skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I eventually gave it up.

Sounds like a business opportunity.
An ad network where the "user interests" are supplied by the publisher (and maybe user-agent, see below), not by the ad network. The network doesn't need cookies for the user, doesn't track the user at all - the analytics are based exclusively on the data provided by the publisher/ website, not the user.

This way, the publisher might target on the content (plus maybe known user preferences/ past activity on the site, while logged in). Sure, the publisher might also track the anonymous users & supply anonymous profiles, but at that point, why bother? Just use doubleclick like everybody currently does.

You could even imagine integrating with the user agents. If I'm interested in ads for cars, I might willingly supply the information about "what kind of ad I'm interested in". In my own "advertising profile", that I keep under my control. Sounds like having a user-controlled advertising profile is a win for everyone - both users & advertisers. I'm not quite sure why nobody does it.
It's funny because I think exactly the opposite: that evolution is self-similar with technology.

I think adaptations are best understood as a kind of technology, learned with our genes rather than our minds. The nerve cell is a technology, enabling rapid communication across communities of trillions of other cells. Hemoglobin is a technology. Multicellularity is a technology.

The mistake is maybe in assuming technological advance is monotonic. In the Polynesian diaspora, the bow and arrow was lost (probably due to island bottleneck effects). To appropriate a quote: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice".

In both evolution and human technology, the arc is long and winding but it empirically bends towards greater complexity & capacity. You basically have to cover your eyes to claim otherwise.
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I've been bitten by a lot of mosquitoes and never once been aware of it happening. I don't think anyone I know has ever claimed to know when it was happening either.
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The trick is that you can critical of more than one thing at a time, and that criticism of the Chinese government doesn’t mean support for the US government.

Though at least in the US you can criticize the government.
>why is it considered pejorative?

There are two aspects to playing a collectable card game[1] - building a deck (done on your own), and 'driving' the deck (playing your deck against other people). They generally correspond to strategic and tactical thinking; one tries to solve the problem of "how to win", the other looks to "what is the correct play in this particular instance".

Generally speaking, building a deck is considered _much_ harder to do, because the problem space is so much bigger. Coming up with lines (avenues of play that let you win the game), understanding the mechanics that create synergy, understanding how your deck interacts with other decks and how it answers (or ignores) various types of threats, how it addresses common issues (card draw, mana curves, late game vs early game strategies, etc), what to sideboard - these are hard things to do, especially in a game like Magic where there's a non-trivial number of cards rotating in and out of Standard. It's actually even harder than that, because there are multiple ways to win, so you have to add another layer above that.

Netdeckers focus exclusively on the mechanics of playing the game using a deck list someone else has come up with. It's a pejorative because a lot of times these players don't understand what they're doing, they just know "person x used this deck to win tournament y, and I watched a stream where they talked about how to play it". This is a bigger problem when playing in the Real World, because these players don't have an understanding of the rules/mechanics of the game that makes the deck "good", which is very frustrating to play with. They outsource a lot of the strategic thought and understanding of the game to someone else. They play very deterministically and don't know how to read the table/how to get a sense of what their opponent's deck is trying to do. You can get pretty far piloting a good deck, but you're never going to be _good_ at the game.

[1] I'm going to focus on Magic the Gathering because it's the most well known/popular of these, and is the most copied...because they've spent a long time learning these lessons the hard way.
Back when I worked in IT many years ago, one of the things I did each week was run JohnTheRipper on our password file. If it cracked your password, it sent you an email saying your password was weak and you had to change it.

If you were in the next week's batch, it emailed you and told you "your password is foobar, which we discovered by cracking the password file, and it is weak. You must change it". Yes, I emailed them their password in plain text using our internal email system. Jury's still out on whether that was a good idea. :)

The next week we just disabled your account and you had to come to IT to fix it.

One guy actually got fired for his password. He was already being super creepy and making the girl who sat across from him uncomfortable, but she never told anyone. Then we cracked his password, which was a very naughty phrase about the girl who sat across from him. I reported it to HR, who asked the girl, who then said he was creepy, and so they acted swiftly on the reports and got him out of there.
Who has no resemblance to living or fictitious person, especially not Chinese.
I'm guessing the comment had initially started to fade, but people have voted it back up since then?
No, but don't do that. :P
Ah, that's interesting and subtly different from the way it works in the US. The most common mortgage loan here is simply a 30-year fixed rate loan. We do have 3 and 5 year fixed loans, but they just revert to a floating rate after the fixed term so there's no presumption that you have to get a new loan at the end of the fixed term even though it's often a good idea. Those loans have also fallen out of favor substantially since 2008. Are full-term fixed loans not a thing in Canada?
What if they just ban that character in the game?
You bet! These days are fun for me because I get to hang out on the internet all day and answer questions :)
If you're interested in the history of the idea of progress there is a great journal article, by John Gray (Oxford philosopher), on the history of the idea of progress:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20027925?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
40% of office workers.
Well put. To wander a bit off topic, but I feel this is a specific example of a general problem in free societies. There is no perfect safety without perfect surveillance. In my opinion, it is necessary to be at peace with the fact that there will be a certain level of bad outcomes in exchange for the protection of general freedoms. There will be crime, murder, kidnappings, embezzlement, death by neglect, etc. It is unavoidable absent a perfect surveillance state. I, for one, am willing to accept risks. Others will disagree. But I think that in a perfect surveillance society you are also pefectly stagnant.
My wife had the same thing happen to her but luckily our bank clearly says that this is a password reset pin code (don't share with anyone) type of message along with the pin code in the SMS. So, my wife refused to give it to the person on the phone.

A better sms password reset flow would be to first send a text asking "A password reset has been initiated. Was this you? Reply: YES or NO". Then after a YES confirmation they send the reset code along with the same big "Don't share with anyone on the phone" message.
Do you have an academic and/or industry background? I'd be curious to hear about what the experience of publishing in an academic journal as outsider was like.
Yeah, advocating for human rights isn't a political issue. To claim "I don't want politics in my games" is a cop out to ignore having to deal with/learn/understand what's going on.

If someone just doesn't care, OK, but don't hide behind "I don't want to talk about politics". This isn't politics. This is life.
They did this in Portland, OR. All of us that live here are like wtf? What a huge waste of money for a bridge I will never use.

We need another car bridge because traffic is horrible on the only main bridge to get to WA. Why not build a bridge for cars, people and the max train?How stupid of the city to allow this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilikum_Crossing
Safari is also vulnerable to phishing popups that are indistinguishable from Apple popups.

https://privacylog.blogspot.com/2019/06/safari-zero-day-any-...
> the ability for women to be able to contribute

Has always been respected.

FSF is no Uber[1] or Salesforce[1] or other corporations where women are harassed and molested.

[1] https://www.vox.com/a/sexual-harassment-assault-allegations-...

[2] https://www.feministcurrent.com/2019/03/28/whats-current-50-...
That's an interesting observation and contrast. I like the economic (supply and demand) perspective, when the market is flooded with expression, expression is cheap. When one can respond in kind to criticism, the need for centralized control is reduced.
I agree with the nature of your premise, but I think two sides share blame here. Part of the reason you see requests for citation/evidence is because there are common rhetorical points, often rooted in ideology or politics, that are simply untrue or misleading, which also isn't as much of a problem between actual scientists who are highly informed and are discussing in (reasonably) good faith.
Goodenough is making a physics pun with “Braga glass” that the interviewers don’t catch - there is a well known phenomenon in solid state physics called a Bragg glass

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03267-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/35096534 also arXiv here (https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0110592)
Most of jq's syntax is just a mix of JavaScript and a typical shell's. Every expression has an input and output like a shell command's stdin and stdout. Functions work on arguments and their stdin to produce their stdout.

Here's an explanation of the syntax in the command I posted:

jq '
# output the value at "Directory" from input object
.Directory
# pipe to map (JavaScript also has map()). The argument of map works in
# the context of each element in map's input array.
| map(
# Produce an object where the property name is a string that
# interpolates the value of the "name" property of this element.
# Instead of interpolating, we could have also used this more
# JavaScript-ish (ES5) syntax:
#
# {(.name + " has children"): ...
#
# The property value is an expression that gets the value of the
# "children" property and pipes it to the expression `length != 0`.
# `length` (which JavaScript also has) outputs the length of the
# piped input, and then we compare that with 0.
{"\(.name) has children": (.children | length != 0)}
)
# map's output is a single record which is an array. We pipe that to
# .[] to make multiple records, each an element of the array. The
# syntax here is comprised of 2 parts: `.`, which is the input object,
# and `[]` which is the subscript syntax without an index.
| .[]
'

> IMO the ideal solution is something using pure JavaScript syntax

The greatest advantage of the current syntax is the great balance it has between legibility and terseness. I don't think making it pure JavaScript would be better.

> possibly with a library resembling jQuery for tree traversal

Using jQuery in JavaScript to traverse JavaScript objects? I don't know what to say...
I am working 40h/week as a software developer for a non-profit... Whether I spend 6h/day thinking hard about problems[1] at my desk or on the sofa or while walking a dog makes no difference w.r.t. but a lot for health and general well-being.

[1] I vehemently believe in the "80% thinking, 10% cooding, 10% testing" idea of software development.
> bad thing not bad because other thing bad

Great discussion!
> I haven’t played with 3d printers in a while, but my understanding is that they’ve pretty much standardized on the STL file format to describe prints.

Not quite. The STL is the model. A slicer “slices” the model into tens to thousands of layers and creates a GCode file that tells the printer exactly what to do.
>This is a scam.

Maybe not. It could also be idealistic college kids who are underestimating the difficulty in launching a successful currency and don't understand that FB's reach and partnership with established processors is the primary reason anyone takes Libra seriously.
Also see basic Unix utilities like cut / paste (and colrm if your *nix has it, not sure if MacOS does) as these do the same column selection and printing and support simple options for delimiter and field number selection instead of writing a parser.

cut -d’ ‘ -f 1,2 < some file.txt
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But by doing this, Blizzard ended up helping more learn about this struggle. So overall this turned out to be good
It's already happened repeatedly and there's plenty of historical evidence it will only expand.

Enjoy the utopia at gun point approach to a better society.
That's the one I meant I think. It is nice, but as I said the impression it left me with was "you could have told me how the approach generally works sooner".
Yes, I'm aware. But as this adds cost businesses are incentivized to move operations elsewhere where externalities are not taxed. That is why I asked "what is the enforcement mechanism in other countries?" If it is just applied internally it disadvantages the host country.
> explain why Susan Sontag is considered an important American intellectual figure ... whose contribution seems to be just...being that kind of person

This to me is akin to asking that common pedestrian plaint about art, "Why is a Mark Rothko painting important? Look at it! I could make that!"

Outstanding cultural figures are not such because of some specific tangible yield of the _contributory artifacts_ that they leave behind. But rather because of the dynamic/conversational/interactive _relationship_ that they had with the culture _at the time_.

Intellectualism seemed much more part of popular culture in her time (60s-70s) than it is today and Sontag was squarely part of that era and the cultural dialogue. It is more interesting to ask the forensic question as to why her essays and speech were as impactful as they were; not "please justify why she deserves to be recognized as influential" ... she just _was_.
I'm a Chinese national working in the U.S. and I have never heard or seen any behavior like this.
Even if such requests are ultimately discarded, it would slightly increase the burden they have to process such requests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd#Blizzard_takedown_demand...

We've known Blizzard to be fuckers since at least 2002. The only way I can play their games now is by getting comped copies via pro player friends; I refuse to ever give them a dime.
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I'm all for the effective strength enforcement and ejecting the creepy guy, but some people do have strong passwords that, a bad idea though it may be, embed something deeply personal to them. Just something to keep in mind before automating the sharing of cracked passwords for otherwise legitimate purposes. I consider my passwords my private information, even if they are no longer secure from a technical standpoint and shouldn't be in use. I hope people respect that if they come across them.
Does ESPN have a stake in China? Was it's reticence to comment on the NBA controversy because of a potential direct retaliation or was it an indirect threat? China potentially coming down on other Disney companies?
Do European countries not have emissions rules for their vehicles like we do here in the US? (California to be specific) The diesels here have to use a DEF solution to remove NOx emissions from them. In California, your vehicle has to pass a smog emissions test in order to be able to drive it.
Is it really bad bosses, or is it spoiled entitlement mentality that is becoming so popular?
In English, the Kaufmann translations are excellent.
Easy, cowboy. If you took that as being passed off as serious science or some shit, you need to go grab another cup of coffee. Or maybe cut back.
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>I figured there was no way we would reach the singularity with current technologies

For the life of me I can't figure out why otherwise smart people would dismiss a prediction about the future based on current state of the art. It just seems so plainly and utterly irrational.
If doing `obj.firstName = el.value` is too bad of an experience for you that you need to add 5kb to make it better you're going to get to that MBs pretty quickly.
> conflating pre-existing factors (already owning a dog) to interventions (going out and buying a dog to try to fix something).

This is a really good point.

We often talk about confusing causation with common causality. (I.e. "active people have lower cardio risk and also get dogs" vs. "dogs lower cardio risk"). That's a good thing to check for, and essential to lots of debates. (For example, early data on charter school performance proved hugely distorted by the fact that educationally-engaged parents are the ones who look into charter schools.)

But we tend to forget the subsequent questions: even if an effect is causative in the wild, does that mean it works as intervention? And even if it is an intervention for some people, have the people it helps already found it? (As an extreme example, hypothyroidism is causative in fatigue and depression. Iodized salt is preventative, but not an intervention for severe deficiency - and doctors already check for treating every depressed person with iodine or thyroid hormones would be a terrible approach.)

Dog ownership is probably both common-cause and causative for cardio health. People who walk/run often are more likely to get a dog since their habits accommodate that, but also a dog is likely to push people towards exercise they wouldn't have gotten. As an intervention, though, it's a lot harder to say. Getting a dog changed my exercise behavior for the better specifically in the marginal cases where I would have almost run/walked, then yielded to inertia or poor scheduling. For people who don't lie near that margin, it's much less obvious what effect a dog might have.
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They logged in with the newly reset password.
Are you using VSCode to access files on remote servers (e.g. using Transmit)?

This breaks in 10.15. Do you have a work around?
It's probably actually easier to learn vulgar passwords. Well vulgar anything really, it's a memorization trick we were taught in school to find a way to relate boring things to sex. Probably anything that has strong emotional valence works.
I would add that Americans' deification of money also drives this view. In our culture, anything that doesn't produce profit is by definition a hobby, and can be safely ignored.
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Using some conversions from an internet site, one AA battery is 1.3e4 Joules and a human requires 8.4e6 Joules per day, so about 133 seconds of energy saved per 6 months of novel, or two lost seconds of calorie burning exercise every three days.

(Lots of sketchy napkin math here)
Technology gets better, alright. And there so many things, I can do today, I could not do just a decade ago.

Hardware is fantastic, it's fast, almost never fails, it's lightweight and just works.

The software side has been a great disappointment, on the other hand. Software spies on you, makes you a marionette of a corporation, it's getting more brittle in many parts. Many people in business do not care about security or some basic ethics and it's mirrored in the apps and tools we use.

Imagine a world, where software respects every users privacy, most connections are safe by default and people feel ok about updating things, because things most of the times get better. It sounds like a utopia today.

I really wanted to like software as a thing, but the current and the next decade do not look bright to me. On the contrary.

We'll have many more abandoned devices, abandoned software, that some poor guy will depend on, more chaos, more junior developers who do not understand basic things, let alone caring about ethics or the consequences of what they are building. It's sad.
It never really occurred to me to compare them before. Not necessarily from memory.
Stop generalizing. 99% of the issues in today's world are there because of bad generalizations.
Earlier discussion on (mostly) the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201768.
That’s credible - it could be quite localised on the tube to certain stations or lines if that is the case - I’ve noticed that I get black marks all over my hands occasionally from the escalator handrail in some stations but it’s only a small minority of the ones I’ve been to.
It's kind of well-known universal truth in HR/management research - when hiring, various "whole-employer" factors dominate, but at employee retention/quitting the largest single factor is the line manager/direct supervisor; people join companies but quit bosses.
IMHO, Nietzsche was both a great poet and a great philosopher, and the former can't really be translated. I'd imagine it's a bit like watching a shakespear play in a foreign language - still a dramatic and entertaining time, but you might be left wondering what all the fuss is about.
> ignore US history when discussing the present & future

Great idea !
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That is if you want to look at the world through someone else's inevitable distorting glasses ;)
Modern Diesels have some other tech to help lower the NOx levels (like EGR and SCR systems) but the main problems are that older cars didn't have such systems, plus, for many years, VW lied and faked data, partly to avoid having to implement SCR (saving thousands per car, and the re-engineering) and partly to say the cars were cleaner than they were.

Moden SCR systems (they inject DEF, aka, urea, into the exhaust) do a really good job getting rid of NOx.
<shrug> They're Pizza Express. There's one on every high street. Who would expect them to fail to pay invoices? There's a cost to credit-checking your counterparties, too. And at the end of the day, none of them are invulnerable. If you're a food wholesaler or a POS systems company, do you refuse to do business with Pizza Express? Do you have time to go through their accounts? Is £1bn even unusual? Have they been like running successfully like this for a while?

I think this particular case there might be late payment but the business is going to remain in operation and they'll eventually get paid. Thomas Cook on the other hand incurred a lot of externalised costs.

I'm really not a fan of post-hoc "ah, people deserve to lose their money because they should have known (nonobvious XYZ)". There's even a surprising sentence in the BBC article:

> its auditors were happy to conclude the chain is a viable going concern when it signed off its accounts in April this year despite the company's debts being worth more than its assets

If the auditors (chartered regulated specialists!) think it's fine, who would say it wasn't?
Not that I've ever mentioned that there is a homeless vote harvesting going on but since you asked: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homeless+voter+fraud&ia=web .

ID, obviously, won't prevent vote by mail fraud but that one is harder to do since it requires a valid mailing address to receive a ballot, supposedly.
For the life of me I can't figure out why otherwise smart people would dismiss a future prediction based on current state of the art. It just seems so plainly and utterly irrational.
This. I always tell them I'll call them back if it is someone I don't know who needs to discuss sensitive matters. It's the only way to be sure.