skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I do just clear cookies, but I've found a good Firefox extension that does it well for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-cookie...

It has a convenient button that clears all the storage for the page in the current window. It remove the cookies, local storage and session storage. Then I just reload the pay-walled page and it thinks I'm a new visitor.
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I'd like to elaborate on the unity of the different elements of Chinese society you mention.

Chinese institutions are all unified under a single structure, and that structure is the Communist (in name only) Party. Party members are embedded in every single important facet of society. Education, the military, the government, the private sector, it's all linked and unified by the party.

Now, we can compare this structure to the mammalian neocortex. The neocortex incorporates inputs from lower layers of the brain to form high level abstractions and integrations.

The West is basically functioning without a neocortex. Our institutions are not unified. There is no integrating layer above the corporate sector and government. In fact they are often at odds.

What I am saying is that China represents an existential threat to the entire project of the West. If China is able to outcompete us with their more advanced (?) organization, we will be forced to copy them or become irrelevant. This would mean doing away with free democracies and instituting a ruling party - a neocortex - to oversee the entire society.

I am not sure this would even be possible in diverse societies like those of the Western democracies. There is too much infighting and tribalism, at least right now.

That does not bode well for us.

But it's possible that cultural unity within our democracies may be sufficient to align the different parts of society to allow us to compete with China, without the formal superstructure of an all powerful Party.
"BiApplicativeProfuctorCategory".

Please don't just make things up.
The more people infected the more mutations will occur.

Mutations that delay death, make the virus lighter (more easily aerosolized), or kill a smaller percent of the infected (letting some people be infectious or even asymptomatic), might make the virus less deadly for individuals, but more deadly overall.

All the mutations are happening simultaneously in a population. Ones that cause the virus to spread better will be conserved precisely because those viruses spread better.
> All major Chinese companies began as state owned enterprises,

That isn’t true at all. A lot of the companies started after the late 80s were never stare owner at all.
All you need to know about suicide is it's a fleeting thought that enters your mind usually after you've consumed a lot of alcohol/drugs, and if you don't call anybody to talk you down from doing something embarassing, you'll regret it, because everybody I've ever talked to who tried to kill themselves was completely embarassed and swore it wasn't them, it was just a temporary mental illness who ruled their existence for all of 30 minutes or so before they changed mood.

Anyway, if you enjoy solving problems go work for academia, they're always hiring programmers, they pay next to nothing, but you won't be stressed (unless you fuck up somebody's thesis) but otherwise it's pretty easy. I did it for 5 years and it was the best decision I ever made: working with post-docs and grad students bleeding information from them, total autonomy to do what you want, union position so impossible to get fired, you get a letter from the post-doc's shilling your abilities you can use for grad school. Look at your local universities for these positions, guaranteed no local student will take them because they don't pay enough.
The parents have to set up automated cameras in their house and car and ask their employer to set some up in their workplace as well. Then let the kids get automated messages with the photos. It would only be fair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
> I think Chinese corporations behave more like a beehive and Russians like a wolf pack.

This is an old orientalist trope.
As usual with China we are focused on the wrong issue and asking the wrong questions.

Who owns Huawei is irrelevant, who ultimately controls Huawei is the issue, but it’s a simple answer, the Chinese Government.

I was in China on business, we were meeting the one of the largest and most successful tech companies in China. We were meeting with the Chairman/CEO and his team. Everyone was introduced except one man, everyone basically acted like the guy wasn’t in the room. He just sat and listened until he heard something he didn’t like, he quickly took over the meeting, admonished the CEO, and insisted they we do as he said. For the remainder of the meeting the CEO and his team sat head facing the conference table, it was clear they were all terrified.

Once the key parts of the meeting were decided this man got up and left, the meeting quickly ended. I tried to get my Chinese colleagues to explain what happened, but everyone just blew me off.

A couple days later we were in Taiwan, and I got the full story. The man was the party official who guided the company. The guy made sure that the Chinese government’s interests were followed.

It’s China, thinking about things like it’s the West is stupid. Everything is owned by the government.
This guy makes me think of Kvothe in the Arcanum building sympathy lamps.
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Blah, shows how much I remember about it. We always converted to ENU locally to start with, hah.
I agree completely. I'm saying if we remove anonymity we won't need top down censorship.
Internal team wiki covering my industry which is power systems (transmission level stuff).
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World's largest reef....or world's largest man-made reef?
I think that probably understates the magnitude, too. $25 could be several weeks' wages for a typical worker.
> Do they usually strike you as highly competent and efficient

Far from all but,a decent number of them yes
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Transporting a portable system: Unix to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf]
TFA doesn't explore at all how McElroy managed to "evade jail" after so many crimes. But it seems that basically there were enough people who would provide false alibis.[0] Maybe because he had threatened them.

0) http://mentalfloss.com/article/574749/ken-mcelroy-murder-ski...
Yeah, that would be an option. But IMO the biggest downside would be that they charge for overages instead of throttling.

If I'm working on a hobby project that involves uploading data, and something gets into an unexpected state, it's easy to imagine it transferring tens of GB in a matter of hours. In that event, I'd rather have it restricted to dialup speed (which is still enough to transfer 20GB/month) than get hit with hundreds of dollars in bandwidth charges overnight.
Um. You take stick n poke the tiger. U expecting the tiger to respond how?
looks like some bigger images were of wiki[pedia|media] backups so I guess easy-to-find/use public data?
The article states that miniature horses live 35 years or longer, whereas dogs have a much shorter lifespan. Presuming both are equally difficult to train, this is an obvious advantage.
It looks nefarious but it is 100% corporate priorities.

I doubt anyone at Google is working under a mandate that says explicitly "we must kill Firefox by making our services fail when people use it!"

Instead, every team working on these services at Google has a massive backlog of bugs. The product managers look at the bugs that start with "on Firefox, feature ABC doesn't work correctly..." And then they look at the bugs that are for Chrome. And they put the Chrome ones at a higher priority every time.

They know that their bonuses are tied to Chrome somehow inside the massive Google goal structure.

No one on the team argues about the decisions to deprioritize those bugs.

And, bugs for Firefox get fixed at a slower rate than Chrome, and here we are.
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non-region console links should redirect OK if you're signed in - https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home#Snapshots:visibil...
EPYC SAP-SD 2-tier benchmark results
Am I defending suicide?
I signed up to a crypto exchange, then I requested removal of my account and data and they said they cannot delete my data. Guess what? I had zero transactions, the account was new, etc. They are legally obliged to keep almost nothing for 7 years. How lovely. At least they were open about it, right? Some will just tell you they deleted your account when in fact it was just a soft delete. Screw these places. I, for one, hope that Bisq will become popular.
A general-purpose library able to hide the necessarily specific logic of how network events and a poker game should interact seems... unlikely?
dead people is... the worst... arguing that we should give up freedom is bad... what, do we do here?
(speaking only for myself here)

I work at Google and I use Firefox. Based on everything I have seen, it boils down to: browser compatibility requires work. If you don't test it in Firefox, and don't prioritize fixing any issues that appear, then things are going to break. It doesn't require any sabotage, just entropy. I wish Google prioritized Firefox compatibility more.
The National Guard are the individual armies of each state. Typically, they aide the army and obey national orders. However their commander in chief is the governor of their state not the president.

As an example, California has pretty strict border controls on its state bordera. Bringing certain agricultural goods into california is illegal and they will fine or jail you depending on the severity.

It is entirely possible and legal, but unlikely, that the governor of California sends it national guard troops to the border if Oregonians for example were attempting to storm the border with ferrets or something.
Why don't kids get to vote? Is it not because they are seriously uninformed and easily influenced?

If you agree that one subset of the population shouldn't get to vote for these reasons, why not a wider subset? In fact why not throw out voting age entirely and make a voting test the only barrier? Would not a direct test of civic knowledge have fewer false positives and false negatives than the blunt tool of an arbitrary age cutoff?

Surely there are degrees of flawed, with some people being very gullible and uninformed and some not. And surely there is some way and some benefit to the rest of us if we disenfranchise the most susceptible to propaganda.

You're right. I don't believe in Democracy. I believe in Epistocracy.

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/23/17581394/against-democracy-boo...
Was your last sentence written with the recognition that Kayak's parent company Booking Holdings (formerly Priceline) has an 80 billion market cap, and made 5.3 billion in operating profit last year? True, Google is 10x larger but Kayak has significant resources to compete.
>> cars with instant torque and cheaper energy <<

Certainly not cheaper or cleaner.
Most I've seen will pay a lot of money for P/T instructors, exactly what Op should be doing with his massive amounts of experience then working the rest of the time on some research none of us can understand.
No. Fox News, Sports, and Television are what's left of Fox Corporation. The sports situation is especially complicated, with international rights coming into play.
It seems NBA is not there in ESPN+, which is a bummer.

Wonder if they will unbundle Disney+ or if this will be the only offering.
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what is on his phone that can't be found online or through his browsing history tracked by google et. al.? you have all his contacts as well through various nsa pen registers and whatnot.

seems like more or less a move to create a "think of the kids or innocents" moment to keep things from "going dark".
"Now that Fox Corp. has sold off most of its entertainment properties, it has become a standalone company that will retain ownership of its broadcast network, owned-and-operated network affiliates, the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network and Fox Sports." [0]

[0] -- https://www.npr.org/2019/03/20/705009029/disney-officially-o...
One could argue that it's harder to make an institution that has the power to access secured devices behave than it is to change society to have fewer mass murderers.

To quote the onion: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
Also because Disney owns ESPN they can't own Fox Sports for anti competitive reason. They also let go Regional Sports Networks
Alaska no longer offers the policy I believe you are referring to, effective September 1, 2018 [1]. Their new policy, despite being advertised under the same name, only covers price drops within 24 hours of purchase, during which time you'd be able to cancel and rebook anyway. [2]

This is the kind of change that is not fun to learn the hard way.

[1] https://onemileatatime.com/alaska-airlines-price-guarantee-e...
[2] https://www.alaskaair.com/content/deals/special-offers/price...
It's mostly kids watching
"At the time, any right-thinking American took many of the basic ideas the Nazis espoused as natural and well proven, even if they weren't accompanied by a swastika. The Germans had spent the 1930s not so much inventing a race-obsessed, overweening state as catching up with one."

It's really telling when you realize how much America had an influence on Nazism.

Hitler himself praised the US racial quotas at the time
Also it seems disingenuous to act like boards of US Fortune 500 companies aren't filled with ex-government/intelligence/military staff that play a role in aligning the company's interest with the government's interests.

It's soft power that results in similar outcomes. Look at Theranos's board, it's not as unique as people think when compared to other majors...
If there were clear and transparent -- like public -- procedures -- by which the FBI could get into an iPhone, it might be alright. Say that if they broke into the iPhone it was indelibly marked -- it flipped a flag in the hardware and there was no way to disguise it, and the OS would broadcast it over the web and over BlueTooth and WiFi, making it easy to provide tools that caught the message and published it. Then people lose their privacy, but only if the government is willing to defend in a credible way the necessity of it.
I can't see organisations motivated by profit making much difference here. Also existing organisations focused solely on the issue have not made much difference thus far.

I think a better model is where the EPA becomes a branch of the military. They all seem to have unlimited funds for their various projects. They could be operating the direct air capture machines being developed by Bill Gates and friends, or protect the existing natural machinery. Alternatively if this proves to be insufficient they have other means at their disposal.
That is with solid growth. When growth stalls, holding off retirement does indeed reduce opportunities for younger workers.
It's called infanticide and it's very common throughout nature. Just recently a lion in a German zoo ate her newborn cubs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_(zoology)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/08/europe/germany-lioness-eats-c...
Peter J. Irvine's group has been doing substantial research into what they are calling 'solar geoengineering' or releasing sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to reduce global temperatures. His research has caught a lot of attention in the media recently.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449626.2018.15...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0398-8
If I were a large entity trying to secretly access a device I think I would keep it in a Faraday cage.
Not to mention that we had been doing forced sterilization way before the Nazis got to it
BPL is a neat concept for very rural areas, but was expensive (iirc a broadband regenerator unit is needed for a certain length of line (Ex: every 1 mile) and is not cheap. Also, the interference for things like radio communications was never really accepted.
In my opinion, there are only two things humans need to do:

1. get rid of the nuclear power fear
2. eat way less meat

Here you go, I solved it, now gimme a Nobel peace prize.
Absolutely correct. Jack Ma was smart enough to realize he had amassed too much wealth, power, and influence to remain in the good graces of The Party. He was, essentially, one step ahead of the firing squad (or at least a major state contrived scandal which would land him in jail for a decade).

This seems to be the opposite of the US system where, once you amass that amount of wealth, power, and influence, you get to control the major political parties.
While I feel like writing Clojure for 5 years would improve one's ability to /write/ Haskell, I feel it'd have almost no impact on one's ability to read Haskell.

With all pros (e.g. local reasoning, referential transparency, no destructive updates) and all cons (e.g. tons of marshalling/converting, piles of imports, shitty records) aside for a moment, I think you learn to read Haskell like you learn to read any other programming language: by writing a lot of it.
...and Google's hotel search is starting to supersede the legacy sites in ease of use and speed, just like Flights has.
The establishment would just set unfair and arbitrary criteria based on their interests as to who meets the knowledge bar.

Anyway it's already sort of an epistocracy. Those "in the know" have more power and already pretty much run things. Ethics and morals are orthogonal to knowledge.
Iceye satellites return super-sharp radar images
Indigenous languages hold the key to understanding who we are
According to those articles it is the EU fine that isn't paid. From what I've heard the US fine is basically what paid for the Zen R&D. Karma.
No, it's not alright. I'm sick of giving up freedoms every time some violent psycho/group of psychos decided to commit more violence.
Casualties of war* are not counted in percentages(%):

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/suicide-rate-by-c...

India beats China by a big margin, even with the subpar statistics Dept.

* If life is war then suicide is casualty(short-life)
sort by 'Total Per Year'
Emergency medicine is a small fraction of all medicinal needs.

A lot of medicinal procedures allow time for determining what the most cost effective offering is.
Yeah. Let’s take away a specifically enumerated constitutional right to better protect, maybe, one that appears only in the “penumbras” of the document.
Do you know that this hasn’t happened in Russia or China? Are you suggesting that no company in Russia or China has ever resisted any demand from their government?
Their current Disney-only streaming service is $6 a month, for reference. So you're paying an extra $7 for Hulu and ESPN
> Traditional Confucian philosophy certainly did not despise self-promotion. Confucius proclaimed himself the greatest sage alive, and his arrogant attitude turned off every ruler he was trying to advise.

This doesn't actually follow - "do as I say, not as I do" and all that. The actions of the philosopher and the preferences of the philosophy do not have to match.
Hate to be that guy but anyone know any reason why articles about Marvin Minsky and Jefferey Epstein would not be showing up today on HN? Seems odd to me.
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Non-Intrusive Appliances Load Monitoring System Using Neural Networks[pdf]
> Chinese interference in US politics

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute and https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/of...
How about a dated signed explanation that had to passed around and signed by a bunch of public institutions. Heck, to keep other countries from complaining, some could be an international.
I didn’t interpret the people’s action so much as revenge as a way to protect themselves. And in this instance maybe it was the most rational thing to do when the justice system failed to protect them.
I'm not convinced a race that is vastly more intelligent at an individual-level than humans is necessarily a consummately more advanced race.

It would seem like the age of a civilization and the size of its population (i.e. overall "human" capital) could mitigate a relative weakness in individual intelligence. Or perhaps another race's willingness to cooperate in large numbers. Or perhaps the motivation of civilizations to advance (e.g. a civilization that faces many existential threats may advance faster assuming it survives relatively unscathed; or maybe some other intelligent beings would be more inclined or less inclined to pursue civilizational advancement).

I wonder if the relationship between societal/technological advancement and individual intelligence is not linear or even logarithmic; rather, it's important to have "enough" intelligence to engage in abstract inductive/deductive reasoning (maybe the ability to do mathematics beyond basic arithmetic), and after that level other factors such as those mentioned above are bigger contributors to civilizational advancement.

We humans have far surpassed what a single individual can achieve by breaking problems into smaller and more intellectually manageable parts, which should be particularly evident to those us on HN working on software. It seems possible that the biological (biophysical?) limit for intelligence is far outstripped by the amount of complexity in the universe, making the civilizational utility obtained for marginal gains in individual intelligence rather low (i.e. since heavy abstraction will always be needed, the size of the "abstraction chunks" is just one of many other factors). On the other hand, we on HN are also well-positioned to observe the efficiency lost when systems progress to the point where no single human understands them, so I see the counterargument to my own points as well.

It would be fascinating to live in a time where the answer to this question would be knowable, but I don't have my hopes up :)
Is it an article that's relevant to technology or the general ethos of HN? My guess is no.
Which States Are in the Midwest?
> How can someone look at healthcare, with its absolutely absurd outcomes, and not understand that it is precisely because of government interference that nothing makes any sense?

Because they see how much of the mess is the markets fault. They also see how nearly every other first world country has a working system while spending less on healtchare. In some places its private non profits subsidized and regulated by the government, in some its the government providing insurance like in Canada, in some it's really socialistic and government employs most doctors like the NHS. In each case the system works much better then the US and the US system is rightly considered a bogeyman. I'm unaware of any place that works like you've described
Unfortunately, when it comes to leadership, the key word in that sentence is "believable" and not "lie". The vast majority of people are just waiting for someone to come and convince them that the reason they don't get what they want in life is because of "that outsider over there", and not their own shortcomings.

The cheats just figure this out and supply an item which is already in tremendous demand - absolution of responsibility.

Of course, over time the cheats will think they can get away with anything and go on to use this skill in all aspects of their life. And some get caught, but not enough for the cycle to stop repeating. :-)