skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I believe the focus on identity politics, rather than class, to be a big strategic mistake by the left. The emphasis should not be on race, sex, sexual orientation, etc, because although those are serious problems that need to be tackled, they can NEVER be the priority over class, which is and remains by far the greatest source of inequality in the world (again, notwithstanding other factors also being sources of inequality).

It's such a bad job that I wonder how much of it is intentional misdirection, distraction from the true issues.
Because Jobs was a more influential and captivating figure, in my opinion obviously.
Link actually says, "As such, we have today opened (at this point, non-litigation) GPL enforcement actions against both companies."

that's a letter, not a lawsuit. not yet, anyway.
Depending on high school there are vastly poorer students, vastly more or less immigrants, vastly more or less minorities, vastly more or less gangs, vastly more or less desolated communities, vastly more or less no-college prospects, vastly more or less resigned teachers, vastly more or less violence, and so on.

On these aspects your high schools in "rural Jersey" and "Phoenix" could be more or less in the same league, the same way a Beverly Hills high school and a rich Boston area high school could be. That would not the case across high schools in general though.

The only "common" part of the experience is kids being kids, boredom, bullying, puberty and so on. But that's true for high schools in Japan, Africa, or Denmark as well...
Berkshire Hathaway reported a record $128B in cash in the third quarter
In theory, sure. But many other things can affect a driver in ways that make them dangerous. Being tired has been demonstrated to affect people similarly to how alcohol affects people, but almost every single person driving to work is driving tired. That doesn't suggest we should allow people to drink and drive, but it does illustrate that an absolute hard line policy against having any alcohol in one's blood is a bit ridiculous given the other ways someone may be dangerous.

Same goes for a lot of medicines people take. Some medicines will specifically tell you not to drive, and other medicines may react with other medicines to make a driver dangerous (and the driver may not even know it).

I have a better solution: reduce the need for people to drive themselves around as much as possible (public transport).
Two child policies aren't necessary, as populations become more educated and wealthy they naturally have fewer children. This is already taking place. So we just need to keep spreading democracy and education, especially of women.
If you're pulling in things from a dozen or 2 different domains, it gets expensive (In milliseconds) for client dns lookup, tls negotiation, when added all up.
The way I think of it, India's pollution and poverty are both caused by their society not organized well.

I believe South Korea was poorer than India in living memory!
Any anti-encryption push by politicians where they mention child exploitation as a reason is easily argued against by merely asking them what their funding plans are for actual, real world, child protection services.

There is a thing called "mandatory reporting" where teachers have to report suspected cases of even low levels of abuse. The organisations that do the investigations are so under funded and under staffed that the only issues they are able to investigate are those where the child's life is in immediate danger. Anything less just falls off the radar.

That's how much governments really, actually care about protecting children.

When they want to scan electronic communications, it ain't for reasons of protecting children from harm.
For those who might only have read the headline:

“This process doesn't require access to the device permissions like microphone or speakers. No audio is recorded, collected or played by any means. It gathers the audio signature of a user's device and uses it to create an identifier to track that user. It simply relies on the difference in the way these generated signals are processed on each device.”
Not sure how representative I am, but I can say that when I'm trying to solve an abstract problem, there is definitely a sort of dialog process that goes on in my head. I mean that literally, as in, subvocalized English words saying things like "How shall I proceed? Well, what if I assume such-and-such... Oh, wait, that wouldn't help at all, nevermind. Ok, then what about..." There's no such process in any of these AI systems.

Of course, this doesn't apply to knee-jerk reactions. I don't carry on an inner monologue in order to realize "That thing over there is a stop-sign".

A lot of what people call "Artificial Intelligence" these days would be much better described as "Artificial Knee-Jerk Reactions".
Yeah but they can use the raw song for that I suppose.
The Physics of Peacock Twerking
There's Something Strange Going on Inside Neptune
Propositions as Types (Philip Wadler at Strangeloop 2015))
Maybe the source was compressed audio instead of flac/wav?

Edit: the source is an mp3, which removes audio frequencies based on perception/masking with other frequencies. It's perfectly normal that it is showing artifacts. A better source is needed.
"A government list of everyone" is certainly considered a good thing in most North European countries. Religion would not have to be there, but a population register is taken for granted, and is considered an essential service of the government. Things like "registering to vote" are alien, and considered a weak point in democracy in the U.S. and U.K.
And here I was thinking it was just a method I used to compensate for dealing with meetings with ADHD. It does make it look like I'm paying less attention, but it makes a huge difference in the amount of info from the meeting I'm able to retain.
HR - in service of protecting the companies interests - just as often prevent managers from discriminating.

I think a better solution is to have stronger laws that favor workers. HR will enforce them because they don’t want their company in legal trouble, and employees gain the benefit the laws provide. Everyone wins, more or less.
Probably because the threat is relatively new. It took hundreds of thousands of deaths and decades to get us to the current mandated safety standards for cars. It’s going to take a while for tech to catch up.
> Giving up US citizenship is pretty easy.

Easy yes, cheap no.

Considering that Hong Kong is at the top of that list, it tells me that maybe "economic freedom" is not necessarily the thing to optimize for.

Or to put it in other terms, I don't believe that any singular -ism is the solution.

> As to VAT being “unpopular”—that’s a very odd statement.

How is that odd? We have an economy driven heavily by consumption, a VAT would make everything more expensive and would be seen as a tax on the poor and middle class.
We're talking about Delhi here, not all of India.
Ultimately the only way out of all this tracking is regulation.
Since you mentioned symlink, does that mean you have each production version of the app on the same machine?
Agreed, but as a society, we clearly only care about babies before they're born. And we simply don't care about adults at all.
Coincidentally, last night I learned about a similar website by a collector of antique radios, Radio Heaven:

http://radioheaven.homestead.com/

I was talking with Ron W4RON on ham radio and he mentioned that he collects old radios and told me about his site. I asked him if he had a Truetone radio and he said he had one from the 1930s.

I went on to explain that in the 1970s I saw a Truetone radio at a neighbor's garage sale, and the printing on the back panel said:

Equipped with
Truetone Stratoscope

Eliminates
Aerial and Ground

(The Stratoscope was a coil antenna on the inside of the cardboard back panel.)

I thought the Truetone Stratoscope name was pretty cool, and I adopted it as my hippie nickname and later my online handle. I used to try to get Truetone but someone always beat me to it, so I started using Stratoscope.

Ron said his Truetone radio didn't have a Stratoscope but he was familiar with it; it was something they added later.

Here's a Truetone Stratoscope from another antique radio site:

https://www.radiomuseum.org/images/radio/western_auto_supply...

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/western_au_d2610.html

Back to Radio Heaven, Ron has a neat story of how he got started collecting radios and some wisdom he learned from his mom (edited for brevity):

I went with my mother to a local flea market and there sitting on the tailgate of a pickup just inside the gate was...an Atwater Kent model 20. I remember the dealer had it priced at $15, I only had $10 so I asked my mom for $5 so I could buy the radio. She said "I'm not going to give you $5 to buy that old piece of junk, if you want it try to haggle him down to $10". Well, he took the $10 and I was hooked, not only on old radio, but haggling with dealers over their price.
I doubt that they'd lower their investment. This is more like you're investing in the economy of Saudi Arabia as a whole, just using an oil company as it's vessel.
What is ccn?
Yes, this is we've just done recently. Renaming a column required creating a new one with the new name and saving the same data to both columns for a while before dropping old old column a few weeks later.
>The defining trait of an "oligarch" (in the current usage of the word, not the ancient Greek) is someone who got the power and money through a combination of crime and state power, which are usually not even separated.

The "current usage" of the word is used politically for against regular businessmen as well if we don't like their country. And similarly, is omitted, when we do like it.
Very well said (I'll have to remember this way of explaining it). IMO in most projects, the intermediate layers never do anything interesting so that's why postgrest (as a proxy) is a good fit
I think there were a couple reasons ARM won:

* ARM wasn't directly in the manufacturing business. This meant they weren't a supply chokepoint when demand scaled by a factor of thousands. Just take the IP core and fab it yourself!

* They triangulated the market unexpectedly well.

There was a definite gap in the market between "performance at any cost" big architectures (x86/Itanium/Power/PA-RISC/SPARC) and "Draws no current, but gets winded running the clock for a VCR" (6502/Z80/68HC11/Atmel/PIC) little ones. For a long time, this was filled by on an ad-hoc basis-- one-off designs for game consoles, set-top boxes, and ahead-of-their-time smart appliances. Most of these were closed, single-vendor, no-interoperability systems where "ease of integration" and "off the shelf tools" didn't really matter, so we had all sorts of bit players.

It took the arrival of full-power handheld devices with third-party software support (PDAs and then smartphones) for a large demand to appear, and ARM was ready with a product line that fit the space well.

Compare the alternative, a world where we had had x86-based Windows CE devices and eventually iPhones. Intel/AMD/VIA would have been scrambling to put together the diversity of custom designs these devices cried out for. It would have required a massive respin of their architectures (look how hard it was to get Atom into a phone-ready state, and even then it did poorly) and then backlogged their foundries.
Genocide (which I assume is the "unethical" option) is also hard, and tends to destroy infrastructure as well...

I do agree that improving governance is much, much easier said than done. And to be fair, India has had substantial progress.
It’s certainly cheaper than cancer, although as always it’s a pity people have to pay out of pocket for it.
That isn't the problem. The problem is it takes too long to run this hypothetical study from "Vaccinate 12 year old boys" to "These 50 year olds didn't die of cancer at the expected rates". Nobody wants to wait 40 years to run a study that says this thing we suspect is a good idea is, in fact, a good idea. 40 years is a long time. If you follow a patient for six months, they're easy to find. Maybe a handful of them move city once, but they remember they were in a medical trial, "Oh yeah, sorry, I will come in for the follow-up appointment". If you try 40 years it's hopeless. They move ten times, they leave the country, they've forgotten all about your medical trial. So you start with 100 patients and 40 years later you can only trace eight of them, and now your trial is statistically invalid.

The existing efficacy demo for HPV vaccination against cervical cancer relies on the fact that Pap smears are a thing to get answers in just a few years not decades. The smear test gets us a bunch of cells that a pathologist can look at under a microscope and inspect to see if they're normal or maybe "pre-cancerous" meaning they aren't normal but they are not yet cancer. And we know (from having tried it) that if we just ignore it some of that not-yet-cancer turns into cancer and kills people. So if we see that in a smear today you'll get called back and they'll treat it, even though you haven't got cancer.

This means they could give girls an HPV vaccine and then not only show that those girls didn't get the strains of HPV vaccinated against as often as unvaccinated peers, but further show that they don't get as much not-yet-cancer. And _by implication_ that means it protects against cancer.

There is no smear test for these less common cancers in men. If there are pre-cancerous cells we don't see them. We only find out about the cancer, years and often decades later.
Punjab and Haryana farmers are by no means poor farmers.
REST it pretty stupid, but it works over HTTP(S) and is state-less. And tools that use HTTP has nice abstraction layers already, and are very common, so it becomes simple to use.

Personally for talking with a web front-end I would use Websocket's with long-polling as fallback. And use JSON instead of query-string for querying. It does however require yet an abstraction layer, and is more brittle and less secure then REST.

REST is a school-bus. Other methods are like exotic sports-cars.
I would like to know

1. How consistent the output is on a given device (is it 100% deterministic and will always produce the same fingerprint?)

2. How big is the variance across devices (how good of a fingerprint it is).

The article doesn't really do much at digging into that, which really is the most important thing if you want to use it as a fingerprint.

I'm not quite sure why different devices would generate different output, other than differences in floating point computation.
I've wondered about visited link states for a while, and I could easily see them getting focused on soon as well.
Big Data Journey to MongoDB
This is good in theory, and often in practice, but not always. If this practice is followed blindly, unit tests can become too tightly bound to the code to the point where every code change is assumed to require corresponding 1:1 unit test changes and it becomes difficult to distinguish between a broken test that signals broken functionality versus one that simply hasn't been 'synced' yet.
Possibly a sign of peak oil demand.

First coal, then oil, and then gas will be stranded fuel assets.

Sustainable Electric is the obvious future.
> do most people understand the racist connotations of the term, "illegals"? yeah, most do

That's called "circular arfument" - you proclaim that this term is racist and prove it by proclaiming - without any evidence - that "most people" (who?) "understand" that it is racist. What you do is just repeating your original - baseless - claim.

> do you? I honestly don't care

So, being unable to prove your point, or somehow substantiate the claim that calling acts that are agains the law "illegal" is somehow "racist" (tbh, you shouldn't blame yourself too hard for the failure - it's very hard to prove something this idiotic, but you definitely should blame yourself for proclaiming it in the first place, as you should know better) - you resort to denigrating me personally and feigning indifference to my opinion (after all the discussion) because you are so much smarter than me (and the way these smarts are revealed is by mindlessly repeating a slogan which you are unable to substantiate).

> are there other, non racially charged ways to describe someone's immigration status?

Yes, here's one: if someone immigrated legally, she's a legal immigrant. If someone immigrated illegally, she's an illegal immigrant. Nothing to do with race. See how easy it was? Of course, if you tend to reflexively call whoever disagrees with you "racist", it may become harder. But that's exactly the reason to get rid of that foolish tic.
Oops, apparently I wasn't reading carefully enough! Thank you!
Postgrest is RRM actually- rest relational mapper.

My point is - exposing db over HTTP (REST, GraphQL, ...) is bad architectural design and idea.
Because nobody would work there otherwise (edit: given the choice ofc).
Odd that you would suggest the article is written to show Merck in a good light, and then choose that exact quote to make your point.

To give the whole quote in context:

"Merck, its maker, wouldn’t be likely to mention the potential benefit in advertisements. Though most experts have little doubt that the vaccine prevents HPV infections anywhere in the body and therefore the resulting cancers, technically, this has not been proven."

It's not exactly calling Merck out, but the author is clearly not giving them a pat on the back over it either.
A police officer explained to me that some of the other tests are using testing for things other than the obvious (for instance, even if you follow the pen, your eyes jump in a way that's a tell-tale sign of intoxication)
It's not an important distinction at all. A "program" isn't well-defined; it's inherently abstract. A container is a manifestation of a running program as is a Unix process; both are "runtime environments" differing in their isolation properties (Unix processes provide memory isolation, containers provide memory as well as other kinds of isolation, at least to the extent that the underlying operating system supports).

> There's a lot going on between a K8s pod, a container, and the actual program. It's just not Unix-y at all.

The Unix philosophy pertains to composition, not implementation.

> I don't see the strawman here.

You picked someone else's definition of "operating system", generalized it, and then attacked it for being too general.

> K8s and containerization is frequently mischaracterized as the operating system of the future. The technical details matter and speaking in generalities is misleading (IMO).

Yes, again, this is an analogy. If you interpret analogies as a guarantee that the operands are identical instead of simply "similar", you will be misled.
I use the Firefox “ScrapbookQ” addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbookq/

Mostly because I used to use the older “Scrapbook” add-on (before it stopped working in Firefox 60) and I still have a number of pages saved in that format – ScrapbookQ is, with some effort, compatible with those saved pages.
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weworkremotely.com

> We Work Remotely is a large, global platform of individuals pursuing remote work and companies looking to hire.

I think it spun out of Basecamp’s book, “Remote”.
reuse code where? In the db, why couldn't you?
Or do you mean to reuse the logic in the db in some other place?

By this logic one can say "ruby is bad becasue i can't reuse logic i wrote for the backend in my frontend SPA". This is the type of (data logic) that you should not need to reuse in other parts.

Maybe this comment does a better job of explaing the architecture https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21436425
In the US, they typically have a judge on call to sign warrants for blood draws.
Funny: I have a set of shell functions that are more-or-less the same, although the implementation of this one is more elegant.

However, I just checked, and the last note I made with it was in 2017! It seems I am not disciplined enough to take notes. On the rare occasion that I create a note, I now use email, so that it is automatically backed-up and synced, and so I can easily create notes from my smartphone.
Is anyone actually claiming it was a nuclear arms laboratory?
I used to do this a lot and people got very iterated by it. I got the feedback that it seems like I am not paying attention. I always felt the opposite was true. Seems like I should start doing it again!
Great resource - thanks.
Maybe the key is to change what we consider productive. Our main measure of productivity is GDP and it has some really perverse methodology. If a defense manufacturer builds a bomb and sells it the government, that is considered positive GDP. If next year that bomb is taken and dropped on one's own country thus destroying value is it considered negative GDP? No, again it's positive production because the pilot and bombadeer sold their services to the government too!

Meanwhile, if one parent in a relationship stays home to care for the couple's children thus rendering a highly valuable service to the family, it is not counted!

Only academics who have furvent faith in the dogma they've been handed down can see such a contradiction and maintain their faith. Recently we have been seeing economists trying to augment gross measures like GDP. And we've seen the rise of behavioral economist who are trying to better integrate human factors into economics.
> because only SpaceX had the vision to spend a decade struggling to break the government-military monopoly on space launch.

This is completely wrong.
That essay has already been written, Rob Pike's UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful [1]. It inspired a web site and project devoted to simplifying Unix [2].

[1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/

[2] http://cat-v.org/
Derek recently wrote about it [0]. The fact that you can have the thinnest client between your front-end and backend makes things incredibly flexible. If you learn PG properly you can do 100% of data preparation on the database side and just expose it through an API. If you decide to change something, you change a view and it's now whatever you just did. No code changes, no redeployments.

[0] https://sivers.org/pg2
>Wouldn't it be better to look directly at whether the runaway AI scenario is plausible?

Yes but that burden has not been met by the people who talk about AI risk. They don't properly motivate why theirs is a plausible scenario, that is to say, provide actual evidence for their quite fantastical claims about the capabilities of AI that are grounded in empirical research rather than science fiction.

Douglas Hofstadter asked decades ago if a computer who is able to think will still be able to calculate fast, that is to say, he questioned whether endowing machines with intellect and symbolic reasoning will actually slow them down by the very nature of what intelligence is. I've read quite a few of the alarmist AI treatises over the recent years, and it's funny how few of them actually even engage that prescient question.

What Chiang is saying is that the entire AI risk complex is a mirage conjured up by the neuroses of billionaires who are projecting the problems that their very own creations have produced (as in their companies) onto the topic of AI. That it's a psychological phenomenon rather than a technical one. When these people are concerned about autonomous systems that turn the planet into paperclips and disregard humanity and ecology they're not actually thinking about general intellect, they're thinking about capital.
When I wrote my comment, the headline was something along the lines of "Why we should vaccinate boys against HPV too". The headline has now been changed, and my comment seems really odd.
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