skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its easier to be faux-outraged.

Now its the Chinese that encourage ignoring copyright/patent/trademark/trade secret laws. It helps them get their country ramped up with regards to industrialization.

Japan did so before that, in the 60s and 70s.

The USA also did so when we broke off from England. And later, Hollywood was made to get away from Edison's and others patents.

But complaining that "The Chinese" is derogatory is petty posturing and fake outrage.
It somewhat exists: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-supports-privacy-pass...

Google doesn’t implement it directly, but any CloudFlare powered website that shows you a Google Captcha because of CF is supported.
All psychological states are "Psychological Conditions". Whether they are something that need to be "treated", or not is a different question.

Depending on your upbringing, marrying, and staying in your town might be considered the norm, and therefor wanderlust, the abnorm. Locals may think you strange for ever wanting to leave and explore the world.

Conversely, in my upbringing, I resented the idea of staying still and have lived in a constant state of wanderlust. As have many of my friends. It's a big world, and there is lots to explore.

Tangentially, I wonder if there is a link between wanderlust, and people who have to rearrange their bedrooms frequently.

In US culture it may not be as prominent, but in many other cultures, young adults (students) will frequently take a "gap year" in which they will travel the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_year
There's little to no conviction behind most of these types of protests and employers know it. People have too much to lose. Especially Google employees who make a lot of money and likely have lifestyles that depend on said money.
> Or him Cahill not going to a heavily slanted platform to push his message.

But these platforms are often the only ones willing to publish unfashionable science of the kind that Cahill is working on.

And if Nature chooses not to publish unfashionable science, then perhaps it is not as neutral as we might think?
It depends on whether you subscribe to the progressive ideology that people should be encouraged to do things that we see as good for them. For the record, I do. But if we decide that we want a society where more people make the uninformed decision to buy a gas-powered car or a diesel generator because it's understood to be a social good then that's fine. That's precisely what that tool is meant to be used for.

Whether or not we can imagine a world where buying a gasoline-powered car or private telecom is considered a social good is less of an issue than whether we want to be able to incentivize those things should they become necessary.
The docs for the API, especially for a company whose primary users are software developers, is a core part of the product offering. Just look at the investments that AWS, Twilio, and Stripe make in their docs. This stuff matters.
Sounds like it might work much better to only have as many processes as there are logical cores.
There's something to be said for making sure the government is doing it accurately. I bet there's a lot of people for whom the IRS is wrong about. Also, if you have other income with no W2 it needs to be reported.
Link at [0].

I'm a little skeptical. That user certainly writes in a similar style to how I've seen Alan Kay write online, but I wouldn't be opposed to seeing some more proof. A one-day-old HN account claiming to belong to one of the most important people in CS from the past 50 years seems a little suspicious haha.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19717640
it can have unexpected benefits too, however. All it takes is one viral movement, like #fuckTurboTax and simple guides to file free (with specific detours around the dark patterns) could spread nationwide in a single afternoon. It's just a matter of capturing enough peoples' attention.
Is this different from ANY other concept in technology? Personal Computing, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence? We never have real definitions for any of these, and if you attempt to make one it will be obsolete before you finish your blog post.

The only real problem I see is that too many technologist insist that there is 'one definition to rule them all' and it's usually the one they most agree with. As long as we all understand that these terms are fluid and can explain the pro's and con's of our particular version we will be fine.
I wish I could update this more than once.

When you compare the Beyond Burger to the Impossible Burger, the Beyond Burger feels like a block of red play-doh. "Meat is red so this must be red."

Don't get me wrong I will still eat it, but the Impossible Burger feels miles ahead, its just that the Beyond Burger feels to have hit the larger markets first.

I can't wait until I can start cooking my own Impossible meat at home, here's to hoping that the Impossible Burger does well at Burger King's trial run.
It’s been logical to do it in a domestic market to become a market leader but it’s illogical to do it in a new market?
Raytheon has/had a huge presence in the Santa Barbara area.
GitHub is giving away free developer tools for students
no because its not true.
If you won't throw your ethics into the pit for power, someone else will. And them everybody will be forced to throw the shared ethics or be outcompeted. And collectively, everyone will be poorer as a result.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
It seems like you haven't seen the exact same copied parameter examples? I don't really see how this can be defended as not cloning - it's one thing to use others as "inspiration" and take in some general good ideas, but copy someone else's work in such a blatant manner is disgusting. If I were amongst their investors, I'd be pissed.
Interesting take. I've always said Impossible tastes more like meat, but has a bad texture match, and Beyond tastes less like meat but has a better texture.

With that said, I think the flavor and quality of Beyond is higher, for me. Impossible still hovers around low-grade, poor texture ground beef. I want them both to be successful because the more options we have the better.

I think Impossible is likely to be more successful targeting current meat eaters, though, so you may be right about their longer term success.

I've found the variance of each burger to be highly dependent on the preparation, so I think a real fair test would be made-at-home side-by-side. I enjoy the Beyond patty made at home on a skillet without much extra besides a bun and catchup and mustard, this says a lot.

I'm a recent vegetarian (4 years).
Lacking life isn't a remotely useful metric for cruelty, or every minute decision anyone has ever made is responsible for an infinite number of states of the universe not happening.
The Book of Love Is Long and Boring
"Published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in: at least 25 times more sentient animals being killed per kilogram of useable protein"

http://theconversation.com/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-ther...
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I'm the "computing Alan Kay" from the ARPA/Parc research community (there's a clarinettist, a judge, a wrestler, etc.) I did create a new account for these replies (I used my old ARPA login name).
What It Takes To Put Your Phone Away
Unless I'm sorely mistaken, Kanye definitely did not say that——Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a response in the Atlantic to Kanye's public statements about race and Trump and the headline was 'I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye' which is a reference to O.J. Simpson, who allegedly told his friends, "I'm not black, I'm O.J."
How the blend of Apps and Internet of Things is doing wonderful things?
I built a technology to make digital books from old copyright expired printed books in various less popular languages. After I put a lot of content online and getting decent traffic from google search I started receiving DMCA take down notices from an American company that had simply copied all my data to their website and claimed to google that it is their copyright. (Imagine the audacity to call Bible translation from 1800s their own copyright).

When I tried to file an appeal with Google I had to agree to abide by California jurisdiction and American laws. I am not even American. Why should I ?

I am happy if Google blocks my site in American owing to DMCA because US traffic for me is next to zero. But I am not sure why DMCA should apply to India.
Why hasn't anyone invented a better sticker for fresh fruit that doesn't
When I first learned about Erlang, using it to implement tuple spaces was what immediately came to mind. I need to get back to that idea.

Thanks for sharing that. I've effectively abandoned Twitter but I need to go re-read his timeline once I think I can do it without too much sorrow.
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I'm a pretty shameless meat eater (I know...), and tried the Beyond Burger at Carl's a while back out of curiosity (not an outfit I visit often, I do try to stay local at least).

Granted that Carl's loads their stuff up with ridiculous amounts of sauce as a way to mask their crappiness, but still ... I don't think I'd be able to reliably tell the difference in a blind test.

Given a good burger from a high quality pub and grill or similar, I might be able to.

But as far as I care, that can just become an occasional treat, as it pretty much is now. I'm waiting for a little more word on the nutritional science of these things, but once they look good there, I'll be happy if they replace my regular burger patties pretty much everywhere.

I've never bought (individual) stock before but I'm sorely tempted to buy some of this a few days after it becomes available. Absent some Theranos-level fuckery, I expect that these guys (and their competitors) are going to be huge.
Seems unlikely that they would, or even would think they would be able to, go on strike as that requires resources beyond what most tech workers have access to.
Not anymore you don’t. It’s easy nowadays to conceal motive through indirection.
Right!

You are the bank's customer. They don't need to protect the ability of vendors to bill you. I've had this argument before. "If canceling this subscription/ability to bill causes a dispute or debt or contract issue with the vendor, that's on me. I don't need you being 'helpful', or worse, _refusing_ to remove unauthorized transactions."
Older nodes, being well-understood mature technologies, can be manufactured domestically.

On the modern battlefield, one side having considerably more processing power than the other side might swing the strategic balance. This means more sophisticated missiles, ECM, battlefield coordination, targeting, etc... all on the side having access to the superior chip fab technology in wartime.

Now think about the chip fabs in Taiwan.
Stolen from Twitter [1]:

"Government: You owe us money. It’s called taxes.

Me: How much do I owe?

Gov’t: You have to figure that out.

Me: I just pay what I want?

Gov’t: Oh, no we know exactly how much you owe. But you have to guess that number too.

Me: What if I get it wrong?

Gov’t: You go to prison"

[1] https://twitter.com/jordan_stratton/status/11181414550616719...
Engineering, Open-Source, and Interview-Heavy Web Development Podcasts – Part 2
I had to use my own computer programs in order to be able to solve Google's CAPTCHAS!!!

Machines solve them much better than I do, way faster and way better.

And the most important thing, it does not frustrate or mentally exhaust me, like the thing does to people.
Jive != jibe[1] (but agreed about Moz's role in WASM)

1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jive-jibe-gibe
I'm the opposite. If I see "10M" in financial docs, then I have to pause think about context. If I see "10MM" I'm certain that the author meant "million" and keep on reading.
I would love for something like that to happen, and given all of the activity in the blockchain space, someone will probably come up with a clever solution. I just have a hard time imagining a motivation for Google to switch to using such a thing even if it were invented. They way it works now benefits them.

But even just looking at it from a purely technical perspective... If CAPTCHAs are intended to be "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart", then its quite clear that they no longer accomplish this. I am a human and I can't pass. The model is wrong, build a better one.
Yep. Like a meat diet, a vegan diet will indeed be perfectly healthy provided it is reasonably balanced. You need to watch a few things, such as B12 intake.

OTOH, there is plenty of evidence as to the negative effects of meat on health - the higher fat intake, for instance, and the increased cancer risk.
I like that you and GP like Impossible and dislike Beyond for the same reasons I like Beyond and dislike (too strong of a word, let's just say prefer Beyond) Impossible.

Again, this is why I'm hoping they are both successful.
> 2. Search the language space (the set of all strings of the language) for a proof of the theorem statement.

This is not how proof assistants based on type theory work. That would be true if you used a prolog-like thing in order to search for a proof, but in these systems the human constructs the proof (just like how they do for P=NP papers) and the system checks if it is correct (unlike P=NP papers, where the human checks if the proof is correct and is usually wrong).

> and dependency checking is itself vulnerable to combinatorial explosion

I am curious on what you mean by that.
Regardless of whether Intuit is willfully or accidentally using dark patterns to get paying customers, their incentives completely explain how they ended up with such a complete garbage endpoint.

Of course, that is being very generous, because they are also directly influencing the policy makers that establish the incentive structures for Intuit.
>would it really be a sign of mental health issues or would it just be a byproduct of their lower social-class life?

Indeed, I think you've hit on a modern malady - the belief that modern society is no longer engaged in class warfare, and that psychological 'ordering' of society is no longer aligned on those boundaries which benefit the ruling class.

Because, in fact: that belief would be wrong.
The same professionalism that generated a shitty, sprawling enterprise codebase?
I can confirm 60fps on iPhone Xʀ.
It makes no sense to dig up coal, burn it to CO2, mix it to the atmosphere, concentrate the CO2 from the atmosphere, try to convert it to some denser form and try to push it back underground.

Instead, reducing energy usage and replacing fossil energy with cleaner forms yields much more CO2 reductions per dollar.

The oceans are absorbing CO2 as we speak. The less we emit, the more they can absorb. They are warming and their ability to absorb will lessen.

Think about the derivatives. We are building new coal plants. Yearly emissions are increasing.

First stop building new coal plants. Then start shutting old ones down. When no coal plant is running, then do carbon capture.
I'm between you two on this. The GenX cohort (I'm on the older end at 53 BTW) is caught in a bind. No, those near retirement shouldn't have all of their assets in volatile investments. But also no, they shouldn't have all of their assets in super-safe low-yield investments either because compounding is an essential part of building up a retirement fund. The transition from prime-earning-years portfolio choices to near-retirement (and then actual-retirement) portfolio choices is far from simple.

Also, keep in mind that even supposedly-safe types of investments got hit pretty hard in that downturn. Top-rated funds were actually far riskier than anyone knew because of the ratings shenanigans that were part of the MBS/CDO/etc. mess. Home values also declined sharply. Many lost their jobs, so they had to draw from already low and declining retirement funds.

I was fortunate. Many of my friends were not. While I'm proud of having made choices that preserved my ability to provide for my family, I wouldn't be so quick to criticize others whose rationally-equivalent choices turned out much worse.
I'm wondering this too. A walkout might make sense if google was the only game in now. Clearly that's not the case - these are "smart" people with loads of options. Just quit if you actually mean business. Strange to expect to keep a FAANG salary and not do the "dirty" work.
Sadly this is exactly what should be done in most contracts. (In a hypothetical alternate world where law worked more like OSS).

Of course it was unethical for them to do it without telling you and trying to charge you $5k for it, but law would be a heck of a lot cheaper if openness and code re-use were the default.
Not sure what OPs requirements are, but mine are along these lines:

"If animals like free-range cows have lives that are not worth living, almost all wild animals could plausibly be thought to also have lives that are worse than non-existence. Nature is often romanticised as a well-balanced idyll, so this may seem counter-intuitive. But extreme forms of suffering like starvation, dehydration, or being eaten alive by a predator are much more common in wild animals than farm animals. Crocodiles and hyenas disembowel their prey before killing them[1]. In birds, diseases like avian salmonellosis produce excruciating symptoms in the final days of life, such as depression, shivering, loss of appetite, and just before death, blindness, incoordination, staggering, tremor and convulsions.[2] While a farmed animal like a free-range cow has to endure some confinement and a premature and potentially painful death (stunning sometimes fails), a wild animal may suffer comparable experiences, such as surviving a cold winter or having to fear predators, while additionally undergoing the aforementioned extreme suffering[3]."

-Thomas Sittler. "How Should Vegetarians Actually Live?"
So it’s like builtin Bluetooth?
Had we known about Hunter.io we would have used it. We had a small list of URL (~500). Would have been the small price to simply have it automated by a specific program rather than humans.
These people mainly want to be seen as standing up for their principles on Twitter, they don't actually want to sacrifice their livelihoods for them IRL, are you freaking kidding?
"I cloned a sheep" does not imply "I am a clone of a sheep" or "The only thing I have ever done is clone sheep".
“Glenn, we need you to find another transuranic element again…someone added a new machine to the network”
I'm a meat eater and my partner's a vegetarian.

A&W was our go-to fast food hamburger place even before beyond meat burgers as their veggie deluxe burger was already fairly good, though I'd still order a meat burger.

Now we both get the beyond meat burger and I honestly can't tell the difference between them and their standard meat patties. Granted, that's a lower bar than fresh ground beef coming off a barbecue, but still impressive.
"Ethical cannibalism." Some med student is going to eat a surplus lab-grown kidney, and there you'll have it.
Yah, I'm just gonna go to my boss and say "more monies plz" or I'm going to go scour the market and try to trade up. I suppose if I just look at the number and ignore everything else the latter might be doable...but I do want a personal fit and some kind of stability. I suppose if I'm willing to pack my bags and start over every year or so I can keep this going and mitigate the effect of working places I hate for the sake of a big number.

Oh yah, and I have no high profile github stuff, nor am I a whiteboard wizard. I guess I should just "git gud" though, which I'm sure is a negligible stress investment with a guaranteed pay off?

/s Truly, I'm not allergic to the subject, but the cavalier attitude kills me sometimes. So much "What's the problem, peasants?"
I don't particularly agree with you; I've often thought that amounts to trying to win the debate by nuking the entire playing field. Even if you win, have you?

But I can spot you that anyhow, because there's a perfectly reasonable fallback position: This is illegal. It's a copyright infringement at the very least, and possibly other things as well. And being "illegal", the "what are you gonna do about it" actually has clear, well defined answers. Smartcar.com is doing them a favor by serving a cease & desist, as there is nothing preventing them from moving straight to legal action.
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And as a consequence, gender scientist refuse to address or even comment on conclusions of studies in other fields. Instead they prescribe implementing their methods and observing the outcome as the only way of performing experiments. So in a very practical sense, they are experimenting with society at large rather than with their research subjects. It's very nonscientific and dangerous practice.
This is Google we're talking about - where, as shown in the Damore complaint, organized trolling groups were routinely cyber-harassing and cyber-bullying coworkers on company-provided spaces and "forums", often with the implied acquiescence of middle management, for purely political reasons. It's just harassment fest and the definition of a toxic work environment - and they got away with it. Sure, the shoe is now on the "other" foot so to say, but other than that what exactly has changed?
I think this is relevant: https://mises.org/library/libertarian-manifesto-pollution
How much b-roll do they have?
tried the impossible burger. It is far from a good quality meat burger. probably near macdonalds quality.
As a nation, isn't that the right strategy to survive and develop? Why China should always do the low end manufacture work? As a people, would you always do the handy work if you have chance to learn from others and do a white collar job?
Then you end up with comments like you find on leasehackr.com, which has a twenty character minimum: “Agreed. 202020202020”
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China unveils colossal Mars training base camp in Gobi desert
I think c# really got the best of both worlds with extensions methods, where you can actually define functions that act on a object but are separated from the actual class definition.
I still think that pure functions and especially higher kinded types are better probably, although I have no direct experience with Haskell type classes, scala implicits and ocaml modules..
This isn't (only) about copyright on APIs; it's also about copyright on the API docs.
Well no it isn't..

MM would be 2 thousands - as in the representation of the year 2019 as MMXIX (2x1000 + 10 + (10-1))

Anyway, MM is clearly man-month or 2 digit month of the year when you stringify a date... we don't need more.
It's not like exact, but the apostrophus form of Roman numerals used something like forward and backward C’s separated by a vertical bar for a thousand, in place of the conventional M, and this sometimes reduced to something that looked similar to a phi. But calling M a placeholder for that seems accurate, as M was the more common form (and there was also I with a horizontal bar over it, though that seems a later innovation.)
The lower you start the lower the "more money will not improve my life anymore" number is. I have no desire to live in a nice neighborhood, drive new cars and drink fancy beer so the threshold where money stops improving my life is probably a couple tens of thousands of dollars per year lower than if I wanted those things but I still aspire to own vacation house so that pushes the number higher.

I think there's also some pretty big cultural differences between the US and western Europe when it comes to decisions to pursue money or not.