skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are they concerned about this at all? Tencent doesn't get any say in how Reddit is run, why would they?
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, this is a thing!! I thought about making it but quickly decided computer vision wasn't up to the task yet. It seems I was horribly wrong: https://github.com/maciejczyzewski/neural-chessboard
Haven't tried it myself but it looks amazing
I'm not saying that's not the logic of CU, but that is exactly the fallacy of composition.
Startup will store energy by forcing compressed air in a defunct zinc mine
Legally yes, morally no. Citizenship doesn't grant/revoke human rights, and freedom of speech is a human right.
Have you been to Long Island City? It's low-slung warehouses and taxi parking lots.
It would be a useful test-case. The rationale behind Citizens United type cases is that citizen's free speech rights can be exercised via corporations. But a foreign-owned corporation is a different kettle of fish.

It's a bit silly for people to keep railing on Citizens United in particular. That was a group of people made a movie knocking a particular politician. The 1st amendment gives them the right to do this and also to organise themselves to do this. But officials tried to stop them because the law limited such activity by organisations.

But there will be lots of real-world cases where the corporation is not a political ginger group. There, the free speech (and free assembly) case becomes much weaker. A fully foreign owned corporation being the most clear case.
"Seven Years in Tibet" was made without Chinese money, so why couldn't the same movie be made today without Chinese money? It's harder because everyone else is taking Chinese money? I don't buy it.
My issue with trying to calm people down on the subject of nuclear is as far as I can tell they are scared of risks that don't exist. That can't be controlled with engineering solutions; so making nuclear energy safer won't do anything.

Take a recent article [0]. Now, they talk about getting "one chest X-ray every week", and apparently a chest Xray is about as radiation as 10 days of background radiation [1]. We're talking about a bit more than doubling a completely safe background rate to a figure that we have no evidence is of practically different, and that the experts claim is safe. I'm not going to look in to it, but I bet that the 'international limit' they talk about wasn't even derived scientifically, they probably just multiplied average background rate by some constant.

This is almost literally the same as taking the anti-vaccination crowd seriously. People who seem to be anti-chest-xray are being treated like credible sources of information! How can we expect sane policy in that sort of environment.

[0] https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/03/fukushima-...

[1] https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=safety-xray
Mozilla to use machine learning to find code bugs before they ship
That’s what I don’t get. Tencent in particular has seemed like a fairly benevolent investor in Western companies so far, and I don’t see why that would change.
$250/mo is a pretty generous number to compare against. Our >2500 sqft house averages under $100/mo. With the fairly extreme heat we have in in Texas, and A/C set to frigid while we’re home our bill _peaks_ at ~$150 in August. Well..that’s after a $1000 investment in attic insulation the first month we moved in.
Yea. Historically is the context there. Even when presented with examples of censorship on reddit, the users completely ignore it. But... the Chinese come in, and now the possibility of censorship is a big deal.

ffs... they seem to only be able to see slightly past their own noses.
Biological Sex Shapes Tumour Evolution Across Cancer Types
great article. the basic 3 points could be summarized as:

1) constantly look for associations

2) essentially use the pomodoro technique

3) test yourself on what you learned

an interesting learning workflow might be:

a) read a section of a book or a blog post

b) look for associations on how what you read relates to other things you know

c) ask yourself a test question relating to what you read, and answer it

d) take a 10 minute break, goto a
I gave you an upvote because this is all important information and likely helpful for other readers, but unless I've misunderstood the parent commenter I'm not sure this is what they meant. All of this information is consistent with the article author's claims, which the parent commenter disputed.
They don't but most competition does lower prices which is his point.
Oh, that's hilarious. I tested this in Python where it worked fine and forgot that C has a "broken" modulo operator:

Python:

>>> -1 % 20
19

C:

printf("%d\n", (-1 % 20));
-1

Even worse, it still fails even on unsigned:

printf("%d\n", ((unsigned int)0 - (unsigned int)1) % 20);
15

So you still need to add N:

printf("%d\n", ((unsigned int)0 - (unsigned int)1 + 20) % 20);
19

Thanks for the reminder of humility.

(Side Note: For those reading this, the C operator isn't "broken", per se. There are three properties that modulo can adhere to but two of the three are mutually exclusive.)
Firefox Test Pilot is shutting down
I get about 5 junk calls a day, at least 2 usually in Chinese. Does anyone know what the ones in Chinese are about?

These days I just don't answer unless it's someone in my contacts, if it's anything important they'll leave a message.

Wonder if it's possible to have a plan with NO voice on it!
> provided they are even allowed to run their own software on the thing to begin with (which was not the case with Surface RT anyway, extended ISA or not).

Surface RT allowed Windows Store apps, including native ones.
Nim is my second choice, but I really like a lot of things in Rust and would like to learn that, if I can.
Validation often requires examine a model beyond "is this an int?". That model needs to be self-consistent. That requires atomic movements from consistent state to consistent state.

You can do that yourself. Or let the database do it. For things where you can't express it in a database schema, sure. But you'd be surprised how far it gets you.
:thinking_face:

Very controversial libertarian thought, but not necessarily a dystopian one. Are you talking about income tax in general or just federal one? (Not sure we can do much with federal one)

But we def can do something with local taxes. Shifting some of the "governmental" responsibilities and distributions (police, fire dept, DMV offices, schools, etc etc) to a more efficient private entities (entities that can be laid off when not performing) might give local communities a huge boost. This might trigger a great backlash from UBI proponents though, since most of the government jobs are basically some versions if the UBI (you get you paycheck only for showing up kind of thing).
I don't see an option to publish to the App Store and Google Play
This x100. Unfortunately China is pulling too many strings to ever be punished for these behaviors. Let's hope they start getting some backlash from citizens about these practices.

Otherwise it's going to be an interesting power-war between China and the USA, and it's unclear on which side the EU will fall.
Agreed. If anyone has been paying the slightest bit of attention, the reddit snoo is driving the tank.
We've all got problems.

China's problems are routinely exaggerated and "othered" far in excess of Western problems. After all, we understand the context for Western missteps. "Its complicated."

For example, can you believe that China is overreacting and violating civil rights after terror attacks from Central Asian Muslims? I've never heard of such a thing. Certainly no Western country aside from the USA, Russia, the UK and France would do that.

Meanwhile, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty doesn't seem to count for much.

They have a different history, different culture and different challenges. Demonization is not only wrong, it's a surefire way to mishandle the situation out of ignorance.
U.S. negotiating multibillion-dollar fine with Facebook: report
It’s a contest, is that really a surprise? The hypocrisy is just the marketing spin on the contest for people who can’t accept that it is a competiton. If the honest question isn’t about right and wrong, but about winners and losers, the hypocrisy disappears.
Why wouldn't the Chinese using media influence to paint themselves in a better light be concerning? Both positive and negative action, as you described them, distort one's view of the world.
Yeah... It was amazingly bad last weekend. These guys need to work on their reliability.
Nope! It applies to persons, it is not limited to "natural persons" (probably due to an oversight) which is why we have issues with money = speech. It is also not limited to citizens and previous court rulings have upheld access to right protections for "people" or "persons" to non-citizens and even non-residents, whether these rights extend to persons not within the US is more hazy but most rulings have shown that US government entities must not act to violate rights afforded by the constitution/bill of rights to persons overseas... sort of like it was an overseas code of conduct.
If you are the only surviving node with the data, then it's called extortion or holding the data hostage.
> Google is expanding to create 25,000 GOOD JOBS!

No they aren't. They're expanding by about 7000.
Are (serious) people really making such an argument? It's trivial to make an argument about what a government can't do without necessarily bestowing broad rights on people the US constitution does not directly apply to. Especially since the bit of the constitution in question starts with 'shall make no law'.
Censorship by omission is a tricky thing to quantify. If a Studio gets, lets say, $5b a year from their Chinese investments, do you think they'd make a Seven Years style movie (even without the Chinese money directly funding it)?

To personalize it, I had plenty of conversations with Chinese VCs back when I was raising for my VR company. I was incredibly aware of the meta implications of this article while writing it. Had I received Chinese investment, I'm not sure I would have written it at all.
Eh, it's $23 a month with no capital cost to you and environmental feels. You just sign a paper and move on with your life.
This is an incredibly incendiary,shortsighted and ultimately self defeating point of view. People can fundamentally disagree with you without being evil, stupid or duped.

One only need to look at how universal healthcare was not implemented in the US because the USSR had it as a pithy example of how damaging this way of thinking is.
LinkerD picking up steam from ISTIO
I think we also need to stop assuming the fiction that Reddit isn't already one of the most heavily and arbitrarily censored sites

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/apu3oz/with_the...
We had two lemons in that election, and a bunch of people voted for the one that they thought would be less sour.

Will they think the same after (so to speak) having to actually taste that sourness for four years? Plausibly not. But the Dems could really help themselves by running someone with less flaws and less baggage. (Though it might be impossible to find someone with more baggage than Trump...)
The main driver of politics in NYC is real estate. Long Island City has already been undergoing a gentrification blitzkrieg, but adding Amazon HQ2 to the mix would yield fantastic profits to those of the rich who were in on it -- that is, those who had gotten the memo several years ago and taken up a good real estate position in the area. Plus, the irony of taking the proles' money in taxes to drive them out of their neighborhood homes and businesses must have offered an icing of sadistic pleasure to the mighty cake of profit. What I am wondering is how the deal was stopped. Usually, big real estate projects steamroll all resistance. There's money to be made! (Not by you.)
> but You Only Have To

you only have to do all these extra things in a convoluted syntax

deep down, you already knew
Safety Reminders for Winter
The best part is "Scroll down for video" from https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample3 :)
"Every other country is practically a net importer of American culture."

You don't get out much, do you? There is no denying that the US does have quite an influence on a global scale - culturally and otherwise but there is, much, much more going on that the US is nothing to do with.

I'm a Brit who grew up in some strange places: one was called West Germany and the other was a series of public/private (that probably does not mean what you think it does) schools in the UK. All the schools I attended in Germany were British and public, except for the modern and comprehensive ones or the primary or secondary ones.

I have two employees amongst 25 Brits (Ok, some are English, some are Irish and some are Scots and there are others who don't care, oh and some are Welsh) who are Polish. Their parents lived behind the Iron Curtain.

Well that's nice but the world is turning and although English is still one of the lingua franca (oh the irony - franca - French) there are more changes afoot and those who are able to keep pace will "win" and those who can't ... won't. Britain has always been flexible, linguistically. English is an outrageous amalgam of many languages with a simple structure and vocab. that stretches (with a bit of a wobble) across the entire globe.

Well, my English is and always has been very flexible - I personally take great delight in flexing my language and frankly torturing it through accent or spelling until it delivers the desired result. Some other Englishs are a bit taut and inflexible. Some are so worried about being associated with "British" that they are starting to sound a bit odd and stultifying - they will fall by the wayside.

Tell me about your cultural views, Mr pjc50
Europe does seem to create a different class of 'maker'; consider Linus Torvalds and Fabrice Bellard, both notable for their immense contributions to open source software. Who in the US is creating on that scale and not doing it for their employer or some other payout?
x86-64 isn't very space efficient anymore, so it's not hard to beat. Even AArch64, with a fixed 32-bit instruction size, competes well with x86-64.

REX prefixes really killed the space efficiency of the x86 architecture.
Awesome job! If anyone else is working on a project like this or is interested in learning more about applied machine learning we've got a helpful Slack community over at Heartbeat (https://bit.ly/heartbeatslack)
What Does Your Perfect Career Feel Like?
"Make this movie, and you won't get any more investments from us. We've said the same to your distributor and producer. And we'll make sure every corporate board we have influence over will shun you."
I know, I'm just not sure what "American culture is much greater than other culture in popular media" means. Greater how? Says who?
The same thing was said about China. Furthermore, it's likely that foreign tech companies will just bend over backwards to self-censor, without having to resort to a GFW. They wouldn't want to be shut out of both China and India.
I'd say there will be martial law shortly after the declaration of a national emergency to build the wall. Riots in the streets! Outrage he could do such a thing!

...but all I hear from people around me (I live in the Midwest USA) is he is a hero to stand up and deliver what he promised.

While Rome burns, Bread and Circuses.
The United States has done this for decades. Why do you think China blocks Google, Facebook, et al? The exact same reason. The difference is the US is substantially richer and more powerful than China is.
Honestly, even just using this to concentrate power in the hands of few domestically is a dangerous erosion of societal norms. Dis-empowering a populace tends to end badly and result in some pretty strong (usually violent) pressures to restore democracy.
> Cloudflare certainly sees the value of the patent system,

OK...

> we have a number of our own patents that we employ defensively to make sure we can continue to run our business securely.

Huh? This doesn't support the beginning of the sentence at all. If your only use of patents is defensive, then the system is all cost and no benefit to you. Getting rid of the system would give you all of the "benefits" you currently enjoy. What value are you seeing?
I tried a few micro-optimizations, but they did not make a measurable difference, so I kept the code short instead. But maybe some JIT is particularly bad at loop hoisting, so it might make a difference there.
You can interact with people you don't trust using standard cryptography. The blockchain just facilitates censorship resistance.
From a brief look at the code I suppose that the app is monolithic.

I wish it was split into the processor and "IDE". I'd be able to use my preferred editor instead. I'd be able to run an md -> html -> pdf pipeline in a lightweight, headless build script.

Just saying.
The overall incredible ignorance around nuclear is staggering. If you ask the average person how many people have died as a result of the Chernobyl incident, they’re usually going to estimate high by orders of magnitude. In general what people don’t understand about radiation is effectively everything about it, and worse, they don’t want to know. Meanwhile trying to explain how many million die each and every year from burning hydrocarbons rolls right off them. It’s pathetic and infuriating and I’ve also given up completely.

And then much of the blame needs to be shared by the nuclear engineers. They had decades to make nuclear safer before TMI, Chernobyl, and Fukushima (1942 -> 1970s, 80s, 2010s). And yet, here we are, with the same light water reactors that Rickover speced out in the 50s! Yes, I get that has something to do with building restrictions since TMI... so how about before that?

It has to do with fuck all investment, a dead regulatory environment, and inability to test new designs at scale. For all the other reasons you mentioned the investment isn’t there. I’d add that the waste issue is seen by most of the public as technically insurmountable, whereas in fact it’s technically simple, but politically insurmountable. At this point you’d need it to be the platform issue for a popular president, along with a truly huge education initiative and a lot of arm-twisting in the senate. It would cost a fortune, but less than the inevitable disaster were hurtling toward without nuclear.

Unfortunately even on a site like HN, optimism about renewables and new tech combines with ignorance of nuclear power; how can we expect better from the average American?
Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor
Don't say that, you're definitely more experienced than me :)
I'll try to clarify, but I could be wrong. This is from the chess.com article on it here: https://www.chess.com/blog/ReineChess/scannable-scoresheets-...

The model actually gives us a confidence for each possibility. It might say, N-90%, K-10%, B/R/Q-0% for one of the boxes. Here, we look at how confident our character recognizer is on each character. If the PGN is invalid, then we know some character was recognized incorrectly. We look at the low-confidence characters and change them to the next highest confidence prediction, checking to see which combination of changes delivers a valid PGN. For example, consider the string of moves 1. d4 d2. Black can't play d2 on move 1! But we look at the next most likely predictions, perhaps d8 for white and d5 for black. These are the combinations:

d4 d2

d4 d5

d8 d2

d8 d5

Only the second one is valid, so we choose it and continue ahead.

If you literally wrote "d4 d2," then it's a lot less likely that the correct digit instead of 2 will be in the top 3 predictions.
I think it's mostly supposed to be notable because it's a well known Harvard law prof who served in the Obama admin publicly changing his mind.

It's a short opinion declaration piece by design.

Though, I agree it would've been better with more detailed advocacy.
The case of the missing platform doors
I don't see it as a "what can you do for me". A lot of Amazon's interest were aligned with that of many New Yorkers. Both Amazon and most New Yorkers want to have a strong transportation system and a diverse economy that doesn't just rely on taxing bloated financial bonuses to pay for services. They also want New York to be an in-demand tech hub with a deep labor pool and be a place where people actually want to live. Cities should strive to be places where employers want to invest. We aren't talking about handing over duffle bags of money to Bezos. They agreed to offset some of NYC's exorbitant taxes and regulations that make this city hostile to many businesses. And supposedly the incentives were available to any employer of that size. The fact is that having a large Amazon hub in NYC would greatly benefit the city and its denizens
> People are arguing that a ban on Muslim immigration violates the first amendment rights of foreigners living abroad.

Which people?

By this argument, aren't all immigration restrictions invalid? I don't think anyone is seriously making this argument.
Yes. The basics in the Declaration if Independence are general statements about what rights all humans are given.
> So if these Chinese cultural exports are just propaganda and all around awful, surely Americans will figure it out.

Hah! Yeah, no. I’m not falling for that one again.

People will happily run themselves off a cliff if someone appeals to them enough, and damn logic.
You should still consider learning some rust, because you'll learn some new concepts which might be a win for you anyway (thinking of error handling, options, enum matching, ownership, and what not). Trust me, learning rust zo some degree will make you a better programmer overall!
Interestingly, the movie was produced by Peter Guber's Mandalay Entertainment. In 2017, China’s Puji Capital invested in Guber’s Mandalay Endurance Media Ventures.

> “We are at an interesting inflection with China’s film industry – we have China becoming the most important market globally coupled with an increasingly more sophisticated Chinese audience who strive for compelling stories and movies that captivate the heart and mind,” said Puji Film director Lily Zhao.
https://deadline.com/2017/08/china-puji-capital-invests-in-p...

So yeah, I think that it's very possible that Guber might have more reason not to make "Seven Years in Tibet" nowadays compared to in 1997.
> anyone know of a language that is just like Ruby, minus the symbols?

What’s your issue with symbols in particular? They seem pretty harmless to me.
>You don't get out much, do you?

>(that probably does not mean what you think it does)

>Tell me about your cultural views, Mr pjc50

Do you think the usage of this tone assisted your argument?

On that note, what's your argument?
I imagine that any studio that wants to continue doing business in China would have second thoughts about also producing a film like that.

This is just conjecture. I don't know to what extent (if any) that such a chilling effect has on a studio's domestic releases.
Preventing that kind of problem is basically the point of Filecoin and similar systems.
Could you elaborate a little? I have no doubt this happens but I’m fascinated in the nuances of how it happens(changing the flag from China to NK for example). Or is it more overt? (Do this or x, y, and z)
Just a brit can be in complete denial about the amount of cultural and linguistic imperialism of America over Europe. I don't know about the rest of the world, but here American cultural influence is strong. Too strong, if you ask me.