skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Pacifism requires extreme courage.

Gandhi quote:

>My non-violence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach non-violence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. Non-violence is the summit of bravery. And in my own experience, I have had no difficulty in demonstrating to men trained in the school of violence the superiority of non-violence. As a coward, which I was for years, I harboured violence. I began to prize non-violence only when I began to shed cowardice.
HK police have already uncovered a stash of TATP stockpiled by "protesters" - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/20/asia/hong-kong-explosives...
There already is a project doing this and I hope I'll be able to buy one once it's generally available.

https://www.apollo-accelerators.com
This is the key point, more or less every revolution in human history happened when the military switched sides and didn't want to shoot at civilians anymore.

Trying to come with 2nd amendment is bullshit, you have to get the sympathy by the military. This could be by inflicting damage, but more likely by having high enough casualties that the military thinks it is too much.
silly tip: alias fucking=sudo

$ rm file
> denied
$ fucking rm file
(I work at OpenAI.)

Quite the opposite — this is an investment!
'Corn Sweat' and Summer Humidity
Aside from the flaws of his counter-example, he’s trying to argue in support of a technique that he gives no example of whatsoever. He simply states that his preferred solution would handle the inherent complexity better than this.
Well, how would you classify streaming audio or video services of pre-recorded content?

That is quite wasteful and only exists to solve a legal, not technological problem.
Yes, really. Regulations in the Netherlands are much stricter than in Belgium. In Belgium you van have a row with 5 completely different houses, sometimes you have a free standing rowhouse (yes, really) next to bungalow. In the Netherlands, houses on a street will usually look very much the same and everything is planned. In expensive neighborhoods with big houses it's more differentiated, but even there you have to adhere to many rules.

Baarle-Hertog is indeed a bit of an exception to this rule, but generally you can see it quite clearly.
This is why some services shouldn't ban Tor. I don't think that my hobby project that serves cat pictures (for example) needs to accept any and all traffic.
have you ever been in a 120°C sauna? It's not that bad ... if you can leave after 15 minutes ;)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9jWF3Xr0KuIIuIIV_q5hA
qrcode on npm is pretty good. Very simple to use if you just need to convert a string to a QR code, and it has some advanced options if you want to get fancy.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/qrcode
There's a lot of truth to that, though I think what makes the situation even worse is algorithms. Algorithms can be good for the individual(or at least seem as such), but they can be bad for a community that could benefit from a more common experience. The internet does still have interesting stuff on it, but discovering it may be difficult for the average person when algorithms are steering them towards things they either know the user already likes or things that are profitable.
The Internet's still pretty weird. It's possible that it's just weird in a way that's not nostalgic for those of us who cut our teeth on the late-90s / early-00s Internet.
Github is simply a very slow website.
Microsoft to Invest $1B in OpenAI
One wonders if the British were even half decent when you consider their long history of colonial and imperial oppression. One might conclude they were fully indecent, in fact.
The article mentions the rise of smart phones as a factor but fails to grasp the real reason for their impact. Smart phones made making web pages much harder.

Before Smart Phones a user could slap together some HTML and perhaps some simple CSS with underconstruction.gif and have an OK looking page. That same page would look terrible on a cell phone because the simple table-based layouts that people could understand do not render well on small screens.

Sure they could rewrite the site but that was a lot of effort. Plus HTML was very much a moving target back then. Much easier to move your "I like potatoes" or whatever page to Facebook, which takes care of everything for you and provides a nice network effect.

If we want the weird web back then we are going to have to provide tools to make websites look good on all screens while still being expressive enough that a child can pick them up but also provide the kind of instant feedback of Facebook likes and comments.

Perhaps Indyweb or Mastodon will be the key but right now they are still to complex for random-j-blogger to deal with.
This provides a really detailed view of the low-level details for booting on an Intel CPU:

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/booting-an-intel-architectur...
You're likely talking about the HPV vaccine, which is not a vaccination for cancer, it is a vaccination for human papillomavirus (which happens to be a common cause of cervical cancer).
I've only experimented with Upwork (with mixed results), what are some of the better "middlemen" in your experience?
Metra trains in Chicago have the opposite problem. The standard 2x2 seats in the main floor are way too wide, leaving 8-12 inches between two chubby adults. This results in the aisles being too narrow and everyone getting clobbered with purses and backpacks as passengers move down the aisles.

Don’t get me started on the inane layouts of the upper levels of these cars (half forward and half sideways seats, guaranteeing each passenger getting on and off a crowded train car has to trip over 12 sets of legs).

The sad thing is that rail cars cost hundreds of thousands and are customized to each railway customer. A bit of cheap mock-up engineering before purchase could allow maybe 10% more passengers per car, and much faster and more pleasant loading and unloading.
The reinforced concrete cores at Brock Commons are engineered to resist sheer during earthquake and wind events. [1] BC is seismically active and every tall buildings experiences non-trivial wind loads.

[1]: https://www.structuremag.org/?p=11624
Well, gotta wonder how well their charter[1] will fare against Microsoft pressure...Microsoft isn't exactly well-known for their benevolence and cautious approach.

1: https://openai.com/charter/
well it was close this year: 48°C, only 3° below the national record
It would be interesting to go back through old code containing GOTO's, and see if the main use was similar to "break."
$ rm file
> denied
$ fucking !!

Hmmm.
Online Dating Is an Existential Nightmare
I used Emscripten to make a browser-based STP query tool: http://stp.github.io/live/ However our API is limited and this has led it to be not so useful and only show valid vs. invalid.
i have been working with Typescript/Nodejs and C# lately ( after over 15 years mostly on JVM ecosystem ) at the day job, but having my fun with kotlin at my spare time. It's like a less fun Groovy...

The JVM ecosystem is so large and ubiquitous, both at the modern cloud systems and "enterprisey" that i really believe it is worth learning ( and kept near ).
Well, soso. But great that you can Lanthanoids and Actinoids how they should be. You should make that view default.
OpenAI => CloseAI
Embrace... extend.... and.... :-)
I just feel that headline is not accurate. It seems to be suggesting that first try failed, when it was actually aborted.
The OpenAI board remains in charge of OpenAI’s AGI-relevant decisions. Microsoft has the right to appoint one board seat, which they have not yet exercised.
Low Level Control of a Quadrotor with Deep Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
If using something that ought to be an enum as an integer to save a few lines of code isn't spaghettification then I don't know what is. Rather predictably it doesn't generalise.

It's called spaghetti because it's hard to see what information flows where, not just because some information flows are long (at least, my mental image for spaghetti-code has always been cooked spaghetti).
Tangentially on-topic, but with all the popularity of style transfer nowadays, has writing style transfer been done yet?
I have one of those (T-962) at home, and I am pretty happy with it.
It's arguable the Appalachian coal industry wouldn't have been unionized without armed agitation, but that may be unique to the region and the mine owners' eagerness to employ Pinkerton gunmen.

I'd say the last time armed resistance had direct impact on law was the abolition of slavery. Most specifically John Brown's taking of a federal armory in 1859. It didn't end well for Brown, his sons, or the freed slaves involved. It did, however, cause a polarization of public sentiment that accelerated the approach of civil war. Only after the other side was ground to paste was legislation changed nationwide.

To the commentors making a Vietnam analogy - short of storming federal installations ourselves, from whom are we to get the military-grade weaponry to put up any kind of resistance? Russia?
I dunno. it could be argued that in the "do nothing" form of the script it's silly. HOWEVER some of those steps could eventually require the encapsulation of lots of behavior and information. So, `CreateSSHKeypairStep` Could become a full-on class with lots of small methods in it that eventually get wrapped up in a `.call` method. It seems better to start with code that's prepped for the eventuality you know is coming. Setting yourself up for a good long term codebase.
All of the west is shaped by America's dominance. Without their influence I suspect many typically western countries would be far more tyranically run.
Here's the closest I could find on it: https://80000hours.org/2016/02/what-the-literature-says-abou...

It's not as drastic as I expected. It's mostly unincorporated income that's worse (freelancers, hairdressers, corner shops). They're mostly people who try to escape work even if it means a lower salary.

The incorporated businesses earn more money across the board.
I am still on the antibiotics. While my doctor hasn't specifically told me how long I'll be on them, I suspect it'll be for at least another 4-6 months.

The traditional medical establishment in the United States doesn't believe in "chronic" tick-borne infections - hence why "lyme doctors" are treated like quacks.

I was diagnosed in May. As far as how did I know? Well, I was tested for almost everything else under the sun: (before a 2nd neurologist ordered the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever blood test) multiple-sclerosis (nerve conduction study, skin biopsy), rare cancers (carcinoid), mast-cell activation syndrome (on top of my neurological symptoms I also have facial flushing which is totally random and seems to have no obvious trigger(s))

It's been a long journey so far and I have no illusion that I'm cured/symptom free, but the minocycline, rifampin & azithromycin have helped immensely. My short term memory still sucks (it was never great to begin with), but not nearly as bad. My brain fog has lifted, which was my biggest concern. Between my brain fog and memory issues, I was incredibly grumpy - I've actually started to enjoy life again for the first time in 3 years since this started.
NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea
Correct. It probably also signify a tipping point in DNN research.
lets post comments he won't read :d... like ,thanks :D
The greatest speech never given
In "Oxygen: the molecule that made the world"[1], Nick Lane also mentions the theory that these cyanobacteria are the reason we have liquid water on earth, while mars (for example) doesn't.

It goes like this: early earth was subjected to solar radiations which hit our liquid water, splitting H2O into separate oxygen and hydrogen elements. The very light hydrogen atoms (as ions, or maybe H2?) were escaping into space while the oxygen was trapped by oxydizing rocks.

With the rise of cyanobacteria produced O2, the rocks became fully oxydized and O2 started to build up in the air: the split hydrogen would be more likely to recombine with atmospheric O2, keeping them on earth, and the ozone (O3) layer started to shield the water from these radiations in the first place, thus stopping the process and safeguarding our oceans.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198607830 (very cool read mixing early earth history, the rise of life, geology, biochemistry and phylogenetics + Dr Lane is an excellent writer. Published in 2002, he has many more good updated articles about it.)
That's right. Almost any sauna would be like this. Try one in your country and check the thermometer for yourself.

The air is so dry. When someone throws water on the coals, then you really feel it in your lungs.
> This post itself didn't have to be on medium - but medium and Facebook and YouTube deliver that "boring, non weird" audience that you want to read your stuff.

I think the problem here is that content discovery and hosting have become complected. Most people reading Hacker News can figure out how to self-host a video, for example, but if it's to reach a mainstream audience, it must be on Youtube.
Also, with full service airlines, business class is by far the most profitable use of their square footage. Cheap economy flights are really an extraordinary thing, but they’re never going to be the height of comfort. Personally, whenever I’m flying economy, I’ve mastered the art of simply shutting down any expectation I have of comfort from the moment I arrive in the airport, until I arrive at my destination.
Why Are These Mice Hallucinating? Scientists Are in Their Heads
I went to a presentation by Sorensen at a functional programming conference. At the start I thought, “ok great, you’ve made a alternating tone...”, but by then end what he’d built up in front of you was quite awesome and impactful. It wasn’t so much the the music, it was nice but nothing on what a producer like Flume can do with time and equipment. It was the process of seeing basically noise become music all with code in a text editor. Would definitely go see live-coding again.
Certain ages and conditions of children make that irrelevant. Try getting a three year old to stop anything--you'll trade being a punching bag for deafness from shrieks and whining--or an autistic child to even be aware that he is doing it.

It's rare that one knows more about how to handle children than their caregivers, and "reminders" from strangers are often wrong, besides being insulting.
GP posted:

> left the war knowing oil (and the vehicles it powers) was arguably the single most important strategic factor in wars during that time period (and still today really aside from speculation

Then you responded:

> That's going to change radically in just ten years. Because of solar, wind, and electrified transportation Makes the control of oil vastly less important.

Unless the US military is making a solar, wind, or electric powered series of fighter jets and tanks then the control of oil will be relevant until at least the middle of this century if not the end of this century.
No, people call them fake news because they do not like the facts that are reported.
Were notebook interfaces (like jupyter & mathematica) not, in practice, so reliant on web-tech, they'd be a good heir to the command line / REPL lineage (in line with the mouse-aware command line that, ex., plan9 has).

On the more general TUI side, a curses frontend for TK exists (though a TK frontend for curses doesn't, AFAIK, even though it'd probably be easier to write & more complete). TK is just about the smallest, easiest-to-use, and most cross-platform GUI library, so if you want to move existing curses applications to real widgets, TK is the ideal target.

The unix terminal is a clusterfuck of technical debt, and while curses exists primarily to abstract that away, it still leaks. Basically all non-trivial TUIs are dependent upon terminal behaviors that ought not to exist anymore, and this holds back attempts at modernizing the unix terminal (like kitty at the near end and terminator at the far end), locking us into hacks like abusing control characters for indicating URLs, performing text processing in the text rendering facilities, etc.
To add to this (for those unfamiliar with Erlang/OTP): Erlang not only has general pattern matching, but also specific support for pattern matching on binary content (down to bitfields). It's better than C and C++ in that regard in more than one way.
Congrats to the team, excited to see what you guys do with the momentum
I cut my coding teeth in assembly, followed by FORTRAN IV and a smattering of Apple, Commodire, and TI BASIC (with their gosubs and peek/pokes). I've worked with real spaghetti code.

What most people call spaghetti code these days is just code. Useful programs are complex and have complex code. Modern software might be difficult to follow, espcially if you're at an amateur or junior level (which is probably 80% of the people out there reading code, cf. Dunning-Kreuger). It's not generally spaghetti.
> Regarding safety it never made sense.

What suitable and sufficiently performant languages existed back then?
An Electric “Humm” to Make You Smarter?
> but it's easier then ever to build your own website

Is it though? When I was 9, I created a site on Angelfire (and loved the fact that the default page was this craptastic html example where you could view source and kind of learn various html tags relating to lists, tables I believe, and various other things as a quick primer for those uneducated in HTML). I also created one on Geocities (different use cases in the end, but more or less I just wanted to see which was better/easier. Ended up with Angelfire as my main one as you could actually "name" your site as opposed to the generic "city"/"street" name-ish thing of Geocities). And if memory serves, there were other hosts that were similarly popular too. One iirc would allow for subdomains instead of the nesting that Angelfire/Geocities does, but if I believe by default they would have big branding somewhere on your page. Tried it, think there was a work around for that one, but I didn't like battling it so didn't retain.

Now, sure, I can find a host that I can pay $x to host the HTML that I build outright, but I don't know if kids coming up have the same resources I did as it relates to starting up a free site and having a default page with various HTML elements (too many at this point for a single page to be of value. Would probably have to look something like W3Schools or whatever with a list on the left you could go through).

Maybe they exist, but they weren't as obvious as they were then. When I first got online, I found a site that at least a few years ago was still around which was this chat site called 4-lane with the one I went to called Chatterbox. People would link to their pages hosted on Angelfire, and so it began. Now, everything is custom domained so it is hard to locate the Angelfire of today. If you blog, I guess there is Medium that links are posted of pretty regularly, but outside of that, I don't notice.
You're not wrong. Just as I ignore certain people in my day to day life, I also want to filter them out of my Internet experience.

signal: noise is a thing.

And while we're at it, I also want to get rid of the advertising that came chasing after these people.
I don't agree with that.

When I purchase an airline ticket, my arrangement is with the airline, not with their other passengers. They owe me nothing. It is not a public space. I can no more shush their children (or such-by-proxy) than I can call up another customer of my internet provider and ask them to use less bandwidth so that I get more.

I can ask the flight attendant to speak to the parents about the kid kicking the seat, but if the flight attendant declines to fix my problem, my ire is best directed at the airline declining to provide me with a comfortable environment.

They could institute a no-children rule, or a "your children must behave or you will be banned from flying our airline" rule, just as Hacker News chooses what kind of behaviour to moderate and what to allow. But the airlines openly tolerate this behaviour for their own reasons, and I choose to do business with them.

I strongly suspect that although they are tactful about it, what they would like to say if I complain is, "If you will just give me your credit card, Sir, I will upgrade your ticket to first class. Come this way, I will pour you a flute of champagne."

We celebrate naked capitalism at the expense of customers here. It turns out, airlines do as well.
So you are now part of azure, no?. Like - azure-open-ai?
As an overworked perfectionist, ignoring wellness advice was a salve for my soul
No foreign power would ever dare to intervene with HK. Every country is simply too horny about Chinese money nowadays
In this particular situation, I would be much quicker to go for copy/pasted code than spaghetti code.

I worked at a place where we had to interact with financial exchanges, which nominally talk standard protocols but actually all have their own quirks in their implementations of the protocols, which we had to account for on our own end. They ended up going with the copy/paste approach, and, while I was initially horrified, I came to realize that they're right.

The admonishment against copy/paste is meant to deal with the risk of accidentally forgetting to update one of the copies when there's a new change that needs to be pushed across all of them. It turns out that, for the problem domain we were working in, which sounds quite similar to the one TFI describes, that never happens. Even when the standards body releases a new version of the protocol, each vendor upgrades on their own schedule, and the slowest-moving vendor might stick on the old version for 5 or even 10 years, and when they finally do get around to it, their implementation of that feature will have its own quirks, so just setting a flag saying, "Vendor X is now on version Y" wasn't going to work, anyway. So then you (hypothetically) create a set of flags saying, "Vendor X is using version Y, but with these behaviors that differ from everyone else's version of Y", add a bunch of new if-statements, and the actual logic that might execute at run-time gets even more obfuscated behind a tangle of counterfactual configurations that won't happen in real life but still exist in the code and are supported in the application.

So, to sum up: nominally the same protocol, but everyone does it differently, and upgrades on their own schedule. It really is a horrendous tangle. Dealing with that mess by mirroring it in your code with an equally tangled pile of flags and conditionals is also going to be a mess, no matter how you choose to organize the code.

Don't do that. Alexander the Great was right: Sometimes the best way to deal with these sorts of things is by cutting them into pieces. Then, when you're dealing with one implementation's quirks, you only have to be thinking about that one set of quirks, and not the combinatorial explosion of possible interactions that you get when you try to mix them all together.
Far left? There's no far left actors in this story. China is an authoritarian, single political party country with a mixed socialist and capitalist economy.

If you want to link them to a two-dimensional, simplified political spectrum, they're closest to fascism.
This confused me for a long time. I thought the person was signing off their email with their initial - which happened to begin with J.
Excellent way to reallocate some of that record breaking revenue they just announced.
Premise: "Normally in English dependency means something like dependent."
Conclusion: "'Dependency' in programming means the opposite of its traditional meaning"

I think the premise is wrong, leading to a wrong conclusion. Dependency and dependent are already opposites (or duals) in English, and each maps to its same meaning in computing.