skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is such a blatant oversimplification.

Brexit is bad because it’s a shitshow that was never seriously believed would happen let alone be properly planned. It will leave the UK in an objectively worse position in terms of power, economy and politics.

Catalan independence is bad because it won’t improve anything, it’s a pride of culture movement that will likely negatively affect the population. The EU stated that it wouldn’t accept a Catalan state as a member, so the economy and movement would be heavily restricted.

HK independence is good because the Chinese government and state apparatus is evil. Having your home and culture consumed and extinguished is not something anyone would wish for. Maintaining independence is objectively better than being controlled by China.
When you combine the output available now with the fact that a surprising number of humans on the internet would probably fail a written Turing test, it's definitely useful at least for denial-of-service style mischief.
Which cultures would be considered high-context? (Genuinely curious)
Conspiracy theories are important because a part of them are usually true. Of course the problem is that it’s hard to get data about which part is true and which isn’t.
Because this is... vintage Chinese-style painting. Everyone will appear Chinese-like.
I like Clojure, but whether it is a more pragmatic choice (or if it’s even a Lisp) is a bit off topic here.

If someone asks me for advice on how to get started with Common Lisp I will point them them to CL resources.
This makes me so sad. I visited Yellowstone in 2013. The buffalo are magnificent, beautiful creatures. One of them almost killed me, and I don't blame it one bit. I was driving on its road.

I really wish they could figure out a way to let them roam off of the park lands.
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Bitcoin operates on transaction inputs and outputs, which work like coins in that their denomination do not change during spending.
看到关于ccp的评论我就想笑
Huawei drops lawsuit over equipment seized by the U.S. government
You had a post on this thread that started with

> Tinfoil hat on... Maybe the CCP fucked him up somehow.

Yes, a billionaire CEO retiring and staying on the board of the company he started is much less outlandish than your "tinfoil hat" theory.
Sorry, this page looks too much like those clickbait sites which make you click Next for each morsel of information and relentlessly bombard you with ads along the way.

It's a real shame the canvas doesn't do justice to the artists' illustrations.
Apple will (eventually) entirely remove Python:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_note...

Hopefully they will fix the shitty keyboard before that happens, so I can finally replace my old Macbook Pro.

Scripting Language Runtimes

Deprecations

Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default, and might require you to install additional packages. If your software depends on scripting languages, it’s recommended that you bundle the runtime within the app. (49764202)

Use of Python 2.7 isn’t recommended as this version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS won’t include Python 2.7.
Cookies in Rails are encrypted and signed, and as far as I am aware, simply setting your session hash cookie to a bunch of random gibberish is not, in fact, going to just create a new session. (Also, "creating a new random session" is not what a session fixation attack is, but let's leave that aside for now.) Given this encryption, how do you propose to execute this attack? I don't usually like to be the "[citation needed]" guy, but: citation needed.
I wasn't saying that epipen's aren't over-priced. They are, as are the generics. And it's horrible.

However, if you're going to make an argument for the US healthcare system having problems, then don't use numbers that are trivially shown to be false. Because then your entire argument (which could be compelling with real numbers) can be discarded offhand as false.

Don't sabotage your own argument with invalid numbers.
I would imagine that if you contract with Deliveroo, they have some terms that say that you need to give notice when cancelling?

I don't know Deliveroo, but I think a better analogy would be if you suddenly, even though it is not causing you trouble, denied access to someone picking up food that you didn't contract with, with the full knowledge that the someone would be in big trouble with their customers.
even setting up a new box might take one day of a productive person's time... unless, of course, if you standardise the dev setup... again many devs will complain, probably more than if you just remove local admin :D
'Roswell.... is a real city, but the largest industry is “Leprino Foods, one of the world’s largest mozzarella factories”, which is likely not a first-strike military target.'
This is great. DTA was one of the most useful browser plugins I ever had. Power users have wget, curl and thelike, but extracting cookies etc from the browser is cumbersome. DTA is just the right tool for many many download tasks.
If the site is static you only requre html files. A server side language like Rails would only be used to create dynamic sites.
How to get traffic easily from Quora
Aliens built the Egyptian pyramids
Perhaps not the best introduction when the site gets an "unresponsive script" pop-up on mobile Firefox.
Nvidia's Siggraph 2019 videos are up
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Successful? I wouldn't go so far as to call him that. I used to watch Kyle Bass youtube interviews bc his arguments are interesting. But when I researched his track record, I stopped. It appears, after his win in the 2007/8 CDS crisis, he has been wrong non-stop: his EU short in 2009 went south, his bet on Japan debt bubble burst didn't materialize (losing 61% investor money in the process), and his famous nickel bet became an Internet meme...

He's now betting on HK and China's impending collapse. It could happen, but I wouldn't trust him too much.
> I'm Indian, and a Chinese friend was pissed that Indians say "yes" and never do it.

I laughed. For a Chinese person to give any other culture shit about this is hilarious. The only thing foreign businesspeople in Shanghai complain more about than people saying they’ll do something and then forgetting or ghosting them is poor quality control/fraud.
996 for life for some, not for the winners though.
Can not remount iscsi disk in openshift as it is write-protected
My application is using pvc provisioned by iscsi, but sometimes the volume get into write-protected state upon application pod restart (there are plenty of space left on the iscsi disk) and atomic-openshift-node fails to mount with error

EXT4-fs error (device sdu): ext4_remount:5094: Abort forced by user

Sep 07 16:00:51 gitlab-node3.mayalabs.io atomic-openshift-node[8377]: E0907 16:00:51.132158 8377 mount_linux.go:148] Mount failed: exit status 32

Sep 07 16:00:51 gitlab-node3.mayalabs.io atomic-openshift-node[8377]: Mounting command: systemd-run

Sep 07 16:00:51 gitlab-node3.mayalabs.io atomic-openshift-node[8377]: Mounting arguments: --description=Kubernetes transient mount for /var/lib/origin/openshift.local.volumes/pods/<pod_name> --scope -- mount -o remount /var/lib/origin/openshift.local.volumes/plugins/kubernetes.io/iscsi/iface-default/172.24.133.58:3260-iqn.2016-09.com.openebs.jiva:pvc-1119fe47-d159-11e9-9181-005056985d69-lun-0 /var/lib/origin/openshift.local.volumes/pods/<pod>/volumes/kubernetes.io~iscsi/<pvc>

Sep 07 16:00:51 gitlab-node3.mayalabs.io atomic-openshift-node[8377]: Output: Running scope as unit run-45611.scope.
Sep 07 16:00:51 gitlab-node3.mayalabs.io atomic-openshift-node[8377]: mount: cannot remount /var/lib/origin/openshift.local.volumes/plugins/kubernetes.io/iscsi/iface-default/172.24.133.58:3260-iqn.2016-09.com.openebs.jiva:<pvc>-lun-0 read-write, is write-protected

Sep 07 16:00:51 gitlab-node3.mayalabs.io atomic-openshift-node[8377]: E0907 16:00:51.132206 8377 disk_manager.go:70] Failed to bind mount: source:/var/lib/origin/openshift.local.volumes/plugins/kubernetes.io/iscsi/iface-default/172.24.133.58:3260-iqn.2016-09.com.openebs.jiva:pvc-1119fe47-d159-11e9-9181-005056985d69-lun-0, target:/var/lib/origin/openshift.local.volumes/pods/<pod>/volumes/kubernetes.io~iscsi/<pvc>, err:mount failed: exit status 32

. Though running e2fsck manually solves the problem but what is the reason behind this ?
Overtly?

Unfortunately, most people don't care about the "plenty bad shit" going on in China as long as their cheap imports are flowing in. In a Cold War 2.0 scenario, it is absolutely necessary that China be made out to be not only worse than they are, but worse than they possibly can be.

That's my opinion. I'm in favor of any propaganda that causes friction in the rise of the Chinese hegemony.
Some of the US might be at will employment, but it's not like that everywhere. In Denmark employment is not at will, but you can only fire someone if there is just cause. This particular scenario is in the security policy, and in my contract it's stated that I will follow that.
Unions never take root at tech companies because software engineers seem themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed 10x programmers.
>the Chinese government and state apparatus is evil

The propaganda is strong with this one.
Possibly more significant than the 100L:

> For one, it takes at least 10,000 litres of water to produce just a kilo of raw cotton – enough to make only one pair of jeans, according to the United Nations. And that’s not counting the water usage in the wash process the denim goes through to create the soft texture of used jeans – and other repercussions we’ll get to later.

However, I don't know where most of this cotton is grown... if it's in water-rich regions, is it something that needs to be reduced?

Also worth noting:

> For the record, each pair of Uniqlo jeans uses an average of 100 litres of water to wash. That’s actually just 43 litres shy of what the average Singaporean uses per day in 2017, according to the PUB.

So I guess this means your jean washes are worth < 2 days' worth of water?

One last question on my mind: is using laser actually greener? Not sure how much energy (and in what form) that uses.
I don’t see what legal or technical argument you’re making.

Technically, of course you can identify IP ranges owned by certain entities and restrict their access. That’s trivial, so what do you mean when you say the internet doesn’t work like that?

Legally, there’s plenty of region locked content for copyright and censorship reasons. A distributor might region lock because they don’t have distribution rights in particular regions. Are you saying distributors can’t publish free content at all because they can’t choose who sees it but would be breaking copyright law to publish to everyone? Or a site might region lock because certain content is censored in particular countries. Can you not publish anti-regime articles because a totalitarian country is on the Internet?

The entire world isn’t and shouldn’t be held hostage to the most restrictive laws that exist in the world. And the answer isn’t blocking on the requesting end because that’s technically much harder and blocks much, much more content. So what am I missing?

Edit: Forgot to include the other end of the spectrum. If I, as an individual, host my own site on my own hardware with my own connection that I pay the bandwidth for, can I deny a suspected not network?
All valid points. It could in the future be done in a better way is not really interesting when you are working with your boss breathing down your neck.

Still my fellow academics will try to push in the direction they see fit.
Also, the front page ends with a picture of someone massaging a programmer's shoulders.
put a maximum time box around every activity.

go to the gym, even if you don't like it

opting out of controversy holds your community back from learning
They love producing public facing verbose process documents... At first I thought, oh these are some neat ideas, but the more that they produce, the more I wonder how they get anything done with so much (verbose) process.
Could you explain if something basic like tryptophan was used, could it be converted to DMT?

Or would it only be able to extract DMT from a liquid with the alkaloid already in it?
Fantastic. Adding to my watch list.
It's not that the DAG feature isn't useful to me, the problem is that it has to coexist with a badly engineered version (the stage based model) which should never have been released in the first place. It is better to have GitLab not support CI runners than it is to push something that is so badly engineered. Better to delay that feature for 6 months than to increase the amount of legacy you push downstream to your users.

Also, this is just a single example that I pointed out to outline what I think is a problem with the whole development culture around GitLab, which puts too much focus on releasing early, and too little focus on quality assurance. Of course, you shouldn't spend years perfecting the next release, but you release too many features too early for my taste.
Please, feel free to elaborate here. As person from small country I feel that you don't have a leg to stand on here but prove me wrong.
reddit has become toxic pool of garbage.

the anti china sentiment that has been driven up by US media and Hong Kong protests alike is irrational and is bordering xenophobia and bigotry.

just a small glance at r/HongKong and you can see images posted out of context with slogans against the police and government, most of which are targeted towards kids in school, sometimes by the same kids.
I would actually prefer that label early on. I learned from my parents that back in preschool and early primary school i was math genius. Supposedly i astonished the ones administering preschool tests by doing stuff from two grades above effortlessly.

Sadly later on I was stripped of my potential by math teacher in primary school. I solved all exercises by writing the result outright, and she forced me to write down every. single. step.

I got so used to that over course of 3 years, that now I'm slower than average at mental calculations. i cannot do algebra efficiently without a piece of paper anymore.

That teacher is probably the only person in my life i genuinely hate.
There are multiple kinds of subsidies, it's not as simple:

1) Walmart (or other) companies pay so low wages that employees are eligible for food stamps or other subsidies. 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.

2) Environmental subsidies: Government pays subsidies to companies (or private persons) to install new environmentally-friendly technology which is (thanks to being new) too expensive from an ROI viewpoint. Germany did this with solar and basically kickstarted the market for home solar, USA did the same with the incentives for Tesla and other e-vehicles. Obviously, these subsidies are fine as they lead to further savings or environmental goals down the road.

3) Government gives tax breaks to companies for relocation/creating new business: these are the most contested probably as multinational entities (hello Amazon) often enough abuse them for their own profit only. Done right, however, this form of subsidies has a positive ROI as a new business pays local taxes as well as its workers, who additionally provide purchasing power in their communities.
Elon was terrible with comical AI doomsday predictions, that no AI researcher including Turing winners Hinton and lecunn endorse. Ma was the only sane voice in the room.
Can I politely point out that the conversation is not about respecting robots.txt.

If you want to talk about this in terms of robots.txt, Google is thriving on the fact that other companies don't block their content in robots.txt, but at the same time Google blocks all of its content in its robots.txt.
Just put the font files on the same server as your images and other page assets. Given how small font files are, there's little benefit to serving them from a CDN if the rest of your site isn't.
I happen to have a keen interest in the HK situation, and propaganda in general.

> Reports of "millions" being forced into camps are pure propaganda

Might it be possible for you to tell us what the actual number of Uighurs is that are are being forced into camps (and the number that are going there willingly, if some are doing so), as well as how you came to know the truth (actual numbers) of what is going on?
This is great. Break Google up intro search, corporate services (G Suite, GCP), YouTube, Android and a few others. Then, split Facebook into Instagram and FB. Amazon into retail (split further by category?) and AWS.

This will trigger a new wave of innovation. As smaller businesses, more innovations will be big enough to move the needle and will therefore be worth pursuing. Competitors will emerge - the giants are strangling their innovative competition in the crib right now, and we are all missing out as a result.

Breaking up standard oil and ma bell had very positive results. Glad to see some movement on breaking up anti competitive monopolies again.
> Startpage exclusively uses results from Google, which the company pays Google for
Yup, I quite enjoy answering, as detailed as possible when someone asks me how I am, interrupting and insisting I tell my full story since they were so good as to ask. :)
Kinda this Ma has been talking for years that wanted to return as a teacher.

Is it really a disaster that company C level are political or part of a party.
> The point of government is to serve the public interest. There is a lot of current public-private power generation in the U.S.

Sure, that doesn't go against what I said.

> I also disagree with your assertion that there are renewable technologies that compete with the reliability of Nuclear.

Neither can minicomputers compete with the reliability of mainframes, yet we've seen how that went. Reliability can be worked around with engineering. It'll be a messy mix of power sources, storage technologies and distribution networks, but it'll be cheap. Nuclear will keep existing - at the margins.
I've been to several dozen technology conferences the past two years and these folks show up with a fancy large booth and nice swag and I'm simply amazed at the presentation and effort they've put into this undertaking.

My understanding is that the primary motivation all of this is consultancy work in India.
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This is something I also learnt this year after reading The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness by Andy Puddicombe the founder of Headspace.

After only 10 minutes of meditation you feel a lot better than before. I can not recommend it enough to try it.

I use the Headspace App for the guided meditations and it's free to learn the basics in 10 sessions/days.
It's not authentication safeguards, it's dark UX patterns driving you to signup. Whether or not you'll see someone's profile and how much of it you'll see depends on how they fingerprint you, where you navigate from, and on the phase of the Moon. LinkedIn is notorious for that.

My memory might be misleading me here, but I think I remember years ago in one case I could see less info about a profile when logged in to my account than I could see while logged out and navigating from a Google search...
My favorite, though it's closer to racketeering, is that they run ads for for branded keywords and charge the same brands for placement. Basically, Google is telling companies "you wouldn't want someone to get you competitor listed in the top position when they search for you, would you?"
HIPAA allows us (I'm a medic) to broadcast patient information for treatment related purposes. It's useful for us and hospitals because they can pre-register time sensitive patients and pull up history/previous test that can be extremely important for STEMIs/strokes/etc.
I tried entering a bunch of major websites. Looks like ibm.com is full of holes that need patching.
So only those oppressed by brutal dictatorships deserve self determination? Economically the damage done by independence would make brexit look like an irrelevant blip, they're dependent on water and electricity from China.
Regarding THC being illegal... Around 2012 I was at a concert in LA at the Palladium (indoor venue-- arguably most famous as the final scene of the blues brothers movie). As the night progressed, the venue was filled with a fog of pot smoke, and I was struck by the a couple of things.

One, the contrast between Orange County where one would not dare to dream to smoke in public. My (minor) career as a weed smoker was entirely indoors-- late nights and Boards of Canada albums, and whispers of, "Do you know anyone?"

Two, as a cigar enthusiast, how utterly unwelcome I would have been smoking tobacco.
Throughout my (American) childhood, I was always told that harmful lies were bad, but various purported sources of moral lessons (books, shows, etc.) had different ideas about "white lies." Some were all for them ("It's a lie, but we say it because we love them!"); others took the line "It's better to be honest even if it's hard."

Of course, there was a very common character trope with some kid who was told "Honesty is always the best policy," and who then proceeded to go around telling people (e.g.) that yes, their butts did in fact look too big. inevitably annoying all the adults they were honest with.

To any foreigners wondering, no, none of us enjoy the fake corporate double-speak either. Things like asking, "How are you?" and never wanting an actual answer are of course too engrained in our culture for most of us to even notice. But the extreme levels this gets taken to in the corporate setting is almost offensive. In the worst offenders, any exchange even close to approaching confrontational is liable to get you labeled as "difficult to work with." But this has almost less to do with our general culture, and more to do with corporations' need for bland, compliant, agreeable clone-employees.
Softbank's investment inflated WeWork's valuation. How does Softbank win in this scenario? How does the "fleecing" work?

They certainly didn't win in their Uber investment.
Progress towards idiosyncratic milestones is hard to capture with metrics. Acquisition, activation, retention and monetization like metrics are offered by most services. Keep it simple with something like Google Analytics (or anything that collects the data) and compute the metrics periodically. You'll probably need to clean your data to make it useful; that's almost always easier once exported. That's the basis for an internal and external viewpoints for board discussions and decision making.
It's hard to communicate the sense of paranoia that gripped the nation in the years after 9/11. The DC sniper didn't help. It was hopefully the closest thing to mass hysteria that I'll ever face.

I remember people bingeing CNN for days, feeling like the next attack could come at any moment. Every attack scenario you could dream up seemed like a real possibility.