skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is an extremely naive view of freedom of speech.

It's just a definition, I'm not presenting any opinions. The first definition you can find on Google says:

"the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint."

If you are "for" any kind of censorship, even of hateful views, then you can't be also for freedom of speech, by definition.

> ..your toxic bullshit on my platform.

I hope you don't feel I've been 'toxic', I thought we were having a friendly discussion.

> Your freedom of speech also does not create in me an obligation to give you a megaphone.

I didn't say that it did. I didn't say a lot of the things you're commenting on. I just said that if you care about being consistent and not hypocritical, you can't claim to be for certain kinds of censorship and also freedom of speech.
I was going to say yes, and also show you how to review a seller, but I'm shocked to report that apparently Amazon removed any way to directly review or comment on a seller as of their latest site design. So I suppose there isn't outside of emailing or contacting Amazon support directly.

That's a real shame, because if anything I suspect sellers on Amazon have become less trustworthy in general, not more.
You said, with regards to China influencing things in the US:
"Propaganda is not exactly new ... after all the US army also has a lot of control when they give support to a movie and demand that they are portrayed favorably but [this time it is from one country to another]"

I'm pointing out though that the influence the US has through Hollywood is effectively global, and therefore also "from one country to another".
Yes, I mean that is what Travis Kalanick is doing with his new company Cloudkitchens
$12M but sure.
> They've just not yet really tried to retaliate.

You seem to be pretty uninformed on the matter. It is common knowledge that it is extremely difficult for Western companies to operate in China.

This "retaliation" has been going on for decades. China can't really make it much worse than what they have already been doing for decades.
Rather than pay to park your car you can just have it go get stuck in traffic and slowly crawl around in circles utilizing the free "parking" provided by the roads. Since electric cars do not need to idle they should be able to roll around slowly fairly efficiently.

As horrific as that idea sounds you just know that will be the reality until there is a law against it.
Trump was not the first president to bring the threat of China into mainstream political discourse. The most famous moment of the 2012 presidential debates was Obama mocking Romney for naming Russia as our biggest geopolitical adversary rather than China. It has been a constant topic of discussion in Washington for decades. Also, economists nearly universally agree that trade deficits are not remotely the same as "losing" money to a country. That's not how trade deficits work. I have a massive trade deficit with my local grocery store, and nobody would describe that as a problem. These are the same economist who also universally agree that China is a major threat to US economic power.

The US has been facing the same problem that every superpower faces. We benefit from a stable global geopolitical climate, so any move that rocks the boat is bad for us. That's why every president until Trump has been reluctant to truly bring out the big guns with China. Those guns hurt us as much as China, and Trump is feeling that now. His trade war with China has wiped out most of the economic benefits of his big tax cut legislation.

Previous presidents weren't hapless morons on this issue. They just realized that we don't have many strong cards to play here. The TPP was the best card we had, but frankly I was pretty skeptical of how effective it would be. I'm similarly skeptical that Trump's strategy will be effective. China can easily afford to wait him out.
What's your criteria for backup? I completely agree that something like RAID is not backup, but 30-60 days seems comparable to other backup services and covers most scenarios. The old-school manual process of swapping a USB drive at work every week/month has the similar retention.

The only consumer-facing system I've used with multi-year retention is Time Machine. Every few years it has trouble "verifying" the backup and I have to start over (it also deletes old backups when you run out of space). Right now my backup only goes to August.
Azure Sphere looks awesome but they need more SoC models for different use cases.
Oh you gotta be kidding, really?

Edit: Googled it, You are NOT kidding wow. On the one hand, it's a great idea. On the other hand CloudKitchens?

I grok that, but...is the target market here DevOps people who make a great alfredo on the side?
The NBA should get up and leave China on principle. I don’t doubt that this would be more than made up for by fans around the world.
I'm not worried so much about "superintelligent" AI, I'm worried about the growing trend of outsourcing human judgement to automated systems. Examples include automatic flagging of content based on misjudged copyright issues, automatic rejection of refund or other claims (especially where all subsequent attempts at resolution also involve non-human decisions), etc.

We're not even to the point of superintelligent AI, but some major companies (some which start with G, just as one example) already handle situations incorrectly because of too much dependence on automation.
Yes, but you now don't have a job, even if you get paid for every hour you worked. Jobseekers is only a partial safety net. On the other hand, nearly everyone who saw their shares in Thomas Cook go to 0 had investments in a number of other things, so only took a minor hit.

The risk of investing is, in the large, "my £10,000 might be worth £9,500 tomorrow", not "tomorrow I might lose my job through no fault of my own and suddenly have to make a major lifestyle change".
To be fair, we only know about organs being harvested from people being executed in the normal criminal courts (with a 99% conviction rate, but still). As yet we have no public numbers on the kill rate of Uighurs, they are quite possibly just doing brutal re-education, old-school Cultural Revolution style.
No, it doesn't. Companies can still issue and sell new shares during a DPO. Where did people get this silly idea that companies do not raise capital during a DPO?

Slack simply chose not to do so.
Can you elaborate on the bugs that affected TI9? Any that affected outcomes? I watched many of the games and didn't see anything amiss, but I'm far from a pro.
This sort of software is hugely valuable in things like manufacturing. I don’t know enough about commercial real estate to know if it can drive the same efficiency there but it’s certainly not on its face clearly useless.

In fact it sounds way more useful than most software projects I see.
It should read and write whatever files it needs to without bothering me for every little thing. For instance, supposing they want to show you a welcome screen with all of your documents from your Documents folder (or anywhere else) - I don't want some asinine popup asking me for permission. Word is a well-known application. I installed it. I trust it and the corporation that wrote it. That's enough for me.

The alleged problem is not even solved by a permission dialog. I should answer OK to the fact that it needs to access all of my Documents, forever, and that's supposed to be more secure? Why not just ask me for permission to my whole drive so it can scan for documents everywhere? Apps will just start asking for more and more permissions like they do on iOS, which is annoying.

macOS is slowly but surely being turned into iOS. It's software for the lowest common denominator - the average idiot - which I'm not, at least when it comes to technology.

Thankfully, my workstations are all Linux but I still have to deal with both macOS and Windows on a daily basis. But at least on Windows, the permissions annoyances can be avoided by simply not using UWP apps from their app store. I hope there's a way to turn this off on macOS but knowing Apple I doubt there will be because clearly they're on a mission to wipe macOS off the table. Perhaps that would be a good thing though. More people will move to Linux.
What was the other thing?
In the other thread you mentioned strict "no flavored anything". Can you elaborate why not?

In my case I tend to feel less hungry after drinking lots of flavored water (e.g., lemon juice or flavored electrolyte powder [1]), but I haven't yet done long fasting. I want to try soon.

Also, have you noticed any cognitive decline when you were fasting for weeks? Difficulty concentrating, memory loss, lightheadedness, mood, ability to interact with people?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IIGVUQA
> "how could things possibly get better?"

For everybody else other than Nintendo and Apple, the answer to that seems to be "Better graphics!"

The DS, the 3DS, the Wii, the WiiU, the Switch, the iPad and even the Apple TV Remote have given me more ways to enjoy games than just better graphics.
You technically need a BSR, which you usually do in middle school, so it’s not “without training”.

Getting a driving license in France is actually hard, requires 20h of lessons, and has a 50% failure rate. If you compare that to a driving test in the US which is super easy and impossible to fail.
It's an awesome idea, but seems to cross the line into "exploiting specific properties of the input", even if just a little, which would impact it's usefulness in say, a general purpose library.
As far as I'm aware there was never any sort of official policy announcement. They just started banning any new account without a phone number a few minutes after creating it at some point. I personally experienced it a couple of times and there was a big thread about it on here a few months ago[1]. Maybe they changed it back again?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19487304
I wonder if the people training machine learning models to walk (in simulation) could also figure out optimal ways to slightly augment running with stuff like this. I'd imagine it could spit out an outfit with a bunch of those "exotendons", weights, athlete's tape, and other random stuff to turn you into the clunky-yet-efficient runner.
I think it's certainly possible for a gifted politician to make the distinction of Chinese people != Chinese government party. Not so much "turning the clock back" as directing any anti Chinese sentiment.
"external area" tho
Facebook has done this to me multiple times as well.
However i think my activity could very well be considered suspicious: I signed up with a fake name and gave no other information, then followed a load of people.
Use it to profile my code, especially if you want to count cache misses, etc.
I don't think it will. The parking ain't the point; it's just a bit of side cash to make off the lot to cover the property taxes until eventual resale. It'll probably find other uses (e.g. food trucks).

Even if it was the point, stick a charger on every space and BAM! now you've got a reason to let your electric self-driving car park there instead of wasting battery driving all the way back home only to drive all the way back to you and home again later.
My instinct is that an Obama/Clinton administration would not have used a trade blacklist or tariffs.
>When the Constitution was written,

They never mentioned the constitution so I don't know why you are.

The idea, behind free speech and censorship, predate the constitution and the constitution is not the arbitrator of the ethical principles of free speech.
After the first two weeks, it was a mild background noise. I never even felt ravenous or anything, just 'Eh, it'd be nice to eat again'. Even at the end I felt like I could have gone another 30 days easily. Which, given that I ended my fast at around 25% bodyfat, I probably could have.
Yeah, that seems to mostly be a coordination problem.

As in, I'd pay $X/month for something that does that for most sites I frequent. But I'll never sign up for 100 different sites individually.

Same thing for newspapers.
China didn't prohibit Chinese people or companies from spending money on advertising on facebook.

US blacklisted Chinese companies from buying US products.

It's a subtle difference.
Soon you will get kicked out of an NBA game if you wear a shirt that says “Free Hong Kong”.
Well, they usually say it with the figure being 90% ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
Never give out your phone number [for security purposes].

In other words, if a company tells you they need your number for account security, refuse to give it to them. Of course you can give out a phone number for general contact purposes.

I think it's easier to teach people phone numbers can't be used for security, period, then to teach them that phone numbers can be used for security in one very specific case -- especially since companies like Facebook/Twitter rarely use terms like 2FA when asking users for their number. They just say stuff like, "you'll use this to gain access to your account" or, "we'll use this to help keep your account secure."

It wasn't my intention to make it sound like users should never tell anyone their number for any reason, but I can definitely see how it might read that way.
Huh, I always thought I was doing Java wrong when I would try to write the equivalent of four Python list comprehensions in a row and end up declaring a ton of List<Set<Pair>>> things. Didn't think to blame the language.
Social credit in a public shaming sense maybe.
basing the models on a common platform would help too. I assume they generally do this already, but if not...

They don't, because they save a few dollars by re-bidding each product. So each company is shipping a random assortment of Broadcom, Marvell, and Qualcomm reference designs, all running incompatible software stacks.
Yes! Exactly!

As I understand it, sites don't earn very much from each ad view. So to get substantial income, they need lots of traffic and ad views.

And this gets implemented through a hugely complex process of real-time data sharing and bidding. It's ~transparent if you have a fast uplink. But if you're using Tor browser, you can watch it play out, all too slowly.

So just replace that complex process with a simpler process of identifying the subscription service that the user employs, and adding the page view to their tab.

In order to match current income from ads, the cost per page view would likely be very small. Perhaps $0.01-$0.10. And there could be a mechanism for adjusting that cost based on the local cost of living of a given user. Perhaps through a parameter pushed by the subscription service, which it would obtain in some more-or-less anonymous fashion.
Thanks for being here to answer this and other questions, Yev!
Wow, I'm genuinely curious what the inspiration for such writing was. Are there hidden metaphors or analogies like other mythical beasts?

Some things don't change. The only big separation historically is what was allowed to be written on paper, scolls, and tablets when doing so was rare and expensive. But we still get some perspective on the human mind in the popular mystical characters and stories people invented.
> But just because they don't hold public elections doesn't mean they do not draw their legitimacy from the people

Got any other zingers you want to tell me with a straight face?
Easier said than done
> Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks

They are not even mapping to actual terrorist attacks

And given you'll have a unknown lead time before the money allegedly arrives and is actioned by terrorists, you can shift the data a bit.

A cynic would also say they can play with their model of the probability of terrorist acts to fit the data.
The NBA rescinded that IIRC
Basically any long term goal has short term costs. Building a new road costs money up front.

We don't want jobs just to come to the US. We want to help build the economies of the people scrambling across our border too. So jobs in Mexico is great, as long as there's also new jobs in the US.
I'm sorry, it is in fact a single party issue at a national, coordinated level right now. Not every R state is gerrymandered, and Maryland is a great example of how not every D state is not gerrymandered. But you have Eric Holder and the NDRC on one hand. You have Hofeller, Kobach, and von Spakovsky on the other. It should be bipartisan and simply a matter of civic duty, and I look forward to when it's that way again.

And IL 4 was drawn by Republicans after https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/7...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_4th_congressional... "In June 1991, Congressman Dennis Hastert, a suburban Republican, filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the existing congressional map was unconstitutional;[11] the present congressional district boundaries emerged as a result of that lawsuit. A three-judge panel of the federal district court adopted the map proposed by Hastert and other Republican members of the Illinois Congressional delegation"
It's literally the bin packing problem, which is NP-complete. Plus you have another axis entirely on top of the already NP-hard problem: You want to minimize the number of times that you move any given group of people over time as you re-configure the office space to fit the maximum number of groups into it.

This is an algorithmically hard problem, and I'm not surprised that there might be significant benefits to investing in solving it very well.
Millennial here. I haven't had anything extreme like the article, but I'm currently on a break from my last job that I left as office drama got to be too much. It felt odd to do it, but I'm really glad I did. We have such a strong work culture, and its easy to fall into the grind and lose track of things. I'm not in a rush to start whatever is next, but that's also helped by having some savings and relatively frugally.
That's going a little far. I work with plenty of people who have no desire to do anything but crank out code and have been doing so for 20+ years. The promotion path is slower for sure, but nobody is throwing out a great developer just because.
They might be just what I am looking for! I will check them out soon. Thank you! :)
EPA Superfund sites --- ok I did not know about this until this thread... omg!

I just recently found out the Shoreline Park in Mountain View used to be a landfill for most of bay area and SF. Today it is open to enjoy like it's some natural bird sanctuary.. yet there are pipes underground extracting methane 24x7 and I think I found a methane release valve last weekend right next to a jogging path... Can anyone confirm plz? => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq3CnXU5OtU
> If your data have a complicated type like List<Set<Pair<Foo, ? extends Bar>>>, you have to copy-paste this type everywhere, without a way to name it succinctly.

Java has had generic type inference since at least 7 [0], so all you need is <>

It's not perfect, but I believe it's been improved with each version.

[0] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/langu...
There's a clever software engineering resume out there in the same style (and also in the style of Leonard da Vinci's resume): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086527
Its a shame this amazing reference is being downvoted.

Hopefully Windows 10X puts an end to the "10x developer" meme.
These lists tend to be trite, and this one is no exception. For example,

"Experts are not satisfied with just any abstraction, they deliberately seek elegant abstractions through which complex structures can be introduced, understood, and referred to efficiently."

Every developer I've ever talked to believed down to their core that this was what they were doing. Yet 99% of software is utter bilge.

This includes mine. I look at everything I've written 5 or more years ago, and it's all garbage. Most of the work I do is rewriting it.

There's no way around it, it takes a lot of experience to be even able to recognize a good design, let alone write one. No list of 10 rules is going to help much.

It's like painting. No "10 Habits of Famous Artists" is going to help you become a great artist.
You don’t always chose who goes to war with you.
TimSort—more specifically, Bloch's 9 line "rangecheck" function from his reimplementation—figured into Oracle's claims that Google copied Java code into Android:

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120419221941...

As best as I can remember, those 9 lines are the only literal copying Oracle was able to find; the rest of their suit centers around whether the design of an API (e.g. parameter names) can be copyrighted. (And unless the Supreme Court steps in, the answer is "maybe.")
I had been been working for 18 hours a day (for a duration of 1 month) - this is what happened to me.

1. Woke up at 4 am - 15 minutes - planning and thinking about the schedule for the rest of the day.

2. Review the code I wrote previous day (30 mins)(though I was the only one developing this I do PRs :)(iOS mobile app - swift for front end, golang for microflow, docker, k8s and google cloud)

3. Refactor and add features for the next 2 hours.

4.Glance through NYTimes(liberal left), Fox(republic) RT, South China Morning Post, Global Times(CN), Economic Times(IN) and DW(EU) to understand where world stands.

5 Get ready for office (train 30 mins) - attend the standup - provide and listen updates - fix issues , develop features - (NodeJS & Java)

5. Thankfully all the office meetings - are scheduled only on
Mondays.

6. 5:30 leave office, get into train and reach home at 7:20 pm (walk from train station to home - 2 km approx. - and take a shower

7. Play with kids, read stories (and fight with wife :))

8. Family prayer and got to bed.

9. On Fridays - have a beer or a glass of wine after prayer.

10. Saturday & Sunday - take children for extra curricular activities, shopping (mostly groceries and house hold items.

After one month - I couldn't carry on with waking up at 4:00 am - couldn't concentrate at work - getting irritated easily etc. I switched to waking up at 6:00 am.

Side projects are possible - but there is a cost :)
I've gotta say, I agree.

I don't ever need to see car ads, because I live in NYC. Nor for medications for conditions <x, y, z> which I don't have. Nor for that Amazon product which I already bought.

I am so happy to spend three minutes filling out my interests profile. In fact, I already did it for Google when someone pointed out you can. But for all the many ads served by other ad networks, no dice. :(
This is great by why in the world have you hijacked the back/forward buttons?
Intricate Sentence Engenderer
Its not bs to live life
Again, the important thing is ATP, and you can get it from either glucose or ketone bodies:

> In fact, the late George Cahill did an experiment many years ago (probably would never get IRB approval to do such an experiment today) to demonstrate how ketones can offset glucose in the brain. Subjects with very high levels of B-OHB (about 5-7 mM) were injected with insulin until glucose levels reached 1 mM (about 19 mg/dL)! A normal person would fall into a coma at glucose levels below about 40 mg/dL and die by the time blood glucose reached 1 mM. These subjects were completely asymptomatic and 100% neurologically functional.

https://peterattiamd.com/ketosis-advantaged-or-misunderstood...
I thought it was more but Slack did issue at least 1.2m new shares in the offering.
Twitter runs an entire advertising platform. If you've ever logged into Adwords or Adsense you'll know how complicated that is.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the basic twitter.com tweeting/commenting/retweeting system isn't remotely the most complex system that Twitter even has.
So have we fired a clathrate gun then [1]? It's getting increasingly difficult to pretend worst-case global warming scenarios won't turn into reality in the next 25 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis