education track.

While if there are many schools - which are required to provide a 'choice' of school - I no longer have the 'choice' to change my direction part-way through without changing schools.

So "choice" is a multi-dimensional concept.

The essay argues "Market Competition Brings Choice Out of Scarcity".

Which type of choice does it bring out for secondary education? Which choices are eliminated by not taking advantage of an economy of scale?
I think think in the future the lightning network will be great for subsidising cost for hosting open source, non profit internet infrastructure. We already have projects like Tor and FreeNet, but without micropayments they are not scalable solutions. Lightning network still needs about 10 years to become practical for every day use though.
I've been paying a lot of attention and, in my experience (but also according to the highly biased benchmark game), C#/Java/OCaml/Haskell/Go are in the same league, i.e usually 3-10 times slower than C/C++/Ada/Rust/D, and 3-10 times faster than "scripting" languages like Python/PHP/Ruby/Perl.

With (in my experience) go being a little faster than java and haskell, and o'caml being slightly faster than anyone, but nothing significative enough for me to expect an article titled "my Java webapp was too slow so I rewrote it in O'Caml" anytime soon.

Benchmarking is very relative, though. I'd be glad to read evidence showing go is significantly slower than any of those in some domain.
I don't think I'm going to tip through Doordash anymore. It's robbery that they misled users by saying the tips go 100% to the driver and it turns out this is not the case.
Hey folks, I also worked on this. Happy to answer any questions.
Yep. It's incredible how you can have a reasonably intelligent discussion in 4chan, while in reddit and similar vote based sites, once the mob comes to visit the site, they take over and no one can have a good discussion anymore.
Tip cash?
A recent HN discussion about the Red language that is helpful if you don't know much about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18843544
I think my answer here is a bit different from most, and that might have to do with a different definition of "enabled". Yes, I do my best work in an isolated, quiet, focused environment. However, I would say that this work was actually enabled in a different environment- and that is the environment where I got to pair program with an existing expert in a system. The amount that I learned - both in breadth and in depth from these sessions - has accelerated my learning enough that I would say that I would have been unable to perform my best work without that assistance.

This environment requires that both participants have plenty of humility, openness, and patience, but when it works, it can be priceless.

MPJ has a long, but relevant video on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1ZAy2yNvE
Bezo's pics might've been exposed
"... are you surprised that companies have no choice to use an advertising revenue model."

I am surprised that they continue to believe that they should have any revenue "[W]hen people aren't willing to pay for 1-2 coffees for a month of unlimited music streaming."

It's like realising people do not want to pay for what you are selling and then, instead of owning up to the fact you therefore have no viable business, you turn around and vengefully sell those same people out, keeping them around by reducing price to 0. There is no business regarding that service. You find a new customer (advertisers) and sell something else (ads). Then you portray the original "service" as your business.

No matter how popular this has become, it is still a sham.

Selling ads is a different service with a different customer. It is not the same business.

There are probably some Internet service companies that do manage to sustain themselves on paid subscriptions. Perhaps they are few and far between.

Pretending that a successful ad sales business is the same thing as a successful Internet-based paid subscription service is disengenous.
I haven't looked very deeply and am not an expert, but I do believe there is research suggesting that higher concentrations of THC and less cannabidiol is associated with more psychotic symptoms.

Second google hit: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801827/ - says this on page 9.

The scenario I have in mind is someone who has latent or "below the surface" susceptibility to schizophrenia or bipolar without visible symptoms and THC triggers their first episode. Most people who use it won't see this. Some will and it will come to them without warning. Denial that this is a possibility however unlikely is not great.
Cross compatibility is a poor excuse to not use your own engine. You can use cross platform libs that give you exactly what you need, for example SDL for basic graphics or QT if you want GUI support.
I think this is one of the parts in law where you very much would need a specialized lawyer to begin to even grasp the law. There are too many confounding issues here. For instance I expect the paper will have some argument in the fact that publishing these sort of things is part of their regular work and benefits the 'public good'. How does this interact with the laws and what precedent has been set?

If you take these laws at completely face value many things such as out of court monetary settlements would be bordering on illegal which is certainly not the case.
> No sir, countries can seize and kidnap without consequences, because muh sovereignty.

The Jamal Khashoggi tragedy is a very recent example that this has been the sentiment for some time.
Yep, but the whole trick is finding a model that estimates the percentage of the male population that are 'only sons' at 0,1, and 2nd generation level.
Using react-navigation 3.0 in React Native apps
Not OP but I did some stuff as a kid.

On the script kiddie level, you had different options. The easiest was simply scanning for public FTPs and IIS IPs and posting those in the member section of whatever forum you were a member of (or in public to get that access). The next level was using checking them for vulnerabilities (or in the case of FTPs checking if you had anonymous write access), those lists obviously were worth more. The higher level people would have their high-end servers (usually hacked, fast internet was expensive) and would use server to server transfer to go from their high-value FTP to some lower value ftp or IIS server for normal people to download from.
Reminds me of an old Rudy Rucker story, 'A New Golden Age':

http://www.rudyrucker.com/transrealbooks/completestories/#_T...
Seriously, this whole git idea shows the level of ignorance surrounding the actual scientific process and workflow. The data files for my work (protein crystallography) are terabytes upon terabytes large. There's no reasonable way to distribute them. They go through multiple layers of data paring. Any final raw data is included in the supplemental material, but it has already been heavily curated and reduced. And also biased.

The solution to this problem is not iteration and revision.
Maybe, the guy is just trying to sell the book by creating a controversy
Euro-hedged US treasuries
>Which is not to say that I think they should be banned, mind you. I wish we all got to keep our subs and accounts...

So you're a facist who supports free speech?
The new censors won’t delete your words – they’ll drown them out
That's why I wrote "Almost"
well, i don’t have to go to PT when i warmup and stretch.

i’ve previously run into tendon and joint issues from not taking care of myself afterwards.

i think that regular core exercise is a broad-spectrum anti-injury treatment...but it doesn’t protect against ITBS, and my jacked up shoulder complains when i don’t do my normal PT warmups for it.

at this point it’s so fully part of The Gym Ritual that it’s automatic anyway.

the sauna is mostly a psychological luxury, but that’s important too.
I started in 2012 by making a 2D game as a university assignment using Allegro 5. Some time later, when I started game jamming, I decided to reuse some of its code. After a few games done this way I've separated the common code into an engine.

Now I'm at 36 games made with it, and I even have proper CI and containerized toolchains for cross-compiling on GNU/Linux for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux (using either Steam Runtime or Flatpak), Android, Maemo 5 (Nokia N900), PureOS (Librem 5), Emscripten (asm.js/WebAssembly) and Steam Link. The engine also works fine on Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD (there's just no toolchains yet), and I'm looking forward to port it to iOS, DragonBox Pyra, Sailfish, Nintendo Switch and UWP (Windows 10/Xbox One), neither of which should be hard, I just need some time and/or devices. The only significant platform that would need some larger effort that I identified is Playstation.

Some of this stuff wouldn't be possible at all when using Unity or Unreal, or would have been much harder when using Godot.

Having said that, I probably wouldn't start writing a full-blown 3D engine if writing a 3D engine wasn't actually my end goal.

BTW. This "Lonely Cube" game could be easily written in a simple 2D engine using perspective transformations ;)
Do “Powered By” Backlinks Work?
Because we're in a Nash equilibrium where it isn't rational for any individual actor to change.

Restaurants that incorporate the service fee into prices sell less food and particularly booze, leaving them with less money to pay the staff, leading to lower wages for front of house.

Given this experience, tipped workers are generally against any legislation that might change the system.
You might want to look into Ada and SPARK. It allows constraint-based programming, formal verification to verify your program's correctness, and so on.

https://www.adacore.com/about-spark

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Contract_Based...

https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-31

https://www.adacore.com/uploads/books/pdf/AdaCore-Tech-Cyber...

On top of that, Ada was designed with parallel programming in mind as well, so there are language constructs built in to make your job easier.
A $100 bond is released paying 4% ($4 per year). If the prevailing interest rate drops than the bond price will increase to compensate. Say if the prevailing interest rate drops to 1%, then you will need to spend much more to buy that bond. Now it probably wont be as high as $400 because when you redeem the bond you'll only get back $100 thus suppressing your effective yield further , but that's the basic gist.
> Reddit has long been plagued with censorship. The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can't believe how quickly that's been forgotten.

That hasn't been forgotten.

Also, it has the wrong number of occurrences to be a persuasive data point toward the characterization "plague."
It reminds me of this year's Microsoft super bowl commercial, which focused io the Xbox adaptive controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM2QJO2IDFo
Most probably. It's about the current US president after all, and it's the closest thing to an official forum/social network his fanbase/supporters have.

If Reddit banned it, then they'd likely drive said users to a competitor (like Voat) and divert all that media attention from Reddit to said competitor in the process.
I agree with you but have a note on taxes.

I think we should just legalize it and tax it no differently than we tax the wine industry. When you impose extra taxes on formerly illegal items (often called a sin tax), you are moralizing and taking advantage of drug users as a population. You're saying, "OK, fine, we won't lock you up and bureaucratically destroy your life, but you have to pay us more money."

Or a case in point, California's legalization of marijuana. With a medical recommendation (which I have), I was able to buy from many stores/delivery services and not have any extra taxes beyond sales tax. But now with legalized recreational, there's a 20% extra tax. This is on top of an already nearly 10% sales tax. So everything is way more expensive, creating an incentive to just buy on the black market. But then where's the 20% tax on wine? It's extremely arbitrary, what is a sin and what is not according to those in power.

So for those that say "Legalize and tax the hell out of it", I really wish they'd just say "Legalize it because locking people up for modifying their own internal body chemistry is simply wrong."
Came here to say the same! I'm a C++ programmer by day, but I love the speed at which I can bang out a prototype in Love2D (Lua).

I found kikito's[1] bump, gamera, and anim8 libraries to be excellent complements to Love, adding a few of the otherwise missing elements.

[1] https://github.com/kikito/
I’m surprised there isn’t more of an outcry about this from other services. I can’t really be bothered to keep track of which ones are honest, so I’m probably going to just avoid all of them. (Obviously I don’t use them much to begin with, but if enough other casual users feel the same way it could hurt.)