skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Viner (at Chicago but predating the Chicago boys) made a list of Smith’s views that were contrary to laissez-faire. My favorite is “Encouragement of ‘the frequency and gaiety of publick diversions,’” which was meant to discourage people from being attracted to joyless Puritanism. He advocated for regulation and public investments in health and education (which are also found in the Communist Manifesto).

http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2009/02/adam-smith-...

The “invisible hand” reference I know from WoN is just referring to investors generally preferring to invest in their own country (home nation bias).
> If IDE authors ever figure out how to implement a test button that invokes `python -c "some stuff"`

You mean like both Emacs and VSCode already does?
The Stars of the Internet
The numbers on the distance-your car after you see a fuel saving indicator?
The ultimate security perspective is to assume that you're defending against an unlimited resource nation-state that's specifically targetting you.

Obviously, there is no such thing as "complete security" but you can try to secure what you can, that's why people concern themselves with what may seem like unlikely revenues of attack.

I mean depending on how critical your system is, it can really change how you operate. Get a virus on your computer? Some people use anti-virus, and when that says it "removed the virus" they're happy. Other people would only be happy with a complete OS reinstall from a fresh ISO made on a different machine as acceptable. Still other's would require new hardware, it's possible (and has been seen in the wild) to reflash the ROM of the motherboard, or potentially many other low-level chips through software, and to persist the virus through that. Likely no, just depends.
SpecAugment: A New Data Augmentation Method for Automatic Speech Recognition
In my experience scientific and enterprise organization don't use Linux for any given feature, but because it is available. In many ways they use Linux despite it being Linux. So whatever is the least obscure would be ideal.
You might not need a build toolchain
I think a lot of people just don't care about long term health risks. How many people today still smoke or do extremely little exercise?
> Internal state should be kept internal.

I'm not sure that's a proven model. It's a proposed model, for sure. Since you can't protect memory from runtime access, you can't really protect state, so it's a matter of convention which Python cleverly baked in (_privatevar access).
The thing that gets me is I have a bunch of hobbies that I enjoy but don't really have time to dive super deep into. They aren't anything weird and there are many companies servicing their markets. I'm sure I have very little awareness of a bunch of things I'd like to buy for these.

If I was being shown ads for products around my hobbies I would:

1. Definitely discover companies and products I wasn't aware of.

2. Buy stuff I probably didn't need but would be tempted into owning.
I'm sorry. My first encounter with this was a few months ago when a friend mentioned on FaceSpace.

It's been stuck in my head intermittently ever since.
I have a lot of sympathy for their situation. I can imagine humming along just fine at 5 concurrent requests over 10 seconds, having busy days where you hit 10/10

But to suddenly hit 50 for 1 second, then nothing for 9 seconds, well, that’s a tough spot to be in.

There must be some hard to find sequencing happening there, that they were not really exposed to before.
This might very well be enough. For 35 million people 2% error is 2400 people. So I think we can say it is 46-50% of the population does not have $200.

However if the samples were already biased into certain groups or not even Canadian, then it gets thrown off.
I use this snippet:

```
import ipdb
ipdb.set_trace()
```

It drops me into IPython, an interactive Python shell, with the interactive Python debugger. You can type variables and use `pdb` primitives like (c)ontinue, (u)p call stack, (n)ext line, etc. I really like it, but ofc YMMV.
I sympathize with a lot of your points, but take heart! People still harvest and eat deer in CWD-infected areas, they just test the deer before eating. If you get an infected deer, you destroy the meat and, I guess, take solace in knowing you removed an infected animal from the landscape.
The Canadian household asset base is overwhelmingly dominated by their housing market. Their households are among the most indebted on earth and in considerably worse shape than the post great recession US households (who went the opposite direction and pushed their debt burdens downward by a lot and haven't reinflated that).

Two charts to this point.

Housing vs GDP: https://i.imgur.com/NlYEcIT.png

Canadians are far too over-leveraged on their housing. That seems great while housing values are soaring, as in the past (Australia being a recent extreme version of this, now seeing a market crash). When that turns, you get crushed.

Household debt to disposable income: https://i.imgur.com/1W9LBqP.png

You can see the Canadian households continued accumulating debt rapidly after the great recession.

Household debt to GDP: https://i.imgur.com/pWKqaY7.png

Canadian households took their debt to GDP ratio from ~60% to 100%+ over roughly 20 years.

The US household disposable income vs debt service payment figure is at about 9.8%, which is around a 40 to 50 year low (it peaked at 13.2% in 2007).

The Canadian figure is now up to around 14.9%. They're being strangled by debt interest costs.

Over the last few years, there have been an endless parade of headlines about the extreme debt load of Canadian households:

"Canada’s household debt levels higher than any other country, report says"

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/24/canadas-household-debt-level...
Show HN: Automatic local history for your source files
This is why Envoy exists. It will take HTTP/2 requests from the user and shard the actual requests out for backends to handle. It appears that what happened to the author is that their web server only balanced TCP connections, which indeed no longer works.
I cannot recommend this enough.
The app is so simple and the workouts are around one hour (with heavy lifts).

I highly recommend Mark Rippetoe's book Starting Strength[0] to learn the mechanics of the lifts. StrongLifts is a sorta rip off of Starting Strength.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-Basic-Barbell-Train...
even if its illegal, its nothing unless you win it in court.
I've had an idea for a long time, what would happen if you had some silent tabs running alongside you, randomly opening and closing browser pages, clicking etc - acting like a human but with the purpose to create noise. It would also involve submitting articles and social media posts using your name, to make it harder to be found on search engines with any real clarity. If anyone knows of a project like this please let me know of it. I'm aware it would break all kinds of ToS but all is not fair in this privacy game.
Absolutely should you wrap malloc in any moderately sized project! But clearly that's not OOP. We need to differentiate between abstract data types (method dispatch, which I would normally count as OOP) and just making functions to "reuse" code. In the latter case, there is only one possible implementation, and the implementation can expose as much or as little implementation details as is appropriate -- and in general, there won't be any abstraction leaks.
The problem isn't that it's a bad sample size per se. Given Canada's population (~37M), you get something between 2-3% margin of error at 95% confidence level with that sample size. The problem comes down to how you get your samples — online polling especially is skewed by how you pick your audience. For example, if you only poll your friends, your friend's friends and so forth until you hit the number, you will likely see a pretty uniform result, which is obviously far from giving any reasonable insight.
I know that this is anecdotal and not necessarily representative of anything, but, I hear people use kowtow in all sorts of context, and certainly not limited to references to China or other Asian nations/ethnicities.

In fact, it's been so universal I never even made the connection or wondered about the etymology. Finding out that it's a loan word from Cantonese is something I learned due to this thread.
Nathan's Hot dog:
Beef, Water, contains less than 2% of Salt, Sorbitol, Sodium Lactate, Natural Flavorings, Sodium Phosphate, Hydrolyzed Corn Protein, Paprika, Sodium Diacetate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite.
I know what you mean. I regularly see fast food or other low income workers wearing $1000 worth of designer clothing while carrying a brand new iPhone or something, while taking the bus. I see people in my income bracket overspend all the time without really seeming to be bothered by it. Constant vacations, expensive tech, fancy cars things like this.

I know as far as vehicles go, a lot of people here seem to lease rather than buy. I know a few people on modest wages who lease brand new cars for a couple years rather than buy an older one or a used one. I also know quite a few people who pretty much live off their credit card.

Then, at least in Vancouver here, you get a lot of young people with family money so they'll just kinda bum around on the streets or float from job to job while their parents are paying their bills for them. It's not even just the wealthy people, a lot of middle class or even income families seem to be like this.

I remember one day in particular in a corner store, a lady came in behind me from where she'd been panhandling and tried to buy a pack of smokes. She didn't have enough change, so she tried a debit card, that didn't work. So she pulled out a cell phone and called her mom and started screaming at her in the middle of the store about how she hadn't put money in her bank account yet and that she needed to buy something. I left about that time, but it sounded like her mom was about to rush down to the bank for her.
Empathy often avoided because of mental effort
The creeping capitalist takeover of higher education
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People living in equal societies are happier, and less stressed. Maybe it's because differences in status translate to differences in the natural anti-depressant chemical, Serotonin.
You have some proportion of power users that are outside NAT and WebRTC (they run a non-browser executable), their addresses can be shared over the network and stored locally. They provide STUN on rejoining, but are not hard-coded.

(Overall, yes this whole thing is a vaguely bad idea. But not totally degenerate / non viable, just not practically worth it.)
I don't understand this comment. An enlightening list of challenges facing programmers in a part of the world we don't often hear from. How is your comment appropriate at all here? Or did you accidentally comment on the wrong post?
Let me know if you need more info. 2.8 brings s lot of grease pencil and 2D curve changes that are very powerful.

Happy blendering.
https://adnauseam.io/
White collar crime (like retaliation, or wage theft) is rarely tried or prosecuted for.
If you do not know that this sort of thing is coming when you chose to stand up for what you think is right, you should.

Protest and civil disobedience come at an obligate personal cost. The only reasonable expectation you should have before doing it is that you're about to burn your world to the ground -- anything left standing you should count as a blessing and a relief.

In this case, for example, walkout organizers should've just assumed that they're going to be retaliated against, and that their protest didn't end the day of the walkout but will continue through the whole process of having a labor lawyer, fighting this in court, documenting their work lives for the next 5+ years, etc. It's part of the same action and part of the same protest.

In the long term and at a broader societal level, moral protests are usually worth it, but that does not mean that your shorter- and medium- term economic and personal social costs are going to be zero -- in fact, quite the opposite!

edit: i assume that the walkout organizers knew all this, but the above can totally be read as "oh those silly babes-in-the-woods googlers", which was not what i meant. If anything, I understand the linked post as just the next phase of the game, in which illegal retribution is disclosed as part of an ongoing legal fight.
somehow agree (well the 2nd camp is 4 different reasons). in any case that's valuable feedback that can be given at scale.
HTTP/2 does allow this style of load balancing. Whether or not your load balancer does it, however, is another thing completely.
Our implementation creates two views derived from each bitemporal table (_history and _full, which is a union between the base table and _history).

It's definitely "heavier" than it needs to be – we store a lot of redundant data, but it hasn't been a huge issue.

But we have tools that build the tables/views, and generate sqlalchemy code, so that it's not difficult to manage, all told.
One of the many examples of why we need GOOD government...
How Not to Transfer a Domain
> I can't see it being too difficult to identify tactics being used and mark them as suspicious.

I'm sure you're right. But remember what every security measure is trying to achieve -- it's not actually making you immune to attack (that's impossible), but rather to increase the cost of the attack.

This sort of thing would accomplish that by requiring human involvement.
> I don't think lacking life has ever been an argument vegetarians use.

That would make sense, since GP said:

> If lacking life is what's cruel, then vegetarianism doesn't really solve that problem.

So if vegetarians used the argument that lacking life is cruel, then vegetarianism would be cruel, right? It makes perfect sense (given GP's point) that they don't use that argument.

You're the third replyer that writes as if they disagree about this while making the same point. I'm wondering if I'm reading this wrong, or if GP edited their comment just before I loaded the page.
I'm worried about this outcome for my 4-year-old. He needs several hours a day to run himself tired or he acts like a crazy person. I don't think that means he is a crazy person, or has ADHD, or whatever. I think it just means he needs to run himself tired for several hours a day. Hell, I'd probably be saner and healthier if I did the same.

Meanwhile the kindergarten he'll attend has cut recess to once per day, something like 20-25min, and if they do indoor "recess" due to weather they often just watch a movie. Even if he cools off some by the time he goes, he's gonna need like 4x that much running around outside or in a gym per day, minimum, to not end up medicated or constantly in trouble.
Because sincerity implies the flattery is entirely genuine, rather than best suggesting it is heaping praise upon you? Hadn't thought of that; it's a good distinction to make.
I would love it so much if there were a majority of meat-eaters like you. I personally am not against meat-eating: only unnecessary suffering as you have explained well in your parent post. I have great respect for those like you, who truly take care to both limit their intake, and source their meat from genuine cruelty-free farms.
And randomly generated UUIDs from code examples.
Even so, it confirms my first hand experience. Canada looks fairly affluent looking from the outside in but most people live paycheck-to-paycheck and in rural areas there is poverty at levels that you would not expect in what is nominally a first world country.
You're buying into the myth that if it's made of plants, it must be better than meat.

The nutrition of Beyond Burger is pretty much on par with the nutrition of beef.

I'm not convinced that consuming "plant based alternatives" is a step in the right direction in dealing with health and environment issues especially when compared to more traditional approach like eating balanced meals using a plate model.

Eating more veggies, on the other hand, yes much better.
Japan’s Self-Defence Forces Are Beginning to Focus on China
There's also no indication on what kinds of requests were timing out, nor if it was possible to send fewer requests, or minimize static assets (if those were the problem).
A method that doesn't put you in legal jeopardy seems more desirable.
> A web and software developer in Africa earns from $10,000 to $20,000 dollars per annum whereas their colleagues in Europe and the US earns at least $100,000 dollars per year.

This is nowhere near true for Europe, the floor is more like $30,000, probably less in some areas.
There is nothing wrong with competition. Read Smith.
Government is elected by society to represent. Yes governments are flawed and inefficient and corrupt at times, but generally speaking governments do an acceptable job at providing basic services to most people. There's countless examples of them fucking up but they get more right than wrong.
It's true.

Signed,

A friendly but sarcastic Canadian
Something about that size seems like pretty much the bare minimum. My point of reference is a hotel I often stay at in NY which makes something of a virtue of its small "cabins." They're 170 sq. ft. and the minimally separated bathroom is about as small as you could make it. There's a bed and a minimal desk (maybe a few square feet) and desk chair. No closet, no kitchen or even room for a mini-refrigerator or hotplate, etc. Add 80 sq. ft., make the bed a futon, and you start to be a place where one person could almost live out of a suitcase but it would still be pretty minimal for any length of time.
It's a another version of the argument "If you don't like our country behaving the way I think it should behave, you should leave the country".

Absolutely sometimes the best thing for an individual to do is take their marbles and go home. But equally, sometimes the best thing to do is put your shoulder to pushing the wheels in [what you perceive as] a better direction. Companies (and countries) after all are not stand-alone entities; they are an expression of their constituent parts. Some of this is history/momentum, but a lot of it is just people.

[edit] of course I think the bar for "when should I leave my company" is an awful lot lower than "when should I leave my country".
You can also use qualification tests (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMechanical...) to require Turkers to demonstrate competence before doing tasks. I'd imagine you could inject a certain percentage of known-answer tasks into the queue as well, as ongoing quality control.
> only Hangouts is a video conferencing application

btw, there are three different versions of Hangouts: Classic, Meet, and Chat. Hangouts Classic will be EOL'd later this year. Hangouts Meet is the video conferencing for business. Hangouts Chat is a Slack clone for business that includes video calling.

Google will transition Hangouts Classic users to Hangouts Chat, not Meet:

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangou...

Google Talk and Google Voice are two other Google products that (used to?) support video calling.
The Average of average debt per household as a percentage of yearly income in northern EU countries is 100+% [0]. I myself am from NL and in the red for several times my yearly income. Granted, this is mostly due to high mortgages and thus the debt is offset by a valuable, but non-liquid, asset.

Discounting mortgage debt, my experience is that the average household doesn't really get into that much debt; credit card debt is fairly uncommon (but maybe also a taboo subject), whereas it is, as far as I know, pervasive in the US.

Anecdotally, I only got a credit card 3 months ago, after I _had_ to ask a friend to book a flight for me because the checkout would _only_ accept credit card, and subsequently the return flight was booked for the wrong date. I haven't used the credit card yet.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&...
Isn't the point the order of growth...? If you double the input size, O(N) will run twice as long, whereas O(N^2) four times as long.
All these things need to be done. My thoughts center around how do you provide a decent sustainable existence for the other 2-3 billion people on earth[1]. There are a lot of things that need to be done to make that happen. Really affordable basic healthcare is one of those things.

[1] Hint we can't do this via the raw growth and exploitation used to lift the first billion people out of poverty.
Then you should inform yourself: https://tldrlegal.com/
Well they’re vastly ahead in one area: data collection. No other company is even close. You could argue about the quality of data but the platform is there and ever growing, and they can upgrade their hardware in the future and augment existing data.
For anybody who hasn't seen it, here's some video of "hanging off the side of the boat" in a trapeze...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8NwT9JBQJk

Perfectly normal on faster small-to-midsize boats (usually double-handed racing dinghies). The body weight and extra leverage helps keep the boat from capsizing. Some boats have only the crew in the trapeze, others have crew and captain.
> But the biggest issue, is that Google's CAPTCHAs become unsolveable.

i've noticed the same... vicious.
So, how is Sudbury doing ;) ?
> For example, when you define probabilistic computation, if you declare that a probabilistic gate is a stochastic matrix with real number entries, you will incorrectly find that there exists probabilistic programs that solve the halting problem.

Great example! Do you have an outline of this proof? I can see the error in defining a unitary matrix over R instead of C, but I'm not immediately seeing how you can exploit that error to bypass the halting problem.

I'm guessing the concrete error would be introduced by overlooking that the real-valued matrix won't preserve the correct probability amplitude? If so, what's the next step to (falsely) deciding that a given algorithm will complete?
I received an email from someone I met recently:

> I inted to start doing a project on what causes Parkinson's Desease using Python , Big Data, , Data analyt and Nvidia Supercomputing. You have a skillset that can hel sovle this problem and I coul use your help.
If we are successful then we can do the same for other medical deseases.

He was middle-aged and had learned to code a few months ago. He did not seem interested when I told him that the field was called 'bioinformatics' and that there were many people working on these problems already. This is not a "low probability of success", this is a zero chance of success.

In these cases, I'm not sure what the right course of action is. I don't think discouragement even does anything; for a particular kind of person (who has the arrogance to think they could cure a major disease as though it were a blue ocean problem), active discouragement just solidifies their resolve. I like to think that if they could redirect their ambition to a small and tractable problem, they might actually be able to make a contribution (even Terry Davis of TempleOS fame was able to produce something inspiring, which he wouldn't have done if he had been trying to Solve a Big Problem).

But then I think you're probably right, that there is no real hope, and the best course is to ignore them so I'm not wasting my time, but also to let them have a dream and feel like they're doing something.
> Because the differences between male and female "bodies", meaning anatomical differences like sex characteristics, are obvious and self-evident, while differences in brain structure are not and therefore require careful study.

The categorical denial of neurological sex differences of the sort that was published by Nature does not encourage careful study. In fact, it does rather the opposite by turning the subject into a political football. This distracts from the more important issue that arguably women have been under-served by the medical community precisely due to the denial of such differences.