skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was our guest for a conference and stayed for a couple days. He ia an interesting person indeed. Preferred to stay at someone's house instead of a hotel. If that person has a parrot that would be a plus. And some other crazy stuff. He has a 3 page document that explains what he likea and what not (i am not saying it is weird or he is asking for too much, for a frequent traveller such as him i think it is perfectly ok)

Funny story. He "stole"/borroe my phone. He didnt have a phone so we lended him one. My phone was a dumb phone and we guessed that would be better. After the conference, he took my phone to another conference that was in our country. I got it back though
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I looked up a definition of "tone deaf" to see if I misunderstood in my interpretation of the term and how I used it above.

>having or showing an obtuse insensitivity or lack of perception particularly in matters of public sentiment, opinion, or taste

Having read that I stand by what I said. In my opinion he has shown "an obtuse insensitivity or lack of perception of public sentiment" on more than one occasion. The Minsky message being a very good example. Whether you agree with the sentiment or not is seperate from clearly being obtusely insensitive about the public sentiment I think.
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Seems like it’s currently limited to only taking screenshots and videos and providing wiki information.

It would be pretty slick if you could issue game commands with it, like ‘Open my inventory’ or ‘Show map’
How many disagreeable opinions do you personally allow someone to have before you believe it correct for people to try to coerce other people to stop doing business with them so you can silence them exactly?
> for a genuine Microsoft keyboard

Also you knew it was Genuine. I'd love Amazon to do a "Guaranteed Genuine" label or something, but I can see why they don't. I used to buy everything on Amazon, now I only buy stuff that I'm willing to accept might be counterfeit.
That is seriously fucked up. From that wikipedia article:

> a pharmacist supplied drugs to a patient who presented a forged doctor's prescription, but was convicted even though the House of Lords accepted that the pharmacist was blameless.

> a 15-year-old boy was convicted of statutory rape of a child under 13, a crime under Section 5 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The prosecution accepted the boy's claim that he had believed the 12-year-old girl to be 15, but he was nevertheless sentenced to 12 months' detention.

When I read this, I'm very happy to live in a more sane part of the world.
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It's highly dependent on implementation. It's too much mental load to determine if that article you just read is worth $0.02 or not.

Brave has a model where creators are automatically tipped, based on usage, which makes more sense imo.
My thoughts as well. Between GDPR making current ad models harder to pull off and more risky and the fact that ads are getting less effective I think I might see an advertising bubble:

Here are my thoughts, comments on why this is wrong are welcome: the market for online ads seems to have been growing more than consumers disposable income for two decades.

Much of that might have come from cannibalizing other forms of advertising, but sooner or later it can't grow anymore as a new equilibrium has been reached between TV ads and online ads and consumers don't have more money to spend anyway.

I remember an old blog post from Google or something showing a whiteboard with crazy thoughts: what if we could have a mirror behind the earth to reflect sunlight and make the day longer? Then people could spend more time searching => more ad impressions => more revenue.

I feel we are at that point now, only consumers have enough time to browse, they just can't buy more than they already do (and some markets might be even beyond that point, fueled by credit card debt etc.)
Download their online recipes and do a rand on them.

It's 100% about convenience. They offer nothing more than you picking up your own food. Plus they ship as much packaging as food so it's probably far from being the most ecological solution.
> If your leader appears to advocate pedophilia

He doesn't advocate pedophilia. Nothing has changed for years. Are you advocating it?

He has just been completely misrepresented by some popular media as supporting statutory rape, and you are fueling the fire.

It is pure bullshit - the journalists that write (or publications that publish) headlines that completely reverse meaning should be held accountable for their lies.

It is libel: make it appear Richard said she was willing when he definitely said she was coerced (within the exact same paragraph as the "quote"). Seems she was 18 too - any organisation publishing clearly slanderous headings designed for sensation and payment for eyeballs should be punished.
Let's not forget that there was a time when children were taught sex in practical lessons with their parents and this was the norm and perfectly accepted and as such worked well.

It is quite possible that in our times and current society the same does not apply but let's keep in mind that our current society is sick and wrong in many ways, rotten to the core to the point it is self-destructive.

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
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You realize that FSF is in a different league of trustworthiness than Microsoft, right?
Most people don't need to be told that child abuse is bad. Stallman used to think child abuse wasn't harmful. He only changed his mind after survivors of abuse spoke to him.

Some will claim this is evidence of his scepticism but really it's evidence of lazy thinking. He could have done a tiny bit of reading before saying that child abuse isn't harmful, but he chose not to do so.
I worked with Brian Trammell when he wrote this, and I maintain that it missed something. The assumption is that you have no idea about the path that the data has traveled, but if you actually did know the topology of the larger transit routes and of the end-user's ISP, the "distance" that you're using for your calculations is different. It's no longer just the distance on the map, but the path along fibers and cables. I believe that by combining the topology information with the RTT data you can get a far more precise location.

I also maintain that you can get all the information you need from active measurement, and that adding leaks to live traffic just so you can save that active measurement overhead is irresponsible.
The medium article that was parroted by other sites was a hit piece that lied. And of course the people reading it believed every word without a shred of doubt, and other outlets republishing it failed journalistic integrity spectacularly.

Congratulations, to all those who fell for it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5a4dz/_/f0l50w4/?co...
I've had the misfortune of needing to run some FB and Twitter ads recently, and it baffles me how completely unusable and unfriendly these platforms are for the only thing that makes them any money.
A useful response in general to unexpected confusion.
Can't blame them when browsers design their user interface so that you will do a Google search instead of going to a URL. Because 99% of the funding comes from Google search.
I also think it is an interesting language. It is beginner-friendly since we can add types gradually. The actor alike concurrency also makes it easier to implement concurrent programs.
This is a terrible response IMO. We should take responsibility for what we say and be sensitive but we should let things like our career prospects affect our freedom of speech. That’s a chilling effect.
Exactly. Look at Eiffel's Folly, for example.
There is no safer option anyway if you can be given an arbitrary JSON object in the first place.
I think you've got a weird definition of capitalism. Capitalism is not, nor has ever been, characterized by the free exchange of goods and services, any more than feudalism, or even communism, is. It's characterized by the political, social, and economic power of Capital, as opposed to other social bodies (say, the church).

I also don't really understand what a market is without a state, either theoretically, or practically. You need some independent guarantor of property rights to have property - since property itself is not a fact of nature, but rather a result of laws and rights. Practically, all states are by necessity involved in every legal transaction, either as a neutral arbiter in disputes, or as an active participant.
Completely agree. My default stack is now react + an api in the backend. The way you can reuse components is a great time saver (even for simple apps). I also like redux-thunk to separate all my API calls from the components. Makes everything very lean and readable.

I feel way more productive today than in the old jQuery, knockout messes
It adds samples, increasing resolution. There wont be a jitter option for most people. It's way more than a bit of information that's getting added.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/102/materials/slides-10...
Factoring into primes doesn't really affect the lower bound on complexity.

Note that for N=2^64, the number N! is about 10^(10^20.5), i.e. just the number of digits in N! is itself about 3×10^20. The number of bits in N! is itself over 10^89. Every prime number from 1 to 2^64 (over 10^17 primes) is a prime factor of this number N!; if an algorithm is supposed to work with those many primes, it's clearly no longer O(K) as K could be small relative to N.

An algorithm (like one of the proposed encryption schemes) that produces, say, one of 2^1024 permutations may be “good enough for practical purposes” (as 2^1024 is much larger than the number of atoms in the universe), yet as a fraction of the space of all possible permutations, it is dizzyingly insignificant.
> an underage girl would be entirely willing to have sex with an adult and presented herself willingly would be nothing more than a 'controversial opinion'.

But this is not what he said. He clearly states coerced. I think the outrage should come only after a correct reading comprehension.
You can check if this holds by inspecting the covariance matrix.
It can be degenerate or the variables may be correlated (thus not joint normal) and even independent uncorrelated gaussian ones need not be.

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

It's best to check using the second definition from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_normal_distributi...

This results in the BHEP test:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_normal_distributi...
Most enterprises use Artifactory or something similar -- or should anyway. Once you start enforcing "no internet for CI" you start to see how poor some ecosystems are. I'm looking at you, Javascript ecosystem packages, with your hardcoded mystery URLs that you sneakily download artefacts from...
That's a fair reason. I do echo the sibling comment though that naming the repo "stl" was/is very confusing. I would have called it "stdlib" or something.
This looks incredibly useful. Real-time inventory sync is a big headache for some of our customers. (We provide a native mobile sales channel for retailers with only a traditional web presence. Think Tapcart (https://tapcart.co/), but not just for Shopify). I'd like to know what your plans are for which platforms to support next, and if you've got ideas for opening up an API at some point as well?
Not really, if you are a small user your cost is negligible. You can calculate how much it would be for a small team but my guess is couple of dollars per month. Apple's use case is still very reasonable and the cost for them also not as bad. They could also split out different customers to different buckets and have big guys pay for it while smaller companies have it for free. There are many options.
Recursive search without divisions, multiplication and bitwise
I've worked with small businesses - the small one to thirty person plummer or photographer or decorator type. What you're asking for is fundamentally impossible. Business and entrepreneurship is a human process where two entities find a transaction that benefits them both.

Of course this breaks down when shady actors manipulate in bad faith, but that's the price of freedom. To put a ban into place as extensive as you're suggesting would be to regulate speech as far as I'm concerned.
For the same reasons (good and bad) companies periodically switch other software platforms despite switching costs. History is exportable, and I suspect that for every company that's built clever and essential integrations and comprehensive channel structures there's another one where it's an under-used message board...
This whole discussion has made me wonder how someone like Roman Polanski has managed to evade extradition for so long. That sounds like it should have been a much more cleat cut case for extradition. There was an extradition case in Switzerland at some point. Would Snowden be safer there?
What's adultery doing on that list? Why shouldn't it be legal? Prostitution is legal in many places. Legalising it everywhere would help get rape cases reduced. Unless you're a vegan it's hard not to laugh at criticism of justification of bestiality.

And regarding sex trafficking/rape - sex with a 17 year old is almost never seen as rape legally. That's a mostly US thing. The age of consent is 16 generally; lower than 16 in parts of Europe. Everyone's entitled to an opinion but criticising someone for defending actions which are legal and - subject to opinion - moral seems like a bit of a boring waste of time.
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As a professional Erlang developer I don't trust libraries that are heavy on NIFs, and Rust isn't going to change this.
Key feature of BEAM VM is process preemption. It makes NIF development harder than it looks, and typically performance of NIF-based libraries looks best in synthetic benchmarks.
Ah, yes, the "only in hindsight" defense. I don't buy it.

A paid escort is plausible, though, and I hadn't thought of that. However, the girl was 17. Obviously age isn't always obvious down to the year, but I would hope someone in that situation would think twice before assuming everything was kosher.
Is this what they call product market fit?
First, can I ask why you're creating multiple new accounts to comment? It seems very odd.

> Kevin Rudd said it would cost $15 billion.

The first 90% fibre plan was $43b, later revised down to $37.4b of which it was supposed to be $30b of investment from the Federal government. [0]

About $12b of that was in payments to Telstra ($11b) and Optus ($800m) in return for access to lead-in and last-mile conduits/pits, and decommissioning of HFC networks.

That original business plan was revised later after a KPMG study to recommend ~93% fibre, ~4% fixed wireless (LTE variant), and the remaining ~2-3% on two dedicated satellites (new launches).

(Edited to add: Note that this plan included an eventual ROI, where the government would get it's money back - and hence it be zero/low cost. The current plan has no hope of that happening short of selling the entire thing off to Telstra.)

FTTH installations were budgeted at $1500/residence to install, which by the time the Abbott government was coming into power was actually trending closer to $1200 as the workforce was trained up in deploying the gear and became more experienced in dealing with any odd situations.

There is/was a fantastic video of a talk given by someone from NBNCo (I believe Mike Quigly?) at a University where they go over the architectural design decisions, and how the 93% number was arrived at. The video also went over in detail how the fixed-wireless process was to work.

Arguments that remediating conduit and installing new copper is either cheaper or less work to install aren't backed up by evidence, with NBNCo's current cost for FTTC being somewhere over $3000/residence in 2019[1].

Additionally, because there's now FTTP, FTTN, FTTC, HFC, Fixed-Wireless and Satellite - the whole network is harder to manage and maintain. You need a bigger, more widely trained workforce, you have more equipment to maintain, and more vendors to deal with.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Broadb...

[1] https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-cos-actual-cost-per-premi...
I greatly admire many if his achievements. My comment is that I'm surprised that he was able to be so successful while many times taking a position so at odds with a sentiment held by most of society. My opinion is that "picking your battles" seems to be a more successful strategy in general. I'm also not commenting on the ethics of being flexible about your convictions and how you express them.
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For all I know, that article was a phishing attack. It literally served up some fucked up looking Microsoft ad in the middle of the sentence talking about fake ads. The internet is fucked. Burn it down and start over.
Ask HN: Is it possible perma ban nytimes from HN
I love HN for primarily the news part , but recently its been over run by toxi click bait from sites such as nytimes. I think HN should make a clear example and ban domains which have a history of toxic click bait. there is a wealth of great news in the new section , but frequently its overshadowed by targeted click bait. Good stuff is dying in new . Im open to change about something as harsh as a ban but a negative weight bias to kill nytimes articles might be a start.
An active measurement example: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Better URL: https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns
You're missing the point. There is no hack. You can claim, but in order to claim you need to provide evidence you have credit monitoring. So in order to get 31 cents from equifax you need to prove that you're using an expensive useless service that is either provided by equifax or one of their equally useless competitors.

The hacking was done in court.
You don't have to wait 10 minutes for a confirmation, especially not if we're talking about dollar amounts. Credit card transactions work exactly the same as 0-conf, and we seem to accept them just fine.

> Also by increasing the size of the blocks you increase the orphan rate due to propagation delay which results in needing more confirmations before a transaction is considered truly immutable.

Which happens at around 20 MB. Improvements like Graphene, Xthinner and blocktorrent will drastically reduce the orphan rate allowing for much bigger blocks to be propagated fast enough for the orphan rates to not climb in a relevant fashion.

> Bitcoin has to have a fee market to incentivize miners so that as block rewards decrease the cost of securing the network doesn't shrink as well.

Or Bitcoin needs many more lower fee transactions to compensate. In a couple of decades.
I like the page layout! It's a lot smarter than most code playgrounds are. It's nice to be able to see everything at a glance.
Company with an identity crisis by any chance?
This is ridiculous in a culture that elected and continues to support an accused rapist to its highest office. If the highest office in the nation (and many others) can have such a scumbag without him being forced to resign, how can we expect someone in Stallman's position to be perfect and PC with his speech so idiots don't misunderstand his direct style of speech? Such hypocrisy, such bullshit, this argument is.
That it is license under Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception is also refreshing and amazing.
Would you, though? My company was a very early user of Slack, and imported our history from Skype group chat, IRC and HipChat over various periods in history. You can get the data out of Slack easily enough, so I don’t see that as a major aspect of lock-in if there is a competitive product.

The integration story is more interesting, but to _be_ a competitive product many of these must already exist.

The job of competing with Slack is harder than it once was (just look at MS Teams) but not impossible (just look at Slack...) - there’s lots of room for improvement.
Does this impact you if you run Jira on your own servers? My understanding is most companies run Jira themselves and Atlassian AFAIK only runs a "tutorial"-kind instance (unlike say Gitlab where a lot of customers run the project themselves but they also have a real public instance you can choose to use). I don't know if the self-hosted instances need Atlassian to be online to function, if they call home.
I think the point was, the socialist states of the soviet bloc were explicitly 'capitalist', and that was something they said about themselves. The point is, they thought about capitalism as something they were transitioning out of, and trying to actively replace.

Capitalism is a pretty clear idea - it's a society characterized by wage labour. Non-capitalist societies don't have the concept of selling your labour-time for a wage. That's why feudal societies aren't capitalist (they didn't have clocks, for one thing). That's why the soviet block was capitalist.
Interesting concept. But I can't find any games, maybe add an option to play with bots.
That's interesting because, by the nature of needing to appeal to everyone, I find Hello Fresh recipes to be very safe and often quite bland tasting. If you already know how to cook it's easy to make them tasty according to your preferences but if you don't I suspect people just churn out middling-tasting food.