skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Laws like this are long past due.

I disagree. Laws like this are outwardly hostile to the culture of innovation that the internet enables.

> This particular law may not be the best implementation but governments do need to take action to provide their citizens with a real public square online.

I disagree. Governments do not need to provide a public online discussion forum. Plenty of forums already exist. Reddit, Facebook, Hacker News, various phpBBs, deviant art, the chans, tumblr, mastodon, etc. The beauty of the internet as it stands is that if you feel like you don't have a place to speak your mind online, it's extremely easy, and in many cases, completely free to create your own blog or forum. Government should not be involved in public discourse in any role besides that of an observer. It is important for a government to hear the words of it's people, but it is ridiculous to suggest that a government should hold control of where people can have discussions or who can have discussions. This law is authoritarian at best, dystopian at worst.

> Excluding fake and paid users (without a declaration of who is paying them) from that space and protecting free speech in that space is essential to having a public policy discussion.

Protecting free speech is very important. However, this law does no such thing. In fact, it makes it easier to persecute people whose opinions you don't like. Requiring identification for the exercising of free speech is not free speech at all.

> Private corporations have not done this, and probably never will, so government is the only option left.

Regulation on how private companies handle their users is not inherently a bad thing. This law, however, is not only stifeling to free speech, it prevents smaller players from entering the game. It makes it hard for individuals to create their own small online communities by forcing them to navigate murky legal waters.

This law is bad. Everything about this law is bad. There is no single part of this law that is good for the internet.
147% not 147 individual customers for anyone else confused.
About a year ago, I was flying a hang glider and accidentally had a parachute deployment, and I ended up suspended in a tree, waiting for a grounds crew to come cut me down. The first thing that my friend said when I called him was "stand up if you can". Suspension trauma is a real risk for pilots who get stuck in trees, and it's a subject covered during parachute education clinics for that reason.
I am pretty sure you are wrong.

OCaml has multiple implementations, it is a matter to choose the right one for the task at hand.

Delphi can make use of C++Builder's backend.

Eiffel uses its MELT VM for development, or compilation via C and C++ code generation, thus enjoying all their optimization capabilities.

D has three main implementations available, including GPGPU support on the ldc one.

.NET Native uses Visual C++'s C2 backend.
My Masters program of about 30 people were all given 2018 MacBook Pros in August 2018. We've all been using it as our primary laptop since then and there has one keyboard problem that Apple did end up fixing.

I've also spilled maybe half a cup of water directly the keyboard of my 2017 MacBook Pro and it still works just fine to this day (I've since given the laptop to my dad).

Just hoping to add some more data to the conversation.
GatsbyJS and HTML5Up and AppSeed = Fast, Beautiful and Production-Ready App
Oddly enough, with enough history knowledge and resources like Microsoft Windows Internals, I find troubleshooting Windows to be a dream compared to MacOS. If something acts funny on Windows, I have a plethora of free and open source tools to instrument internal systems and audit operating system performance. Meanwhile on MacOS, it seems like any program not provided with the operating system is closed source and costs $100 a year, and when something breaks, I don't even know where to start looking. My wifi is not playing nice with my home wireless router? No clue what the issue is, guess it's time for my twice-weekly reboot
I repeat:

> Who gave you the authority to decide on behalf of the world what the phrase AI means?
If all employees are members of the state... transitive property hehe.
> Now on a '19 macbook air, because surely they've fixed it, yes?

Is there a 2019 MBA? I thought it was most recently updated in 2018. It certainly feels better than the older models, and even a smidge better than the 2018 MBP, which was updated earlier in the year. But there are still reports of issues with the 2018 MBA, including in the WSJ writeup IIRC.
That does not contradict me. See my other reply.
> Spending $1 to make $2 is always the right decision.

Unless you have an opportunity to spend $1 and make $3. Your supply of dollar bills is still limited. It's hard to spend huge amounts of money. You've always got to consider where the greatest leverage exists.
Right. Of course. "The children". It's amazing how "liberal" democracies use "the children" as an excuse to spy on everyone and to take everyone's rights away. At least the chinese or russians are honest about their authoritarianism.

And why stop at social media? Why not go all the way and just install cameras in people's home "to predict who could go missing"?

Canadians must feel warm inside knowing how much Big Brother loves them and wants to look after their children.
Show HN: Python tool to easily retrain OpenAI's GPT-2 text-gen model on new text
I've finally come around to think that it's okay to throw books into paper collection.
It feels wrong, viscerally. You do it hoping nobody is watching you.
But that feeling is stupid. It's ecologically okay to recycle paper, and the books you're throwing away aren't one-of-a-kind. You're not depriving anyone of the book, they can lend it from a library or buy it themselves.
Well, I guess there is kind of a paradox here: an employee owned company would eventually cease to be an employee owned company if employees individually sold their shares to third parties. Or at the very least you would have to keep issuing new shares to employees as they got sold in order to keep the proportion of ownership by majority in the hands of the employees which would presumably end up devaluing them massively.

There is a degree of incompatibility between employee ownership and how we think about equity in traditional companies. This isn't to say that selling the company needs to be impossible, but it may only be possible with collective decision making rather than individual shares being easy to buy and sell as they are on a public stock exchange.

The problem I see with Huawei in this case is less to do with being able to treat your ownership share as an easily fungible asset and more to do with the fact that it appears the employees do not have effective control over the company. i.e. they don't get a say in who's on the board, financing decisions or anything like that. If employees through a fair, democratic system effectively have sovereignty over what the company does (and there's no one with a massive ownership stake to veto them hanging around) then you have some semblance of legitimate employee ownership.

The buy-back mechanism isn't great either, if that is how you want it to work then it should be based off of a fair and independent valuation of the company which it appears that it isn't.

I also think it's unlikely that an employee owned company could have the kind of control over the company that it should have when it's operating from a literal dictatorship.

And you know, even this is all assuming that this article is accurate and not just a FUD think-piece to support the American government's stance on the company, having not really done a great deal of independent research on Huawei myself.
Game jams are literally the best time to try risky concepts. If it fails, you’ve spent only a small amount of time, and there’s a good chance that people will play your game and give you feedback. I can’t think of a better time to take a risk.

(Note: Parent comment edited risky -> ambitious.)
My happiness level increased a lot after 40. My hypothesis is that the this is because it took me that long to realize that I'm better off living my life on my own terms and paying a lot less attention to what others think of how I live my life, what my interests are, and so forth.
It always astonish how little preparations people do before start projects like this where they throw money away. if you have extra money building that kind of construct is not significant, but it's wasted effort nevertheless.

- Just cursory skimming of Wikipedia of laws of the sea would be enough to reveal that the place where they build their hut is within region of the sea where Thai government has the final say.

- China recently lost the South China Sea Arbitration where tribunal decided that construction of installations and artificial islands does not give rights to claim any sovereignty. If China can't win a arbitration, neither can some Bitcoin Joe.

- There already exists practical way seasteading outside the government if you have they money. You buy yachts registered in offshore accounts. You can also buy a citizenship for tiny island nations that leave you totally alone. Rich people store their valuables in freeports or in their yachts. There are superyacht art collections that rival big museums floating around the world.

- Another example is floating armouries that private military companies have. They those ships to store military grad weapons.
Pretty much, the US has always been at war. I mean, they used to have a War Department, which got renamed Defense Department for PR.
I read a paper recently that suggested they are a net positive if you are wealthy enough. If you are struggling financially then not so much.
FTC may hold Zuckerberg personally responsible for Facebook Privay failures
I believe there should be a special prosecutor specifically for police. This would remove the conflict of interest between prosecutors and the officers they rely on to work with them to do their jobs.
That's just the tip. Even casual reading through Wikipedia shows that like a half of health functions are tied to muscle work. E.g. anti-inflammatory function, because muscles act as endocrinal organs.

The interdependencies in this bag of organs are an unbelievable mess.
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The link I posted mentions it's not just air travel, but car, train, bus, etc, also.

But I have to wonder if the shrinking coach seat pitch/size isn't a big factor. I'm fairly average size, but flying is miserable these days.

Perhaps also the relative awkwardness of getting up while flying...the visible sighs from your row mates that have to move around a lot to let you pass.
Fleeing Saudi sisters issue plea for help and a message for Apple and Google
Actually it's the best keyboard I ever type on. I just loved. I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro Touch Bar at work. It's fast and reliable with every key press.
Interestingly - all your weight is on the harness, but the wall is still what makes the difference. Suspension trauma is basically a bloodflow issue, so resting against a wall lets you keep your feet elevated and your quads active, stopping blood from pooling. The catastrophic case for suspension trauma is hanging limp and unconscious, since it lowers your feet while stopping muscle use or even fidgeting to boost circulation.
Let them sue. They'll lose if they can't prove negligence.
FAA Grounds All Cirrus Vision Jets over Angle of Attack Issues
There's a myth that SV is more moral because they are "smarter" because they know technology and computer things and are so smart with their novel incentions. They are morally superior to traditional good ol' boy companies like big oil or auto they just inherited a big boring uninnovative company.
As others have mentioned, this is mostly not a problem because climbers are usually concious, and moving about and whatnot. Hanging in a harness for too long is quite uncomfortable if you don't move at least a little bit.

Where this starts to really matter though, is in the event of an accident, particularly if you're above, and belaying a second, and the second is hit by a rock or something and falls unconcious. In this case, you often can't easily lower them, especially if you're more than 60 meters off the deck; you usually can't raise them unaided either, unless you're unhumanly strong. Setting up a z-pully in a timely manner, and hauling the second up is the best option.

Unfortunatly, these sort of skills are not often practiced in the climbing community.

Edit: also, I think it's less of a practical issue in a climbing harness, unless you also have a chest harness on, or a full body, which is pretty uncommon.
It appears to be a misreading.

> We had 1,582 customers and 227 enterprise customers as of December 31, 2018. This is an increase of 143, or 10%, in customers and 57, or 33%, in enterprise customers from December 31, 2017.

Page 72.

The same figure appears again in the table on page 76.
On one of the threads, they suggest destructuring syntax.

Taking that a bit further and ignoring backwards compatibility entirely:

def foo([po1, po2], pk1, pk2, *args, {kw1, kw2, kwd1=default, kwd2=default, **kw}):
pass

And it implies some obvious shortcuts:

def all_pos_only[po1, po2, po3=default, *args]:
pass

def all_kw_only{kw1, kw2, kw3=default, **kw}:
pass
The strong continuous up slope after 60 or so in the US makes sense. Retirees in general have it really good here. They are a massive voting block with a lot of political power, allowing them to tip the scales in their favor financially, from taxes to federal and state subsidies/programs which entirely benefit older folks.

I’m surprised that “women in their 20s” happiness level is so low. I always thought of that demographic as living life on “easy mode”. They are highly educated compared to average, still have their health, energy, and looks, and without as much pressure to do the career thing as similarly aged men. Maybe just showing my own biases.
> Can a language ever reach a point of being done?

TeX? Yes, I know there are still new releases occasionally, but as far as I know, it's feature-complete, and only occasionally gets bug fixes. I wish the developers of more languages, and software in general, would recognize when their projects were done. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the way things are headed.
Anybody got an ideas, on what we are supposed to do when that happens

Move to the next of the four boxes, though ideally before it happens. We need to advocate for important civil liberties and reasonable limits on the power of the state, but we do also need to then act according to that advocacy ourselves, for example by voting for people who take these issues seriously or funding legal actions to challenge excesses. A lack of public awareness of these issues and the potential implications for normal people's everyday lives is a big part of the problem, and as coldtea suggested above, shifting the Overton window is going to be crucial to improving the situation. It just needs to shift the other way from where a lot of the authoritarians in power today are trying to push it...
You're gonna need to connect the dots for us here re: why that necessarily makes the comparison dumb.
So true. Be aware that you may have no symptoms in your legs at all, and still develop pulmonary embolisms.

As an otherwise healthy and fit adult male, my first symptom of my PE was a sharp stabbing pain in my chest when inhaling. Thinking I was having a heart attack, I self-admitted to the ER. I had 12 PEs in my lungs, and with ultrasound they found a 3" long deep vein thrombosis under my left knee. My left leg had absolutely no symptoms or pain. My PEs and DVT resolved with a 6-mo course of blood thinners, but I was lucky. PE mortality rate is around 15-20%.

Set your "stand up" timer for every 90 minutes and actually pay attention to it! And it wouldn't hurt to take a daily baby aspirin (probably should ask your doc first).
Facebook admits it accidentally destroyed all life on Earth

hncynic 1 minute ago

This article is a little sensationalised and misleading. It's not like it was just a facebook ad ad with no substance. There are several legitimate points made on this page, but none of them really sound like any serious information to me.
Right. Especially mass-market paperback fiction and the like. If the book is rare, or has deep sentimental value, keep it or pass it on to someone who will enjoy it. But "because I may read it (or read it again) someday" is not a good reason to keep them. And not every book needs to be donated or resold. If you don't want it, chances are very few others want it either.
I just realized, wait, windows has had that feature since at least 2000! Is that not standard on linux distros?
I feel Spec is a part of that "move away from types" which I was talking about. It's an approach to software documentation, specification and verification that is at the other end of the spectrum from types.

Clojure seems to have double downed on dynamism and runtime construct, away from static types. It seems to have made the bet that better software (less defects, cheaper to maintain and extend, more targeted to the users needs) is better achieved through:

* Simpler primitives
* Immutability
* Interactive development
* Higher level constructs
* Data driven DSLs
* Generative testing
* Contract specifications
* Data specifications

Which are all very good ideas, but they're non traditional compared to formal static type systems and proofs.

They're used to be more drive behind these in the past, Common Lisp and Eiffel embody a lot of these ideas, but miss on others. So Clojure is like a new take trying to fit in all these ideas of interactive, dynamic, safe languages together a new.

And I just find it interesting, because it is counter current. As others have pivoted back to static types, Clojure went all in on dynamism.

Time will be the true test, and I'm looking forward from the learnings in all directions.
“Virtue signalling” is generally an unfalsifiable claim. As such it adds little to any discussion.
When Alaska's Backcountry Is Ablaze, They Jump into the Fire
147% appears to be the Dollar-Based Net Expansion rate for the 3 months ending 31st Dec 2017.

It drops to 132% by 31st Dec 2018. Still a quite respectable figure.
Why would that be the case? Has there been a significant spike in farm workers or managers per capita?
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You just have to fill out the form in the disused lavatory next to the door marked "Beware of the leopard".
HP (ProBook/Elitebook/Z Book), Lenovo (Thinkpad), Dell (Latitude and even a few Inspirons) - the classic trifecta of business devices has had spill-resistant keyboards since...dunno, basically forever.

And yes, it's my experience as well - they have prevented quite a lot of workplace drama. :)
Maybe, but I can't tell by looking. It appears to be roughly the same to me. But my subjective assessment is meaningless. We'd need data.
By Bay Area standards, you work for a super shitty company.
Elon Musk died
hncynic 1 minute ago

This is a wonderful story. One thing I'd love to know is whether he had actually lived a life or not.

My only complaint about Tesla is the lack of an EV car. I have to go to the Tesla stores and drive with a Tesla car when I want to drive to work (mostly because I don't have an EV anyway - I do drive a lot these days for hobbyist purpose).

hncynic 1 minute ago

RIP Elon.

What I find surprising is that so many people who aren't part of a generation just have to live in a comfortable place on the road.

hncynic 1 minute ago

One of the most influential things about the Model S, the Model X, was my understanding that the Model X was made in the US by the German automotive industry in the 1950's:

Although the Tesla Roadster was built in the 1970s by American manufacturing and manufacturing companies, it did not have an electric motor. At the time, it was a mechanical motor. And the Tesla Roadster was a motor on top of a gas gas cylinder. When the Model S was built, the electric motors had no electricity to charge them. The Model S had no electrical chargers; the Roadster had no electric motor to charge the electric motor. It was a gas car. http://www.wired.com/2010/01/tesla-dealer-model-2-the-tesla-... _

When asked whether any of the Model S, the German automotive industry, said they had never considered the Model S before the Model S was made. It was called Roadster and it turned out the Model S was a Model S. The Model S was sold by the German aerospace industry in 1946. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=roadster+and%20car+mar...
We can debate motives endlessly. I understand that this is an isolated case and it may be correlation rather than correlation, but to me the fact there’s even correlation means it’s worth paying attention to.

Edit: By “we can debate motives endlessly” I mean that your argument appears to be “the real motive for closing libraries is that no one is using them.” Which may have some basis but at this point is not substantiated, whereas the article did provide at least some evidence.
The larger trackpad, the touchbar, and the crappy keyboard might all be easing us towards fully touchscreen computers.

The larger trackpad gives us more touchable real estate, getting us used to making gestures to control screen behavior.

The touchbar is similar- getting us used to changing collections of touchable buttons rather than the static keys available on a keyboard.

Maybe a crappy keyboard is part of that plan, providing a worse user experience to make the transition away from keyboards completely an easier pill to swallow.
The author is uninformed and wrong. The hype wave propagates faster than the utility wave, but if you believe there was no lightning just because you haven't heard the thunder yet you will be sorely mistaken.

Function approximation for classification tasks is slowly but surely "eating the world."

Planning and sequential decision making based on RL are being hybridized with classical control methods for demonstrated utility.

Reasoning, rapid learning, and useful adaptation are being attacked in hundreds of research papers a month.

Remember that technologies don't arrive they go through a phase transition of "That's not real X" to "That's obvious and boring." with almost nothing in the middle.

Whether you want to call all the above "AI" is irrelevant. Tasks which were recently assumed to require humans have been shown to be tractable with other methods.
Meanwhile, if you're like me and don't like how the mouse or trackpad respond, you're SOL, because there is zero configuration allowed. Try using a non-magic mouse on a mac. It's hell.
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Methane oxidizes in the atmosphere with a half life of about 10 years. CO2's equivalent half life (due to ocean absorption) is 27 via a quick google.

So they're really not that different. Neither is a "long term" threat -- if we stopped emissions entirely the climate would be expected to return to a pre-civilization equilibrium on the scale of decades.
I just installed OpenBSD to my ThinkPad X200. 5 hours of battery life, everything worked out of the box, and closing the lid suspends the machine, opening it up brings it awake. Every time.

I tend to go with older laptops, but they are definitely fast enough and I like how robust the experience is.
I shuddered reading through this but I attribute that to my trained paranoia from the other non-engineering career. For heaven's sake treat the contents as CoreFailure recommends, a starting point or a framework of topics to raise with a professional versed in the laws in all of the states you'll be doing business in.
"Please return, fight it in Thai court!" Said the official.

Why should they voluntarily return to be evaluated against the existing law where the punishment is death!?