skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parser - https://sparser.io

I was really burning the midnight oil on my previous military deployment with that thing. I was staying up late and waking up early to write code and test features for months. I gained some weight from not exercising. I dreamed about features and defects while sleeping. While in the office when I wasn’t writing code I just thought about accomplishing the next set of language support.
I disagree that the amendment is clear. It is so obliquely written that it took the Supreme Court over 200 years to conclude that it, in fact, conveys an individual constitutional right to own a firearm.
If that's the case, they should simply reject charges from virtual cards, rather than charging them and then banning the account.
Because it happens in small steps.

(I'm talking extreme end here, btw). Someone doesn't turn to high crimes overnight nor are they (usually) born that way. You start of making smaller immoral decisions which then become normal. You essentially move the bar a little more and more. People sleep at night frankly because they no longer think that these things are immoral. That's why there's plenty of sayings along the lines of "the path to heaven is long and narrow and the path to hell is short and wide".

Obviously morals are flexible and need to be to survive in this world. But the thing is when people are put into environments that encourage this bar to be pushed too far (by what society determines is too far).

Btw, if you like podcasts Hidden Brain did an episode on this concept that went through how an athlete went from taking no sports enhancing drugs to being a major dealer. And they decompose each step and how reasonable they seem in the context.

Tldr: it's no longer immoral for them, so the real question is "what keeps them up at night?"
Video games. I think Dota 2, Street fighter 4, and Halo 2 comprise about 3000 hours of my life. It was fun in the moment and I have great memories, but I think it sort of stunted me socially, especially since I took those games so seriously. In retrospect I would've loved to have sunk that time into guitar or other activities like athletics.
I know this will sound like it's coming straight from 1600, but could you refer to an authority of some sorts that explains this. an expert or independent body or NPO. this could very well be similar to the net neutrality debate.
They do need funding or they wouldn't put ads in node modules. They wouldn't sell popular packages to bad people to repurpose as malware. These are telltale signs that open source developers are not being looked after. They are not making ends meet. These are people with popular open source and the reward for open source is not being distributed effectively for popular projects so it's surely much worse for the bottom million projects.

And the low-quality stuff is super-important too. Before someone can work at FAANG they need to write good software. Before they can write good software they're going to practice writing all kinds of dumb shit and good stuff building the experience and knowledge required to invent a kubernetes. The time investment to obtain the skillset to work for FAANG is years. It requires hardware and connectivity.

The problem with it coming to a grinding halt is we're obviously not finished yet. In ten years React should be in the trash like literally everything that preceded it is. We might still be using Flash if we were finished. Its syntax sure looks like it lent TypeScript some ideas.

What if software genius like Torvalds isn't even rare and we're still just too stupid to foster and enable it for common good...
Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked
I should have said this in my other comment: I agree with you that if the government is going to spend money, it's better to just give people the money and let them make their own decisions about how to spend it. But I think it's better that the government not spend the money in the first place. It's still robbing Peter to pay Paul, which is wrong even if Paul is poorer, and it's still going to lead to a suboptimal economic outcome. In a free market Peter would be happy to offer Paul a student loan if Paul is a good credit risk (i.e., a virtuous person deserving of someone else's trust and resources).
I don't have an iOS device with less than 2GB of RAM. So I don't think memory is an issue.
They don’t. Where is Airbus made again?
Then why can't I buy an amd64-ISA chip without one?

It has quite a lot to do with the ISA's licensor.
That would actually be a more honest response.
So when balding men take it, do they get hairier everywhere (sans face) or just their head? I'd rather go bald than end up with a shad rug on my chest and back and arms, etc.
If a software update notice like that is considered an ad, then that’s an ad that I’m perfectly fine with
Been using it for a decade and I had no idea it was sold sold in oral form. It's only solid topically over the counter.

I'd imagine that's to avoid this problem, where hair grows everywhere, rather than the specific place you want it to grow.
I love to imagine the life during the construction of the pyramids. While Egyptologists can make pretty good guesses about the construction techniques, it's amusing when they speak to the motivation or 'religious practices' of the people.

Imagine how different the prejudices and outlook of someone 50 years ago look to us today. And consider that the modern Western worldview is about 500 years old. These things were built 4500 years ago. Cleopatra is closer in time to today, than to the construction of the Pyramids. They were built 2000 years before Plato. Maybe 10 or 20 generations before the Epic of Gilgamesh.
I usually pay with Amex and sometimes a business will say "Oh sorry, we don't take Amex". Never once have they ushered me out the door and issued a trespass notice. Instead I just pay another way and we are both happy. That seems pretty optimal.
What I'd like to see is a model where you a federated network of moderated groups. Something like Discord except more micro-blog than chat and where you can see popular posts of sister/brother servers, very popular posts on cousin servers and so-forth. Basically, a filter-tree keeping things reasonable and creating groups of folks with some relation to each other.
In a security-critical context, I would much rather use a format where every byte is specified than delegate to something with as much flexibility as JSON. I mean, I guess we could have used a JSON object like
{"Msg": "text", "Sig": "signature"}
but there's so much opportunity for surprises there and so little benefit to JSON.
() Investing my time and effort into friendships.

() Television viewing.

(*) Caring about other's opinions of me.
Sure, if I've enjoyed my time and learned something useful I won't write it off as "wasted". Who knows what the future holds.

I just recalled a Steve Jobs quote while writing this comment: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
It seems to be a phenomenon across the board. Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc, etc, all have silly modern counterfeits floating around. Think of how a Hindu belief like "I am God" may be read by a traditional Hinduism vs. some New Agey American counterfeit Hinduism. In Catholicism, there's even the heretical cluster of views under the name of Americanism[0].

Not that this article gets stoicism right either.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanism_(heresy)
Nothing about this "research" is compelling. This is 2019s Momo; hide your kids!
One last thing: risks aren't necessarily higher on the center line. Just to give you an example: if you live in a low-level region far from the center line but that is prone to flooding, risks may be higher than if you are by the line but your house is on high ground (again, the cone says nothing about hazards, as pointed out).

Thanks for the comment!
There's a thing with sedentarism and estate/capital that you accumulate weight. When nomad you just go where you feel is the best and leave the "past". It's quite freeing
A relationship that took too much work. (I have a work mentality, so tough to recognize.) Maintaining old wordpress blogs. What a nightmare, but I hate to lose old blog posts of mine.
This is how modern life works: almost everybody's life circumstances are dependent on large institutions, which can screw you any given moment, except if you chose to live in jungles.
Doing business is taking risks, and one has to be ready to lose.
I can relate to this. I look back on all of those projects and I do see the basis of the learnings that really moved me forward in terms of technical skill and reasoning. School was horrible for teaching practical knowledge and if I had simply followed the patterns that were applied at work, I would be no better than I was 15 years ago.

So yes, probably some level of time wasted, but best to take some of the learnings from that and count a few victories however small.
Sure, by closed source I meant "not licensed under a typical open source license that gives you that right" rather than "I literally can't find the source via google".
Lisp is not interpreted or weakly typed. It is dynamically typed, but also strongly typed. And Common Lisp is typically compiled.
> Don't go building a automaton King Solomon who decides why this kid should be taken from these parents because speaking Spanish was worth -0.1 on some goddamn weight trained on data generated from a racist society.

Totally what I advocated for and not a strawman attack /s. Indeed, the chance that such an algorithm could be racist or classist and there being needs to avoid bad correlations and have appropriate controls is important.

I think there are opportunities here. Ideally ed-tech doesn't take humans out of the loop, but asks schoolteachers and administrators questions like, "Hey, are you sure students A, B, and C are being supported correctly for subject Z? Are you sure students D, E doesn't have some kind of abuse or other significant home problem? It sure looks like student F is in this subpopulation that research shows benefits from educational intervention Y. You might want to keep your eye out for that."

And then the teacher goes "Oh, crap. Now that I think about D, there were always these little things 1, 2, and 3 that seemed off... maybe this is worth a referral to social services to check on what's up."

Or "Oh, ... maybe F's struggles in reading really are a speech problem and we should handle that"
Read on for the salient part.

> This Senior Agent #2 was not as supportive as the first, and gave me information that contradicted Senior Agent #1: “Your account has been permanently disabled,” he said. “There is nothing else you can do, there is no escalation path.”

> When I asked for an explanation as to why, all he would say is, “See the terms and conditions.”

Ultimately, the author was able to get out of that dead-end, but it sounded awfully close.
"The Modern Man Is Getting Stoicism All Wrong"-

Who is this modern man and where can I find a compilation of his opinions and assumptions about stoicism? Why should I care about stoicism and why does this article make me feel like my personal choice to not act like a nancy every time I stub my toe mean I am doing something wrong?
> see 'tape' and how it's 'the only test framework which supports TAP' because the tape author invented TAP

What? The tape package on npm? As far as I know, that was made by substack (James Halliday), whereas TAP dates back to 1987 with Perl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol says “the Test::Harness module was written by Tim Bunce and Andreas König”).
There are actually RISC-V extensions designed for numerical computation, though I don't recall if you could actually do a shader core or something like that based on RISC-V.

At any rate, I hadn't heard about anyone trying to make a completely open GPU. That would be cool though.
Agreed - especially as another post pointed out that Google's official policy states they _do_ accept virtual cards: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2375433?hl=en
For all the adults moaning about it on here, I showed it to my 5 year old (British/Brazilian) son and he loved it.
Stoicism is basically cognitive behavioral therapy before cognitive behavioral therapy existed.
Time is only wasted if you don't live in the moment, so I don't waste time. Maybe I could have achieved more if I stopped "wasting" time enjoying life, but I am not sure it is worth it.
I really like rget, btw.

I posted a trivial little command-line demo of a client and server for some others who were thinking about a transparency tool. It implements the cacheable GET API we designed for the checksum database but obviously it applies to arbitrary key-value pairs. It might be a better foundation than stuffing things into CT logs (or not, you do get some interesting infrastructure that way).

https://rsc.io/tlogdb
Assuming your collection consists primarily of vinyl LPs, does Curtis plan to pay someone to convert them to a digital format? Just curious.
There is a whole campaign around this. I've read through some of their stuff but if you're digging and see some red flags please bring it back here because I'd love to know.

https://nonotoriety.com/
TL;DR

Pretty standard explanation of the construction of the great pyramid with the ever expanding ramp to push up the blocks.

(No explanation where did the ramp go, and that volume wise it would have to be bigger than the great pyramid itself)

The explanation for the many chambers in the great pyramid is that Khufu, was changing his mind several times after naming himself son of Ra (God of Sun), and wanted to be buried ever higher as apposed to previously accepted burials underground, so construction workers had to abandon already built chambers and architects had to design new chamber with ever higher elevation.

Pretty weak overall.
Nicely composed narrative but has no critique or original ideas.
> Beyond the fact that I don't understand why a virtual card should be a problem,

Two reasons I can imagine:

- Each transaction uses a different card number, this is suspicious for multiple transactions on an account

- Approval requires user confirmation on their phone, thus takes longer than usual
I was hoping to find a ceramics fusion welding technology while I was researching thermionic converters. I thought it was impossible. Glad to see someone figured out how to do it!
- After the UK phased out coal gas for central heating, which provided a quick and easy death, overall suicides dropped markedly: [0].

- When Sri Lanka replaced a common pesticide which made it easy for farmers to commit suicide with another one that was not as toxic to humans, suicide rates fell by half: [1]

- Many different bridges which were popular suicide sites installed bridges and found that overall suicides decreased and did not relocate to nearby bridges without nets. Here is one example from Montreal, there are many others: [2]

It is very well-established in the literature that eliminating easy means to suicide does reduce total suicides and causes only a minor a displacement effect to other methods. Your obstinance on this fact is only making you look like a flat-earther.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC478945/

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3154644/

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3682603/
Field stuck permanently in limbo because "ethics".
Extreme cases like using a popular new credit card to pay? Please. Google uses an algorithm to ban people for life without recourse, it's insane. Not everything can be reduced to an algo, sometimes you need to make exceptions. It can even make your algo better (thousands of people are going to try using their new Apple cards in the coming weeks).
The scary thing is that every time an individual or company does something wrong someone justifies it as a "right". No, having a right to do something does not exempt them from taking responsibility for their actions. Network news should not make school shooters famous. Netflix should not glorify suicide. We don't need laws to prevent these things; just a society that refuses to tolerate them.

And, yes, we should _also_ focus on the lonely/sad/broken people.
But most places won't shun you if you merely try to use the wrong card. Imaging bringing out your Amex and being escorted off the premises and permanently banned.
Read the classics, screw the internet media, as Seneca said.
On the other hand, maybe that's a good note for people looking to cut calories and still want to eat some bread.
>I don't know about you, but I have a difficult time working with racists, regardless of the quality of their code.

Why? I'm genuinely curious here. Tangentially, I'm wondering about:

Would you watch a movie made by a racist?

Would you watch a movie starring a racist?

Would you watch a movie where the Key Grip was a racist?

Would you eat a sandwich prepared by a racist?

Would you eat a cucumber grown by a racist?

Would you read a book written by a racist?

Would you read a book edited by a racist?

Would you engage in civil discourse with a racist?

I'm reminded of Steve Irwin. When asked if he minded taking money from unsavory people, he replied he'd take money from any source at all and use it to buy land to conserve it. I view code as the same way- that person is devoting time, a portion of their life, to freely write code for the betterment of all. That is not a free pass to treat people poorly; but if you dig hard enough in anybody's past, you'll probably find something to get upset about. I just think people shouldn't go looking for trouble.
Seriously, the problem is not with Apple and virtual card numbers (which is awesome) but Google and their piss-poor customer service and lack of support for even paying users. Can't wait until the justice department drops the hammer on Google.
It seems oral one for hairloss is less proven than topical application.

And people take very low dose of this drug to treat hairloss.

But it has very high possiblity of experiencing side effects
Why do you think your time has been wasted? I suppose you have had some expectations for the project you didn't meet

EDIT: wording
Pretty bad misrepresentation of Jordan Peterson there, and of modern "small-s stoicism" and of classical Stoicism for that matter. I was about to ask "What else does he get wrong?" but there's not really much left besides that.

You wouldn't think ignoring all articles that start with "I learned how to masturbate..." would be a sound or rationally supportable screening method, and yet...
Credible Sport Test YMC 130 H (airplane with rockets)
Neither, will you need to rent an expensive gaming rig by the hour, though.
Wacup (WinAmp Community Update Project)
Isn't SF the most liberal city in the US but has one of the worst homeless problems in the US?

I see needles all the time living downtown in Toronto. Especially when I lived near Parliament and Queen there were tons everywhere. Even now near Cityplace people constantly complain about needles on the FB group.

The difference with better . weather is that you see the homelessness a lot more in urban areas. But you're right the weather is not a good indicator it seems, although far more west coast cities seem to be having a problem with it: https://blogs-images.forbes.com/niallmccarthy/files/2018/12/... Numbers alone is probably a poor metric for it being a 'problem', since Manhattan was famously 'cleaned up'.

> Half of all people experiencing homelessness are in one of five states - California (129,972 people), New York (91,897), Florida (31,030), Texas (25,310) and Washington (22,304).
Reading Hacker News.

Even the time I spent on video games was more useful (in teaching me discipline, consistency, etc) than the time I've spent reading Hacker News and getting caught up in the latest insight porn/Javascript framework/argument about the "optimal way to interview"/etc.
> threatening to murder other citizens for some vague, ill-defined hypothetical transgression

So much this. Growing up, it was so strange to see people pulling out a gun on someone for walking on their lawn in Hollywood movies.
Ah, the good old XAP processor. For a while you guys were marketing a BC03 or BC04 era chip as a general-purpose microcontroller with digital audio functions.
We use a variant of privacy pass (Chaum blind signatures):

https://github.com/brave-intl/challenge-bypass-ristretto

The key is no user identifiable events and no ability to link events for a given user together. Advertisers want authentic aggregate results — they don’t want (at first or in bulk, also not legal in many places) user ids. We built an authentic but anonymous ad system.
It seems what they really forget to tell you was "if you don't like Math - you don't have to study it."
Link to the actual paper: https://sci-hub.tw/downloads/2019-08-22/85/10.1126@science.a...
It's worth noting the client is Cloudhopper: that has been compromised before.

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/859857475146854402
You don't even need to do the imagining yourself. You can just have your AGI do that imagining for you. "Computer, come up with a way for us to take over the world without anyone noticing."
Or even worse you end up creating bullshit jobs which consist entirely of being a “follow upper”...
Scott Andery on Quora
All those companies offer enterprise editions and service-based support; what does standardjs offer that's worth paying for?
Dump trucks weigh like 20 tons. A "2-3 ton machine" is a typical modern car.
I think this anecdote says more about NNT than it does about Sontag. He claims to have tried to "forget" this incident but has held on to it for 15 long years to write about it in a Medium post.

Why does he feel the need to point out that Sontag's outraged assistant was "female?" That's odd.

Typically obituaries leave out the bits about "rapaciousness," so I am quite surprised that NNT "accidentally" found her obituary and read about the cost of her mansion in it. That seems unlikely to be true. I've reviewed the New York Times obituary of Sontag, and though it does contain claims of "unoriginality," "style over substance," and "controversy," it does not happen to contain the cost of her mansion. Perhaps N.N. Taleb accidentally read a different obituary than this one.

He claims to have waited so as to not "speak ill of the departed." But fifteen years after her death, Sontag remains dead. And there's little hope for her recovery.

NNT's account of this incident also elides whatever the buffoonish specifics of his side of the conversation might have been. Even the most precious and fragile of us aren't absolutely scandalized by merely discovering that a person makes their money from trading.

A fun aside: this commenter also leaves out NNT's later (in the linked article) glowing description of Dinesh D'Souza's trolling some college kids with a perpetually false and long discredited "us-vs-them" dichotomy.

I confess that the only work I've read from NNT (barring the linked article, a few visits to his increasingly timecube-esque website, and the occasional dip into his Twitter stream of consciousness) is "Black Swan," but when I did I was quite surprised to discover that nearly half the the book seemed to be dedicated to his dwelling on perceived past slights and settling scores with institutions and people that he thinks treated him badly.

Finally, to address the point of the linked Medium post: one is absolutely permitted to oppose an unjust system even if one is a beneficiary of it. Without dissenting voices, nothing will ever change for the better. NNT should be ashamed of himself for speaking ill of the dead. But more than that, he should be ashamed to have built the second act of his career as a "public intellectual" by policing who is allowed to have an opinion and what they are supposed to have an opinion about. Everything is connected and we all have "skin in the game."

Please enjoy the original article! I quite enjoyed it and I hope that it makes some people happy.