skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Christchurch guy" is a murderous, sadistic psychopath. He will say anything that has people giving him attention.

(Note that this also implies that politics plays basically no causal role in what he did - and yet, this basic fact about the Christchurch event makes me extremely nervous about alt-right or hate content nonetheless. In fact, it makes me more nervous, not less! Because if it turns out that criminal psychopaths can easily exploit this sort of content as an excuse or pretext for their murderous acts, that's definitely something we want to know. Do note that, plausibly, "rational debate" and the like - the usual arguments for maximum free speech! - do not apply to psychopaths in general; these individuals entirely lack affective empathy or a moral sense, and even their theory-of-mind abilities (without which no "debate" can plausibly exist!) might be severely degraded, at least when it comes to 'deep' reasoning about others' affects/emotions, goals, perspectives etc.)
Sorry Dang, but I have to cast immense doubt on your claim that 50% of users on HN are from outside of the US considering how frequently America-centric topics tend to rise to the top of the HN front page. Namely the frequent battles of free speech which seem to fall down American ideological lines.

Is it 50% of registered users or 50% of active commentators? And I think the image HN has been trying to cultivate is vastly different from the image of what HN actually is, at least from some of the other sites and circles I post on. The rather negative reaction to the Katie Bouman news as well as the summer programming for women incident show that somewhere down the line there is a serious breakdown in what culture HN is trying to create.
Good article on different techniques that don't require any special software/setup. Personally, quizzing doesn't really work for me, but discussing or (even better) trying to teach it to someone else is extremely effective. The third suggestion, association, has mixed results for me - I use it for names and dates, but trying anything more complicated isn't very effective. Anyone else have better results with these methods?
oh - didn't know about the backport - considering the change in question is really just a few lines and more or less cosmetic it's a political move. This basically makes native ZFS encryption very slow on recent Linux kernels. Sad move.
Transparency is always a good use of resources.
It's possible to easily get a sim card and make calls - you just need to get a pay as you go one. I have a tablet with apps, and then my phone is a 'dumb phone' which I bought at a 7-11. I didn't have to sign anything, I just bought the phone, the sim card and then some time. And you top up the money every so often.
I'm glad that you feel you are immune to these advances. That doesn't change the corporate agenda though. They want you to buy their stuff. You, me, everyone. They pay loads of money to teams of people dedicated to utilizing the latest technologies to bend your will to their desire, with whatever tricks their minds may conjure. They work in concert with others doing the same. It's "just business".

We have a global population that is addicted to their phones. A great deal of their worldview is shaped on a daily basis by a small illuminated screen that fits in the palm of the hand, full of deception and manipulation, which goes well beyond grocery shopping. The phone is an ideal espionage tool since, for most people, it is turned on and broadcasting constantly, and always at its user's side. I mentioned "electronic prison", scaling out from this, in the sense that law-abiding citizens are under constant surveillance, similar to inmates in a prison. We have the ability to move around of course, but we can hardly do so without being watched, which does not equate to actual freedom. The human experience is being overrun by addictive technology that manipulates our will through mechanisms that are totally unknown by the average user. It may seem like hyperbole because its full effects have not yet been understood. It's not like this is the end: this is just where we are today. The intrusion into our lives will only escalate.
Amen, hermano. Good practices in mechanical systems industries seem to cross disciplines because they work.
they probably forgot about it.
That was 2005 - 2019 ZoL is a true open-source project
Militarily defeating the Iranian government would be easy no matter what. The hard part is winning the peace. And by “hard” I mean “essentially impossible, and trying to do so will wreck us.”

This is what the assholes who want a war with Iran either fail or refuse to understand.
The Rise of Distributed Teams
While doing research for my own dataflow language, I've had a look at LabVIEW. There's plenty of online documentation available, but I didn't like some of its design choices, e.g. how iteration and conditional statements are done is overly complex. There are natural ways of doing these in dataflow which LabVIEW doesn't use. Also, type inference is actually simpler to implement in visual dataflow than it is in text-based languages, yet LabVIEW lacks it (unlike Luna, and the dataflow language I'm still developing). Finally, every dataflow program is a directed graph, which is the most general data structure there is, so it really ought to be a fundamental data type - like Lisp's S-expressions are.

However, LabVIEW is one of the oldest visual dataflow languages (AFAIK only Prograph is older), and it's certainly worth learning about if you're interested in visual and dataflow programming.
Or continue flying them in places where it's forbidden, but planes don't go. Which is not 100% without risk and would leave little time to react if they'd leave them (which is why flying there is forbidden), but very far from "intentionally flying a drone into a plane".
Digital Minimalism with Cal Newport
Thank you!

It's an extension to dictate emails in Gmail. It's used by a wide range of people -- from power email users to people with disabilities.

I have received a number of praise emails over the years -- it's pretty terrible to see all of that vanish with no explanation!

Thanks again
Problem is however that a good crop of candidates doesn't know how to sort an array, am not sure why am finding myself explaining it for the 2nd time. So all I can say is they are below high school student in your neck of the woods, even if they have Masters in relevant discipline. And if you can't sort an array with all help of Wikipedia and Stackoverflow, you would not be able to walk a graph, let alone do anything useful with it.

So I'm not quite sure what is your beef with it exactly. Do you think I should have used a more complicated task? Like, Dijkstras' on a graph? Are you sure that you wouldn't find that objectionable too, given that sorting an array is apparently asking too much?
Out of curiosity, what about Taiwan?
I found this argument on why Iran would attack, in r/geopolitics to be plausible.
https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/c0gi8b/why_ira...
Hundreds of active and former US police officers are part of extremist FB groups
No? I asked to sort a bloody array, that's it.
I guess it's a nuance of what that phrase means. It seems to me there are many reasons to disbelieve that the Iranians would do this. Reasons that can't be ignored no matter what logical contortions I were to make.
Air travel is such a non issue, for any person flying it will of course be a large part of their carbon footprint, but the atmosphere does not care where the CO2 came from.

https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/styles/icn...
Surely there must be other less annoying ways to get people excited about helping the environment...
This reminds me heavily of the strange technological world of "Maniac" on Netflix, especially the computer system Gertie!

I wish I could get one of these as a gift! They are hilarious.
So Kolomoyskiy observed the wave that swept US, UK, IT and almost FR, and decided to orchestrate a similar situation with his own chosen puppet? Dude's pretty smart...
Quite probably. They're not crazy. Not as crazy as LHR would be in this hypothetical situation.
No, there's no need for technicalities. The GPL only says you must distribute the source to the people to whom you have distributed binaries. It doesn't say you must publish it publicly.
I've got a trick for remembering things that, to me at least, feels like magic. It was particularly useful in Biology courses where I would have to remember a large set of terminology like family names of fishes.

Just imagine a route you regularly take. Ideally a walk where you have time to consider your surroundings, but any route where you can remember landmarks will do. Now assign each thing you need to remember to a specific landmark. That's it. I've found that if I go through this process and then review it just once in my mind I can remember everything with 100% accuracy.

I used this trick recently to remember a gate code by assigning numbers to nearby architecture. I'd have a terrible time trying to remember it any other way.
Using machine learning to detect anomalies in logs
As you point out, the books don't solve consciousness in a formal way (or they would be more famous), and they have a significant amount of analogy. They are more 'grounded' than say Daniel Dennett. I liked the attractor analogy because a) at some level it addresses why we don't ( normally) get stuck in a conscious rut - e.g. we are not like the sphex wasp discussed by Hofstadter who always repeats the same loop b) It resonates with the idea that your conscious mind wanders, but its experience seems linear. However to get insight of scientific value one would have to follow up on the ideas in Edelman's work and see if they were actually neurologically correct. I haven't read either for a while, and I do maths/computer stuff not neurology so have no expert view. I think there's no harm in reading the Remembered Present quickly, it's fairly easy. Edelman worked with Tononi - I haven't followed his work, but the Wikipedia page on Integrated information theory doesn't appeal to me.
"Only the lunatic fringe on the extreme right would advocate ripping up something that works, to replace it with something 4x more expensive. "

Most European healthcare systems are a blend of private/public, some err a little more towards private, and they work just fine, and they are not '4x more expensive'.

To suggest that the UK could model themselves after Germany or Switzerland or the Netherlands is not remotely 'lunatic'.

The FT doesn't 'serve' anyone - they just make financial commentary but will never 'rock the boat' on any issue.
If you ever find yourself in Dresden there's a fantastic tour based on Slaughterhouse Five, run by a local man who loves the book and is quite a character. A unique lens to learn about the city through.

http://kurtvonnegut-tour.com/
My uni did this to tell you how busy the libraries were.
Perhaps you should tell us the difference
> You sound like you're very young and only joined mobile internet in the past year

There's no reason to make this a personal comment.

Regarding your actual point, I've had a 100GB limit for the past 5 years (since I got an iPhone 6), with a 4G connection.

Meanwhile Google Amp has existed for less than 3 years and already has massively widespread adoption. Technological change happens so rapidly that it's rarely a technical issue when something like this exists.
Um, to me it looks like you're yelling at the wrong person. I think gok is the one with the bomb threat analogy, not shaftway.
I can see how this could, theoretically, help manage spills and related injuries. However, at least the one near me is so slow. It would take hours for it to do a round of the store. It spends most it's time standing still in an attempt to not get in the way of passing shoppers. I'd think that having a stock clerk make a round of the store every 45 or hour would work much better. A brisk walk across the top of the aisles, looking down them for spills, wouldn't take more than a few minutes.
This event led to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which granted the president sweeping military powers in southeast Asia. It amounted to a declaration of war on North Vietnam

It passed the senate with flying colors; only two votes against:

> The Senate conferred its approval by a vote of 88–2. Some members expressed misgivings about the measure, but in the end, Democratic Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska cast the only nay votes.[12] At the time, Senator Morse warned that "I believe this resolution to be a historic mistake."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution

When the US starts wars, it's always with massive popular support - at least in the beginning.

It's easy to forget just what a boogeyman decades of propaganda had turned communism into by the 1960s. A similar thing has happened with "radical islam" today. There's currently a nascent movement to do the same thing to China.

When the next big war comes, expect it to be met with wild applause regardless of how asinine the justification is.
> . Not sure if there are people right now who are hellbent to go to war Iran.

Erm, yes, there are. Saudis, Israelis and the MEK are hell bent for us to go to war with Iran. They've also publically greased John "neocon mustache boy" Bolton, who will hopefully be looking for a job soon.
It keeps the watch, pencil and airpods connected. Disconnects my third party keyboard. Unsure how it works in the mall scenario.

Anyone know? Occurs to me I could shut wifi fully off when leaving home, and turn bluetooth off with the toggle to still use my devices. Don’t know if that’s useful however.

Used to use airplane mode all the time, but modern convenience became too great.
Hi,

Yeah, the issue with all these replies is that the real replies that addresses the issues can be lost. I really recommend that you put that on your official blog so we all can benefit from reading your response.
That is a good point. Perhaps a better example would be FAANG making billions and running their servers on Linux, which (IIRC) is what things like the AGPL are designed to prevent.
> What's key, in 2019, an era when "brands" are easy to create anew, to the point where even kids and the poor have the resources to do so and organize around them, it is not the brand, but the behavior, the semantics, which is important. Who uses violence, intimidation, and vandalism to silence opposition and for political gain? Who dresses up in the same clothes, like "gang colors," and uses anonymity to get away with doing the above?

... Proud Boys? Just sayin'.
The MTA’s New Scanners Have Cameras in Them (But They're Not Watching You, Yet)
The answer is for the electorate to be sufficiently educated and free-thinking that they vote out people who deliberately get into stupid wars.

Which is probably to say that we’re screwed.
Who will offer instant delivery?
Laws call one murder and one manslaughter.
I think this a perceptions issue. IRGC done VERY well recently, successes in Syria, Houthis, Iraq, much closer ties and success in Gaza/Hamas. They feel good about themselves and view US as impotent(as in Syria). It could be a threat and demonstration of what they can do.

These are hard experienced and utterly committed men. They do not feel weak at all. Trump is a bit of a joke to them as Obama was before.
That's for users who have never searched for anything regarding observables and clicked links which will tailor their ranking algorithm. Not sure how much optimization for "pure" ranking we should do nowadays.
In particular, I strongly suspect that Heathrow has zones which, while not directly in the flight path, are still "too close" and will therefore cause them to stop operating airplanes.

As you say, that's not 100% without risk. It's an erosion of the safety margin, and safety margins are there for a reason.
Why aren't the DoJ and FBI involved in this yet? International money laundering should be prosecuted severely.
Thanks for the reference! That matches my understanding of events.
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Airplane mode? Shutting off the phone? Not like I get service in the grocery store anyway.
Joe Rogan Experience #1245 – Andrew Yang
I looked up the company listed on the page (Fea Card Limited) on the FCA's register, but there were no matches:

https://register.fca.org.uk/shpo_nosearchresultpage?mainsear...
> No. It is not possible to convince someone that doesn't want [X's] to have the same rights [as] other humans, that they should have the same rights, with "rational argument."

Depending on what you mean by "rational argument", this is extremely wrong. All known expansions of our moral circle to encompass other humans and even other sorts of sentient beings, going as far back as Stoic philosophy in antiquity, have occurred precisely via (more or less overtly stated) moral/ethical arguments of this sort. Even OP's blogpost is itself such an argument!

There are people that your basic contention applies to - people you can't convince via such a 'rational' appeal to morals; consider the Christchurch killer, whom I just discussed in another comment in this HN-thread. And if hate content turns out to systematically, with relatively-high probability, offer up pretexts that such individuals can trivially use to justify, publicize, glorify etc. their murderous acts, that's definitely something which should be of grave concern to us; and a meaningful, perhaps even a decisive challenge to the usual arguments for maximalist free speech. But that's a very different argument indeed to the one you are actually making here!
Huawei’s rival OS to take on Android – Everything we know so far
Youtube is not a TV channel, it's a video crowdsourced sharing site.

If we want to have a "free" (as in no subscription and no money required to be payed for the service) video sharing/uploading site, what model would that make it work and still have human reviewing? I consider the fact that there may be undesirable videos as the cost of having such a site, similarly how to the "cost" of having a free Internet is that there's going to be lots of hate online and free access to tutorials to make bombs and what not. It's part of the deal and I'm happy with that, YMMV. If you worry about what kids might access then don't let them access Youtube but please don't create laws that would make free video sharing sites illegal/impossible to run.

This is true for pretty much any free Internet service that allows for user content. If all of Internet content production will go back to just "official" creators (because they are the only ones where the cost/benefit math would make sense) I think that would be a huge loss/regression over what we have gained since the age of the Internet.
Sounds like Method of loci (memory palace) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Jet uses F# almost exclusively

https://github.com/jet

https://link.medium.com/spjuV2aAwX
- Ignoring the power of advertising
- Not being aware how your client/prospects `see' your business/products
- Lacking appropriate experience, particularly employees

In television programs like "Restaurant Impossible" you have the opportunity to see the same issues being repeated
by multiple business owners.
To be fair, he did called it a personal workaround. If it works for you, it doesn't really matter if it is common.
The GPL is not self-serving; it is a tool to achieve a type of society, and that is the society you seem to enjoy, too. After all, by what else should be measure the permissive licences vs copyleft licences if not by their influence on society?
Isn’t that because every Node dependency stores its own dependencies within itself? So you could literally end up with multiple copies of the exact same version of the same library.

I’ve never understood why they didn’t go with the Maven approach: all dependencies stored in a central location, separated by version.
Windows 10 May update helps ramp up AMD Ryzen performance
The following link shows how we do Chaos Engineering in TiDB, an open source distributed database:

https://www.pingcap.com/blog/chaos-practice-in-tidb/

Regarding the Fault Injection tools we are using:

- Kernel Fault Injection, the Fault Injection Framework included in Linux kernel, you can use to implement simple fault injections to test device drivers.

- SystemTap, a scripting language and tool diagnose of a performance or functional problem.

- Fail, gofail for go and fail-rs for Rust

- Namazu: a programmable fuzzy scheduler to test a distributed system.

We also built our own Automatic Chaos platform, Schrodinger, to automate all these tests to improve both efficiency and coverage
Non-competes eventually end, and IIRC in the finance industry they often pay you for the duration of the non-compete.
Seeing that the Bubble Sort was something I did in 6th grade in the 80s as part of an AppleSoft BASIC programming class - congratulations, the interviewer has now proven he can hire a programmer with the skillset of a middle schooler....
Scratch is a textual language with a visual editor and representation. Having two easily readable, equivalent, representations for dataflow programs is a lot more of a challenge.
Did they get funded? They mention explicitely that they didn't follow the VC route because they couldn't answer how to make it viable.

Anyway, Facebook, Twitter and etc started and grown a lot only with the promise that they would be viable someday. It worked out in a big way for Facebook at least.
Being private doesn't stop something being key national infrastructure. The UK's nuclear deterrent facilities are all farmed out to Babcock, for instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babcock_International and it would be hard to argue that isn't key national infrastructure. The UK just owns very little of its national infrastructure.
The Marriage of Bona Sforza and Sigismund I of Poland (2018)
Try coming out to the east bay. Mt Diablo has some really nice sightlines (you can see the moutains around Yosemite in the right conditions). And there's an area near Las Trampas where you can see Moffet Airfield, San Francisco, Oakland and Mt. Tam in the same view. It's a bit more of a drive, but less traffic.
Yes that's why I mentioned rehabilitation services. That is critical and I do not believe it should be optional.
The issue with that app is that there is no voice chat :(
book review "the war on normal people" Andrew Yang
This is a feature that's being added to iOS 13, along with occasional popups reminding you that an app has location privileges, and a map of where it's been tracking you.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/08/ios-13-location-permissions/
Not good.

But, now run the same experiment with law enforcement and Antifa.
There was a HN thread about it the other day, but I don't see the point of rushing out to buy a nokia if you've already bought a smartphone; that's just doubling down on e waste.

You can always detox your phone though. Delete all your third party apps, stay off mobile web and it's a de facto dumb phone with a battery that lasts a day instead of a week like your old razr.
> Not sure if there are people right now who are hellbent to go to war Iran. I hope not.

Iraq, then Iran, then North Korea. That's been the plan ever since 9/11.