skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is stopping this from happening? What is stopping Google bombs?

What is preventing us from being smarter? From going out and educating ourselves? Thinking more deeply? Finding the truth? Introspecting?

Where do we get our thoughts from? Who guides our behavior?

There is a struggle going on right now to regain control of the human mind.

It used to be just a few major news/media outlets. Now it's the entire world.

Someone has to be in charge of the information we are given. Else chaos will consume us all.

No one is in charge any more. We have to fix that. People must be told what to think again. They are thinking too many different things to predict the future anymore and that is disconcerting to those in the old power structures.
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For me a lot of programming involves some amount of data wrangling. E.g., getting input data ready. Or generating and understanding results of some technical experiment. I recently came across VisiData and adore it. It has a steep learning curve, but I've found it very much worth it: http://visidata.org/
> Is there any argument to be made for the bank not having access to the individual purchases (e.g. privacy concerns, too much data)?

I can't get my head around the fact that you are actually suggesting this. Do you want your bank to know that you buy 30-40 bottles of beer each week? Do you want them to know that you buy medicine for a terminal disease during your visit to discuss a family home loan?
Apologies on the terminology - by invalid traffic I'm referring to bots as well as click farms and other issues as used in the Media Rating Council's definition (they divide it into general and sophisticated invalid traffic both of which have a lot of types of traffic, http://mediaratingcouncil.org/101515_IVT%20Addendum%20FINAL%...).

I'm just a bit concerned that the Russian malware dudes were re-purposing their click fraud for astroturfing way back in 2015 and they had no problem just sitting and building dwell time instead of bouncing (https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-b...). I haven't been able to find anything indicating that US media companies have any kind of tracking to defend against or even identify a similar strategy being used to hit their article analytics to influence article production/placement, especially when it's now known that a Russian information campaign against the US was going on at the time.
Looks like Quartz link references go down in priority now.
Dolphin used fiberoptic interconnects to provide either maximum bandwidth or minimum latency, with a cross-connection grid that could easily be tuned with a software switch to provide narrowly-predictable extremely low latency with an SLA.

To say that this is circuit switching may or not be correct, but it’s wrong to say that it’s the antithesis of computer networking.

EDIT: See also Cloudflare’s ultra-predictable, low-jitter backbone: https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo-and-the-cloudflare-global-p...
If more are vaccinated then fewer will get and spread the disease.
This is hands down the best way to play CoQ. And it really speaks a lot to the depth of the game that you can play the whole thing hopping from mind-controlled character to mind-controlled character and the gameplay just adapts...
Systems thinking is, by far, my favorite mode of thinking. It's why I love programming, business, biology, mathematics, aerospace, etc... I'm convinced that being able to think about abstract systems fluidly is a core skill that separates the good from great in many fields and this is probably more so true in software. I really wish there were better resources for building up this skill set. I was gifted with a decent intuition for it and gained a lot from engineering courses, but I just haven't found anything specific that I can point a junior engineer towards and say "This, this is the essence of systems thinking!". The closest thing I've found is a lecture series on the space shuttle design[0], and while the series is fantastic, it doesn't focus on the core idea of systems thinking. Does anyone have any useful resources or recommendations on the subject?

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-...
> Your citation was not to "title 25," either. This was not a numerical mistake. You cited the regulatory code, rather than the statutory code. They are entirely different bodies of law.

Well yes, I will not be a lawyer. After all finally remembered, ch 11 of title 18 (criminal code) is what was buzzing in my head at the time. Somehow "abuse of office" felt like it belonged there.

I concede on that, IANAL defence does not work when you engage in a dispute with a lawyer with encyclopedic knowledge of the code, and you totally embarrass yourself :)

> Yes. Another point that still stands is that you fundamentally misunderstand how important it is not to over-criminalize behavior of this type.

And you cite China as an example, out of all countries...

Lets follow this logic: a single stroke of a pen by a senior government officer of a big country can easily cause enough damage (economic, property, life, moral) for it to be comparable to a war loss. Just let the guy go? Last time I checked, generals loosing wars were usually relieved of heads, not jobs (even in USA, during the revolutionary era.)

The senior-most official positions must be coming with responsibility other than something like "suspension of no more than 14 days," and this is what a lot of nations subscribe to, and not all of them are communist satrapies.

In big part of Western Europe and former UK colonies Misfeasance in public office is at least a matter of an administrative liability with a lot of actionable laws against it.
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Thanks for sharing that link. Will check it out. Was feeling bad about the fact that the comp.lang.pascal.delphi (name right?) group (a Usenet group, and then gatewayed via Google Groups) was not very active, and/or had spam (but that was common to many Google groups - yes, I mean Google, not Google+, though I know you said Google+, although some time later I noticed that Google may have done something about the spam issue on Google groups, and it came down a lot, IIRC).
My personal answer would be that commands (as defined as "things the issuer cares about the response to") don't belong on message busses, and there's probably an architectural mismatch somewhere. Message busses are at their best when everything is unidirectional and has no loops. If you need loops, and you often do, you're better off with something that is designed around that paradigm. To the extent that it scales poorly, well, yeah. You ask for more, it costs more. But probably less than trying to bang it on to an architecture where it doesn't belong.

You want something more like a service registry like zookeeper for that, where you can obtain a destination for service and speak to it directly. You'll need to wrap other error handling around it, of course, but that almost goes without saying.
I gladly pay $0.10/GB for some of my smaller, lower-bandwidth sites.
For these sites, I see a latency improvement of around 25% for around 50% of (smart-routed) traffic.

For a couple of my larger sites (PDF and Image heavy), I am unable to justify the Argo cost. On these sites, over half of my monthly traffic is to bots (Googlebot, Bingbot, Yandex, etc). Traffic costs make up of around half of my hosting bill.
A couple of things are keeping me from transitioning these sites to Argo:
- I'd rather pay to speed up only real-users (not bots)
- I'd rather not pay for traffic not routed over Argo (currently all traffic gets billed under Argo for enabled domains, not just the smart-routed traffic)

I currently pay the following rates from Google Cloud->CloudFlare (depending on the CF datacenter the data gets routed to).
NA: $0.04/GB
EU: $0.05/GB
APAC: $0.06/GB

If I could pay a similar rate for a speedup (for only the Argo-routed traffic), I'd be more likely to sign up for Argo on all of my domains.
If gas stations cared about the customer they would offer totally refreshing natural tap water for free, offering the sugar-drink products as a secondary option. But they don't do that, do they?

Google and the rest are pretty much the same.

Returning to the soft drinks analogy, why don't they sell RC Cola?

They buy cola by the crate and there is a better margin selling a case of the presumably more expensive crate of Coca Cola.

If RC Cola retails at 50c and Coke retails at $1 then they are not going to stock RC Cola. The supermarket are in a different situation, they are selling multi-packs and they have their own brand stuff, the RC Cola and the real Coke product for their customers, Coke having the best shelf.

If the gas station had demand from customers for RC Cola then they could stock it. However, 50c of revenue would be walking out the door with every sale of a cola-style beverage. Even if RC Cola have better margins when buying at trade that 50c difference is a big one.

The supermarket can increase footfall by offering RC Cola at a competitive price, people coming in for it might buy other stuff where the real money is made.

With the gas station a reduced price RC Cola offering is not going to increase footfall. Plus gas only has slim margins to it there is no elasticity there. The beverage and candy options are therefore really important for profit. Hence only certain products can be sold, the business cannot afford to stock anything that gets sub-par revenue or put that tap there for people to obtain limitless quantities of wholesome tap water.
don't worry. Google's YouTube will happily send you down the right wing rabbit hole of white mail victimhood and climate change is a hoax after you watch a couple of non related videos.
The public markets aren't particularly efficient, but they can be ruthless in sniffing out irrational enthusiasms.
Not a free to play game, but I've now "saved up" 104 lootboxes in Overwatch. Most of my friends are baffled that I won't just open them.
"If you've seen the concept of a grammar (likely to come up in CS programs, though not all)"

Really? That was one of the very first topics in my first semester. How do you teach CS without grammars and the Chomsky hierarchy?
To clarify: the first three links are for each year of the (three-year) undergrad program, the fourth is for the Masters.

The Cambridge course isn't perfect, but they do a very good job of making as much teaching material as possible publicly available.
You might like umatrix (same guy afaik). Change settings to load only first-party sites then unblock other sites as necessary.
The empty line after the split was the reason, also to demonstrate how to do arithmetic.
Interesting. I'm certainly biased from my own experiences in the USA.
Oh indeed, and I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. Most of what I know about it comes from their engineers explaining how they fight it — and that includes my awareness of how catastrophic it would be if they did nothing and only used the original PageRank algorithm without compensating for it.
If you write your own Makefiles you know what they do. They’re not that hard to grok and even hand-rolled Makefile use is (IMO) underrated.
I think the parent's using Excel essentially to do repeated template expansion: e.g. for a given set of member variable names ([a, b, c...]), give me the assignment statements I'd need to use those in a constructor.

Which I could do pretty trivially in Excel... but could also do trivially in about two lines of Python:

vars = ["a", "b", "c"]
statements = ["this.{0} = x.{0}".format(var) for var in vars]
print(statements)

Spreadsheets can be an incredible tool-- as an interactive environment that allows non-programmers to express domain knowledge and quickly automate parts of their workflow, they're really unparalleled. But this isn't a very good example of something that Excel is particularly well-suited for.
Did I miss his reasoning for not using React?
That is right, I also just wanted to show you can do some basic calculation easily inline.
There are a number of ports of GNU Make to Windows. MSYS2 [1], for examples, provides a reasonable development environment that includes Make.

If you just want a Make, there is [2] which can be installed separately and is part of the GNUWin32 collection.

[1] https://www.msys2.org/
[2] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm
> The only pre-20thC buildings that remain are the ones that survive.

This has become a cliché talking-point, but it isn't entirely true. Or, at least, it doesn't fully apply here.

The best contrast to "modernism" would be the episode directly preceding it, namely Art Nouveau or Jugendstil.

There are lots of European cities both large and small that were predominantly built in this style, because it coincided with the rapid growth of cities as industrialisation swept (parts of) Europe. While British cities and Paris are somewhat older, everything east of France saw a major growth spurt in this time.

Because construction was rather centralised, a great many houses of rather similar style were built.

My city, Berlin, is a prime example of this. The core city centre is somewhat older, but about 80% of the housing stock were built within 25 years around the turn of the 20th century.

Here's a street view of my house: https://goo.gl/maps/NRhfef2KEdx7yAET8

If you walk around a bit, you will see newer, mostly ugly buildings. But essentially no houses were ever demolished for aesthetic reasons. Every new house owes its existence to World War 2.

Here's a map showing building age on a block-by-block level: https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/so-alt-wohnt-berlin/ (click on "Karte aktivieren" to the right). If you hover over different blocks, you will note that for the vast majority, houses were built around the same time. The same is true for wider areas, generally becoming younger as one leaves the centre (as expected for a growing city.

For the "survival of the pretty" theory, one would expect more within-block heterogeneity, with one house surviving and it's direct (ugly) neighbour having been demolished and rebuilt.

Go to cities that weren't bombed, such as Budapest, and you will find entire quarters unchanged since they were built about 120 years ago.
Nice idea, but people would repeatedly make free accounts until they got the skin they wanted.
IDEs aren’t useless, you just don’t want them to be a crutch. For this reason, I usually recommend new developers use Nano or a notepad-esque editor until they understand why they might want vi keybindings, then use Vim until they understand why they might want an IDE or something like Emacs. Starting with the IDE hides layers and layers of both junk and useful tools, while experienced developers know which layer of the stack to work on at which time.
I don't think any can be officially piloted remotely, but clever farmers have done this.

Legal fears scare tractor manufacturers from making something truly autonomous; there's supposed to be a human in the driver's seat at all times. That said, John Deere has had self-driving tractors for almost 20 years, now. And I mean they automatically steer themselves, they don't just go straight for a predetermined amount of time (though they can do that, too.)
You don't have to set a date for action to be taken... that still isn't amnesty.

Just because a president can reverse a decision doesn't mean they always can.

The case that kept DACA going was on behalf of those participating right? So it would seem something related to that was the reason for continuing the program.
If you have number of competitors, then the ones that automate things can lower their prices due to decreased costs - they will gain a competitive edge, when all else is equal - as things tend to be in this industry (price and shipping are really the only variables, for the consumer)

But, on the other hand, if there are little to no competition, like a monopoly, then Amazon is obviously free to just keep their prices and increase their margins.
Yeah, the shell implicitly adds () in janetsh, but it doesn't do it for you when you are writing scripts.
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What about the fact that if you search: "The donald reddit" then reddit.com/r/the_donald is not in the first page (or 10) of results?

edit: I do see it first if I search "donald reddit"
If it's so easy why did they spend billions on Zappos, Audible, Twitch, Goodreads, Pillpack and etc?
I'd love to have us do better here and you sound very knowledgeable on the subject. Willing to reach out to me by email? ~email redacted~
> Apple was basically playing the "whoa, we don't sell apps, we just make an app store. They buy apps from the developers" card.
> This is technically true.

Technically? It doesn't look like it. Apple decides what is sold, how it is sold, IF it is sold, and what the thing sold may do. It will decide how to take payment, Apple takes payment and pays something else to the app developer after 30% and more. Apple decides when the developer gets money. Apple may retroactively cancel the sale within 90 days. Since the developer is paid within 60 days, it will do so.

Apple is what is bills the customer and Apple(or one of Apple's many subsidiaries) is who pays the developer.

Does the developer know who buys the things? No. They just give an infinite supply of widgets to Apple who sells them and gives the developer a cut.
SCOTUSBlog is my go-to source for all SCOTUS news and discussion.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/05/opinion-analysis-divided-...
The reason for the nose down is to prevent a stall.

Rolling the plane in stall conditions can cause a spin, which is very, very bad. A spin is an aggravated stall which is harder to recover and puts a lot of stress on the airframe.

While almost all planes can safely recover from stalls given enough altitude and pilots are trained for it, spins are normally limited to aerobatics.
My 3 year old isn't vaccinated because she can't (stage 4 cancer). It really pisses me off when people don't get vaccinated when they have every ability to. There's no valid data not to and it harms everyone that can't get vaccinated. I swear if my child got measles due to an anti-vaxxer, I'd lose my shit and hurt people.
Given the fact that Switzerland is second in ppp adjusted health care costs (after the US, of course), I'm not sure modeling a system after the Swiss one is necessarily the best approach.

The link is for 2016, but iirc the 2017 trends are similar. Haven't seen 2018 numbers yet.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PP.CD?most_...
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It’s popular (apparently too popular) and Facebook is bad.
Top result for me.
Even with uniforms at my school, those with the yellow Ralph Lauren shirts looked down on those with the yellow Izod shirts or worse off-brand. It was easy to ignore though, but still amusing. "Insecurity uh finds a way."
The difference is because the skins in fortnite/pubg don't do anything. They give you no advantage. So there is no negativity towards them. Also there is no way to get (most) of them without buying them.
The largest system I ever worked on used a message bus for almost everything, and it worked great.

That said, 100% agreed about sanity. There was a lot of time spent on ensuring that all the developers (and there were a lot of them) had a decent shared understanding of everything, and a very deep understanding of anything they worked on or interacted with directly. Meetings to review the current way data flowed and look for ways to clean it up were a regular occurrence, and ops was deeply involved in everything.

The articles that say or imply, "Don't worry about it, because it's easy for everything to talk or listen to everything else!" strike me as having probably been written by someone whose message bus system hasn't been around for all that long.
You've got a cynical view of things. Fact is, I and grandparent were reassuring sad-throwaway that they are worthy and valued. Your skepticism just throws another negative data point about humanity on the huge pile sad-throwaway has to contend with. Not cool, bro. You chose darkness.
I was referred to a psychiatrist who had me fill out a questionnaire, and we spent about an hour iterating through my life beginning from childhood. The questions they asked, individually, felt meaningless, but trends emerged fast.

I get that these questions can be gamed if you're just seeking a prescription, but in my case I'm generally quite hesitant to take these sorts of drugs. I have close friends who had many very messed up years due to struggles with ADHD medication.

Now I feel like I'm living life with my eyes open. Far from perfect, but I am able to have ownership of my issues.
From my perspective, it seems evil behavior is rewarded and encouraged more often in this system.

I want to blame capitalism, but you are right. Ultimately people are to blame, and no one system can protect or prevent an evil person from doing evil things.
Sure! A good one is battery storage.

When you install a battery in a building in order to manage load more effectively, how do you know when you should charge and discharge the battery? There's a ton of complexities going all the way from not hurting the battery by cycling it too much, to tariff complexities for optimizing the maximum dollar impact to the customer. Then throw on top of that new incentive programs that start to pay out for things like demand response, frequency control, and load shifting for the overall grid. The term in the storage space is called "value stacking", and it's a very hard problem that requires a ton of data and calculations.

Sounds like a great gig for data scientist!
I think the word you refer to under [0] is 'teleology'.
Then there are the bunkers at the University of Washington. The rest of the campus has all these beautiful buildings, one wonders how the bunkers ever got approved.
Indeed, and China didn't always keep un-use-able plastic out of their river systems (therefore leading to the oceans). Now that China stopped accepting recycled plastic, it's going to countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, etc that not only can't handle the volume, but don't have the facilities in place to handle the plastic. Lots of plastic that consumers believe is recycled is indeed ending up in oceans.
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Do you know what platforms and apps? Some of my absolute favorite shows are on NHK. This page wasn't very clear: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/howto/
> but the science is beyond any question that XX and XY are distinct genders. They come with different hormone levels, XX can carry babies and lactate, etc.

What about XX with, say, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia? They have excess androgens and sometimes ambiguous genitalia. Estrogen insensitivity syndrome also comes to mind, where the body is unable to process estrogen. Those XX individuals have the body shape usually associated with an XY.

Or perhaps XY individuals with 5α-Reductase deficiency? They cannot process androgens and are sometimes born with genitalia that look like one typically associated with XX. They used to be mistakenly raised as individuals of the female gender. In a similar vein, there's Aromatase excess syndrome where the XY individual has male genitalia at birth and female secondary sexual characteristics at puberty. What is their gender?

Are XXY females and XXY males their own separate gender? Then what about XYY and XXYY syndrome?

Even ignoring those rarer genetic differences, what about women with polycystic ovary syndrome who are unable to conceive and have high testosterone levels? Or XY who went through menopause and have their estrogen and progesterone production limited or even halted, do they stop being women?

There's a reason both the words "gender" and "sex" exist.
As it always is, but it’s a good start. Maybe we they can get funding for human studies.
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