skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory if you had an unlimited amount of time and compute resources couldn't you just construct all possible decks and play them against each other, perhaps with some mix of naive and pre-trained strategies?
The Reapers definitely fill a similar role as the Hegemony's TechnoCore, but the idea is so general: bigger, smarter entities leverage their natural advantage over smoller, dumber ones (who are sympathetic and protagonistic and somehow win love powers the universe shh it's ok).
That's a commonly held belief and the underlying assurance for unrelenting speculators that the CCP has to prop up the property prices forever, since Chinese put majority of their wealth in these absurdly overpriced condos and it substantially absorbs inflation, a collapse will trigger the party's doomsday: popular revolts. It's a dangerous game everyone is forced to play.

The CCP dug its own grave here like many other things. It monopolized land and dictates/manipulates prices, hijacked the people and economy using the housing market, in turn it also assumed the responsibility.

Chinese are protesting and vandalizing when prices fall.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E7%A0%B8%E5%94%AE%E6%A5%BC%...
However T&C’s for such product provide legal protection for just this sort of event.
Try Vancouver. You'll probably earn about a third of that though.
- You see the number of records aggregated, it should not exceed the amount of voters

- You can somehow identify your own vote and thus verify it was properly counted

- Everyone else can do the same, thus fraudsters would have to find a protocol weakness to add additional votes

One attack vector might be whatever you use to identify your vote. Aka find a way to make two people think the same record is their own vote, then use the other yourself. This seems like a tricky problem, since everyone shouldn't just be able to see their own vote was included but also not not be able to show others how you voted. The article seems to indicate they solved this somehow, but I'm not familiar enough with the details / homomorphic encryption to understand that or even just trust that specific kind of encryption.
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How timely! I recently attended a nephew's soccer game. Having never played, I didn't really know what was going on. It seemed to me that I had a much harder time perceiving what happened; I was forever asking someone to tell me what they saw, even though I was looking at the same thing. If a lot of perception is predictive based on previous experience, it makes sense that I felt like I was half blind.
Confident Cannabis (YC S15, Palo Alto) Hits Series A, Hiring Engineers
Possibly rent controlled. The Landlord could get $7K + month.
https://bit.ly/2PUJVLE
I get your point on not adding anything to the discussion, but I disagree on doing a disservice to HN.

Sometimes you like a post/product/comment/:anything and just want to give a pat on the back to the creator in a different way than giving a "like" (an upvote in this case), without going too deep on the why. This can work as an input for the author to keep contributing in the community.
> People of China deserve better (once they’re a solid middle class and taken out of poverty).

You are implying that the current policies will bring them out of poverty which in a sense contradicts your first statement.
> But I don't buy it.

Actually, I do buy it!

What that actually means is: injecting Google into every aspect of your life.

Would that bring a usability improvement for users? Maybe. But it also gives Google what it craves - all the data they can possibly have about you.
Generally, Google sells ads against your data, they don't sell the data itself.
Cicero (http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname...):

"This Patron [the Epicurean], therefore, having written to me at Rome, begging me to reconcile you to him, and to ask you to grant him some ruined house or other once belonging to Epicurus,...to maintain his own honour and duty, the sanctity of a will, the prestige of Epicurus, the solemn injunction of Phaedrus, the home, the dwelling-place, the footprints of famous men."

On the other hand, Lucretius died the year before Memmius became consul and a couple of years before he went into exile in Greece.
You consume branded aspirational products essentially every day.

Almost all consumer products have integrated aspirational messaging that induces you (and I mean you, me, everyone else) to pay significantly more then we would otherwise.

Most people's clothing, for example, goes far beyond cost/utility/comfort.

The 'gullible' people are those who think they are not susceptible to this, and don't act on these impulses.

Almost thinks they are not susceptible to marketing, and almost everyone actually is.
Curious. What do you think happens when Apple goes under?
A little technicality: persons born in France are automatically granted French citizenship at 18, providing that they are living in France at 18, and have lived in France for at least 5 years previously. These criteria tend to change a lot as this is a rather sensitive topic in France. Also sometimes an application is necessary, sometimes not.

An odd case: if both parents are foreigners, but one of them is born in France, then their children will automatically become French at birth (if born in France).

Then there are special rules for Algeria, as it was a part of France until 1962...
Thinking of a subtle queue of cues
how they've pivoted in the face of public awareness of privacy concerns.

Can you provide some more information about this pivot? I haven't noticed it, and I thought I was paying attention.
> because they are so unsuitable for use with git

Can you going into a little more depth about this statement?
We have racist immigration laws that cap the percentage of green cards going to people from any one country, which has created a really long waiting line for Indians who seek green cards (currently ~15 years).
Technically "we do not sell your data" ;)

"We just have your data, and sell promises to show you exquisitely targeted ads based on our exhaustive data about you."
I'd say it's mostly about vested interests. Mining is a huge industry in Australia. Big business have politicians in their pocket.

To some extent it's also about jobs. Where I grew up, in the Hunter Valley, coal mining is a major employer. The export boom in commodities fueled the economy and lifestyle of tens of thousands. Shut down that industry a lot of people are going to hurt financially. Politicians just won't do it.

It's a case of short term electoral thinking at the expense of the environmental future.
OP was talking SF, not the wider SV. That is a good rent though. That's 2009 SF prices. We were paying $4100 for four bedroom apartment back in 2009. That same apartment is going for double that now.

SF totally jumped the shark.
I doubt one person’s negative actions could destroy an entire society’s moral foundations wholesale. Not even Hitler or Jesus did that.
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That kind of logic is necessary for asset price bubbles. The downside has to be minimized, and the upside remain significant. In reality, the downsides are huge and by the end, just doubling prices is incredibly hard.

The best I can tell is the Chinese debt cycle is well into the period where the loans are being taken out almost solely to pay off interest on existing debt. For Q1 2019, the debt increase was 9% of 2018 GDP (somewhere from Bloomberg.) That is a startling number. I presume that is private & public debt, but I'm not sure.

Presuming some sort of very large scale bailout occurs, and the debt is monetized, the renminbi should drop in value against other currencies and then China should experience inflation. That is the theory, at least. That isn't what happened with Japan. However, if you look at Japan, they are still fighting what happened during the 1980s. Per 2018 numbers, the Bank of Japan owns 77 1/2 percent of Japanese ETFs. All kinds of other distortions have occurred, and Japan is a very and complex issue in itself.

I don't think it is possible to predict what will happen. You can, to some extent, state that if X and Y happen then Z is impossible.

Analysts are looking at Japan and wondering what similarities or indications of what direction China could head in. There is some hint, but the Chinese people are much poorer and the Chinese government is quite different than Japan. The Chinese government also has a very close example to retro-actively observe while other investment driven growth stories like Brazil were quite distant both geographically and culturally.

The big unknown is, who is going to eat shit? Some big part or parts of the Chinese economy will. Who the government transfers the losses to determines what can and can not happen in the longer term.

There is a very good possibility that this will end in a poof, and China will not see significant growth again for a very, very long time. A lot of the stories being told about China's tech leadership look very similar to Japan in the 1980s. China's population pyramid isn't great either. Their population will peak in about 10 years and then begin shrinking.

Footnote: A lot of focus is on what direction prices go. A better focus would be on consumption power. When there is runaway inflation you can say, look the prices shot up I'm rich, but if your purchasing power dropped 90% you may be much poorer.
Most of the results that brings is Facebook themselves explaining that they don't do it.
I'd like to see H1B simply be:

- Minimum pay 120k (something that would indicate the person being brought over is in fact valuable) or maybe more?

- Citizenship granted after ... 3 years?

Something like that.
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Generally, Google does not sell personal data. They use personal data to sell ads.
Sure, if my family and job were there. Its a thriving wildlife refuge now. Check it out.

https://thoughtscapism.com/2019/05/08/worlds-worst-energy-ac...
Yeah but that's annoying and almost every one who isn't "techy" for lack of a better term won't even bother reading it and just press ok.

I mean can you honestly tell you read the Google privacy notice or do you just click the down arrow till the ok box appears?
Sure, you will pay 5-6k$ in rent (let's even say 8k$). But since you are making 25k$ a month after tax instead of 10k$, you are still coming ahead. Unless if you also need to buy a Tesla Model S like your cool neighbors.
Assuming we are taking a US centric view here, I feel just the opposite: that speech has scarcely ever been so free.

It was less than a decade ago that the U.S. military had a policy literally called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". It was only fifty years ago that Martin Luther King Jr. was being investigated by the FBI, for speech that is now broadly considered necessary. About 100 years ago, check out the Sedition Act of 1918. Such a thing would not even pass the smell test today.

Sure, we've had some recent setbacks in some areas. The journey is not in a straight line. The destination is pretty clearly in a place of "more freedom".
Yep most likely -

https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/lisp/ob-pla...

Seems like this might an opportunity for a graalvm build of plantuml... might be better then a server version but tbd.

https://www.graalvm.org/
Also while embracing Open Source they are also making record profits.

MS thank you for VS Code - I never thought I would replace my Vim.
Uber Is Already a Little Public
The calories thing is wrong in the context of telling people to count them. In practice it is very hard to know exactly how many calories are coming in or going out in real life situations. Even labeled boxed foods are often way off from their official calorie numbers, and it’s not like most people are running their poop through a crucible, or doing all their exercise in a tank of water to measure their heat output.
> Siri

Is this about Siri?
And to make the wrong information inaccessible.
How can I buy anonymized location data? Is there a landing page for that service?
The website has really been a bunch of crap for a few years now! I always have to access it via Google searches, even when I'm looking on extremely trivial pieces of documentation.
>They do not put any number on their operating costs which makes it impossible to calculate the electricity price they need to break even...

You can kind of get an idea though, if you know a little about the industry. So we know each one of their modules will need to be refueled every 2 years. That's one cost, and a major one, that we have a pretty good idea of. We know that the design, (again according to the salesman), does not require renewed water for cooling. That's a not so major cost that we don't need to worry about. Etc etc etc.

But yeah, at 720 MWHe and refueling every two years, that's enough to tell you that it's obviously not cheap. It's more accurately characterized as cheap-er than current designs.

My own guess, build price once they get the build process down will come in right around 6 Billion. The first one will end up costing way more, but I do believe the price will come down provided the "modularity" boast is at all true. (6 Billion sounds expensive, but it's a major upgrade from the, so far, 28 Billion that has been spent at Vogtie for instance.) Expenses related to refueling are going to kill you, but hey, it kills you for a normal reactor in any case.

So yeah, obviously this thing won't be beating out wind any time soon. But it is wayyyy cheaper than nuclear is currently. If you're a poor area, Wind with some innovative pumped hydro storage designs seems like a better fit for your pocketbook. But if you're a area flush with a lot of cash, some of these may work out for you. They're definitely what you might call luxuries. They're future is, basically, to be used as ultra expensive storage solutions for wind. So over service lifetime, I'd suspect wind/pumped hydro to be much less expensive. (Plus, who knows what will happen with other storage tech development in the interim?)

The great irony here is that the places flush with the most cash, Texas, Cali, New York, Minnesota, etc., are also the places least likely to use this. The places with little cash, your Iowas, your Wisconsins, aren't likely to use it either because obviously wind/pumped hydro is cheaper for them long term. (And wind/gas or coal is acceptable to them as a transition tech.) They wouldn't have had the money anyway though, so no real loss there.

Upper middle class states not close to the Great Lakes might be your best bets? Georgia? Utah? Etc. It'll be a tough sell. But if they find the right marks, they can probably sell it.
Really?

https://news.google.com/search?q=Theft+stolen+-bitcoin
> E.g. Clinton threatened to impose trade sanctions on India if they took steps to treat the few people who (at the time) had HIV rather than letting it become an epidemic.

I'd be really interested in learning more about this. Source?
The question is of balance. For example, if fasting keeps you from sleeping, I consider it an issue. If fasting causes muscle loss, I consider it an issue. I read the cancer research - how much is damage is being done by not getting the nutrition you need though? It's still a trend - there is no balance defined.
Somehow this reminds me of the “Explicit Language” stickers on music packaging that Tipper Gore and the PMRC brought about in the 80s.

Those stickers sold product!
Where did they promise it, again?

"Company is wrong about release date of cutting edge technology" isn't exactly a new story.
> Cars used to be definitely more responsive, and they get more sluggish and more expensive to maintain with every new Euro standard published.

A Honda Civic use to have a 1500lb curb weight with a 1.2L engine, now it's over 2700lbs and has a 1.6L.
Yawn. The headline suggests there's some assault on liberty here. But by "government-friendly" Techcrunch means Chinese PUBG doesn't show corpses and blood, and that it paints Chinese military forces in a good light.
First game that was allowed to do so was “Through the Darkest of Times”[1] by Paintbucket Games.
I’m not sure Wolfenstein or l4d would get a clearance though.

[1] http://throughthedarkestoftimes.com/
You don't need to have particularly optimal sunlight and weather for photovoltaic, when bulk PV panels are reaching $0.20/watt in cost.
> The stock market (i know .. i know.. ) seems to have accepted MS's "broken" model, and its stock price has tripled (or something like that) under Nadella

Well, as it did under Ballmer, under same circumstances. He also did pretty much the same — doubling down on milking plumpy corporate clients while streamlining the business in overall + doing some disasterous acquisitions which were nevertheless welcomed by Wall street analysts
what's wrong with having a pink color option?
The Chinese government is destroying Christian churches too.

"Over the past year, local governments have shut hundreds of unofficial congregations or “house churches” that operate outside the government-approved church network, including Early Rain. A statement signed by 500 house church leaders in November says authorities have removed crosses from buildings, forced churches to hang the Chinese flag and sing patriotic songs, and barred minors from attending."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/china-christia...
In many countries forcing people to stay in a room with no windows would be illegal, and for good reason.
Command Line Threat Hunting
It depends on the type of sodium lamp. High pressure sodium bulbs emit light in an extremely narrow bandwidth around 589.3 nm, earning them a color rendering index of -44 (out of 100). Low pressure sodium bulbs broaden this range enough to earn a CRI of 24. These are the peach colored ones you are familiar with.
That’s not the sort of whataboutism you called out in your comment, because the parent isn’t justifying Chinese actions, but pointing out that the U.N. hasn’t acted in similar cases and so it’s not unreasonable to think that they wouldn’t act here.
Kinda the whole point of the linked article of this thread.
Uber is the perfect proof that the "customers will vote with their wallets" argument doesn't work. This case is just one small example in their long and well-documented history of sociopathic behaviour, and they still are around and happily growing.
That's irrelevant. What matters is this assumption that every detail of a person's religious tradition directly and literally translates into an indicator of their ideals and behavior. In reality the number of people who take their texts that literally is small, both in Islam and Christianity. And those are the circles that terrorists come from. And their evil has nothing to do with the name of their religion.
Why not use Lyft?
They aren't strictly "protocol issues" though, they're just dangerous features that are good to be limited in most cases.
He's not "just" doing anything, he's always also Tweeting and talking about it, and the things he says put his motivations around "follow a law" into the "racist/xenophobic" realm.

Besides, the law itself is fucked up and backwards. Trying to enforce a bad law is itself not good.
> but 100 years will anyone care that you had the flu on May 7 2019

My future health care provider might. Maybe they’ll spike rates by figuring out how often I’m ill using this data.

Maybe I will marry a congressman someday and the sext that I sent today to my BF will be used to blackmail us.

Maybe 30 years from now, people will be able to use my youthful indiscretions as leverage.

Maybe I won’t get certain jobs because of where I’ve been or whom I’ve accidentally been close to in the location data.

Maybe my sleeping habits will lead to higher life insurance rates.

Russia and private actors have already personally targeted millions of people using highly directed ads to move an election using publicly available data. Imagine what they could do with Google’s data. Target congressional aides? Target the POTUS’ mistress (or mister)?

In the hands of a Caesar or a Napoleon that data is the power to reshape the Earth, smite your enemies, eviscerate any obstacles and remake the holder into an invincible demi-god.
Totally agreed. When I pay a therapist, it's not really for facts, which I can get from books. It's for their long experience with a lot of different people. That gives them the ability to immediately spot patterns in my life that might take me years to recognize. And also the skill to point out my self-fooling BS in a way that I can listen to and understand the point.
If anyone is interested in more sentences like these, check out garden path sentences.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
I have a foobot.

https://www.amazon.com/Foobot-Quality-Monitor-Homeowners-Ren...

I believe you can hook it up to IFTTT and turn on the AC etc if levels are high. You can get real time stats, historical reporting...If you don't want to keep looking at your mobile device it will light up if the air quality is bad.

It also has a VOC monitor, which is rare. I have a new construction house and the VOC was pretty much deadly.
In 2006 I worked on analyzing data that showed this. The principal investigator was plagued by health problems and I didn't know how to connect what I was doing with the previous literature, so we didn't end up publishing anything. I felt like the idea was inevitable, but I don't know to what extent others believed this.

My model, which was basically guessed from common-sense principles (what would a flip-flop's output look like if there were no clock and the "update" signal were not discrete?), used equations that were similar to what would eventually become the GRU update equations. And the fit with the data was gorgeous: it took one parameter (a time constant that scaled how quickly sensory information was integrated with the current prediction) and the R^2 was north of 90%.
Seems like the laseregg 2+ at best detects PM2.5, but something like the PurpleAir sensor can detect PM1.0 for roughly the same cost. Have you or anyone else used it? I'm interested in purchasing one.
Is it Go's regexp package vulnerable to ReDoS?
It's because they're closet Marxists
Some universities yes, others decidedly not. Did this person go to a public university?

Further, why is it so bad that we spend money to educate people, even if those people aren't Americans? What makes an American inherently more deserving of his spot in class?
In my experience, therapy made me more productive by enough to pay for itself. Also in my experience, your estimates are accurate.
In the same spirit as “Effective Java” and “Effective C++” we need to have a book entitled “Effective Jupyter Notebooks”. Here are some of my items below. Maybe this sub-thread can come up with an outline for this book.

Item #1 Writing a notebook is foremost an exercise in expository writing. Make sure the writing is high quality is the first objective when writing a notebook. This is the Knuth’s literate programming idea where prose takes precedence over code, which is usually the reverse of the way we usually program; code first, comments second.

Item #2 Don't use notebooks for general purpose programming. Notebooks are supposed to have an audience and clearly explain something.

Item #3 Keep code cells simple and clear. If needing a comment in the code block, consider putting that verbiage in a markdown cell instead and elaborating on the idea the notebook is trying to convey.

Item #4 Don't make notebooks a long series of extended code cells, or even worse, just one long cell. Explain what is going on or see Item #2.
What I wonder is, does anyone have OpenShift experience here? If so, what do you think of it? And compared to Kubernetes? I know OpenShift is Kubernetes plus extra features, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's better.
I agree. emacs-jupyter is great but I'm eagerly waiting for jupyter notebook server support since my work is on remote clusters now. For local use, it's pretty great.