skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Today in the press we have a more or less clear distinction between advertising and content,

You have heard of native advertising haven't you? Of course ethical journalists refuse to do this. They will still refuse when ordinary ads have been banned.

On the other hand, ads make the press less independent. No matter how much you try to avoid it: If someone buys ads in your publication they have influence over you. Be too critical of them and they'll withdraw their funding. They won't openly threaten you, of course, because that is not legal and not necessary.
In the end the atomic bombs weren't really any different than the other tools of total war though, like all the aforementioned fire bombings. There's a lot of reasons the Japanese capitulated, and the relentless damage being inflicted across the entire country by the US (including the atomic bombings) was a very important reason. If the US had just backed off and stopped applying pressure on Japan, the war may never have ended, at least not on the terms that we were demanding (and got). The continued bombing campaigns (including atomic bombs) was one way of continuing to apply pressure and force the war on towards its conclusion.

You can get into a more general argument about what kinds of acts are tolerated in war, but the atomic bombs don't seem to stand out either way. The real question is, is it acceptable to target a civilian population? What about even if doing so will ultimately save more lives? Look at the civilian death toll Japan had been inflicting on China, for instance; is it ethical to inflict a smaller number of Japanese civilian deaths in order to prevent a larger number of ongoing Chinese civilian deaths?
> at least insofar as an untrained modern human can tell

Perhaps, but that's irrelevant to this discussion which was initiated by competent experts in their field. Not like protests against 5G which are based on dodgy YouTube videos.

Starlink will have a significant impact on the global night sky based solely on the approval of one agency of one country of 8% of the World's population. Even if you as a layman don't perceive it to be a problem in your daily life, doesn't that just seem... wrong? If North Korea had taken such a step there would be sanctions.
I don't know if you can ever fix that. Here's a complaint about someone being cheated on a sale, 4000 years ago (1). Probably long before the ad men appeared, but people have always been looking for their angle.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
thanks, buddy, take a look it's actually not that bad, cause the library itself its only 2kb. it can't get too complicated :)
I work as an agent in the commercial real estate space. Usually referrals happen when one agent who let's say specializes in office (for example) finds a lead/listing in Industrial, multifamily, etc (That they aren't well versed in). Usually I've noticed 20% (of the commission) is about the standard fee if you get them a listing. Most often however referrals aren't concrete and no sale actually comes out of it. This is because you have to convince the owner to sign a listing with the person you are referring and they are probably already getting contacted by competing brokers who already specialize in the space. I've only had 1-2 referrals work out for me. You'd want some kind of way for agents to list their specialty and maybe a list of done deals (of that property type) to show experience. I've noticed on the commercial side that Generalists (Who do everything) NEVER get referrals. No one will refer for example the sale of an office building to an agent that lists everything, the refer to the office broker who specializes in it. I have an idea for a Real Estate site (I've put it on the back-burner) that nobody is doing right now because from my experience the tech savvy guys who can build this kind of thing are not privy to the high end investment sales market (Investment properties that are at least $2 million) There is a certain culture and way of doing things that isn't really easy to understand unless you've worked in it.
I know how the ridership is measured. I’m not sure what your point was. It’s also not surprising that the busiest stations have 10x as many riders as those less busy.

The four track system of the NYC Subway was its most important innovation, and it literally solved the problem your talking about. You don’t want all the stops? Walk to 14th and take the express.
What do you mean by that? Like a country redirects DNS resolution to their own controlled IP's and gets one of their CA's to issue duplicate certs? That could certainly happen and would be devastatingly effective until other people catch on.

Spoofing IP's alone isn't enough, but CA infrastructure is very much based on a trust that is weaker than we'd like to admit.
I find articles like this deeply disingenuous. The OP wants to basically find some problem that he doesn't know anything about, and apply whatever knowledge he has gained in hopes of building a "company" which appears to me is just a facade of a company until he can flip it to someone else who actually cares more.

The idea that someone with presumably no knowledge or even any passion can dip their toe into a problem space and try to create a "company" isn't very appealing to me at all. Everything about it feels so superficial and contrived with no passion.

Even the list he came up with is so low-hanging-fruit, it reads to me "I want something that is easy to build, easy to sell and makes me lots of money before I flip it to someone else, and then I can start the process again."

The lack of commitment and conviction screams to me that I shouldn't become a customer because he will abandon the project, and end it with another "Thanks for following me on my journey, I'm abandoning all my customers but join me on my next adventure soon!"
I always find it amazing how easy it is for governments to find people who will commit atrocities for them. This should be a warning for us thinking “I would never do this”. Most of us probably would go along
> They may cost a little more

So you do get it.
It's not just the cable plant but also the transport gear that are the add/drop points for their OSN/OTN. I feel like the article fails to expose this. When the first active element in an optical network is Huawei they can choose to siphon (or worse?) optical lambdas at will.

Platforms like this are common for submarine applications: http://carrier.huawei.com/en/products/fixed-network/transmis...
Thank you! It happens to the best of us, I haven't been super consistent with writing regularly. Trying to change that!
"The United States government has strong concerns about any technology product that takes American data into the territory of an authoritarian state that permits its intelligence services to have unfettered access to that data or otherwise abuses that access,"

Oh the hypocrisy. Not saying it's unwarranted, just humorous to me.
I am pumping electrons into the atmosphere and this all started after I fired up my machine recently. One day they will see this is why the storms are increasing. We come from the future to help. This won’t stop mark my words. The machine is staying on.
> What I would like to see is some analysis of how much life satisfaction is earned back if all relevant products become proportionately cheaper.

There’s a reason services refuse to offer paid plans: people would realize how much the functionality of these services are destroyed in service of showing ads—you can see a tiny fraction of this reaction with the hulu anecdote. It’s also at the core of our “screen addiction”: imagine the savings in mental health care alone if ads disappeared....
It seems to me that the US-China conflict has already started as a slow but expanding series of limited engagements. Today these are economic and "cyber". However even if such a conflict were to go kinetic, it would likely be in a more limited sense - most likely at sea.

An example of what limited conflict looks like is the Sino-Indian war which was kept confined to a limited geographic area. Its not a forgone conclusion that a conflict has to become "total".
I'd like to live even longer!
I did a coding camp as part of a career change and I'm doing well.

Having said that I have a couple issues with the camp I attended and others that follow the same pattern:

1. The camps are poor at identifing good candidates, or just don't. They want to get as many people as possible through the program as that is where the money is.

2. Camps don't filter out existing students who just aren't working out. They call them "boot camps" but generally people don't get booted... even students clearly struggling with the concept of a cli remain in the class and slow things down tremendously... even weeks into the class.

3. I put in a ton of out of the classroom time to be what I thought was an "ok" boot camper. Most poor have very little time as being working poor uses a lot of time and energy.

I think the system maybe can work, but I'm not sure anyone is doing it right.
> What's the happy medium?

Possibly, not building your own, but investing some time researching how others have built already existing tech?

That helps if what's out there doesn't work for you - either if it breaks (and you have to fix someone else's stuff that you use) or lacks feature-wise (and you _have_ to build your own, either by extending or re-designing).
Huawei is a private company. The logic of this argument is that no Chinese company whatsoever is reliable. There's literally nothing Huawei can possibly do to allay the fears of people who take this attitude.
Well, in health, everything is probabilities anyhow. What are you expecting?
Not aware of any measure like that but shadowsocks is the one obfuscation method that has been able to bypass the GFW in China for a long time now.

Always impressed that it still manages to work.
I am more than happy to share how to build it. I will write a blog on it soon.
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> my assumption was that the level of harm scales with the power of the pesticide in humans just as it does in, well, pests.

This is a highly questionable assumption that you'll need to support or abandon. It's as important as your later points about washing.

For example, caffeine acts as a natural pesticide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Natural_occurrence). It kills insects, but humans collectively consume 10 million tons per year.

As another example, diatomaceous earth kills pretty much anything with an exoskeleton through a physical mechanism, but is completely non-toxic to mammals (prolonged breathing is not a good idea, though). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth#Pest_contro...)

It is convenient but erroneous to assume that all pesticides affect humans and pests equally.
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Count me in. Let’s start with WhatsApp since a lot of folks have it. I can pm you my #. Just need to get in front of a real computer.
Your observation was so unexpected and unusual that it is actually more interesting than the long winded article itself. I had noticed the weird half eaten words but thought it was just a poorly edited website with typos.

The Unicode elimination explanation by another person replying to your comment was also quite interesting to read.
I think this would work for a lot of task related and basic work flows. How would you imagine this working for more complex flows like developers or engineering?
Yup. They even link to a sponsored article as an authoritative source regarding eating take out. This article is a mess.
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I am as democratic/left as it gets on most issues but I'd argue that its time to defund FEMA Insurance programs and let the private sector free market factor in the cost of impending destruction because of climate change. IMO that would put a hard dollar figure on the 'cost of doing nothing'. Which will (hopefully) translate into some kind or carbon taxes.

Or another alternative would be fund insurance through carbon tax dollars and return the rest as refund.
Regarding the earth's rotation, this webpage disagrees:
https://climate.ncsu.edu/edu/Drivers

"The rotation of the earth does have an effect on the direction of the wind, but it does not create it. Wind is primarily driven by differences in air pressure. These variations in air pressure are due to temperature differences caused by variations in solar energy received at the surface of the earth."
Edit: Removed my original write-up to double-check something, lost the write-up, retyped a tl;dr version.

This is aimed at Enterprise, not individuals looking for a Signal-like messaging platform.

"Confidential" e-mail implementations already exist in many places. Plenty of messages need to be e-mailed but the contents can't be inlined due to compliance. eg, medical systems send e-mail updates that are just a plain message but the e-mail is just a link to an auth portal and behind that is the actual message. Not great user experience.

But here, is G-Mail already has Google-grade auth and the same auth as Google Vault, so the document can be stored in Vault and in the e-mail the link and payload itself can be automatically swapped when sending or receiving. Smother user experience. eg, vertical product integration.

This is clearly targeted at Enterprise (G Suite, plus half the questions are about compliance). By default, Apps users are able to use this feature, although it can be disabled at the domain level by admins. It is not the actual sending of e-mails in this manner that's the default.

Put another way: If you don't see the point of the feature, you aren't the target audience. It's not trying to be Signal.

I just don't smell anything nefarious here.

Disclaimer: Am Googler, but unrelated to the project. Just heard about it now and have enough experience in this area that the feature's context seemed clear to me.
The storm cells are typically many miles wide. Tornadoes not infrequently will cut a swath a mile wide. I could repeat many stories from family and friends who have witnessed such things, but after a bit they all start to sound the same to me after living most of my life in tornado alley.
Yeah, I agree with that. That is usually hard-won knowledge, too, so if it doesn't get transferred, that creates a lot of pain.

Unfortunately, a lot of people hate writing documentation and just want to get it over with as quickly as possible. (Ability to create working software doesn't necessarily correlate with ability or desire to share knowledge.)

Also, if you look at it in terms of incentives, it's tricky to reward people for making sure the documentation of gotchas is reasonably complete. By definition, these are things that people would probably not see until they're pointed out. So it's hard to tell if someone has really done it. (And when people are busy, things that aren't rewarded are unlikely to happen.)
This brings to mind an excerpt from the movie 'The Aviator (2004)':

Senator: "Mr. Mayer works for you, does he not?"

Mr. Hughes: "He does."

Senator: "And what is his official title?"

Mr. Hughes: "Well I don't exactly know, Senator. A lot of people work for me."

Senator: "Explain why your press agent would pay out $170,000 to representatives of the United States Air Force."

Mr. Hughes: "Well I don't know, I suppose you'd have to ask him, Senator."

Senator: "Well would you produce him?"

Mr. Hughes: "Produce him?"

Senator: "Will you cause him to appear?"

Mr. Hughes: "Senator, you had John Mayer on the stand for three days last week."

Senator: "Well be that as it may, we would like him to reappear. Would you ask him to return?"

Mr. Hughes: (long pause) "No, I don't think I will."

Senator: "Will you try to have him appear?"

Mr. Hughes: "No, I don't think I'll try."

Senator: "You don't think you'll try..."

Mr. Hughes: "No... I don't think so."

In other words, go fork yourself, Senator.
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I don't know why you're bringing up the Microsoft case. That was about independent contractors. The subjects of this article are mostly regular W-2 employees. They just happen to be employees of a different company.

Should we force every company to be vertically integrated and directly employ everyone who works at one of their facilities? It's just a ridiculous complaint.
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For those curious about the connection between climate change and the observed trends in tornado behavior (stable year-over-year total count, and stable average intensity, but increased 'clumping' and variability), I would recommend this talk Harold Brooks gave last week: https://youtu.be/Z_1PiixPX3o?t=275
Using NewLisp as representative of Lisps is a strawman argument. It's a garbage project that is despised by anyone who is serious about Lisp.

ANSI Common Lisp and Scheme do not allow too many or too few arguments to be passed to a function.

Let's try CLISP:

[1]> (defun test () (cons 1 2 3))
TEST
[2]> (compile 'test)
WARNING: in TEST : CONS was called with 3 arguments, but it requires 2
arguments.

Or:

[3]> (defun test (x))
TEST
[4]> (compile 'test)
WARNING: in TEST : variable X is not used.
Misspelled or missing IGNORE declaration

Unbound vars:

[5]> (defun test (x) (+ x y))
TEST
[6]> (compile 'test)
WARNING: in TEST : Y is neither declared nor bound,
it will be treated as if it were declared SPECIAL.

> nobody cares about those training wheels.

Error checking is for lesser programmers: very effective advocacy!

> The problem is solved in a different way

Exhaustive testing? The problem is that there isn't even a reliable dynamic check. A misuse of the data stack in one place can affect code elsewhere. Just because you step on the bug doesn't mean that the machine will halt with a diagnostic, let alone one that pinpoints the cause.
Getting and using a particular candidate's salary history from a third-party source during the hiring process is also forbidden by this law. It doesn't just cover the candidate being asked directly.

Aggregate salary data, not specific to the individual, remains allowed.
The container contains many dependencies. If designed correctly, I can lock down my dependencies out to the port level. It's not that application packaging is itself the problem... it's that I have control over the environment. I can build a Docker image, test it, and know that is exactly the environment I'll be running in, out to the services level. No worrying about someone upgrading JBoss or the OS or openssl or something without me knowing about it or having any control over it.
You said:

>it is pretty obvious that the US allowing Cuba to trade with the rest of the world would more or less 'solve' those problems.

As you pointed out the US embargo prevents Americans from trading with Cuba. It affects no one else. Virtually the entire world apart from the US is against the embargo. They are all free to trade with Cuba. At the margins, the US embargo hurts Cubans, but the bulk of their economic woes are self inflicted.
It would be more sporting if they also examined their own tracking systems in the article.
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Honestly I'd love that, fuck these corporations that have been bleeding Americans dry during "the good times"

Penalize these fucks for applying graphs to death bed
RE your nitpick: Fair point. I hadn’t seen the pinning tactic after 140. Ra6 Rxh5??? 141. Ra5+

As is probably obvious from that oversight, I am not a very strong player.

However, I still see no way for white to make progress. After 140. Ra6, black just walks its king towards the white pawn. White’s only options then are to give perpetual check with the rook, or to give up the pawn.

It’s plausible to me why lc0 doesnt see this — I guess it is just searching down random paths involving useless rook moves forever, and never gets to the end of the tree. I’m more curious about how Stockfish is able to prove it’s a draw.

Edit: after poking around the Stockfish code a bit, I think what's going on is that Stockfish sees that down every non-pruned path of the tree, either player has the ability to give check, so neither player can be ahead (basically each side has a perpetural check). Would love if any Stockfish expert reading this can comment on whether that's a valid understanding.
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In my school (top 20 university in China), it's common for students to use vpn.
And I think plenty of programmers in China can set up their own vpn servers.
Also there are many YouTube videos forwarded to video sites in China.
I've idealistically written useful information on multiple websites for years and years. People have gushed at me about the wonderfulness of my writing and how it enhances their life, but they mostly don't want to pay me.

Even before the ad blocker wars tanked online advertising generally, the HN crowd used ad blockers more aggressively than most other traffic to my sites. People on HN also routinely post some means to get past paywalls for articles posted here.

I wrote this piece in January: https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hand-li...

It took me about two weeks to write it. I have about six years college and years of experience pertinent to the topic, plus years of experience writing for pay.

It has gotten more than 60k page views. It did fairly well on the front page of HN.

It did not make me one thin dime.

I've talked about this on HN for years. I was actually homeless when I began doing product descriptions et al for pay. Every time I comment on this problem space, I get told "quit you're whining and get a real job."

This is not just about me. Local papers are folding left and right, etc. It's an industry wide problem.

The world seems to want high quality writing completely for free with zero means for the creators to pay their bills.

I generally like the writing I do for pay. But even if I didn't, I would have zero moral qualms about it. It isn't like anyone gave a damn about me being homeless and unable to afford a meal at times while they read my writing for free and sometimes cooed about it being good writing while simultaneously telling me to STFU about my problems, which were not their problem.

I would love to have my Patreon well funded so I can write fewer product descriptions and write more stuff like the above piece. But the world simply doesn't want to pay me for that.

I do have clients who love my product reviews. That's how I'm currently keeping food on the table.

People who de facto expect good writing to be done by unpaid slave labor are not people in any position to make me feel bad about writing product descriptions. That's a laugh.
Weather records are spotty at best, and stupid fucks like to use them as an excuse. "Hurr durr its real hot out today"

If anything, its a symptom of the real problem. But most Americans are too too stupid for that conversation. Hope you have a nuclear bunker bro
At the risk of bringing out the worst in all of us, I'd like to point out that this is as natural as the human tendency to divide into in groups and out groups. The next "logical" step always seems to be a demand to punish the out-group.

It reminds me of the now famous quote by a person who later said about their vote to a certain controversial individual; “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this, [note: government shutdown] I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

People sometimes foist leaders into power to hurt others in a bid to help themselves. But they often forget that the boundaries for in groups and out groups are fluid. And that those who are in can also be out and the new ones who are in can do the same to those who are out.