skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my favorite memory from that event was a panel with larry wall, and a few others who i don't remember, hosted by eric raymond.

so many people attended the panel that i think it was moved to la larger hall. at the start ESR commented on the size of the audience saying something like: "[i was expecting a quiet chat but] you guys turned it into a rock concert"
It's also a huge waste of time for companies in the US, and to companies all over the world that use US-based services like GitHub.

> GitHub.com may not be used for purposes prohibited under applicable export control laws, including purposes related to the development, production, or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or long range missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles.

Not only is this sentence an affront to the English language, but I hope you aren't trying to develop any drone software on GitHub...
"The blind leading the blind"
The guy in the article doesn't even work at Twitter. He's not in a position to remove it.
I don't think Google deserves credit for keeping a money losing YouTube alive for so long. It's anti-competitive. Innovation that might have existed and been better was likely strangled because it couldn't compete with the money losing behemoth that is (or was) YouTube.
Microsoft operates like drug dealers.
Superorganism
Sounds like Yes-And (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and...), accepting the premise and expanding on the joke.

Tell your wife you're using a proven comedic technique.
Whenever I post about spaced repetition, people ask for my decks. You're far better off making your own decks. Read through the material you want to learn and make "notes" on what you want to remember by creating questions for yourself. By using someone else's deck, you are selling yourself short.
How about you actually read the paper, or at least the article? https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hi...
If there's no free will, the people punishing murderers have no choice to rehabilitate instead. Choosing between punishing or rehabilitating requires free will.
I should really start a blog and chronicle the whole process. I'll let you know when I do!
It's even whackier that it took them another 17 years to figure out the optimal design - the first two-wheeler with an extending handle didn't hit the market until 1987.
A Linux distro is much more than GNU software. A lot of things I use everyday are BSD licensed. There are distros where the only gnu code is the kernel.

Stallman cannot really make any such demands.

Edit: sorry for the confusion, I meant the Linux kernel, which is not gnu.
MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive
It's a dark room for exposing film to photographs, from way back when you did it by hand using pans of chemicals. The light allows you to see enough to work without exposing the photo sensitive materials and ruining your work.

"When making black-and-white prints, a safelight is commonly used to illuminate the work area. Since the majority of black-and-white papers are sensitive to only blue, or to blue and green light, a red- or amber-colored light can be safely used without exposing the paper" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkroom
Reductio ad absurdum. Why don't we say society itself is a miserable dehumanizing construct, the very first layer of expectation foisted upon our free natural selves? A country has borders... what are those but abstract prison walls?

If you are saying elementary schools are reasonably comparable to concentration camps, you have lost the thread of the conversation.

Hand-waving and semantic games don't change the original discussions: who would you rather hold power over you?

1. A democratic government that enshrines human and political rights

2. An authoritarian ethnonationalist oligarchy that enshrines the primacy of the Party

Whoever powers your chips will at least potentially have that power over you. We're in an era where we can decide, but anything can change. Our choices and the values we act on now will set the stage for what is available to us in the future.
>...are you actually trying to say that China is "morally superior" to the USA?

Well, counting people they've killed globally, wars they've started, foreign meddling, atomic bombs dropped to other nations, etc, they surely are. Call me when the numbers change..

But who cares for those when it's their side doing them?
This is an example of what I mean by lack of scrutiny or criticism. If you look at the study by CHRD [1] cited in the article you’ve linked, you’ll see that their methodology is flawed in many ways. The most worrying part is that this study in particular is the basis of many articles similar to the one you've posted.

What they did was they interviewed eight ethnic Uyghurs from eight different villages in Kashgar Prefecture in Xinjiang (the poorest and most problematic area in terms of violence and extremist ideology). They asked them questions like “how many people do you estimate live in your village” and “how many people do you think were taken from your village”. They then calculated the ratio of people detained to total inhabitants in these eight villages and extrapolated this ratio to the entire Uyghur population in the province of Xinjiang (population 23 million, many parts of which are prosperous and violence-free) in order to obtain the million+ estimate. The 1 million number (or 3 million, it’s hard to keep track of these days) is always thrown around like it’s a confirmed fact, which it decidedly is not.

Furthermore, as the article mentions, CHRD is a group based in Washington, D.C that is almost wholly funded by U.S government grants [2, p.9]. There is a clear conflict of interest here especially in the context of growing rivalry and geopolitical posturing between China and the U.S. The article also mentions Radio Free Asia, an organization literally founded by the CIA [3][4] as an anti-Communist propaganda arm. They claim they are no longer affiliated. Again, another source wholly funded by the U.S government.

[1] https://www.nchrd.org/2018/08/china-massive-numbers-of-uyghu...

[2] https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2015/260/523/2015-26052...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag...
Token "HN is becoming reddit" comment, downvote away
I support a small government that also decides which people have the right to live, which people are okay to hire, and which businesses are too successful to continue existing.
All the suspects that are going to be arrested for treason ought to be quaking in their boots now.
Big automakers go around Trump with California emissions standards deal
Are they using Linux instead of Windows already?
I don't think your personal anecdote is a good indictment of corruption of a country on a statistical level.
Let me know if all y'all have any questions! Fluxguard provides web change monitoring and alerts. We take screenshots, fully render the DOM... and we alert you to any DOM, pixel, or text changes.

Our new "network diff" feature goes one step further.

It creates a HAR file for all network activity on any page (including for complex form submission pages such as shopping carts). We repeatedly crawl this page (or sequences of pages). And we look for changes to network activity.

This way, you can catch and alert any new XHR, image, script, or other resource activity on any page of your site.

You can use whitelists to exclude certain domains from analysis (e.g., google.com). Lot of other config options let you further reduce false positives.

Why'd you want to do this?

Magecart and other hacking groups use cross-site scripting, poisoned NPM modules, DNS spoofing, and so many other attacks to exfiltrate data from Magento and other CMS.

It's hard to stop these guys as they are adept at covering their tracks. Edge protection systems aren't great if the attacker is coming "from inside the house."

Our new network diff crawls your live site repeatedly. We orchestrate common user journeys -- creating an account, ordering a product -- and we look for any network activity that shouldn't be there.

Cool, eh?

(Sorry for the wall of text.)
I would also caution against focusing on major cities; only around 40% of Brits lived in cities in 1811, and rural poverty was and remains even more grinding than urban poverty.
Should You Estimate Bugs?
One would hope that the highway planners were smart enough to insist on having the number of lanes that would be required to go from interstate speed traffic to city boulevard speed traffic without necessarily backing up the freeway similar to why there's so many lanes at toll booths but of course they did not.
The focus of this collection (within the larger collection) is toward "natural language processing" (NLP) - but there appear to be many other ML papers/code available for other domain areas, just by searching. This is actually a nice site overall (for ML examples and plenty of others).
I mean, it shows (in Hurd, for example).
Ah, I misread where the 97% and 99% consensus was attributed to, good catch. I do wonder where the Americans who don’t believe global warming is occurring fall on the socioeconomic ladder and potential large-scale impact on climate outcomes.

This part still worries me the most though: “The pushback has been political rather than scientific. In the US, the rightwing thinktank the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CPI) is reportedly putting pressure on Nasa to remove a reference to the 97% study from its webpage. The CPI has received event funding from the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and Charles Koch Institute, which have much to lose from a transition to a low-carbon economy.”
Google is a heavy investor in Credit Karma if memory serves.
That's a good reminder that, given the slight deterioration of the USA strategic/diplomatic stability in the past few years, using any US-based services without a strictly non-US backup is like playing poker.

And it happens we're a lot to play poker here.
I looked at the photo and said to myself, "Is that West Lebanon in New Hampshire right before you get to White River Junction in Vermont?"

And the answer is no, but it's pretty similar.
Im not sure I want to wait something like that out lol.
We haven't even been keeping climate data for 2,000 years, so this headline (and maybe the entire article) is not accurate.
That's due to encoding specificity. You aren't just learning the 'thing' but the context in which you learned the thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding_specificity_principle

It's better to learn things in or close to the contexts in which you will use them. That's the heart of situated learning / problem-based learning / simulations, etc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_learning
I actually don't understand that analogy.

Han Solo was part of the rebels no?
> I really hope the consternation over this is from people who work a lot with mathematical apis/systems and not devs doing more heinous things with 64bit ints.

No, it's typically IDs. And my observation is that inexperienced devs start out serializing 64bit IDs as ints and get burned first before they move to text.

There are several reasons why you end up with IDs > 2^53 even if 2^53 is good for enumerating ~100k things per earthling:

Many cloud providers will give you IDs that are specified to be 64 bit uints, and you'd better not corrupt some fraction of them. Generating unique integers strictly serially does not scale, so you might end up with something like Twitter's snowflake. Or you might want to tag additional info (reserve a few of the low bits for the type of id, or reserve particular ranges for particular types of acccounts etc etc).

I can promise you I have run into the issue in real life more than once and it's not just javascript and jq that like to silently corrupt ids by truncating them to double precision. For example pandas is really great at it as well.

What makes it especially fun that often only a very small fraction of IDs will be affected (< ~1 in 2000 if uniformly distributed).
One nice thing about Go is it produces cross platform binaries without external dependencies, and the standard library supports Windows api stuff like system services and registry.

Mono/C# is better, but the learning curve is pretty steep compared to Go with all the missing reference assemblies, diverse runtime versions, etc. Gopath sucks and sucks to configure but it's less complicated than .net.

So you can ask a junior web dev to learn a new language in a week and write a native windows application, and they might actually deliver. Whether this is empowering or signals the death of Quality remains a hotly contested issue.
One major problem with this: It's not like he "invented" the retweet. The userbase invented the "RT" prefixed message. Twitter the company simply took what the user base had done and weaponized it and empowered it. But at the same time they made it easier to track a single specific message being RT'd. So blessing and a curse.
“Iraq regularly witnesses scorching summer season with temperature sometimes exceeding 50 degrees Celsius, prompting the government to announce general holiday over stifling heat.” - apparently quite common.
You need a bigger house with an office. At my house, I use the finished basement as the office and it works very well.
It's a pretty ridiculous solution for a real problem IMO. I'm leaning towards tinfoil-hat on this one. This proposal exists for some other nefarious reason.
Public funding of open source software is one of the most direct ways that government spending can grow the supply side of the economy. Taxpayers will directly benefit from the public domain technologies developed to replace the contracts CERN is moving away from. Software and science share an important economic trait, that once you produce them you can maximize their total impact by spreading them around as much as possible. That's an advantageous situation for public funding without IP restrictions, which is the model of academia.
It's a quote from hackers the movie from 1995.
I was wondering today why Facebook et al. don't break their share functions into emotionally binned categories.

"Share because it makes me angry" etc

Seems like they'd get amazing whole text training sets, as well as a signal to better guide their platforms (e.g. under-weighting negative emotions in share velocity).
Joke aside, what you're describing sounds more like the Baader-Meinhof effect[0].

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect
When I first tried expanding my vocabulary in a foreign language, I made the classic mistake of just logging word + definition.

I've since transitioned to rely on actual usage examples from books / in the wild. It's really the only way to actually learn, imo.

Else you'll learn that a word means "wide" but have no idea how to apply it. With usage examples, you train yourself to realize you might use this word to describe a wide road, but this other word to refer to a thick stick. And the correct word starts coming to mind in the wild, incidentally, without a deliberate step to understand the difference.

Definition alone is basically useless.
Ahhh thanks. I didn't notice that because if you do searches like "100 1950 dollars" it does the inflation calculation for you. Guess it doesn't do well with pounds. I trusted the engine too much. Thanks for the catch.
BW / lean mass plays a huge part. There's a few powerlifting phenoms whose origin story is pulling 500lbs on their first try, albeit as skinny teenagers. There's people who worked on farms or have athletic backgrounds that's build a muscular base and moving to barbell is a relatively easy transition. And there's people who are genetically blessed. But I don't think that's typical. Here's the 2018 /r/powerlifting survey, even among trained people in a population dedicated to being good at deadlifing, the median deadlift is 450 for men not on gear. Relevant pic last result:

https://imgur.com/a/ozbvt8W#FOOYBVB
People were shocked when the news about Weinstein "came out" but tons of people already knew about it. It was blatant but he was untouchable.

He is a good man to know in the business, but just be careful around him.

With Weinstein’s prompting, one of the other women attempted to convince Skidmore to participate in sex acts

I told people on the boat. I told people at the dinner I was at. Everybody was like, ‘Oh, that’s just Harvey.’

I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did

Weinstein Company employee Lauren O’Connor later detailed Weinstein’s alleged harassment of Nestor in an internal memo obtained by the Times.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/harvey-weinstei...

I want you to know that of all the girls he does this to you are the one I really felt bad about. https://medium.com/bullies-assholes-i-have-known/harvey-wein...
> Additionally, Trader Joes ONLY sells white-labelled products, so it is even less applicable...

Their mix is heavily skewed toward private-label products, but "ONLY" is not accurate.

To pick one example: they sell name-brand beer alongside their private labels.
I've rarely seen this comment on hackernews about wikipedia. I think you may have been thrown off by the use of "liberal" to think it's a right-wing critique. Incidentally, the complaints I'm used to are that "they keep deleting the thing that I'm involved with that I think is notable" "they won't let me edit myself even though I'm an expert on myself" and "weird editors squat articles."

This is a "wikipedia is completely western and whiggish" critique.
To whom are you referring?
It's other great unnatural disturbances propelling these developments.

Greenhouse gases have nothing on the aforementioned.
Alibaba to help Salesforce localize and sell in China
people don't typically call reports "internal" if they are released to the public. what would "internal" mean in that context?
As I thought, Swift doesn't suck at all :)
Ouch. Foot meet gun.

Nice to see some of the old guard is still alive and well within the Microsoft walls.
You're projecting your self-obsession, I was sharing my excitement for the subject and offering a stepping stone for those who still hesitate.

Judging is a waste of time, it's always more about you than anything else. And rude, since you have no idea about other people's motivations.
I think the death penalty can be a boon to society if wielded correctly.

However...

> ... we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system

In my opinion, death penalty should never be used to sate a victims thirst for vengeance or justice and is therefore unworthy of being used on your token murderer or rapist. Life imprisonment is better for that since they may be later exonerated.

I think death penalty should be used judiciously to execute dangerous, powerful, repeat offenders of egregious crimes. These are people who are dangerous to society both inside and outside of prison. People like organized crime leaders, human trafficking leaders, terrorist leaders, etc - not your average criminal.
I was waiting for the parent commenter to respond first.
I've elaborated below.
There's boost::intrusive::list which IME actually works quite well. There is a node type which elements derive from or contain, so you can get an iterator from an element, as well as the other way round. To include an element in multiple lists, just aggregate the node type multiple times.
Not true. GNU coreutils comes standard on most distros.

>There are distros where the only gnu code is the kernel.

What? GNU never finished Hurd kernel and that is why it is now GNU/Linux because Linux was the missing piece since they could not get Hurd working. In other words, there is no GNU kernel. Please don't just make things up.
Similar - https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/man-created-facebook-like-bu...
that's cute that you're assuming they would want to do that.
What I'd really like isn't "I am studying Y using X" -I'd like "I am fluent to level Z in Y from using X."

I've used some spaced repetition/Anki stuff to put an initial dent in Portuguese. Compared to learning French the old fashioned way of practice with humans and repetition; it's a huge basket of fail for me. Virtually no useful results. Stopped with Anki, moved to Portugal; zero lessons, but making some attempts with the locals with a shitty phrasebook and dictionary -I actually got decent results. Maybe you can call that "spaced repetition." In which case everything is spaced repetition.

I believe people can remember lots of facts via flashcards, as I've done this myself in the past. I'm not so sure it works on languages.
I'm sure there's only a few ways to do it, but this code is really similar to the one I wrote back in December: https://github.com/mikehodgson/minesweeper

It is playable here: https://sweeper.games

No jQuery, just straight CSS/HTML/ES6
What is the "outright lie" here? Its their opinion on what they think is important for the needs of their audience. Taking advantage of so many extra cores by a single process is not all that easy or common. In a multi-process scenario the extra cores are obviously very useful. A person intending to buy a CPU for server loads would look at the appropriate benchmarks...
I like creating my own decks too. But checking out people's deck sometimes reveal interesting and creative ways to remember things.
I learnt occlusion, multiple choice questions, sound based anki from looking at other people deck.

Its like I don't like to read from other people study notes but I definitely check them out to see what I have missed.
How's the LibreOffice / MsOffice compatibility in practice?

Was thinking about this yesterday, and was curious how much functional coverage or issues there are with what people actually use it for.
For anything you read that you want to remember spaced repetition is helpful. If I'm reading a book without putting questions into anki, I forget 90% of what I read. Where as with anki, I can at least keep all the basic concepts in my mind. For example, if you are reading about different types of approaches to programming, you might create a question like, "What are the aspects of Agile?"

I'm not a programmer. I work in security. Today I was on a job interview where someone asked me if I was familiar with Agile. I was able to give him the bare bones explanation of it. This is something I studied over a year ago and haven't touched since.
Memory Unsafety in Apple's Operating Systems
Thank you for bearing with me for so long. I think I understand the point of contention, i.e. that "split" is a slightly nebulous term which depends not only on splitting but somehow on there being a negligible likelihood of future interference between branches. In this context I agree it doesn't make sense to speak of a split being spatially localised.
They don't even have to be that sophisticated: just me automatically block accounts with no phone number and/or were created recently.
You're assuming that the same people are doing the praising and complaining. In my experience, the people who don't like Facebook, don't like what they are doing anywhere. The people who like Facebook, who I assume are mainly those with a financial interest, are pretty happy about Facebook in general.
If you read the article, you'd discover that it's not unusually dense. The photographer in question, Edward Burtynsky, spent three days finding the right location. He rented a scissor lift and shot from several stories up, with a zoom lens, giving an impression of density you can't see from the ground.
"keeping climate data"?!? Have you heard of inference?
> not representative of ICE facilities in general.

Save you speech for the children being tortured. Why don't you go down there and say that verbatim to their faces?