skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data would help get rid of the hand-waving and half-explanations of where the government money went. We would be able to point to data, and say "We gave you X million dollars, you only expanded your network by ~1%, where did the money go?". It provides a signal saying a closer look is warranted, such as an audit.
So, building a wall would have exactly zero impact on the influx of refugees, and I'm not sure why that isn't brought up more often. Border Patrol is still required to hear asylum claims and grant the person entry into the US if they pass a credible fear interview.
There's some bits of truth to this, but you're also missing some big issues.

> You don't go to sleep thinking about that big problem you still haven't solved.

Possibly, but maybe not. Just because you're working in the physical realm doesn't mean you're not working at all in the mental realm.

Additionally, it's easy to worry about injury. Sprain an ankle? Sitting at a computer, it's merely an inconvenience. In labor, you're not working (and not earning money to pay the rent) until you've recovered.

Also: most people I know in labor are living paycheck to paycheck. Financial stress is real. To combine these: many people I know don't have health insurance. It's really expensive when you have to buy it yourself. More stress.

> you know when to stop because your body will tell you to

Definitely sounds like someone who has never worked in labor. You work until the job is done. If 'your body tells you to stop' before the job is done, you've got a problem.

> Finally, you might be exhausted physically at the end of the day, but your mind is definitely not exhausted, which allows you to actually do something with it afterwards.

Flip it around: does this claim still work? Are office workers so physically fresh from sitting around all day carb-loading that they all leave at 5:00 and hit the gym or the track? Some do, most don't.

When I get home from a long day of physical work, even if I didn't have any mental issues to deal with that day, I don't exactly look forward to cracking open a technical manual.

> Another thing I'd say is that with farming (and other manual labor activities) there is very little that is not known beforehand.

Not true at all, for any of the work I've done. Just last week I had a day scheduled for 10 hours that ran 6 hours over, and that wasn't even the worst I've experienced. Why would unanticipated roadblocks appear for mental problems but not physical ones? That makes no sense to me.

Just look around at physical projects and you'll see they're just as bad as digital ones. The SR-99 tunnel was 3.5 years late after they started digging.
New Zealand and all the Nordic countries can fit into a suburb of Shanghai.

I think most westerners don't realize the magnitude of China and that managing/ruling/governing a country of 1.3B diverse citizens with thousands of a years of history is a larger challenge than managing a small country.
Most of the time, just `let thing`. Let (ha) type inference do its thing. Explicit type annotations are for when it fails.

`String` is roughly a Java `StringBuffer`, `&str` is roughly a C++ `string_view`.

Yes, you need to rethink how you write code. Rust relies a lot on the basics of typed functional programming. Reading a Haskell tutorial up until the M word would help a lot. But surely there's a lot of good guides written for Rust specifically.

tl;dr the core concept you're looking for is sum types, aka discriminated/tagged unions. If you're going "up" from C level abstraction, imagine a C union starting with an enum that indicates which value is there. That's essentially what it is at the memory level (modulo optimizations). But conceptually, you just have a "this OR that" type. Pattern matching is how you access values of that kind of type.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch06-01-defining-an-enum.html
The iCub project is rather well-known though.

Uses cable drive for actuation. Interesting stuff if you're mechanically inclined.
"Several US soldiers remember they and the South Korean special forces who accompanied them had sneaked heavy weapons into the area under sandbags on the floor of their trucks. Some South Koreans even strapped claymore mines to their chests and held the detonators in their hands, goading the North Koreans to attack."

The part about the claymore is so insane and just bad ass.
And if it takes one person all that time to build the roughly-equivalent engine, that person does not have time to design and build the game's assets, nor design and playtest the levels.

You do get out what you put in, but one person can only put in so much.
this fits in really well with https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... , thanks for sharing, I think it's very useful to get these alternate perspectives on the corporate grind
This is a terrible idea. I like the idea of paying money to not be spied on--I wish more companies adopted that model--but turning your opensource project into spyware and holding privacy ransom is just so evil. It's also incredibly naive and detached from reality. Most people are not going to be okay with this, so what will happen is that they will either fork you or create an alternative that respects your privacy rather than pay up.
OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hgSJiY...
Supporting a single aircraft, or a small flight of seven, is vastly different from the hundreds of aircraft engaged on the Tokyo firebombing raids:

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

Dresden required nearly 1,300 bombers.

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

The ultimately produced bombs were deliverable via B-29, as that aircraft was available. The carrier-launched Mitchell B25B was also available and had a payload capacity of 3,000 lb., though that is 1/3 the weight of Little Boy (the Hiroshima bomb). Whether or not a smaller package, or alternative delivery vehicle, could have been provided, I'm not sure. Though the challenge might have been surmountable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_B-25_Mitchell

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy

Casualties per mission over the European theatre were tremendous. I don't recall the specific per-mission losses, but overall crew survival over a 25 mission tour was on the order of 50%. Japan's defences were less effective, but again, looking at use of atomic weapons generally, the statistics are relevant, and during the planning of the Manhattan Project, use of the bomb against Germany was considered.

http://www.ww2f.com/threads/bomber-crew-survival-rates-durin...

There's also the possibility that smaller flights might escape detection (smaller radar target).
And ICE wasn't what many of us consider to be evil until recently, when Trump made it so.
Do you think the phone company made money on that one phone line out to a farm house? Hell no. The fees and pay schedules for all subscribers included a subsidy for making sure the entire county had phone service. How different is this situation from the former? A little more hardware? I'm not even sure that's true.
I may not have stated this well enough, but my original interest was sparked more by the fact that there is a variation of beliefs in the story, than neccesarily what the original motivations truly were in history, as I was wondering about the resulting implications in strategic game theory. MAD only works if all sides have the same standard for destruction in their beliefs and probability measure for the word assured. The US political culture has a general view that nukes end a war, if the political culture in other countries think that it is possible to develop strategies where you can get nuked and still continue with the war, then that is very important thing to be aware of.
Have you looked at city joggers? I see people running around with those all the time here. Kids love the speed :)
I will learn a lot things from your comments and will improve my project day by day :)
but none of these features are new, child seperation and children dying in ICE facilities happened under the Obama administration and it wasn't a big deal then. What changed?
I can’t remember where I first heard this but this is the first article I could find about being able to buy a negative amount of books in Amazon

https://www.businessinsider.com/when-amazon-launched-a-bug-a...
Your setup will marginally benefit from the addition of [Decentraleyes](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...), an add-on which prevents requests to CDNs by serving some content locally.
That seems... odd? They're fine with the domestic spying, pre-crime profiling based on flimsy evidence, but help with rounding up people for the concentration camps and people suddenly get cold feet.
Do you want to eat unregulated Chinese mystery meat? Not that I agree with the sentiment of 'holding the urban areas hostage' but the US and the world need the agricultural production of the central US
The article is about more than just his new game. All the criticism that he addresses is about his previous games, and even the title of the article is "Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap". I'm quite certain that the comment in the Avernum 3 caption was about changing the perspective from isometric.
Ask HN: Harnessing the collective abilities of the HN community
Have there ever been any attempts to harness the collective knowledge and skills of the HN community in to a single project for social good?

What would this look like? What might be some barriers to effective implementation of such a project?
Making up a counter-argument and presenting it as if that was my suggestion is unethical and poor debate practice.

I will not participate in a discussion with someone who does this. Good day.
>Is your idea of better actual cages and thin mattresses on the floor but with the cool president instead of higher quality conditions but the crass president?

False dichotomy, intellectual dishonesty, etc.

How about abolishing inhumane practices, period? How about not trying to placate victims to abuse by saying "oh it's not so bad, at least you have real beds"?
Somewhat off topic, but what's the closest thing to Avernum - a big, sprawly, kitchen sink RPG with a ton of backstory and fiddly combat - that I can play on my phone? (Not a tablet.)

Growing up Spiderweb games were some of my all time favorites and I'd love one on the go.
Treasury Targets Chinese Drug Kingpins Fueling America’s Deadly Opioid Crisis
And I quote

> A flock could be used as a user identifier. It may not have enough bits of information to individually identify someone, but in combination with other information (such as an IP address), it might.

...

> A flock might reveal sensitive information. As a first mitigation, the browser should remove sensitive categories from its data collection. But this does not mean sensitive information can’t be leaked. Some people are sensitive to categories that others are not, and there is no globally accepted notion of sensitive categories.

...

> This API democratizes access to some information about an individual’s general browsing history (and thus, general interests) to any site that opts into the header. This is in contrast to today’s world, in which cookies or other tracking techniques may be used to collate someone’s browsing activity across many sites.

> Sites that know a person’s PII (e.g., when people sign in using their email address) could record and reveal their flock. This means that information about an individual's interests may eventually become public. This is not ideal, but still better than today’s situation in which PII can be joined to exact browsing history obtained via third-party cookies.
What camera system can record 32-bit? As far as I knew industry standard currently tops out at 16?
Google Analytics does not fingerprint. Hits are identified with a user either by a first-party cookie (called the Client ID), or with a user-id value provided by the site owner. The site owner could provide their own fingerprinting value as a user-id, but the fingerprinting is not done by analytics itself.

(There are some cases where identifiers are pulled in from other systems, but none of them can be used as the basis for unifying users.)
What does the one have to do with the other???

Undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers are fleeing terrible conditions in their home countries and trying to make a better living for their family here.

They're not the same at all as the criminal gangs that smuggle in drugs via a large variety of methods.
"Mask is slipping" is a personal attack.
I highly recommend the book Dreamland for more on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidem...
with (new Proxy()) { eval() } blows my mind.
A quick search suggests that "many" firms pay severance, but I couldn't find hard numbers. In my experience it's not that unusual for people to give no notice or less than 2 weeks notice when they leave blue collar jobs like restaurant work.

https://businesstown.com/articles/should-you-pay-severance-w...
I’ve brought up my discomfort with Palantir to a recruiter a while ago and they said I’d be working with businesses trying to get set up with Palantir analytics systems. I asked if the role was distinct from one that might work with LEO and of course it’s not, so who knows how true that really is - I’m skeptical.
I'm quite curious to hear what these personal freedoms are you need to give away in the Nordic countries? Freedom to pay huge student debts maybe?
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I can see how people would feel that way. Can also understand how people on the other side are frustrated when a minority of the population has disproportionate power though. So as with most things it sounds like there's no easy/perfect solution.
Interesting why one nuclear meltdown costs 200x more than another, that is a disparity that would be worth digging into. Inflation accounts for 10x of that at most.

The nature of insurance is that th cost of it is amortized. One individual plant may create a hundred billion dollar disaster, but spreading this risk over hundreds or thousands of plants results in a liability rate that is not so large per plant.
I was just giving my perspective, not trying to draw any comparisons between my for-fun side projects, and game development for a living. That said, I don’t see any context were either investing time getting better at things you know are a weakness, or recognizing and avoiding them, would be considered bad advice. 25 years is a long time.
Vast majority of newly registered domains are malicious
Right, but no matter what your past is, you are still at $currentCompany, not $prevCompany, so in that most important of ways you are exactly the same as all these other people you are trying to flex on. Why would I care that you used to get paychecks from a more prestigious company if yours are signed by the same guy as me now?
Source? Every news article I've seen shows that the problem is far worse under Trump.
The guy is, assuming some normalcy, unhealthy. Maybe he's very young and still in the learning phase where you're eating up all your time learning, or maybe some physical/mental difference (Autism, etc). He's clearly never been burned out, and notice he budgets no time for social activities. Very unhealthy.
Then we are different. But while the advertisers are happy to oblige to your wishes, I don't have a chance that they would respect mine.
Agree 100%, but for "rigorous" courses in probability and statistics, that should be a prerequisite.
If all you need to do is deploy AI without training it or developing the algorithm/architecture, then yes, fast.ai is fine. The problem occurs when people conflate the knowledge needed for deployment with the knowledge needed for development.
Don't you find it a little crazy from a security perspective that you're using your machines for both personal and work purposes?
Oh right, I totally forgot about casting to Object! So much for "sort of sound" haha
We're happy to take pull requests for new databases, we have so far from Clickhouse, CrateDB, and SiriDB (and one pending). We've tried to make it relatively easy for new databases to hook in.

We usually implement ones that we hear about a lot from customers, and so far those haven't come up a ton. We'll keep it in mind though as we look to keep adding new ones.
I was talking more about the amount of work, than how hard it is (and it's hard, especially in summer). On the farm you start very early in the morning and there's always something that needs to be taken care of, practically until you go to bed. Now, it probably depends also on the size of the farm, number of people, type of crops and how good the land is, what animals do you keep, machines, etc. My experience is that there was very little free time of just doing nothing. Pace is slower, so you have a lot of small time-outs in between the chores, but very rarely you're like: "OK, we did everything for today, I'm off to binge watch Netflix for the rest of the day" (except in winters when days are shorter, then you get some tv time). That was my experience, at least.
MoviePass database exposes 161M records
You write "because of the Gold Rush".

Please do not exclude "and genocide of the Indigenous peoples of California". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Indian_Wars

Your hypothetical analogy to Quebec of two centuries ago fails because the white population of the US would likely not have killed off 90% of the French-speaking population. As it was, we know that the population influx of the Great Migration of Canada of 200 years ago didn't cause the Quebecois to disappear.

You write "In both cases, English-speaking, common-law government institutions were immediately established upon US annexation"

Right, but earlier you wrote "English-speaking US territory", not "English-speaking government institutions". I was objecting to your earlier characterization. NM was not primarily an English-speaking territory.

Now you add "common-law" to the mix. Why is that relevant? Louisiana has a civil-law legal system, not have a common-law one, so it isn't like common-law-only is an essential part of the "unified American culture" you mentioned.
Pardon my ignorance, but what if my JS was "for (;;) {}"? Can this handle heavy-CPU plugins? Maybe in a service/web worker? Part of the Realm API being a good use case for plugins I assume would include this kind of isolation but I admit to not having looked in detail.
This is a relevant thread for clearing out everything related to this title, I just post here as it's an answer to loads under this thread, and will be beneficial to everyone here.

Not affiliated by the way. Just a fan. Regardless:

https://old.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/ct08c7/welcome_...
Bye bye Google (2018)
Since the United States has one of the highest energy usage rates per capita, do you mean tackling overpopulation in the United States?
Arguably, the US doesn't quite have the moral high ground in Asia...
I'm hopeful for pijul :-)
Yes. I have used clustering on Levenshtein distance in this way to find misspellings in user-entered data fields, in order to canonicalize the data for more analysis.
Open-source spyware makes it on the Google Play Store
Ask HN: Where can I plant a tree?
With the Amazon fires, and generally the gloomy mood surrounding climate change, I want to do my part and plant some trees. But where? You can't just plant a tree on the first grassy knoll you come across. Or can you?

Looking globally. Any help would be amazing!
Inspiring Your Teams in Security
I do a three day week with a corresponding pay cut. Incidentally, this puts me in the same position, time-wise, as women returning from maternity leave, so the shorter hours don't mark me out particularly. My co-workers are fine with it, and if a surge is needed, I can work longer weeks and accrue Time Off In Lieu. There is no way that I would go back to a routine five day week.

I'm doing this to prep for the more significant transition of fully retiring, so that I don't hit the cliff edge of going from full-time to nothing. Stopping work is still going to be a bit of a shock, but I genuinely feel part-time working is helping me to prepare for inevitable retirement.
I know the science has been semi-debunked, but I can't help but feel that the idea that you start your day with a fixed number of attention units is real. Meetings use up a higher number of units, and, once gone, you don't get them back that day.
This article is a perfect example of why free speech is important for everyone. There’s a lot of talk about censoring people who have the wrong opinions, that communicating an wrong idea is harmful.

Communicating incorrect opinions about China allowed the author’s friends to correct him. And now he can share a unique perspective that they cannot because they were never on the wrong side of the issue.
Well, you do whatever you think is best, however for me I am never going to be so loyal to an employer that I will spend 20hr/week outside of work making up for the lack of relevant tech I am encountering at work. And personally I wouldn't recommend that.
One effect of this in the Nordic culture is that often a lot of these holidays are taken at the same time. People take 3 or 4 weeks off at once between the end of June and early August, especially in Norway. Productivity for the company effectively hits zero for 6 weeks whilst the Norwegians have their holiday, then the Swedish and Danish have their turn.

Although the few people that do work get a lot done due to having no meetings or interruptions. There were days in the summer where there were 3 of us in the office, out of 200 in the department. Bliss!
The idea would be to grapple with the question, not just accept someone's answer, even if you agree with it in the end.

Scott Aaronson has what is in my opinion so far the definitive take on the subject in https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf , section 4. It's not just a homunculus, it's an exponentially large one that can't fit into the universe as we know it. While that doesn't necessarily completely destroy the thought experiment, it does, I think, rather color the discussion, vs. the mental image of some small space we'd normally call a "room".
The entire post is going into depth on iframes and alternative solutions.
If his goal is 2050, how is he going to ensure that the deal is maintained for long enough to last until then? Maybe the Democrats happen to gain control of the House, Senate, and President in 2020, and he's capable of getting it passed as a result. Or maybe it's close enough that he gains a few votes from the Republicans with a bit of effort.

If Republicans gain control of the President at any point between 2024 and 2050, they will make every effort to ruin it as much as possible. And if they also get the House and Senate, they will dismantle the whole thing. Then what? Will it all be for nothing?

They've already dismantled Obamacare by removing the individual mandate. It's just a matter of time - Obamacare will inevitably collapse because the economics are unsustainable.

They'll do the same to Bernie's deal. Is there anything Bernie can do to stop this?
> Those worries you mention exist on both worlds equally. What if my startup fails?

This cannot be serious. I've worked at startups, and the answer is: there are 50 other companies within 10 blocks who are falling over themselves to hire programmers, especially one with the gumption to try a startup. I've never heard of anyone who worked at a tech startup who then had trouble finding other employment after it failed.

If your biggest "worry" at work is that you might not become a millionaire and may have to fall back on a $150K/yr job, I really don't know how to respond, because that is nothing at all like the worries faced by people working in labor.
The more kids the better. They tend to take care of each other with the right age combinations.

More kids with problems equals full time job though.

Somedays things just work out. Sometime they just don't.

You can't assume it will be easier but some days it will.
The author does! Much appreciated, will fix :)