skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's see a hypothetical:

Patrick Gonnagle went to Stanford and really likes living in the Bay area. He also invented the idea of facebook for dogs and made a crap-ton of money in the dotcom era. Nowadays, he spends most of his time trying to out-do his peers in the nuevo-crap-ton-o'-money crowd with his extensive collection of Pia Zadora's underpants.

The rest of the time, however, P-Gon (as he likes to be called) finds smart, idealistic, entertaining, and attractive young people, mostly from Stanford, and gives them large sums of money in exchange for a significant share of any future large sums of money their idealistic and entertaining activities will bring in.

The idealistic and smart people like to get advice, recognition, and affirmation from P-Gon, and he likes to keep an eye on his investments (not to mention the advantage of showing off his cadre of minions to his peer group). So, they all have to live, work, eat, etc. in close proximity. P-Gon lives at the top of the Transamerica pyramid (literally; he built his 12,000 sq ft bedroom on the very pointy top of it). Fortunately, the I&S folks are being showered in cash (well, not literally; P-Gon has a swimming pool full of giant tapioca balls and $1000 bills that he makes them do laps in (hence "funding round")), so they have plenty of money to pay for suitable hovels.

Lather, rinse, repeat for a couple of generations and you discover that rents are stupid ridiculous in the area of the giant fountain o' money. Which theoretically could be somewhat remedied, maybe, except that P-Gon doesn't want horrible brutalist high-rise apartment complexes blocking his view of the Tenderloin.
Your comment brings to mind a passage I highlighted years ago in Robert Sapolsky's Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers:

Stress-induced displacement of aggression: the practice works wonders at minimizing the stressfulness of a stressor. It’s a real primate specialty as well. A male baboon loses a fight. Frustrated, he spins around and attacks a subordinate male who was minding his own business. An extremely high percentage of primate aggression represents frustration displaced onto innocent bystanders.

Extended quote here (not my blog): https://transferringstuff.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/disturbin...

I think you're right and what's tough is that the impulse to unload on someone seems to be hard-wired and even salutary. I have to catch myself from doing it and even then I'm sure I'm a regular source of microaggressions.

I think to a certain extent bureaucracy, humane bureaucracy, can be a corrective to the bite-your-subordinate instinct. But I agree there's nothing so effective at generating find-me-an-innocent-bystander-to-swipe-at fury as mindless ineffective bureaucracy where the architects of it are hidden and unaccountable. And, as you point out with technology, it's very easy to slip into regarding that third-party service your company signed up for or the open-source library you downloaded after glancing at the README -- when it doesn't work as expected or you promised yourself it would -- in just those terms.

Maybe someone could start a Punching-Bag-as-a-Service platform to collect and safely dispose of all this displaced aggression. Is there a good online screaming pillow where I could direct myself and others in these moment of impotent rage?
I decided to link the tweet as it's difficult to link to a specific portion of the paper and the paper had multiple topics that were hard to include in an 80-character title. As the tweet links to the paper, it's very easy for anyone interested to read about it in full.
So how do you propose the government pay for anything without taxes?
> "Security researchers have discovered a previously unknown feature in the Intel chipsets, which could allow an attacker to intercept data from the computer memory. The feature called Intel Visualization of Internal Signals Architecture (Intel VISA) is said to be a utility that is bundled by the chipmaker for testing on the manufacturing lines. Although Intel doesn't publicly disclose the existence of Intel VISA and is extremely secretive about it, the researchers were able to find several ways to enable the feature on the Intel chipsets and capture the data from the CPU."

Am I the only one reading this and thinking - tho' not surprised - "there's a backdoor baked into Intel chips"?
The real question is why we don't treat other things the way we treat ETFs, which is more efficient.

If you own Stock A and it has appreciated significantly over the years, but now you think Stock B is a better choice, the fact that trading one for the other is a tax realization event may cause you to not do it. This doesn't get the government any revenue this year, and it costs the government revenue in the future if you were right that Stock B is now the better choice, because you'll have less taxable appreciation when you finally do cash out during your retirement. It also makes the economy less efficient in general by locking up capital in whatever people invested in years ago.
I looked a those, but found the 5400 series more practical (I use a 5480). US keyboard, 3 button mouse, and it has the same screen resolution, but a slightly more readable dot pitch.

For me the choice was based on the 3 button mouse, and the screen pitch.

What annoys me is that the only way to get the USA keyboard (for a UK purchase) was that the machine was procured in the USA.

This is one thing Apple get right - offering the USA keyboard layout in the UK market. That said, I don't like the feel of the current Macbook keyboards.
If you're serving your website from your router as a webserver (dumb), this would be a concern. Serve your website(s) from a webserver running in a VM/container, and you're doing okay.
The issue is that the shows on iQiyi like Rap of China or Yanxi's Palace tend to be huge hits not only in China but also in places like Vietnam, Yanxi Palace was apparently the most Googled show in 2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Yanxi_Palace). So banning them in Taiwan would probably just lead to Taiwanese audiences pirating the shows anyway.

Also these shows are actually broadcasted for free on the day that episode comes out which attracts huge crowds and buzz (although lots of ads) and you don't have to be a paying member or even a member to watch and they tend to be popular even among non-paying members so there are probably more watchers than the official 2 million daily active users.

Example of Yanxi Palace fame: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/singapore-actor-lawrence-wong-sen...

I'm pretty sure this move will hurt the DPP more than help.
What sort of trouble beyond getting fired?
People are missing the point. This is not a tax dodge in the sense that you never pay the taxes. It’s a tax dodge in the sense that you postpone paying taxes in the year when they are due (which is the most common kind of tax dodge).

It’s absolutely correct that the ETF shareholders will pay the tax one way or another, either now on an annual cap gains distribution, or when they sell the shares later. It is NOT double taxation, because you either pay now or later, not both.

The issue is that the government cares deeply that you pay taxes in the year that you incur them. The US government, as you may know, has massive debt, and so getting the tax later costs it money in interest payments. They care about this so much that if you owe a lot in taxes, you actually have to pay them in quarterly installments, so the Feds don’t have to wait a whole year to get your money.

Since ETF’s are buy-and-hold investments, it could literally be decades before you actually send in a check for taxes that would ordinarily be due today.
I think that it's because the value of social networking has increased to extreme levels. Skill is now nearly worthless in comparison. Rich people don't even know what skill means and they don't realize that all the people who are crowding around them are not actually skilled; they're charlatans.

This is because the incentive to engage in social schemes is so high that it makes no sense to spend any effort on honing your skills... So instead of working on improving our value-creation skills, we're all working on improving our ability to bullshit (value capture).

Bullshitting works. Bullshitting is success. If universities offered degrees in bullshitting, their graduates would be the highest paid. Guaranteed.
Thanks. You've managed to be personally insulting without adding anything of substance, to my comment, Piketty's work, or to the general question of why economists would shun it.

I've particularly enjoyed the "elitist contempt of the arts" part (whatever that means, since "contempt of the arts" is usually base, not elitist, not to mention the fact that I don't mention "the arts" at all), and the thought-stopper accusation of "conspiracy" (who dare think that scholars would ever align themselves to convenient output to benefit their careers and pockets, in this best of all possible worlds! As Gore Vidal once put it "Americans have been trained by media to go into Pavlovian giggles at the mention of 'conspiracy' because for an American to believe in a conspiracy he must also believe in flying saucers or, craziest of all, that more than one person was involved in the JFK murder"). Well done.
Commenters on Reddit note that it is already April 1st in New Zealand...
Nobody? I'd say Intel knows. And more than likely NSA knows.

That's worse than nobody.
Ah, thanks. And the fix was: https://gitlab.com/barnabas/barnabas.gitlab.io/commit/f7fede...
There is a road on my way to work that has a darker asphalt line that goes diagonally across the road for about a quarter of a mile. Inevitably, I and others follow this line before realizing we are leaving our lane.
It's always more desirable to grab data closer to the source, e.g. the compressed stream instead of stuff further downstream that made it through the playback pipeline to HDMI.
Yes, but meanwhile the deferred taxes compound. The question is wether rebalancing an ETF should trigger taxes or not.
America uses this as well, but only in very formal situations
California has incredibly good roads, generally maintained, thoughtfully designed and well-marked. It's the last place we should be testing self-driving cars.
1960s Mouse Utopias Led to Grim Predictions for Future of Humanity (2015)
Although the blog post announcing it was published 29th of March, which doesn't overlap April 1st anywhere. Sloppy setup for the April fools joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkTrQTt2Zdw
At least apple’s implementation of it is so flawed it seems to require me to retry at least once >50% of the time.

Their face recognition however is amazing and works even in shitty conditions (such as dim light).
There’s way more interesting stuff than lane assist fails. The remote controlling for example.
>Populism is a major problem, and one which is based on unscrupulous politicians taking advantage of the ignorance and prejudice while promissing unrealisting and outright impossible solutions to problems that they missrepresent and even invent.

Isn't that also what the elites (say, the 10%-ers) have historically also said for realistic and entirely possible solutions (like beheading the King and building a democratic state, or stopping segregation, or extending the vote to women, or adding labor protections, or welfare, and so on), that they felt were beneath them, because they were demanded by the populace and went against their interests as a class?

Every modern right has been established by struggles, parties, mass revolts, and so on, deemed "populist", "vulgar", "irresponsible", and "destructive" at the time by those opposing them.

Every single one of them.
If PHP does not succeed to completely drop backwards support, they will fail anyway.
Show HN: Play Rock-Paper-Scissors Against a Neural Network
While I agree about the first and third issue, he's rather dismissive about the second one: "The attack relies on placing dots on the road to trick the car. Lots of them. \n\n I wouldn't worry about it." The demo shows 3 small dots can trigger a lane change.

Hypothetically, it could be a very targeted attack if the attacker drives in front of the target to put the paint on the road, and then a car behind the target covers it up. If the cover-up looks just like normal road (no idea how easy that is to achieve), and if nobody is looking for it because it's not a common thing to do, it might never be found. There are probably much better attacks that one could come up with if one gives it more than two minutes' thought, but it seems realistic enough to me to be interesting. Or if not a targeted attack, it can be very disruptive once there is some adoption.

Then again, people could already be disruptive and leave stuff on the road or rails, and experience tells us it's very rare (per driven person-kilometer at least). Something about tricking the computer seems more likely to happen than putting physical objects to harm others directly, but that's probably just between my ears.
It's the first place to test, or else you can't make any incremental progress.
They don't live alone and are unable to live alone. Someone must bring them food, cook for them and otherwise pay bills. Also, they do not report high hapiness.
Right, so how do you tell which are the "lower 40%"?

And how do you ensure that it isn't really just a proxy for being poor? Since hunger, lack of a long-term home, parents who need to work multiple jobs to support a family, etc. are things which make it difficult even for smart and motivated students to learn.

Of course there are some smart and motivated students who can learn from books and online resources. But is that all of the remaining 60%? Or is it 5%

Bear in mind that Khan Academy disagrees with your assessment that it can be a general purpose replacement for teaching. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy#Criticism : "Khan Academy positions itself as a supplement to in-class learning, with the ability to improve the effectiveness of teachers by freeing them from traditional lectures and giving them more time to tend to individual students' needs", so KhanAcademy" (emphasis mine).
Epic runs Fortnite, that allegedly made $3bn profit in 2018 [1]. That is not a small feat, plus they have a foothold in millions of machines. And from the dialogue we had in HN a few days ago on how Fortnite was accessing/scanning steam friends it seems that they are pretty greedy to map out any relationships they can.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/12/27/fortnite-de...
> concerned about China applying soft power to sway western opinions

China blocked Google/Twitter/Facebook with the the same logic.
I think this lends credence to the Thiel/Eric Weinstein notion of allowing scientists and innovators to be irreverent because many new discoveries have to run against the grain. I've heard Weinstein postulate one of the great strengths of Western education is the fostering of such irreverence.
Becoming a Better Witness
I always liked him and was surprised to learn that that he had been excluded from the films.

But I’d never thought of him as a conservationist and rescuer of animals (and flora) rejected by polite society! A Tolkeinish John Muir. How lovely!
> even if it was authored by outstanding academics such as Reinhart or Rogoff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

> argue that scientists should be fired for publishing a paper that goes against your political values

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
I haven't found PHP documentation to be better or worse than the documentation of other languages I've used.

What I dislike about it is the comments that every page includes. Most of them are very poorly written snippets of code from 15 years ago.

If you dislike those comments too, consider adding this to your ad blocker:

php.net###usernotes
Especially when the sun is low on the horizon and the glare off the road surface makes it hard to distinguish markings from changes in surface sheen.

I never drive without polarized lenses now.
The idea is probably to get a lot of pitches and then select the idea, no matter what it is, from whichever applicant has the most wealthy accredited investors as family.
It relates to economic models insofar as said models are used to justify the persistence of certain inequalities in society. The existence of these inequalities can then be exploited by populists in their rhetoric.
I'd say it's the opposite. These no-jQuery methods are good if you are "just trying to tack on a dropdown menu onto a decade old Wordpress theme", however if you want to manipulate DOM in a more complex manner and do not wish to pull in an entire frontend rendering library, then jQuery is perfectly fine.

You will have/want to factorise these methods anyways because some of them are just ridiculously long. jQuery has already done that and at least it is very consistent.
Know any production grade projects using swoole? I was looking at it in the past but looks very early to trust a business on it.
I point people to the flashlight search on paranetrek all the time. I had no clue about the backstory.

If you want a new flashlight check out
http://flashlights.parametrek.com/
So like Graphene it can do everything except get out of the lab? :)

Just kidding, been slightly following the better-Android OSes and it’s a good idea.
Thing is populists tactics wouldn't get as much traction if the prejudice was not as bad, or worsening in the first place.
Populism starts as a natural consequence of misery and lack of education, then becomes a cause that keeps reinforcing itself until the guillotine moment.

Solving the populism issue means tackling the root issues it feeds from first.
Taiwan blocking Chinese websites? Good.

China blocking Western websites? Bad.
I’m going to guess the downvoters get their panties in a bunch if someone prefers Vim or Emacs over the other.
Clearly you've never driven in Los Angeles. :)
One has better tech, the other has bolder marketing.
That's a real head scratcher
Back in the day we used to use OR 0x20 for tolower, and AND 0xBF as a quick toupper (straight up bit masking). It saved a bunch of clock ticks by not having to compare each character and jump past an ADD or SUB every time the letter was already in the desired state.

Of course you could XOR 0x20 if you wanted tO rEVERSE tHE cASE, but I'm not sure how useful that is.
I mentioned Circle by Disney in the post. I’ve found it pretty simple. Unsure of the security or privacy implications, but it’s had a bog enough impact that I’m fine with it.

The email newsletters and podcasts you have to do manually.
101 at 85 in Mountain View has a bunch of lane dividers with their far ends lifted and turned hard to one side. Might this already be happening, albeit accidentally?

The fact it’s the same junction as the fatal crash is also interesting.
A pub, a bakery, a well-placed gas station.
China blocks anything is called censorship.

Block something from China is for security risk.

In the end everyone just block everyone?
Short version:

I'll buy 80% of your idea for $500.

In case first customer(s) will ever come - i'll give you another $1,500.

Not clear: if no customer(s) will ever come after X days - who owns the idea?
The founders and employees were members of the Israeli military cyber-security apparatus, if not Unit 8200 itself.

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/08/25/every...)

I assume most software sold by these companies has backdoors either already shared with Aman/Mossad, or stored to be provided upon request.
On my path to improve myself and learn more about machine learning and where it could be applied, I came up with this idea: to feed the neural network during execution time.

On the firsts round, it plays randomly. After 3 rounds gathering information about the player it starts making predictions of next move.
How to Flip the Script on Feedback Meetings
So, you expect us to boil it all down to just F = ma, and f'get about the apple, the apple tree, the time of day, the phase of the moon, the temperature of the day, what Newton was wearing?????

That was a really good shot at causality. Let me just say, quite generally, causality is super tough to find.
Thanks again for inspiring this in the first place :)
My family stayed in an extended stay between the time our lease was up at our apartment and the time we were looking for a house and had one built. It was about $1500 a month. Our apartment down the street was $1700 a month and with utilities it was around $2300 a month.

But even when you compare like for like. A one bedroom in the same complex would have total around $2000 a month with rent and utilities.

The extended stay had people going to work in suits, a school bus picking up kids, and crew from at least two films that were being shot in the area were staying there.
Oh this is infuriating:

> You will be told that you need to develop a thick skin.

It's the equivalent of a bully taunting with "stop crying!"

I have been doing open source for about 10 years. A couple of my projects have 1000+ stars on gh for what it's worth.

Most people are chill. Some people disagree without being disagreeable. Then there's others who are completely toxic. A guy who was cto of a company and wanted to use one of my libraries made me absolutely miserable for weeks. Wrote about the experience here:

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/your-idea-sucks/
Checking in from Europe, California roads can be very confusing or badly marked.
Right, this is incidents, not rate. Rate is currently bad 1960s record lows. It’s intersting that the number of incidents has remained fairly steady since the 90s, but not meaningful other than to see the year-over cyclic.
I live along US 290 near Houston which has been a total shit show of construction and hazard for the past few years. Adversarial lane markings don’t necessarily require malice.

On 290 confusing lane markings, old lane markings, changes in surface and grade, are hard enough for human drivers. I wonder how state of the art self driving would handle these situations.

It’s been a treacherous stretch of highway. I can’t imagine the construction is being done is a safety compliant manner but I’m not an expert.
>Disagreeing isn't ignoring. It isn't a conspiracy. It's just disagreement.

I've read a lot of those "disagreements". Most of them are thinly veil-led attacks and facile dismissals, the kind that pass for criticism in mass media today.
Greatly appreciate the popup that lets you disable the joke interface. Much appreciated.
Blue collar workers in the North definitely benefited from slavery in the form of lower cost of living as many items were imported from the South to the North. Also cheaper imports for northern manufacturing increased the value of norther labor.
When we stayed at an extended stay, there was a stovetop and a microwave. I’m sure if you wanted to cook you could get a hot plate.
One serious problem with most of OSS libraries is that, no project will tell you, what's the upsides and downside of the project, or the things the project could do and couldn't do. So, most of the time, the user must spend serious efforts to evaluate if it's OK for them or not.

Of course, this is hard and often not reasonable to do. But at least, let's do things based on some assumption.
Right? Diversity in aspiration and life experience tends to be tolerated iff its within a publicly accepted manner.

The man living happily wired into the net meeting his financial obligations and not breaking any law is fine in my eyes.

Sometimes the net is preferable to the available versions of meatspace