skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless I'm missing something, 4chan and 8chan are both available on the clearweb still - it seems like the article is implying that they're both not anymore?

Looks like an advertisement for WebHost more than investigative journalism.
It's about solving new problems using what you learned from previous problems.

You don't need to memorize since 1.) you don't know what parts of the problem will generalize to other problems until you've seen a lot of problems, 2.) by the time you're able to recognize the same pattern repeated in other problems, you've mostly memorized it anyway.

What I've found to be the most helpful is taking down notes of new concepts that I've learned. For example, a quick summary of how dijkstra's algorithm works so if I need to use it, I can read my own summary and quickly get up to speed on it.
Have you read that source material? If not, how can you be so sure?
You might want to preserve net neutrality and continue to use torrents like this.
Not sure about Kindles, but with the super cheap Fire Tablets, Amazon basically tells you "this device is subsidized by ads". You can pay a small fee ($15 IIRC) to remove them permanently.
I'd hate to be that guy to take away from the discussion to talk about the website, but it really is a shame they have such a shitty website given their mission. The website took forever to finish loading and even when content was present I couldn't even scroll until everything was finished loading, presumably because it's scroll jacked. Even after it loaded the scrolling would stop working and them start jumping all over the place as it was catching up. It seems the focus was somehow taken off the ability to scroll since I had to keep clicking the scroll bar to be able to scroll again....
Bitcode also enables your old app to run on new Apple Watch hardware with no recompilation required.
Mender 2.1 released: Deploy your first application easily
Dont forget the people who already purchased the content but lost the physical media or their access to it
As far as I understand, the low vat on home energy is more to do with electioneering than anything else:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/news/why-the-uk-gover...
Why no mention of nuclear electricity generation, which requires less CO2 than Solar and even Wind? (For the same amount of available power)
Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2019 Release
So called "Off-Label" usage is totally legal in the US right now, for free. Drug companies get in trouble for advertising off-label use (that is totally verboten, the FDA regulates drug company advertising and so it can only be done for something the FDA has approved), but your doctor can prescribe something for off-label use totally legally at any time. Estimates are that about 20% of all prescriptions are for off-label use.

Also, the billion dollar number is for developing a new medicine, and includes the costs of all the attempts that failed along the way, not for running tests to get an already approved drug certified for a new usage.
Even the first line of that paper is false.

"RSA cryptography is based on the difficulty of factoring large integers, which is an NP-hard (and hence intractable) problem for a classical computer."

That is incorrect: there is no proof that factoring is NP-hard. Anyway, you can hardly expect me to take anything they say after this seriously.
I made the same mistake in a now-deleted comment. Read further, those two are not what the article is talking about.

Title should be changed, article is called "Imageboards: Monitoring the Hotbeds of Extremism and Radicalism".
- H1Bs are cheaper to hire and take the place of American jobs (though to a far lesser degree than you'll hear during this upcoming election

- Everyone is preparing for a recession (for the last three years now)

- Jobs are posted online and get tons of applicants now. That makes it easier to switch cities and not have to go through a period of unemployment but that also means they get tons of applicants. Are many of them bots? You bet.
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It would be nice if we could criticize this as a shitty hiring practice that hurts US citizens without someone strawmanning the critique into being a personal attack on the character of H-1B workers. I wish them all the best, and would love to compete with them on an even playing field. And I wish all the worst to big companies that use them to replace and devalue vast swathes of American workers.
Worldwide mostly realtime data: https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=...
Big ideas that I suspect to be true
> but would also let them use their own CPU architecture should they move away from Intel/ARM

Only if their new architecture looked a lot like Intel/ARM. Bitcode can’t paper over all architectural differences.
Internet Accountability Project Launches to Tackle 'Bad Acts'
In the “Move fast, break things” realm, there was a 2013 tragedy in which two mechanics lost their lives atop one of those massive wind turbines when it caught fire. Their legacy is that it led to better safety standards.

http://www.windaction.org/posts/38949-dual-deaths-in-wind-tu...
It's not one big thing as a thousand thousand little things that individual engineers have worked on.

"Simply" making the turbines bigger helps quite a lot, but that requires engineering the blades and support structures. There's also a continuous improvement of the generators, and the inverters to connect them to the grid. There's also clever fluid modelling software to reduce the extent to which one turbine takes energy out of the airstream of another, and so on.

For solar cells, the onward march of silicon processing helps a lot, but this time we don't even have to reduce the feature size! One paper that sticks in my memory is the development of "reduced kerf diamond wire saws": since a "boule" of silicon is more or less a fixed cost, if you can make the cuts between wafers thinner you reduce the amount of waste material and increase the number of wafers produced.
We're going down this path as well and it's been a struggle to find secular options, but it is indeed growing much more common.

I'd suggest that social development can be served by literally just playing with friends though. In our area, the YMCA offers sports basically the whole year, which is a good way for the kids to spend time in a structured group setting (and if you're lucky, you can even be the coach!), and my wife has found plenty of fellow homeschoolers and unschoolers on FB who are looking for some social interaction for their kids (we happen to live in a place that isn't particularly religious though).

Relatedly, everyone just seems to agree that the socialization provided by school is good and necessary, and I'm not so sure that's true. It's been our experience that all of our friends and relatives, when they do complain about school, complain about bullying or kids otherwise misbehaving in a way that's stressful to the child in question.

In addition, our experience on the playground has been that kids who are in school tend to be way more likely to be rude and aggressive. And I don't say this to suggest that school makes kids rude and aggressive, just that I have 4 kids and I have spent a lot of time around a lot of different kids and I've seen zero evidence that school provides positive socialization beyond what could be had by attending regular play groups.
No, you have it backwards - the 11 got the utlra-wide lens as it's second camera.

[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-11/
>> It means that Firefox devs can write every new functionality in Rust, no matter how small it is.

True, but they should still focus on oxidizing whole modules and subsystems in their entirety whenever possible.
I think the corporate chase card breaks down a lot of the purchase details for my employer
The problem with OVH is their appallingly bad rep for hosting "troublesome" content...

In practical terms that means you can send emails but there's a 70% chance they'll land in the other party's spam bin.
The Cost of Preemptive Deals
It sounds like it could be related to the LessWrong cult [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong#Roko's_basilisk
Was about to comment that you should write a Book, ncmncm. But I think it'd be better if you just wrote a new Operating System ;)
App Thinning works just as well without bitcode. It’s just a process of removing unneeded architecture slices and resource variants from a downloadable app.
There is research into this - and it seems to work well for elementary school kids, with a minimum of homework for older students. (universities are different). Scandinavian countries do this and always score well. AT least here in Norway, they also do not hold elementary kids back, but work with them appropriately. There is more than one way of gauging development and progress.
Airbnb plans public listing in 2020
does he know WP is open source?
The state of private trackers tells us about the amount of effort put into enforcement. Accessible trackers dont last long, so there is necessarily some hoop jumping to make it more profitable to go elsewhere and attack softer targets.
This article represents one of the problems I have with HBR and "business school" literature in general.

It's a rehash of tried and true principles that have been described numerous times before almost always without attribution to original sources.

What's wrong with that?

Well, for one the authors are passing off work that is clearly not their own. Fine, whatever, it's a b-school publication, nobody takes their intellectual output seriously anyways.

But the more important problem is that you lose a sense of where this knowledge has come from, where it's been applied, how it's been applied, and other important context.

In other words, reading this article is basically a waste of time. It's better to stick to a handful of classic business texts (Drucker's a good place to start and yes, he goes over all the recommendations these authors make in Effective Executive). Reading Kaplan on the Balanced Scorecard is another good place to start.
> You would literally know nothing about any product or service without marketing.

We can hardly imagine such bliss.

Pop quiz: does anybody imagine marketing or advertising would exist in a) paradise, b) utopia, c) Heaven?

> A farmer buying billboard space with a photo of his tomatoes is advertising. There isn’t anything unethical about either practice.

Plastering every available surface by a road or in a common area, with adverts is tragedy of the commons material. How dare people litter like that, taking away our collective view of the world and replacing it to their advantage without our consent?
What has happened that is hurting us in the West is that wages have stagnated. Our standard of living is still going up, but that's largely driven by cheaper goods from developing countries (cough China cough) and better technology.

I suspect this is simply due to the fact that there are now hundreds of millions more middle class people in the world that can do our jobs just as well as we can. However I can't bring myself to cry foul. Why shouldn't they get a fair bite at the apple?

Inequality is definitely an issue, but frankly if we're going to vote in billionaires so they can give themselves and their rich mates historically unprecedented tax breaks, while profiting enormously from their position of privilege, maybe we deserve it.
It's not _quite_ as small but _way_ better than every smart phone camera on the market, the Ricoh GR3.

http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/gr-3/
Nuclear decomissioning is the only one that's especially expensive; I suspect if you look at most of the actual wind farm contracts you'll see a decomissioning cost in there somewhere.

Factoring in the "backup" generators makes no sense in a free market electricity economy. That's like saying you need to factor in the cost of a taxi to train tickets, in case the train is broken down.
I was trying to use it instead of Postgres as a general database and it just didn't shine in that role. The value proposition made sense on paper: it's a more natural way to reason about data than RDBMS, relationships as first-class citizens offer some really great benefits, avoiding the schema seems reasonable when the rest of your stack is dynamic, Cypher is more pleasant than SQL. While some of that might be true, I encountered the following:

- Using a somewhat esoteric database increased my devops responsibilities.

- Open source license didn't allow hot backups.

- Ruby is just slow. I was using it before the binary protocol was implemented so performance was often lousy compared to Postgres.

- Writes were slow. Neo4j seemed to excel at reads and, in particular, the kinds of reads that are best handled by a graph. Shocking, I know.

- I really didn't have enough data or the need for the kinds of queries that would really let it shine.

- A big part of the culture at meetups and tutorials was based on "DON'T YOU JUST HATE JOINS!?" It felt culty. I was a big part of that problem for a long time. The last meetup I went to just felt like people bashing Postgres.

So I think that a lot of the things that I don't miss are because I wasn't right for it, I should have just been using Postgres.

All that said, there was so much about it to love. Cypher, as already mentioned. While the culture at meetups might have kind of relied on bashing SQL and RDBMS, the company itself was full of brilliant, generous, creative, wonderful people. Their CEO (Emil) in particular is a total sweetheart. The organization was extremely supportive of open source projects, very inclusive, very eager to get people involved, and it made a big impact on me.

So, again, while Postgres is the tool I always reach for first, I think that Neo4j as an organization does great work and as a product has a lot to offer if you're the right fit for it. I'm glad to see they're doing well.
How many years of experience did you have when you got senior title?
There's a kernel of truth behind that one, FWIW. A growing body of evidence indicates that there can be too much of a good thing: Past a certain point, more homework actually hinders learning rather than helping it.

By way of analogy, it's not at all unlike how most weightlifting advice says to give your muscles a day of rest in between workout sessions.

e.g., I recently watched a talk where a researcher cited a study that found that putting kids in remedial literacy programs, with all their drilling and whatnot, seems to do more harm than good. The (deliberately over-simplified) impression I got was that, if you leave the kids alone instead of bothering them, you'll generally see a markedly bigger improvement through simple regression to the mean.

That this gets over-simiplified into a simple "homework bad" in the popular sphere is unfortunate. Sadly, nobody has yet figured out a way to inoculate science so that it can survive on Facebook.
Sounds to me like another coastal hippie who hates the middle class.

Literally we're in the middle of this fight right now in Canada with carbon taxes. The right wing party is losing their mind over a 4c/L price hike on gasoline even though there was an upfront rebate before the tax kicked in this summer. Check out the madness: https://arealplan.ca/about-our-plan/#failedTrudeauCarbonTax

So we know where we need to go. What's the sane political path that gets us there?
good lord. all that is old is new again
I at least am! Since the scale of the problem became clear around 2012:

First the big one:

* Politically support the Greens (GroenLinks), switching from the center-center/right parties (D66 or VVD if you google).

Then the smaller things:

* I've rejected a number of contracts the last two years which required significant travel or were for the fossil industry. I'd be $200k richer if I accepted one or two of them. Climate wasn't the only reason (young kids and father in law with cancer/stroke who needed my help played a part too).

* I haven't flown in 5-6 years (I live in the NL, my family in UK so this is a sacrifice). This is hard because travel is a passion of mine.

* I cycle everywhere whenever possible.

* I drive a tiny car and haven't upgraded it yet for environmental reasons.

* I've drastically cut my meat intake especially of beef.

* I'm spending $100k on my new house making it as close to 0 carbon as possible.

* Generally repairing instead of replacing stuff as much as possible.

Once I'm back to billing hours I'll be repaying my and my partner's climate debt by funding projects which remove carbon from the atmosphere. Only the "gold standard" projects, not the $10 clearly fraudulent "offsets" that the airlines try to sell you.

What are you doing?
>8chan are both available on the clearweb still

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan

>Current status: No longer on clearnet as of August 4, 2019
This is the part that gets me:

The Institute’s results also demonstrate the exceptional strength of Model 3’s all-glass roof, which is supported by a very strong metal body structure and helps protect occupants in roll-over crashes. During testing, the car’s roof was able to successfully resist more than 20,000 pounds of force – that’s more than if we placed five Model 3s on top of the car’s roof at once. And, the roof earned a higher strength-to-weight ratio score than any other fully electric vehicle that IIHS has ever tested.

It takes the weight of ~5 Model 3s ontop of a single one for the glass roof to shatter. That's good engineering.
And the article is blatantly pro-renewable, what’s your point? If anything, the parent comment brings up issues that are often ignored and glossed over.
Can't wait until we can type with these things
How about when a single centralized oil refinery gets bombed by an unhappy middle-eastern country and your global productivity drops 5%?
> A reality tv show political outsider was able to become president through the Republican primary system.

That this is even possible is as much a criticism of the process as it is a compliment.

Honest question: if you were designing a brand new system to elect the leader of the US, how likely do you expect it would be for someone of his calibre to be the last person standing?

> 1. Elected members of the DNC 2. Democratic governors 3. Democratic members of Congress 4. Former Democratic Presidents, Vice Presidents, congressional leaders, and DNC Chairs. The majority of them are elected officials currently holding office. The rest are formerly elected officials, and a minority.

Was this structure designed by the founding fathers? What percentage of Americans would you say really understand that a small group of undemocratically unelected people like this has the ability to directly block undesirable (to whom we don't really know) candidates from making it to the election? How many people do you think approve of this structure.

> That is not 'rigging'.

For certain definitions of rigged, of course. If the actual nature of this system was clearly explained to the American people, do you think most people would agree with you?
PP implies that that computation runs for a polynomial number of steps before producing its probabilistic answer. In the article description, the computation seems to be run "until the answer is separated from the noise." And although they are hopeful, I don't think they are asserting at the moment that this will happen after a polynomial number of steps. So PP would not apply.
Comparing our app’s sales against Sensor Tower’s numbers, we’ve found it off by way more than 10%.
It’s an unconventional way to use “subsidy,” but I think it fits.

Imagine a garbage company. The government pays them so they can buy land where they dump their garbage. Obviously a subsidy.

Now, let’s say the government buys the land themselves then gives it to the company for dumping. No money changes hands but this is still pretty clearly a subsidy.

Instead of giving the company land, the government retains ownership, but lets the company dump there for free. Still a pretty clear subsidy.

Instead of buying the land, the government just takes it. Now no money is involved at all, but it’s still a subsidy.

Instead of taking the land, the government just declares that it’s legal for the garbage company to dump trash on other people’s land, and the owners just have to deal with it. This is quite different in the details from the original subsidy, but the overall effect is essentially the same.

Polluters are in a situation that’s exactly like this last scenario. They get to dump their trash on everyone’s property and don’t have to pay for the privilege. They’re being subsidized in an amount equal to whatever payment it would take to get everyone to willingly accept this trash.
> First off, yes there is battery technology to bridge the gap.

Not really, worldwide production capacity is several magnitudes below what would be necessary to buffer a large renewable rollout. The most realistic way to do it is natural gas, as they do in Australia.

Plus, current battery production requires materials that are highly problematic from an environmental standpoint.

> There are numerous markets with very high % of renewables already, and it turns out utility operators are very smart and know how to plan very well.

Which ones would that be? Look at Germany: Total failure to reduce CO2, high reliance on coal. Look at Australia: Supported almost entirely by natural gas. Those are the biggest rollouts of wind energy besides China, but you cannot trust any numbers coming out of China.
You can just use features of C++ which improve the ergonomics of C; it's not necessary to buy into modern C++ wholesale. If you want to write a C program but with generic container types, just use the features of C++ which facilitate that.

> And the ergonomics of modern C++ look absolutely horrid compared to actual modern languages.

True, but if you want to write "C as it is, with some niceties", then you're not talking about modern languages.
Self-Driving Cars: Study Shows White People Are Safer Than People of Color
You don't see that in there, unfortunately.

And of course, it makes sense to factor in backup energy as you can't actually deliver consistent energy with wind and solar alone.

So the true cost of wind and solar should obviously include the cost of running these backups AND it would then of course also mean some of those externalities.

Anything else is dishonest comparison IMO which the above article is guilty of.
I feel like the old soviet countries including russia now are all quite strong in the cybersecurity space. I've heard its because of a combination of their strong math/science education and poverty? I've always found it quite intrigueing
Talking about any chan as though it's a monolithic entity is a huge mistake. There's very little overlap in the users between, for example, /ck/, /tg/, /fit/ and /pol/. The first three can hardly be called hotbeds of Extremism and Radicalism, unless you think that ridiculing crossfit will somehow lead to a second holocaust...
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