skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual title is “Chinese scientists guilty of ‘researching while Asian’ in Trump’s America”. It was also submitted with that title. Pretty slimy of the admins to change it just to rationalize keeping the submission up. The title is obvious bullshit because no one in Trump’s administration would have a problem with Japanese scientists “researching while Asian”, because Japan is our ally. Fronald Toompf destroyed yet again, right guys? Stop fucking turning this site into reddit please.
If anything, age 8 is an overestimate rather than an underestimate. Nowadays, the preschool years are considered crucially important towards determining lifelong outcomes. It's a good idea to not be poor from age 0 to 2.
> In the Fram case the closest we got is that he said the word "fuck"

No it isn't. WMF said that they had allegations of harassment, that they weren't going to release details of that harassment to protect the accuser[1], and that after having looked at several _years_ of fram's edits they decided to take action.

[1] and looking at this thread and the wikipedia thread they were right to do so.
Windows syncs keyboard layouts automatically between installations linked to the same microsoft account. Why anyone would ever want this behavior is beyond me, but this sounds like the cause of this issue.

https://superuser.com/questions/961467/how-to-stop-windows-1...
I think a lot of this is technical debt. They built the feature/page/whatever code and it works "good enough".

Now a future programmer three years later tells the business manager that they can do this much better now for $x. It will improve nothing as far as the user in concerned. Maybe the page will load faster but the user may not even notice. Maybe they will save some money on hosting and bandwidth costs.

In most cases, the business person will most likely tell the programmer to keep working on to new feature z2021 project and leave the old code alone. This is until there is a security problem or the old code effects the z2021 project.
Moral of the story: Don't auto-increment serial numbers :-)
I'm never able to get a function to work as I don't even know their equivalents in German.
I like GNUnet. Very great project. However trying to figure out how to use it was a utter pain and no 'kiler app' for it exists. Its very researchy. But I really like everything they are doing.
It's not being used as a standalone reason. Fram wasn't booted for being white or male. He was booted for being toxic.
> This gives a rough ballpark for the amount of energy they are willing to invest into major strategic advancements.

I'd say, rather, that it gives a rough ballpark of how much the government was willing to invest in the 1940s, at the peak of its ability and willingness to take on projects of incredible scope. There was still a fair amount of this for a few decades after that, but not since the 70s. See https://rationalconspiracy.com/2012/06/03/why-doesnt-our-gov... for one person's take on this (though you don't have to go as far as she does, I think, to establish that applying Manhattan Project numbers to anything going on today will result in an overestimate).
It's great to provide corrective information, but please do it without taking personal swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Isn’t that effectively what a backtracking parser does? My naive guess is that’s already roughly how the JS parser works, and that process is what makes it slower than the simpler JSON parser.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/msisback/

https://www.reddit.com/r/msisback/comments/c7jceq/livestreamofficial2100_gmtpanama_vs_jamaica_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/msisback/comments/c7jcgy/livestreamofficial2100_gmtpanama_vs_jamaica_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/msisback/comments/c7jcgv/officiallive2100_gmt_jamaica_vs_panama_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/msisback/comments/c7jdia/officiallivestreamspanama_vs_jamaica_live_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/msisback/comments/c7jchi/officialstreams2100_gmtpanama_vs_jamaica_live_by/
>I'm simply saying that if someone believed a disastrous situation was directly caused by a deity

satan himself was a creation of God, that doesn't mean we just lie down and indulge all manner of sin.

>Why on Earth would anyone work directly against the actions of God, or try to take responsibility for something that God is clearly in charge of?

All things that occur, do so by the will of God (i.e: occasionalism).

>I have seen people use similar logic before, even specifically for climate change.

I'd assume their theology has shaky foundations.
Same here. I still remember feeling pretty dumb the day I realized that "if" and "else" were also English words.
We changed the title to the subtitle. That is routine moderation when titles are baity, as they frequently are.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
EDIT/UPDATE:

FAQ Questions (now?) mention Google, but imply it’s a local team in “Google’s workshop”:

Q. How started?

A. After years of living in New York City and commuting on the subway, the Pigeon team knows first-hand that public transit can be frustratingly unpredictable. So when we started this project, we decided to create a product that lets subway riders help each other avoid delays, crowds, and incidents that make can make commuting so stressful.

Q.Who created this?

A. Pigeon is lovingly designed and built by a small team based in New York as a part of Area 120 - Google's workshop for experimental products. For the Pigeon team, being a part of Area 120 means we have the opportunity to create a new, experimental product that we can continuously test and improve to make sure it’s something that our users love. For our users, it means you get a chance to experience our app in its early stages and help shape the product as it grows.

Q. Only for New York?

A. Pigeon’s dream is to make it easier to get around all cities. But, since Pigeon is new and the team still has a lot to learn, we decided to start in our own backyard of NYC: home to the largest subway system in the US. We think starting here will help us figure out what works and what doesn’t as we move toward this goal.

Q. Android?

A. We’re currently focused on learning and testing with iOS users in NYC, but we hope to bring Pigeon to Android soon. Please sign up for our Android waitlist to be notified when it becomes available.

The Transit Heroes FAQ may be clearer:

Q. What would I get?

A. An opportunity to meet up with the Pigeon team and other Transit Heroes at the Google NYC campus.
> If any 3rd party can repair something like biometric hardware, any 3rd party could also compromise said hardware.

As pointed out in the article, you have to trust any third party you hire. This isn't unique to electronics.

A cleaning service could secretly install cameras in my house. An auto mechanic could put a GPS tracker in my car. The local pizza parlor could deliver using bugged cardboard boxes!

Or perhaps you're worried about a random stranger at the local coffee shop dismantling your phone, installing a bugged fingerprint reader, and fully reassembling it, all in the time it took you to use the restroom and with no one noticing? Yeah, I didn't think so.

We don't need to lose our right to repair. Just don't take your electronics to unreputable service centers.
Facebook (or a consortium of companies, whatever this is) controlling a significant global currency feels like a dystopian nightmare. It's one of very few things that genuinely worry me.
All round-the-world flights have had stops for fuel and rest, except one.

Not counting orbits, of course.
A lot of discussions I've seen of Libra treat it as 12-dimensional chess where one of the players is a malign entity called "Facebook", looking to maximize revenue, or power, or in some other way malevolently patting a white cat in its lap. I have a different theory to suggest.

What if Zuckerberg is simply a very idealistic person who happens to have full voting control of one of the largest corporations in the world, and insists on pushing it to idiosyncratic ends? This is a guy who a couple of years ago decided that "we will cure all disease" was a non-ridiculous goal to put his and his wife's name on.

A lot of the complexity around Libra can be explained as Zuckerberg pushing for unfettered access to the financial system for everyone, and the many smart legal and technical minds at Facebook trying to protect the company from the regulatory and criminal nightmare such a system would pose in practice.

I may be wrong in this analysis, but in general I think we spend too little time analyzing what vapid thought may have come into Zuckerberg's head this time around, when it is a perfectly sufficient explanation of Facebook's behavior. In this model, the complexity and subtlety of the strategy come from people around the Great Leader trying to mitigate his vision, or adapt it to their own bureaucratic or ideological ends.
The strange thing is that the rich profit if the poor get more money to spend. But that's indirect and long term, and that is a difficult concept for many.
A large portion of what reduced inequality was the destruction of wealth during World War II and the fact that the U.S. benefited afterward from being the last standing industrial economy.

I seriously doubt that.

We shipped essentially all able-bodied men off to war, so much so that we filled a lot of jobs with women. Birth rates were low because the men were physically absent.

People were encouraged to grow Victory Gardens so farm food could feed soldiers. Tobacco, sugar etc were all rationed. We stopped making cars and converted car factories to keep factories.

A lot of families had two incomes, no children and couldn't spend their money on luxury goods because they simply weren't available. Savings rates during the war were extremely high, above 50 percent some years.

The boys came home, bringing veterans benefits with them. This included help buying a house and going to college.

Unlike with modern lottery winners, this formula did not encourage people to just blow their money frivolously. They began buying houses at such high rates we invented new ways to throw them up quickly, giving rise to the modern suburb.

Celibacy, low birth rates, frugal living, hard work and high savings rates helped reduce inequality. A lot of that could be replicated. We just don't typically have the self discipline to do so individually.
Always curious: why are you using a company email instead of a private email for SO? Using company email for something potentially interesting privately or just a potential long-time investment is something I still fail to understand.
What is a stack map frame?
This is inflammatory and snarky and exaggerated ("China has been at war with us") enough to count as nationalistic flamebait. As I said above, we don't want that here. Please make your substantive points without it.
But it’s easy to forget how concepts you understand so well they feel natural and are burned in your muscle memory are foreign and difficult to others, beginners in particular. A way to measure that is to teach. When you try to explain simple programming concepts, you often realise what millage you have behind you.
This is sort of the first level reaction. If you can understand what Libra and cryptocurrency really are, you may be able to get to another level.

The next level of grasping this is to realize that real scalable cryptocurrency is the actual threat to the establishment. And secondly to realize that Libra is the polar opposite of real cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency that scales is digital cash. It is controlled entirely by citizens. It is difficult to track. Difficult to tax. Nearly impossible for governments to disable access for person's or countries. It is difficult for centralized companies to profit from it. And it provides a direct competition to all fiat currencies.

Libra on the other hand is none of those things. It is totally centralized, completely dependant on fiat currencies. Controlled by one company who will give backdoors to governments. Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal (all sponsors of Libra) will be able to continue to take a cut of all digital transactions. The Libra group will profit from interest on your assets and happily freeze them if the government sneezes in your direction.

So my main concern is that the government may realize this and do a 180. And that Libra could block adoption of real cryptocurrencies that are making big pushes for scalability.
> Programming uses the same words as regular English, but it is a completely different linguistic register, so there is never any conflict.

Moreover, when you cross over those jargon terms into their regular meaning, hilarity ensues.

For example, you can easily prove that oaks are infinitely tall in winter. Start by observing that in winter, oaks don't have leaves. Then consider the graph-theory definition of "tree" and "leaf".
My issues with recaptcha don't matter. I can't use a large part of the web without enabling recaptcha.
Makes perfect sense. If it doesn’t make enough sound it’s not safe for pedestrians, especially blind ones. Maybe it should be muted at higher speeds when tyre/wind noise is enough. It’s most important at low speeds and when reversing.
But if Libra is so well-founded, what if, in the face of regulation, facebook decides to leave the project? And what if the project is cancelled altogether? It will be an admission of defeat and bowing down to the banks, and there are thousands of cryptocurrencies that could take its place.
Slacktivism is a word people even lazier than the slacktivists use to describe small attempts at change. As a lazy guy myself, I'd lift my glass to you if it wasn't all the way over there.
I actually had a very similar conversation with my wife last night about our son's future education (wish me luck) where I effectively said the same thing.

To paraphrase my argument: reading, writing and math are too important to be taught at school or rely upon their standardised tests. if I have to wait for a test result from school to tell me my child can't do the thing, I've already failed. And in addition he'll have started on music, some sports, sciences and programming likely before he ever reaches a compulsory classroom.

This idea that teachers, in a group environment, with a standardised curricula can compete with that is just downright dishonest. And the idea that this is meritocratic and that children compete on some level playing field is absurd. You can't teach finance and programming and economics well at school because most current teachers do not understand or cannot implement such into their own lives,and philosophy just isn't taught in general.

By the time you reach cs 101 at university, how is the average child who learnt to type at school and that computing is an iPad with YouTube attached supposed to be realistically competing with the other students who already have 10 to 15 years of experience?

and if you cannot read or do math at 8, on average, what sort of life have you had and how do you compare with children already thriving and building upon what they know?

perhaps we also have a disagreement about where lower/middle skill jobs and wages are also going? you might be assuming "well, he won't thrive in comparison, but he can live a nice normal life at a "insert basic job here", under the assumption basic job will exist or have a good living standard.

By all means, I want a world where learning is available to all and we tell people that they can improve, but I'm not in denial about the stark probabilistic realities a lot of kids face, and I haven't even touched upon anti-intellectual attitudes and active consumerist/marketing/ ideological strategies that are actively trying to stop people learning to be educated or think critically...
I thought VBA was always in english (syntax & APIs). Only excel formulas are displayed translated in the regular Excel UI.
The fantasy of an encryption backdoor that only the good guys can use is just as realistic as the prospect of manufacturing firearms that only the good guys can use. Equally impossible. Not to mention, the definition of "good guys" is a political whimsy.

Don't give an inch in the war on math.
... the TV series is now on Amazon Prime, with future seasons coming.

Fortunately Amazon took it. If after three seasons of slow development it ended where we start to see answers, I would have considered it a scam. Not so insulting as Gallactica, but definitely annoying.
Besides a few public comments here and there, what evidence do you see that Zuckerberg is altruistic in any way whatsoever? I've seen quite a bit of evidence and stories that he cares little for anything but total world domination. Not so much on the other side.

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt too. But his main mantra since forever has been that he wants to connect the world. But if that was really his goal, then facebook wouldn't be such a closed, proprietary system.
This reminds me of how China uses their panda’s for diplomatic reasons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_diplomacy
JavaScript has virtually always supported Unicode variable names (well, the basic multilingual plane).

https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-identifiers
Always crack drm and save ebooks as pdf
If this is a small company, I would probably not worry too much about process and ask the concerned employee to discuss this in a friendly and open way.
Maybe a misunderstanding which can be cleared, maybe the reason is actually lying deeper. Good chance you can resolve this by being emphatic and act understandingly.

That being said, I would note down a memory protocol afterwards in case this turns ugly after all.
I've sometimes wondered what would happen if World War 3 mainly involved the destruction of the internet and/or the GPS system. Would it inevitably lead to a hot war? Would modern economies really collapse?

I have no doubt that I could navigate a world without the internet and GPS, because I did for half my life. And I suspect shipping goods to consumers would be hindered, but have we gotten to the point where shippers and receivers couldn't work it out by phone? Would the phone networks survive? I know the landline system is a shadow of its former self, but would it suffice?

It's popular to say that the internet has created a new economy, but the underlying realities haven't changed. People need food, shelter, clothing, transportation. I think we could deliver that without the internet, though it would be painful. All the doom-saying otherwise just seems hyperbolic to me, though.
That is true but we're talking about the still remaining low skilled jobs that simply could not be outsourced.

Now with a high number of low skilled immigrants competing with natives for those same remaining low skilled jobs that couldn't be outsourced, the outcome is worse for existing population.
WWII refugees aiding US atomic efforts: https://www.atomicheritage.org/article/scientist-refugees-an...
What Language I Use for Hardware Design: BlueSpec (2013)
Yes, but it’s been essentially gutted and turned into ”who can gush about MS the hardest”, instead of evaluating people based on tech chops
I agree T&S did not handle this the right way.

My main point is ArbCom should have already handled this, perhaps a decade ago.

So they are broken. If they want a healthy Wikipedia their first priority should be fixing themselves. They should understand why a toxic asshole was running free for many years under their watch and how they can prevent it from happening again. Maybe they are doing this behind the scenes, but it's not clear to me they even understand they have a problem.

(BTW, no one seems to be disputing that Fram is an asshole. Maybe I missed it, but if true, then there's no question that in a community-driven site, something needs to be done about it. Some people seem to want to believe that it could be simultaneously true that Fram could be a big asshole AND be a good editor. In the context of a community-driven site, those people are wrong. Driving off potentially valuable contributors is cardinal sin.)
That's a good point: "never any conflict" describes the final state rather than the growth process.

When I was a younger programmer (as in, during the first few years), I discovered that assuming boolean / formal logic meanings for {if, or, else, and} in communication with my spouse (art + sales, and very smart, though not a programmer or trained in symbolic logic) resulted in, shall we say ... miscommunication. So I had some unintended help in building the separate registers of meaning / communication. :-)

Building separate meaning registers for communication does take some time.
Is this article correct in its claims that Facebook is in control of Libra and, more specifically, that Facebook makes money from the initial registration fees and will be able to directly make money in the future from e.g. transaction fees?
Cryptocurrency is any system where entries in a ledger are cryptographically signed by each participant and cryptographically validated by a third party. If you project any other values or technologies beyond that onto the concept then you’re missing its full power and potential.

Libra is a real cryptocurrency. There is zero ambiguity here.
I'm not sure what you mean by that last sentence. Are you saying if only the poor were better with money they'd stop being poor?
Idk why this article is so high up here, it's not very good.

- The article implies Facebook "already made money off Libra", that's false. That $270M goes to the non-profit Libra Association in Switzerland, of which Facebook is 1 of 28 current members. They don't "get" that money, it's there to fund the Association's maintenance costs.

- Facebook built this, yes, but they do not have full control. In both governance and validation, they have 1 vote of 28 (currently, the number is supposed to go to 100 by launch). Will Facebook have the largest deployed Libra wallet? Yes, at least initially. Can anybody make a Libra wallet? Yes.

This isn't a data play, it's very clearly a play at getting a bunch of people in developing markets that can only pay with cash right now the ability to pay online. That's a HUGE opportunity all on its own, they don't need our data to make this worth it if it works.

How can they sell ads to people in emerging markets, Facebook's fastest growing userbase, if none of these people can buy the things they are advertising?

Facebook doesn't need an ulterior motive to make a buttload of money off of this, if it works. I don't know why "experts" are looking for one.

Edit: I originally said the initial $10M buy-in per member goes to the Libra Reserve, but that was in error. It goes to the Association to fund the non-profit itself. The Reserve will be funded by the initial on-ramp of users.
This is available in intellij too. Kotlin supports named parameter which makes the problem go away alltogether.
If the trump administration decides to do this, there will be backlash. There will also be immediately ways of getting around whatever rules the put in place.

Part of me almost a wants the US government to try just to see what people come up with.
You might be right about Zuck being idealistic now, but we have a (much younger) Zuck on record calling his users idiots for trusting him with all their information. He may have matured, but people are justified in being wary. He’s shown some black hat tendencies in the past. I’m a lot more comfortable trusting my money with a bank rather than a company that makes its money selling my information. At least I understand the bank’s incentives.
But it's the same story, no? What matters on HN is not whether the URL is the same, but whether the discussion will be the same.