skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read it and really liked it. Working on small companies there's always this sense of drowning in the air.
Academic view of AI/ML in legal system: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603763/how-to-upgrade-jud...

Reality of AI/ML in legal system: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/aug/08/rise-of-t...
> This is utterly outrageous and should be a criminal offense - at least, states should be allowed to claw back the assistance costs plus a 200% fine from the company to discourage this behavior.

Alternatively, instead of raising the minimum wage in a dumb and opaque way, the state could just raise the minimum wage instead? Why is it better for a local mom and pop grocery store to pay their employees garbage than for Walmart to do it?
Always the tyrants that fashion dressing in flags
I expect sametmax was referring to the new feature in Python 3.6 that plain old `dict` now preserves the insertion order of its elements. See docs here:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict.values

(Or in language-lawyer terms: CPython 3.6 introduced this behavior and documented it as an implementation detail, and for Python 3.7+ it's guaranteed a feature of the language proper.)
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I have created a prototype that allows for the deep integration of text and data, with endpoints for NLP and machine learning.

What would you want to do as a co-founder?
I would definitely contribute $1K to the pot to get those hours back hunting for null bugs. One billion seems conservative :)
one who reports harassment today will report illegal conduct tomorrow. not good for doing business nowadays. you must be domesticated to be any use to coroporations.
>I've never heard of Americans thinking/saying they were direct.

They wont say it for themselves, but it's something very common to hear Americans and foreigners say/write as a fact for Americans in general (ie. the culture). Some areas even compete/praise themselves on how more direct they are (New Yorkers come to mind).

Of course, compared to a culture with a lot of innuendo and second guessing required, like e.g. the Japanese, or more subtle and ironic, like the English, that would be very true, but not in general.
On July 7th 2005 I was on a bbc engineering course in a non-disclosable secret nuclear bunker in the Cotswolds, when my phone started ringing (on vibrate). Multiple times.

Eventually got a text message saying the London underground was under attack and was I ok. It was only then I asked for the tv to be put on.

The 00s were an eventful time. There’s now more time passed since the London attacks and the ita bombing campaigns in Warrington and Manchester. Still not long before the GFA is cancelled and we return to those days.
Link to the specific video based on SCP-3008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcq1lLCgk7E&list=PLEXIiC3q94...
They do, this is why I would never bring a consultant on board who suggests a new language could solve the problems. Everybody loves it but after the easy 90% are done I am stuck with a niche language.

Thus, I am not sure that this marketing does not backfire.
Another half baked wso2 product.
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> It cannot be stressed enough that pools of water should not be forming at the top of mountains. That’s just not what Mother Nature had in mind.

Does the author really know what Mother Nature had in mind than? When statements are clearly made up, it is not good journalism and the whole article becomes questionable.
Non-Americans always harp on this yet don't understand that "How are you?" is just functioning as a generic "Hello" and not as a literal question. This happens in every language with various phrases.

For example, the phrase for "Hello" in most European languages directly translates to "Good Day." It is not as if people are saying "Good Day" in any literal sense of the words; the meaning implied is "Hello."
reminded me of https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/ , especially when it comes to the kangaroo court of military justice. Great movie by Kubrik with Kirk Douglas.
But actually I think it's half joking half true. I'm American but I find when I talk this way it can be confusing to me colleagues in Norway.
Hahaha, it's like how "inshallah" is used colloquially.
Is 5G that dangerous to humans and to the environment?
I think this isn't exclusive to Americans. Also I think this shows perfectly how there is a positive and negative perspective on everything, with which you could relabel the columns most of the time.
But it still is:

> https://about.google/

"Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."
> Why would he be ousted?

> It's always entertaining to read the FUD stories about China.

Can't tell if you're deliberately being disingenuous or if you just don't know, but here are some statistics straight from the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party:

> "Since 2003, 72 billionaires in the Chinese mainland have died an unnatural death (...) Among the 72 billionaires, 15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, seven died from accidents, 14 were executed according to the law and 19 died from diseases." - http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-07/22/content_129594...

Everyone who achieves a certain level of influence at some point submits to the CCP in China. It doesn't matter if it's bloggers, vloggers, actors, billionaries, or some other type of influencer. If you don't actively cheerlead and support the corruption of the current CCP faction in power, you lose your privileges, your audience, and - if you're powerful enough - your life.
I'm disappointed by the deprecation and decay of features of DDG and Goog in recent years, it seems like the trend is toward dumbing-down.

It used to be that double-quoted strings meant "search for exactly this, not fuzzy searches". Now, DDG requires a plus sign in front of a double-quoted string. +"KS-19319ZJFT"

Also, way, way back, you could conduct elaborate boolean searches like (space equals implicit "and", so it's omitted):

site:foo.com -site:docs.foo.com ((lemons "crab apples") or ((oranges beans) (cherries plums)))

Ideally, I'd like a syntax that looks like this:

search = "( search ")"
| "-" search
| search ("and")? search
| search "or" search
| constraint
| term

term = quoted_term
| simple_term

quoted_term = '"'([^"\\]|'\\"')+'"'
| "'"([^'\\]|"\\'")+"'"

simple_term = [^'" ]+

constraint = file_type_constraint
| url_constraint
| site_constraint
| temporal_constraint

file_type_constraint = "filetype:" (common_type|"*"?"."?[a-z0-9]+)
| "mimetype:" regex

common_type = "video"|"photo"|"audio"|"email"|"web"|"document"|"text"

url_constraint = "inurl:" regex

site_constraint = "site:" regex

time_constraint = "before:" date
| "after:" date
| "within:" time

/* "and," "or," and : prefixes should be case-insensitive and localizable */
/* date, time and regex are "exercises for the reader" ;) */
Amazing - I didn't even realize that I needed this in my life until now - I'm absolutely going to build my own site using this one!
So all freelancing companies also should follow the same route?
“Not bad” - something is pretty good, or at least better than expected. Had to laugh when I saw that phrase on the linked page.

“Not bad at all” - something is really good

“Munted” - trashed or unserviceable
Dropkick => A child friendly version of wanker

Punt -> football for dropping and kicking

Cunt.
This looks great! Thanks for the hint!
No, the dictionaries have been updated recently - you can pretty much use 'literally' however you want!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10240917/Uproar-as-OED...
There is a British English version of this, which has been around on the internet for a few years.

A friend of my partner's, who works at a high level in the European commission told us that it is passed around in diplomatic circles as a (non-ironic) instruction manual.

The American/British preference for avoiding direct communication is apparently not normal in Europe at all, and causes a lot of confusion amongst people who are unfamiliar with the layered meanings.
I mean, if we're going down that road, might as well go one step back and ask how the Dutch fellow's understanding of Indian culture is.

In any case, these are things you learn once. After that, the better you are at navigating the differences, the more successful you'll be. After all, it's low probability that you'll reform (in your mind) another culture and high probability that you can improve your ability to win. So might as well chase the win by modifying the self every time.
Thank you! I am happy it resonated with you. I've ran a service business for quite some time and every other month or so feels like that : ) or I just didn't know how to run it properly
Presumably you'd be allowed to limit a scraper to a standard user bandwidth, and a standard user access - X links per day, Y bandwidth.
The OP didn't misuse the term "coin". In Bitcoin it refers to the value of a single input or an output. When the OP says "Plunking this much value into a single coin seems like an odd strategy at best" they mean "Plunking this much value into a single unspent transaction output seems an odd strategy".
Just wondering...if the dinos had survived, would they have evolved higher intelligence and complex societies or would they be similar to modern reptiles/crocs/turtles and fish(which are as old no?) in terms of intelligence?
It's true: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10240917/Uproar-as-OED...
Reasonml is just an alternative syntax for ocaml so you can definitely use it for IO.

It's bucklescript that is an alternative backend for the ocaml compiler which allows you to output js, but you don't need to use it
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How about "with all due respect". It means "no respect is due to you for this absolutely idiotic opinion you have tendered you insufferable clown"
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Yeah we have this particular problem, a Python program written in Python2 as late as 2014 for RHEL6, using Cython extensions. It compiles and packages fine for RHEL7, but when I run it on it just crashes upon receving a UDP packet from the network.

The original programmer is long gone, and I while I am a semi-competent Python scripter and a slightly above average C programmer, I'm not looking forward to having to dig deep into this code, and patch it up to keep running.
This is something of a misunderstanding of American culture. It's far more complex than can be summarized in a HN comment, but it's more accurate to say that American culture prides itself on accessibility, egalitarianism, and a "lack of barriers" more than directness, defined as pure unfiltered honesty, per se.

A good example to illustrate this phenomenon: in most American cities, it is considered fairly normal, even expected, to talk to strangers on the bus, in the street, in line at the grocery store. There is no mental "barrier" to overcome in the public sphere. However, one is typically expected to be polite and not overly direct while interacting with strangers.

The same activity, contrarily, is borderline verboten in German culture. The typical German will rarely engage in spontaneous conversation with a stranger, even if he/she would be extremely direct (in American terms) if such a conversation were to occur.
Well Al Quds day might be perceived as news worthy due to Hezbollah being officially considered a terrorist organisation by the United Kingdom along with the United States, the European Union, the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Israel, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia to name a few.

Considering London has suffered from multiple ideologically possessed terror attacks it might be worth reconsidering how newsworthy open support of a terrorist organisation is.

Additionally, the Jewish community in London are particularly sensitive to the march as Al Quds day brings about hate speech towards them.

I'm not saying Al Quds day should be banned in London, but I think a public dialogue and debate should be had. In my estimation the lack of it is due to the 'multiculturalism is our strength' narrative bias held at the BBC.

Now I'm not saying 'multiculturalism is bad', I'm the product of it, and I definitely think it has benefits. But there are problems with it, which need to be confronted and worked through for a better society. Without a doubt these are sensitive, and ugly issues, but pretending they don't exist because you are captured by bias, will not solve the issues.

As for your Brexit comment, I believe you are suffering from recency bias.

In a report published in January 2018 called ‘Brussels Broadcasting Corporation?’, think-tank Civitas in conjunction with the group News-watch, monitored thousands of hours of radio and TV shows dating back to 1999 including the BBC flagship Radio 4 programme Today.

Of 4,275 guests on Today between 2005 and 2015 who talked about the EU, only 132 were Brexiteers.

Put another way, just 3.2% of Today interviewees were anti-EU, despite consistent public support for EU withdrawal throughout this time.

There are also a plethora of articles about this on Google, so in a way you are kind of proving my point because the data is out there but you didn't want to, or think to, look for it.

However I'm far less concerned about being 'right' and far more concerned about dealing with reality... and I believe the more people that deal with reality there are the better the world will be.
An iPhone X, or other similar phones, could probably be used as a motion detector as well?
They ought to know the basic package on offer its not to hard for HR to provide 1 page crib sheet for al interviewers.
I almost forgot about it! Great throwback, this "show" was hilarious.
How do you compare this to the stream of ridiculous tweets coming from Musk? It seems Musk gets an almost infinite benefit of the doubt while his interview partner is judged on this one performance.

Also we have the issue of language barrier. Jack Ma was doing the interview in English, which for him is probably extremely difficult. I learned Chinese for 2-3 years and can barely order food. If you combine this language barrier with e.g. the cultural desire to save face, you may have someone saying something to say something, without being able to express themselves properly.

I'd say there are a lot of factors at play here and I would withhold judgment for now.
Agreed, reproducibility without immutability seems almost absurd.
Designing agent incentives to avoid reward tampering
Dang that's crazy... next feature for Tesla: detect if you're asleep and play a sound to wake you up.
These things are complicated though. I’m a kiwi and on moving to the UK it took ages to figure out that “alright?” meant “hello”, not “what’s wrong?”
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With the difference that “Good Day” is something you wish uppon others while “How are you?” is a question that also exists outside of the smalltalk context.

You can ask “How are you?” with genuine interest and get a genuine answer in the right context.
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Here is another screenshot.[0]

Also u/DavidAGra presented[1] CRS-17 Simulation analysis curves.[2]

> Hi guys I downloaded an Excel file with the telemetry information for the simulation I shared yesterday and I made some curves, I hope you like it and I would like to hear opinions. Download it from the following link[3]

[0] https://i.redd.it/p2y0hjtzbpk31.png

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rocketry/comments/d0r8x0/crs17_simu...

[2] https://i.redd.it/a4l9x3r3b3l31.png

[3] http://www.mcrenox.com.ar/f9sim/F9sim%20-%20CRS-17.xlsx
In the atmosphere after 9/11, and especially before Iraq, it was unlikely if not unthinkable that there would be "lawsuits" or "repercussions" for the government. The reason Flight 93 ended the way it did was because every American who witnessed or heard about what happened in New York that morning fundamentally understood that a hijacked aircraft was no longer a hostage situation, but rather a weapon of mass murder. Nobody would have questioned the decision, just as virtually nobody questioned the other decisions made by the US government in the initial months after the attack.
Well, it all depends who you compare to. I too heard many times of Americans being direct, but usually it's said in comparison to British people, and in that case it's fairly true I guess. On the other hand, compared to say Mediterranean or Balkans, no, you're not direct at all :)
I really hope we get a sequel to Deus Ex some day.
It's not strictly illegal but it's antisocial behaviour and the government didn't do anything when local residents raised their concerns.
The goal is policy change, and that requires convincing people to vote for things. The path that makes that happen is education, policy advocacy, and ultimately gaining political office.

Direct action, however, tends to put more emphasis on the activists themselves as the problem instead of whatever their platform is. This is only useful when it demonstrates a sufficient commitment by a large number of people, which can demonstrate wide popular support— rallies, peaceful protests, etc. that involve enough people to potentially change the outcome of an election.

My problem is really with the publicity stunts done by a small number of people. From outside, it looks like an egotistical act and, if not dismissed entirely, hurts the reputation of everyone doing useful work in the same field. Antagonizing people is a poor way to convince them of anything.

As for why I don’t go into politics myself, it isn’t my calling and I don’t have the temperament to be successful at it. I believe I’ll do more concrete good in the world by being kind and helpful to those I meet in this journey we call life than by trying to force my concerns to the forefront of attention.
>Non-Americans always harp on this yet don't understand that "How are you?" is just functioning as a generic "Hello" and not as a literal question. This happens in every language with various phrases.

We very much understand that.

Our problem/concern/issue is that you don't seem to expect/appreciate the outpour of how one has been in the first place, whereas elsewhere it's a natural part of meeting the other person...

That is, it's not like:

"'how are you?' just means hello, but we have another phrase to say if you want the other person to really tell you how they've been/feel when you meet them".

It's more like:

"Actually telling the other person how you've been/feel is discouraged, nobody cares that much for you, period".
What keeps you up at night?

Reading commentary on the HN links I read during the day
> One of the great mysteries of the world is how Americans think they are so straightforward and direct and honest... and then they ask a German if their butt looks big in these pants, and burst into tears on hearing the answer.

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer goes into this a bit; one of the key traits she uses to assess cross-cultural communication is how directly cultures give/take negative feedback.

There are two things to reply to here from that book:

1. The stereotype for a lot of the world is that Americans are direct, much like you said here -- but this isn't the case for ALL types of communication.

2. There's a scale specifically for negative feedback from "direct" to "indirect" for various cultures and the US is shown in the middle of that scale.

The UK is also listed around the middle, but more toward the "indirect" side than the US.

For more extreme examples, Russia, Germany, and France are listed as tending toward more direct negative feedback, whereas Japan and Indonesia are listed as tending toward more indirect negative feedback.

It's a fascinating book that really opened my eyes about ways to perceive cultures and communication, so if this is anything you're at all interested in, I'd really recommend it.

> On a mildly more serious note, I remember well my first ever serious business meeting in the US, where we pitched a potential joint venture to another company. 30 minutes of mutual praise about the awesome potential of the idea and positive affirmations of how we're totally going to do this ensued... and immediately after we left, my (American) business partner dropped the smile, said "welp, that went badly" and stated that there was no way in hell they'd proceed.

This kind of situation is also discussed in the book! ;)

Edit: I bring this book up relatively frequently, but I'm not associated with the publisher or author at all. The book was an absolute revelation for me in that it gave me a way to conceptualize cultural differences rather than the traditional/stereotypical "good/bad" scale, so I like to pay it forward and recommend it to people who seem like they might be interested in it.
Getting Gitlab CI to work has been a major PITA for me. I would maybe give it a quarter circle in its current state. Not a heart.

The runner self-modifies the config file and uses it as state which makes it basically impossible to deploy it in an immutable way (Like on nixos). I found out that most config options (but not all of them) are also avaible as environment variables and cli flags so that's how I hacked around the issue but it means I can't support all features that the runner has because the environment variables do not expose all the available config options.

The fact that it's so hard to automate a piece of (in theory) stateless software is really annoying :(

https://gitlab.com/arianvp/nixos-gitlab-runner
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/1932
https://gitlab.com/arianvp/nixos-gitlab-runner/issues/2
This probably deserves to be added to awesome-quirks, especially since it's pure CSS :)

https://github.com/dsalaj/awesome-quirks/
Don't invest in them either.
No one says "a female" in English if they're even mildly socially adjusted.
As an Israeli this was a shock for me when I first moved to the US. Here "let's have lunch sometime" is literally "let's have lunch sometime".

The American culture is so indirect and giving direct feedback is so hard. One of the biggest prides in our culture here is that employees can always burst into the CEO's office and tell them they are wrong if that's the case :]
> I also don't get the anti-Google movement

It's virtually all political propaganda from hostile nations. Europeans understand that they desperately need to develop a tech sector to compete with China and the US while their population is aging, brains are draining, and productivity is slumping. But since they've killed off their own tech companies seemingly the only option now is to try and ban FAANG - protectionism through propaganda, arbitrary fines, targeted taxes, etc. Then you see some troll or a useful idiot from US post a nonsensical argument like "I BUILT MY PERSONAL BROWSER AND GOGOLE DIDN'T ALLOCATE 100 ENGINEERS TO MAKE THEIR APPS WORK ON IT", and upvote bots from China / Iran / Russia pick up and amplify the post to the top. This is modern warfare and it's effective. Ask a senior engineer at Reddit or any other communication platform and they'll confirm it (in private).

If you get a chance you should definitely work at Google out of Mountain View office because you'll gain unparalleled technical knowledge and build an amazing network that can match Stanford or Harvard as far as your future goes.
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Learning a language is hard.

This whole thread is the differences between nations who speak the same language. If they can't agree what chance has a non native got?

As a native English speaker I appreciate that I don't need to learn another language. But on the other hand, the language has also become the worlds language, so its about as fair criticising the Dutch for sentence construction, as it is for criticising Australians for making everything into a question?