skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ain't gonna happen.

In reality, our cyberpunk overlords will fall over themselves to provide the best level of service to the highest paying autocratic government customers.
Seems to be missing the original virtual console, CHIP-8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
I'm not sure thats the right comparison.

Eletricians tend to work within a city, at a given job site. So they are fairly autonomous.

A walmart union would not. For example, look at United Auto Workers. How much control does the average UAW union member have over his life?

Compare to the average software engineer. How much control does he have over his working conditions and pay?
Does anyone know how Rust's implementation compares to C++2a's? The C++ people seem to have spent a lot of time creating an extremely generic framework for async/await wherein it is easy to change out how the scheduler works (I currently have a trivial work stack, but am going to be moving to something more akin to a deadline scheduler in the near future for a large codebase I am working with, which needs to be able to associate extra prioritization data into the task object, something that is reasonably simple to do with await_transform). I am also under the impression that existing implementation in LLVM already does some of these optimizations that Rust says they will get around to doing (as the C++ people also care a lot about zero-cost).
The Belt and Road initiative has been a debt trap for African nations, and countries are increasingly skeptical of signing on. This has been a recurring topic in the Economist for the last year at least.
So no sponsored content from the BBC or NPR then?
this might be childish wishful thinking, but I'd love to make something like that but with a physical console also. Share the software created between the physical console and the fantasy console, maybe allow alternate software evolutions (imagine an internet that diverges with something other than html).

It's a fun little daydream at least
The license fee is a mandatory tax on all television ownership, regardless of whether you watch the BBC or not, whose amount and rules are set entirely by the government. When thinking about how much financial independence the BBC has, you can more or less just think of it as government funding. Also, the BBC World Service (which broadcasts news to the rest of the world) is partially funded by direct government payments as a form of "soft power" influence and used to be even more dependent on direct government funding.
I completely understand that sentiment! I definitely have books that I keep because they are valuable to me both as a book and as the information they contain.

Textbooks, are by their nature, more 'conduits of information' than works of art. (TAOCP not withstanding). Also they get regularly re-issued in order to be resold to students so their knowledge is more widely dispersed than many books.

When I was at Google I visited the book scanning operation a couple of times and they had these machines that would photograph a page, dewarp, and some of them even turn the page (some required a person to turn the pages). While I would love to have such a capability, the only way I could justify it would be to have texts I needed to add to my data set that were not mine to destroy.

My work-around for this issue so far has been to find and buy a second copy of a book on the used market to digitize, best of both worlds for me in that situation.
This is incorrect. Marketing is not necessarily used to promote political change. There are plenty of examples of propaganda in for-proft and non-profit (yet non-state) media which is clearly propaganda and not marketing simultaneously.
One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available online (2017)
I only accept chocolate made from cacao pods transported by African Swallows.
Certainly your ingress/egress ratio affects what kind of peering deals you can get. Peering can be something of a wild west. If you can charge the other party, you do. Otherwise you don't.
Though Encarta evokes a bit more of Civ VI Sogno di Volare to me, but I share the sentiment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYN2P3E06s

Besides Encarta, the mid 90s where also the time where I was first able to buy satellite imagery on CR-ROM for all of Germany from my collected lunch money and years before Microsoft's TerraServer changed the world, which itself was long before Google Maps took over.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8q89q4/microsofts-terrase...
Because you know more then the editors at Jama? Without explaining why?
It's likely due to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Yi_Bar. Which organized a widely popular anti-protest campaign about 2 days ago, the online community had about 30 million members. Members proceeded to use VPN to spam anti-HK protest posts/comments on FB/instagram/twitter. This is consistent with the behavior of this community in the past (mass trolling, mostly apolitical but sometimes political, this community is pretty nationalist to begin with).
Serious question, isn't the license fee basically a defacto tax in the UK?
The internet is already not free for much of the world. It's depressing to type this but China successfully created a parallel version of the internet that is anything but free. That model got exported and now you see the same approach being taken across the world. The direction we seem to be heading in is one where the world's collective internet systems are effectively Balkanized.
Not the first use of this file extension:

https://filext.com/file-extension/SS
Running Envoy API Gateways on Kubernetes or Consul or Both
It would be very hard to tell if an AGI running 1000x slower than a brain were intelligent. Humans babies don’t talk for about a year, but nobody has tried firing up a putative slow AI and waiting for 1000 years.
Unless it's from a media outlet in which case we call it "agenda"
Many years ago, I flew HKG-PVG-NRT. When I was in the lounge at Shanghai I opened up my laptop to relax and peruse HN. I typed in the URL and ... nothing. "Stupid Linux WiFi, sigh," I thought to myself. After a bit more investigation, I realized that it was only HN that didn't work. "Oh yeah..." I realized.

Fortunately, HN was also blocked where I worked at the time, so I already had a proxy set up. That worked fine. How subversive of me!
They are all biased, but you have to start somewhere. The alternative is doing nothing.
«…an undervalued currency, by raising the cost of imports, acts as a kind of consumption tax for household and so reduces disposable household income. With lower disposable household income usually comes lower household consumption…the combination of lower consumption and higher production automatically causes a surge in the savings rate.

And of course, this also acts as a subsidy to consumption for other countries whose currencies can now purchase additional imports.»

The first paragraph is written by Michael Petteis. The second paragraph by the blog's author. That second paragraph is completely wrong. As Michael explains, an undervalued currency raises the cost of imports. Therefore it doesn't help "purchase additional imports".
Euh, no.

Infrastructure they can't afford ( maintenance because of bad quality roads) and using loans for paying Chinese workers benefits only China.

Most countries are seeing their debts rising as never before.

And don't forget undermining democracy in Europe by false investment promises to eastern countries and inviting Russia without announcement - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/c...

PS. Don't forget the Chinese racism vs Africans, even when they are working on their countries.

It's time to threat them like they do us, no access to any market would be fair.
Have you seen http://makenesgames.com/ ?
> Ijon Tichy

So, if you write it Lastname Firstname, do you (almost) get Tachyon?

(I suspect Lem of always pulling legs ...)
The view is being overhauled, slowly. I scantly believed myself the school presentation I did on Menwith Hill in 1999. My classmates' blank stares were removed by degrees from any understanding of the subject. Today children in school here are being taught to be suspicious of what they read on the internet, and not bully each other through the medium, yet said institution is not willing to relinquish their illusion of authority and demand that the kids think for themselves even though what remains is such a small step.

The TV series Max Headroom explored the subject over 30 years ago in quite some detail. It too was way ahead of its time. It's idea of TV viewership democracy is almost benign, compared to the reality of manufactured public opinion that we are waking up to.

Another easily accessible but rage-teasing production is a three-part documentary called The Century of The Self. I recommend it warmly.
Your CoreML model can run on Apple Neural Engine, but Apple doesn't expose that hardware's instruction set. This probably works similarly.
Highly recommend picking up a copy. It's the most rewarding game I have ever played.
What would you say the average windspeed for a laden African swallow might be?
Title note: should reflect 2015
I wish the article had dug into the motivations of the interns a little more deeply, as they seem to be the strangest part of story. I'm skeptical pure love of the Disney brand is the answer.

My WAG is that its a lot of kids who for whatever reason, don't want to live with their parents for the summer, but don't have the grades to get a normal paid summer internship away from home. So Disney basically provides the same sort of menial summer job they could get in their hometown, but they can live with a bunch of similarly aged kids instead of their parents, and get to say they spent their summer at an internship with a prestigious corporation, instead of flipping burgers at the local McDs.
Public media[0] is not State media[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_media
Nah, it's still called propaganda. The agenda is what is promoted, not the product nor technique of the promotion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_through_media
They have always had the right to remove whatever they want from the platforms that they own.

Whether or not you like that is obviously a different story.

The loud ones used to be the ones against censorship, now the loud ones are the ones for censorship. The pendulum swings again.
I did not know magic wormhole existed. I made a simple nodejs implementation of a very similar app. It used WebRTC so maybe it could be faster. Let me know if you want to try it out!
Storige ContainerIO docker storage solution GA
> Do you think they would write a report like this if they found the US government trying to push a pro-democracy narrative into China instead?

Yes, they would. No doubt about it.

> This puts them on the right side of US regulators where as exposing a US propaganda campaign, not so much.

Which regulator do you think would object to such a revelation?

> It's not about truth, or what's morally right, it's about money.

Yeah, that's often true, but if it's true that Hong Kongers living under a system where due process is respected is also what's good for "money", then "money" and what's morally right happen to be aligned this time.
> If a Democrat is elected in 2020, I don't foresee them being a mouthpiece for her.

I wouldn't be so certain about the Democrats putting up a woman against Trump.

1) A woman would be a prime target for utterly vile sexist campaigning - Trump himself has resorted to that in the past ("blood coming out of her wherever"), and his fan base is orders of magnitude worse. I believe that women will (unfortunately) be voted out in the primaries as voters will want to spare a candidate from this sort of treatment.

2) Centrist Democrats are going for people who voted Trump in '16 but maybe willing to switch (especially frustrated white older men in rural/"flyover" areas) - for that demographic, a "strong man" has it easier to gather support than a woman (or, for that matter, also male candidates with a harsher view on gun regulations, or supporting the right to abortion and LGBT equality).

If I were the Democrat leader, I'd put up a moderate middle-aged white male for the '20 election who (w/c)ould fix the most urgent mess resulting from the current Presidency, and building up a promising left-leaning, progressive woman candidate for 2024.
> Now imagine going from 5 to 10 people. The communication web of the two are different. 4 possible communication points vs 9.

Or if you measure communication needs by number of conversational pairs, it goes from 10 to 45!
>The company’s permanent-magnet tech requires no rare-earth metals.
No, Li Yi Bar is more of trolling group from self-organized netizens. They do share comfroming ideology as Chines government.

What's banned here is government organized activity.

If this is indeed from Li Yi Bar, then it should not be called government organized activity.
They're a bleeding cloud provider. I think they can temporarily scale up a bit.
I can't help but think that shadow-flagging these accounts would be more useful than blocking or deleting them.

Blocking/deletion looks like censorship, like someone is deliberately trying to hide something you're not supposed to know.

Leaving the content available, but flagging it as suspicious and linking to more information why its suspicious seems a lot more effective.
I was pretty bummed to hear about Squad doing their people dirty; the company seemed to consistently underpay and burn out their developers. Have they improved? (With cites?)
In 1993 I participated a contest with my girlfriend. We needed to find lots of factoids in literature, for instance we had a phrase from some obscure book and needed to find what book it belonged too; then a longer block of text from Proust, but which book? In fact the passage (about Venice, its tiled roofs) is present at two places in "la Recherche", but with a couple of words changed. Another thing to find was the mystery component of a mint julep as per Mark Twain.

We spent something like two weeks at the library, thumbing through hundreds of books (all of Mark Twain, all of Borges, all of Proust, and some others). All of this would be a 20 minutes search nowadays.
It is not so much about FB/TWTR/GOOG, etc. supporting freedom of speech.

It is about evading being subject to responsibility for the content on their site -- they want to be regulated as 'nuetral' content carriers, not editors.
Interestingly enough the US is considered to be in a rather bad spot with anti-submarine warfare, especially non-nuclear submarines. Carrier groups have limited ability to counter advanced diesel-electric and air independent propulsion submarines. It's especially bad in littoral areas. The US Navy has the majority of their ships used up in BMD, drug enforcement, etc. etc.. There is very little ASW training done. There are no S-3 Viking ASW resources, carrier/ship based helicopters are now "multi-purpose", P-3 Orion patrols are well... land surveillance & communication relays, T-AGOS is heavily reduced, and SONUS is a bust. The US Navy is severely weakened against submarines and sea mines since the end of the cold war.
How do fluoride levels alone prove anything? Also fluoride levels of (or in) what? You make vague claims that you think are to support some point that is not clear.
This is a very one-sided view on the media and political environment leading up to the Iraq war, at least from my perspective in the UK. Much of the mainstream media were very much against the prospect of the war from the beginning. The claims of WMD were widely disbelieved or minimised by large parts of the media. It triggered one of the largest demonstrations/marches in recent years.

It was one of, if not THE most divisive and unpopular decision(s) the Blair government made, even at the time.
The last point is the one that really rings out to me as an Info/IT Security person.

While these incentives aren't aligned it is unlikely there will be a significant improvement in overall IT Security practice.

It's been proven time and again that the optimal approach for organizations is "move fast" and worry about security later.

Of course the problem from a societal standpoint is that there are externalities there, so the entities suffering from the consequences of this mismatch of incentives aren't the same as the entities making the money out of it.
I don't know why you would suggest I was pretending that? The rest of your comment seems like an irrelevant rebuttal to something I didn't even suggest, except that you seem to not know what "commons-based" means, so you falsely assert that Wikipedia isn't commons-based [peer production product].

Capitalism is a system of production in which productive work is carried out by employees using means of production, such as factories, that are the private property of a capitalist that employs them, and that capitalist is the owner of the work product. Linux is largely produced this way, although originally it was produced by commons-based peer production, and so, for that matter, is the Internet Archive; Wikipedia and LAPACK largely are not. The distinction doesn't have anything to do with non-profit corporations; whether the capitalist is a non-profit corporation or a private citizen doesn't really affect the system of production much.

"Non-capitalist" doesn't mean "anti-capitalist". Capitalism wasn't anti-feudalism either! I mean, except in the sense that in Europe the nascent capitalist cities often gained independence from the feudal system, and eventually capitalist power structures became more influential than feudal ones and displaced them after a few centuries, but in that sense everything is anti-everything-else.

Very few people are less anti-capitalist than Jimmy Wales.
The BBC is financially controlled by the state. The Telegraph has nothing to do with the state, however.
> I'd go so far as to say that it was coordinated in order to demonstrate the capability to self-moderate ahead of the 2020 US elections.

I don't understand how you go from "Guessing from Twitter tipping off Facebook" to "Probably flexing their self-moderating muscles ahead of US elections".
Seems promising. The strict SFW policies might hit the wall against lets say real outdoor live streaming where swearing is heard. Or if its for people streaming protests (HK) where there is police violence and people hurt. Hopefully the definition of Safe for Work might also include "...or where such content might reasonably be likely to be seen on a mainstream media's news show".
Well, a Chinese bot told him he's not gullible, so he has that going for him.
60 Days of Flutter: Day 6–7: Implementing a Slideable Widget Using Bottomsheet
Hackers can figure out passwords just from the sound of typing
What does this point have to do with anything? Like what are you trying to say, that collective bargaining is somehow bad because...management could lose more money on a project?

If you can't handle the risk, don't start the company. If your business depends on you convincing people to take less pay, might not be a great company.
just pay hourly, it scales perfectly..
Previous conversations about this same announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20660403
War?
Pretty much same experience but in Argentina. I got Encarta 97 or 98 for 5 pesos, 5 dollars at that time, when I was 11 years old. Later I read about a Visual Basic course in a newspaper so I figured out that the way to build software was using this Visual Basic software. So I went to the same place where I bought Encarta and got Visual Basic 5, which was my first programming language.
Out of those 100s of Developers that I know, none is interested in learning LISP. Not even as a hobby. Experienced Developers have already chosen their tools and they focus on improving on those skills.
It's not necessarily fake, just very selective. When all you hear/see are videos of molotov cocktail, beating the reporter up for having a pro-police tshirt, and british/american flag waving (All of which did happen). You'll have a pretty different image of the protestors.

I have to say this selection bias exist on the other end as well, perhaps not as blatant as mainland, where the girl gotten her eye shot or the triad beating people wasn't shown at all.
I had a complete set of the Joy of Knowledge Encyclopedia when I was a kid in the early 80s. They'd send you a magazine-sized section each week and you'd gradually build up to a full set which you could bind yourself in the provided hardback covers.

I think subscribing to that was one of the best things my parents ever did for my education. Over the course of my youth I devoured it several times and credit it to my earliest exposure to countless subjects that they'd never touch at school.

One of the most notable things about The Joy of Knowledge was the extraordinary explanatory art. One day I will have to find my books and make some scans.
I think there is a large amount of idealization of What It Used To Be Like in this article, an in a lot of contemporary thinking.

I recommend reading "Breaking Clean" by Judy Blunt. Therein, she talks about her trek from growing up on a family farm, raising kids, then escaping to a university town. The problem for her boys was that in the city, they were just boys, but on the farm, they were men-in-training.
Not only 2015, but the qz.com article is blogspam compared to the original investigation: http://dallasfood.org/2015/12/mast-brothers-what-lies-behind...

The Mast Bros situation has been discussed to death, yawn.
Seriously!!! I literally have told so many people this and they just think I'm insane but I love this game!!
I'd personally not apply if you were trying to offer less than half. I think bean counting at that point is a little excessive, especially given how much more productive your part time hours should be on average. In the past when I've contracted and had more or less part time arrangements, I've always felt far more capable, productive, and engaged. Definitely offer half of the compensation.
While this is not going to be a popular opinion, you have to give credit where credit is due to Trump. Without his campaign to crack down on Chinese practices (including Huawei) and bringing massive attention to China via the active trade war and tariffs I doubt social media such as FB and Twitter would in-acting these policies. He brought political pressure onto China where there was little to none by previous administrations.
Might want to read the article more carefully.

"This policy will not apply to taxpayer-funded entities, including independent public broadcasters"
He's mapping his working time onto the pie chart. For example, if he works 9am-5pm, during that time he follows the pie chart's structure for that block of time.
various places on the net.. some sites are crackpot but others seem ok... I will let you decide which category this falls in

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=210&tid=38
When I lived in Europe, I always drank bottled mineral water.
Interesting, could you link to that and/or explain it, against whom is it sex discrimination.

I know that in the UK the "wage gap" favours women in part-time work according to the National Statistics Office .
It is inevitable that social media platforms will get into the business of shaping discourse. The fact that various platforms are controlled by private parties is a little nerve-racking. We can only hope for judicious use of their power to best serve the public interest.
Yes. I found it extremely challenging while managing to remain fun and educational.
Thank you! Censored.

The original article does indeed suggest that people like me are using Encarta today rather than the things I suggested. I assume Scott is correct about that, and I wanted to offer them some better alternatives than the profoundly shitty proprietary experience offered by Encarta. I mean, what does Encarta have to say about principal component analysis or anal sex?