skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reward circuitry in the brain is very much fundamental to how we operate and what motivates us in life. This is why drugs can be so life destroying. People tend to restructure their life so that they can keep getting that reward, at the expense of everything else.

It's something that's maybe hard to understand unless you've done drugs. I used to go out raving and do MDMA a lot. At the peak I was doing it almost every weekend. Until I found myself going out alone and looking for opportunities to go out, even if nobody I knew was going or the party wasn't good. I thought I really liked dancing, but I eventually realized, my brain was looking for an excuse to put me in that environment where I would typically do drugs, even if I actually knew going out that night would be a shitty experience. In other words, when you mess with your reward circuitry, your brain will begin to "lie" to you to guide you back to situations where you will get more of that reward. Your way of thinking will shift, and you might not even notice.

I personally don't think there is any way that brain implants can hook into our reward circuit and be used in a safe/responsible way. At least, not if the users themselves have direct control. The only way it could maybe be used sustainably is to reward certain behaviors in a way that the person themselves doesn't have control over, but that's a whole other dystopian can of worms. Personally, I think brain implants might fuck up society beyond recognition. Imagine if people could turn their sex drive on or off at will, or stop themselves from falling in love, get over someone instantly, make themselves love their miserable jobs. Sounds great right? Except we'll stop being human, we'll become machines.
Furthermore, if you have an essentially unlimited supply of electricity, you immediately start changing processes, materials, etc. to favor electrical assumption over other costs.
I'm sure it was the latter, like you say. For one thing, the computer technology you used depended on your specialty, but there were also different "cultures" within each specialty regarding the thesis. The high-energy physics students had access to Unix workstations and used LaTeX.

Most of the other students had whatever old MS-DOS boxes they could afford, commercial quality typesetting was impossible, so nobody demanded it. My advisor didn't even send typeset copy to journals, because he figured they would just retype it anyway. Acceptance of manuscripts in computer readable format was just on the horizon.

There was a strong tendency to get emotionally attached to the physical document -- it was the pinnacle of your career after all -- and to get wrapped up in the aesthetics. I avoided that, partially because the clock was ticking. My boss had accepted a job at another university, and I had to clear out by a certain date. Nothing sharpens your mind like a semi truck coming to haul your experiment away.
There's a big difference between the voices that get heard in tech companies and the majority opinion. It's socially unacceptable not to voice support for the walkout (at least it was at my workplace at the time, and we didn't even do any business with Google) so plenty of people feigned support when they really didn't care. And the the minority that really are invested are surprised when there's a lot less support than they thought.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167586
Then it is a wrong societal norm.
My grandmother retired at about 95 years old and she lived with us (daughter's house and 2 grandchilds) until she died at 106. She had a tiny government pension (about $100 per month) that she had not to spend on anything because the family cared for all her needs. When you live with someone and the marginal cost is just one room and one seat at the table then this is not a burden for anyone. If you want your separate house and someone to help, that is not sustainable unless you saved big time.
Planetary Mapping Connects Past and Future
I think the try/catch block is confusing commenters; it's irrelevant to the control flow in this case. You could consider it equivalent to:

for i=0; i<3; i++:
doSomething();
if i<3:
continue;
else:
break;
This guy is straining to get his new words to become memes.

"Globotics". "Telemigration". Please. Companies have been outsourcing call centers to India for decades now. That trend seems to have peaked; outside of telemarketing, the lower cost isn't worth the lower performance.
Thank you. This is my new wallpaper now.
Lens is far from being used by everyone in the space. On a sample of 5-6 professional users I talked with at this zurihac, most didn't use it.
An Addiction Crisis Disguised as a Housing Crisis
Somehow I missed hearing about a number of these, and hadn't seen all of these individually discussed yet. Note that in some cases the mitigation suggested is to simply cease use of the product in question entirely, ie for INTEL-SA-00243 on Turbo Boost Max Intel says:

>"Intel is not releasing updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability and has issued a Product Discontinuation notice for the Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 driver. [...] and recommends that users of the Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 driver uninstall it or discontinue use at their earliest convenience."
France has a democratic system, Hong Kong has no democratic way to get rid of Lam.

USA has due process, the right to council and many other fundamental human rights.

Most of the posters are in Chinese.

Brexit will be worse for the UK economically, leaving China would be good for HK democratically. And, also, the UK has an enshrined right to leave thanks to article 50, HK does not have that right at all.
This is sad. This twisted misapprehension of privacy is worse than useless, bit it's so ubiquitous that many people are coming up believing that this rubbish is what online privacy actually means.

Privacy is not about preventing tracking, hiding your identity, disguising your location, or any of the other useless bullshit that these products are all about.

Privacy is about building and curating your online identity to contain the information you want to disclose, and to not contain the information you want to keep private. Maintaining your privacy is about exercising restraint when communicating in forums, when filling out profile information, when posting pictures, or otherwise communicating online.

It's about disconnecting activity from your curated identity as appropriate, but it's not about disappearing entirely; that way leaves an information vacuum for others to fill in ways you may not agree with.

Most of all, it's not about distrust of corporate entities or other concentration of power. It's about learning how to interact with them in ways that benefit you and avoid harm. You don't need to hide from all-powerful watchful eyes, you just need to be reasonably mindful of everyone else who is there online with you, and avoid painting a picture of yourself that you may later regret.
> As for the Chief Executive's actions, it's not entirely clear to what extent she's responding to popular pressure, business groups in Hong Kong that want stability, or the central government.

I would say, the Chief Executive is more like a coordinator between Hong Kong and Beijing on such big issues. I don't think she is able to make important decisions like this on her own.
>Every time a cat owner commits suicide I can't help but wonder if that could have been easily prevented.

There are close to a billion people with cats, and like a few tens of thousands suicides, that include tons of people with no cats at all.

Especially since even your article says "Cat biting and toxoplasmosis had no effect on the depression, and the number of cats at home had a negative effect on depression (p = 0.021)."

So, only cat scratching does? As if the people with many cats at home don't get scratch? I wouldn't place much emphasis on a single study of questionable quality (given ample empirical evidence that there's no big deal).

"Cats cause suicides" border on "no vaccines" territory...
Which arena of science hasn’t said something like this.

In the history of computing there were quotes from prominent people such as “there will never be a need for more than five computers in the world” followed about 30 years later by something like “there is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home”.
OK - Can you tell us what your effective rate of return has been over this 10 year period? The S&P 500 index fund has increased 3x, which is about a 12% effective annual return.
Double tap the text column and it auto-fits. When you reach the end give it a big ol’ swipe from the opposite corner and it will pull the other column into view.

At least in iOS...
It also helps to remember, the police are not there to find the truth or find your innocence.

Their job is to gather evidence sufficient for the DA to charge you and convict you. Once you've been arrested or detained, you're not talking your way out of it, you're just giving them information to pass on to the DA.
Executive lounges, higher end hotel bars, and airport bars are my favorite place to meet like minded people and network. People tend to less territorial in these atmospheres and more open to conversation. So many people I’ve met this with and stay in contact to this day with.
They already have some or they wasted their lives (excluding cases with medical conditions that prevented having children). In a society that exists only as long as people have children and where care for the elders is provided by young people (direct care or tax funded), having children is a logical condition to get care.
If you code everything in pixels, your site only will look good on your particular screen. This has become so much of a problem that browsers now use a ‘standard’ pixel that is divorced from an actual pixel. I also find sites that do everything in rem/em more assessable as the padding also scales if they have a increased font size due to low vision.

Also, hardcoding things instead of using variables makes things harder to maintain. If someone didn’t use variables randomly, it’s easy to update the CSS to match. Ideally, you have one css (less, etc) file that defines that variables and their relationships, just like a .h file in C, so you can quickly grasp what each variable does.
VisiCalc's Spreadsheets Changed the World
> No joke, if you watch only TVB news, you will think the HK government is doing a great job

I get that: we have the same thing here in the USA with many newspapers and some TV stations. Heck, because of this, some people actually believe President Trump is a Russian Agent, you know, despite the fact that he is one of the great capitalists of all time, and he never ran for Any elected office until he won the Presidency--a feat which was all but impossible... still they think Putin made that happen, because that is what they are told.
Brexit?
Long Obedience
Yes, itertools is great. But its stblib is still much lighter than Scala's and Ruby's.

Actually, that seems to be the direction/principle of Python, where it is less inclined to add a helper function.

"It has been discussed ad nauseam on comp.lang.python. People seem to enjoy writing their own versions of flatten more than finding legitimate use cases that don't already have trivial solutions." from https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2542...

Not that this is better or worse. It's just that, on the brevity aspect, Python code is gonna be longer.
You’re certainly not engaging in anything I would describe as good faith, grounded observation, or reasoned discourse.
>so I just export my results to latex format with pandas.

In other words, you don't do it by hand. I too rely on a tool to create my tables, which was my point. Doing it by hand is painful.
There can't be, because "jerk" is a subjective assessment, and defamation requires a statement of fact. The "falsifiability" rubric Rayiner has been using is helpful. I'm not a lawyer, but I read lots of defamation lawyers, and note that you can further extend the requirements for defamation:

* It's (apparently, in many circumstances, consult lawyer) not defamation to relate your interpretation of facts already on the record. In other words, it's often not defamation if you're simply wrong about something, so long as you're not relating your wrongness in a manner that would lead a reasonable person to think you're authoritative for your claim. "Based on a bunch of stuff I read in the paper, Gibson's has a history of racial profiling" might be a much safer thing to say than "as faculty and administrators of Oberlin College I'm informing you that Gibson's has a history of racial profiling".

* If the injured party is a "public figure", you have to do more than prove a falsifiable false statement that causes actual injury; you also have to prove malicious intent, meaning that the speaker knows that what they're saying is false, and is saying it specifically in order to harm someone.
I can not tell for the starter salary, but 100000-120000$ is rather the norm (say it was offered to me without any haggling) and contractors (short term employees) make around 150k-250k.
I've had a polygraph before while interviewing for a security clearance position. The questions they asked were pretty standard such as "are you a terrorist" and things. I could unequivocally answer the questions without a thought. But my polygraph took a couple hours and after a while in that room, being asked the same questions over and over, I honestly started to wonder if I was, somehow, a terrorist and they knew it but I didn't.
Financial education is a must.

Even workers who earn very little can easily be assured of a safe retirement if they save and invest prudently from a young age. (That's the key-- a young age.)

This is all very well proven. It should be taugnt from the earliest grades. Yet it isn't. Totally frustrating.
I'm holding out hope that one day we will see an up-to-date iPod Touch type device for the Android ecosystem. (With fingerprint/NFC support, unlike the iPod Touch.) I could carry this around as a "clearnet terminal" and power it on when needed, mostly for banking, casual communications, and non-critical password storage. Everything else is relegated to more secure single-purpose devices that avoid touching the broader web.
How about not letting your invasive species drive other animals to extinction for sport? It’s nonsensical to call it a natural animal, and completely ignore the fact that they live nothing like an animal in nature, and have their population artificially supported while they decimate other species for sport. A house cat shares 0% of the life of a ‘natural’ animal.

If you want to own a pet cat, don’t promote irresponsible behavior that intentionally harms the environment. Attempt to have a modicum respect for things that exist outside yourself.
I use only my laptop. I lean back in my chair to maintain decent neck and wrist posture.
Is the end result life that consumes the majority of the energy produced (dyson spheres come to mind) to create massively more monolithic and efficient economies, converting enormous amounts of raw material into civilization?

What would make this different than the postulated grey goo scenario, whereinstead man and machine are the ultimate exponential replicators?
> Who guarantees that if you combine `my-dsl-1-macro` with `my-dsl-2-macro` or simply with general purpose code, that they don't interfere in odd ways?

Nobody does. But that's where the power lies. You can't have unrestricted power with restricted features. Lisp gives you unrestricted power. It's up to you to use it correctly, for w/e definition of correct your context makes sense.
American Vandal (Netflix original) season 2 deals with this theme and is pretty amazing all around!
Feds control the currency and can print money. After watching QE, I don't believe printing a few trillion dollars would create meaningful inflation, especially while the USD remains the world's reserve currency.
Perhaps because you don't state any mechanism on how the borders of a country increase the complexity of building a particular transit system - you just assert that it is so. Surely the number of stakeholders is more related to proximity, than borders? And China, Russia, and Canada are all large countries, but seem to manage decent mass transit.

In sum, you provide a shaky, ad-hoc justification on why it's more difficult if the country is larger, and ignore counterexamples.
Shit dude every time anyone commits suicide I can't help but wonder if that could have been easily prevented.
They're obviously lying, yes.

Maybe they do that now, but users used to at least to be able to add lyrics for any artist and song they wanted. There wasn't a license waiting period or anything before they went up.
The traditional method of measuring code complexity is Cyclomatic Complexity [1] which, roughly speaking, measures the number of branch points in the code.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
"Is it live, or is it Memorex?"
Assuming infinite growth in a finite system is wrong. Relying on a system that was invented and meant for societies where population is growing double digit is wrong when the population growth stops or when it is declining (Japan, Europe). The huge inertia of the classical pension system is killing it, "adapt or die" already put it into a coma.
I always liked the concept of webrings as a vehicle of discovery, but in practice it was always terrible. Nobody curated what could or could not be part of a ring so you were absolutely not finding good pages by clicking on the “next site” link.

They have potential, but there are nuances to make them worth using
The way you feel isn’t unusual; many Americans feel this way. Then you get older, or sick, or both, and the system you loved so much and gave so much to will discard you like a piece of trash, without even a second thought. And at that point you may begin to feel differently. But enjoy the feeling while you can - it will not last forever.
Matter of Britain/Arthurian mythos nerd here.

It's amazing how much of the Arthurian mythologies have been derived from varius vague allusions in this book. Probably lots of people know about the theory of Ambrosius Aurelianus as a possible candidate for historical King Arthur because of his role in the battle at Mount Badon, but what's even more interesting is that in the book Gildas refers to a leader only by their sobriquet of "the bear", which was rendered as ursus in Latin, but in Brythonic, it would've been arth.

Also another fun fact, Gildas never refers to Dumnonia by name, instead calls it "Damnonia" presumably to reflect his condemnation.
Is this the discourse? I'm not sure it is.

Part and parcel to Free Speech being foundational to discourse. If one values discourse, Free Speech needs to always be there. The late 1700s equivalent would be, if the manufacturers of printing presses were only letting those with their favored political views print anything. (And if making one's own printing press were practically infeasible.)

Viral discovery in a digital medium is a big game changer, in the same league as printed text. Just because some megacorps are able to do so, doesn't mean all of it should be granted to one particular subset of one particular political persuasion. That's technically legal, supposedly, but not democratic in spirit. That's a minority using resource advantage to manipulate and coerce the public.
This is already possible in some video editors, see e.g. DaVinci Resolve optical flow - https://youtu.be/4LsLaJq5-ow
I guess it depends on the perspective and interpretation of soundness. If a JIT-compiler AoT compiles your entire program but infers that your function that implements logic that works for every number (as you defined it using the Number interface within the rules of it's type system) will only use 32 bits integers, then it will compile code that effectively does not hold up to the property that was established. The fact that it will stop execution the moment it reaches an invalid path and correct it doesn't change that.
I haven't had any trouble doing flexbox for IE11. I always make sure to test in IE11 because of the caniuse warnings; I have very rarely run into any problem with IE11, maybe once or twice, and they were easy to work around problems.

I wouldn't be scared of using flexbox even if you need to support IE11. I'm not sure where caniuse's dire warnings come from. (I have run into different flexbox behavior between FF/Chrome about as often I have run into flexbox problems with IE11; I generally couldn't tell you which of FF or Chrome is correct/incorrect in those cases).

I've in the past done flexbox without too much trouble even on IE10, but I am not myself concerned with IE10 anymore.
Taints and tolerations, pod and node affinities demystified
Working with LLVM/clang is pretty much the same on a distorted compiled with clang as one compiled with gcc. Even the C++ ABIs are largely compatible if you use libstdc++ instead of libc++.
Obviously having parents leave a company for any length of time is bad for the "bottom line". This is an objective fact, because the company must fill in the role somehow and wait for an amount of time before that person, who will be guaranteed their job when they return, can work again (assuming that the way it would work now is extended to fathers, where the job is guaranteed). If the government also subsidizes the family then it also costs the government money as well, which also affects the "bottom line".

However there have been numerous psychological studies that look at the outcome of the baby and the parents when allowed to take m/paternity leave and it's hugely beneficial for all involved. So if you look solely at money then the argument for family leave is "don't do it" but money is not the only important thing when looking at topics like this.
For those interested, there's a presentation about OpenMandriva's usage of LLVM from EuroLLVM 2019:

* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QinoajSKQ1k

* Slide deck (PDF): https://llvm.org/devmtg/2019-04/slides/TechTalk-Rosenkranzer...
If you build sites that can support arbitrary viewports, extrapolating to arbitrary scaling factors on a given concrete viewport does not create an explosion of scenarios to manually test -- all you need to know is that your scaling works, and if you always build your functionality responsively, the scaling and responsive layout together just work. (I'm talking about building the whole layout with rems, not just using them for font sizes. For the latter, I'd agree with you that it's brittle and falls apart quickly.)

It's fair to point out that the browser feature is not widely used, but when it is used, it's likely by users who benefit most from the small amount of effort it takes to support it. (It's really a few lines of CSS, plus simply using rems as your websites unit whenever you'd otherwise use px. It's even easier in terms of avoiding weird 16px-based rem calculations if you make your rems 10px for a default 16px browser preference by applying a straightforward conversion on the root element.)
Unable to connect. Android, Fennec F-Droid.
Oh ok, I read that semicolon as a comma for some reason and thought Vortipor was a title of Caninus