skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuzziness is not baseline.

First off categorization and naming is a human endeavor. The logic that lies underneath is solid and independent of the nomenclature or any formal rigor needed to define the names. We understand math through using words and naming as tools, but the words themselves do not define the underlying structure itself which is as far as we know: Not Fuzzy.

Second our choice of what axioms and theorems to study don't make anything fuzzy. We are simply choosing a subset out of a set of all possible choices in which the subset remains not fuzzy. OUr arbitrary choices are human, but the logic within the framework of our choices still apply.

Godel Escher Bach is just a book. The incompleteness theorem you are seeking comes from Godel. Not only can a system not define itself, it cannot be fully provable and internally consistent at the same time. This does have a lot of interesting things to say about logic BUT it does not make mathematics or logic fuzzy and opinionated.

Fuzziness is not baseline. The baseline is unknown, but what we do know has been consistently observed to be not fuzzy.

Let's be clear, by fuzzy we mean things like ethics and religion. Things that are based on opinion and exclusive to the human experience. None of this type of fuzziness applies to science or math or computer science.
“works” as in “gets the other person to leave me alone”?
This is something that I’ve completely forgotten until now. I remember all the major news sites were down and when they came back up, there were only simple html pages. It took a while before they restored to a slimmed down version. I have a memory of a picture on a news article that I can’t forget: there were tens of ambulances one behind another on a boulevard, waiting in line to help people.
This is one of the reasons why HAM radio bands should be sacrosanct. You never really know what nature will throw at you next, we think we have it all figured out and then boom, something happens that we have no record of in living memory.

HAMs are typically well prepared for being back in the air first thing and are a very useful source of information from regions that have just suffered a disaster of some sorts.
Yeah, I've looked into it a bit, but there are relatively few RAM variants for any given size and speed that your motherboard might support, and there are plenty of other sites that do that well already.
anyone ever see when he shared the stage with Elon Musk?

Watching Elon control himself was amazing. the guy was trying so hard to not laugh or verbally slap the guy in public.

*edit for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSKYWu-S2G0
Not only are there scientific disciplines where modern Fortran is still dominant, but there isn't much of a salary premium for working there.

And people said what you said about it 10 years ago. And 20 years ago. And 30 years ago.

When those folks want to do scripting, they mostly use Python. And they mostly use Py3, from what I can see.
I have a colleague from China and she's on the side of the protesters after having lived in Sweden for many years. She's Christian though so her family has some stories of being oppressed, especially during the Cultural Revolution. She told me that if she was in Hong Kong she hopes that she has the courage to join the protests.

However, she has a friend who moved to Hong Kong who's firmly pro-Beijing. Her friend even organizes counter protests and marches in support of the police.
Both are statisticans. My colleague works as a data scientist in my team, her friend works as a quant in Hong Kong.

It's fascinating how two people can come to such different opinions on this. As a Swede this looks so clear cut to me.
People seem to be missing

> The transition was announced a year ago.
This doesn't cover you if you lied to get the invitation. If a robots.txt file denies some but not all user agents, setting your user agent to indicate that your request originates from a source it does not originate from is clearly a circumvention of an access control.
> I think that if the public knew what was being done to the Yellowstone herd, people might demand a change in policy.

I feel the same way about all animals unnecessarily slaughtered. "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian." [1] I would take it further and say that if dairy farms had (metaphorical) glass walls [2], everyone would be vegan.

It's tragic what is happening to the Bison, but it's not significantly different than what happened to most people's meals.

[1] https://youtu.be/HjqOTtJYXX0

[2] https://youtu.be/iL9QJEm_SJY
So, if you want to block someone from your service, you need to be able to prove that it is for a legitimate business purpose.

Moreover it seems, 'this harms a competitor of ours' is not considered a legitimate business purpose, but anti-competitive behavior.
While I like better prices through competition, I think the employees should be treated fairly.
He was ousted a year ago and was allowed a year-long transition as the ousted head of Alibaba?

> The transition was announced a year ago.
The bizarre, bungled raid on North Korea's Madrid embassy
MSFT has had a phenomenal year. Amazing that big bad monopoly MSFT, survived an attempt to break it up, and then collapsed to irrelevancy, attacking Google with AstroTurf political advertising campaigns, yet is now higher market cap then AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, currently the only one worth (barely) over $1T.
The change from silicone to rigid stuff also smacks of way better insect resilience in the field. (n.b. photochemistry to work under 3 bar as to keep plastic from creeping into leaky balloon form.)
it's not on purpose, it's out of necessity. For example, a company has a huge COBOL code base. It plans to migrate to say, python. After 2 years of analysis, and some failures, they realize how much their organisation is driven by the software. So they decide to change their business processses. Another two years of analysis. Now they start rewriting again. After one year, they realize the consluting company responsible for the rewrite is screwing them, they stop the effort. New management comes in : "we need to put more resources in marketing, so we put all IT efforts on hold for two years". Now marketing needs data about its customers, so they ask the IT team to build some reports. This implies coding new stuff in COBOL, after 5+ years...

That's what I'm in right now :-)
Sounds more Kafkaesque to me, but the GP's comment brought to mind Autofac, a short story about an automated manufacturing and distribution system that continues producing and delivering product to humam settlements long after the apocalypse, while monopolizing resources, effectively preventing the humans from rebuilding.
Level 6 = Outsource the creation of this startup to management in China.
y'all know the protests are being funded by the U.S. to siphon Hong Kong's economy away from mainland China, right? it's "war by any means" nowadays, and the war of wars has already begun

3rd world war: U.S. against China, winner take all (the planets)
Wow! The CPC is making moves faster than I thought! Note to tech people .. this is not about tech at all.

Its a total and complete political take-over. I mean get the hell out of $BABA.

edit: (an interesting conversation that predicted this and some more)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cwXifDaCjE
For those who didn't watch it here are the highlights of that debate https://youtu.be/aHGd6LqAVzw
Paytm’s annual loss doubles to $549M
Not at all, you should read up on the progression of this decision. It's not out of the blue, he announced it more than a year ago.
The required read is also the written statement of the planners of the attack (the copy of pdf on Penn Law):

https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/5964-d-101-islamic-resp...

"killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you, responding back to your
attacks, are all considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion. These actions are our offerings to
God."

They really tried hard to be very clean about their motives there.

Covered by

NYT 2009: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/us/10gitmo.html

The Guardian 2009: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/10/guantanamo-det...

The document is also on the Smoking Gun: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/terrorists-bone
Yeah I would say it's not a foundation for undertaking scientific equiry. That's what the scientific method is for. Math is a foundation for logic.

The aggregate output of philosophy as a process for negotiating a shared understanding of "what is true and what to do about it" is the foundation upon which societies thoughts rest. If that makes sense?

They are quite linked though. And there isn't any escaping philosophy regardless of you feel about it. Re: the replication crisis - we have found that the very foundation we thought was Rock solid doesn't appear to hold for the social sciences. The "how do we know?" has fundamentally come in to question and we find ourselves back at epistemology searching for another suitable way to be sure about things.

But I agree it's not a foundation for science per se. Just a foundation for forming belief systems. Philosophy is capable of producing all kinds of nonsense. And indeed it has and does all the time.
> It says that most people are rich because their parents are rich. Not because they inherited their wealth.

Fair enough. It's an astute observation, but it's misleading to say the first sentence, yet not imply the second, since most people aren't going to read into it that deeply. You'd just say: "Most people who are wealthy are so due to their stable home life, good schools, good network, good attitude and a financial backstop in the event of disaster". Why would you lead with parent wealth? It pre-supposes inheritance without additional context.
I heard on Hardcore History a similar notion, that the fall of empires often was indicated by the absence of news from the outer regions. It just became quiet, and that quiet kept on creeping in.

Terrifying thought in todays terms, imagine we simply stopped receiving news out of Hong Kong and spreading out from there. People on WhatsApp/Instagram there would stop responding. News agencies would wait for their updates and receive none...

Now I want to read that book.
> I thought nothing would ever be the same.

And nothing ever was. Plenty of stupid political decisions today, and untold billions of wasted money some of which is spent today are a direct consequence of 9/11.
Far less anonymous than using a bank.

Bitcoin has and always will be a way to cut down transaction costs, cutting out the middle man ie cutting out the banks. To do that, everyone has to be able to audit every transaction and verify authenticity of a transaction. In this way bitcoin is anti anonymous, always has and always will be.
Way easier to happen on the old analog phone systems, when an unreliable relay would not react, or randomly flip. With digital networks and all their checksums and error detection, it's not become impossible, but at least you'd much much more likely just get a dropped detection or other "unreliability" fault than being connected to someone else.
Most people are like you or me: we mean what we say and say what we mean.

This list is not supposed to reflect how people actually talk with each other. It's just a made-up sarcastic list, put together for the sake of humor. That can be a fun thing, as long as we don't mistake for an useful phrase book that tries to describe what people actually say and mean.
I agree that prejudice plays a role in the West's view of China, and I'd agree that while China doesn't have democracy, the government has done tremendous good for millions of people. But that being said, what's happening with the Uighur population and "reeducation camps" is beyond unacceptable. And for that alone, I think the current Chinese government deserves all the criticism it's receiving.

China would have the moral high ground to argue the merits of non-democratic political systems if it didn't engage in such human rights atrocities.
That’s quite ... crazy.

Be restaurant. Be on Deliveroo. Be getting low margins because of high fees.

So basically you can’t decide not to use Deliveroo any more, to improve margina (“secure an exonomic advantage”). I mean, you can cancel Deliveroo, but only as long as you’re not “inducing a breach of their contract”. So only a matter of time before Deliveroo writes a contract “we’re obligated to deliver food for you from said restaurant”.
The opponents of this bill claim that they would need to institute shifts. Why so? Why can't they just be part-time employees with flexible schedules?
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Probably up to the point where a judge says 'this is blocking not delaying'.
There is a nativist/anti-mainlander/anti-mandarin-speaker aspect to the protests that isn't being talked about by Western media. Once you realise that it starts to become less clear cut.
now show me the yellow vests, or don't you wonder why Western media completely ignore the fact French yellow vests have been protesting their gov for 47 Saturdays in a row? and are still getting shot in the face by Macron's actual fascist police?
People hate Google for "Don't Be Evil" because it was the "chosen one", while giving a pass to their unabashedly evil competitors.
> You also never entered the server. The server got your request and served something back you to. You did not go inside the house and read the contents of a book on the shelf, it was read aloud to you while you are still outside the house.

By this reasoning it's impossible ever to hack anything. Even breaking password controls or cryptography is still just sending the server a request and getting something served back.
They were softcore sex workers soliciting in the middle of public parks. It's nothing to do with their country of origin.
It's not a serious list. It's just a bunch of made-up stuff. Some of it hits close to home, as good humor should, but much of it is just there for humorous effect.
PM optimizes for his own KPIs, which are at exec level. Given the history of ignoring bugfixes and becoming famous for it, clearly direction leadership sets gives no incentive to fix customers problems.
In the seattle area, there's still a ton of hospital POCSAG traffic, but no PHI as far as I can tell. Its usually stuff like "go to room 314" or "call 206-blah-blah"
Do you have any source for this claim? If anything, the current U.S. administration has been sympathetic to Xi and the Chinese government over this matter.
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Yeah. It surprises me anyone thinks the French Revolution was a good thing.
Yup. 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.

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. Which proved to be the case.
I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs. Culling of wild animals by definition has to do with carrying capacity and I would have expected that to be the basic point of discussion.
“works” as in “the meaning of the phrase depends on whether timing is indicated.”
This was glorious.
To be fair, if that were the case what's the alternative? Re-education camp?
Your math is wrong.

The Chinese (Traditional) translation consists of 2202 characters (UTF-32). The English translation consists of 8555 characters. This amounts to ~3.88 English letters per Chinese character, quite a bit more than "two or three".

None of the actual syllabaries get even close to the density of Chinese. Korean, the closest comparison point (a true syllabary) clocks in at 3856 characters - a far cry from 2202.
Attorneys General Launch Probe of Google
Ruby on Rails Tutorial (v6) by Michael Hartl
We released DAG as an MVC, which helped a lot of people out even in its current state. We do release features here iteratively intentionally, with the idea that feedback will help make future iterations better in unexpected ways compared to if we released a big feature all at once.

The items you mention are scheduled for follow-ups in our epic https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1716. Your feedback on sequencing or how we are approaching the different improvements is more than welcome.

I would have loved for the feature to be useful for you too in the MVC iteration, and I'm sorry it wasn't. We are still working on it, though, and I hope that it does become valuable for you also. In the meantime you should still be able to use GitLab in the same way you always have - let me know if you're having trouble running pipelines without the DAG.
Yeah, I can imagine being from the mainland in Hong Kong while the people are actively protesting mainland influence feels uncomfortable. I live on the other side of the world and can't begin to understand that aspect of the protests.
Ignoring the fact that 95% of Hong Kong people are ethnically Chinese...
Every time a new programming language is announced, I go look at some of the example programs. This time I didn't even make it through "hello world" as I can't read the grey on very slightly lighter grey code.

Please, if the makers are reading this, just make it look like it does in your editor, when you're reading and writing it.
Eat to Live (you will know more than your doctor about nutrition, 900 studies referenced, written by an M.D.)

Peak: Secrets of the New Science of Learning (changed the way I approach all learning, big compounding effect)
38min of news footage from the day: http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/prete... (Win users may need vlc: https://videolan.org)
Microsoft's biggest legally official sin was killing the paid browser market. Reflect on that with the benefit of hindsight and the larger modern VC backed freemium economy.

The other evil stuff they did, like blackmailing PC makers to ban competing OSes, didn't even get them in much trouble.

There's a bit of a difference between controlling the OS, which was (largely still is) almost impossible for the average user to safely change even if they wanted to, and controlling a web page that anyone who can type 20 characters can switch away from.
Demi Lovato unedited bikini photo going viral
Why Stellar Is Giving Away $124M in Cryptocurrency
Stellar is giving away 2 billion of its crypto asset, XLM, during the next 20 months as part of its largest airdrop to date. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI.While Ripple, one of the most sizable blockchain and cryptocurrency companies, has been selling off its XRP asset holdings, valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, its cofounder is blazing a different trail over at his present operation. After leaving Ripple several years ago, Jed McCaleb went on to cofound Stellar in 2014, which has a similar crypto asset named XLM. As chatter circulates regarding the status of many crypto assets, such as Stellar’s XLM and Ripple’s XRP, as potentially unregulated securities, Stellar has decided to give away roughly $124 million in XLM, seemingly contrasting Ripple’s selling.Today, Stellar announced a massive giveaway in cooperation with Keybase, a group messaging, community and file transfer hub, Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon said to me in an interview. “In partnership with Keybase,” today, Stellar unveiled its “largest airdrop” to date, Dixon said. “Keybase, as a result of that, will be giving away up to 2 billion XLM over the next 20 months,” she added. “It’s pretty exciting, because it’s to all of their Keybase users.
>The average out of pocket healthcare expenses in the US are less than a couple of hundred dollars a month higher than in most European countries

Probably, but nobody in Europe is afraid to call an ambulance because they'll go bankrupt. First time I read on Reddit about people in US with "Don't call ambulance" bracelet, it really blew my mind a little bit.
This series was intended to be an expose' on the patterns of those that got in, some on first try, most on their subsequent attempts. Nothing more, nothing less.
Have any more lighter-weight recommendations that fit the queuing and persistence category?
>> > With our current system epipens are like a thousand bucks

> No, they're not. One brand name EpiPen or EpiPen Jr. package (which contains 2 auto-injectors) will cost roughly $650-$700 if you are paying cash. Plus, you should be buying a generic, not the brand name.

These two? [0] and [1]? Maybe as a point of reference from outside the US: Both seem to be USD 10.40 with a doctor's prescription here in Germany (which some people could get exempt from), and retail price seems to be 103 USD.

[0] https://www.docmorris.de/epipen-autoinjektor/10757425

[1] https://www.docmorris.de/epipen-junior-autoinjektor/10757431
I got misconnected once while trying to book a hotel reservation over the phone. Rooms became available 330 days out but a whole month at once, so when the reservation office opened at 8am or whatever on the first of the month, everyone would try to call in.

So many people were calling this number that the system would start hanging up on people at random, so you'd just call back over and over hoping that you'd get connected when the phones went live.

Finally, someone on the other end said "Hello?" and I said "Hi, I'd like to book a room for next summer" and he said "Me too" and I said "good luck!" and hung up.
It would be significantly more tax-efficient for the donor to donate (appreciated) stock.
What you're describing is just bad code. That happens in any runetime. This is not specific to Node.
Recently read a report that now <50% results lead to click which means it is loved by lot of users too.

You're misinterpreting that report. All it tells us is that Google returns results the user doesn't want to click on more than half the time. We can't determine whether that's for positive reasons (eg info in the results page) or negative reasons (eg the results were garbage) based on the fact there wasn't a click.
Ask HN: Full time salary vs. short-term pay?
I am currently looking for a job as a developer in Sydney, Australia and one of the positions I'm considering is a 3-month contract. They asked me what my expected daily rate would be. With full time / permanent positions, my expected salary would be 120k per year + 9.5% superannuation (Australian retirement fund, 9.5% is the standard rate).

How much should I ask per day, for a 3 months contract? I have never interviewed for contract positions and have no idea of how much "mark-up" you add to your "base salary", to make up for the fact that you don't have paid leave and you have less "certainty".
> you could listen to this stuff as an experiment with your amateur radio license

A license is only required to transmit. There is no license required to receive (how would that work, anyway?).
That doesn’t seem to make sense on the face of it. Connecting to the wrong number doesn’t reduce load, because the network still has to carry the call. Why not just fail to connect?

I know you’re not a network engineer, but it just doesn’t look right.
A good friend of mine from Japan said something similar: if someone says "we will do our best", it means "ain't gonna happen."

I can sympathize with this! I have such a hard time saying "no", even (or especially) when that is what must be said.

In any case, keep in mind that this is a fake phrasebook made for the sake of humor. It doesn't depict how Americans actually speak with each other, it's just all in fun.