skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's both true-and-not-true, depending on what level you zoom in. Generalizing very heavily (I have some personal experience in Chinese culture, but virtually none with Russian culture, and basically consider myself American despite partial ethnic heritage)...

I think that Chinese corruption is very different in character from Russian corruption. Russian corruption stems from a sort of hyper-individualism and a belief that you need to take what you can get while you can get it, because somebody else will if you don't. Chinese corruption, however, often starts from the belief that the family is the fundamental unit of social organization, over the self, country, and God. Nepotism ("filial piety") is deeply ingrained in Chinese culture, and isn't really considered a bad thing. Beyond the family, there's the web of social relationships and obligations ("guanxi") through which business is conducted, but Chinese people usually don't buy appeals to higher organizing principles like patriotism or salvation. There's an odd relationship to the concept of nationhood, as well: here, you're American if you have a piece of paper proving American citizenship, while for a Chinese person you are Chinese if you are ethnically Chinese, regardless of where you're located or which passport you carry. (This is a source of occasional tension for Chinese-Americans: when interacting with another Chinese person, their immediate assumption is that you are Chinese too - "You're Chinese, why don't you X?" - while most of us are more likely to say "Actually, I'm American.")

One thing that both China and Russia share is a weak rule of law, though. Laws are routinely bent in both of these countries if it suits the interest of a powerful person or furthers a relationship. America is headed in the wrong direction in this regard - and IMHO the words of the current president don't help here - but there's still a default assumption here that the law is the law, and that we're all equal before it. This is a fiction, but it's a powerful fiction that has led to a lot of prosperity for America, and would probably lead to much suffering if people stopped believing it.
This is one of those American things that just doesn't make sense at all from an European perspective.
If a salesmen is telling you a mpg number it's imperial gallons because then the number is smaller and it sounds better.
The claim is apparently that superhuman, savant-level intelligence could be confined to a domain of knowledge and not risk becoming generalized intelligence. I'm skeptical.

If you're "only" superintelligent at language translation, or writing movies, or chess, I suspect as we ascend the tiers of increasingly super superingelligences, there's a depth of informational, structural understanding that avails itself of abstract meta principles, and meta-meta principles, and meta-meta-meta principles, and on to infinity. And that at a sufficiently high level of abstraction, something about be brilliant at translating the subtle irony of a Shakespearian sonnet into a dead tribal language is also at play in weighing strategic options in an incredibly complicated game of chess, is also at play in reading culture and finding out what kind of movie will be most successful at the box-office.

I think any domain-specific intelligence, as it approximates "perfect", would independently discover and solve similar high level questions and be transferable to other domains, the way there are general principles of manufacturing that apply to multiple products. And from a sufficiently advanced perspective, "solving" chess and "solving" Shakespearan sonnet translation would look as similar to each other and panting a car red vs painting a car blue.
For anyone interested in some historical fiction about Alexander the Great’s conquests is absolutely recommend The Virtues Of War by Steven Pressfield.

Pressfields books are some f my favorite: as historically accurate as possible with a great story to keep you engaged. Gates of Fire, by him, would be another recommended period piece.
> vein of Western liberal democracy with enlightenment values

I would say that ship has sailed with Trump
Some people are sadists who like to mock other people, in this case the customers. Ratners customers were mostly poorish people who wanted to dress up a bit or purchase gifts for someone they cared about. Dismissing the (relatively minor) luxury good as cheap crap mocked the intentions and emotions of the people buying it.
> Changing the user interface is more challenging than changing the name. We wonder if it is all a little too much to take on?

How many contributors does this fork have?
I worked at the Department of Justice ~15 years ago. This is the exact reason I got out. My boss who had been in the field and around the alphabet soup of names for almost 30 years said:

"No one will ever know all the times we've done our job well.. but every mistake will get us f*d up the ass."
> And TBH I'm starting to be more concerned by the fact that fno-omit-null-pointer-checks did not suppress that codegen bug than by its existence in the first place...

-fno-omit-null-pointer-checks doesn't suppress it because it has nothing to do with it. -fno-omit-null-pointer-checks means "don't infer from the presence of *x that x is non-NULL." In this case, the non-nullity of x was inferred directly from the check "if (x != NULL)".
My wife would have broken off our relationship if I'd even whispered the suggestion of buying her a diamond, I think.
> With nearly a year elapsed since the warrant was served, that suggests this particular reverse location search may not have been as fruitful as investigators hoped.

They did not find anything. But God help you if you have a prior record and happen to be black or match the description of the assailants... and just happened to be around the bank at the time.
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Clearly, it's a religious temple devoted to ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices to our gods.
Oops I somehow read your comment as advocating for continued fossil fuel for electricity generation. Yes if the choice is between solar or nuclear, then yes nuclear is definately the better option.

We are going for an air source heat pump. A ground source heat pump will need bore holes to be drilled as there isn't enough space for ground loops, and the extra cost of that doesn't offset the decreased efficiency of the air source heat pump over the life of the system. The heat pump will primarily run when PV is generating more power than the rest of the house is consuming, and store heated water in a tank for consumption at night.

We are building to Passive House standards. Space heating from the heat pump will use a maximum 1000kWh of electriciy per year (worst case assuming we get a long stretch of cold days below the operating temperature of the heat pump, and it has to fall back to resistance heating), while the PV should output around 9000kWh. We'll also have a wood stove as backup, but that will generate too much heat for primary heating.

Net-zero isn't perfect as you say, but for the few winter months when we probably won't generate enough electricity to cover heating consumption I don't think it's that bad. Electricity generation in my country has an average of 300g CO2/kWh.

I'd prefer not to use gas as our country imports gas from Russia, and I'd rather not depend on them. Plus gas leakage has a massive impact on ghg.

We are in the late planning stages, so if you have any suggestions of further reading material please let me know :-)
> light on coding practice

I did for fun two MIT graduate students labs (operating systems, and distributed system) that complement the lectures.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/overview.html
http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2015/

I found them very challenging and interesting. It took me a few weeks to complete them, and I didn't even do the "project" part which was more open-ended.
One thing, most of all: a dark pattern or a habit creating way to help me avoid saving links (because they might be useful) and never ever read/open them
Google really needs to release a dedicated "Crime Mode" so we don't need to keep using this airplane mode workaround.
To anyone else similarly confused, this is NOT the same Gerald Ratner for whom the gym at UChicago is named.
Can't Feds ask mobile phone servers providers(there are only couple of them in US) for phones registered at specific base station? I think police have been doing this for ages.
I don't like static typing, as a personal preference. I like the rapid prototyping of dynamic typing, and a type system often times gets in the way of that.
> I will need to make sure I don't plan on finding job or gig opportunities at the types of companies that are going require the use of TypeScript.

If you're really dynamic, the type of company won't matter, right :)
My original point is that real-world programs are complex data structures where any particular object may need to be referenced from multiple containers. At which point you're right back to square one--which container is the true owner responsible for maintaining all invariants and releasing the object when it's dead? Rust memory management does not and cannot automatically "free" resources with such references; you're still doing this manually. Indeed, this is irreducible complexity; it's why programming is hard, even in GC'd languages.

The indexing scheme is a hack to subvert Rust's typing system. It's even admitted in the talk you mentioned,

> One more criticism of this style is that you might say that using indexes instead of pointers is “safe” in the strict sense, but possibly only technically, you’re trading UB and potential crashes with pointers for “random but unspecified” behavior if you access the wrong or outdated index, and potentially panics. You’d be right, btw!

The generational indexing discussed therein is just a runtime invariant assertion, just as-if you asserted on internal pointer members being NULL at destruction (which implies but doesn't guarantee that the node has been properly unlinked).

This is all just more memory games.[1] In some respects they may be marginally safer, but they're also marginally more complicated. And that's friction. And even if on the whole it makes programs safer, the cost exists. ATS is an even safer language than Rust. If we're gonna pretend that the friction doesn't matter why wouldn't we just pretend we should all use ATS?

I'm not arguing that C or C++ is better than Rust. It just bugs me the way people rationalize some of the difficulty with arguments about why it makes things easier. Yeah, single-ownership does make things easier. Good C programs and good programmers generally learn to strive for single ownership semantics. Without an argument, Rust's enforcement of this invariant makes programs safer. But arguing that the enforcement of the invariant makes it easier to program? Come on! I know single-ownership is safer and simpler, which means when I choose to have a more complex ownership pattern it's for a darned good reason. Having to jump through hoops to accomplish it, even if it's "good" for me, is still jumping through hoops.

[1] And game makers love memory hacks; it's why their apps crash all the time, and why the thought of handling allocation failure would never cross their minds. To understand why people stopped using arenas and ad hoc invariant assertions for systems programming, see Heartbleed.
It's a personal preference. Being able to make, fix, and guard against (with testing) type errors is a freedom that I've enjoyed with ruby, python, lisp (scheme/racket), scheme, and JavaScript.
Stripe is a business.

The goal of a business is profit, because without it, it dies.

Are you able to bring profit, moreso than other candidates? You're hired.

That's it, nobody gives a shit about depression and if some company decides on arbitrary qualities that are unrelated to profit in regards to hiring, it'll be beaten by a company that focuses on profits.

Depression, feelings and values are great topics to be discussed in romance novels, tv shows, dinner parties and other leisurely activities that you may engage in, after you bring value to society you're a part of, or else society will cease to exist.
My data in the UK is nearly 20 years out of date, but historically most American car manufacturers that sold cars in the UK made market specific models. Ford is a great example of this.

Even if you sell the same model, you are already making significant changes for the driver side being mirrored...

I think the difference in the gallon size has often been used, wittingly or otherwise, to exaggerate the poor gas mileage of American vehicles (the "yank tank" trope in British culture)
That's super duper grey area, which is why GPLv3 went out of it's way to have an explicit patent grant.
Pretty sure porting SQL Server to Linux was more than marketing.
It's easier if the pump sells in liters, which is not true in the US.

You have 20 gallons, and 20MPG gets you 400 miles, that is an easy calculation. All you have to do is to throw away all the metric unit.
> This necessarily makes setting up inter-operation between banks more complicated.

Technically this is true but the clearing houses were set up a long time ago to solve this problem and they work fine
The "cedar" in the Hill Country is actually the Ashe Juniper tree and it thrives in the area. It is drought tolerant in an area of frequent and prolonged drought and the hungry deer population won't touch the saplings while they obliterate the competing saplings from most other tree species that they are able to get to.

My parents live in the Hill Country and when I go to visit, I end up spending some time in the back of the property, barefoot with a brush hand saw, taking down large bottom branches from the Junipers. I do this for recreation and also to divert the growing energy of the tree upwards as it matures.

The aroma from the cut branches is quite pleasing and the systematic work of turning the branches into posts is satisfying. Usually, the long bottom branches are cut first, so much of the time, the work is in the shade of the upper branches, which can also transpire significantly on a hot day, with a prominent cooling effect. I can understand how getting paid for doing this might be an attractive life.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7ly5gi/new...
Disclaimer: I'm currently interning at Microsoft.

Y'know, I can't think of many companies that have as much support for open source programming language development. Between Roslyn, TypeScript, what's left of F#, the Language Server Protocol, Chakra, V8, etc., Microsoft has a veritable powerhouse of compilers and PL development. Google has Go and Dart, but as far as I can tell, the development process is contained in Google mailing lists. Apple has Swift and LLVM and Mozilla has Rust, but each of those footprints isn't as large as the combo of .NET and TypeScript.

I mean, ffs, Richard Stallman is coming to speak at Microsoft. Well, Microsoft Research. But still. Stallman. That's insane.
Even if the mainstream alternatives are also bad, two wrongs don't make a right.
I haven't spun up anything in Azure for quite a while. Does anybody know if their default images use anything exFAT formatted? Doesn't UEFI/EFI binaries usually sit on exFAT?
Yes, but humans have natural limits in time and attention. This is fast turnaround.
I also once thought this. But I'm not sure anymore. They're creating their own Rohingyas by declaring 4m people non-citizens [1]. One state was dissolved and remains under curfew under a constitutional sleight-of-hand (the federally appointed governor assented for the people to dissolve the state).

The Supreme Court doesn't appear to have the will to stand up to the govt. In fact, it actively encouraged the disenfranchisement of citizens.

The press has been largely brought in line. [3]

India may be well on the path to becoming a Turkey.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/a-crackdow...
[2] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/08/10/modis-revocatio...
[3] https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/08/22/when-indias-govern...
To be fair, an sqlite DB, assuming reasonable SQL practices, has a better chance of not getting corrupted than nearly any other type of mail storage you could find.

Sqlite also supports online backups from command line.
Why exactly is it an expensive task? Where's the bottleneck? I worked on this problem before, so curious how it's handled (or not) at AWS.
Hrm: A third of a cent?

$ units
Currency exchange rates from FloatRates (USD base) on 2019-05-31
3460 units, 109 prefixes, 109 nonlinear units

You have: 2/544 kcal
You want: 0.01/kcal
* 0.36764706
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I've been 100% Office 365 web apps on Linux Chromium since around February. So far, I haven't hit a situation that has required spinning up my Windows 10 VM.
I am starting to wonder if the preference static vs dynamic is some kind of character trait like introvert vs extrovert. I personally prefer static typing and use it to my advantage during development but I know very smart people who hate static typing and think it impedes them. Both sides have valid arguments but seem to prioritize things differently.

However I think it’s important to have used both for a while so you can make a good decision what you prefer.
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It's not a different topic at all. If you don't design it in from the start, it is very hard to get right later.
"When Gerald Ratner took the stage before 6k high-powered businesspeople"

The phrase "high-powered" has never sat right with me. It sounds so hand-wavey.
> algebraic geometry

Then there's always geometric algebra!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hestenes
Nice to see the TypeScript Playground (https://typescript-play.js.org) getting some love.

Makes it easier to see what all options are available in TSC.
Too bad it seems that 99% of the quotes people are getting are higher than their current insurance. It's a great idea but the prices need to reflect the savings that are being touted on the announcement.
thanks for this interesting perspective, I haven’t really thought about ads from this point of view before.

However, does the desire of advertisement buyers to convert justify the profiling and tracking of peoples behaviors to the extent that it is happening?

You don’t seem to provide any reasonable justification beyond that not only big but also small companies profit from this state of affairs.

This doesn’t make the power and behavior of google any less creepy or undesirable.
I believe the Australian & UK systems work a bit like this, too. Perhaps it's nominally a loan, but collected like income tax, with a threshold on how much you must earn to pay at all.

However I don't think either is very flexible about different places charging very different fees, or different implied interest rates.
Probably doesn't know where the term 'liberal' comes from. In America it's fairly common to have alternate meanings attached to these kinds of words.
But the proof that it's non null is the deref in main?

I'm not sure I understand why people say this has nothing to do with the UB already derefed therefore not null optimization. How else is the compiler inferring the pointer could be not null?
When David Shepherd (brand director for Topman) said Topman customers only wore a suit for their first interview or their first court appearance in 2001, I was sure it would be the end of them.

Didn't seem to bother people though. Maybe the "hooligans or whatever" who shop there don't pay any attention to the news?
This you will need to explain. :o
What kind of griefs static typing is giving you?
Even if you don't opt in to full TypeScript, please do remember that the same engine powering the TypeScript language is also what powers IDE support and completions for JS in vscode and VS, so even if you're not using TypeScript _the language_, you're potentially still using TypeScript, _the static analysis tool_. Even without opting in to full type safety, having those tools available can still be a huge quality of life improvement.
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Censorship of dissenting opinions should hopefully be abhorrent to most people here on HN. It goes against the hacker ideals.
The history of railroads in North America is a lot dirtier than what you describe.

A lot of railroads did, in fact, get their trackway for free. They didn't get it by eminent domain, but by land grant, as the first [white] owner of record. They got a checkerboard of land [0], so they could trade adjacent lands with the other grantees in order to establish a continuous railway.

The only holdouts were the Ghost Dancers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
>>> complete destruction of our Chinese hint network by the Chinese,

huh? what where when?

I don't disbelief you but what was this complete destruction, when did it happen? (related to OPM at all?)
I wanted to check because I wasn't sure, but you are very right: http://www.diamondshades.com/files/3614/0966/2121/Consumptio...

I did not expect that much difference!
I doubt the resident get to learn what the request is for. So that footage might incriminate the resident, a family member,betc. Awks.

Also, how might a corrupt officer abuse this system?

How might criminals exploit this system?

How might Ring stuff up, and provide unauthorised access?

How might a secret court demand Ring provide access?
Indeed. Pick the right tool for the job.

Picking the tool just because it gets you lots of cheap disposable developers simply means you end up with lots of cheap disposable code.

Good for the current quarter’s C-suite bonuses, no doubt; maybe not so much for long-term business continuity when that code is critical to continuing business operations.

Something something price of everything and value of nothing.
It's pretty hard to build housing that only rich people would refuse to live in. In practice it's the working poor who end up commuting from Tracy and Morgan Hill because everything else was outbid, and that will continue until we legalize the housing glut the market is crying out for.
Because the 2nd hand valuation is so much lower than the purchase price, there aren't any sellers.

There's TONS of demand to get a diamond for 80% off retail, but many diamond owners would rather not sell than accept the massive write-down on their "asset".
Hindu Nationalism has been present in India since British times. In Punjab, they used to be called Arya Samaj (Society of the Aryans) and majority of their ideas have been adapted today by RSS. In 1984, anti Sikh pogrom Hindu Nationalists supported killings of Sikhs on the ground, supporting such acts by distributing motivated pamphlets among politicians, and by calling for ‘de-Turbanization of Sikhs’. In 1992, Babri mosque was demolished by Hindu Nationalists. 2002 Gujarat pogrom against Muslims was perpetrated by Hindu Nationalists.

It is disingenuous to say that Hindu Nationalism is a recent phenomenon of last 7 years. It has a long history by now in India.
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Most successful companies do both. Listening to your users is of course important, but it can't be a wholesale replacement for data driven aggregate behavior analysis because people have their own biases can forget things (and sometimes lie) and individual feedback can't be easily generalized to your entire population of users past a certain scale.
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