skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. But Switzerland is a stunning country, with snow capped mountains and lush green hills everywhere. And unbelievable public transit and train system. I don't think anywhere in the US is comparable. Even in Colorado and Sierras you have to drive down treacherous roads with mad traffic. In Switzerland, you just relax in a train as it takes you to 12K feet elevation
The system has existed for over a decade, and the slower predecessor for over 50 years. It's a normal thing in Britain, and doesn't need to be advertised.

I don't think his work has affected his reaction here.
A feature I really want is to just show me every possible event in a given radius happening today.

I figure a miss a lot just searching for my interests. I’d rather just see everything nearby.
Public schools are a cancer. They are worse for your intellectual development than just being left alone. They actually damage your mind by suffocating you of free thought and experimentation. And in the name of doing this, they pile on the stress and expose you to viscous bullies. The kids run these schools now, they are closer to day-care centers or zoos than schools. The teachers just watch idly while their students succumb to the horrible circumstances that they are forced into. I know because it happened to me. American public schools in particular are a disgrace. And to top it all off they woke me up at 6AM 5.5 days a week which was never necessary and has been shown to be detrimental to students wellbeing. God damn if there is one thing in this world that I resent it is the mother fucking public schools. God fucking damn them.
Related, I've been wondering if there's a tool that will generate a least-privilege policy out of an existing set of AWS CloudTrail records. It would be wonderful if I could run terraform from an admin user, pull down the API calls, and build a policy from them.
The service is provided to every candidate at the same price as is it to the rest of the planet... how is that a campaign contribution?
Many caviates but impressive progress in manipulation, especially sim2real:

- Only 20% attempts successful on hardest configs with 26+ moves

- Solving steps are not generated by RL (but could be[1])

- Cube is modified internally to transmit additional state via bluetooth

- Highly calibrated and fine tuned environment+MuJoCo based sim to match simulation to reality as much as possible

- Open AI Five algorithm is pretty much reused as-is

- Cumulative training time = 13 thousand years, same order of magnitude as the 40 thousand years

- 32+64 V100 GPUs per training cycle

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07470
This is a crisis point for everyone who supports political free speech.

Every corporation and business person is watching this to see which hurts their bottom line less, suppressing free speech globally, or angering China.

As consumers, we must make sure that they get the message loud and clear that suppressing free speech globally on behalf of China is going to hurt their bottom line far more than China will.

Otherwise, we will live in a world where China controls what discourse goes on in the world by controlling the corporations.
One east coast hurricane or larger west coast earthquake will drown this issue out
They went back on that decision.
They reversed that decision already, and halved the amount of time of the suspensions. It's not good enough when combined with denying any wrongdoing in the original decision, though, and when Blizzard's own Chinese version of its apology for Blitzchung's speech included a phrase that translates something like "We will protect the national dignity [of China]".

-- https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/10/verified-chinese-bli...
Can I say how much you've moved the goal posts here? The original post was about some place that wasn't a "big city", not an isolated rural farm.
the requests all sound very passive aggressive to me. eg, “ would you be willing to only eat the food that you buy?”
Good feedback - I will put that stuff in the README. Was thinking about doing that earlier today. Thanks!
>Thank goodness that VSCode is a different experience! VS and Rider are a pain in the ass to setup and maintain and VSCode provides the essential UX better than just about anything else at this time

I find it's the opposite. VSCode is just a very barebones editor with an ecosystem of plugins that may or may not be maintained. I always need to search through a list of hundreds of plugins to figure out which ones I need for this particular techstack.

I started using Rider this year and it's been much, much better than VS and VSCode for me. I can use it in both Windows and Linux. Search experience in Rider is my favorite part of the UX. I find VSCode clunky in comparison.

I use VSCode when doing Vue stuff. I like it for that. But I still miss the nice search UX of Rider. Maybe I need to dive deeper to see if there is a setting or another plugin that can get me that same feeling.
They ended up giving it back after a couple of days, and reduced his ban to 6 months.
How fast does an elevated subway go?

China is developing low-speed maglevs.

In a decade or two perhaps the future will arrive and we'll be moving millions of people within cities at the incredible speed of 100-120 km/h.
Are you seriously considering an extremely boring and bland US metropolis to living in country that is the middle of Alps ?
> Why don't you warn the readers of the chance of dying on it because you think you can fly? Or acid-flashbacks?

I'm not disagreeing with your larger point, but I wanted to point out that neither of the "risks" you're talking about are real.

1. The "LSD makes you think you can fly" story originates with the story of Diane Linkletter[1], who jumped to her death from her kitchen window. Her father, Art Linkletter, was a famous radio/TV personality, and he spread the story that she had died due to LSD. But she had a history of depression and there's no evidence she was on LSD when she jumped, let alone evidence she thought she could fly. So it's more likely her death was an ordinary suicide.

2. Acid flashbacks--where LSD is stored somewhere in the body and released unexpectedly at a later date--don't even make sense. LSD is an unstable molecule which decomposes easily, and cannot survive in the human body long-term. HPPD[2] is a real risk of LSD, but doesn't exhibit the symptoms people usually attribute to an LSD flashback. Additionally, flashbacks are a diagnostic criteria for PTSD, acute stress disorder, or OCD[3].

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-scarlet-linkletter/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback_(psychology)
>He said this will mean young adults will soon start to move away from buying “Apple devices, craft beer and Chipotle burritos” and instead spend their savings on big-ticket items such as houses and cars.

Where is this “savings” I keep hearing about? Is it something you’re born with?
So this changes absolutely nothing?
If said model only predicted whether it will rain or not.

But not really. You pulled those numbers out of the air, and they aren't very descriptive.

Will someone with a 140 IQ fair better academically and economically than someone with 130 90% of the time?

140 vs 100, sure. But as the # of standard deviations converges, it's less meaningful. And there are still other covariant factors you are failing to consider, as mentioned before.
The huge question here is what's going to happen at BlizzCon in two weeks. There'll be 40,000+ attendees, cameras everywhere, there are usually Q&A panels, homemade signs for player support, cosplay, everything. How can you host BlizzCon when you're terrified of political speech?
I've had people telling me for the last 3 years that it's definitely election interference if a private Russian company pays some people to write tweets about US politicians. But now, apparently it's not election interference if Twitter itself applies special restrictions to the accounts of foreign politicians it doesn't like?
No company owns all the internet. But States do.

It's more like a publicly traded company owning a really popular street or city. And these aren't just any cities, more like capital cities (or close to it). But this company still answers to the state. In reality this company owns and operates streets/cities in every country. Hence answers to every State and each of their laws.

Facebook and Twitter don't actually have free speech themselves. We pretend they do, but if they actually tried to enact a strong opinion into their business, banning some large arbitrary group, not just small disruptive minorities. States would just reverse that and say it's unlawful to deny, let's say, all X or Y countries citizens. Or all of Washington.

They are functionally a State apparatus. There's a reason why Facebook and Twitter are blocked whenever a country is in upheaval. But is kept around even in quite oppressive countries. I'm just saying we need to be honest about these State company hybrids.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevated_railway#Modern_system...
If you have a log for something with an indefinite lifespan, and no maintenance of it possible, and a finite storage medium, why wouldn't you just make it circular?

Reminds me of some people's aversion to auto-killing processes when the OS runs out of memory, as though it could ever be better to lock up completely.
"I think it is important to realize that YouTube is merely a mirror of our societies."

Why would youtube be a mere reflection of society? If culture gets reproduced through action, wouldn't youtube's actions amplify certain cultural messages? Do mere reflections amplify things?
Blizzard is toast. Wtf is it with people loving China, especially if they haven't been there. It's a place that has zero interest in the individual and crushes all political opponents in spite of all the corruption and graft. Think of California or New York.
Improving privacy is reducing the quantity and quality of data collected about you. Making changes to Firefox improves privacy because web sites can collect less data about you.

Improving anonymity is reducing the odds that data can uniquely identify you. Making changes to Firefox harms anonymity because very few people deviate from defaults.

For example, turning off Javascript prevents a site from knowing much at all except header information like User-Agent. So it can't draw a canvas fingerprint nor measure your screen resolution, but it can still record the fact Javascript was disabled - a rare event.

OP is correct: the changes make one 'stick out like a sore thumb'; but incorrect in asserting users are 'more fingerprintable'. Improving privacy may reduce anonymity, but losing anonymity does not necessarily affect privacy.
As long as `chrome://global/content/config.xul` still exists, you can use it. I certainly do, since the new interface is horrible and Mozilla constantly dismisses the obvious usability issues.
This is ultimately a futile effort. The only value in implementing content blockers or usage restrictions would be to encourage computer proficiency in circumventing and defeating them. You can't outwit a bored thirteen year-old over any appreciable time scale.
Haha, thank you! I stand corrected. (Next time I play with my nieces and nephews, I'm going to be stricter about rules :) )
>I pick up grammatical oddities as I read

Mind sharing? So I can improve on it, it is funny as this is not the first time someone said I am Filipino, which I am not XD.
The context is American police. Difference between American and foreign police is American police will shoot you for sport. Foreign police just want a bribe.
I dont know how you achieved that. Iv had disabled viewing history for years now and still get thematic recommendations(watch car video today, tomorrow its all car videos, except more extreme and clickbaity). Afaik you cant turn this off.
Not knowing the real reason, I suspect it's so that parents can drive their children to school before starting their commutes to work. What proportion of kids do you reckon walk/bike/transit to school in your country?
I never said that I can't sell AGPL software. just that I can't use AGPL in a closed source project.
Everyone thinks they are the exception to Pavlovian incentives, brainwashing, dark patterns and social engineering. That can't possibly be the case. Everyone thinks $XX.99 doesn't work on them, but it still does. You wouldn't design security for a system on the premise that your users are too smart to mess up, so why make the distinction for yourself personally.

The intellect is stronger than the will. Remember the story of Odysseus handcuffing himself to a pole to avoid the lure of the Sirens.
Sooooo.... it's not toxic anymore, but you still need to hop teams like crazy or they kick you to the curb?

Your description sounds like my friends who worked there or just left, they were used for 2-4 years and then nitpicked to deny the deferred compensation stock. It's a rolling scam! But so is the rest of the new economy.

I'd hate to know what it was like before.

Interesting that you said "it's being fixed" traces right around the time the various worker stories went viral. And yet you and several other people say "it's not bad!".

I get there's no stats and its all anecdotal and situational, but the very experience of being hired is terrible. Even though I had friends there, I never bothered interviewing. Why waste two days?

At least google has free food. I'd waste an interview with them.
Words have meanings. Some words have multiple meanings, but many people will think of the most common meaning when encountering a word outside of any context that would imply otherwise.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Buggered

Please don't take this as a criticism! I think it's great that this firm has such an adventurous name.
Maybe they could just make their own internet too, while they are at it ?
Geographical latitude can make a big difference. Right now, there is a 30 minute difference between sunrise in Los Angeles (6:59am) and Seattle (7:29am).

Given that most US television programming has historically been produced in Los Angeles, it's not surprising that we should see daylight more commonly depicted during waking hours than what many Americans experience.
Even a simple way to blacklist channels, videos and keywords would be great. There is a "not interested" item in context menu, but it doesn't seem to work very well...
I will never buy another product by blizzard regardless of future behavior. I will be reminding people of their feckless behavior in one star reviews a decade from now.

I doubt I'm the only one. I support the corporate death penalty.
I was riding my mountain bike in the woods about 5 years ago. I found someone's wallet in there. Looked them up on Facebook and LinkedIn and sent them some messages. Never heard back from them for a few years.

Then one day, they responded to my Facebook messenger message that they didn't notice my original message. I never looked deep in the wallet, but evidently there was some sentimental stuff in there they were happy to have back. I can't believe I held onto that wallet for so many years.
Boulder only has a handful of companies and a very high cost of living. I don't think it is a wise choice for all. At the end of the day, if you are making bank in FAANG, there is nowhere in the world remotely comparable. Everything else is a massive compromise
> I'll skeptically take self-admitted bias over subversive "neutral" any day.

The trick is to read about the same event from all sides.

Self-admitted bias will gladly skip, ignore, distort, and excuse elements of stories they think reflect poorly on their side. With out other perspectives you'll never know and end up with a warped sense of reality.
How+to+Stop+Smoking+for Good
People being paronoid pyschotics shouldn't affect my ability to take a poop in peace.

Those suitcases full of explosives you are hallucinating about? Has NEVER HAPPENED.
Counting the Countless: Why data science is a profound threat for queer people
Paywall, can't read the article.
One is a private American company abiding the law and exercising it's legal right. The other is a rogue state sponsored disinformation/psyop campaign detrimental to our sovereignty. How is this that difficult?
It's a healthy competition. Nothing wrong with that. If it's possible to get a product with the same functionality but for half of the price, why not? It will make iRobot Corp. even better (long term)! Not sure about price cuts but iRobot Corp. will def figure out how to balance margins the right way.

Competitor's solution might be using cheaper materials with not as polished design (google's pixel vs Apple's iPhone analogy is perfect here) but there is definitely an inferior but still profitable market for that!

At the end of all this consumers will end up with even better solution as a result of the healthy market competition.
No, it's not.

It's a crisis for speech by entities that are seeking to make millions of dollars in China.

Those corporations were never in the business of defending free speech in the first place. If you were expecting them to, I would suggest finding better role models.

This is not a problem for anyone who does not care about selling out to the Chinese market.
> and may have significant repercussions once generational effects start kicking in.

That's ok, I'm pretty sure there's nothing forcing us to take that into account now
especially since cookiejar is kinda useless. you can't use it with more than a single server, anyway..
AWS makes... how much?

And won't invest in basic stuff like that?

Their CLI is irritating too.
> I've had people telling me for the last 3 years that it's definitely election interference if a private Russian company pays some people to write tweets about US politicians.

I think you've got the facts backwards. Russia pays people to impersonate US politicians, not simply "write tweets about" them (but that would obviously count as election interference too; if there is no trusted space for democratic communication and discussion, then there is no democracy). The @TEN_GOP[1] account (among others) that pretended to be the Tennessee GOP but was actually Russian disinformation is absolutely 100% election interference.

Russia also hacked the direct voter rolls or the voting machines or other election infrastructure in all 50 states. This is election interference.

> But now, apparently it's not election interference if Twitter itself applies special restrictions to the accounts of foreign politicians it doesn't like?

You have made this up? These assertions are not listed anywhere. The restrictions have nothing to do with who Twitter "likes"; the restrictions are based on who breaks the rules (which are publicly listed, not subjective by twitter inc).

Private citizens and private companies cannot be compelled to distribute messages that contain calls to violence, falsehoods, etc, at scale to entire populations. That's anti-freedom, anti-democratic and anti-American.

[1] @TEN_GOP info: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/19/16504510/...
Accessible Color Systems
They only did that after they were called out by multiple Senators and international media, so I don't really give them any credit.
No, that applies pretty much everywhere except Japan.
Sometimes I feel like the process of growing up, and in particular of becoming a parent, is a process of learning my parents were mostly right all along.
Does the differ from for example a news network that are staunchly aligned with one political party over another and thus painting a very one sided view?
They tried this back when it was called Red Hat Linux (I realize that was a very long time ago in penguin years); customers with N servers would buy one support contract and Red Hat didn't make much money. The differences between CentOS and RHEL may be small but it's literally worth billions.

BTW the RHEL Docker images are now free.
Rule-breaker-in-chief
In Aldous Huxley's "Island", he uses guided psychedelic journeys as a rite of passage into adulthood (among many other sensible lifestyle adjustments). That would make the world a much better place if done correctly.
Angola 120.056?!
That’s ridiculous. We have to make it look like _something_ the user would expect, and something good. Why not pick standard UI designs and patterns in use today? The alternative is that we build our own standards and force users to learn something new.

This is a feature of Ionic you’re free to disable but many users like very much. It is more widely used for apps running in the App Store that want to map to iOS and Android UI standards for each platform.

We also pride ourselves on making Ionic easily brandable so the platform standards provide a good base you can easily remix to make it look quite different.
There's no way they'll be able to prevent the amount of pro-HK messaging attendees will almost certainly bring, now.
The open Web is independent of the browsing device. If you play Google's game of using their visual branding, you're making it easier for them to hijack the WWW into a Google product.

Having that as a default means that many people will implement it.
When was that, roughly?
> is going to hurt their bottom line far more than China will.

Yea right. a) China has a huge market and b) most people don't really care. Go to /r/hearthstone or /r/wow and browse by new. People don't care.
> which browsers have started to restrict access to these days

Any chance you could point me to a source on this?
Agreed. And twitter better understand the dynamics of that, considering there’s a large fraction of users looking for a better platform to jump to.
Peoplesoft was not big enough to withstand Oracle.
> anyone who does not care about selling out to the Chinese market

It's a crisis for speech by customers of those companies, who must make clear that they are just as capable of punishing those companies as the Chinese government.
Definitely falls under the category of “not my circus, not my monkeys”!
That's not passive aggressive. That's a direct ask, to your face, just worded softly.
If a free platform of mass media is not provided to every candidate but is provided to some candidates while others are banned, then that's effectively advertising for some candidates.
underrated comment.
Well shit, we should make dating and work illegal too
By others it is considered not much of a practical challenge at all. However, automation is.
Anyone know if they'll see it when I uninstall Overwatch?
What do you mean? The freedom to communicate your ideas is not the same thing as a guarantee to an audience.
History books claim Sears got slow and inefficient by focusing too much on retail and malls, and shutting down a lot of their classic logistics. In the 1990s they were absolutely slow as a catalog company. In the 1950s, for instance, they were considered fast and reliable. (For several decades the Chicago US Post Office was the largest branch in the country because of it serving Sears' warehouses.)
It’s remarkable that the two can even be conflated!

I fear sometimes that a considerable amount of Americans have no further loyalty to the ideals of this country.
Typically they don't until they are forced to by an adversarial process. Compare AB5 in its original form versus what was eventually passed. The number of professional groups that stepped in and pushed for exceptions for their trade is a testament to how poorly the original authors of AB5 did thinking about the edge cases. By the time it passed, it was largely exceptions.
It's going to be pretty interesting.