skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I grew up there would sometimes be some steange noises or eerie silence or something when we was on the phone. We used to joke that "they are just listening in", but I guess no one believed that except possibly my mum. (There wasn't much interesting going on.)
Even if math and
logic were fundamentally without fuzziness, their applicability to the rest of the world is inherently fuzzy. Their invention has inescapable, inevitable repercussions which have ethical consequences - so yeah, those need to be considered by someone.

But I wouldn't even be that generous. The amount of inherently human decisions that go into the design, representation, learning, educating, and yes - categorization of math is far from a perfect un-fuzzy logical utopia. We inherently add our own human ideals of what we consider a beautiful (elegant, easily understandable) formula/proof/concept/whatever, and every time we do we affect the perception of subsequent discoveries. Any computer scientist who has developed a sufficiently complex system knows that it is is impossible to make something "purely rational" without making arbitrary categorizations, which another programmer might do completely differently to produce a similar result with far-reaching effects down the line. Likewise, Math as we know it is taught the way it is because of the specific way it formed historically and the way it's best understood by its human students. The fuzziness runs deep.

Maybe you want to escape to fundamental concepts with rigorous self-consistent definitions only, with no applicability to the real world. Just cold hard formulas - the "real math". 1+1=2. Well then I hate to break it to you, but unless you have mathematical definitions of elegance and complexity to replace the human ones, you have no choice but to treat every tautology the same. Even selecting which proofs and axioms we care about is inherently human. So 1=1 and 46332688=3+211+7774+... Oh, and forget base 10... Or for that matter, why we even choose to define particular operators... Or explaining the proofs of any of this in english without some self-bootstrapping rigorous definition of the proof language...

My point is just that to completely remove the human fuzziness you have to cut out a LOT. You have to sacrifice understandability, brevity, and conceptual usefulness, amongst many others. And even if you could make a perfect self-bootstrapping logic box (something famously proven to be impossible by Godel Esher Bach - no system can perfectly define itself, it can only be defined by its parent) then there's still the problem that whatever the discoveries of your self-contained system are, they'll still have an impact on the rest of the world - which we then judge the effects of through Ethics.

Sorry, but truly escaping the fuzzy swamp of human culture is pretty damn tough. Maybe it can be done, but I doubt it. All language is fuzzy, all understanding is fuzzy, representation is fuzzy, the choice to define one thing and not another is fuzzy, Mathematics and Computer Science as educational subjects are very fuzzy still (even as much as they believe they aren't). Fuzziness is the baseline, and the study of that fuzziness is Philosophy. Maybe there exists some pure kernel that is strictly without human fuzziness, but that remains to be seen, and even if it was - it would be very different from the subjects of Math and Computer Science as we understand them today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POCSAG
Also hit musical

wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_from_Away
I’d appreciate a link to a good guided breathing meditation
I doubt if you ran a tumbler you would choose to execute this transaction.
Sure, but they could if they wanted to and that's their own business.
This might be outdated but should give you some idea at least https://dockyard.com/blog/2016/08/09/phoenix-channels-vs-rai...
I don’t think it is the patriotic education (which many sleep through) so much as a successful promotion “us vs them” stratification. Trump does something similar with his followers (western media bias vs fake news).
Working with Firebase Documents in ClojureScript
Fiction and philosophical nonfiction has far more potential to affect one's life than a pop-science book, at least in my experience.

Some of my favorites:

- Moby Dick. Probably the single greatest work of American literature, in my opinion of course.

- Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche. An excellent primer to his thought. Any of his books are worth reading, though.

- The Ego and Its Own, Stirner. An under-appreciated philosopher who can really shake up your foundations.

- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Borges. His favorite short story of mine. It serves as a very effective metaphor for the power of fiction.

- Anything by Joseph Conrad, although I particularly recommend The Secret Sharer.
Provably bounded loops, I’d assume?
That's a good point.

The court case is starting in a little over a week, so Alexander Vinnik (the one accused of the MtGox hack, who was a technician working at btc-e) has yet to be found guilty or innocent.

>On 25 July 2017, suspected BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik was arrested at the behest of the United States Justice Department while vacationing with his family in Greece.[8][9] Wanted for money laundering by both France and Russia, in addition to the US[10]. Vinnik agreed to be returned to Russia, where he was charged only with fraud.[11] In October 2017 the extradition request by Russia was approved by one Greek court, but the request by the United States was approved by another.[12] The decision to extradite Vinnik to the United States was upheld by the Greek Supreme Court on December 13, 2017.[11] However, in July 2018 Greece agreed to extradite Vinnik to France instead,[13] giving precendence to the European warrant.[citation needed]A final ruling is scheduled for September 19,[14] though Vinnik's lawyer claims that "the decision on Vinnik's extradition to Russia has been made".[15]

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTC-e

It's good that he didn't end up going to the US. The US, while legitimate in many ways, has a history of corrupt court practices. If it's in the government's interest to keep the 2 billion, which it is, they will do everything they can to throw him under the bus.
So, what would an American say when they actually do want to have lunch sometime?
A lot of these seem to be ambiguous. "Let's have lunch sometime" followed by some form of actual commitment (phone number, "does next friday work for you", etc) might mean what they literally said. But if it's used to end the conversation... Yeah, you're not getting lunch.
Regarding the pattern you described:

> On July 27, Tulsi Now Inc. filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the internet technology company suspended the campaign's Google Ads account without reason and that the company had treated the campaign's mail differently than it treated other campaigns' mail. The lawsuit seeks "an injunction against Google from further meddling in the election and damages of at least $50 million."[50]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard_2020_presidentia...

Interview about it, from yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gy797D3cAY

Won't be in the 3rd debate, so that it's for her:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presiden...
I do remember listening news on the radio just a day or two after. Immediately in my head, I thought "something Saudi happened."

A week after, when it finally got clear that those were indeed Saudis, I though for myself "there is no way Saudis will be coming out of that now."

Few years later, still in my yearly teens, I kept catching myself in disbelief of American logic. Not only did Americans spare the Saudis, but Washington went out of its way and did every thing possible to extricate Riyadh from the backlash.

Not only they came dry out of the water, but they got out of that better off than before. US took down Saddam for them, and took upon the Ikhwan ul Muslimin — the only thing in the world Saudis feared. Not to say they got much higher diplomatic standing, and near free defence contracts as a result. Anything like that would've been unthinkable before.

In 2004, I was reading a newspaper, and saw a big photo of Bush and some Saudi prince enthusiastically shaking hands together, I was not able to contain my laughter.
"Let's get lunch tomorrow/this week/some actual date!"

Took me a while to realize this actually works, as a born and raised American.
After thinking about this further, it might make sense to have the option to have an unpaginated list of all properties, but perhaps not start with it as @mihiafm mentions. I did notice it becomes paginated as soon as you click on one of the properties--perhaps an intro page?

Anyway, great work--useful to me, thanks!
“and I’ve never see a Rails app age well.”

Seems like this describes any app in any language I’ve ever worked on. Certainly Rails apps are more prone to this phenomenon because of the low barrier entry. Having worked with apps that have grown from Rails 2 through 5 (and soon 6) it’s quite possible to build Rails apps that “age well”.

Case in point for a Rails app that can age well is GitHub. When they launched in 2008 they were probably using Rails 2.0.2 (best guess based on release notes).
The Example of Private Slovik (1987)
I never said that fact can be copyrighted, I said that most of the things people put around in their profile can be. I was responding to the claim that the data were not under copyright made above. If you just scrap name, company, position, this is fine, but I highly doubt that they just do that. This lawsuit can have tons of side effects.
They only had 30 employees when they were acquired. I'd say yes.
Should use a blood tests for vitamin D status, probably calcium, phosphate and K too instead of relying on self reported diet.
The Heroku/App Engine model seems so obviously superior for 99% of apps that it's puzzling how much more press all these full-time-job platforms like k8s, AWS serverless, etc get.

Maybe the job thing is the answer.
> Consider the case where some business could sell you a product or service that might add years to your life. How much is that worth?

My gym membership is EUR 19.95, what's that got to do with anything? :)

> how much is your health worth to you?

Whatever percentage of my income currently goes into my health insurance over here in Germany. That's paying towards my health and the health of those unable pay in right now (or ever, I don't care, it's not their fault most of the time and could just as well be me). I plan on getting private health insurance to get better level of care for myself because I can financially afford it, that doesn't imply that those unable to should feel entitled when they seek treatment imho.

The opposite of the US system is neither free, nor massively discounted. You're just overpaying on stuff much of the rest of the world managed to put in more effective systems that do not put massive strain on the population. If you don't mind a different perspective here: Framing that as entitlement always seemed odd to me since I don't get why some medical corporation should be held in higher regard than the population of the country that provides them with a market in the first place.

> Why is it somehow unfair or immoral if someone buys such a product or service, without considering their ability to pay, and bankrupts themself?

Because those people suffer, in the worst case die, in the best case put other costs on society as a whole? We generally moved on from exiling the ill in most firsts world countries, which is what happens if society does not (at least minimally) provide for those that cannot afford to do so themselves.
This is great. I think we need phrasebooks for all cultures. I'm Indian, and a Chinese friend was pissed that Indians say "yes" and never do it. I think it's a cultural no-no in India to say "no" to someone's face. I finally realised that a short "yes" most probably means "yes", and a long-drawn out "yes" probably means "no".
I like this one that harkens back to Liberty Leading the People

https://i.redd.it/w8q24l4r10l31.jpg

This along with Hong Kongers singing "Do You Hear the People Sing" really make it another great revolution just like the French Revolution.
You just said the same thing Rayiner said.
> you can make them agree to anything

No you can't. You have the power to prevent or revert transactions, and that's it. You cannot print unlimited money for yourself or steal coins from an address you don't control.
He means the guy with a hammer looks like a Hong Kong-er's stereotype of a mainlander.
Overall I think this is bad and completely attributed to politeness, and is even weak at that compared to other languages. Many people in the Philippines would lie in response to seemingly important questions just to seem polite. "Do you know where the {important building} is?" "Oh yes, it's just across the way over there!" (it wasn't)
> little hack

It's acually a feature, you can turn it off in the Pixel Launcher settings/Suggestions/Overview selection.

On Android Pie, it can also be used to share/grab images that you couldn't normally download.
You would probably benefit more from being out in the sun than from taking vitamin D supplements.
Which middlemen are you talking about? If you mean "private insurers", the numbers here aren't secret, and while we pay more for health benefits administration than other countries, that expense makes up a rather small part of the picture; you could bring health benefits administration to $0 and people still wouldn't be able to afford health care.
Hong Kong provides a sort of comfort to Western society, a place where, in the face of increasingly credible challenges to hundreds of years of unchecked dominance, Westerners can still have their superiority complex validated in the image of yellow people willingly speaking their language, believing their religion, singing their songs, using their laws, wearing their wigs, and waving their flags. Any change to that is an unimaginable evil and a moral affront.

What is shocking is how many Western people I know who are nice and rational people, but once the word China is spoken, become angry tape recorders spewing hate. This is proof nationalistic religious-style racist education in Western society is dangerous to both Westerners and the world.

You see, Chinese and Western reactions are completely predictable, none better than the other.
FYI: article dated May 21 2015
meta: first time I've seen an article on HN with a link back to the same HN comment section.

edit - correction - to an earlier thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286770
Way to go! Get that XLM :D
And neither does it explain 9/11.
While I had not horrible yet
very absent parents I believe in the next generation. There is room to makes better for your own. It usually is difficult but nontheless a good purpose in life.
I know of a company where someone was getting away with napping for literally hours of the work day. One day, they went to nap in their usual secret spot to find that another employee was already asleep there. They did this for weeks. There was just that much fat in the business. Big profit margins and clueless management tiers.
Especially Fred.
I'm sure someone more qualified and experienced with phone networks can chip in, but from memory this is by design on the phone network, when it gets overloaded it just starts to connect randomly to reduce load.

I can't remember exact details, because it's not my area of expertise, but I vaguely remember my father (who's a telecommunications network engineer) talking about it years ago.
Fairly ancient Fortran compiles OK in open source compilers. Not quite 60 years old, yet, but it'll be there soon.
The French Revolution ushered in mass beheadings, Napoleon, and fifteen years of war. Maybe that's what you want though?
Gotcha, thanks for confirming. I'll try again post-HN DDoS ;).
There needs to be an investigation as some time into what is under the Ark Academy in Brent, London, sponsored by Arki Busson, who gets a mention in Epstein's Little Black Book.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/50295603@N02/48589712471/
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/10/487685.html
Thank you, Mr. Rapaport! Gonna break out my new Xerox Phaser tomorrow and print this out for reading. I am super excited as I've become quite bored with Computer Science since reading Zen and the Art and connecting with it deeply.

When you publish, I'll be happy to purchase a copy.
The irony is that anticompetive behavior usually means competitive behavior but being the one that wins, as OP's examples show. OP even went wonder as blaming Google for Talk, which is mostly famous for being the last major service to disable XMPP after losing marketshare to competitors who already did or never supported it. Before Google, Apple and MS went head to head with the same anti/competitive techniques as each other but since MA one Apple got to play the victim.
> It's still not immune to tracing, obviously, but it's a much harder problem than just looking for symmetric transactions.

"And with the proper graph theory tools, much more complex interactions could be tracked."

> The simplest system, though, is probably just to spend some BTC renting time on a mining rig. It doesn't have to be profitable, just break even. Newly mined bitcoins have no official history to show who paid for the mining.

That is a good idea.
That would be super helpful, since all your work is ultimately used via the UI, biggest thing to advertise above the fold!
Right, the Never-Never of Australia has in the past offered license to a venture hoping to make much of that desert's temperature swings and day insolation, loping off the train and eventually (4mos.) faltering when the human maintainer looked best [they felt isolated and things broke.]

10.1016@j.joule.2019.07.010.pdf nominates it (and The Sahara) to host Radiative Cooling (e.g. blown film er, tents or such) to buy us time to fix the full 20+ gigatons of carbon a year. It would lower risks to the photocatalytic and other green process chemical and pharma. efforts nearby.
Indeed it's probably more attractive to make antimalarial drugs than to photoproduce ozone for use on catalysts to treat sewage (on N-doped MoO2 substrate, say.) Straps are necessary for the boot...good speed.
He was almost certainly ousted. Look for Ant Financial to grow in even closer connection with CCP interests. My guess is that Alipay will be used as a means to strengthen international dependence on the RMB. The trail of acquisitions suggests such.

Very exciting and uncertain times we live in!

Edit: this isn’t an anti-China rant at all, just musings based on observations and incomplete data.
Space: EU's satellite navigation system Galileo reaches 1B smartphone users
How is this borderline? Central HVAC in homes is extremely uncommon in developing countries. Standalone AC units for rooms other than bedrooms are also quite uncommon (depends on the economic class of the householder). To say that there is no air conditioning because there is no air conditioning in the bathroom (and this is one of the specific complaints from the OP's reddit thread) is extremely entitled. Not everywhere is the richest country on earth.
If you support Hong Kong's struggle for democracy, please don't turn your back on Puerto Rico's.

The US has denied Puerto Ricans democratic rights for almost 120 years now.
There is no separate FAQ... They're both doing essentially the same thing. See also: the giant red BETA in the top right corner.
Oh cool! Very informative. Only, what did they codename the mole who infiltrated Microsoft to provide the several zero day windows exploits?
offtopic:

Where do you blog nowadays? Haven't followed you since G+ went down and you dropped Reddit too. You don't seem overly active on Mastodon either?
A criminal racket. Where is the outrage?!
Enabling "AutoDevops" on ALL existing projects and wasting runner minutes people payed for is indeed "phenomenal".
Another thread with more visual art related to the movement: https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1163340286983979009
She can still qualify the fourth debate - the thresholds remain the same. Tom Steyer just qualified for it despite not qualifying for the third one.
They lost me on the first two.

"Let's have lunch sometime" - Yeah, when I say that I genuinely mean it. It does NOT mean "I don't want to see you again." to me.

"Thanks for reminding me" - Again, I genuinely mean that when I say it. NOT "Stop bugging me!".
I often wonder if part of America's productivity can be attributed to the shortness of this list.

It's just a handful of expressions that are mildly misleading.

In other cultures, you have to get together with friends over dinner to discuss the hidden meaning of a single suspect word your boss had used that day.

High context cultures take a lot of mental effort.
This is an article that the author is going to regret in five to ten years, sadly.

Basic claims:

1. Long form text coherence problems in GPT-2 mean it's not useful for creating propaganda.

2. No propaganda has been noticed in the wild since GPT-2 announced, hence GPT-2 or its near successors are not dangerous.

3. Existing alt-right propaganda (presumed written by humans) is already plenty effective, who needs better written propaganda?

Maybe it's enough just to write down the logical premises, but I'll say what I think, (and we can check back here in 10 years and see who's more correct, I hope it's the author) -- anything that changes the cost of information creation and dissemination is fundamentally a highly powerful force.

In A16Z terms, software looks like it's going to eat writing, at least certain forms of writing. We know from numerous examples that this means radically faster innovation time, cheaper scale and wealth creation and destruction are likely not far behind.

Compounding the problem for threat assessment is the toupeé fallacy -- only obviously poorly generated text is noticeable as "AI generated". I would urge anyone thinking about these things to flat out disregard any statements that AI-generated text is not in the wild or if it is that it is not effective. You literally have no way of knowing if you have read AI generated text -- in fact, the examples curated from existing models suggest curated text can be high quality enough that it is likely being used online in some way today.

It's not going to get harder to generate text that reads well. It's not going to get more expensive. It's not going to get slower. Architectures that tune text creation to create clickbait titles with underlying goals are going to get worked on and thought about and tested.

Whether it will be more typically a nation state tool, corporate tool or instead the equivalent of a molotov cocktail - cheap digital force extension for renegades or infoterrorists -- this isn't clear yet. But my money would be on all three, sadly.

To solutions - Comparatively little science fiction thought work has been done about this that I'm aware of. Vernor Vinge speculated about broadscale disinformation as a public service in Rainbow's End -- The Friends of Privacy -- and at some level projects like Xanadu and more recently advertisement attribution (blockchain or not) tech startups are all working on this from different angles.

To my mind, these questions come from a part of the Internet's architecture - text isn't generally signed or strongly attributed, and if it were, we don't really have a solid global identity infrastructure - hence a lot of worrying and hand wringing.

I'm trying to invest in stuff that works on this identity layer specifically, but honestly it's an immense problem with few compelling stories about how things could change.