skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Sorry, gotta break this up into parts)

> First, the founding fathers did not ensure that slavery would be allowed in perpetuity. In fact, the slave trade had already been outlawed (and later the US Navy even sent ships to Africa to interdict slavers leaving the continent

The slave trade was outlawed because Virginia wanted it outlawed. It was a net exporter of slaves, and they feared both rebellion and economic ruin if the trade continued. The morality of it was just a smokescreen. [1]

> ...the seeds of the civil war were sown in the 3/5ths compromise, which ensured that the south would never be able to muster the power to keep slavery legal.

The exact opposite is true [2]. The South wielded outsized power precisely because of the 3/5ths compromise, which actually led to Missouri entering the Union as a slave State. It also extended slavery to territories stolen from Mexico. Not only did they keep slavery legal, they expanded its reach.

> But it's also not sophistry to analyze the intent of the framers of our country's original documents in ensuring that we follow the law.

I agree, which is why I think Textualism is idiotic at best, and a smokescreen concealing a reactionary agenda at worst. I also think we should consider that many of the Founders were downright evil when divining their intent--3/5ths compromise is probably the best example, but my definition of evil encompasses "enslaved others", and that's over a dozen depending on how you count [3].

> The Constitution ... says ... that the right to keep and bear arms is a natural and individual right

It's ironic for you to use the words "it means exactly what it says" and then use a phrase that exists neither in the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights. Let's quote 2A again here:

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Let's also quote the 1st draft of 2A:

> A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the People, being the best security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.

This one is even more focused on militias and military service. 2A was always--from its inception--about militias.
We are today on quantum computing where we were in 18th century when Ada was creating the 1st computer program. Sure, Grover's algorithm is good for current state of quantum computing but when it will reach to be a current norm just like the Silicon based one is today then is entire state altogether. By that time Grover's algorithm will take it's place in history but will not be used in practice.
From wiki: Perform the following "Grover iteration" r(N) times.
Iteration? That means one state of the computation is waiting for a previous one to be completed. That, to me, sounds like not a true parallelization algorithm, hence randomsort still wins.
This. My two biggest takeaways from years of stats classes were that, when applied right, you can do some really fascinating things with statistics. And that no one ever applies things right, so take any stats you come across with a grain of salt.

After years of professional experience, those are still the two biggest takeaways from stats. The only thing that's been added to the list is the fact that more often than not, statistics/data science is just a political tool to justify budget increases and absolve decision makers of culpability.
The best definition I've seen was in an interview with writer Ted Chiang. Paraphrasing from memory: magic is physics with the addition of "person" as a fundamental concept. It empirically doesn't exist, but it's not impossible by definition.
Do you think so? I posted this mostly as a joke.

The idea that this was anything close to being "AI" is a bit silly. The insight that there were long lines for coffee in the morning and small groups were taking large conference rooms are simple observations that one person could've made and written a report about.
My favorite Lord Byron fact is that he so infuriated his estranged wife, Lady Byron, that she pushed their only child towards studying mathematics & logic to keep her from becoming like her father.

That daughter, of course, was Ada Lovelace.

While I certainly wouldn't credit his eccentricities with the accomplishments of his daughter, I'm glad his wife thought he was crazy enough to push Ada towards the life she lived.
>This is obviously incorrect. If an AI system of superhuman mental capabilities is installed on a system with no network connection and no physical interfaces, we can completely control the harm is might create.

First, why would someone build a system like that, and how would it actually be 'smart'. If you lock an infant in a closed room, it will grow up to be a literal retard. Intelligence requires interaction and data. Next, some idiot will hook it to the net in a heart beat when they figure out they can use it to make money on the stock market. Never underestimate human greed.
I mean the standard 40h + 3-10h commuting per week is already long hours IMHO. People usually work the hours their employer sets, so.
Microsoft Visual Studio has the best c++ debugger. You get spoiled by it. Highly recommend it. If you are a beginner start with Visual Studio; it will make lots of things easier for you. Once Microsoft ports it to Linux the competition is fucked.
other sorting algorithm, taking advantage of SIMD instructions and being cache-aware, chipsort:
https://github.com/nlw0/ChipSort.jl
Phyek stated that it is a negotiation tactic, which implies that decisions are being made in respect to potentially making a deal. The overriding consensus on both sides of the isle are that China must be confronted. There will be no deal.
The "privacy" dialog popups are just marketing. Sure, there may have been an issue with a few bad apps, but Apple found a way to continuously remind you that they are the only ones that 'care about your privacy'TM. Meanwhile, they still happily take Google's money to make it the default search engine in Safari.
Alternatively, running "M-x gdb"[1] within Emacs configured with Evil[1] for Vim keybindings[2]. Running a separate program is a pain, and it won't have config from your .vimrc, but the tight integration between GDB and Emacs is really nice.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/GD...

[2] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
People with eating disorders do that sometimes, yes.
You are wrong to blame an entire country for our addiction to fentanyl. The facts are:

1. Fentanyl has legitimate pharmaceutical uses.

2. There are many, many, many legal manufacturers of Fentanyl, across the world, including Bayer, Johnson&Johnson, Meiji Seika Pharma (Japan), and yes, Chinese manufacturers. Some legal fentanyl ends up getting diverted into illegal channels.

3. There are also many, many, many illegal manufacturers of Fentanyl, again, across the world.

4. The reason for why China has had an outsized share of illegal fentanyl production is that for many years, it (and its derivatives and precursors) has not been a controlled substance.

5. Fentanyl is now a controlled substance in China, and it, its precursors, and its derivatives have been controlled substances since May 2019.
Most of the time one competent 10x engineer could indeed build out all the special features that a company needs. The problem is that one person generally doesn't know all the best practices required of every problem domain, so they may implement things poorly. Furthermore, the one dev thing really doesn't scale up. As soon as your product gains any critical mass and you have an outage then the platform is hosed because no one knows how to fix anything except MAYBE that one engineer who implemented all the special features.
I'm baffled that anyone uses that interface! I think it's literally my least favorite interface in Windows.

Is there a saving grace for that browse folder interface? A certain use case where it's really good?
The primer reads to me as "Things maximizers do"[0]. I'm left to wonder if developers with a satisficer bent get stuck at all, or in those same ways.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximization_(psychology)
But they should only read and write files that you give it permission to. E.g, Word should only be reading and writing whatever files you open to edit, it shouldn't be able to access all the files in your Applications folder. If it needs temp files it can write those to it's designated section of the file system.
HN didn't even exist when Vista was released.
Saying you shouldn't use PGP isn't the same as saying an email client shouldn't support it.

There are few exceedingly narrow use cases for secure email (where "thou must use email" is requirement #1). So minimal support for decryption of email (and understanding application/pkcs7-signature) isn't necessarily a bad thing. And while you're doing it, you might try to make the UX harder for people to do things like quote encrypted text in plaintext messages.

But I do think it's improper to make ease of PGP or S/MIME use a primary touted feature, and I wouldn't recommend its use to lay users. In other words, support it, but don't advocate it. (I am probably in disagreement with the rest of the Thunderbird team here).
I choose to believe that even big corporations can choose to have values.

I do believe we are entering in an age where reputation is going to be much more valuable to companies.

My ISP for 10 years is one that took some strong stances against censorship by doing things like mirroring wikileaks (back when it was cool) os supporting net neutrality.

I kinda put Google in a different basket for years because of their (initial? I think they changed?) refusal to censor search results in China.

And companies who submit to Chinese censorship, I want strictly nothing to do with.
> What do video games uniquely offer? Interactivity. Therfore, the video game medium should focus on offering interactivity that would be impossible to get in any other medium.

To the Moon[1] and Dear Esther[2] won awards and high praise from critics and players alike, despite lacklustre interactivity.

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Esther
Most people don't advocate for "themselves-ism" -> not a tautology
You also need glucose. With a blood glucose level of zero, you die.
would have given a lot of power to corporations to combat China

How? Apple and the NBA just bent to China's wishes. How would that have worked out?
> I wrote a review on the product condemning this practice and Amazon removed the review as "not about the product". Quite frustrating - seems Amazon just doesn't care about customer privacy.

The way Amazon reviews works is that it combines reviews of the same product (even different variations of the same product) so mentioning anything about an individual seller in "ask a question" or "write a review" is meaningless as it applies to the whole site. It makes sense why they would take this action.
I think they are making a killing. If you have a business meeting in progress with your client, you are not going to move to another hotel bc of $500 whiteboard fee. You cringe and put this expense on your corporate credit card. And hotel knows this.
It's a classic case of hire engineers first and figure out problems to solve later. This works great if the company already has a massive revenue stream (Google, Facebook etc.) so the engineers can just mess around and once in a while come up with something great. For a company losing $2B+ a year, not so much.

Once WeWork solved its core engineering problems (bookings), engineering job descriptions got more and more abstract - "build the operating system for the workspace", "bridge the gap between physical and digital", "create a sense of community", "humanize through technology" (all copied directly from their engineering website), so it's clear that they are paying thousands of engineers to do nothing.

I know for a fact that they have large data and machine learning teams spread across SF, NYC, Tel Aviv, Shanghai and maybe more that collect and analyze data from all their operations - few hundred offices and few hundred thousand members. At this scale there is zero reason not to use off-the-shelf products (or pay one of the dozens of companies out there that specialize in this), but they decided to custom build all the infra in-house from scratch.
That's a complicated query tool. I'll be sticking with Taskwarrior for my simple use cases.
Week Four: What Is Elchataym?
TVs in Shanghai go black when playing news about Hong Kong protests
40h of work.
10h side projects.
5h leetcode and interview prep.
Ah, what a life!
But you can also gain back a phone number, by bringing your new phone to the phone company's physical location and presenting ID. That's not really an option with TOTP tokens.

I mostly agree with the other points (although I don't think I'm the only one with Wi-Fi calling and SMS, even abroad).
Starve cancer with cannabis oil with 95% THC concentration. Don't suffer, the cure has existed for thousands of years.
Even Java? Java's tooling is top notch.

IDE is awesome.
Debugging tools are rawsome.
Build tools can be... Well you've got choices.
Workspace setup is easy
This seems like just another random resume-driven-development project at a large-ish company. Why does anyone need yet another new state management paradigm for Android?
Except you're presuming there's an active human actor behind it with a deliberate intent - rather then a distributed system to which people defer responsibility because it's the path of least resistance.

Hence the issue of institutional racism in the blackbox AI systems being sold to law enforcement to determine whether to grant parole, for example. There's no review of them, but more importantly the system isn't obligated to explain itself, and no one gets themselves fired because they don't have to explain why they did what the system said to.

You assume someone has malevolent intent: whereas the reality is they just don't care and want a nuisance out of sight and out of mind.
The UK has long[1] been seen as the America's cat's paw/poodle in the EU[2] - which is why some in the EU are of the idea that Brexit's silver lining is the end of British obstructionism.

1. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/is-the-prime-minister-a-p...

2. https://www.economist.com/bagehots-notebook/2010/07/23/brita...
Wikipedia needs this.

yes yes there's browser plugins, but I'd rather not have some rando plugin potentially reading every site I visit to load a dark mode plugin on the ones it recognizes.
I'm also a fan of SerpentZA, LaoWhy86, and their shared channel ADVChina. Same thing as your link, guys that have been living there for over 10 years, married to chinese women, read and speak the language, and can provide a lot of insight into not only every day life, but also the views of chinese people within mainland china.
No, that's it - for most json documents, the time the interpreter spends in all the stuff surrounding (and executing) json.loads dominates the time spent in native code parsing. That's why replacing json.loads with a faster native implementation doesn't result in noticeable improvements - it's speeding up the fastest bit, and if it's already 0.1% of the wall clock time, then you can't get much more than about 0.1% faster.

PyPy is a JITed language though, so the interpreted bits are much faster. OP is making the point that Python 3/CPython is so slow that speeding up json.loads is a premature (and unnecessary) optimization.
I think this space is hotter than ever. Hard to keep juicing profits for Wall Street when you are increasing AWS spend 5% month over month.

There are LOTS of companies spending a million a month or more on AWS.
Can HN implement this one day? A dark mode for this website would be great.
Only because they are brainwashed by saturation lifelong propaganda.

Also hello to the MSS sockpuppet accounts joining the debate.
IIRC, Ada Lovelace remarked that she was torn between two natures, one 'mathematical' and the other 'poetical.'
For a long time, they've taken a protectionist and appropriation approach to all forms of business, not just software.
That name triggered memories of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
Crash so when wil421 sort is implemented in the next version I’m not scratching my head months or years later.
If Microsoft started calling Windows open source, I would be pretty peeved too. The word open source here is used as a marketing term for a product that isn't in spirit or reality. Yes, the source is available; that's nice, but it's not the same.
SF is the only place in the country where you could say that with a straight face.

In fact, that guy has probably long since left and is doing his own beer analytics startup.
There is a TV mini series[0]. I was excited to watch it but was quite disappointed. The hardship shown doesn't even come close the actual hardship described in the book Endurance. I almost felt like it was an insult to Shackleton.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272839/
south park was not aired in China. They took down content on pirate dl or illegal streaming services.
"...in an effort to be transparent, we wanted to make everyone aware"
The fact that the company published this hidden in the help site speaks of how little commitment to that oath they actually have.
It doesn't even have a date! If you read the reference to "As of September 17, we have addressed the issue" you don't know when it happened.
I guess it might be industry practice, I don't know, but still... it leaves a great deal to be desired for an apologize.
> Solution: use CSS filter:invert for images

> Solution: filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg);

This might be nominally acceptable, but it’s going to be pretty mediocre. Both of these methods dramatically distort color relationships from the original.

Getting someone to explicitly pick colors that work in dark mode will yield much better results. (Of course, takes a lot more manual work by an expert, instead of a few automatic text replacements.)
To explain, and ruin the joke:

I am purposefully, and quite absurdly, conflating Khrushchev's rather embarrassing shoe debacle with the rather embarrassing overstatement of Reagan's oratorical prowess and influence, in the affair of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many people hold to the mistaken belief that he can take any credit for it. [1]

[1] Occasionally, they trot out 'Star Wars bankrupts the Soviet Union' as his greatest triumph. No, it wasn't eight years of Star Wars that starved the Soviet Economy, it was eight decades of military spending taking up >40% of GDP.
How do you conclude that "it's a very effective ideology"?

My observation is that it's a pretty niche ideology. Even many people who know "open source" don't know "free software". While just about everyone who knows "free software" also knows "open source software".

You commented "you could argue that someone who seriously ideologically disagrees with Stallman". I will try to make a more concrete expression of my argument, which is somewhat different than your comment.

If I'm 98% aligned with Stallman, but think that using "GNU/Linux" is a lost effort that's a distraction to the cause, and refuse to use it in my writings and talks supporting free software, would Stallman still work with me? Or would he reject associating with me, and not support my rise in the free software movement?
I wonder, why...

Could be it all these business wanting to IPO have been propped up by obscene amounts of investment capital... and are extremely vulnerable to competition and commoditization by others?

Or, that these "silicon valley" versions are actually no less expensive operate and thus cannot actually even come close to the level of scale they anticipated without enormous (and profit destroying) capital investments?

Or maybe it's their inability to deliver value to literally anyone but their most astute investors, fucking everyone dumb enough to not realize the ruse?

... or maybe, in this case...

It's that nothing about Postmates is exceptionally good, in fact, I find them to be exceptionally shitty. I stopped using them because they literally steal from you when they fuck up a meal thanks to those arbitrary "service fees" in addition to the fucking the delivery fee.

If I went to a restaurant to pick up my food, and it was wrong, I would not be forced to pay for incorrect food. They could fix it, or I could choose to wait and pay, or I could both refuse to pay and leave as I have no debt to them since they have rendered me nothing. Postmates absolutely removes this option from the table, and 100% refuses the liability for fucking up... while charging you for the pleasure.

I highly fucking doubt they don't charge a restaurant for fucking up, but they still got their cut!

"Yes, this is the business problem we're solving to MAKE MO-NAY-NAY... Oh? No... we didn't solve it, we don't think anyone can, my good beebs snorts cocaine so lets make money by going fucking the public, yay!"

So what you ask? That's literally the core fucking problem they're trying to solve, that's how one makes money by solving a problem for someone, but they're just throwing up their hands saying "people are difficult, customer service is 'hard,' no one can solve this; we have the market, give us money" expecting to receive money for it.

Folks, I paid you extra to deliver my food correctly, and you didn't, why the fuck am I still paying?

My assumption is that they're literally so in the red per-order, because their operating costs are enormous even with their pathetic money-grubbing behaviour, that filing right now would be near WeWork levels of bad.

When I would pay Postmates et. al, $9+ dollars to have something delivered, plus fees, plus a fucking tip, and I think back to the restaurant and driver- who are the ones that deserve that bonus and they don't get shit. The reason? Postmates costs are too god damn high for the value they add (which is close to none).

And, just for the record...

* Theiving customers
* Thieving restaurants
* Thieving drivers
* Asshole customers
* Asshole drivers
* Asshole restaurant employees
* Missing/delayed orders
* Badly prepared orders
* Timely updates
* Living wages
* Convenience

Are a sample the problems they're saying they solve the way they advertise their service, but how many of them did they actually solve? And this is the problem with the recent unicorns... Maybe one? Is that really something anyone wants to invest in?
Under current law, copyright applies to any creative work, regardless of publication status. This leads to abominations such as Disney's Vault, intentionally restricting access to a work that is part of the public consciousness.

In my ideal world, if the source code is not placed under escrow and tested to result in the distributed binary, then there would be no monopoly given to that binary. Anybody is allowed to copy it to the fullest extent that they are able to.
Could have hired 500 office managers at half the salary and give them a paper daily planner.
Well technically you don't have to choose a side you can choose to do nothing which is its own side in a way and has meaning and consequence to the general population. People know that rich and famous people, or people in power really have the most sway in matters. So we mere laypeople can decide that you either choose a side or you have chosen to side against us. If you were looking at a person who had the ability to help, but choose to do nothing can you not see how people can be upset with them? Again sure you can choose to do nothing but I won't like you, I might stop supporting you, or I may even work against you.