skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in Vegas this summer, and an older lady dealing in my games told us a few Stu stories. She dealt for him back in the days. She said that he was never the same after his son's death and never recovered from it. She also talked about his total recall memory as said in the article, he couldn't forget anything or anyone unless he was on high doses of drugs, which is probably why he was so addicted (must have been some sort of relief).

Today players are much stronger than he could possibly have been, though. There are a couple of players online of which we can easily say that they are the best players to ever live, and we know from recent advances in AI poker that they still have room to improve. Saying that he is the best player to ever live would be like saying Bobby Fisher or Paul Morphy are the best players to ever live ; it's true in the sense that they were more dominant in their days than anybody else in other eras, but in terms of pure game knowledge it keeps evolving as years pass.
They're working on refunding her the money. I'm not sure running off with it is an appropriate comparison here. They just don't want to work with clients that have a business relationship with Cuba in the future.
There's an (imperfect) cure for that - reviews.
Try Startpage. It uses Google results, but anonymized and without personalization.
So how do you feel about Ofcom's rules in the UK that regulate fairness and bias in broadcast channels? They seem to work fairly well.
> > Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he'd kill himself if I didn't go out with him.
> I declined further contact.

This is not sexual harassment, there is no allegation, it was never filed.

This story was never confirmed, BTW.

But even if it happened, what's so bad about it?

That he's weird?

When it happened to me I offered support, I did not go to the police.

> but that the people in question do not want to come forward.

Stallman is not a well know powerful man that could pose a real danger to anybody.

He's not an Epstein that traffic girls.

> He made overt sexual advances to women at work [in the late 1990s at VA Linux

Who didn't in the 90s?

There were literally cocaine addicts running companies, snorting from their desks at the 24th floor in Manhattan and we are talking about Stallman making an alleged third hand advance?

Of course him being him, not Brad Pitt, and coming out weird when he tries to be friendly, scared women away.

Meanwhile the like of Epstein trafficked girls and were considered "highly respectable business men" because they dressed sharply, were good looking and moved a ton of money, the kind of money that could buy you an island.

While Stallman slept on a matress in his office .

It is hard to recall how bad the 90s were for those who never lived them, how bad the influence of the new born "global style industry" was and how not conforming to some social norm made you automatically an outcast.

There were movies like "Thrashin'" were the best skaters in the world (Caballero, Tony Hawk, Tony Alva) played the bad boys and the good guy of the time was Josh Brolin [1]

Now think about Josh Brolin in the 90s, the epitome of what a man should be according to showbiz industry targeting young people, and imagine being Richard Matthew Stallman.

Hell, there were even movies about nerds and they were all depicted as ugly, mean and with a bad hygiene.

Of course Snotty became my favourite!

[1] the good guy according to 80s and 90s culture http://ingridrichter.info/cheese/graphics/T/thrashin/brolin_...
That means energy efficiency rating will change by date, A rated product of last year could be different (could be better or worse) by this year's A rated product. Can't we just use "numbers" instead?
This sounds fair, but in most cases recruiters treat you as just another potential resource. Even when I ask they never send a feedback and if I don't pass the interview they never even call/email. So usually it's me analysing or trying to guess what went wrong after I haven't heard from them in a while and realise I hadn't got it.
Hmm, you sure about this? I just googled "boris johnson model" and got nothing but results about affairs and Jennifer Arcuri.
The long vacations (often a whistle word for "laziness") is a common refrain, but as far as I know the numbers don't bear that out: the vacation days are not very different, and the working hours are actually longer.
There is that quote in the hit piece , part 2:[0]

> “When I was a teen freshman, I went to a buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant in Central Square with a graduate student friend and others from the AI lab. I don’t know if he and I were the last two left, but at a table with only the two of us, Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him.

> I felt bad for him and also uncomfortable and manipulated. I did not like being put in that position — suddenly responsible for an “important” man. What had I done to get into this situation? I decided I could not be responsible for his living or dying, and would have to accept him killing himself. I declined further contact.

> He was not a man of his word or he’d be long dead.”

> —Betsy S., Bachelor’s in Management Science, ’85

I suspect that he was kidding, but who knows?

0) https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-appendi...
It isn't "spiritually" true. It is factually true to the extent that the High Court ruled 350m was approximately the correct gross figure. Indeed some say that figure is conservative because it was based on projections from an official figure dated from 2014 that put the gross at closer to 450m. I'm guessing 2014 was high because of financial bailouts still being paid into the EU coffers.

From the ruling statement:

“The alleged offence set out in the Application for Summons is that the Claimant “repeatedly made and endorsed false and misleading statements concerning the cost of the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union”. It appears that if the Claimant had said/endorsed a figure of £350m per week gross, or £250m per week net, there would have been no complaint.”

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019ewhc... (search in doc for "350" to find the juicy bits)
I would probably buy a small sustainable off-grid home out in the country. And use the rest to invest in ecological startups, give mortgages for other sustainable homes and lobby government into making it easier to people to lower their carbon footprint.

I wouldn't move to a tax-dodge state and buy a mansion, a Ferrari and staff.
That's a good point, but I doubt _any_ company can just jump in and produce spare parts for a branded appliance. So where do you get the parts from?
It's not him it's his advisors whether independent or part of the civil service PR dept.

If he's clever it's that, like any good manager, he delegates to others.
As someone who went into it with great expectations based on threads like these, I'll add my contrary opinion: it was a pretty disappointing read. The story is pretty lukewarm and doesn't particularly drag your interest into it, which would be fine if the point was the philosophical/metaphysical underpinnings were the point - but unfortunately those are pretty weak and superficial as well. Overall it felt like a half-baked mediocre work by a talented author.
Thanks! Yes. But, it needs access to parameters that are not visible in a public form. So, I plan to build it as Google Forms add-on.
Do you think there is even point wasting time on personal projects for passing the screening process when in most cases it's a phone call and based on that I pass or fail the initial screening?
What do you think of the Media Bias Chart? https://www.adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/

This project assesses the factual accuracy and political bias of a large number of articles (and by extension, the publishers of those articles).

It seems to me that we have always had the ability to verify whether a given statement is factual or counterfactual, and that's a big part of what good journalism is.

A verifiable fact is a verifiable fact and no matter how many people believe otherwise, it's still a fact.

Certainly this is not the whole issue and publications may introduce bias through selection, presentation and opinion, which is why it's important to scrutinize the publications.

I don't think Facebook is the right place for any of this to happen, but it's where the eyeballs are, so it's impossible for it to _not_ happen on Facebook in some form. I think Facebook will fail because there is no way to do this algorithmically. At Facebook scale you can only do things algorithmically.

We should dismantle Facebook and get our news from a federated set of relays which syndicate content from a diverse set of publishers whose objectivity is audited by independent third parties who publish clear and transparent guidelines and findings.

A web browser in which you've bookmarked the Associated Press, NPR, the WSJ, and the BBC is a decent start for the average person, as long as you don't also bookmark Wonkette or InfoWars.
Normally i’d agree, but they had 2 hour sprint plannings.. for a sub-team..
The problem is that there is no way to pass an immutable slice to a function.

What Go really needs is a way to create abstractions that will work with the range loop syntax.
It's probably to do with google's algo that favours a certain content-to-image ratio. Medium gives the author access to easily embeddable images that often have nothing to do with the article just so the article's not just one giant block of text.

I would have loved to have seem some photos of this industry out of Africa though.
Glad to see Go Template make the list of languages with the most curse words in them.

NOT Go, but Go Template!! A subset of Go is causing more anguish than all of Python and only a sliver less than all of Rust.

Says it all really ;)
Actual it seems like, he agreed with customer ops manager about conditions, but HR didn't assign him to customer ops, but to another engineering department.

So basically, such an important thing for him, he should have confirmed about the conditions with the new manager at least.
Realistically? No.
But with the right personal projects you can impress the right people from your network and get a fast pass to onsite interviews.
This seems about spot on the related issues with Southern European Countries, although after the big debt crisis we can see that some, namely Portugal and Spain raised their bar on the IT revolution.
They have seen a big startup boom in AI, ecommerce, SaaS, even blockchain.

Portugal: Farfetch (unicorn, IPO'd), Talkdesk (unicorn), Unbabel, Apptoide, UTRUST

Spain: Glovo, Typeform, Spotahome, Travelperk

They came late to the game, but now their tech scene is rising.
Let me automate that for you: removing pain points from data pipeline setup
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/
Thanks for the debate, I don't think we are that far apart and I absolutely agree about green theatre being ultimately damaging. Don't get me wrong, I also agree about the need for clean and cheap energy. I'm less convinced that growth in energy is actually needed (at least for us rich people in the West). It would be interesting to see countries at least consider Gross Domestic Happiness rather than Gross Domestic product as a mesasure of success.
That's a different point than the one I was addressing, which was that warranties can be taken as indicators of how long products can be expected to last.

What products that have extended warranties usually have in common is that they are expensive and represent significant investments for the average buyer. If you buy a car, a fridge, a washing machines, etc, you want a guarantee that you will be able to amortise that investment over as long a time as possible.
There should be a word for this, perhaps content or SEO masking, its definitely a thing. I first experienced the practice in regard to an unscrupulous company - whose sales techniques involve misrepresentation (I know as I was briefly trained in them, years ago) - called Marcus Evans. They also run business events, so if you were to look their name up in reference to 'scam' or 'fraud', then details of their 'fraud prevention' event would show up first. Luckily, it looks like someone more skilled in SEO has kicked them down the first page of google, deservedly, or perhaps Google's algorithms have improved since.
Same as above: be very clear about your qualifications, your abilities, your search area ... which is not quite the case in your message.
Maybe, but he's always been lazy and unwilling to do much actual work, apparently [1] his headmaster wrote
to his father in 1982:

Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies...
Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of
responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School
for next half): I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard
him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.

[1]: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/letter-to-boris-johns...
This just makes me sick.

I admit, it was clever the first time. Now it's just an horrible person getting away with it.
350m was the total amount, before rebates. The real figure is a lot lower.
Wouldn't this require him to know how he is going to be quoted in advance?

Should everyone be so readily accepting that this is some genius level of foresight?
Another example of how technologically inferior platforms can be successful given the right exposure. (this is obviously inferior because the user cannot reflow the text, change font color, copy paste, highlight, etc.)
I would write it anyo if I were going to try to mimic the sound in written English. (Anio looks to me like it sounds like anee-oh.)

Part of the problem is that American English mostly doesn't use such marks, so they are alien. We tend to think they don't really matter. It doesn't readily register on a lot of Americans as a misspelled word.

"Oh, yeah, it's supposed to have a thing over it. Ack! My keyboard won't do that! Meh. Doesn't really matter. I spelled it correctly. They will know what I mean."

Also, people are frequently very, very reluctant to explain to foreigners what the "dirty" words are and what they mean. So people tend to not correct you and tell you "Do you realize you are saying Happy New Ass to everyone?"
Individually there are counter examples, but does any other species display empathy at the scale of another species? I doubt it. And the species that do display empathy at an individual level will also display cruelty.
I don't think it looks like anything. It will sound like something. Think star trek computer.
As opposed to the Onion articles which are confusingly close to actual news. [or are merely prescient]
We tolerate you calling out someone you don't know.

Should we not tolerate you for being shitty?
Wow, Dercuano looks amazing. Thanks for publishing it.
I don’t think it really does work? When I search, the hidden story appears again.
That is a malicious and twisted misrepresentation of what I wrote. I actually wrote something about that right in that comment. That is quite the evil discussion style you got there - I'll leave you to it then.
It would be funny to play him at his own game. Get say “Boris Johnson Feline” into Google Trends and then watch how he mangles it into his speech.
What a horrible working style.

You can be very productive while being social as well. In fact, the shittiest projects have consistently been those where people don't communicate and communication includes a human factor, starting at the most basic level.

Why? Because fundamentally we are social animals and opening up to this circumstance will allow meaningful, project-related communication at a much more useful level when you previously connected at a human level.

I find it exceedingly weird when you have next to no interest in the people you work with for 8+ hours every single day.
I think the case is stronger now. This happening once might just be co-incidence. Twice, not so much.
Besides the SEO redact207 mentioned, readers are often driven away by a block of text.
Nobody can be sure about this except google itself, because google gives different results for each user or location. I get all the affairs as well, but I don't matter to BJ as I'm not a UK citizen and won't vote.
European Court of Justice: Cookies Need Active Consent (FR, DE; no EN?)
Not gonna happen, unfortunately.

I agree that achieving those goals, even at the envisioned costs, would be desirable. But the short term pain of much of the necessary measures would be too great to make it politically infeasible. And any "defector" of significant size (China? Russia? US?) would make it even more difficult, politically.

The developing nations will feel a lot of the pressure to cut down on their growing emissions. Which is unfair and would also result in more Human suffering, short and midterm.

I'm hoping for somebody to prove me wrong!
No, you can't because "race" isn't a useful or well defined term or object and doesn't apply (is incommensurable) to genetics.

Worse it comes absolutely loaded with social and political implications. It doesn't describe anything we can really point to, but is just a highly charged, culturally variable label we place on a cluster of outward appearances (e.g. excess or lack of melanin, hair or eye color, height).

You might be able to tell if a particular individual is likely to have a lack of melanin or blue eyes from DNA, but you can't say genetic differences are caused by race. That in the famous words of Pauli is not even wrong.

It's a category error, and even if it were useful it also inverts the causality. We apply the label "race" to a cluster of possibly DNA influenced outward markers. We humans cause "race" and apply it to people. Not genetics.

Using a poorly defined term like race in an argument like this is worse than just poor reasoning. It will confuse people at best and cause harm at worst.

It's not unacceptable because people are afraid of the truth or something.

It's unacceptable because it's incoherent, vacuous and empty. It adds nothing to the discourse.
> I can't justify for you your presupposition [nor demonstrate the existence of your chosen, yet unjustified presupposition given the evidence], you'll need to do that for yourself. Sounds like the news & entertainment media told you something repeatedly (without evidence), and you accepted it on its face without critical analysis

But you're pointing out the imbalance yourself...

> The most relevant finding here is that about 15% of women have the same level of interest in engineering as the average.

But when presented with evidence, you feel a sense of cognitive dissonance and would prefer to simply presume some biological effect. Is there any evidence that this is a biological effect?
Or as Lord Buckley always said "If you must tell the truth, be sure to leave them laughing!".
> breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics

Google wasn't tricked, it's intentional. Their business model is generating money from clicks. It's not showing you best results for what you search for. It's showing latest news, tragedy, and what people talk about. 10h old news? OLD, BORING. New shiny 2h young news? YEA, more clicks, clicks and more click, more ads, more clicks, more revenue. The sponsored content online must be constantly changing and adapting to new information to generate more profits and more clicks and keep people clicking and visiting and searching. Don't forget that it's not only sponsored content, but also targeted content with user tracking, because clicks count, on one day they will show you news to annoy you to generate more searches and clicks, on another day they will show you majority of stuff to calm you down. Keep clicking.
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This is why we need less regulations so that there will be more alternatives to choose from. More employers = more chance there will be an employer that will not raise the bar of how many hours a worker needs to work in a week.

By introducing more and more regulations, it's more complicated to run the business. Less people are creating businesses, because it's so complicated to run it, and regulations change from year to year. So, the only real beneficiary of regulations are businesses established 100 years ago, where there were not much regulations, and they had their 'hothouse' conditions allowing them to grow without much competition.

In my country in small towns there are i.e. 3 companies to choose from when a person is trying to find a low-tech job. The owner of the first company is a good buddy with the mayor, the second company has a big legal department and is able to pull lots of million of PLNs from EU's dotations, and the third one will probably end their life in few next years, because it's too hard to compete with the previous two. So, in this context, it is possible that the previous 2 will just raise the work time bar and nobody will shed a tear about anyone.
These ratings would change over time, so an A+ rating in 2017 would not be the same as an A+ rating in 2019. I think that is very confusing. Is a second hand A rated model better than a new D rated one? Who knows.
Technological hubs don't "just happen" to not be in Southern Europe. I'm American but also hold Italian citizenship and have lived in Italy and Spain. The regulatory environment around finance, labor and business makes any kind of scalable technical hub impossible. Starting a business generally takes many months and thousands of Euros. Why would anyone opt for that instead of going to the UK where you can get started in days with a 50 pound fee.

Corruption and graft at every level of government is also an issue. Southern Italy still has businesses being bombed by Mafia affiliated gangs for example if they don't pay protection money (This happened to several places I frequent last year when I lived in Napoli). Until Southern Europe reforms culturally they will continue to lag further and further behind and all the smart young people will go to places more welcoming of their talents.
This comes from Google News, which has been a very poor product for a long time. It groups together unrelated articles but still has repetitions, chooses articles with completely uninformative titles, choose articles about a video without the video or a link to it, often shows derivative articles missing important context.
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I can foresee the next step of this, as politicians try and seed the SOE terms for their opposition with their speeches. We could be due an era of complete gibberish from politicians instead of just lies (note: i direct "lies" to all politicians not to JUST Boris )
In India lots of fascist facebook groups post under the cover of satire to escape scrutiny. They'll be like "kill all muslims :D" - the smiley at the end supposedly means its 'satire'. This is gonna be a godsend for them!
> keeping an eye out for John like an awkward combination of James Bond and Pac Man.

instant classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyO_MC9g3k