skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the reform act of 2013 might make these comments in-bounds:

Honest opinion: It is a defence for defamation, to show the statement complained of was a statement of opinion; that it indicated, in general or specific terms, the basis of the opinion; that an honest person could have held the opinion on any fact which existed when the statement was published, including any fact in a privileged statement that was pre-published. The defence is defeated if the claimant shows the defendant did not hold the opinion.
So basically all grocery stores that sell their own branded stuff as well are blocked?
I suspect this is specifically targeting Windows. I think this would be a good idea for anyone really. I don't know whose or which decision brought MS into this mess, but this isn't a sustainable OS for the future.

Our company still relies on it, but any new piece of software has to be platform independent. Licensing income probably skyrocketed on MS end, but I don't think they made any friends with W10.

Maybe MS is correct that W10 will be the last Windows. But maybe not because of rolling releases.

Anyway, good news and the correct strategy in my opinion.
Chase does this today.
Others have expressed thoughts I had as well, but to add:

I used to basically have your opinion, and then had two experiences that shifted my perspective.

The first was a colleague who was known for being overly frank, to put it mildly; for not having any internal controls on sharing what was on his mind. He was (and is) a brilliant individual who is every bit as competent as people much more accomplished than him. I watched him lose out on job prospect after prospect, and initially sort of thought "well, being able to work with someone easily is important." Eventually, though, I realized that what is far more insidious are all the narcissistic psychopaths who are socially skilled. This guy, while brash, actually was well-meaning and had a heart. I'd far rather work with him than many of the other horrible individuals I've worked with; he's at least as deserving of better employment, if not more.

The second was a case where we were hiring, and this brilliant individual applied. Everyone agreed he was heads above the best -- this being a faculty position at a research institution. Eventually everyone started complaining about how socially awkward he was, how his presentational style was difficult, and how he did these weird things in interviews. The thing was, he wasn't mean or cruel or anything like that, or even markedly eccentric, just a little weird. Someone objected to this, pointing out that it was bizarre for us to be dismissing someone who was described as a genius in letters, and that we agreed was such, because of socially unusual (but not difficult) behavior. The question this person on the hiring committee raised was "what are we actually wanting? What is our mission?" The applicant didn't get the job, and it always struck me as unfortunate.

I guess my point is that even if someone is unpleasant to work with, sometimes that's not the most important thing, and even when it is important, the way that they are unpleasant matters. This isn't even getting into how capricious and cruel people can be in their assessments of others' behaviors.
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Thanks for the feedback! I mostly write as a way to learn new stuff and it really helped me to create this list. Good idea for a follow up article.
Superb list. Should read !
A great example of a « knowledge tree », could be useful to find a root concept for an idea you want to explore.
Any other tool to find « first-principle » roots of any topic ?
liquid programable motors with possible temporal formation capabilities! Sounds one step closer to Skynet's liquid metal terminator :-)

Fascinating!
Yeah, hearing TG's UI/UX described as not good made me do a double take. It's the best UI I've ever seen in a chat app, and I've probably used at least a dozen by now.
ACH transfers do NOT require you to give your password to anyone, and they have been around forever.

Never give your bank password to anyone other than your bank.
I find these laws that make BS criteria like "Above X billing" to be a grotesque violation of the rule of law.

Clearly they want to apply rules to a specific company, but it would be too crude to say "FANG" and create criteria that apply only to the "FANGS".
If we make it 10x+ easier to define schemas and reuse existing ones, by making authoring, concatenation, extending, sharing, and discovering such schemas easier; and provide great translation mechanisms to/from existing languages like sql, Json, csv and xml; and provide new auto scheme generation and data fixing from better deep learning models....I think we can get there.

We are working on all of that
There were reports a few years ago that Google Translate had gotten very bad and the speculation was that the training input data was culled from Internet sites that themselves had used Google Translate to do translation.
We seem to have both trends concurrently right now: institutional investors push for clean sector separation, when they expect sector A growing they want to be able to buy into companies in that sector with as little baggage in sector B as possible and vice versa. Consequently, "the old tech corporation" (Siemens, Philips, GE) seems to be in a permanent state of shrinkage by spinning out one field after another. At the same time, "new tech" corporations are still growing faster than any sector purity investor agitation could keep up with, some even still under the control of founders so that the entirely different logics of personal empire-building apply.
> I think in your head you are arguing with somebody else. E.g what excuses have I made?

> he has made a name in the general public and is not politically correct nor "tamed". Obviously he's going to get plenty of negative attention.

This is a classic excuse used by pricks/jerks. I don't have a full list either, but I've literally never called someone a pedo for criticizing me, I've never seen it happen. It's a jerk first; truly exceptional. "I'm not politically correct" is a classic, tired, and lame excuse.

WTF are you talking about people that don't bring value to the world? Everyone does, and I'm not impressed by Musk.

> And you are just randomly angry because the current guy at hand is public with his mistakes, you can see them, and then you go and argue about it on the internet.

I'm not angry, and this is an internet discussion board, so I don't know what your point is.
I have noticed in myself, that it helps a lot with things which are conducive to route learning - that is, it is either something which has no innate meaning, like a random sequence, or something I understand, such as a table of values.

But it helps very little (not surprisingly) when I need to learn a concept and a model. I thought maybe I can learn the model faster, if I have all the terms and their definitions down - but in fact I found it painful and probably distracting.
Recommend using Anki for this: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

I try to add new words/concepts/things etc. I learn into Anki.

IMO, it greatly helps me with memorising various and more obscure terms, that I used to always forget.
I have mentioned this before here - instagram ads are a bit too creepy. I have had multiple personal ads that were eerily accurate and I hadn’t even discussed these things over any written form. I’m not paranoid to think they are listening to the microphone but the coincidence is super uncanny. It crossed the line for me twice in the past few months alone.
If its NIH funded its automatically open sourced 1 year after publication.
I would say that if the fan is used as part of a ventilation scheme, yes the dehumidification, and moving air displacing hot air coming from your skin is helpful. If you're in a closed room you just get the benefit of moving air, which tends to be marginal.

As for humidity, the evaporative cooling from sweat should aid cooling until you hit 100% humidity (at which point sweat can't evaporate). But we're just talking about the mechanics of cooling here. If we're talking about human thermal comfort, which has been (with some debate) empirically quantified, thermal comfort only exists within a narrow band of temperature and humidity. So for example, a person sitting indoors clothed with typical summer clothing, will only be comfortable at a temperature of 27C at a humidity of approx 55% or lower (see this tool for more info: http://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/)
Happiness is only understood in contrast. On the one hand you obviously want to protect your child and ensure their happiness, but on the other, by doing so, you might be robbing them of the essential human experience.
Happiness shouldn't be an end goal to a life, but a byproduct of one. Negative experiences shouldn't be looked down upon and avoided, after all that is how we learn and improve ourselves - by overcoming adversity.

Having said all that, this is an incredibly tough decision to make and is solely up to your family.
Yes definitely email/slack/and IM. The EU was not kidding around with this. Its a walloping huge piece of legislation with wide reaching implications.
Zoom's handling of vulnerability highlights the dark side of bug bounty NDAs
Actually, I think an interesting exercise for evaluating a language could be determining "how much code change do small semantic changes require". For instance, if we were to start with passing a generator (in the "generates a value" sense of the word, not the other one), and try to convert it to passing a counter, how would that look?

JS:

foo(x => () => x)
bar(x => () => x++)

Py:

foo(lambda x: lambda: x)

def countUpFromN(n):
def add():
nonlocal n
n += 1
return n-1
return add
bar(countUpFromN)

Fairly damning to python IMO. I'd be interested to see examples of where small changes in Python require large changes in JS.
My problem with twitter has always been that it tries very hard to discourage content with much depth. There are more ways around the fact that every tweet has to be bite-size than there used to be, and the character limit is higher, but the fundamental model remains the same.

Facebook has taken some steps in the same direction too, hiding any long post or comment behind a "read more" link and offering flashy backgrounds for 130 characters or less (plus enlarged text for 85 characters or less).

This comment doesn't fit in a tweet. It doesn't even fit into two tweets.
This is a notification bot. It's not a conversational interface.
Say what you want about RMS, he never sold out and stood on his principles. And his cause is noble. I might not agree with his methods 100% of the time, but I respect this man.

And another thing: he was right about many "controversial" things, and was ahead of his time.

I really think that him asking people to call the software GNU/Linux isn't that much to ask.

Seriously, once you understand the amount of work GNU has done.. and it's all open and free.
> chemicals and a sedentary lifestyle

As for the theory about chemicals I think that can be a good explanation for parts of the problem.

One observation that strengthens this theory is that dogs are affected as well.

> a war against boys that doesn't exist

The war part is a way of speech, or hyperbole, I give you that.

But how about you explain:

- the majority of prison populations being men. Is society failing them like we say about every other group who is overrepresented in prisons or are men more evil? If men are more evil - explain why they are different from other groups overrepresented in prisons.

- why do boys on average score significantly better when tests are anonymous compared to when the tests are named and graded by their teacher?[0][1]

- Related to the first: Why are judges more lenient towards women? [2]

- etc

[0]: http://sciencenordic.com/why-boys-get-poor-grades

[1]: I'm well aware that the opposite happens as well. A good friend of me told me how he (who always got good grades) and a female student who always got average grades swapped their hand ins and found that the teacher had still graded his top notch and hers as average, so yes, this happens as well but seems to be less common at least around here.

[2]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/155708511143021...
Absolutely. The US needs to protect the banks and Visa
Would You Give Up Your Privacy for $5000 Worth of Amazon Crap?
You could do it easily with a service which just indexes the files and periodically looks at most recently modified timestamps and then pushes if any of them are later than the most recent sync.
I don't get it - NSA has inserted many backdoors in different devices like routers and even hard disks, I don't recall China has such a record. Why are you so concerned about China but the U.S. ?
tbf, you ought to be getting alarm bells from "Australian crypto exchange, no KYC required" long before we start looking at whether the coding approaches are remotely sane.

Considering the well established likelihood of a flash crash in the markets you're trading in, the exchange's own code being stuck together with duct tape or your/their assets being frozen, you probably shouldn't be trading anything you're not willing to lose to buggy javascript anyway.
There was a story in The Economist about greenhouse gas emissions causing increasingly frequent heat waves in the US.
I actually believe the power networks that matter are made up of people who can afford honesty and magnanimity, and that gossips never make it above being minor gatekeepers.

Low stakes players sometimes get to sit at high stakes tables, and sometimes they take out a high stakes player from that round, but they go bust pretty fast.
And if you're looking for Kerbal Space Program, but in 2D and on your phone (and darn good), then there's Spaceflight Simulator.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.StefMorojn...

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/spaceflight-simulator/id130805...
Yeah, that sounds reasonable, including how practical it would be.
I disagree. It's sure not a cliché. I've often seen programmers gold plating their solutions. As a programmer myself I understand that very well. But most of the time, a half backed solution will unlock many things that are more important than the code. With some prototype level code, you can already test ideas, show things to a customer, start integrating with others, etc. And afterwards, you have the opportunity to decide if optimizing for speed/space is a worthy trade off, or if optimizing at all is important.

Now, this won't work for any kind of industry. Right now i'm in the business/government stuff. There, prototyping is much more important than speed of code. When I was in the gaming industry, the lack of speed was most of the time a technical debt. But even then, having my code working was much more important to the overall team effort than my code being fast.

So instead of your chart, I prefer : 1/ Code is working, 2/ Code is correct 3/ check for other priorities 4/ optimize as needed.

As for what you're expected to do and company value, my experience is that not so many people understand the link between actual code and company value (esp. in the top management where I sit regularly). You'd be surprised to see how much a deadline is more important than a fully working/optimized program ('cos for example the deadline is a trigger for a enormous change in the organization you work for (although we know the lack of speed in the code will have negative impact on dozens of end users))

so, well, it depeends :-) but still, a word of caution sound right to me :-)
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I think you're committing the common error of thinking that baseload demand requires baseload supply.

But baseload supply was just the most economical way to supply baseload demand. I emphasize was. We are moving into a new situation where intermittent sources are much cheaper than those old reliable baseload sources, when they are available. If this cost discrepancy becomes too large, the optimum mix of sources will change abruptly, to some combination of intermittent sources and various forms of storage.

The levelized cost advantage of renewables has become very large. Right now, they pair with dispatchable sources (gas, primary hydro), but storage is beginning to undercut that. Baseload nuclear is already grossly uncompetitive; in the US to compete with the current gas/renewable mix new nuclear would require a CO2 tax of $300/ton or higher. Even existing nuclear is struggling to meet its operating costs here.
Close up of Chinese click farm phones
I agree with what you are saying but I don't see how this conflicts to what I said.
>I was able to ask my PhD college, and several other institutions, to see all emails in which my name appeared in either the subject line or the body of the email.

The scariest part is that this is apparently possible in countries under the jurisdiction of GDPR now (and possibly even outside of it). Your private emails talking about a third party might be exposed at the request of the said third party. Does no one else consider this extremely concerning?
Solved by W. Wallington over a decade ago. The stones "walked", just like the old tales say. One man could have built Stonehenge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Wallington
>There are a lot more limitations and checks on what the US can do

If only those "limitations and checks" were actually followed by the US government and intelligence agencies. Here are some examples I collected during a previous discussion of US vs China surveillance states

https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-su...

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/national-id-hr4760-biometri...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/26/16932350/ice-immigration-...

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/voice-recognition-techno...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...

https://freedom.press/news/revealed-justice-depts-secret-rul...

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

https://www.eff.org/cases/first-unitarian-church-los-angeles...

https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel

https://www.eff.org/cases/hepting

https://www.eff.org/cases/smith-v-obama

https://apnews.com/d69a8e6db867477795f4152d0511bbf9

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-records-fact...

>Because there not beyond imprisoning or killing people over information gained

The US government also certainly uses the information gained to kill and/or imprison people, although you could perhaps argue that the scale is not the same

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/inside-the-cias-k...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/?utm_term=.dc5b7bd3682e

>we have no reason to believe the US had implemented backdoors in major processors.

There is evidence that US intelligence agencies have backdoored products in the past. Personally, that's reason enough to believe that they may have backdoored processors as well

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-p...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/519661/nsas-own-hardware-...
If only that ride was towards better personal desktop computers where people have control over instead of towards data farms controlled by a handful of multinational corporations meant to be accessed by locked down mobile consumption terminals masquerading as social devices through supposedly open standards which are so complex as to only be implementable by said multinational corporations... it'd be nice.
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There's two ways: Firstly different chips will have different sets of extensions.

Secondly macro-op fusion - you can optimize particular sequences of instructions in order to try to get certain optimized micro ops, and it's expected in future that different sequences will be needed on different cores. A "wrong" sequence will run slowly but still run.

Of course all of this is a PITA from our (software) point of view.
Independent Instagram or WhatsApp could push FB to reduce its reliance on non-original posting, could move into privacy as a competitive advantage, could steal new users, could steal people leaving FB. As it is currently, FB can herd users into using its other apps without improving its core business. They can be dodgy because people "leaving" them are just returning to them, if they go to Insta or WhatsApp.
I know this is sarcastic, but it’s a telling marker of how unserious the US has gotten in terms of preparing for a full scale war that we’re even entertaining that idea.
You seem to be assuming that money is the only goal, rather than, say, contributing in academia.
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I see. I guess on the bright side collecting new data is becoming exponentially cheaper. For example, this year the world will collect more heart rate data than it did than all previous years in human history combined. So even if we lost all heart rate data from decades past, we generate that quite quickly now. You certainly lose a lot of longitudinal value, but perhaps that won’t turn out to be too critical? (Or perhaps it will)
Hmm, i thought HW is about tech, why are there so many politics and propaganda (or what I perceive as smearing)?
I think the missing assumption is that doing "just protobuf" is not always a possibility when you in the end have an open API front-facing the internet.

So now there is a point in your codebase where you are receiving data in a JSON form. At this point having protobuf elsewhere is not chosing between JSON and protobuf, it's chosing between "json+protobuf" and "json".
I disagree.

There are two groups of people who will care about the difference in hardness and silicate content. The first is people doing fine precision woodworking. Those people stick to traditional hardwoods so it's a non issue. The second group is the people who are putting saw blades on angle grinders and stacking dado blades on circular saws or other activities that make work more expedient but tend to result in lots of pearl clutching when discussed in polite company. These people depend in part on the softness of the pine they usually work with in order for their preferred techniques to work and will grumble about having to change their techniques for bamboo or any other harder material.

Everyone else who is not working at the limit of their materials and their tools will just shrug their shoulders and say the only difference they notice is that you gotta push the saw a little harder.

You can cut steel with a run of the mill carbide tipped plywood blade on a circular saw. The HSS family of tool steels used in woodworking applications have no problem cutting aluminum. Woodworking tools are completely capable of cutting anything in the wood and composite spectrum
Seriously, bamboo is not going to be any more of an issue than modern wood composites. You might suffer a slight reduction in work speed and blade life but that's par for the course when working in harder material and is basically a non-issue.

The dust it generates and the propensity of the plastics to melt instead of cut is the main concern with compose building materials. Working with them is basically no different than wood.