skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a great idea as someone who should probably have called a few times. Silly Q though:

Are all numbers starting with 9 reserved or will we need some people to give up their numbers?
I don't think people are arguing that what Twitter is doing is legal or illegal, but whether it's morally good or bad, and whether it will promote a better society. These are understandably much less tangible problems.
At the very least it signals that your ranking of importance for a given issue may be lower than someone else's.
Wrong.

The primary cause of population growth now isn't the birth rate, but rather life expectancy. People are living 20+ years longer than before.

If you take your argument to its logical conclusion, the #1 most significant thing you can do to reduce climate change is suicide. And the most significant thing a nation can do is genocide.
I see the same problem you describe.
I got [0] as the Amazon's Choice
And here's my favorite review:
The hip resistance circle bands arrived exactly as expected! I love the colors and how heavy duty they are. When I first took them out of the package I compared them to another rubber band set that I already have but are not as heavy duty as these ones. As soon as just testing them, I could feel the resistance and was starting to work up a sweat.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Headphone-Adapter-Splitter-Earphone-C...
There are thugs, they see protests as a way to hide in the mass and commit crimes.

It's good for the government because they can then say that the protests were "violent".
yea, kinda of disappointing to see this get flagged. I already shared the Memo with my circle of friends. taking the discussion there.
I’m so confused about why you’d lift spiritual exercises from a tradition you’re so wary of that you compare the propagation of its metaphysics to the Jonestown massacre
> preventing HK getting the actual relevant help that will bring about the most practical solution

What is this help, and how is it being prevented?

> When in fact China is a fundamental component in the global economy and everybody's quality of life, such that we all implicitly support it by, for example, buying their cheap-labour subsidised goods.

How is that relevant?
Or, what if it worked in the other direction? What if a developer could buy an insurance policy from Google for a reasonable premium?

e.g.: "The Google Play Store will carry out a security review on your app and list it in the store on April 17. If that doesn't happen, this policy will pay XYZ developer $1,000,000"
Miami Beach and other Fl communities are in for some incrasingly costly flooding.
Nvidia really lucked out with VR, crypto and AI all happening at once and all just happening to need exactly what they make (surly they can’t have seen all that coming deliberately?)

I wonder if consumer VR would have faired better if gamers didn’t have to compete with miners and data centres for chips and had more reasonably priced cards a few years back.
WhatsApp doesn't make you buy $750 dongles and force itself onto the rest of your life in order to communicate with your friends.
What is this anxiety? Does it come from the fear of non-existence? I will be dead some day, and I surely don't want to spend my limited existence staring into the void. Gotta keep moving!
Twitter is not a democracy. They are a public for profit company first and foremost. They can censor, modify, change anything they want at any point in time. Expect that. Cash is king.
Exponential Growth Arithmetic, Population and Energy, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett
They are very different emotions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt_(emotion)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shame
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Are you using ActivityPub &c?

Even if it is somewhat bulky, these linked data standards are the way to ensure you are creating the most open, reusable data possible on the largest stage.
Ford isn't making the Focus, Fiesta or the Taurus for North America anymore. The only passenger vehicles people are buying are pickups, SUVs and crossovers.
One solution to ensuring that the order is preserved (that I've actually used in production Haskell code where this was a real risk) is to use a heterogeneous list instead of a Vec.

rzipWith :: (forall a. f a -> g a -> h a) -> Rec f as -> Rec g as -> Rec h as

With this type I don't think you'd be able to rearrange the elements, but you do have to pay the cost of using Const everywhere, as in you can specialize approximately my function as follows (handwavy, won't compile):

zipWith :: (a -> b -> c) -> Vec n a -> Vec n b -> Vec n c
zipWith f as bs = recToVec (rzipWith f' as' bs') where
as' = vecToRec (fmap Const as)
bs' = vecToRec (fmap Const bs)
f' (Const a) (Const b) = Const (f a b)

vecToRec :: Vec n (f a) -> Rec f (Replicate n a)
recToVec :: Rec (Const a) as -> Vec (Length as) a

Rec is defined in Vinyl: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/vinyl-0.11.0/docs/Data-V...
The police force is arguably dealing with the protesters as if they are the triads.

Which is deeply ironic in that the police force were the ones who are strongly suspected in collusion with the triads:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16CiwPChpr0

And now sometimes the protesters are fighting the triads instead.
Does this action look bad to you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdxXCTpHARQ&list=LLFo7VgFlg9...
It is 100% a Facebook product. It is FB. I 100% guarantee all data mined from your WhatsApp account is linked either to your FB account or your shadow FB account if you never signed up.

Sure maybe the "experience" hasn't changed from a UI standpoint but FB is weakening WhatsApp's end to end encryption and mining your conversations so under the hood the experience is radically different.

There is a reason the founders of WhatsApp quit FB post acquisition (literally leaving hundreds of millions of dollars behind) in disgust over the privacy abuses Facebook was proposing. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/whatsapp-co-founder-explains...
> Code which, for most people, does work.

That doesn't mean other stuff couldn't have been better. Here's the problem the systemd argument: it's motte-and-bailey. Systemd is a huge collection of tools, not just an init system: it's got resolved, journald, logind, tmpfiles, bootctl, networkd, and more. However, whenever it's criticized, proponents fall back on "but it's a great init system!" I agree that the unit files are better than rc scripts in many ways. However, there's so much other baggage that comes with systemd. Many people who use systemd in serious production systems have to replace many of these parts: journald -> rsyslogd, tmpfiles -> scripts, bootctl -> grub, networkd -> networkmangaer (or other), systemd-timesyncd -> chrony. Systemd does the "PID 1" stuff fine, but isn't so good at the other stuff. The project has gotten to big for its britches, so to speak: there are ~70 total systemd binaries.

They also didn't do a great job of modularity, and don't use dbus like they should (dbus isn't built to be used with an init system; use a socket already). Rather, they have every thing depending on another. Suddenly, everything must re-tool to work with systemd or stop working. It basically unilaterally declared itself the standard.

Other stuff:

* I hate binary logs

* Lennart, Lennart, give me back my cgroups

* Stop stealing my cgroups to track processes

* Security is not great, nor is code quality. This comes less from being inherently flawed and more from *sheer volume of code*, which is why you don't put that much code in PID 1. More attack surface, more potential bugs.

Overall, init ought not to be it's own problem of this scope. Just make a stinkin' init.

Oh, and Lennart Poettering is also a jerk. Not an "I'm brash" kind of jerk (like Linus can be), but an "I'm an insecure person; don't critique my code" kind of way. Also, he thinks he's smarter than every one.
>Elon is shipping actual vehicles. I mean, I think the GM and Waymo offerings look great too, but I can't buy one.

GM is shipping millions of cars annually, with the same FSD capability as any Tesla on the road. That is: zero FSD capability.
Also
3. Less people.
This is my experience with my belt drive bike too. It’s a neat novelty and it’s nice having one less chain to maintain. But I wouldn’t use it for rides over a few miles long and changing a flat is more involved.
Yes, the autonomous car will need to make a judgement whether to “limp” out of a situation it is unsure of, or whether to stay where it is. It’s weighing two risks against each other). This happens whether it’s 95 or 99.99% autonomous - it just happens with different frequency.

It could also be possible for the occupants of the car (if it has any!) to pick up a smartphone and guide the car to safety if needed. Part of the attraction of autonomous vehicles is that if can operate without occupants, however.
xfig also has one of the few implementations of x-splines (x means "cross" here, like "pedestrian xing", unrelated to the X window system). I find x-splines very nice and intuitive.

Here's a little x-spline implementation I made:

https://jordi.platinum.edu.pl/xsplines/splines.html
Yes, I’d recommend Headspace, to start. It makes it EASY, and really breaks down the technique in simple parts! I was arrogant before that and thought I don’t need a “guided” meditation, but I was wrong. I’ve also been using Waking up recently, though that definitely has a steper learning curve. Headspace is like a “elementary school” while waking up is “middle school” in terms of difficulty. I don’t think I would have been able to form a lasting habit had I started with Waking up. Headspace is so well curated. Today I use both- one session per day each.

I haven’t tried Calm and have no opinion it.
The kids could just be inclusive and switch to Telegram or WhatsApp or even Messenger. But the kids want to discriminate — humans, particularly Americans, thrive on excluding other people. the kids are just imitating the patterns they pick up from adults.
I just want to share that I'm finding the practice of Zen meditation in the context of its overall philosophy to be profoundly helpful. I've read a substantial number of books on the subject. Books are only useful as pointers for how to practice; knowledge alone is useless in Zen. You have to practice, period. But the best books are useful as pointers for how to practice. And if anyone here is interested in exploring Zen, the single book that I feel does the best job of giving you what you need to really practice is "Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice" by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi[1]. "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" [2] is also a wonderful book, and it's where I started. Its poetic manner of expression made me feel there was something there that I needed to explore. But the Uchiyama book just takes the cake for being very clear and down-to-earth, without watering down either the practice or the philosophy. After that it's helpful to read commentaries on writings by Dogen. And, ideally, sitting regularly with other folks in a Zen center is extremely helpful. Avoid overly simplistic beginner's Zen books. I can't recommend them because they seem to distort the essence in an attempt to make it seem as approachable as possible.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Opening-Hand-Thought-Foundations-Budd...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditatio...
I mean regardless..having dependent types in Haskell is going to come in handy in industry. It's obviously not the case that dependent types are strictly too costly to ever use.
> they had proved out the idea

You can just say "they had proven the idea". Adding "out" to verbs is very fashionable but unnecessary.
Come visit downtown San Francisco :D
That's a lazy, cynical argument. The core of conservatism is "People are awful". What if people aren't awful?
It's been refreshing moving the majority of my messaging to Telegram with a bit of Signal on the side. No worries about what platform people are using or that our data is being mined and sold to advertisers. Using iMessage is pretty much a fallback to people who are tech illiterate. The user experience on Telegram is so much better than the other options, and its privacy & security are good enough for my purposes.
More likely: YouTube will actually look for a way to achieve the same while offloading the costs to someone else. That should be very easy once two other parties are involved, as is the case with copyright stuff. I've never got a good argument against pushing both parties towards arbitration (selected by YT), with the looser picking up the tab.

Video classification by YT is a bit more tricky, since they themselves are one of the involved parties and thus any incentives put in place to improve the system would cost YT.
The creepy corridors of video games
In the US, homeowners will pay, as they should. Towns will pay, as they should, as they've had their collective heads in the sand.
Huh? 911 is the number for emergency services (police, fire and paramedics), not just the police. There's no relaying involved, 911 is who you're supposed to call to get the fire department.
It does sell your data and is not secure.

What $750 dongle? You can get an iPhone for like $300 these days.

Forces itself into your life? How? Apple's data security is better than literally every other smart phone provider and its OS is fundamentally less intrusive than Android.
At least for listening, a $100 software defined radio would be able to sample the whole band in one go without needing to follow the frequency hops.
>Except the government does even need to do that.

And perhaps it won't, if enough of the people that make it up read articles like this to ignore the very powerful automotive lobby
Credibility matters. If you have no credibility with your audience on the topic at hand, then your sound evidence will go unheard. It's not an issue of "should" it matter, but rather that it does matter. That's reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos#Rhetoric
The governments of the UK and the US would not countenance the idea of cities gaining independence.

In fact the US fought their bloodiest war over such issue...
Food for thought, something can be political without directly referencing domestic politics and political parties. Definition: "the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power."

Discussing structural inequality is inherently political because it is a discussion about power.

However, I disagree with parent. You cannot have a diverse workforce that numbers the thousands and expect there not to be a discussion about power structures and inequity. Imagine if you applied that lens of thinking to a company that employs both blacks and whites in the Jim Crow era-- who loses?
As was called out explicitly in Anna Wiener's article on HackerNews earlier this month, HNers have some distance to go in ability to discuss these topics.
The most significant difference is that WhatsApp is at least platform independent. iMessage simply is not an option on Android - it's limited to iPhone users only and it doesn't seem like Apple has any intention of changing that. WhatsApp, on the other hand, can be used by whoever wants to download it.

It's still vendor lock-in. Just not to the same extent.
A well known Googler once told me that if you aren't building you own silicon, you don't know security. This is one of my main reasons for being all in on GCloud.
> Nothing else even comes close.

According to this logic the real number one thing you could do is to kill yourself, but it fails for exactly the same reason.

You're just measuring the impact and not the cost. Doing one thing with a large impact and an even larger cost is worse than doing three things whose total impact is more and total cost is less than that of the one thing. Especially since in this context they stack -- if you buy an electric car and switch to electric heat and install solar panels on your roof, but so too do your spouse and three kids, that's going to have more impact than having two kids while you're all driving ICE cars and getting heat from fuel oil and electricity from coal, since the impact of each measure is multiplied by each of the five people in your family.

On top of that, you're not considering the economic and political implications. If there are fewer children then there will be fewer working people per retiree. That means a resource crunch, which is exactly the sort of thing that will prevent people from being able to afford sustainable alternatives that may cost a little bit more, and then you've doomed us all.
Yup, i have group that "Just use WhatsApp", and group that "Just use wechat", the thing is installing and switching app is easy, but with imesssage, you really have to switch phone, thats way more troublesome.
> However, doing that really changes the economics of the platform

Getting profit-loss data on Youtube is very difficult. If they are profitable, it can't be by a large amount.

So, if the plan is to have a LOT of real people just trying to monitor YT all day long it will really gut YT's economics, not just change it.

Destin of Smarter Every Day on YT went and talked to FB and their content mod team a few months back [0]. He talked with Rob Leathern of FB's Cyber Security Department. Rob mentiond that they now use ~30k real people to monitor FB. Soon thereafter, The Verge released a scoop on the horrific conditions these 30k people must endure [1] in that job.

YT would likely have to have a proportinate number of people in similar conditions as well, or likely scale up to make things less worse and then have to pay more people.

YT simply cannot possibly afford to have enough people moderate YT.

Likely, this version of YT will become something of a blip in history. All this investment will likely not pan out as the economics of video platforms like YT cannot work as they are today. The real question is what is the subscription amount that does make YT work the way we want it to work?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_NtO7SIrY Also, watch Destin's body language with Nate Gleischer (~14:30 mark). It's so strange. Something wierd happened in that interview with Nate.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderat...
> But the kids want to discriminate

Nah it's just easier to have it baked-in as native functionality.
Best is to experience it in person at Nikola Tesla museum in Belgrade, Serbia. It keeps his remains and many documents and ideas and attracts like-minded fans from around the world.
> The fact that India’s population is growing does not imply TFR is above replacement.

That's true: the UN measuring the TFR being above replacement is what implies that the TFR is above replacement.

You just ignored half the post you responded to, so I'll say it again: How high is the child mortality rate? 4.1% as of 2016[1]. Even using your low number (2.2) that you didn't cite, 2.2 * (1 - 0.041) = 2.109, still above replacement.

> Now you can go back up to my original post, and see what it was about

My original point was that the TFR for developed nations is fairly irrelevant given the overall world population is still growing. But we're well past the point where you can maintain any credibility based on your original post anyway, because you've made a bunch of erroneous claims since then. All the following are wrong statements quoted from you:

* Most of the world is already on sub-replacement. The only worth mentioning exception is Africa.

* India and USA are already on sub-replacement.

* India's TFR is reported 2.2-2.3 for 2018. That is, for a developing country with high child mortality, the replacement rate.

Since you are now selectively reading the facts, my posts, and even your own posts, to try to draw attention away from where you're wrong, I don't think you're engaging in good-faith debate any more, so I'm done.
This is just relaying the propaganda articles you can see all over the place on chinese social media. I think this is worth a downvote unless it's about analyzing propaganda itself.
"This sounds like it shouldn’t possibly work, but the protesters are too young to know that it can’t work, so it works."

Brilliant !
This.

Expecting everyone to comment on everything is how you get Twitter. People in general should be cautious about wading into contentious debates and more eager to just listen and hear what's what's being said.

Yes, this has a side effect of reducing the number of people who are actively challenging the status quo, and yes, there is an element of privilege in being able to say that. But artificially increasing the number of people in a debate can lead to fracturing and a lower quality of conversation. The negative side-effects outweigh the positives -- you risk drowning out the people that you're trying to support and adding misinformation that makes it easier to dismiss your side.

People also overestimate the amount of influence that places like Twitter have on policy. My strategy for a while now has been that when I see someone doing something hateful online, I try to avoid getting into an argument, and instead just donate $1-5 to a cause that opposes them. I think that's more helpful, and it comes with fewer negative side-effects. Obviously there's some privilege there as well; not everyone can afford to do that.

If that means I'm supporting structural racism... then :shrug:. I don't think telling people to be on 100% of the time is actually helping these movements in any appreciable way. We know from pretty much every other area that specialization and division of labor is more efficient and produces better results than having everyone try to do everything at once. It's not clear to me why social movements are different -- it seems completely obvious to me that specialization is necessary for progress.

Of course I'm willing to learn if there's a dimension to this I'm not seeing. My views on that have evolved in the past, and I expect they'll evolve in the future.
They didn't report the first half of the story: "police"(without any ID) suddenly charged into a mall filled with retreating protestors and common folks. One "police" poked the said protestor's eyes. The protestor instinctively bit back.
You are forced to buy apps from Apple if you want to use iMessage. Forced to use Apple's crappy voice software. Forced to use Apple's crappy TV box if you want to mirror your screen.
For anyone who's interested, I suggest the 1946 thriller 'The Killers' about an insurance agent who teams up with a cop to investigate a murder.
> If you could move an entire country from being car dependent to being largely car free, by pushing rapid urbanisation and transit and you put 20 car drivers onto a train or a bus, then we're starting to talk about measures that actually have some effect.

This isn't necessarily true. Depending on how you put "20 drivers onto a bus" in a dense rapid urbanization, you are often generating more CO2 than the drivers were previously. Building an entire nations worth of new train lines generates a lot of extra CO2. "Rapidly urbanizing" everyone generates a ton of extra CO2 (and will instantly price out nearly all of the residents you want to 'urbanize', something EVs never do)

In the US, most EV drivers with a renewable energy source are already emitting less CO2 per trip than the equivalent bus ride would emit (even after factoring in per-rider numbers for the bus). Depending on your area, the "largely car free" option is semi-regularly worse for the environment once an EV is factored in.

> Or if we put some significant money into a manhattan project for carbon capture, that at least gives us a statistical shot.

We already are? https://carbonengineering.com/ and https://www.climeworks.com/

That doesn't discount the work people are doing on EVs. Its still usually better to prevent emissions than to attempt to recapture them later.
Code is code and code is good.
Are they actually running iOS firmware in a web browser, or is this more like an advanced version of BrowserStack, where the firmware is running on a server or a physical device?