skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you are capable of pattern matching. The point is that this is a distinct thing from intellectual ability, since we know having orders of magnitude less sensory input doesn't much seem to limit the ability to do high-level reasoning, and know some people don't use it as part of high-level reasoning.

This kind of pattern matching is also fairly evidently not all that difficult, since much simpler brains than ours can manage it, as can ML models with caveats (albeit caveats often misunderstood and exaggerated).
>On the other hand, exactly because of the high work ethic USA excels in many regards that these "well-being nations" do not.

Like what? From birth mortality to all kinds of quality of life indicators its well below most of these countries...
https://zenodo.org/record/584073#.XV8FKmko80M
That allows the alien to apply for asylum, but does not say anything about whether their act of entering the US was or not breaking the law.

We could entertain either or both of:

A. Entering the US is not breaking any laws, no matter the manner in which it is accomplished.

B. Applying for asylum grants an amnesty for the laws broken while entering the US.
You're in luck! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)

I enjoyed them.
Overstock CEO Resigns After Disclosing Romance with Russian Agent
I also notice that poster is really focused on only one of the two chinas.
think about this for a second: your competitor is asking to copy your work.

If I were you, I wouldn't assume good intentions especially considering you are just a start up and in a race for marketshare.

If it were up to me, I would set a date a year or two in the future and then open source it then, but only AFTER you have a large enough lead against your competitors in the market.

There is no reason that I can see to open source the secret sauce of your entire product.
When your gut bacteria talk, your brain listens and replies
> Assuming this isn't sarcasm, this is how the word prestige is defined - "denoting something that arouses widespread respect or admiration".

"Prestige" in terms of the scale of technical challenges that very few other companies can match at the moment. For many career-focused individuals that is the only thing that matters.
Some highly-shared images of the Amazon fires are old or are not of the Amazon
>Fining them? Paying out to users?

...Yes? With the caveat of an investigation and a ruling of negligence... by someone.
Prior work in this area: http://www.adsafe.org/. It is a dated library targeted at safe DOM manipulations. However, it was researched quite carefully (see the PDFs in the left column)
We are actively working on native compression in TimescaleDB, with really promising early results. More to come.
Well relatively short. Not necessarily nasty and brutish tho.

And, as I said, modern medicine might fix that.
"Better could be worse" resonates well with what I was thinking reading the article:

Ever since punk, and possibly longer, recorded music has a growing number of niches where lack of polish is a feature, not a bug. Liking stuff that others find unlikable makes the consumer feel special. All kinds of guitar noise, the absolute undanceability of IDM, cheesy pop music from an country far away. They all have their qualities, but if you infer from some people enthusiastically defying the superficial shortcomings of those styles that their redeeming qualities must be exceptionally high, you are missing the entire niche identity appeal mechanism: they are liked, in a large part, for being disliked by most others, nothing more. Try to move closer to mainstream (here: add better graphics) and you might alienate your acquired taste connoisseurs long before you start appealing to others.
> I was responding to someone else asking for a source on deportations being higher than Obama

Read again. Nobody asked that.
Ask HN: Are there any free programs for optics design?
Are there any free & open-source CAD software for optics (optical devices) design and simulation?

To be clear: need desktop (optionally, mobile) app with GUI.

On Quora same question still is unanswered.[0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Are-there-any-free-optics-simulation-programs
Not if actual experts get elected. With 30,000 reps you are going to get a wide variety of people elected many of who will know something about the world outside of politics.

If you include the staff there already are 30,000 reps, just that most of them are not elected. The current system is more like having 450 mini corporations running the place.
And unfortunately anytime politicians run on raising taxes it’s spun as a tax on the majority of people, whether true or not. But I disagree with using taxes to fund government. Money comes from the government as does the ownership of all property. Taxes should instead be used to disincentive bad behavior.
Going against the decluttering craze: the book hoarders who defy Marie Kondo
I believe median*population is a good value to optimise for since then killing everyone but one because counterproductive.
> “short-sighted and muddle-headed” in matters of public import.

vs

> Many business executives realized that wage and price controls would serve their business interest (no doubt by holding down the cost of labor and other inputs) and didn’t care whether they harmed the economy at large.

Those are the same thing. They were short sighted because price controls would serve their business interest in the short term.
The Many Possibilities of iMessage File Vulnerability
>Workers are benefiting from it, at least financially. The median income in the U.S. is more than 20% higher than in Finland, adjusted for cost of living

The difference is useless in the U.S. as its eaten away but healthcare, college costs, and several other kind of expenses...

Not to mention the quality of life, infrastructure, etc those extra 20% get you (even if they weren't eaten away) is way worse...
$100K is more like $93K after Kickstarter's cut. Further, I can't speak to the tax implications though I would assume they're nontrivial. And he has to pay himself enough to live for a year or more to get the game done and out the door.

This stuff is really raw and really hard at the margins and tolerances we are talking about here.
by default grid-tied solar won't keep the lights on when the power goes out (nothing to sync to).

Indeed, but some inverters have emergency outlets where they can supply power on a dedicated circuit as long as the panel output is enough. The amount of power is limited and it can't sustain any surges so it can't run e.g. motors, but having 1500W is tons better than having 0...

I've verified that my big-ass UPS that I use for the computer can run the refrigerator and be charged from this outlet.
I stumbled across the concept of Damerau-Levenshtein about two years ago. Applying it to a a large database of very messy consumer data in Pandas returned near miraculous results!
I'm not an economist, but I disagree. The purpose of a corporation is to make money. Money benefits the shareholders. If its purpose was to benefit the "stakeholders" then it would be a nonprofit. Stakeholder sounds good for public relations, but I don't see it truly occurring in practice.
Yes, the whole thing is obviously a joke.

My point is, don’t take it too seriously.
ECMO is an order of magnitude more complex than a temporary artificial heart. ECMO is typically used where multiple organs are not performing - and if that is happening long term you aren’t gonna live.
The comment was more of a joke. But the message behind it is something I do believe. Software at this point in time is kind of a joke. It's plagued by so many problems that people don't even blink anymore when there is software bug. The kind of attitude OP has is precisely the problem why the field is a joke.
The point is a technological solution isn’t viable when societies norms and laws allow it to go unpunished.

You’re barking up the wrong tree trying to engineer a solution before society changes laws that would hold the power brokers accountable.

Push aside your keyboard and get out there advocating for legal accountability.

At the same time, those of us around today have been leaked. I’ve been in tech since the 80s, data tapes went missing all the time. One breach in the 90s resulted in tapes showing up in Russia.

Change the laws. Cause there is no stopping it from a tech perspective.

You’re not needing re-sensitizing. You’re needing to think of the problem outside the context of technical solutions.
>In contrast, if USA is not performing better then why are most of the digital innovations of US origin? Why do like half of the world's tech billionaires live in Silicon Valley? While Finland has maybe 1?

Because there are a lot of people with servant mentality there to cater to their whims...
Sadly whatever my old website was, it was not popular enough to make any archives. I feel like it was my first name, or some combination of my first and last name.
How the Brain and Body Work Together to Create Thinking
Just use a password manager so you can have a different password for each site. It's not that hard.
I know they do. The IMF does not. Read the playbook that the Fed / Treasury are likely running [0]

Consists of:

1: Regulate the bond market to be very illiquid

2: Touch off deflation scare to herd the masses into USTs & sovereigns while CBs buy gold

3: Implement aggressive version of MMT

4: Watch bond bulls burn in real terms after you've lit their "Hotel California" on fire (MMT, monetize debt, devalue $)

MMT depends on recognizing when inflation runs hot and adjusting their methods. I doubt this will be as easy as they seem to assume. And moreover, they underestimate the effect on the currency. They do reference the carrying capacity of debt within the economy, but once that cat is out of the bag, faith in the $ will decline, and the political will to adjust spending and debt will not be there. But on balance, some form of this is probably inevitable. I just think $ and US Treasury holders won't be happy with the outcome.

These aren't my own ideas, I'll give a reference to financial analyst Luke Gromen (one of many) articulating this thesis [1] that I've come to agree with.

I think the only question is what is an actionable investment thesis. I say $ down, gold, Bitcoin up in 2, 5, 10 years. The rise in MMT as serious policy proposal is not an accident. It will give legitimacy to what would have been necessary anyways, and which was likely impossible politically to avoid given sluggish labor and wage growth after decades of equity bull run and growing inequality. Dollar is too strong, preventing domestic manufacturing from being viable and boosting capital surplus / trade deficit. Politically I think this has to change.

[0] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp1507.pdf

[1] https://twitter.com/LukeGromen
Common Lisp's iter or loop macros are special syntax for, among other things, building lists. I think maybe you should have said instead that it's nice when a language let's you add such special syntax in libraries. :)
Because Finland, while would appreciate having such large companies, doesn't want this kind of shitty social environment and inequality, so it doesn't encourage it. Besides, it does just as well (and ever better than the US for the large majority of its citizens) without having billionaires...
You can order trinitite from United Nuclear. I stuck some in an HPGe and was able to learn some interesting things:
https://www.hscott.net/analyzing-trinitite-a-radioactive-pie...
Right, but they serve primarily as metaphysical vessels for surveillance, secrecy, corruption, and evil. Given Palantir's deliberate opaqueness and elitism, I don't see why we should grant them a charitable metaphorical characterization of their defining symbol, especially since the aforementioned values are the opposite of the "good" values (lucidity, order, and individual sovereignty) which form the backbone of ethics in Tolkein's mythology and the (Western) culture LOTR was written in.
> Is "I don't want to see relevant ads" really the user's ultimate goal?

I don't think ads are appropriate even when they are relevant to the page I am reading or the search I am performing. When I want to buy something I need to see trusted reviews and discussions. Then I buy.

I don't trust self interested messages trying to make me spend on what THEY want to sell. I want to make sure I am making the most informed decision, and that requires searching for relevant forums, discussions or reviews.

On the other hand I want to keep irrelevant information from entering my brain. My brain is my own, I don't share it with ad companies. I see massive tracking of my interests perverse, and the danger of being influenced against my interests disgusting.

That's why I can't listen to radio or TV and always use ad blocking while online. I almost never browse on my phone where ad blocking is missing.

Maybe I am hypersensitive because I got to live for my first 14 years of my childhood under communism, where thought policing was the rule. I fundamentally distrust the state and any agency that wants to make me do something I didn't initiate on my own.
Yeah, I did know 3 of them[1] but the rest were completely new to me! Not that I’m an expert or anything, but I tend to enjoy reading about obscure C features. That sizeof can have side effects is... a bit crazy although the multiple compatible function declarations are horrifying.

[1] Array designators, Preprocessor is a functional language and a[b] is a syntactic sugar.
Pro-democracy campaigners targeted by China deny accusations of leading protests
The article points out that MoviePass had user and credit card data in plain text. A password manager wouldn't have helped with that.
The crazy thing is that the US is pricing its treasuries between Greece and Italy.

In other words, the US could pay much less for debt if it wanted to.

https://tradingeconomics.com/bonds

No other developed country is paying anything near that amount. That is drawing a large inflow of capital into long-term treasuries, which in my view, is the true cause for the recent inversion.
It's worse than MS Paint.
> “My push for democracy in China is not anti-China,” said Mr Ho. “I love the people, I love the country but I am strongly against totalitarianism, I am against the Communist dictatorship.”
>The poor do not get poorer. It's not a zero sum game. The size of the pie is constantly increasing in absolute terms.

Much slower than the pie increases. In fact slices (salaries) in the US have been almost stagnant since the 70s, while the "pie" got 10x the size...
Soft skills are what separates good leaders from truly influential ones
Although calling the preprocessor "functional" is being too pleasant. The C preprocessor was always a text substitution system, so macro as parameter is not that "obscure". Of course, I may have missed something subtle in the example.

It's also not clear how to use that preprocessor example.
sizeof actually doesn't evaluate its expression for side effects most of the time; only if the operand is a variable-length array is it evaluated.
c.f.: the Impossible Trinity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
What's funny is, despite all the criticism this is getting on Hacker News, this move is probably going to end up doing more to improve the online privacy of the average user than every ad blocker and tracking blocker has combined over the last decade or so.

Google, the world largest ad provider and browser vendor, is essentially proposing to tear down the web's current free-for-all cookie-based ad targeting and conversion tracking system, and replace it with a privacy-respecting one built on standardized APIs implemented by the user's browser. If they're even moderately successful at this, it's going to be a huge improvement to the current status quo of online advertising from a privacy perspective.

For those who haven't, read the Chromium blog post on this effort[1] and the associated early proposals[2]. They're a lot more concrete about what exactly this new vision entails.

And for those cynics who are skeptical of this effort just because of their preconceptions surrounding the company proposing it, consider this: Google has every reason to want to improve the reputation of online advertising. Better, more privacy-respecting ads mean less people blocking ads, which means more revenue for Google. Last year Chrome implemented a built-in ad blocker for a similar reason[3]. Personalized ad targeting doesn't have to mean compromises to user privacy, and Google intends to prove it.

[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/08/potential-uses-for-privacy...

[2]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

[3]: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/06/improving-advertising-on-w...
My thought was: Either the person is present and represented or there be no trial. This must not depend on whether presence is hard to achieve.

Revoking citizenship or at least leaving persons stateless is not allowed under UN-Charta afaik. Even then, would you blatantly kill (or better, murder) people? That's not rule of law, but rule of jungle. And as uncivilized as it gets.
As Iain Banks put it his The Culture universe, "money is a sign of poverty". We're hopefully still in the tricky beginning of a transition phase to a post-scarcity civilization. Just need that fusion reactor to start with...
Pivotal and VMware–Transforming How More of the World Builds Software
>> they have done nothing illegal

Crossing into the US illegally is by definition illegal. Misdemeanor, to be exact.
Dignity
Here is an obscure c feature:

int main()
{
int a = 8;
{
int a = 4;
/* a is only scoped to this block */
}
printf("%d", a); /* prints 8 */
}

It is also why C++ is not a strict superset of C
These are arguably identical statements. I think Milton Friedman's "Theory" was descriptive, not prescriptive: ultimately shareholders can sway a corporation, and thus the corporations' "duty" is "to" them. If public opinion moves in a way that makes it so a corporation would become unpopular and unprofitable by harming customers and "stakeholders", then they are effectively "harming" their shareholders, who would be the ones that then say "we should take these concerns into consideration".

This may seem perhaps a pedantic or semantic way of looking at it, but I do think it somewhat gets to the heart of many of Friedman's beliefs regarding incentive structures. By understanding that corporations are ultimately essentially accountable to their shareholders, you can develop a model where the shareholders goals are aligned with the customers'. Some would argue that this is always the case given enough time, others would argue that it isn't and you thus need additional laws to create the alignment of goals (if you go to jail for harming your customers, then your shareholders all of a sudden have the goal of not harming your customers). The main distinction I'm trying to make is that this is a description of where agency lies, vs. pretending corporations have some "decision" as to who they are responsible to. I promise you that if tomorrow they decided they're all actually accountable to me, the CEOs would get fired and that would reverse fairly quickly.

The most interesting place this comes up IMO is in the emergent behavior of collective shareholders. Many people may believe they would tell Phillip Morris to behave a certain way, and yet, without knowing it, they actually indirectly tell them the opposite. If their retirement plan unbeknownst to them is invested in Phillip Morris, and Phillip Morris starts making decisions that are good for customers but lower profits, and thus random people get angry at their retirement fund managers and those managers pull money out of Phillip Morris and into some other venture that is more profitable, without knowing it they have sent a clear signal that "Phillip Morris is ACTUALLY accountable to shareholders, and in particular the money they make". This is the default case without actively doing any extra work. It is absolutely the case that if enough education is employed that people start choosing to tell their retirement funds to not invest in Phillip Morris because they are profitably harming customers, then you can have the more socially desirable effect of forcing them to behave in a way that doesn't harm customers. But again, the goal is to understand that "steady state" of this relationship.
It is a hard-ish habit to start, and fully migrate into. But easy to maintain
No, the purpose of a corporation is to undertake the business of the corporation.

That can be to make money but it doesn't have to be.
You can make money without a corporation though. And a corporation adds a bunch of overhead and costs to "making money," so I can't agree that's the purpose of a corporation.
Nope, you're not... everyone seems to forget the decade of 2000-2010 when calculating any dates nowadays. It's like that old saying... Remember kids, 1990 was 28 years ago, not 18.
It's always sad when a good cause is perverted by the very people advocating that cause. Fake images, when the problem is very real and no fake images are needed, only serve to undermine the entire cause when found out.
Attorneys general and telecoms announce plan to tackle illegal robocalls
Not so sure it's due to "coffee addicts" so much as the fact that Starbucks gift cards became the perfect, generic, gift. How many times have you been on your way to X, needed to bring a gift, and just run into Walgreens?
Off topic but relevent do people know what money really is??

https://www.youandyourcash.com/

https://yayc.mykajabi.com/blog/the-finance-curse-professor-c...
It's (B), in that when applying for asylum things like illegal entry, including using fake documents or false testimony to gain entry, will not be held against you if your reason for doing so was to escape your persecution. See cases like Akinmade v. INS, Turcios v. INS, and Mamouzian v. Ashcroft
The dollar is, essentially, losing in an ugly contest. It has problems; everyone else seems to have worse ones.
Right...or it could also be a Social Benefit Corporation [1], to emphasize that it will make profit while focusing on a certain social benefit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
>Without that foundation, it becomes about all possible quantum events. Literally. Any moving particle that has a chance to decay may decay at any time, spawning a universe. And some of those spawned interactions will lead to other spawned interactions...

So? A priori there's nothing to judge this as strange...
> We use Google, Facebook, Youtube, Snapchat, Whatsapp, Apple - all American products.

You say we use them now. But some of these companies are barely past their teenage years. Nokia as a company is around 150 years old, they didnt win fast and they are still in business (but not in the phone business)

How long any of these current, not winners but ”winning it right now” last? Who knows.

They are still young, but they will all fail or ceases to exist eventually and hopefully dont leave cities bankrupt behind them.

Also, we all had instant messages, social networks (very small, geographically) etc. before these behemoths and now days globalism is getting some pushback around the globe, who knows how long and what markets they can later dominate.
Except that are plenty of examples where the state is a pro-social institution. Take Norway for example. Societies before states (i.e. prehistory) had much higher rates of homicides by all evidence collected.
I thought you couldn't maximize for more than one variable, and so if society wants other outcomes such as low pollution laws need to tie high fines to it.
A practical guide to Rust FFI without getting your knuckles bloody
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20755897
Signal doesn't have to be unique or non-uniform.

If a signal helps to remove all noise and there's only the signal left, does it become the new noise?