skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what does it even mean to say something is 4 months away when the months could be different lengths?

The same thing it means when something is 2 years away when the years could be different lengths?

The month is a well-defined unit within the context of a certain calendar. And since a normal date representation contains the month as a singular component, month additions are usually well-defined (the obvious exception being, adding N months to yyyy-mm-31 -- the result is undefined, though most people will assume it to refer to the first day of the month following).

There is no need to bring mathematical strictness into it, because months are never used for that purpose. Moreover, no calendar system is built for mathematical strictness anyway, so arguing for that kind of strictness is like building a house on quicksand.
> Due to Prop 13...

I'm not following. Prop 13 doesn't apply to new residents. It only applies to existing residents. Building new homes increases revenue.

Or an I missing something?
I think there's an interesting phenomenon here how a lot of people get obsessed by producing a book. I have seen so many blogs by aspiring writers, and overheard their conversations on trains, too. What drives people to do this? I think most of them don't hold much hope of becoming rich or famous: they understand that most writers need a day job. Perhaps for some reason they consider themselves inadequate until they are a published author. But why? Does it just follow from the way authors and publishers create a mystique in order to sell their wares?

The mystique (if that's what it is) seems to be quite specific to being the author of a book. Writing a series of articles for a national newspaper or being a commercially successful screenwriter or ghost writer somehow isn't good enough, even if it's much more lucrative.
Not about Liu, but written by another frustrated writer that couldn't answer middle-school questions about her own poems: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad...
Excellent point, I'll be back in 8 years once I've got my PhD in climatology so that I can personally assess this person's ideas rather than trusting some well established educational institution's say-so.

Edit: But wait, just because I'd have the credentials doesn't mean I'd know what I'm talking about! To assume so would be intellectually lazy!
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> is not the biggest customer any more. Thus it cannot bully the rest of the world.

That is exactly what Trump wants. Reduce trade deficits, more manufacturing in the USA instead of importing from China. Since that seems to follow I am trying to understand the move.
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There are a bit different due to the host environment.

Btw, use the iOS version a lot to learn
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Also "blue" is a poorly defined description of color and shouldn't be used to describe a color.

The truth in both cases is of course that while the meaning is contextual and imprecise, it's still useful because people generally don't use precise measurements in their day-to-day activities. When someone tells me that something will happen in a month, I take it to mean something in the ballpark of 28-31 days, and that information can be useful to me.

Because of leap seconds, the only really unexceptional unit of time is seconds, but someone telling me that something will happen in 2592000 seconds isn't particularly useful to me.
Not trying to be annoying but your comment is more convincing of the opposite of what you're saying than of what you're saying.
Those are two of the suggestions I received in that moment. I didn’t think they were weird, I just thought they were things that I couldn’t do. Not knowing what to do or feeling like there was nothing I could do was my general state at that time.

It’s so cool to me that you listened to the track
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> It seems both more straightforward and more effective to build recursion paths that you can trust aren't doing any intentional or unintentional caching.

I agree, but as you say, that will take quite some work and time to happen and will be costly. I was thinking of this as a possible temporary mitigation which would retain some benefits of caching. If it was made adaptive[1], it would also have the nice side-effect of being more resource intensive for those servers that attempt to use tracking.

[1] i.e. only fetch many responses if they appear to vary while doing a smaller number of "probing" requests. Continue fetching more responses for your local sample until they stop varying with some degree of confidence.
And in the "google is useless" saga, i haven't been able to find anythying but vague 'doesn't work' posts and nothing about a possible fix...
She lets it end. No one apart from the mysterious (urg) race of aliens is trying to destroy the universe by collapsing it, they might as well be nothing, and story telling wise they're just a natural disaster without agency.
She just stays in her dimensional safe box and doesn't take action. Her only actions are choosing to let things happen, but she's never the one putting them in action.

Also, the goal isn't/shouldn't be growth at all cost in a story. The axiom of Liu Cixin is his theory of "The Dark Forest", which is what it is, a literary axiom, not an universal truth.
To be fair, as much as it doesn't help things, it is entertaining to see what Instagram thinks I like and is a feature I didn't know existed. I recently un-followed everyone besides the people I know IRL (so no more celebs, memes and instachicks) and, combined with the obfuscation software I use now, the ads suggestions are all over the place. For a male, 20-something year old nerdy engineer I apparently have a real love of all things 'comsmetics, hair products, spas, dresses, beauty, and tattoos'!
> increases the numbers of dollars in circulation (since bonds are redeemed in dollars)

But following supply and demand principles, increasing the number of dollars in circulation should lead to inflation/devaluing of the dollar, right?
Months should not be used to describe durations. The length of one month is not clearly defined.

Edit: except when giving an approximation, which the program doesn't
I disagree with your last point, just because some topics are forbidden to talk about, does not mean that creativity in general is suppressed in anyway.
One of the most obvious attacks is if two different typed objects have similar memory layouts you can use it to read/write fields.

Say you had class A and class B and they are confused with each other.

Suppose they have the following layout:

struct A {
int x
void *f()
}

struct B {
int x
int y
int z
}

Then if you have a class A and you make the program think it's actually class B. You can imagine that if you control an object B you can update the fields x, y of a object B. Once this is prepared you can then use the object as type A and then run some code to trigger the call to A.f()

Obviously this is a trivial example but with depending on the vulnerability you can perhaps use it call protected functions and all kinds of memory corruption.

Attacks on JavaScript arrays tend to edit the 'size' field and change it to a really really large number, thus by simply indexing the array you can have unrestricted read/write access to a large section of memory.
The last Nightly Firefox build for Android to date is 68.0.a1 from 2019-05-04.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/nightly/all/

Does it contain the fix?
>Cheng Xin, compared to Luo Ji, has next to zero initiative and is a paper thin character which seems to only be there to metaphorically scream "woman are weak and bad for civilization".

I interpreted it differently, the fact that some male characters can be less empathetic and could potentially solve some crisis does not mean that all men or all women are X, I am bad with names so I don't remember them, but in the end why did the man let her take the final decision about the secret project/attack ? (it seemed out of character or a way to place the hard decision on other IMO)
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Not at 365 with code yet! Today is day 170. I think it’s very cool that you took the time to check this stuff out and write your thoughts. Thank you so much
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This page is missing a "take me to a random fleuron."
Why not ? Maybe sentient / intelligent life is thriving everywhere but 99.9% of time, climate change or nuclear annihilation happens. Even in "easy mode" with several planets. I find it ironic and somehow poetic.
Sure, it's cancer compared to other cryptocurrencies, but what can possibly go wrong if it competes with fiat? People in the article started to speak about better money transfer technology. Why only now? Because they stagnated as a monopoly.
You're right, but I think the problem does arise for "four and a half months away". That actually requires you to pin down how many days are in a month.
This is a drastic oversimplification. From my experience, libertarians are usually against UBI. There is certainly a large enough current that you can't make this generalization.
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The calculator should then show "approximately N months" -- showing "N months and M days" is nonsensical if "M" has no useful precision
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That's really cool. Thanks! I should point out, though, that I meant that I don't think you will get efficient enough to make solar power reasonable. You will notice that Hitachi's RO solution has higher power efficiency than the distillation solution. I'd be really curious to see how much power it actually uses, though... Unfortunately it doesn't say in their marketing material.
I wouldn't necessarily relate scientific progress with democracy. Philosophers like Pluto and Aristotle were famously against the idea of democracy. Honestly I can't imagine scientific laws get passed by virtue of having most votes.

I also you confuse openness in political debate with openness in STEM, yes China prohibits the former, but definitely not the latter
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> you imagine that - hopefully - the general progression of technology is forward.

I think this might be the key myth of our times. Our entire history is a blink of an eye along the timescales Earth normally changes on. But the last couple hundred years really takes the cake - within a couple human lifespans, we've gone from a lifestyle broadly recognizable to any human from history, to some kind of ravenous sci-fi techno-megamind with spaceships and robots. We should be scared - even on our human timescales things are changing rapidly. On Earth timescales, this is not a steady state but an event - a sudden, runaway, exponential, violent event.

We have such a short perspective that we are lulled into thinking of it as a "natural progression". But that's like jumping off a cliff and concluding the natural progression is freefall. We know this state of affairs cannot possibly last. Why keep pretending?
Indeed.

To be less facetious about it, there is some irony in this project being promoted by Google executives, who live in chateaus and mansions in Atherton, Los Altos Hills, Woodside, etc, with an acre of land to their name, when this investment is of course to house the labor that got them those mansions to begin with. The execs who sponsor the housing projects obviously won't sell or give up their own land to make room for the new apartments.

Random Atherton listing on Trulia: https://www.trulia.com/p/ca/atherton/87-patricia-dr-atherton...
UBI is similar to negative income tax, which was proposed by (among others) Friedman.
The rich, as always, have options that aren’t available to the poor.

In the case of Berlin, it is surrounded by Brandenburg. Brandenburg is extremely cheap, and one could easily live there officially (but in practice only on weekends) and only spend weekdays in the city, perhaps in a hotel (the price difference of weekend home in Brandenburg plus hotel in Berlin vs. anything in SanFran makes this look sane). Or you could live a short walk from Leipzig Hbf. and take the high-speed train to Berlin which is only about one hour and thus similar to my tram/bus/U-Bahn/S-Bahn commute to the the city center from just inside the city limits.

My ideal is not a free market either, but rather government built homes. I may however be rose-tinting the past, as my mental model is what the UK used to call “council houses”.

Edit: also, I’m not actually German, I’ve just lived here for 10 months and am still learning about everything.
In other news ...

"borrower are optimist, lenders are pessimists"

If many of these students are left depressed due to unmet expectations it drags the whole economy down - as they cut back on spending.

I feel like inflation would be a good thing, to reduce their debt burden while meeting their physiological expectation.

It would also help everybody if the dollar was weakened ( expect the very rich 20% of americans ).
Well HList gives you something which behaves like a tuple with generic size. The difference between an HList and a type like (a * (b * (c * unit))) is that the HList can use the regular list syntax which is much nicer to match on (especially with type constructor disambiguation). Eg one could imagine a varadic list map function which behaves a bit like map in lisps (ie accepting any positive number of lists). Although this would need multiple types that look like lists because of the lack of higher kinded types in reason/ocaml
Fascinating. One can imagine that applying this seemingly curiously and typically Greek principle of hypothesize-experiment-falsify to the thesis of free conversation and science combined with the existence of sharashki would yield interesting results.

But some ardent disciple somewhere may preach otherwise, fearing the use of his favourite tool lest he tarnish it through use. Present company naturally excluded.
maybe others could afford to do so, right now books are my main source of income and I am still burning through my savings

also, do you mean that one shouldn't make money by using free software which gives the freedom to make money?
> I would rather have street sweepers adapt to bike lanes

That's what's done in the Netherlands, and I can confirm: it's far safer and comfortable to cycle in separate bicycle lanes, and it greatly encourages people to cycle.
Perhaps he chose to be cautious with his remarks in case any authorities happen to read the New Yorker.
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What happened in Cyprus in 2013? Private banks in a tax haven had rich people from other countries speculating on foreign markets (US housing, among others), hoping to gain above-market returns by doing so. That speculation went sour, resulting in insolvent banks. Those banks also had regular and smaller deposits from local residents, though. In order to protect those people, Cyprus decided to not absorb the speculative losses of those rich people. Instead, the private speculative losses stayed private, which is essentially what a haircut above €100k did.

Now imagine that same situation, but with Facebook at the helm. Either Facebook is in risk of insolvency, or private speculation with zuckbucks going south. Do you think Facebook will just go bancrupt in order to protect the zuckbuck owners? Or will they more probably recreate Cyprus, but way worse for the zuckbuck holders?
you really don't have to like the author in order to have fun or appreciate his works.
Your Smart TV with integrated microphone array, sometimes a camera, potential for detecting location, potential WiFi sniffing tools and full access to the internet which you didn't grant? Oh and targeted ads right in the UI - so we know there's an incentive for them to do these things.
It would be difficult to differentiate between responses that vary due to load balancing and responses that vary due to active fingerprinting.

Even when a site only has a single physical location, load balancing might be done in part by having DNS randomly return one of many valid IP addresses. E.g. this is a behaviour supported by Amazon's Route53.

Larger sites frequently use a combination of anycast and DNS based routing to get packets to the closest POP. This introduces both (1) difficulty identifying when fingerprinting is occurring, and (2) still more opportunities for fingerprinting.

Most users will find it impossible to control which POP their packets get routed towards. For someone doing fingerprinting, it could be a very useful signal.
Doesn't surprise me that WA.gov.au is full of vulnerabilities.
You referred to a "conversation" that you'd like to have about the Holocaust. What conversation is that exactly?

"Get over it" is not really a point so much as a tone-deaf injunction. If ignoring bigotry made it go away, Jews would be the first people calling for that course of action.

Unfortunately, teens are not always as innocent about Nazism and the symbolism of the swastika as you might wish to think: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48672929
I got that too, seems to be working at https://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/185618493489/head-w...
I think most normal people (non programmers) would be surprised by how complex such seemingly simple types like real numbers, dates and text can become.
That's how you get an overbuilt construction industry and (even more) unemployed construction workers during the next recession. The "free" market is adequate for allocating resources to consumer goods but not for allocating them to entire industries.
Yeah I found the second one to be the "most boring" of the three. Maybe it could be a translator issue, where one writes in a more fluid way and the other in a more literal sense?
Yes, I got that feeling as I was writing it. For example, take the list I mentioned:

- strict laws
- heavy bureaucracy
- expansive regulation
- government involvement in business
- politics are dominated by one political party

All of these give off a terrible impression. But I urge the reader to consider that none of these are unique to Singapore, and are in fact not uncommon among cities/town. Like it is not uncommon for city/state-level governments to be dominant by one party or another for generations. Nor is it uncommon for cities to have annoyingly or weirdly archaic and strict laws. (Singapore bans chewing gum? The US still bans the import of "Kinder Surprise").

I'm not the best writer for this sort of thing, but I just want to dispel this notion that Singapore is this magical, esoteric fascist paradise. It's just a city-state which leans more toward government regulation. Only once we stop treating it as exceptionally special can we actually discuss which policies and aspects of government work and don't work well.
I've heard it alleged that HN "top users" are disproportionately Google employees; if so that would explain it.
Phew, I didnt have much money when I was reading the three body problem. The first I picked up second hand, the second and third I pirated, with the hope of buying the set one day, looks like I wont be buying it now
These are online sites where people can post their benchmark results - in the AMD case, hardware is already on the market so a bunch of regular people ran the benchmark. The single Intel result is just an (intentional?) leak of results for a chip that's not widely available yet. It's difficult to say whether it was cherry-picked, but it's definitely not reliable.
High price demand is filled before low price demand. In the context of limited space and inability to, say, build high (as in Berlin), what you propose could literally mean that there is no housing for the poor.
Technically, the Zune bug didn't kill the device. The bug sent it into an infinite boot loop until the following day when the leap year calculation could return.

But yes, the difficulty in verifying a correct implementation of date and time calculation calls out for a standard test apparatus to "prove" correct results for a defined scope.
Yes! I mean, I understand that few websites have the expertise, personnel and incentive to come up with a working CSP and maybe even SRI tags. But then you see these incidents where CC data is exfiltrated from the payment pages of major airlines (British Airways) and all that other MageCart shit and you start to wonder: These pages don't need ads on them, any code that goes out should be reviewed so there would be resources for CSP/SRI, and the economic incentive is somewhat given (bad press). Still nothing happens :/
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Prop 13 cut the tax rate below the cost of services the city provides residents. Building more housing, especially cheap housing makes the cities financial situation worse. One of the ways cities try to make up for this is by charging fees for new construction. Which also drives up the cost of housing.

Also doesn't help that prop 13 limits property tax increases for commercial property. And corporations live forever.
Grand theft moon? That's as crazy as Space 1999.

Not as crazy as claiming Phobos is an alien spaceship though, with highly places ESA sources due to announce it soon (article date 2010)
Me too. This gives a quick insight into what the applicant knows and what they are interested in.

This is usually one of the three questions I require as part of an application.

The other two are a technical question tailored for the position and the third a 'throwaway' that the applicant answer as they see fit. In the past it's been things like "What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow? (European or African)"
I just wanted to emphasize the lossy compression since op stated minidisc was "the pinnacle of mixtapes with best of all worlds". Best of all worlds, excluding transparent audio quality. Big minus imo. I thought it was worth mentionning, for people reading this thread that are less versed in audio.
There's a simple way to ban bitcoin. Govts already regulate the banking and payment companies. Govt can compel them to not allow/facilitate exchange of bitcoin for fiat currency or vice-versa. Without banking/payments infra supporting such a conversion (only hand to hand cash transfer and exchange conversion by person to person transfers would be possible) which will be very small and network will be dead soon. But obviously govts didn't do that and hence bitcoin has so much usage and hence such high value.
i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)
Freezes have always been possible. Nationalization below market rates have always been possible. Neither discourages construction. That's just FUD.
Congrats on launching. A question. How do you update the Sqreen micro agents deployed within a microservices architecture? As security threats evolve one would need to patch Sqreen too, right?