skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the part where they complain bitterly that people they called stupid, lazy leeches won't go along with boycotts of, say, Iran or Huawei, just because they were told to.

I learnt in the third grade that that approach doesn't work.
It's common in any situation where you share a car with other people.
It's always been America First. It's becoming a mindset of "America Only". That's the problem.
I don't think everyone here is using the same definition of "out of Africa" here. There pretty much no doubt the hominids in general and modern humans came from Africa. But subspecies like denisova and neanderthal evolved outside of Africa (probably).

Most modern humans are from Africa with multi-regional mixins, those mixins themselves were African origin if you go back far enough. It's all a game of how far you want to go back.
Wow, that's a brutal work schedule. Hard to believe it's the norm. Isn't there enough demand that tech workers could elect to work elsewhere if their employer enforces this?
Sickening that we're cozying up to authoritarian Russia and China while alienating Western democracies. When did the enemy become our friends?
The so-called "America first" policy works against the interests of the United States though. Or is it "destroy America first, screw up the rest later?"
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I wanted to start an honest discussion but my thread seems to have quickly devolved into the haves vs have nots of a capacity for empathy. Which is not my intention. This is probably my fault, for not considering enough viewpoints before writing my question.

Let’s consider starting from this standpoint instead: Everyone has differing levels of empathy and it’s not going to be the same for every person. Despite this, we all need to get along and work towards whatever our individual goals are peacefully.

Given this vast spectrum of empathy, advice from the extreme edges of that spectrum (“just tune out all news 100%” on one end, “cry for every single suffering being everywhere” on the other end) is particularly useless, because the only reason this situation even exists in the first place is because of extremism / polarization.

Where do we go from here?
Yeah, pretty much.
Thank you for this.

I am really hoping that one day we can somehow arrive at clean useful and possibly actionable news streams which balance issues and positive/celebratory information.

Today’s news large outlets create anxiety rage and suffering and serve as a tool for separation and propaganda. This experience is extremely toxic and one needs to exercise high level of discipline and often sacrifice well being in order to stay informed.
Charles Van Doren, Contestant in Quiz-Show Scandal, Dies at 93
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What is a recording? Does a 10 millisecond delay mean it is a recording? What is the legally binding lock-out time for this audio stream before a human can listen to it?
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I did a road trip back in 2003 with my Ultimate Frisbee coach and we stopped in Chicago to visit his old CMU Roomate, Wes.

Wes was a pinball engineer at Stern and took us to the factory late night and we played games for hours.

My coach and Wes were extremely impressive players — they would put in a quarter and walk away hours later with dozens of free games racked up on the machine.

One of my favorite memories from my early twenties.
They can't change it but they still need to know to prepare for it. If the GOP killed the ACA, millions of people would need to immediately take action to find alternative support. Most of us on here would be fine either way.
Google hasn't used email contents for ad targeting in a couple years: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
I still think it would be worth pursuing. I hope the raw data will be made available at some point... Not that I have 5 petabytes free space available right now...
Politics aren’t the only way to change the status quo. In fact they’re not good at it at all. Uber and AirBnB changed the status quo far more than any politician in my lifetime.

Also, most people’s personal issues trump any macro issue by far. You can change your status quo. It’s almost impossible for an individual to change the status quo and definitely not through typical political engagement.
Well, one recent example is that of article 13, which is a massive expansion of copyright law.

Yeah, no thanks. I do not at all what expansive intellectual property laws to be spreading all over the world, and hurting creators like that.

Creators benefit way more when it is easy to share and use and modify other people's content.
It is a complete mess.

The MPs in office overwhelmingly oppose Brexit. They don't support anything else, but they oppose Brexit as well. But the country is fairly evenly divided. However the Conservative party hung itself out to dry on a promise to deliver Brexit, and the Conservative base very strongly wishes that Brexit had happened already. If it doesn't, it is not impossible that the Conservative party will fall apart.

The Conservative leadership's opinion is that their base consist of "swivel-eyed loons", but without that base, the Conservatives don't win elections. Also the Conservatives are in a coalition right now with the DUP, and the DUP is strongly for Brexit. (As I commented to a friend today, if the Conservative base consists of swivel-eyed loons, the DUP base consists of steel-eyed goons.)

The country as a whole is fairly evenly divided. Polls suggest that a re-do would come up Remain. But polls suggested the same thing before the referendum as well. Demographics suggest that the country as a whole will support Remain in the future. However large parts of the country are strongly Leave and that won't be changing any time soon. And no, they aren't simply stupid racists. They have some valid concerns, such as the long-term effect of EU regulations (such as GDPR and the new Copyright bill) on economic growth.
Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa
The IRS could develop a system where they list what information they've received already, and you can then validate that this represents the complete set of expected information and request that they go ahead and process taxes now without waiting.

If they then receive more information later that would affect your taxes, they can bill you, or otherwise just go through the same process they would if you filed your taxes incorrectly under the current system.
The thing is, those devices are going to do that even if Mozilla drops DoH, the RFCs are burned and everyone responsible shot.

So the options are:
* Make DoH illegal somehow
* Take advantage of it as best we can
This is some weak logic. So a super-high capital business like an Airline is going to flaunt aircraft safety rules, potentially risking hundreds of lives of their customers and employees... to what exactly? Buy some cheaper uncertified Chinese(?) aircrafts or fly other certified aircrafts unsafely...to make a little extra money? And then run away when the lawsuits and families of the dead come chasing you?
They usually don't need your signature anyway. They'd just say no and move on. The vote of the majority of the shareholders, or often, just the majority of the preferred shareholders, are enough.
Most people work around 7-8 hrs/day at big corp. It is also possible to stay inside of 15 minutes from work (A lot of Boston, Seattle people I know do this)

I know some people who go back home for a quick lunch or disappear for an hour in between.
Many of these companies only care about you getting your work done and being present for all the meetings.

Ofc, there are just as many where your case applies. But, it is certainly not the norm for FAANG-eque companies
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Looks great! What other languages/frameworks do you plan on adding in the future?
Then Mozilla should make a crippled "safe" version of their browser that has a hard coded list of trusted servers then.

Because by making this the default, they are helping centralize the internet and greatly benefiting the entrenched powers while putting barriers to entry for the rest of us.
The joke doesn’t really make any sense though. How will they know to wiretap your house because of what you’re saying unless it’s wiretapped already?
I understand the distinction you're drawing with regards to the company secretly recording without anyone's consent, but in the imagined scenario discussed in this thread where a spouse or whoever gets recorded after a different user agrees to the terms and conditions wouldn't your reasoning place the blame on the original user who misused the tool, not on the company who supplied the tool? There are scenarios where a user might want to have an always-on microphone in a certain section of their house without violating anybody else's privacy.
In 2016 the US imported $416B and exported $270B to the EU. Although $11B is a large number, it's a 2.6% tax on the total. More interestingly, is what they are taxing.

Personally, I'd rather have tariffs than income tax. At least then I can choose what to buy.
What ridiculous laws do you mean? GDPR? Or monopoly abuse fines? Do you think US businesses should be able to run under US law in the EU, meaning they can do whatever they want to consumers, monopolizing markets by violating local laws, taking in huge profits, and then hardly paying corporate taxes (neither in EU nor US)?

None of that has anything to do with these tariffs, btw.
I interpreted many restaging PET/CTs today and am thankful I didn’t have to consider whether the nodules I saw were injected by malware.

I’d be really curious to see what the final “product” of the altered CT looked like to see if the synthetic nodules still look real across a variety of WL/WW settings or if they suddenly look “fake” or “photoshopped”. I’m not sure the images have to be encrypted end to end. Wouldn’t cryptographic signing be sufficient to verify the authenticity of the image?
Protectionism (in this form) has never been a good policy, but it's always quite appealing to the protected companies - and when companies have the ability to sway elections (money in politics) then you can reasonably expect quite a lot of it to be going on.
One thing I don't see mentioned in your post or the replies is geographic location. I'm a software engineer living in a relatively low COL state. My pay isn't the greatest so I talk to the FANG recruiters when they contact me. They seem to be aware that not all of us can move to the Bay Area at the drop of a hat so they tell me that I can have my pick of city (usually Seattle/Austin/Atlanta)

Agreed with others that network can be pretty key. Even for acquaintances I've recruited to my current company (3 so far), our company was not in their radar but they were immediately willing to try it out since I gave them my recommendation (and all of us remain here)
So I’m sitting in my office, talking with a colleague…

“OK, Google patent 9,876,543 and see if we’re infringing.”

or if my colleague is named Alexa…

“Alexa, let’s hammer those idiots.”

I think the first would wake Google Home. I guess Alexa lets you change the wake word to ‘echo’ or ‘computer’. It would be better if it let you use something arbitrary like ‘Rumplestiltskin’

IP leakage or potential misunderstandings don’t seem so improbable to me. Especially if the listeners in (from OP Bloomberg article) in Costa Rica, India, or Romania aren’t au courant with “hammer those idiots” as English idiom in context.
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++
You’re right, it varies greatly by state. I’m thinking specifically of Michigan.
That, and hard to prove what is causing the brain damage. The amyloid beta deposits are easy to see and therefore to blame. But over time, bacteria can cause a lot of damage even if there aren't many at any given point.
I guess they're going after the people who don't need a db first, then add features to support some kind of "db-lite" functionality later. They're competing with wordpress/squarespace, not gcloud or aws (mostly..) :)

See addons: https://www.netlify.com/products/

Also services like this allow you to have a "cms" which is the typical use of a db for _most_ websites: https://www.contentful.com/.

You are correct, heavy db users probably wouldn't go with a service like this :)
Also, ride on Google's marketing campaign. When Google does this, a lot of uninitiated clients want to get on the bandwagon and use something similar. Before Google, they might not even understand what your platform really offers. I saw the same thing happen when they advertised Stadia.

Below is an excerpt their T&C, use those to your advantage. I can't imagine any serious enterprise customer wanting to tie them down to Google. Just tell the market that you do exactly the same as this platform without tieing them down, without privacy violation and without letting them down by abandoning the product (yours is open source)

God speed!

12.1 The following terms apply only to current and future Google Cloud Platform Machine Learning Services specifically listed in the "Google Cloud Platform Machine Learning Services Group" category on the Google Cloud Platform Services Summary page:

Customer will not, and will not allow third parties to: (i) use these Services to create, train, or improve (directly or indirectly) a similar or competing product or service or (ii) integrate these Services with any applications for any embedded devices such as cars, TVs, appliances, or speakers without Google's prior written permission. These Services can only be integrated with applications for the following personal computing devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops
Nations are economic competitors, it's really naive to put this in terms of 'selfish / confrontational'.

All nations are 'selfish' in direct trade terms.

In terms of Geopolitics, there's an enormous degree of material goodwill added by the US following the WW2 and the creation of the NWO and not all of it is 'repaid' to them. The entire framework of global trade relies on the US, even today. Most of the free world still depends on the US for defence, at least partially and in some very 'lynchpin' ways.

The US's negotiations with China are reasonable.

The negotiating positions on refiguring NAFTA were mostly reasonable, although I don't think it will make a difference.

And FYI it's the EU that's constantly skittish, changing their minds, and arbitrarily taxing and back-taxing US companies often for their own, self directed problems (i.e. Irish/Dutch/Luxembourg taxation).

Even though Donald Trump is a huge political jerk, making noise for the sake of making noise, there's little on the table that is entirely unjust. The 'bad noise' is mostly rhetoric.
I think their new 'cloud run' product is supposed to be a step towards addressing that (and vendor lock-in).
That's what almost always the outcome of gov economic policies. Help a few large companies who are friends with the gov, whether it's giant food producers producing corn no one wanted in the first place, pharma companies competing against generics, banks making a killing on low-end mortgages, etc, while increasing costs and other burdens on regular citizens (or pushing unneeded externalities on to other countries).

We're experiencing that in Canada too with the dairy cartel getting cross-party support from both liberal and (mainstream) conservative parties because it helps a few local farmers stay moderately-wealthy while 100% of the population has to pay more for dairy products.
Immediately take what action, specifically, in your ACA hypothetical? Honestly asking.

Best I can come up with is "hope your kids don't get sick", followed by "ignore calls from debt collectors on that emergency room bill".

Reading the news obsessively and buying into the culture war actually does nothing to make those strategies more effective. Just saps energy that could be spent elsewhere.
We did one for Polar at the end of 2018:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/08/top-pdfs-of-2018-hackerne...

If you want an awesome PDF reader to read these you should check out Polar :)

Yes. There's a Linux version! ;)

https://getpolarized.io/
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That isn't what is going on. The stuff that gets published in the "tabloids" (Nature, Science, PNAS, etc) is sloppier.
Scaleway new cloud services documentation is copied from Digital Ocean
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The Purpose and Impact of the Cloud Act
I suppose so. But there is no shame in taking whatever privilege you're handed, the shame is more around how privilege gets distributed. And there is no honor in getting upset and sad at the news every day.

I stopped reading the news just like GP did, but way more than a year ago. You tend to hear about the stuff that matters anyway.
"America First" ... "US has been self-centered for quite some time"

Anyone who suggests that France is not 'France first' or that Switzerland is not 'Switzerland first' etc. etc. has not been paying attention.
It's very different when the trigger is locally a not-so-great guess followed by shipping the audio to a remote service that can make a slightly more informed guess.
Shouldn't people be having fun with or trolling these always-listening systems by speaking gibberish, in tongues or reciting custom sea shanties that reenact purely fictional accounts of high crimes on the open seas?
Watching the news didn't help them ...
> "Merged" conjures an image of living peacefully side by side and interbreeding for many generations.

Even when this did happen[1], the record seems to show trickles of gene-flow from these populations entering a much larger stream of genes from a more recently out-of-Africa population.

[1] And in a big complex world, it certainly would have happened sometimes.
I have to disagree. A lot of the time in America we tend to believe we have an absolute right to freedom of speech, but the reality is that our rights to speech are already tied to our race, sexuality, etc.

A black man mouthing off to a police officer for example would be very likely putting himself in a dangerous situation and anything the officer does would end up 'justified' in the court of law. Or you'll be arrested if you laugh at someone powerful, like what happened with the Jeff Sessions incident [1]

The great irony of our rabid belief in freedom of speech is that it simply doesn't exist in America. It's a nice platitude, but 'freedom of speech' has always been used as a tool and weapon for those in power to suppress minorities or to bolster their own voices. All you have to do is tie it to some other bogus law or rationale, and you get freedom of speech for me but not for thee.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-laugh-congressi...
I don't think that has anything even remotely to do with tariffs or trade.

But if it did: those lows are for the EU, not the rest of the world. Same goes for GDPR. Nobody is required to trade with the EU, or sell to the EU or buy from the EU. But if you do, the rules of the agreements that are made apply. This is nothing new, and works the same way for trade or interaction with pretty much any country. Imagine trying to sell stuff to China with Taiwanese flags...
I've been using this for the last month or so and have no complaints. Works well.
Not only Russian. In Spanish "droga" y "medicamento" are different words too.
Poland is a pathological case, because where communism fell we inherited one thing from it: obligatory two-year service in the army for all men of age 19 (except those with health issues, obviously). And one of the only few reliable ways to avoid it was to go to university.

The result was that literaly thousands of bullshit private universities were created not to educate you, but to help you avoid military. This also created additional income source for university professors, who earn pretty shitty salary in Poland.

Now, obligatory military service was abolished few years ago, but the trend of everyone going to college after high school remained.
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Just call it "sentiment analysis". Forgive me if I don't take their words at face value.
It seems most posters didn't really read the article as the tariffs appear to be in compliance with a WTO ruling on something illegal the EU is doing wrt subsidies to Airbus. Unsurprising that the NYT and HN goes with the lead that Trump is unilaterally fucking up world order yet again but in this case it doesn't seem so deserved.

I really wish both groups (the NYT and HN) would be more nuanced when it comes to Trump. Otherwise, we all end up justifying Trump's and other Alt-Righties' claims of bias.
Don't know why you are getting downvoted when you are completely correct.

There's so much that Mozilla could do structurally, but they are terrified of rocking the boat or disrupting their corporate underwriters.

Just like earlier today, with their anti malicious javascript features[1]; they could look into empowering the users and changing the structure of how js is run in the browser. But that might threaten advertisers, so instead they opted for a clumsly blacklisting solution instead.

If you want an accurate heuristic for predicting Mozilla's behavior, just ask "What would Google want?". It may not be Google in particular that these decisions benefit, but they absolutely benefit those entities that are locking down and siloing the internet.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19614808
>Uber and AirBnB changed the status quo far more than any politician in my lifetime.

I am sorry, but that is just depressing if you believe something like that. The ACA is one thing that comes to mind. Improving healthcare for Americans would have a much bigger impact on people's lives than giving people who already own a home a way to make a little extra money.
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I've been on a 2012 MacBook Pro for ~7 years.

The build quality is fantastic. The keyboard is punchy. The display is pre-retina, so not great, but I'm used to it. It's only noticeable when I see someone else's newer laptop display. Battery life is only ~1.5-2 hours, but I'm plugged in mostly.

First 5.5 years, I had macOS installed.
However, with OS updates, starting around Sierra (10.12), the machine became unusably slow.

Last 1.5 years, I've been running a mostly vanilla Lubuntu 16.04, upgraded to 18.04 recently.
Most things worked out of the box, it was still an adjustment. A few notes:

- Drag-and-drop isn't as nice. So I use an external mouse now.

- External displays have to be manually added after plugging in.

- It was hard to do without Spotlight for a while. Linux alternatives were too heavy for my machine.

- Mostly I deploy Python to Ubuntu Server, so keeping a similar dev environment is a breeze.

- Have not gotten bluetooth to work yet, but haven't tried very hard either.

- At the moment, I wouldn't go back to macOS or Windows. I'd keep making small dives into the linux ecosystem to solve my problems.

If I needed to buy a new laptop and didn't need any heavy-lifting, I'd look for one of these older, linux-tested, macbooks and install a lightweight linux distro.
No mention of vim or neovim?
A reference implementation isn't standardization. Markdown had a reference implementation and yet subsequent implementations still diverged. The reference implementation also had bugs, which were fixed over time, thus changing the de-facto standard.

At this point, Markdown does have a real standard, CommonMark. GitHub-Flavored Markdown was modified to become an extension to CommonMark (it's literally just a few extra features on top of CommonMark at this point). There are of course non-CommonMark-based implementations still (such as MultiMarkdown) but at this point anyone adding Markdown support to a project should be using CommonMark or GFM.