skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all of it is US sanctions [1]. The US will protect its networks and will not allow a foreign adversary to use US platforms to target US citizens, but the US has no incentive to restrict the Iranian people's access to information or communications or ability to speak. Most of Iran's cyberspace restrictions are coming from within...

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

[1] "Iran's Rulers Speak Of More Cyberspace Restrictions As Conditions Worsen" https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-s-rulers-speak-of-more-cybe...
It must be zero? What if that resulted in 50% of murderers getting away?
The wealthy? You do realize the gov't has a per barrel royalty on each barrel extracted. And that's why some provinces are wealthier than others?

What a odd comment.
As a Norwegian this is quite funny. At least the last few decades we've been super focused on not working too hard to such a degree that it's often characterized as national lazyness by the Norwegian press. If a Thursday is a national holiday it is VERY common to take Friday, and maybe Monday off too.

We look down on many countries, like the US, because they tend to overwork and prioritize work over life.

Our success, like the oil fund and high ratings, has much more to do with a series of smart efforts on building a mutually beneficial society where people trust each other, the media, businesses, the police, the government etc than just hard work. Many people from all around the work hard, but just hard work doesn't lead to good societies. In fact the mantra of "hard work" often leads to the opposite - survival of the fittest to the detriment of others.
I would say, the main problem was that those people were overly concerned with what they will be stuffing into their resume next.

Anyway, in a resume, you can write about what was accomplished: "designed, implemented, maintained and documented such and such a system, of such and such size and scope, deployed in such a such are role in such and such customer sites."
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That's really not true. People were definitely dancing to Kraftwerk in clubs in the late 70s and 80s. I know because I was one of them.

Those albums are only "not dance music" because they don't have the stereotypical disco cliches of the era. But they were very popular for dancing. And they were absolutely influenced by disco, because the band spent a lot of time in disco clubs after recording sessions.

By the time you get to Numbers on Computer Love the techno/disco influence is a lot more obvious, and it's a real stretch not to call that track core EDM. And the remixes on The Mix are straight-down-the-line early EDM.

Kraftwerk are unusual for creating a unique style that blended elements of disco/techno with proto-synth pop, classical music, and a weirdly ironic modernist Schlager.

Most EDM is more either more formulaic or it lacks the strong melodies and inspired feel for structure and form that makes Kraftwerk stand out. They put it all together, made it work, added the kind of branding and imagery that's usually labelled "iconic", and eventually updated it with video to turn it into a kind of conceptual art project - which is why they've spent as much time performing in big galleries as at festivals.
Wow, I went to school at a remote college and I was the only black student pretty much. A friend of mine put me onto them and i played Static & Silence for about 2 years straight. The way they dropped off of music was tough to take, but A few bands that filled the void were the SuperJesus, check out "I'm Stained" and other tracks on their album titled "Sumo"... and Bon Iver is just amazing. Period.

I read long ago that Harriet just simply lost interest in touring after having a child, and I respected that and gave up waiting for more... Her voice was truly great though, and David and the rest of the band created such a great acoustic chemistry. It's been so long now, I don't think they'd be able to recapture the vibes in any good way.
More competitive? Or more representative of the overall population? Because those two things are at odds.

Say you have a state that is split 55/44, and has nine districts. Do you want nine districts each at 55/44, meaning 9-0? That's more competitive, but less representative of the state. Or do you want five districts for one, and four for the other? That's more representative of the state, but less competitive. Redistricting is hard.

(I suspect my scenario is a false choice if you wrestle with the math enough, but I'm not sure. I prefer the Wisconsin test that we all thought Justice Kennedy would decide in favor of, but then he took the coward's way out, probably corrupt too.)
Sure, it might be a pain, but there’s no way I’m going to end up liable for their mistake, so I guess I don’t see the point in insuring that.
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yeah this was still common in Atlanta about 10 years ago
It's interesting to me that they don't appear to hold private equity or venture funds, unless I'm missing something. Presumably at that scale they have unlimited access to any asset class in the world. Does anyone have any insight as to why they might be avoiding those?
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There isn't one way to do it in Perl (EUMM, Module::Build, Module::Build::Tiny, Module::Install etc), we just tried to make sure that they all interoperated cleanly. And we have things like the Toolchain Summit to make an emphasis on that.
Is there a proven bound so we know when the best known packing is the best possible packing? The lower numbers look very tidy and we've probably got the best possible packing for small N, but the larger numbers look like there may be room for improvement.
She probably has a spreadsheet or similar that the DA has (off the record) agreed to that calculates plea deals. Then most of the work goes to her staff.
The rules of English grammar supersede those of the trademark office. If it's not a proper noun, and not the first word in a sentence, don't capitalize it.

As an example of all-caps trademark, LEGO bricks. Like velcro, LEGO is a portmanteau. Velcro is velour-crochet, and LEGO is leg-godt ("play good"). And like velcro before it, LEGO is now fighting genericization.

If they lose the struggle, kids will play with legos instead of LEGO bricks. They might be legos made by Lego then, but LEGO would be the trademark. It might not be relevant to the word mark, but the image mark is stylized in all caps.

This is nitpicky, but I am sharing some of my experience from writing software that produces brand reports for trademark lawyers. The USPTO might not be case-sensitive, but some of the lawyers are very case-oversensitive, so our software had to take that into account. I still have trouble using a trademark as a noun or verb.
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As a trans woman, I agree this needs more study, and I have experienced something similar.

And I'd like to have a word with whoever downvoted this.
Looks really promising! That would be great to have licensing where one can pay a fee (subscription) without having API vendor lock (so it can be integrated into internal software)
This publication seems to be relying on the reader to have a preconceived negative bias on GMOs in order to establish some of their arguments. I understand why a casual reader who's been led to believe that GMOs are malicious or toxic would find this disturbing, but knowing that GMOs are basically how we are able to consume most if not all modern food safely, it's immediately sensationalist to me.

I don't know about the other two topics they address, but I kind of question the motive altogether.
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Apple is the new IBM!!!
But I'm sure they're taxing natural resources exploration at a pretty high rate.
If I were truly happy, I wouldn't be trying to fill that empty hole, where a soul should be, with electronics.
My public magnet high school was a weird setup where the kids had a huge variety of educational backgrounds.

It was striking to me to be alongside kids who were naturally intelligent and gifted but who had gone to really crappy elementary and middle schools. I remember a math class in 10th grade where the boy next to me was really struggling through his work and shyly asked if I knew what he was doing wrong. I, in my arrogant 10th grade way, told him "don't you know about the commutative property??" And he gave me a blank look in response. When I explained it, he immediately understood and flew through the rest of his work with no issue. That was when it really hit me that I was no smarter than him, I just had the privilege of an elementary and middle school education that didn't suck. That boy has gone on to get a Masters from Yale and I think he might be working on his doctorate now, but he had to work hard to fill in some fundamental gaps.

I'm truthfully alarmed by the "free college" debate because of credential inflation. Our high school diplomas are nearly worthless, a bachelor's degree has become compulsory for a lot of careers that shouldn't need it, and graduate school is leaning the same way. I would rather see us as a country fix elementary and middle school education so we can make high school education meaningful again. While we're at it, my county took away stuff like auto shop and any kind of trade school class, which is ridiculous and even criminal IMO.

Of course, so much of what we talk about when we talk about education is inequality. In the haunting (paraphrased) words of one teacher that I heard on a podcast, "How am I supposed to teach them long division when they haven't eaten in days and they're going to get raped tonight when they go home." That whole "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" study didn't control for household income, so all it really showed was that kids who are food insecure do way better on standardized tests when they eat anything at all beforehand.

There was also an interesting article in The Atlantic[1] recently discussing the really strange US practice of teaching skills instead of knowledge. The idea is that kids learn how to learn, but the outcome is that they're horrifically confused and don't know what or why they're learning anything. When teachers switched back to knowledge based curricula, the measurement of skills went way up.

I suppose this is a rambly non-answer. I grieve the state of public education in the US where so many good people face so many barriers (poverty, clueless administration, their own food and housing insecurity, etc.) to doing good work.

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/the-rad...
I work from home full time. And I’m single; and I live alone.

I often go through the whole workweek without saying more than a couple words to another person in real life.

I wonder what this does to me over time. It probably isn’t good.

It’s funny, too, I actually tend not to mind stretches of alone time. I get used to it. It’s when I oscillate between a day of being alone, and then a night out, then a day alone again, a night out, etc., that I feel the loneliness during the day. Mondays tend to suck for the same reason, since now I’m suddenly alone again after spending the weekend with people in the real world. I usually start to feel OK again by Tuesday.

I admit to in the past wanting to say no to offers to hang out just because I know I’ll miss the human contact after.

This probably all sounds crazy but (shrug emoticon was here, I guess HN doesn’t like emoticons :( )
Last time someone argued that point I did a short test. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19043565

For example, just now, I came across "ED survivor". No idea what "ED" means here (it's eating disorder).

I just put it into DDG and got nothing on the first page that looked like it could be pertinent: A user name "ED survivor" on Instagram posting about vegetarianism, Ed Stafford on Wikipedia, "ED: The Survivor" (a mod for a computer game evidently), Devil Survivor Full HD (a film obviously, no idea what ED means here), a few more in this vein, until the page ends with the TV series Survivor on Wikipedia.

Google: First hit "Template:ED survivor" in Wikipedia (and that page contains the words "eating disorder". Second hit "Eating Disorder Survivors Wall", third hit "Surviving ED" from HealthyPlace (so it's health-related – and the snippet shown on the result page starts with "Eating Disorders recovery is a long road.).

The rest of the results on Google are all similar, all of them(!) clearly tell me what ED means in this context.

DDG gave me crap, none of the results(!) came even close to answering my question.

This is not a singular occurence, just a thing I wanted to know a few minutes ago. I'd love to take DDG's search results, but when not narrowed down to specific origins with bang commands, the results are usually worthless.

Edit: and before people tell me that I should have used quotation marks around my search terms, great, let's try that: Two results with "We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.". From the top three results, one times out, one redirects to a sports betting site, and one to a product in an online apothecary (nothing to do with eating disorder). Then penis extension. Erectile dysfunction, something general about mental disorder, and again two results about penis enlargement.
Not just bpa, all plastics emit equally harmful estrogen producing chemicals as bpa per recent studies. Plastics in sun and hot water are a big no.
Definitely similar and the green cubes dont really show scale per capita at all. Didnt try to demonstrate anything other than to show some context for where Norways energy resources go compared to other countries.
> random guessing (of priors) is not a reasonable replacement for science.

Priors in Bayesian statistics are not randomly guessed. The prior is supposed to reflect your state of knowledge prior to looking at the data from the experiment/study/test/whatever (hence the name "prior"). For example, in the mammogram example, it is assumed that the doctor knows the base rate of breast cancer in the population (which is a very reasonable assumption since there are mountains of data on such rates) and the false positive and false negative rates of the test (which come from data on previous tests). Those are the prior. The doctor doesn't just make up those numbers; they come from prior knowledge.

> if you can't find a justifiable prior in a scientific work, using Bayes' rule just replaces one statistical fallacy for another one

In other words, if you have no prior knowledge about something, you can't expect to do statistics on some small set of data and get reliable answers. Yes, that's true. And Bayesianism tells you this is true, by telling you that you can't find a justifiable prior. (Technically, you can always find a maximum entropy prior, but in most cases that's not really any better than having no prior at all since it is basically telling you you need a lot more data before you can conclude anything.) Whereas statistical methods as they are currently done in many scientific fields simply ignore this issue completely and pick arbitrary thresholds for statistical significance. Which is the article's point.

In other words, Bayesianism, properly viewed, is not a magic bullet for extracting statistical answers from nowhere. It is a tool for exercising discipline, so that you know when you have to say "sorry, not enough data for a meaningful answer".
A venue like this opened recently in Oakland, CA (which I haven't had a chance to visit yet).

https://www.barshiru.com/

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We developed new features thinking each feature would cause the inflection point we were looking for. ‘Ticketing will be a game changer,’ or ‘this new mobile app will allow us to sell at a higher price point.’ Each time we barely pushed the needle when it came to growth. We dreamt silver bullets, but we were only pushing out what amounted to paper bullets.
Outside developed oil or coal plays, severed mineral estates in the US are the exception, not the rule. Also, to the point above, those severed mineral interests are almost always privately held.
Obama is neither mentioned nor relevant to the news that the article is reporting, what on earth are you on about?
McSherry's COST paper (http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...) is a good reference on the advantages of SISD graph processing.
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It's at https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/spawn.mpq, they forgot to add the "/diabloweb" directory to the URL.
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I've never found a perfect recommendation for me simply because data-driven approaches are 1) backwards looking and 2) assume I have a stable set of preferences. My preferences change every month, are tied to certain activities (e.g. workout), and based on mood.

So now I mostly listen to NTS. If I don't like what's on the air I search for a recent episode that looks good. I highly recommend it. https://nts.live.
The UK has the same amount of oil spread across 12x as many people. Yes, the Tories wasted it but it could never have had the same impact on the whole UK that it had on Norway. Perhaps if Scotland had been independent (most of the UK's oil is in its waters) it would have been similar.
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Now let's take the other extreme. You split the minority population among 10 different seats where their population in each district is so small that their interests are ignored entirely in each one.
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The first line literally says “ This is an archive of a series of comp.arch USENET posts by John Mashey in the early to mid 90s”