skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ridiculous to see in the 21 century some governments shut down internet to the people. Actually this time, the intention was close the gate to the news agencies to rest of the world
> The problem with unregulated US-style definition of "freedom of speech" is that this definition only works with (and it was designed with) the 17th to 20th century media model, with newspapers, radio stations and later-on TV stations as "gatekeepers" to ensure that extremism (no matter if it's Nazism, ordinary conspiracy theories or quackery such as MMS/homeopathy/antivaxx) doesn't get too much reach.

That's simply not true: the 18th century in particular was noted for widespread pamphleteering, in which private citizens or small interest groups plastered cities with pamphlets advocating the most absurd theories — not altogether different from blogs or social media.

> measles have a happy time again "thanks" to anti-vaxxers

The anti-vaxxers were kick-started by the gatekeepers of The Lancet, which published Andrew Wakefield's study detailing a purported link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

> In India, people have been lynched "thanks" to virally spreading lies.

That's par for the course with lynching, which well pre-dates the Internet.

The problem, dear mschuster9, lies not in the Internet but in ourselves.

(I do think that there are issues with mass media in general, and how perverse incentives align to encourage discord, disharmony and chaos — because there's more money to be made in reporting 'here's what Evil Outgroup did today!' than on reporting 'nothing new, here's a picture of kittens!', but I still believe that the harms of speech are outweighed by the harms of tyranny)
I wouldn't consider hate and empathy mutually exclusive personally (e.g. you can empathise with somebody that was bullied by their parents, but still hate them because they bully their children), but I do think that somebody that derives pleasure from the suffering of someone that they hate is unempathetic.
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She says she's a woman. We don't need to go into convoluted conspiracy theories to deny someone their reported gender.
This does nothing for the keypresses that don't register at all
It sounds to me like your idea of empathy is more akin to compassion.
I think the GDDR6 is for the GPU
My original point was that maybe strong weed was more conducive to American activities :)
I think the landlord has absolutely no right to block the windows, I see it as a human rights violation. Unless the tenants signed the lease when an ad was already hanging there.
The problem I have with recalling memories/feelings through msuic, is that the recollection gets weaker every time I listen to it. So there are a number of songs I listened to often to relive a particular moment, but listening to them now only vaguely recalls that moment, and additionally also has the association of reliving the moment later. Reliving the reliving of a moment is less vivid than the initial reliving, unfortunately.
Patrick quietly dropped the entire first paragraph in the examples list a few hours ago: https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20191118190006/201911190530...
I bet maps rocky mountain states get used more, though, as folk don’t go out of their way to see corn fields the way they do mountains.
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That reuse used to be through but nowadays we are absolutely drowning in computing hardware. Look at all the dealers in old used business computers, selling $200 machines. That's paying for the time of the person turning over the machine, with no premium for scarcity. Shipping and handling costs more than the non-consumable portion of old computer hardware.
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And the potentially undetectable aimbots for games - Perfect Headshots Everytime (TM).
Then some other ad would. It is just a clickbait to blame a large corporation for everything bad on the planet. The landlord is an asshole, Apple is not to blame here. I would say the same if it was any other ad.
They could still send media and information out via sneakernet. It's simply not possible to "close" a country to information flows in this day and age.
This is so ironic considering how much taxes Canadians pay themselves
Very interesting way of trying to bridge the gap from "blocks" to code. Part of my introduction to coding was using the Starcraft and Warcraft 3 map editors. At a base level, much of the scripting in the editor is very much block-like: choose an event, add actions, and apply conditions. It wasn't block-based programming but it was point and click nonetheless. However there were essentially "blank blocks", actions which were just an input for arbitrary scripts. If I'm remembering correctly, I think WC3 editor might have used Lua (not 100% sure), but I learned a lot by going beyond what was possible with just tools the editor gave you by using these seemingly limitless windows into the world of programming that it offered.

Though as I recall a lot of the really advanced and customized Starcraft maps actually used, I believe, some kind of overflow bug to add all kinds of arbitrary data that you couldn't normally. Off topic now, but interesting fact nonetheless, when Blizzard remastered Starcraft they essentially re-implemented the bug so old maps would still work.
Improving autonomous autos by having them guess which humans are selfish
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The only reason I added an anecdote was because the entirety of your argument was anecdotal. How you can't see the irony here is beyond me.

> I’ve never known anyone to throw away a Mac

I'm just telling you that there are people who do that. What are your sources for that business don't upgrade machines? In my experience, business are often the kind of places that actually do upgrade their machines but of course not if it is macs since they cannot be upgraded.

I have never said anything negative about their recycling program. But it still is more resource heavy and more polluting than simply continued use of a product when you upgrade parts.
> Leave the coal in the ground.

More actionable: conserve power.

Whether using coal or other: dress to avoid heating and a/c, carpool, fly less, turn things off when not using, buy less stuff, avoid packaged food, etc.

You'll probably end up simplifying your life, living closer to nature, saving money, connecting with people more, and generally liking life more.
I have 2017 13" and am quite happy as well. Hardware wise, only bigger downside is the cooling. The laptop can't do much work otherwise it starts to get really noisy and then slow after a while. Overall the worst part is definitely the crappy OS. Not that there is any really good one out there.
Weird example since Siri is based on one real woman's voice. Maybe one of the WaveNet "personalities" might be a better example.
I think it does, thanks and good luck!
Hate and empathy are unrelated. To paraphrase it’s possible to hate the game not the player.

The WWI Christmas truce in 1914 shows this dynamic very clearly. It’s likely these people had great empathy for each other as they where in similar situations even sleeping in the same trenches as the front moved around. Yet, eventually they went back to killing each other. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
A person at my work has developed a nose whistle whenever they inhale sharply to clear their nose. Sounds like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park. At first it was sparse and everyone kinda looked around like "hey get that booger out of your nose", but now they seem to have embraced it and walk around tooting their nose 5 times a minute.
My car dealer offers free recycling too. They even pay me for it. Of course Apple wants people to remove competing used hardware from the market, to remove alternatives to it's high margin new manufacturing. The "recycling" part is a side note.
Looking at the changes around Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie... I don’t think this is an improvement.
AFACT the boundaries between federal, forest preserve district( which has different usage restrictions), and private land is now totally indecipherable.
ikr? data center sharing economy with price surges and all.
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I don't know how well they perform, but I remember hearing about these https://www.canlessair.com/
The problem is that thing will be regulated like a bank, there will be a lot more scrutiny. And unlike Uber's "but we're just a tech company so we can disrupt by going around the regulation" tactic, doing this with banking would be a tad more challenging. Not necessarily unprofitable but it feels antithetical to the way Google usually works.
Sometimes they are never completed https://static.theintercept.com/amp/south-caroline-green-new...
I expect that if they did raise prices dramatically, they would lose buisness to roads. This suggests that they are not, in fact, a monopoly.
And more from Adobe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw

and an unnamed start-up a while back: http://web.archive.org/web/20190803012012/https://instaud.io...
Stadia and other streaming services will be a next unique selling point for internet providers. It could cost consumers more money to have a 'stadia'-ready connection, where the ISP invests in more stable infrastructure. Routers and wifi access points could be 'stadia'-ready. Do not forget Stadia will be a free service next year and consumers are going try out free-to-play games and blame ISPs for lag.
Interviews with the author elucidate something interesting. He feels that GEB failed to convey his point so he wrote another book called strange loop. From what I recall he said that GEB is trying to express how a strange loop is what consciousness really is. GEB is grand in the sense that he wanted to convey this point starting from axiomatic logic. I think it ended up confusing a lot of people because almost any high level topic has foundations in axiomatic logic.

The title of GEB totally throws people off so they dive into the book not really knowing what direction the book is going to take them. But now you know, the book is ultimately trying to tell you what the author believes consciousness is... and he starts from axiomatic logic. All the clever ideas the author throws at you are foundational structures that are explained to you to eventually help you understand the authors idea of the true nature of consciousness.
Thank you for sharing. For one lucky enough to have found Love, I appreciate your courage.
I was under the impression that .sucks domains cost about $10 for an individual but thousands for a corporation (as an anti-corporate endeavour). I can't find anything on this though, so perhaps I imagined it.
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That is profoundly untrue in my experience (13 years of working as a Dev manager at UBS and BofAML). The knowledge of how the business really works sits largely with the long-served IT and Operations staff. This is certainly the case in the back office (clearing and settlement) and in the regulatory space. I can't speak so much for the front office, but it seemed that the developers with successful careers were those who understood the business and therefore could talk to traders and desk heads in their own language (far more successful than the developers who were actually any good at producing maintainable software, but that's a different rant).

There are lots of things wrong with technology in large banks but the business knowledge of developers is pretty low on the list.

I left banking a few months ago, so I am no apologist for the sector.
At least it isn't the government's original idea of allowing G4S to do it. Because a company which couldn't even gather enough staff for the olympics, is completely suitable for policing -_-
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> No, they are folding both constant expressions exactly and actual floating point operations, going by assembly output.

Yes. The behaviour is quite odd and unexpected. It seems they have different rules for when to apply the constant version of floating math than what constitutes actual compile time evaluation.

const a float64 = 0.1;
const b float64 = 0.2;
const x float64 = 0.1 + 0.2; // Const evaluation, "rational" math
const y float64 = a + b; // Const evaluation, IEEE-754 math

fmt.Println(x == y) // false ??!?

This seems quite a horrible approach.

EDIT: Or how about this one:

const x float64 = 0;
fmt.Println(x + 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.1 + 0.2 + x ); // false!
fmt.Println(x + 0.1 + 0.2 == x + (0.1 + 0.2) ); // false!
I'm still using my 2011 macbook pro. The 2018 mbp I use for work started double- and triple- typing spaces within 4 months.
I worked on a software design project a year or two ago that was exploring the user interface and incentive mechanisms for the consumer side of such a scheme.

This was for one of the big-3 German automakers and the company running a significant portion of Europe's energy grid.

It's still a while off, but it is a serious project with the intend to get to market. I'm no expert on the grid side, but if I'm not mistaken, the need just isn't quite there yet because the grid have been able to accommodate current renewable production levels.
This idea of computer programs learning to do stuff and humans creating stories about it have been around at least since Conway's Game of Life.

It hard to get at the value of the playing Hide-and-Seek example, but it's certainly not in their anthropomorphized 'strategies'.

Stick to real games with clearly defined rules and arenas humans can also play in if you want to show progress, else it's probably made up for PR purposes.
I'm not sure I agree. Taking this quotation on free speech as a starting point:

> "I'll never agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"

The key points are not agreeing, and defending. I'd argue if you can empathize with them, you could agree with them (were you them), so that's not happening here. What matters is that you're both being attacked by a much more powerful entity, so powerful that it requires an alliance of enemies to successfully defend against. Of course that is government (or now corporate) censorship.

So I think you can hate someone and still defend a shared right against a common aggressor. And you can empathize with them enough to understand why they'd say the thing you disagree with. It's hard for me to imagine both hating and empathizing with the same person at the same time though.
No but the people living in Midwest cities do use maps and they outnumber the Rocky Mountain tourists.
Yep. GDDR stands for Graphics DDR.
Can you solve the exact same problem using Python list comprehensions or Rust iterators?

I'd like to see how solving this same problem in those languages is less of a nightmare.

I personally find that C loop quite readable compared with the same iteration being done in Rust.
Would be true if individuals were rational. We are not. And without interaction and dependence on others nothing very interesting is ever found.

Well explained here - https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25426
Thank you. Finally a succinct, true statement regarding financial regulation.

I work in finanance and a huge chunk of my work is generating reports for regulators. Specifically in derivatives (swaps and such), which was fairly wild west before the financial crisis.

There's a lot of catching up and a lot of interest into the trades by regulators, which were basically off-exchange and which are a big part of structured products. Those are financial products, which Warren Buffet deigned "Financial Products of Mass Destruction"

And you know what? I agree with those regulations despite the fact that it can be a real pain.

And if anybody really believes such regulation is crap and just there to support entrenched market players. Well; essentially banks self regulated before the financial crisis.

And what could ever go wrong with that?
Vocaloids?

Those are deliberately made to sound unnatural. Not to say it changes anything, and they've already shown up once or twice in anime.

(Though the only example I can name off the bat is Black Rock Shooter, and that doesn't include the voice. It's complicated. Mato is complicated, too.)
>I feel like much of these claims are only in the past.

It's not actually possible to buy a new Mac with less than 8GB RAM these days, and that seems likely to be plenty for a typical user for the lifetime of a machine bought today. 128 GB SSD is a bit tight, but flash drives are cheap. I see it the opposite way, in the past minimum Mac specs always seemed miserly, but nowadays they're pretty capable.
Yes, the problem with the keyboards is bad physical connectors. No one complains that their iPad touchscreen keys don't work.
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I don't follow why you equate journalism with covering corruption - that's just a small fraction of all news.

Overall I am not sure what point are you trying to make. That today you feel happier as a programmer? Sure, good for you.

I am only calling out the naive and frankly childishly simplistic arguments made in this thread that state things along the line: "It must suck to be a journalist, thank god I program ads for a website"

I have come believe that jobs that are hard to do but don't pay well are such because are more fulfilling and people are willing to trade monetary remuneration for a more interesting line of work. Many people (and it seems that you feel that way too) take this as a critique of their choices: "No way that a job that pays less than what I do is more interesting! Especially not a journalist/teacher/policeman etc."
Hi all,

Over the past few months I have been building a data pipeline that extracts quotes and assigns them to company executives, using natural language processing (spacy).

I am focusing on the tech industry right now which I know pretty well (I used to work at CB Insights). Every Wednesday I put together a newsletter featuring interesting quotes and explain why they matter.

Eventually, Oversaid will be a platform that lets you search quotes yourself and come up with your own analysis, but I wanted to launch something early while I build out the product so that I can learn from prospective customers.

I'm having a lot of fun writing these up and I hope you enjoy reading them!

Here's the last email I sent: https://mailchi.mp/ab609ce94c60/bill-gates-gives-bezos-some-...
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In my experience, noise cancelling headphones can make noise issues worse in some cases because they block ambient/white noises better than they block voices, sirens or other non-repetitive noise. So it just makes the distracting noises that much worse.
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Not a coincidence actually!

DOOM had Smashing Pumpkins in it first: the cheat IDSPISPOPD ("smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris") gives you the chainsaw due to some inside joke. The Smashing Pumpkins sample is a nod to this.
Try Unshaky. Helped me with multiple double key press issues
Peter Kenny is the narrator for most of Iain Banks' Culture series. Hearing a different narrator for Matter just felt off, I've come to associate Peter's accent with the setting.
I cannot tell of this is sarcasm.
It has a touchbar?!
I'm with you - noise cancelling headphones and other tricks like white/brown/bineural noise gets tiring after half an hour or so.

Here's my solution: I listen to relaxing hip-hop in a language I don't understand, through a normal pair of Airpods or other non-noise-cancelling headphones. In my case, this is usually MC Solaar - nice calm delivery, rhythms, and music, and in French, which I barely understand. I think this music is better for me than more regular sounds (or noise cancelling) as the variety means that any noises that do make it through, don't really register. Really helps me zone out and concentrate.

I know this sounds really weird (I almost never tell anyone about this IRL!) but it works for me. YMM(definitely)V :)

(Can I also make another observation? Reading about your irritability with flat-mates and colleagues sounds like you're an introvert, who's just not getting any/enough solitary time. If so, this is a bigger fundamental problem that you need to address - headphones and French hip-hop won't help :) Maybe you should focus on finding a way to build regular quiet and solitude into your schedule, for the sake of your relationships, mental state, and well-being?)
There is nothing in this article that explains any type of breakthrough. This just seems like a rehash of existing solar thermal technology. Also, what an abuse of the AI buzzword. Maybe the only breakthrough is getting Gates to back it.
After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.
Does anybody know the current state of installing linux on one? Doe the latest kernel fixes to SPI make things like the keyboard work now?
I usually point folks to HubSpot

https://www.hubspot.com/instagram-marketing

But I think you'll get better advice by drilling down into the nuts and bolts of your startup, what space you are in, and which metrics you wish to grow.

There are loads of differentiated services like Drip that conform to one tool for one job philosophy. Best of luck ;)

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CNET video has 8 frames (260ms) of input lag on TV ~6 (200ms) on phone, and it looks about 720p after compression https://mobile.twitter.com/Nitomatta/status/1196485009315520...
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My company uses freestyle seating (which sucks big time, but that's a story for a different day) which means a desktop or workstation is not a possibility for me. Anything that can make a laptop closer in power to a workstation is great in my book.
I bought the pre-16 inch MBP specifically for the keyboard. It's joyful and effortless to type on at the same time. Hands down the best laptop keyboard. (I used ThinkPads exclusively for more than a decade before coming to Macs)
Could it perhaps have been a Chinese language other than Mandarin, where the vocabulary choice would not be out of place?
I dread the raise of the tech company banks. I think we need EU level regulation to ensure you are not orphaned by companies that decide they don't want you legal business because you offended some third party that is applying political pressure to the bank. A digital and financial rights charter.
If anything this behavior is a throwback to “middleman minority”. It’s still very prominent in the Japanese economy[1], especially domestic, but also international.

[1]https://www.citeman.com/10218-japanese-distribution-structur...
Weird retitling of 'Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart' to 'Empathic concern does not reduce partisan animosity: study'.

The thesis of the article is that empathy may actually be causal and the research does support that conclusion.
You are seriously underestimating the things (routers, packet inspection firewalls, proxys, cross office VPNs) in corporate networks, also the completely crazy rules corporates comes up: all traffic is routed to the us no matter where you sit in the world, etc.
so what? any feedback or engagement is valuable

even yours made me feel better
While it's certainly interesting to read about an early medieval perspective, it's important to keep in mind that this is only the perspective from a single Archbishop. I'm sure many people at the time disagreed with him.
I expect tl;dr to be shorter then summary which could be 2-3 paragraphs. Plus summary is supposed to be good faith and avoid oversimplification. Tl;dr is two quick sentences that totally oversimplify and cant be really taken seriously.