skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [Warning: attempt at taking joke seriously]

As an aside, I love doing this sort of thing. In conversation, someone makes a joke about X doing something impossible, and then all of us who analyze everything to death start playing the scenario in our head to understand ramifications or limitations in the fictional and often impossible scenario. Drives my wife nuts, but I enjoy it so much :)
Michael Nielsen (The author of the popular free online book Neural Networks and Deep Learning) has a great long form essay on using Anki titled "Augmenting Long-term memory": http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
I've never seen JSON used in a project of any size at all where we didn't end up trying to hack constraints and types on top of it with some ugly and gross thing or another—looking at you, JSON Schema.

The more parts of your stack you tighten up, the fewer errors you'll hit and the more flexibility you'll have to use less-strict tools when it really matters. That's true at all but maybe the smallest scale. Worrying about the costs of having to document what you intend in a way your machines can verify—I mean, shouldn't you be doing that anyway?—is baffling to me. You don't need anything like Google scale to see the benefits of it. It's basic communication AFAI am concerned.
Or for guys who had an opportunistic neighbor who wanted his land and was willing to "rat him out" to the US forces desperate to capture some bad guys.
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It might be becasue you are just training recognition and not production.

I use Anki to study Russian, with great results, following Gabriel Werner's Fluent Forever.

In the book, he teaches how to learn the words and the grammar of a language using Anki. One of the fundamental ideas is to both create recognition and production cards.

The recognition cards are the ones with a word in your target language, of which you have to remember the meaning. This is what most people use SRSs for.

The production cards instead show you an image, or a sentence with blanks, and you have to come up with the correct word by yourself.

Before reading the book, I have never seen anyone using the latter, but it makes sense. You have to train your brain not only to recognize the information, but also to take it out when needed, and those are two separate paths.

[Update: fixed the book's author name]
The entire discussion started not with whether "China is bad", but whether US is better:

> Hopefully this will push RISC-V manufacturing efforts in the US before the market becomes flooded with cheap open source and most likely backdoored chips manufactured in China
> People with power don't need to hide their communications so much because they are less vulnerable.

That's a dangerously naive way of thinking about communications.
Don't require being a monopoly as a condition, just regulate anticompetitive behavior. For instance, I think it is a flaw that Microsoft is prevented from bundling a browser on Windows while Apple gets off Scott-free for much more egregious behavior on iOS.
While some rely on Mathematica most at Cern uses ROOT for data science. The impact on the science program is more likely to come from ditching Oracle databases and LabView... That said, this is an IT department initiative, users also have access to software from their home institutes.
I usually think about this issue in relation to driving: Do we (society) have the right to your driving performance data? In other words, if your car knows you drive like a reckless idiot should it "narc" on you?

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It seems to me that this sort of request means that our mental models of email have to change. This is incumbent anyway: most people still think email is private, when in fact it's more like postcards, in that anyone who handles it can read it. The misbegotten idea that you have any digital privacy in the absence of proper encryption has to die. (I don't like it, and am not advocating for it, I'm just calling it like I see it.)
And that of the FTC...
Walmart doesn't own its own bank, but in Arkansas, I've seen this bank next to and within Walmarts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvest_Bank

which is owned by the Waltons. They only seem to be in Arkansas though, which is less scalable than the entire internet.
Have you ever spoken to a Chinese? They have their own good intentions too. Besides that, why do you always trust that our governments’s label of “terrorist” is never self-serving or opportunistic? The civilians we bomb every week might have a different perspective
The initial assignment is used as a base case. Returns in a conditional statement are often used as an "escape" when you want to get out of a function (e.g. null checks). This is purely a stylistic choice whereas using constant time lookup over conditional evaluation could be argued to have some performance impact (although in this case it would not be meaningful). That said, I don't see anything about this choice that needs to be defended.
It doesn't work great for language learning, speaking a language is way more than just remembering words. Similarly, being a great programmer is not about how much syntax you can remember.

Getting better at speaking a language means speaking in it all the time. Same thing for programming - if you want to improve, your time is better spent doing actual programming rather than memorizing syntax.
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I also experience this phenomenon. In learning a language, I like to think of Anki as the primer stage in learning a word. I have to encounter and recognize that word in the wild for the memory to be fully solidified. I'll often go back to my Anki card and add a note of where I encountered it IRL, and that usually makes that card stick for good.
The CEO does not, but the CEO should ensure a subordinate is doing a competent job. In this case, if I recall correctly, a web server was not properly patched. Security audits might have caught this. The CEO and board ultimately should have ensured these audits were done. They are a data company. They should protect said data.
Actually, it's not irrational for non-rich smart people to gamble ie poker is a game where skill almost always wins the day, and betting baseball parlays can, with a good deal of study, land in a positive expectation.

Furthermore, the sheer number of quite profitable high speed trading platforms seems to totally rebuke your assertion.
When the Khoisan and their distant cousins of other names were killed by colonisers from West Africa and later Europe, the Kalahari desert turned out to be a very useful (and the last) place for them.
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Just checked mine. Every third post was a sponsored ad. This is why I have mostly stopped going on Instagram.
I was hoping to see one of dang's lists of times over the past we previously discussed this...
Right, every (x86) CPU sold since 2008 is already backdoored by the US. Honestly as US citizen who will never go to China, I'd rather be backdoored by China, since they can't throw me in jail, seize all my assets, or generally ruin my life nearly as easily as the US could for breaking some future law.
Yeah, the NSA does it, totally cool for the Chinese to do it as well..
Not sure why you got downvoted. It's an honest observation.
I think the focus on Stories is a huge mistake. Disclaimer: I'm too old to "get it". I've only used stories a few times, they feel like a huge time sink vs a normal FB/IG post, and that investment seems less worthwhile for something that doesn't stick around like a vacation photo album that I or someone else might refer back to later. I've only used stories when (say) traveling solo, and I want to post more mundane shit because I don't have a ton going on. Keeps folks at home more apprised of what I'm up to, but not the kind of content that's 'important/curated' enough to keep forever.

So on to why I think it's a mistake. Yes, both the core business and the stories rely on the network effects of social networks to gain/maintain popularity. But encouraging users to share ephemeral content makes the switching costs much lower. If some new "yourspace" competitor came along, I'd be hesitant to switch because I LIKE the library of content myself and my friends and family have built up over the years. If literally all that prevents me from switching is where my friends are, I can use both until everyone switches, and then just drop the one entirely.

Don't get me wrong, Facebook is still almost worthless to users without friends using it, but the switching costs are still higher when there's old content.
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It's problematic because nearly every platform either grows out of an application or needs its sponsor to build the initial suite of applications on the platform. You can't get past the chicken & egg problem otherwise - platforms aren't useful without applications, marketplaces aren't useful without participants, and nobody wants to bother with a platform or marketplace that isn't useful.

This is pretty easily worked around with a revenue threshold, though. If you own a marketplace where $25 is transacted annually and you want to participate in it, go for it. If you own a marketplace where $25B is transacted annually and you want to participate in it, there're some problems with that. This is already part of Warren's plan.
At this point, they seem to be rather close to the bottom anyway. So their best option probably involves self-employment related to their field of study. A settlement can go a long way towards financing their endeavor.
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This is a long rant that gets rambling in parts. The reference to XFree86 before it got renamed to XOrg some time ago has me wondering if you copy-pasted from some 90s thing.

But GCC and related stuff like binutils are not the only important code contributions from GNU. Glibc and bash are two that immediately come to mind. Certainly there are others.

(Though before the late 1990s Linux had its own non gnu libc..)
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Yes, this is why societies must take care about which hardware and software they use in schools. In Germany, some schools opted for Apple hardware and software, which is equally bad.
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I should have expected a reply like this. Those are all good points.
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After trying to learn a few different languages the best cycle for me seems to be, remember the word in anki, then in more controlled real word setting like a class or language exchange try to use that word in conversation. If you're not willing to do that last step, I wouldn't even bother with anki if you're using it for languages
Does FOIA apply to private companies? I thought it only applies to governmental institutions.
Unless you are not an American and many people aren't. In which case anything goes.
Well, "real" money since we're talking about cryptocurrencies here.
I'd have more time for articles like this if they didn't come from shitty, poisonous places.

The author doesn't care about helping others improve or shedding light on inadequacies of the technology.

The author only cares about strong-arming you with his own dumb opinions. The shortcomings of the software are secondary.

Save yourself some time and don't read this.
My version doesn't need a 30Kb library though.
You're right, I could have done a better job explaining what this is about. Thanks for doing that part for me!
The comment I replied to both had nothing backing up his claim, and was inflammatory.
The Europeans are just salty they can’t fuck around with as much of the world as they used to.
i feel for this person. my mother got blacklisted in her teaching profession, this stress triggered in her dormant traumas from her childhood, and she's been on medication now for 20 years due to these people pushing her over the edge with such behaviours.

no matter how good you feel about yourself, give others a chance, even if they dont 'gel well with you'. don't feel 'threatened' by other people who are talented, feel graced by their wits and try to grow from them instead of kicking them down.

lack of respect and integrity at its worst, it's an epidemic in our society.
Many schools are moving to chrome books.

But enterprise is the bigger deal anyways.
I am of two minds.

There are people who are persecuted because they are outsiders and for no other reason. A case in point is the story of Rosalind Franklin.

On the other side, some people are brilliant yet toxic. You can't have them work in a group because they will bring down the productivity of the group. You have to decide if they are so brilliant you will work with them anyway. I have had two experiences with this, one was successful and the other was unsuccessful.

In the successful case I sat the guy down and told him that I couldn't fire the entire team and just keep him because I needed more than what he could produce. He agreed. I paired him up with a woman that he respected and the team of two formed an awesome team. She handled all of the interactions with outside teams.

The second case was someone who was both brilliant and exceedingly insecure. No amount of counseling fixed his problem. No amount of telling him that he didn't need to insult people to get respect fixed his problem. Sigh. Sometimes you have to let people go.

At the end of the day - the telling part of the story is the cowardice of Dora's advisors. The fact that they did not take their jobs seriously enough to become her mentors leads me to believe that they did not do their jobs.
I honestly wouldn't bother for programming, per se.

It's great for learning facts, so, if you wanted to, I suppose you could use it for something like memorizing a pile of library functions. But I'm having a hard time seeing that as an efficient thing to do in the age of Google and Stack Overflow and editors with auto-suggestion.

Or if you're a low-level programmer, and want to memorize a new architecture's assembly language, maybe.

Even on the language side: SRS is great for shoehorning a basic vocabulary into your head when you're first getting started with a language. It kind of sucks for learning anything but the most basic grammar, and for getting a feel for how to actually express yourself in a language, or comprehend the language as it would be spoken by a competent speaker. Comprehensible input is still the go-to method for that side of language learning. And once you get to the intermediate or high intermediate stage, SRS isn't even all that great for learning the vocabulary anymore, because it's hard to really internalize the nuances of more advanced vocabulary that way. You'll go farther faster by just watching a lot of TV and reading a lot of books, where you get to encounter the words living in their natural habitat instead of dead and dried and pinned to a notecard.
Yes see what's happening in Hong Kong. It's a problem of their own making to get rich quick by property, not due to Mainland. Please read this:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/22/world/asia/ho...

It will give you true picture of how Hong Kong lost to mainland cities in terms of quality of life and innovation. So economy is the main root of all this frustration and protest. Extradition bill is just the spark.
Is it whataboutism? I think it is more just an acknowledgement that there is literally no escaping this kind of thing, so it is an irrelevant concern in this context. The point isn't "other entities are already doing it, so it's ok", it's "is there any hardware for which this isn't true? Then why is that a reason to dismiss this hardware?".
Sure but I've never heard one of those referred to as a whisper network.
Lets not jump into politics! Backdoors are bad and it doesn't matter who does it.

Good to see development from any country.
Obviously they have enough reason to do it. Just consider sanctions. They also have to protect their own market.

Anyone that can afford it, should do it. Ultimately it is a good thing from technology prespective.
I think the more important point is that China has a strong track record of IP theft and refusing to recognise international IP claims. So whilst the US is probably more capable of infiltrating your systems, that will largely be a (possibly over-reaching) law-enforcement effort. Whereas you've got the much more direct concern with China that they're not just going to infiltrate your system, they're going to do it so that they can reproduce your company with a CEO with ties to the communist party.
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I find that IG has at LEAST as many ads as FB. I use both regularly; I prefer Facebook because of the "community of friends and family" feel to it, but I'm sure I use it less than I used to. Part of the problem for me was engaging with groups more. They're easier to 'ignore' for a week and not feel like you missed anything, and if your feed is more and more group stuff it's easy to feel like you don't have 'time' for it, where the friends+family stuff beckons to me more.

Twitter is basically complete toxic trash and I don't touch it.
Wow, thanks for sharing. She handled that very well.
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It's used on wasm as well.
In a world where money means everything such a paradigm shift is self explanatory.
A very fun and interactive introduction to spaced repetition by the amazing Nicky Case: https://ncase.me/remember/
This isn't the same thing as the copyright directive. There is some ambiguity in the proposal about whether they would have to filter things that are shared privately (as opposed to posted publicly). But it repeatedly uses phrases like "uploaded to the service" which implies that things like Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, and so on would be covered.
Your whole logic is based on materialistic principles. You seem to be looking for a physical "cord" linking us to a physical "place" where consciousness "happens". You can't consider what I'm hinting if you stay in that paradigm.

What if your base assumptions are flawed ? The current materialistic approach is based on flawed 15th century intuitions. Just like the previous assumptions were based on other flawed intuitions (gold can be made from any element, stars are on crystal spheres, earth is the center of the universe, &c.)

What makes you think our current assumptions are the absolute truth ?
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In today's age, can we make the distinction between a tech company and a non-tech company? How many B2B digital services does JP Morgan Chase offer, how many consumer-facing digital services? Does that make them a tech company as well as a financial institution?

I think this may be a knee-jerk reaction to the rise in crypto-currency adoption, and Facebook's launch of Libra.

Rethinking it, this could also be taking aim at Amazon.
Potato is not just starch. In fact per calory potato is very dense nutritional wise with all that fiber, minerals and vitamins. In addition there is speed of absorption which for starches is much lower than for simple sugar. Plus starch metabolizes as glucose while table sugar and friends contains 50% fructose.

Which points to an elephant in the room that people miss when use the term carbs. It is the similarity between whole-food plant-based and various forms of keto.
They both avoids simple sugars and processed flour mixed with refined seed oils or saturated fats.
If she knew that her academic career prospects were being sabotaged by her advisor rather than having her mental health deteriorate while failing to pursue an academic career in her field, she could have pivoted to industry or a separate topic.
The internet is so big... I have never seen this meme before.
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The entire purpose of twitter seems to be to say the most outrageous thing possible to gain the most attention and the most retweets and popularity to drive 'engagement'. It is the exact opposite of what I want out of social media. The loudest, most obnoxious voices are the ones I care about the least.
Then you're going against past experience. Part of the Snowden leaks was that the NSA was planning to do exactly this kind of thing.
They can't control what others dislike or control the having of those traits; they certainly can control what they do going forward though and this information is useful in shaping that.

I also disagree heavily that things are either under your control or the fault of others.
calculated golden parachute, it’s worth it to cut ties quickly for a big company compared to the risks of getting tied up in court, and compared to the potential losses of keeping them around, pretty typical, no financier would spend money they didn’t think they had to spend
> Literally right now they are enacting cultural genocide on millions of their own people

This is a vast over-exaggeration. I'm always surprised when people believe whatever they read without criticism or scrutiny.
The latter. It's about replacing things like Active Directory, Exchange, Skype, etc. None of the projects relate to the actual science, except maybe Visual Studio licenses? But I know of nobody that uses ROOT on Windows with VS.
> No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler.

And glibc. And the coreutils, findutils, make, screen, bash, gzip, and grep. Those are just the things I used in the last 10 minutes. Other notables off the top of my head include flex, bison, guile, and emacs.

You are selling the FSF extremely short if you draw the line at GCC.
> Let's suppose you're right and non-determinism doesn't exist. (Quantum physics apparently disagrees, but never mind that.)

Quantum physics doesn't "apparently disagrees" with what I wrote.

> It doesn't matter. Treating people as though they have agency is still necessary, because how we treat them would affect their deterministic state function.
If someone commits murder and we say it was only a product of their environment and they have no agency, therefore we shouldn't punish them, well, that's the sort of "choice" that, on a systemic level, causes more people to commit murder.

That's an arbitrary view because we haven't viewed a society that understands everything is cause & effect. I will assume a society of that nature would agree upon needing a rehabilitation modal of justice and not a punishment modal.

> Even if they have no "choice" in the matter -- especially then -- creating an environment in which murder has personal benefits outweighing the personal costs is societally maladaptive.
And so it is with everything else. If we want people to give to charity and go to college and not steal from others then we have to act as if they chose whether or not to do those things and reward or punish them accordingly.

Once again this is an arbitrary view and without being able to observe a society that understands cause & effect. Stealing is an outcome from inequality of society & genetics is factored into the problem. A society understanding cause & effect would restructure because inequality becomes understood as the real causes for why bad events happen. Charity, going to college, and not stealing can only be viewed within the current system we live in but would be vastly different in a society understanding cause & effect between all members.
Cars are so dangerous. Is it really worth it just to have a popular recreation like racing? Why don't we just ban cars?

In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes, 30,296 deadly, killing 32,999, and injuring 2,239,000.

There are a roughly similar amount of fatalities related to guns, though more than 50% of those are suicides.
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Should I be worried that equifax doesn’t understand what radio buttons are for?
Ew, what was the reason for that?
Crime pays well.