skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disgust feels close to shaming for me...or might lead to it. How do you keep those two separate?
I'd be tempted to work that flophouse over with a sledgehammer and a crowbar. Would the scammers have any recourse?
It's the difference between a Walmart, which everyone expects to be pretty low ethically, and Blizzard, which has been using things like LGBT in their marketing (showing their lead Overwatch character as gay [outside of China at least]).

You can't have it both ways. You're either progressive in marketing and action, or you're a hypocrite and deserve the market's backlash when you show your greed over ethics. It's why Lebron got pummeled so hard for his HK remarks.
We're talking here about free speech versus compelled speech. There are no restrictions on your right to speech, but we also don't compel anyone to sell you an advertising platform. Anyone is free to choose to sell you a megaphone or not. In this case Zuck gets criticism for choosing to sell megaphones to people he knows are going to use those megaphones to lie.

The case Zuck wants to make is that he should be free from the consequences of choosing to take money to distribute lies. He wants to do so by claiming its his obligation to give free speech to politicians but this is clearly rubbish - it's a protection no other megaphone vendor has. Take CNN for example, they can and do refuse to broadcast some political adverts because they have an obligation. An obligation that Zuckerberg contents shouldn't exist. What he is advocating for is a fundamental re-definition of what free speech in the US means.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/technology/facebook-polit...

> This week, another critic emerged: Adriel Hampton, a marketer and progressive activist in San Francisco, who on Monday announced his intention to run for governor of California in protest of the policy, posting fake ads to prove his point.

> Facebook has since said that it won’t allow Mr. Hampton to take advantage of its lax approach to political speech despite his candidacy, and he says he is exploring his legal options.

The rules are enforced if and when they want to, completely arbitrarily.
Aaah, sweet, sweet Bethesda. I would look somewhere else, to be fair.
Not quite true. There are ethical ways of getting foie.

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_...
I disagree with that. You might now be a pilot who has lost his experience in how to land an airplane and so will do a much worse job of it compounded by the emergency situation. Every landing is also training.
The Rights of Journalism and the Needs of Audiences (2013)
You're presenting a false dichotomy.

Another solution would be to allow the ads but disallow personalized targeting.
No, absolutely not! I'm sorry if I gave that impression. I love that people are standing up for what they believe in. I just disagreed with the notion that whatever Blizzard will do, can be classified as "clamping down hard", but it might just be that I have a different experience of what that means.

And I might be wrong, maybe Blizzard will do drastic, irrational actions like involve riot police or something. Who knows.
First step would be banning political ads on social media platforms. And then everywhere else.

The problem with your initial argument is that paid political ads give even more power to the gatekeepers. It also overlooked the issue that more money equals more speech, meaning grassroots political movements are at an even bigger disadvantage because of the disparity of funds than if everyone had to get their message out organically.
A plane entering an ad-hoc holding circle is much less of a risk to its peers than a ground vehicle coming to a stop on the open road.
Maybe the best case scenario is a small modern plane flying a Rotax 912, making about 24 mpg on standard auto fuel.
My view is that games help you become better at playing games. A while ago a lot of people said that doing crossword puzzles was a good way to keep your mind sharp but it's not really the case. The elderly who did a lot s puzzles just got good at doing puzzles.
> The speed at which AlphaStar overtook previous AIs seems to me to be nearly unprecedented in AI research.

Is it not simply the case that, before AlphaStar, very little money and effort was being put into developing AIs for Starcraft 2?
The Changelog 367: Back to Agile's Basics
However the computer can macro while in a fight which is something people can’t dI. We would miss the fight and lose the game. It’s not just a tactics game. Attention span and where your eyes are matter.
Let’s say I have a newsletter generation service for a website. Users can opt of emails. I use AWE SES for sending emails. I would like to test that emails are sent unless you’ve opted out.

First, I don’t know how to accomplish this without mocking / replacing the email dependency before testing, even in an integration style test. Emails cost and how would I even verify if I did send the email. Second, I really am failing to see how this is poor design and am genuinely curious.

I can think of so many scenarios where some “orchestrating” service uses multiple single unit services to pull off some task. To me, mocking is incredibly useful for ensuring that you test a lot of failure cases in these scenarios by mocking to force an exception.

A lot can be accomplished via integration tests rather than mocking (actually using a database for example). But to somehow suggest mocking is across the board bad seems like an illogical position
Airbnb terms of service says you authorize them to collect the money from you, even if there are chargebacks, and they'll turn it over to third party collections.

https://www.airbnb.com/terms/payments_terms?hide_nav=true

Also there's a binding arbitration clause there too just for good measure.
Correct, but the National Firearms Act of 1934 which actually bans the sale of machine guns and other automatic rifles is still alive and well.

"Assault weapons" is a meaningless phrase.
How did Blizzard fail in PR where Apple succeeded?

They both were anti Hong Kong, but few remember and care Apple's actions.

Asking in case I ever F up and need to go damage control.
In an emergency, all the other traffic will be cleared out of the way.
Not sure if you're referencing the constitution's original intent for state legislatures to elect senators. If you are, here's a good reference for anyone interested in the topic:

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing...
I must say that because of Blizzard actions there was x50 more coverage for the people of HK, so in some strange way, I'm glad they did it
You're arguing a point nobody is defending. Obviously it costs money to speak loudly. The question is whether political speech can withstand the age of overwhelming scale, extreme anonymity, weaponised psychology and machine learning.

This is a problem far greater than literally anything that could be broadcast in a radio spot. And for now, the photocopiers and push pollers still exist no matter what happens with Facebook.
Here is one without the bug;

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Now to see if I can check the performance.
Possibly worthless advice, but I’d suggest you date someone your own age and adopt.
This is an ancient maymay.
My first real programming job was a summer project for a tutoring program at ASU where they managed their schedules in a shared access database. It got bad as it would get overwritten often. 10 students would show up with no tutor, or a tutor would sit and wiat for students who would never come cause they rescheduled.

We copied the structure to SQL server, built some stored procs ( only allowed way to access the DB at the time ) and fronted it with a bunch of aspx pages. They loved it beyond my expectations.

All of that was new learning as I had only ever done the LAMP stack at that time and this was all Microsoft stuff.
Are hotels really about the same cost? My last several vacations have used Airbnb for housing, mostly because I prefer to cook my own meals and like having some space to spread out. Booking a suite w/ kitchenette at hotels in the same areas would have been quite expensive, if even possible.

But, I've never been scammed on Airbnb. My experiences have all been excellent. That's one rental in the US and 5 across western Europe in the last 7 years. Not sure if it matters, but none of these were "cheap" rentals - they were all mid-priced. And almost all with "Super Host" rating (no clue if that gives any extra protection).
>Why would you expect someone calling for tighter regulation of the media to give a free pass to CNN?

The side doesn't really matter, what matters is giving that power to government will lead to one side winning and entrenching themselves via said power. I believe it's better to let free citizens learn wrongly on their own than to pretend government can teach the so-called right things.
When Watson won Jeopardy, its lead designer thought a 5 ms reaction time was fair because one time a human anticipating the buzzer light got 2 ms.

Of course to any reasonable person a consistent 5 ms is obviously vastly superior to once in a blue moon lottery-winning luck.

Sounds like it's the same deal here, where the designers made some effort to level the interface playing field, but also left in some advantages like instantly being able to select individual units (or whatever it was the other players felt was not humanly possible to do). Probably because, at some level, they really want their system to win.
New business model idea: write open source software with a license that requires, well, a license to _operate_. It's free in all the typical APL2 senses, except that you can't sell it "as a service" without signing, effectively, a "lease." Now, supposing the project gains sufficient popularity / community / traction, all you have to do is wait for Amazon to take note of the project and contact you for a lease. You ask for 30% and retire. And if they invent a competing project that is at all API-compatible, they have to prove in court that they haven't plagiarized any of your open source code; but, that wouldn't happen anyway, since by their own admission, they're not focused on writing software, they're focused on operating it.

Someone with experience/knowledge in this area tell me if I'm off my rocker. I know it sounds too simple. But why wouldn't this work?
Was marked as spam for me, but delivered fast
In Racket (and probably other Schemes) you can do

(define foo (make-parameter "some value you want by default"))

(define (do-foo)
(do-something (foo))

(do-foo) ; uses the regular foo

(parameterize
([foo "my injected foo])
(do-foo))

And it all just works as you would expect. `foo` gets automatically reset to the prior value when it leaves the scope of the current parameterize block. You can also nest them safely, or use them in macros, and IIRC even inside threads.
Right now I know a ridiculous amount of people with bio phds from top tier schools that are trying to make it as data scientists. I don't think there is a bio revolution like the software revolution that is happening quite yet.

I know quite a few bio/chem people working in pharma as well. That industry is booming but mostly for the people that own pharmaceutical companies not their employees. There's a reason that most biologists from good school would rather be bad data scientist that good lab workers in pharma/bio tech. The pay is much worse and pharma/bio tech don't treat there employees nearly as well as big tech companies do.

All of the interesting jobs around that space are still largely tech jobs.
simply pathetic.

you have no self worth if you're willing to be defrauded out of hundreds of dollars, then the company sided /with the fraudster/, and you're /still/ unwilling to part ways from the platform

don't bother posting the following, please:

- there aren't any alternatives: legal hotels/hostels existed before, and will after

- cheaper: that you're willing to ignore the law for people who actually live there in order to save money is more telling of your non-existent principles. in many cases this isn't true anyway
Probably no more terrifying than a similarly sized system in C C++ or a more modern stack.

Back in the day I worked on billing system for BT written in Fortran 77 and Pl/1G and that was ok to pick up - we did have an actual genius as a team leader and designer though YMMV
Computers can prove any theorem which can be proven by a computer.
Depends on the nature of the anti-gravity drive. If it's like an engine, which needs some sort of process to operate, then yes, it can fail to work and you want a backup system. If it's a specific material, which works like a magnet in that the anti-gravity effect is present as a result of the passive configuration of matter, less so.
As a counterexample it's easy to get this wrong as well. In my EMT career we switched from doing run reports on paper to doing it on the computer. It was a nightmare. No attention to good UI principles had been paid. In the section on "What drugs did you administer?" we had to choose from a scrolling menu of perhaps 100 items for each drug we used (including oxygen which we used on everybody). Simply typing in their names would have been easy, but no. Every data element was like that. A report that took me 20 minutes on paper took 45 minutes on the web version. Classic enterprise software.

Edit: Above was an attempt at digitization while this thread is about form automation. Understood. My point is that there was a lot of automation that could have been employed but wasn't. With that and good UI principles, the org could have made us more efficient. They chose not to because what they really wanted was a searchable database of patients treated so they could get more funding. EMT productivity was never a consideration.
It's important to see an idiom like that contextually. Of course there's going to be a difference if you're in Spain on the streets facing off the police or if you're going to a gaming event hosted by a games developer. Clamping down will take on different meanings depending on who is involved or where it's taking place, but I don't think it's wrong to use 'clamping down' in this context.
Twitter,Facebook and Google are all same institute to damp down privacy towards full controlled speech if any.

Please, don't use these sandboxes .. Programmers create real social media for people. Make internet great again, please.
World of Warcraft just had a classic release, which I would hardly call stale.

https://www.newsweek.com/world-warcraft-subscriptions-triple...
> but does it make sense for a person to have their own website and then also post to medium?

This is something I have thought about for a while, and I think my words in the article sum up why it's a good idea.

> The group of people who want to read your blog content isn’t the same exact group that uses Medium.

To achieve max coverage, having it in free places and paid places is fine.
I think this could be solved by disallowing targeted political ads at any micro level. Allow campaigns to target metro areas and very broad demo groups much like TV does.
But.. but... she can't have it both ways.

The current unexplained data is not much, and the best explanations involve a lot of hard to test things.

Why? Because there's not enough unexplained data. The easy to test theories have been already thrown out.

Yes, sure, what she is saying is nice, let's try to explain stuff the simplest way possible. Occam's razor. But theorists already do this.
To be fair, you could hardly build a scientific device that looks more like a ray-gun than the thing in that picture!
In biology, the problem space is extremely vast and very hard to understand. I have a PhD in biology and find computer science relatively logical and simple. You can just look things up. Looking things up for a specific topic is not even easy in biology.
Uh - premise that we control "tech"? Have you looked at how tech is being used in the wild?

Our natural systems on this planet blow our "tech" systems out of the water by orders of magnitude by their order of complexity and their capabilities. To try and trivialize a tree to the listed attributes without looking how it fits into our entire living ecosystem is so incredibly diminutive and a classic simple narrative of humanity thinking we control this planet and that it was built for our benefit. We are merely here at this moment in time, we might not exist in a thousand more years, a million years? Who knows.
AIRBNB doesn't care a bit, since there are many more people out there who don't hear anything negative. I prefer to stay at real BnBs or hotels less likely to be scams. I moved into an apartment complex a few years ago and wondered why the apartment down the hall had cleaners almost every day. It was an illegal rental. In fact I found a couple more on the AIRBNB site with my identical kitchen countertops. The apartment complex shut them all down. One had reservations for 3 years already.
Wait got my wires crossed. I was thinking id was a subsidiary of Blizzard.

They're actually Bethesda/Zenimax.

Disregard the GP
I have had this happen to me twice. The inconvenience of putting up with this bullshit outweighs the $50/night I save. It happens frequently enough you do have to consider it in the equation.

This has pushed me back to traditional hotels.
I don’t understand why Catalyst exists at all when we have SwiftUI coming soon, which seems much better.
Well, as you might expect, many successful American mathematicians studied at top American universities such as Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Chicago, Michigan, etc. (Not sure if your were expecting a significantly different answer.)
Show HN: Augmented Reality Web Component
Gamers like being outraged.
> On average, it takes us 60ms to perform any stack of image transforming operations. That also benefits our users (who likes slows APIs?).

So this was my point in bringing it up: "We're faster than the other APIs out there" is a much more direct benefit to communicate to me as an API user than "We use GPUs, which makes us fast, faster than the competition, who don't use GPUs". The latter version has me making assumptions and eventually getting to a conclusion that matters to me; why not take me there immediately?

The thing is, as a non-expert in this area, I don't even fully understand whether the real performance bottleneck in such an API is the latency of uploading the image and downloading the result, or the computational processing of the image. So if using GPUs cuts the overall request time by 70%, that's great! If it only affects the round-trip time by 5%, then it's not a huge deal to me. As the domain expert, I'm relying on Pixaven's marketing to educate me on this.
I'm not sure people want OW2, especially with a PvE focus.

Their last Blizzcon was pretty bad ("Diablo for mobile: Don't you all have phones!?") and they somehow managed to make things worse right before this Blizzcon.

Things are looking grim for a company that used to be an industry game changer.
Yes, that true, but this autoland system is not intended for routine use. It's for emergencies only.
Yes, this is a good way to ensure that you aren't doing horrible, horrible things inadvertently. When you can magic up a dependency from a service locator or DI container, you don't have to think as much about what you are actually doing. Having to look at a constructor with seventeen parameters passed in highlights that you've made a mess of your design.
My solution has just to not use Airbnb because I don’t know if it’s a scam or not. They can fix their scam detection or continue to lose customers.
Didn't an Italian ultras group (Juventus?) get their hands on an air-to-air missile recently? If I remember it wasn't some old Soviet stock but something made in Europe not all that long ago.
You'd be able to save the time it takes a nerve impulse from head to hand that way. It's not much but apparently it can be significant enough that in some DotA games shorter players are disproportionately successful in the roles requiring the fastest reflexes.
Mexico just called, they said they made carrying a single bullet worth years in jail. Rumor has it they have a serious armed petty (and not so petty) crime problem.
Lots of potential solutions here (and potential implementation problems with enforcement), but afaict nobody is even talking about it, they are argueing over a simple black and white ban.
This observation is also very relevant to discussions on universal basic income.
This is awesome! I think they'll actually get a lot of help with this client. I for one am going to change a few things that I'll be they'll mainline.
It's a contract aligned totally for the company. I don't think they have a business if they had to have any responsibility for issues.
I would turn that around and say antipostmodernists are upset that they can't have their presuppositions without justifying their utility/value first.
wow, I have seen the same when I have been looking for a house at Airbnb on Corfu. Because I have been checking many places on this island, in different areas, I found some houses with the same bathrooms (just photographed from different angles). I found it must be scam and I have chosen different place. That one if I remember clear I have reported to AirBNB
I was in a train in the UK they other day that I swear had a big diesel engine and a clutch and my first thought was that someone had converted a coach to a train. I thought all trains that were diesels would be diesel electric but apparently that was wrong.
No one is saying paid speech is not free speech. Obviously it is.

The flawed argument Zuck made is that in order to have free speech we must have paid speech. That's a self-serving fallacy.

There's a difference between paying for printing costs and paying a middle man to distribute your message to an arbitrary number of people, especially when that middle man has zero accountability and zero marginal cost.
I chuckled at that... It's almost certainly an automatically algorithmically generated link inserted by the publisher.
There are plenty of executives running biotech companies who have barely any biology expertise. Pretty much everything they know is contained to their product and its competitors. There are PHD's and MD's in SV who basically specialize in working as consultants for these types of products and back up their potential. You see it all the time with health startups when they have a medical advisor or something to that effect.
Interestingly, the hardest part of AlphaStar looked like it was researching how to stop the computer winning through an overwhelming mechanical advantage.
FWIW Cirrus also has a Cirrus Airframe Parachute System that is standard in all models.
Blizzard has done a crazy amount of virtue signaling over the past few years. It should have been obvious to most that this was just marketing to get people to buy their stuff, but it seems to work on a ton of people. You may or may not be surprised to know that they backtrack on a lot of their progressiveness in the Chinese market such as various characters being of certain sexualities.

The sooner that people learn that almost every company ever is only out to make money and is not your friend the better. This has been a more difficult realization for some due to it being a video game company.