skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see a problem with a fragmented society. It makes for diversity. We should alleviate hardship but it’s not our social responsibility to form a homogeneous society on the basis of wealth.

Dignity is not about living in the Bay Area. Those who live in Bay Area and in nice homes may even suffer indiginities at work that facilitated their status.

The psychological and social study is actually not clear. We don’t have true poverty in this corner of our western world like in India or Bangladesh or in some places in Africa etc. So..yea..perspective. We have relative poverty. Cupertino folks are poorer than those in Atherton. Hayward is poorer than Cupertino. Visalia is poorer than Hayward. There will always be hierarchies. There are enough studies to back that tho’.. And hierarchies are important. They are the furnaces from where societies are tempered.

Making assumptions is easy. None of us can be saviours of others. We can only be saviours of ourselves. It’s ok not to be a super hero in our story. We don’t even have to be hero’s. I would rather that we aspire not to be villains. But again..that pesky thing called free will. So there’s that..
But anti homosexual love, just to be clear.

Here's the article's quote that I think sums it all up:

> The fact that both Falun Gong and the Communist Party communicate via propaganda makes it almost impossible to understand what’s really happening
Honestly, I don't understand why the U.S. is basically still responsible for the defense of Europe 75 years after the end of World War II. I think we should withdraw all our troops and equipment in a controlled drawdown and let the Europeans figure out how to protect themselves from Russia.

I have nothing against Europe, but I also think they have the capability to defend themselves. It would have the added benefit of making U.S. intervention in the Mideast more cumbersome, which might mean fewer wars.

Also, as an aside, some criticism is warranted imo. It's more than a little ridiculous that the UK spends more on defense than Germany.
And Lua scripting
Because of the alleged negative long- and short-term effects.

Also, I am not actively seeking joy, that is induced by a drug.
What is the difference between TextWorld and a design system for interactive fiction games like Inform [1]?

It seems to be that the former has natural language processing/semantics integrated, while the latter relies on a rather old school approach to text-based games. Or am I mistaken?

[1] http://inform7.com/
The XUL "let you do anything you want to the browser UI DOM" extensions model had to die in order to solve a host of problems, most importantly Firefox performance issues. If that had happened later than it did, Mozilla would be in a much worse position now.

The real failure was that WebExtensions should have been started several years earlier, but for various reasons that can was kicked down the road. That is an interesting untold story.
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Javascript ecosystem as a whole.
A great day for consumer choice. US should do the same. (They did for Microsoft!)
> If browsers did not try to run parallel requests, then all those round trips would sum up to a substantial overall delay.

That describes zero browsers. And "it's not loading parallel enough" is very much a software stack problem and not a network problem.

We could shove full pages over the wire in 200ms if we tried harder.
You think United Auto Workers work on side projects?
Probably not since Apple doesn't license iOS to anyone else and solely controls it.
Because of course, we all know that any regulation is part of an inevitable slide to “camps”. Come on, people who argue that always seem to miss just how much power a society has to change course, which is why that slippery slope is a fallacy and not predestination. I’m not hearing people opine that “today they came for the child abusers, tomorrow the Jews.” It’s a ridiculous premise, and it both oversells the threat of any action they’re ideologically opposed to, and undersells the power we all have to either promote or fight fascism.
The man truly is his own worst enemy. Seemed clear that something was up with him when he called that cave diver a "pedo" for no apparent reason. I hope that being held accountable for his actions deflates his head a little bit. Smart guy who is working on some good stuff that most people support and he doesn't need to keep lying about it.
That part confused me. Having someone in a Devil costume is going to be scary, confusing or offensive to many people, so if it's not a great metaphor, why not pick another one?

I think it's better to skip certain classes metaphors for this kind of event: religion, sex, death, disease (cancer, etc.) probably chief among them.
I image there would be 80-90ms of latency for me.

I could totally make RTS and other real-time games work with that.
> Linux has the option of simply refusing your request and returning -ENOMEM. Is this an option for systemd?

> if we avoid stack allocation, then perhaps we need to instead allocate on the heap

That's what the fix does: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/f519a19bcd5afe674a...
To be able to hire them for a particular unit of work and then let them go once the project is over, without having to worry about labor laws. This kind of flexibility and optionality can be very valuable.
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Newer versions of Java cache compiled classes. The startup time is maybe 10 seconds for something big running Java 11.

You can also compile AOT for some performance loss at runtime but zero startup time. Android has been doing this forever but you can also do it on a PC using Graal.

And yes Java will destroy Erlang at concurrent connections if you use an async framework like Vert.X or fibers using Quasar/Comsat. It has lower per thread overhead than Erlang and runs code faster in general.

Both Java and Erlang will max out Linux TCP connections before running out of steam so this is kinda academic though
My experience with a buyers agent was no offense but they were pretty much worthless when selecting which houses to make offers on.

On the pro side the sellers agent was also worthless.
I think society is fine. What is at peril is freedom to admit to be upwardly mobile.

There is a desire to cut down those wanting to fly high. The ‘Tall Poppy’ syndrome.

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

[..]The tall poppy syndrome describes aspects of a culture where people of high status are resented, attacked, cut down, strung up or criticised because they have been classified as superior to their peers. The term has been used in cultures of the English-speaking world.[..]

[..]The concept originates from accounts in Herodotus' Histories (Book 5, 92f), Aristotle's Politics (1284a), and Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri, Book I.

[Periander] had sent a herald to Thrasybulus and inquired in what way he would best and most safely govern his city. Thrasybulus led the man who had come from Periander outside the town, and entered into a sown field. As he walked through the wheat, continually asking why the messenger had come to him from Cypselus, he kept cutting off all the tallest ears of wheat which he could see, and throwing them away, until he had destroyed the best and richest part of the crop. Then, after passing through the place and speaking no word of counsel, he sent the herald away. When the herald returned to Cypselus, Periander desired to hear what counsel he brought, but the man said that Thrasybulus had given him none. The herald added that it was a strange man to whom he had been sent, a madman and a destroyer of his own possessions, telling Periander what he had seen Thrasybulus do. Periander, however, understood what had been done, and perceived that Thrasybulus had counselled him to slay those of his townsmen who were outstanding in influence or ability; with that he began to deal with his citizens in an evil manner.

— Herodotus, The Histories, Book 5, 92-f[..]
huh - back to Craigslist for me!
Where is the evidence that carbon sequestration works?
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I wanted to ask him how he felt about UNIX
In case you missed this:

Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715454
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The Chinese government does not need or want a "Taiping Rebellion" equivalent to that of the infamous Hong Xiuquan -- which was the largest war in human history in terms of casualties and destruction. So to them, Falun Gong and it's leader represent that kind of threat, once it reached tens of millions in size. That is orders of magnitude larger than the student protests in Tiananmen, and that was brutally suppressed. Totalitarian regimes are going to be just that, brutal/monsterous and unforgiving.
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The Facebook amplification was relatively minor here. They 'amplified' it to 4000 people and acted quickly to limit the amplification.

The real amplification was caused by people, not by platforms. The amazing stat here is that a staggering 1.5 million people attempted to re-uploaded it.

Suppose the attacker uploaded it to 8chan instead? I doubt the final numbers would be much different. People are going to decide for themselves whether or not they want to watch something on the internet.
You cannot be serious. Planning on a strategic default is crazy from a personal finance standpoint for most homeowners. When you consider all the impacts it only makes sense in very limited circumstances. There's no reason to expect that prices would be more "sane" in the future, and in the meantime people still need a place to live.

Only purchase mortgages are non-recourse. A high percentage of owners have refinanced into recourse loans.
I think the internet changed things a bit more than a little since then.
Sure, we'll allow you to change that stuff!! (thank goodness they didn't ask what the OS itself is collecting)
> Steam Link over ethernet

Note that even Steam Link over Ethernet is too laggy to play KB/M FPS at any serious level - the input lag makes FPS almost unplayable.

I can see the growth of services like these, especially with more gamers being unable to access dedicated hardware, but there will always be a niche for dedicated hardware. The only way I think they could solve that problem with streaming is using some sort of hybrid streaming approach where some of the UI is remote and some is local and they could do client side simulation somehow for input.
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It's a move to appease the European Commission.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-android-idUSKCN...

> Google could be fined up to 5 percent of Alphabet’s average daily worldwide turnover if it fails to comply with the EU order to stop anti-competitive practices.
Probably as useful as the cookie warning law.

If this meant the Google stuff was not going to be installed if you choose different and the device was still going to be fully functional (you could still install apps from the store) that would be something but I doubt this is the case.

By the way, why do they use the Chinese《一》character instead of hyphens?
Alpine is great, too.
If 5G is anything like LTE, it will work some of the time, cut out at other times, rapidly degrade into crap quality before coming back to full speed at random intervals. And bear in mind I live in Orange County, CA, hardly the backwoods.

We are a long, long, long way away from having constant, fast, reliable, high-bit rate connections for mobile devices.

(Note, I am on an IPhone XR in OC on ATT)
These are actually all fairly common problems so I'm not sure why this is drowned out in gray...
Assuming you meant specifically the Java language, Kotlin for JVM may also be a good option. Solid set of language features that puts it at least on par with C#, and allows you to write more DRY code than you can with Java language. As with any JVM language, you get all the benefits of the JVM. IDE support is great (at least with IntelliJ IDEA). It's an officially supported Android development language, putting it further into the mainstream. Also, as with other non-Java JVM languages, releases are not tied to JVM releases (I still use Java 8 for my Kotlin projects, while using the latest Kotlin version).

For browser or Node.js, TypeScript is the way to go IMHO. Node.js and it's ecosystem have it's issues, but TypeScript is quite nice and a considerable improvement over JavaScript, while being close enough to JS where it fits nicely into the ecosystem. Only downside is that it adds a compile step that can potentially grow to be time-consuming.
I like their title

> Supporting choice and competition in Europe

Like it was their initiative!
Gross, broke back navigation on my trackpad.
I am all for generating energy from whatever way possible. :D
Sure they will. I'm perfectly fine with the whack-a-mole but detain anyone who's a credible threat to the physical safety of others.

I'm talking about limiting the freedom of anyone in theory talking about subjects in a way that results in physical violence or substantially harms society to the point of losing a substantial number of lives on one single private platform in large groups. I'm not talking about death camps, but the distinction seems to be lost on the crowd flitting down the slippery slope.
Or... NON-Google accounts for phone, personal email, work email, and don't log in to YouTube.
Hey, you might even get away with asking for a free ticket! I remember walking in by mistake and an old lady on her way out promptly asked if we wanted to see it - she was very excited. I was just there to check out the theater itself. Five minutes later we were in the theater, watching the thing, trying to find ways to leave without offending the nice lady who'd just given us free tickets to the show :)
I was living in N’djamena, Tchad and there was a restaurant called Le Central on the main boulevard that officers from the Legion used to frequent. I was sitting at a nearby table finishing my bottle of Gala beer when they started to sing. I can’t remember the exact words, but it was one of the saddest laments that I have ever heard, essentially refraining that “I will die and you will never know my name. I fight, not for France, but for my brothers in the Legion.”

They had no romantic illusions about their service.
Stanford Prof. Sally Benson's talk here is a great overview: https://youtu.be/lIVwbSnD0AI?t=127

Specifically, she talks about the results of the Sleipner Project in the North Sea, where they've measured leakage rates, etc: https://youtu.be/lIVwbSnD0AI?t=1199
10-Year Gentoo veteran here. Every time I move away from Gentoo I come back purely because I have some headache caused by systemd or pulseaudio (which seems to depend on / be depended on by systemd). If they didn't get in the way I wouldn't care, because not needing to compile packages would be nice.

Recently I purchased some bluetooth headphones, they don't work well without PulseAudio and so far I haven't gotten anything but raw audio files to playback directly.

Same goes for Firefox. I think there's an intermediate plugin to play directly to ALSA, but for now I'm just playing spotify||netflix via chrome.

Point is, it's slowly becoming harder to avoid Systemd and PulseAudio. Because all the major distros use them, the support, development and documentation for !systemd has died off radically :(
Therefore, if Google and all the Android OEMs merged, no antitrust action would be taken with regards to Android apps. Is that correct?
I have only my personal pet-projects and no work projects on Github. All work projects are in private repositories and under NDA. In this case, it turns out that it is better for me to create a few good projects specifically and push them on Github.
Does that matter? I would think it would have to do with market share more than any licensing. iOS has ~28% share in the EU.

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe
Can anyone compare Alpine Linux with Void Linux, their pros and cons?
“Tall poppy syndrome”: are we experiencing this in Silicon Valley?
You can easily tell if you just give TablePlus a try with its demo.

Starts up very quickly, doesn't have bunch of options and stuff but I think it has enough to be far more intuitive. I'd say the interface is almost comparable to SequelPro just not as polished. (Font sizing, space padding and column sizing. Small stuff but it does feel awkward to me.)
Let's see how easy it would be for developers to make a normal desktop Linux game from a Stadia game.
Oh well, if it's legal I guess it's ok. Why debate or discuss anything? The case is closed everybody, it's legal!
But I mean, how different is that really from any normal corporation that offers its services to other corporations? The issue is still how the workers protect themselves from you (the employer).
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Happens often, but you surely use your Github account to communicate in public projects, maybe even contribute.

To me, one good PR is worth a lot more than a small unused/demo project.
Are we talking about ML or DL in particular? Also, does ML have to be sophisticated in order for it to "count"?

Just off the top of my head, 3D/HD mapping companies like HERE rely on DL-based image recognition to recognize objects at reasonable levels of accuracy -- totally infeasible to do manually at scale.

Also, one of the triggers of the renaissance of NNs is that it was shown to outperform traditional computer vision techniques around the early 2010s. USPS does handwriting recognition every single day -- maybe not with DL -- but definitely with some ML algorithm (I was at a talk given by one of the originators of said algorithm).

ML is more than just DL. If take the definition of ML encompass to statistical learning -- which it traditionally does -- production ML deployments is extremely pervasive, from industries as varied as finance to chemical manufacturing.

The exact FICO algorithm is proprietary, but algorithms of its ilk are pervasive. As you know, at least two other companies (Transunion and Experian) also have their own algorithms. And credit scoring algorithms are among the least sophisticated ML deployments.

I'm not able to talk about the ML models I work on, but they're in production and the business relies on them.

I guess I'm not seeing the finer points of the argument -- as it stands without further qualification or refinement, it does not seem to be a valid conclusion.
Urgh... this is perhaps one of the worst positions for the FSF to take at this point.

This is a position you take if 10% of the desktop market was already running a mostly free operating system and APIs. (Making a distinction between GNU and Chrome OS).

Once you have enough mindshare to expose people to what Free Software, community developed software, software they can have control over (either by learning how to program or being able to pay someone to do it). Then you push to wipe out these crappy binary blobs.

At this point, with less than 1%, Microsoft could lock out every Linux user from modern hardware by refusing to sign an UEFI kernel.

Things have gotten better. Dell provides a few Linux laptops for desktop users. System76 is great... even if their machines look a little dated. Steam's Proton is a godsend.

But the Linux desktop still hasn't broken out of the a few niche areas. Chrome OS has more market share than all other desktop Linuxes. We haven't gotten past 2% and in many Asian countries we are falling behind even more.

You can't tell people they are only ethical if they use a modern laptop without working wifi. They won't care. A lot of people just don't care about technology. They just want it to work! But once you reach 10%; you have network effects people can rely on and feel confident about choosing a Free Operating System. If you point out this Free Software sticker means it works better for Linux/BSD/Haiku because you have control over the code that runs your wifi/whatever, then people will care.
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> Still doesn't follow that he should be enabled.

Speaking to this particular incident, showing that video won't enable him, it is far more likely to draw out a knee-jerk response in opposition to whatever he was trying to do. There weren't millions of people uploading his video because of a latent communal desire to watch Muslims being gunned down in mosques; there were millions of people uploading the video so that other people could judge the situation. There is no way that judgment is going to be positive. Uploading or watching that video is not a respectful act; it is judgmental.

> Nevertheless there are groups who wish to cause harm - anti vaxxers and up who benefit from the reach of social.

We've had well publicised cults and lunatic ideas since the dawn of time. Facebook is, if anything, just as likely to make it easier to leave such communities than cause them to grow. We'll need some evidence to talk to on that point - which I do not have.

> The phenomenon of copycats is well enough known and seen in all sorts of things, even atrocity and suicide methods.

I dunno, the last time something like this happened in the APAC region (the Port Arthur Massacre) it resulted in mass gun removal from Australian society. New Zealand might well do the same thing. Pretty likely to squelch down on copycat incidents.

Showing that video around is going to make it much more likely that NZ bans guns. Nothing like a video to persuade people.
I wrote scripts that build from scratch to my custom desktop configuration in < 8 hours using Packer on a single i7. I'm also toying with the idea of a buildserver that creates precompiled binaries :)
James Oroc talks about it in his book / interviews. There are a couple churches that use 5-MeO-DMT as a sacrament, but I think they have a defibrillator and someone with medical training on hand. I don't think it's excessively dangerous if you have good cardiovascular fitness and are able to accurately dose it, but it's still substantially more dangerous than something like DMT.

There is/was a church called Temple of Awakening Divinity (TOAD), and there are some interviews with the founder online.
The Taiping movement sprung up during the failing days of the Qing when governance was declining and life for the common people worsened, so maybe the PRC government should focus on fixing that first before torturing dissidents
Once more for the people in the back: Do not base your company on the goodwill of an external entity with whom you have no real communication or recourse!
Would that be sandboxed-api-users@googlegroups.com?
This seems a bit uncharitable.

I still use Java a lot for application servers[1] and enjoy it.

I've also used Go, but I wouldn't want to try and implement, say a non trivial REST server with it.

I don't have the time to code everything from scratch, or to use an immature Go library or framework for example, when there are perfectly good ones in the Java world.[2]

Perhaps it might be best to just see languages as tools, and that each language has a purpose.

Java is old, so what? Lots of people derive value from it, and it's very stable.

You might be glad that banks use it, instead of immediately jumping on whatever languages you mentioned above. At least it manages to do boring things like keep you accounts relatively safe from hackers.

[1] https://www.dropwizard.io/1.3.9/docs/

[2] And yes, for that kind of application, unchecked exceptions are way more convenient than thousands of lines of if err != nil all over the place. And annotations in Go are an afterthought and it shows.
> On Android phones, you’ve always been able to install any search engine or browser you want, irrespective of what came pre-installed on the phone when you bought it.

cough cough cough, that google search bar in the home screen by default is pretty Google Search specific.