skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question to author: will it be possible in Handshake for the community to agree to censor a domain via a vote of some kind?

(FTR, I hope not)
It's always interesting to me when people try to downplay politics as somehow "less than" the technological and theoretical aspects of software engineering. I wonder what those people imagine software is for.
From the kickstarter page under "How Does it Work?":

> "The Decaf Pouch is full of beads that are made of a natural mineral that attracts and binds caffeine. Through a physical process called adsorption, the caffeine molecules stick to the beads."

Yeah. Read my linked paper. The kickstarter photo certainly looks a lot like the primary component in most cat litter. Bentonite/montmorillonite is amazing stuff, but it's not amazing enough to buy in tiny pouches at a premium instead of by the kilo.
Can you elaborate? It seems that you’re describing a problem that’s separate from secure naming and communication to servers.
Yes, but people enjoy reading previous discussions.
It's a useful debate to be having -- although it is somewhat endless and undecidable in absolute terms, in the way that fundamental philosophical debates are.

I think about robotics as an example of a problem domain that seems resistant to pure-learning approaches. I'm thinking about the whole perception-planning-execution problem, in which a map of the world, and a notion of a goal, are key modeling objects.

It's really hard to think about how a robotic system that doesn't maintain a map could work intelligently to accomplish navigation goals, for instance. A map seems to imply some kind of model. And if the world (the map) isn't static, the modeling problem seems to get even more urgent.
I can't help but remember: past results do not indicate nor guarantee future returns.

Unless someone can un-convince me of general macro-economics, not investing in fossil fuel companies will lead to depression of the fossil fuel market and incentivize more relatively lucrative opportunities. The companies of the past only had the means of production of the past, the companies of the future have access to non-fossil fuel dependent energy.
That’s the symbol truncation warning. IIRC, the suppression is no longer necessary because the compiler removed the warning completely.
That's the thing that was difficult to overcome - it was common belief and a common perception that everything were settled already.

Probably in other fields situation might be the same - judging only by facts and data can bring potential opportunities.
The Machine Infernale, killed 18 in one shot in a failed assassination attempt
I have TSA pre check.

Pros:

- it's sometimes faster

Cons:

- it doesn't work everywhere

- it's sometimes a hassle to add to the reservation

- the regular line is often fairly short anyway

There's another con for me because I like to arrive at airports pretty far in advance.

I used to take one international flight often, and found that global entry was helpful (pretty sure it came with pre check).
There is no way to do that via the blockchain itself. Theoretically, the community could hard fork Handshake to exclude certain names, but that’s unlikely as it’s antithetical to why the community would use Handshake in the first place. It’d be like if the Bitcoin community hardforked out certain addresses in Bitcoin...
To be fair, you're just a witness. The right move was exactly what you did after, which is to give all the information to the owner of the damaged car. They can pursue things and you can be their witness. But just randomly calling Lyft and telling them this... what exactly do you expect them to do?
It sounded like a mini-draft to me, so I'd say it's probably as legal as a draft is.
You should seek to form a union at your place of employment. That's what they are for.
TL;DR:

- The iOS and Android apps are now free

- Web and desktop apps now require a Pocket Casts Plus subscription, for 0.99/mo or 9.99/yr

- Current web and desktop users will be grandfathered into 3 free years of Pocket Casts Plus

Personally, this change worries me. I'm reminded of these snippets they had on their web player purchase page when I bought access a few years back:

>No monthly subscriptions or freemium hoo-ha.

>If you like what you see, we'll ask you for $9. Just once.

>We don’t do freemium. No VC funding. No crazy. We love podcasts and
we’ve built the web player that we want to use. We’ve priced it at a
point where we’ll stick around to keep it up to date. You can expect
support, features and many more awesome things in the future.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150315000705/https://play.pock...

Additionally, they note that they "may introduce other ways to keep this whole thing sustainable in the future"... seems like it's only a matter of time until "free" turns into "free, but with ads."
https://play.google.com/music/listen#/tps
Dear Microserfs
They probably do for intelligence. It's fairly well accepted that the Jewish high intelligence is genetic. It's not much of a stretch to consider that similar differences affect other ethnic groups too. There's no strong evidence to say that Europeans and Africans are genetically identical in intelligence so it's not reasonable to really believe that. But there are many ways to imagine how it could be true and that leaves room for blank-slaters to hold their belief of genetic equality specially carved out for intelligence alone among all human qualities.
Your imagined "right" to having a dirty nuke is not equivalent to freedom of speech, and you're fully aware of that.. merely frustrated about it. The schools are still open for enrollment, it's better to develop your mind than imagining what you can do with weapons of war.

Ironically enough, gun culture fetishes that lead people to think weapons are solutions to their problems are being defeated by those of us utilizing our 1st Amendment rights. The weapons you hold so dear to your heart can no longer be used as a tool of the 2nd Amendment to prevent the rest of us from utilizing our 1st Amendment right any longer, outside of a mass shooting. No matter how much that pains you.
I wish I had paid for pocket casts web/desktop player before.
State of Deseret
That was the most funny thing - we thought if we work only with major exchanges - we will avoid any issues related with immature systems.

Thats make me severely reconsider acceptance criteria of product to be ready to face customers :D
> ... conflate what is moral with what is legal.

We're not dealing with an authoritarian state. Laws by democratic governments are supposed to be mutable.

It's possible say, that the laws haven't caught up to what we (as americans) consider moral. Or it's possible the laws themselves were driven by immoral actors. Or it's possible the law's were passed with good intentions but had side effects that were unforeseeable. Or it's just one big gray area -- which seems to be the case here.

People argue that Snowden's act was moral in the most absolute sense to inform the nation and expose the Government's secrets.

James Comey, someone I think to be of high moral standards, knew about the program [1] yet didn't release the information to the public. He refused to reauthorize the post 9/11 surveillance program -- going to extraordinary lengths to do so.

So what are we to do? Is it more moral to work within the system to change the laws, or to break them entirely?

[1] https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mueller-comey-ash...

Edited for clarity and succinctness.
I would expect that declining life expectancy is over-represented in the poorest stratum of society (but I will look this up to be sure). It is not going to be rich kids getting anaphylaxis that are making up the numbers. Even obesity prevalence will be a function of the SES of the individual within the population. Same with drug abuse etc, etc. If these things are getting worse while economic indicators for the country overall are positive, then it shows that inequality within the country is getting worse in real ways.
Alternatively, it could just consolidate the industry even more than it already is.
Data Engineer vs. Software Engineer: Challenges and Solutions
I would argue that you should do features detection rather than depending on version number, as much as possible.
It is time we hold ride sharing companies, indeed any company that uses so called "contractors", liable for the damage or criminal behavior committed on company time.

Contact a lawyer. Use the legal and criminal justice system to hold them accountable. Sue for damages. Contact your state or federal representative to push for laws to do so.
Unfortunately, the way credit risk is measured does not always measure actual credit risk, but your proximity to stereotypes of high credit risk.
No it isn't. This would ensure that identity theft is a permanent and irreversible thing.
Regarding the United States at least, there are topics that we, as a country, have decided are not up for debate in the workplace. That's a feature not a bug; we've had enough decades of, for example, observation of how covert and overt racism harms people it is directed against that we've made it the sort of thing that companies can be directly liable for if they allow it in their space.

There's a hundred years of history explaining why the balance point between freedom of speech and freedom from fear has been calibrated thusly.
It's a minor typo, but in the first paragraph under the heading Defensive programming this sentence occurs:

> I won’t go into subcommits in any detail, but it’s worth nothing that because TransactionIdCommitTree cannot be guaranteed to be atomic

From the context I think the word "nothing" should be "noting", as in, "It's worth noting".
Hello, GitLab employee. I definitely hope we've matured a lot since 6 years ago! In early 2015 there were still only 9 employees [1] compared to almost 900 now.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/company/history/
> Unless yoy can produce the lawful authorization given to access these computers, that subsection does not permit their actions.

The NSA is indeed authorized to break into communications systems abroad. That is half of its charter.

> So your argument is that the documents he revealed don't detail a mass surveillance program

My argument is that PRISM, which he was so excited to tell everyone about, is not a mass surveillance program as he had claimed. The closest thing to a mass surveillance program in the US that he leaked (and the only illegal NSA program in his leaks) was phone metadata collection, but the restrictions on how that data could be queried makes calling it mass surveillance a bit of a stretch.

> All the dot coms listed by PRISM deny being a part of such a program.

They aren't a part of PRISM — the slides very clearly show them to be outside of PRISM, which Snowden and Greenwald were too stupid to understand. They integrate with the FBI (and EU law enforcement, etc.) to transfer data for specific accounts under court-ordered surveillance. The slides show that PRISM is an NSA data ingestion system to get the FBI's data into the NSA's search indices. The only two organizations involved in implementing that are the NSA and the FBI.
Have you encountered applicants with OSS on their GitHub profiles just to show off to HR? ResumeWare if you will?
+ how to overcome uncertainties, deal with unknowns and what questions to ask
you could call n=Rand() once (instead of in each recursive call) and then find the nth item
Yeah when they get cut off generally. So maybe cutting them off is putting them in a more dangerous situation then letting them have safer prescription versions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
What a surreal article.

`the administration “did not intend, or anticipate, those efforts to include the forced entry into a building.”`

It seems a little crazy they went so far as to break into the building when it looks like what was actually wanted was just do a few things and sign off on our security. You know, things we "anticipate" (doesn't that defeat the entire purpose?).

Contractors seem like they went above and beyond really. Bureaucrats don't appear to like that.
So that case didn't go to the supreme court, as congress made that action specifically illegal.

But in other surveillance cases, the supreme court has dismissed the cases.
Indeed. Forgot to mention that, I did.

Given that I mainly publish Tor onion sites, it's mostly all plain HTML. Because it's faster via Tor, with less back and forth. I did, under pressure, do one clearnet site with a CSS library, and multiple classes with different column layouts. But I make no pretense about website skills.
That's all fine and good, but Stallman argued that it was absolutely wrong to use "sexual abuse" in an accusation, not morally wrong.

Stallman's position appears to be that you absolutely cannot call what happened to you "child abuse."

Stallman doesn't seem willing to learn what others mean by "sexual assault" before making up his own definition and claiming that's the definition they were using.

Stallman has also spent his adult life as a sexual creep. This is an open secret. Your moral calculus appears to be that people are free to creep on others so long as the good they do outweighs the creep, and Stallman's good means he can be as creepy as he wants to, with no direct consequences?

If after 30 years the free software movement can't survive and thrive without Stallman then the movement has failed. The indirect consequences include all the people who left or never joined the movement because of his creepiness. Is that in your calculus?
It's not like features go straight from master -> release in 4 weeks. Changes have to go through developer-edition and beta channel first before landing in the release channel.
The economy has a track record of being cyclical, so if you ask a question whether a recession is coming on any day the answer would be - 'Yes, eventually'. But recessions correct themselves and after every recession we've seen growth cycle which takes the economy to new heights.

The only recourse humans have is to continue with their lives without paying heed to what's in vogue in the news cycle.
> Without looking anything up

Not GP, but... what? Why are you filtering materials by the GP's in-brain knowledge?
Wow that sounds ridiculous but true
Yeah but is there a web search engine that respects your freedom?
If you have enough money - you can spread it among various exchanges into pre-defined coins and just rebalancing it along the usual trading.
At work, time and energy are best used solving real world problems. Not toying with technology for the sake of it.

And surely you're joking when comparing JS's cognitive load with Rust's...
A couple of things I've been thinking of (speaking of GPL sofware)

- free software (GPL) can be used for any purpose, by the user. Yes, this means a corporation can use the software without paying. However if it tries to redistribute the software it has the obligation to distribute the source code and any improvements made to it.

- Large corporations are made of people. It is also of value that a person inside a large corporation can learn to use GPL tools, then leave the corporation and download use the same tools at home or another job and continue to use the skills learned.

- GPL software is also great for education - students can not only use tools, but can also pull them apart and see how they work

- GPL software can be a legacy if you're into that. You can write and distribute software under the GPL, and it can survive your current job, or corporation, or live on past your lifetime. GPL software has outlived most of the places I've worked. Meanwhile the non-free software those places created during my tenures have largely disappeared.

- GPL software is a great foil against our losing war with privacy. I can foresee a future where running software you can view and modify might be the only way to ensure you know you aren't being taken advantage of.
It's actually easy to change the climate or geography for a person by moving that person out of the place with the bad environment. Unfortunately, the bad environments are also the cheapest so some other person will move in to enjoy the low cost of living and then they'll become the new poor who has to be saved.
On Incentives
Moving on to phase 2 of the test: Jail containment capabilities.
Mine is super basic: http://mooreds.com/

I find that nowadays 98% of my time and effort on the personal website is on the blog. I've thought about trashing the rest, but still have some old links to papers and resources I put together years ago that I can be bothered to update. One of these days...
Note, that as a general rule of thumb - large dividends by companies is essentially the company saying "we can not make use of this cash better than you, here - take it". This can be common in "mature" markets where it is hard to justify returns on additional investments in growth. Better to just return the cash generated to shareholders.
WeWork takes this much further than other SV companies. In their S-1 filing, they had to disclose something like 100+ related party transactions: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alapshah/2019/08/19/just-how-un...
one can make an argument that it depends on who is the copyright holder. if it is an individual or a non-profit entity, then the GPL is beneficial. but if it is a corporation, then a BSD license is preferable for others because it allows competitors to that corporation to compete on equal terms.

so to turn the argument around BSD unix would not exist in its current form if the initial corporate developers had not released it under a BSD compatible license.

so it's not just about volunteer BSD developers subsidizing corporations. but there is a give and take in the BSD world too.

compare that to mariadb which contains most of the code that is owned and controlled by oracle now and which prevents mariadb to sell to clients that demand a custom license agreement.

now for a GPL fan, this is irrelevant because they shouldn't be selling such licenses anyways, but fact is that the owner of a GPL product is the only one who can sell such licenses, whereas anyone who uses a BSD product can sell such licenses.

in this sense, BSD code ownership can not be sold because actual ownership of the code is pretty much irrelevant, whereas GPL code ownership can be sold because the owner always has an advantage.
All those details are insufficient? That's a BS on Lyft. They could try "thanks, we'll look into it". Instead they were dismissive jerks
By "made you think" you mean it explicitly mentions them, along with many other examples. The link you provide is even in the OP.
> Stock prices are set by the profitability of the company.

No, stock prices are driven by demand. The most dominant factor in determining demand might be profitability for some investors, but it's one of many (stability, risk, ethics are all other factors). Even saying profitability is the dominant factor for stock prices is dubious, since many unprofitable companies have outrageously high stock prices based on speculation of growth.

If demand dropped enough in spite of profitability, it would reduce the stock price.
> You mean there has been so much cash around that nobody really needed to get cash via the fed funds market, for quite a while?

Prior to IOER, banks needed to lend money on the fed funds market to earn interest on any excess reserves. Doing so exposed them to the credit risk of their counterparty. Once it became possible to earn IOER risk free, banks had no incentive to expose themselves to the credit risk. Since banks (of all sizes) could not then rely on being able to access the fed funds market for liquidity, it became necessary for them to keep more reserves at the Fed. Perversely, as the quantity of reserves held at the Fed increased, interbank lending decreased (for more detail, see [0] pages 33-39).

> It does seem like the spread between fed funds and IOER is generally just a few bp

Until recently, it looks like the spread has been roughly 5-17bps [1]. For a floor system, it seems rather odd that this would exist at all, especially for a period of a decade (see [0] pages 18-19).

[0] https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/working-p...

[1] https://imgur.com/n3R366c
His expertise is software development and the open source world. he can make contributions as long as he is able to swing a patch against a git repository.

That doesn't imply any institution of higher learning or software advocacy organization needs to grant him their imprimatur to do it.
That doesn't sync with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... right?

But maybe google play is good enough.
It's been in widespread use for decades. Back in the 90s there was Digimarc who inserted copyright details into photos and video by changing the shading of pixels in an unnoticeable pattern, and they even said the method could be applied to car paint. All you need is a high resolution scanner, and given that the cameras on your typical game console are high enough to see skin temperature variances and determine one's emotional state (best in combination with galvanic skin response), the scanners are everywhere. Think about that the next time someone complains about data tracking.
Is there anyone left on 32 bit at this point in time on their daily driver? Windows, Linux, OSX, they've all been 64 bit for many iterations now.
triple it... and gimme 20k, only.
Oh, right, sorry, my misunderstanding.
I'm glad I paid for Pocket Casts ages ago. It's a brilliant app that's beautifully designed, and had features well before the competition caught up with support for the desktop as well. For my early support, they offered me 3 years of Plus for free. I'm happy.
I care that those people are on supported software, not insecure versions that are unsupported. You're welcome to hold out on old hardware, no one is offended, but don't expect MS to support unsupported operating systems. That's doing no one a favor.

There's plenty of old hardware scenes and gamers, and has been for a long time before AOE2. It is important if MS can make money off people, because without that incentive there never would've been an AOE2 to begin with. So I'd save your dinars for that upgrade.
It's an interesting claim and we actually lack decent research on this. That would be hard to obtain though.

That said, Stallman decided later nobody should still do it.

Perhaps though scorched earth prosecution is not the best in some cases. Judges understand this in EU countries, juries often don't.

This does not include Epstein or even Minsky.
To overcome an entrenched competitor with network effects, the upstart has to be significantly and obviously better for a new project to adopt. To maintain market and mindshare, GitHub doesn't have to become/stay better than GitLab; they just have to be good enough, or at least appear to be.
Maybe you would be happier with part time work.
> transcription support

If I wanted to add transcription support to a podcasting app, which third party services or software packages I use to turn the audio into text?

A similar problem stumped a weekend project ~5 months ago for me. Transcription seems to be non-trival.
The hover effect was my favorite part of this article.
Even better http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...
This makes me more interested in using Plex for podcasts instead. It doesn’t have some of the bells and whistles such as silence removal, but it has a web app and works on mobile.