skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, users absolutely should not have to debug computers and live performance is especially sensitive to realtime constraints.

It's the developers job to do so, and they're basically procrastinating for as long as they can, not heeding Apple's deprecation warnings for _years_ and then trying to blame them in front of users when st finally hits the fan, pretending they couldn't possibly have known. That's simply dishonest.
I wish I could say I “targeted” folks but that would give me too much credit and attribute too much intention :) The gigs I’ve gotten have been referrals / connections through friends. Sweet spot for me is post-funding startup (just beyond scrappy - eg can afford me). But I’ve also done at least one gig for a large multinational. That was the exception, though.
A wild Demogorgon just wrecked your Kubernetes cluster
I don't have deep knowledge about the Nobel Prize selection procedure, so I'm not going to go into that. But, obviously, all awards will have some kind of bias because a small group of humans make that decision.

However, the US has more per capita prizes than the EU, so not sure that that critisicm is warranted.

Anyways, I also wouldn't draw any conclusions about "the current status of a country" based on number of nobel laureates. Having said that, I do find the statistics interesting, and I'm sure there are some conclusions to be drawn from it.

There probably are papers analyzing this statistic further - if anyone has some reading recomendations, send them my way :-)
Comedy is not dead. Comedy can change minds. Comedy is powerful and attacks the self-important and authoritarianism. Comedy can take on serious challenges in the best way.

> John Cleese in On Creativity said: "the self-important always know with some level of their consciousness that their egotism is going to be punctured by humor -- that's why they see it as a threat. And so {they} dishonestly pretend that their deficiency makes their views more substantial, when it only makes them feel bigger. {John blows "raspberries" with his tongue.} No, humor is an essential part of spontaneity, an essential part of playfulness, an essential part of the creativity that we need to solve problems, no matter how 'serious' they may be. " [1]

Not everyone is appeasing authoritarians, definitely not South Park.

China is Cartman right now "RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!!"

[1] https://youtu.be/Pb5oIIPO62g?t=1544
>I fundamentally disagree with that point. Government exists to protect people and their property.

Well, your property is not others property. So protecting someone having X property, means disallowing others to use that property.

But what gives you or anybody the right to your property anyway? Aside from papers, which don't mean anything in terms of justice, moral, fairness, etc -- only in terms of legality?

We were all caveman, naked and property less to begin with, so where did your rights to your property began?

Even if you think the current market system is fair, the starting point was not equality + market system, but whatever arrangements happened at a time of colonial plundering (off of native Americans), slavery, when even poor whites and women couldn't vote (the most part of US history), plus feudal arrangements (in most other places).

Even if someone got their current property "fair and square" in 2019 selling stuff at the market, said property got its start (and ended to the people that have it) from conditions that were anything but fair and square - and not even very long ago.

Before the abolition of slavery and universal vote, any kind of property arrangement (and any kind of inheritance and all the second and n-th order property arrangements since them), is unjust and moot.

So, as a member of a society, I don't see why someone should be allowed to own huge amounts of real estate or money...

>rights do not come from society, rights are internal and society functions to abridge them where beneficial.

Internal to what?

If someone has the power they can stomp on all your rights, including your "right to life" (as has happened in history time and again), and they and people would just laugh their asses off when they hear your complaint that you have "internal rights".

You only have rights because society collectively secured those rights, and gave them to its members (and it took lots of fighting to secure them in the first place). Heck, if you were a black person, without Rosa Parks, you might still not have the right to many things. And it wasn't much better for the average white throughout history.

And it wasn't even that it was thought of as injustice. To make such things be thought of as injustice (instead of having justice be whatever the king of lords etc say), also took a lot of fighting and ideological work. You could be killed as a slave that tries to escape, and you wouldn't even be considered just, but just a low-life critical, to the good law abiding citizens...

Nothing comes from nature or "internally".
As an ex smoker I disapprove of the idealizing depiction of cigarettes. Nevertheless I find the project very interesting and wonder if you are willing to share the code?
> I'm not going to say what we sell because it's not important

It seems to me that what you sell is the central issue here, as you're claiming that blind people wouldn't be interested in it. I'm not really willing to take your word for it, given the other examples you've used.

In the case of car insurance, it's obvious that people don't only buy insurance for cars that they drive. Consider e.g. an employee of a company looking to buy insurance for company cars.

There are also lots of blind artists and blind people interested in visual arts, as you can discover from a simple google search.

It's worth remembering also that many "blind" people are partially sighted, so that they may be unable to read text but still appreciate visual arts in a direct perceptual way. On top of that, there are people who have lost their sight, and who may still have a keen interest in the visual arts formed when they were still able to see.
So far I've noticed:

1> New Top Gun Movie removed a patch on Tom Cruises
jacketdue to Chinese funding.

2> NBA issued an apology for an owner showing Hong Kong
support and China stopped NBA broadcasts.

3> Blizzard

4> Apple Hides Taiwans Flag emoji

Sounds trivial but they're the tip of the iceberg for censoring freedom of expression based on a DICTATOR's whim.

Xi "Winnie The Poop" is an autocrat and once he sealed his grip on power and lifted term limits.

The fact is, the people are fighting a restriction on their freedom, in order to benefit the powerful.

This is a tale as old as humanity itself.

This is also what I fear will happen to America if we're not careful.

I think we need to be united in standing up against restrictions on the freedom of expression.
New York Citys Partnership with Israeli iPhone Hacking Company Cellebrite
Blizzard is partially owned by a Chinese company. They're using money, not cancel culture.
>As a citizen...

Think of all the lives your organs will save!
Well, currently the Hearthstone and Blizzard discussion forums on Reddit are up in arms.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/blizzard
Yes, it's very difficult to balance and it's been an interesting experience in the sense that no one really cares about what work you've done in the past; if they like you on a personal level they'll hire you.

I'm comfortable doing sales, but it's maintaining that balance that I find difficult – if I spend too much time pitching I make no money as I have no employees to deliver the work and if I spend too much time working I get stuck in a cycle of feast and famine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming#Tim_Hunt_contro...
Good to know. Now the question is, can the newest AEGIS deal with China's newest hypersonic ICBMs. It's a question I very much don't want to see answered through actual test.
I think it is the right adjective for what I have in mind. Scenarios I was looking to compare include "Celebrity uses race-based insults (e.g. slurs, references to stereotypical physical attributes) against a Chinese-American, or a group of them", vs "Celebrity uses race-based insults against a Chinese person living in China, or a group of them", vs "Celebrity condemns X action by the Chinese government". Ideally, one could find incidents of each type with similarly high-profile celebrities at similarly high-profile events, and then compare the responses.
Hello, Ahmed here!

Please feel free to share more suggestions on how you manage your "knowledge portfolio".
I think people who claim that their side is above argument are often being a bit hypocritical, since they rarely dismiss arguments for their side.
> I don't blame companies for trying to not get involved.

You have an odd definition of "not getting involved"...
Your language here is really insulting. Take a step back and consider maybe you don't know everything there is to know about how visually impaired individuals live their lives. They aren't all (or even mostly) fully blind! They have families which usually include fully sighted individuals! Meanwhile they are also capable human beings who have all the same needs and concerns about day-to-day life as anyone else.
Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings
Not really, according to official south park website southpark.cc.com:

SOUTH PARK ©2019 COMEDY PARTNERS.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. COMEDY CENTRAL.

SOUTH PARK AND ALL RELATED TITLES, LOGOS AND CHARACTERS ARE TRADEMARKS OF COMEDY PARTNERS.
I mostly agree with you. There's two extremes in this: restricting speech because it's impossible not to offend someone, and intentionally offending someone. I think both are bad. I think the best way forward is a good faith best effort. Try not to misgender someone, but if that means you avoid gendered pronouns in general, and not just to single out transgender people, then that should certainly be fine. And when you get it wrong, correct yourself. At the same time, it's pointless to condemn someone for getting it wrong; mistakes happen. But it would be nice if they're just honest mistakes, and not people intentionally trying to misgender people.

So yeah, we need some balance. You can't expect to never ever get offended, but at the same time, we should be trying to accept people who are different.

The comparison with racists doesn't quite work, as they're defined specifically by not accepting people who are different in a specific way. Of course they'd like to see that normalised, but at the same time they oppose the normalisation of others who are not hurting anyone in any way, and that's something that needs to be called out. But transgender people just want to be themselves, not hurt anyone, and not get hurt by anyone. And I think the reason they overreact is because they get hurt so much. I think you and I would react much the same way if we were constantly under attack merely for being ourselves.
For schemas as EDN you might want to take a look at malli:

https://github.com/metosin/malli
The dream for me is to model things like HTML5 specification as data instead of English
NYC law enforcement has been able to crack iPhones in-house since Jan 2018
https://kotaku.com/blizzard-suspends-hearthstone-player-for-...
true. blizzard has even done this with world of warcraft back in the day. to launch it in china they had to remove all skeleton models
China right now is national socialism like Hitler could only dream of implementing. It is eerie how directly parallel developments are, and how little this is remarked.
WOWWW...that's super cool. If you could find multiple reflections of the same source [edit: after a second look, that's actually what they did which is even more amazing], you could start piecing together a sequence.

But, darn it, now we're going to have to map the cosmic background light pollution. :)
It would probably be more fair to attribute the Nobel prize "nationality" to the university/country at which the scientist was working at the time they made their discovery.
I read them as implying it, though even if they aren't, in previous HK threads I've seen comments that were, as if open war between two ICBM-equipped nations was something that wouldn't have disastrous consequences for every single one of us.

I also would love to know which wars we (the US, or the Western world) have gone to over those principles (versus e.g. "over oil"), because I can't think of any.
> play Civilization all night long, every single day [...] my programming developed quite a lot during my teens, but I definitely could have toned it down and 'played outside.'

This on the whole is extremely unlikely. First, if you developed programming skills, you was not playing civilization all the time. You was playing civilization some and coding some. Second, if you would really literally spent playing all night long and then went to school and then spent all night playing etc, you would be extremely sleep deprived and you would not learned much - not in school and not coding.

The distinction matter. The thing that distinguish addiction from playing a lot is consequences on rest of your life - school, work, relationships with family or friends or ability to find mate.

I knew people who were in latter category - failing in college, going to work sleep deprived to the point of being drag on team, divorcing. It is different then high schooler wasting time.
Why wouldn't it be possible? That's how I learned to program back in the day and I maintain that it is still the best way to do it. It teaches you self-reliance, how to solve problems yourself and how to think hard (since you can't google solutions on the net).
We use WAVE tool internally, but it may not be the 'coolest'
You're ignoring most of what OP is saying, he's completely right in saying he should have no obligation to dedicate huge resources to a potential 0.00001% of his customers which may or may not even exist, when the only benefit will be not getting hit by frivolous lawsuits.
Likewise, places in the US that take their names from English get butchered (Gloucester and Worcester in Massachusetts are examples). "Concord" and "Berlin" are fun because they are pronounced differently depending on which one you're talking about. Native American names like Scituate are also tough for most GPS speech synthesizers.
Try this: https://jonathanstark.com
Surprise that consultants can be as different as normal people. Fundamentally I dont think there is a big difference, they just prefer different kind of work.

Personally as an employer I really enjoy consultants, because I habe freedom not to order their services when I dont need them anymore. With employees I am kind of obliged to keep them hired until they want to leave.
>Bank deposits aren't removed from the economy

For the ultra rich they go to so many channels, as to be effectively removed (else, they'd also be taxed as income to begin with). A deposit in Switzerland or Turks and Caicos doesn't do much good (if anything) to your local economy...

And of course, as a rich person you have all kinds of assets like real estate too...
This is false, unfounded slander.
I was in a kind of similar situation. I perhaps wasn't "addicted" but I certainly messed about on computers a lot.

But was it a waste of time? I don't think so.

Granted there was a lot of brain-dead time spent in Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization, and other games, but that time triggered a general interest and curiosity in what is happening. That leap from just playing to wondering what is going on was invaluable IMHO, and you wouldn't have got it without some serious screentime.

First you start poking around inside the *.cfg files for Doom and DN3D, and the next thing you know it is a couple of years down the line and you're a late-teen sitting up late into the early morning fiddling around with laser-pointers and webcams naively trying to write machine vision algorithms from scratch, or using Wireshark to to try and reverse engineer the server browser in the initial release of Steam, or strapping crappy wireless 9V cameras (1) into water bottle rockets and trying to process the video coming back via also-crappy USB video capture devices (2) (...some personal anecdotes for you there).

Now fast forward a few more years and I've got a degree in computer science and a pretty well-paid job as a software engineer that means I don't really need to worry about money, and I still have some good headroom left in my career to grow still without too much effort.

Would I have got here if I had stopped messing about on the computer and instead diluted that learning time with trying to play the violin or piano? I doubt it - that spark of curiosity as a teenager started a life-long (I presume) interest and set me on a path for a well-paid and desirable career. I wouldn't change any of that time at all.

1 - You can still buy similar things I was just amazed to see: https://uk.banggood.com/Wireless-Mini-Surveillance-Camera-Mo...

2 - no-longer available apart from ebay it seems: https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/183280630638
There’s a lot of assumptions here on the things that you think would be able to fix the housing prices. Who’s to say any of those things would provide enough demand to make the area more affordable?

Also, it’s weird to say that with more people moving in it will lower the amount of competent people. That’s not necessarily true and there’s no evidence that the influx of people will affect the ratio of what it is now.

Being away from the valley has allowed me to recognize how odd most of the people there are and how much it’s affected my own thinking during my stay there. Elitist thinking like this runs rampant and when you move to other places you’ll see the people in the Bay Area aren’t all that elite after all.
If you’re looking for a more succinct way to state your point, try this:

Dollars before principles.
What parts of compatibility are missing? The interop works just fine, as with all other Java.

; example: Stream.of(1,1,2,3,5).map(x -> 2*x).collect(Collectors.toList())
user=> (.. (java.util.stream.Stream/of (to-array [1 1 2 3 5]))
(map (reify java.util.function.Function
(apply [this x] (* 2 x))))
(collect (java.util.stream.Collectors/toList)))
[2 2 4 6 10]

Of course it's not practical to convert lists and functions to their Java counterparts like that, but if you need to work with Java objects it's possible.
I'm not ignoring it. I simply don't believe that he/she is selling a product which would be unusually uninteresting to blind people. People with visual disabilities are a few percent of the population.
I suspect a decent number of those who have pet a cow are cattle farmers, so probably most?
Ask HN: How do you tame the elephant?
I've seen lots of discussion on HN about 'the elephant and the rider', the id and the ego, and in general one's conflict with the more primitive part of their mind.

Personally, one of the most significant barriers to achieving my goals is that my id gets in the way of what my ego wants to do. That is, the irrational part of my mind often interferes with and corrodes the will of the rational part.

What are HN's tips and tricks for taming your inner chimp? Have you been able to align the interests of your ego and your id?
The parrot was of age in parrot years and gave consent.
I'm pretty sure that for most home users who are also administrators of their computers, a setting pops up asking if you consent for telemetry to be collected.

I'm not sure if an appropriate warning or option is given for third-party users of a computer, or if it is required for administrators to warn third-party users as such.
If that's true then your comment still doesn't make sense. As there cannot be non-authoritarian government, calling a government authoritarian makes objectively no sense and is just meant to provoke emotions obviously.
> If there was no merit to the complaint, the Guardian would tell Schmidt to sod off.

The Guardian published a viral (>25,000 shares on Facebook alone) fake news story about Assange meeting Manafort. Many complaints about it, and yet no action from the Guardian. Not convinced they act on merit of complaint at all.

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/02/five-weeks-after-the-gua...
The main focus of a business is to turn in a profit and making decisions that doesn't align in some way with that key objective is not something they will likely engage with.

The situation in HK is bad, but at the end of the day people still want to keep their jobs, and company leaders need to try to do what is in the best interests for the company and the employees.

It wouldn't happen, but assuming if it did and you made companies pick between demonstrating integrity or looking the other way to do business with China and be publicly denounced, any half decent leader would bite the bullet and do the former, essentially every large US company.

Also keep in mind how much money from Chinese companies is integrated into the US. Things are much more complicated than you make out, I don't think it is right to draw a line in the sand and push this 'you're either with us or against us' narrative.

Things can't stay like this in China for long, the change will happen from within the country, all we can do as business partners is try to not get involved in the ensuing chaos and protect our own well being and loved ones.
I have taught the course where CS undergrads tackle proving for many years. It has not been my experience that for those who have difficulty the stumbling block lies in making sure that their arguments are formalizable.

This may have to do with my institution and my students (or perhaps with me) but I find that 30%-ish of them just do not have a turn for mathematics or proving, at all. Just as I do not have a turn for graphic design and no amount of effort moving things around in the GIMP seems to help, these folks do not get even the simplest exercises in Epp or Rosen. Even when the other 70%-ish are very ready to go on, there is a core that will not get those questions on the exam no matter how much time we devote to the topic.

(These folks, as far as I can tell and I've been doing this since 1990, go on to solid careers.)
As has been spammed in many threads about hate speech type censorship before, only the government is legally accountable to the First Amendment, private businesses and that corporate personhood BS can use their own freedom of speech to censor whoever they want on their platforms.
Yeah, that makes it a no-starter for me.
I'm going to bet a nontrivial number of visually impaired folks are very interested in tools that provide better views of the night sky and in sites with details about how to find and view celestial objects. You seem to be very lacking in imagination here. Anyway, it's not up to you to decide what they can or should be interested in, just because they experience the world differently than you do.
That's because Romanian is a Romance language, descended from Vulgar Latin after the Roman colonization of present-day Romania.

Both are (through intermediaries at least in the case of English) coming from the latin prefix "in-" and "bracchia" (arm).

Also compare to modern Italian "abbracciare".
That's a lazy excuse, sorry :) The talk is not even linked in the readme.

Display me what this awesome philosophy is capable of. I understand that this is somebody's side project, but come on, grab my attention, since we have a sea of GUI libraries out there. He must have built something amazing in it, just throw it there. It took me quite a while to find the slide deck link in the readme and I only kept looking because I couldn't believe that I can't see this thing in action.