skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, your logic is that since the U.S. spies on people, it means they have no credibility in calling out other people for spying on U.S. citizens?

Seems like a "pot" should have more knowledge than average on which kettles to call "black".
Is toast not popular in the USA? Still going strong in Europe!
Ha Ha, thanks for the cool email forward.
I used a WeWork credit to work remotely while in Tokyo around a year ago, and the place was packed. Every common seat was filled and I even felt like I was getting in the way because of how often people were going around me to banter or talk shop. Also the internal WeWork forums in Japan seemed to be a genuine social network with heavy Linked-In style participation.

I'm sure some of the hustle and bustle is due to the novelty, much like how WeWork was when it first launched in the US. However, you're right that there is a real lack of flexible month-to-month space in Japan so that may be a lasting advantage.
Thanks for the very detailed reply. I guess you're right - even though I've spent 5 months in the US this summer, I hadn't understood the difficulties involved in making stuff better.

It sounds terrible, and I'm sad so many people have to live like that.
The part that would be particularly interesting to me, without context, would be the deviations from symmetry. At first glance, the holes around the white circles look pretty regular. But the sparser lines of holes in between do not match each other, particularly the upper right.
Or you are just so bogged down in history that you have a difficulty changing your opinion. Few decades is a long time in our line of work.

Microsoft didn't change out of charity or ethics. They were forced by the direction industry was heading as a whole. Cloud, opensource software, Google, AWS started making Microsoft irrelevant unless they changed.
Exactly. The official explanation after Chernobyl was in substance "the powerplant was of a dubtious design and the operators were dumb and not disciplined". Fukushima is designed by Western corps (GE), built by US and Japanese serious megacorps, and operated by Japanese knowledgeable, very disciplined and service-oriented (rather than vodka-oriented) people.
Thanks for the follow up.

This was July or August of 2018 and Chrome on the desktop and Android.
Does the poster actually live in NYC? It's one of the few places where drivers are actually already intimidated by pedestrians. As soon as car traffic at a crossing slows down, jaywalkers take over despite their red light and pass through vehicles, especially in Midtown, where we outnumber drivers.
When will the OPM get the same designation?
I know it's against the rules to tell people to read the article, but I would encourage everyone to read the article. It specifically says this is a potential threat to

>"elected officials, candidates, political campaigns, [and] political parties"

not to the general public. The potential threat is for someone at Candidate_1's campaign taking selfies with the app, that then uploads them to Russian servers where the Russian government can see them and can also see what's in the background (sensitive documents?) or see geo-location from the app (like how Strava was leaking the coordinates at military bases [1]) or any number of things a hostile foreign government who has already hacked American elections once and is planning to do it again might want to do with pictures that interns/staffers might think are private.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
"similar" means similar topic or similar interactivity?

similar interactivity:

https://epiphany.pub/@shi-yan/introduction

https://www.smart-biology.com/

https://mathigon.org/

http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/

similar topic

https://ruder.io/
> And even this is only true if you retrict yourself to unsigned integers

Fair point. I've edited my comment to include the word "unsigned".

> I'd argue that whoever understands the ring of integers modulo 2^64, will also understand the IEEE754 semantics

I'm an existence proof that that is not true :). Although I'm sure I could learn the IEEE754 semantics if I put enough effort into reading the spec.

But even if they don't know the word "ring", I think most programmers do understand how modulo arithmetic works, and they have algebraic intuitions about it that turn out to be true: both operations are commutative and associative, multiplication distributes over addition, equality of a forumla involving * and + is true if it's true in the actual integers, and so on.
> already being used by Cyclone, well before the Rust project was even a thing.

Let’s be a little more accurate here. Rust is an actively developed language, Cyclone was a research project that I don’t believe has received an update since 2006.

Rust also is explicit that it borrowed its lifetime concept from Cyclone. Rust is in use and gaining popularity in a way that Cyclone didn’t.

This is a bit like the debate between Apple and Xerox in terms of the beginnings of the desktop/mouse/GUI environment. Apple was the first to make it popular, xerox park invented it. Rust has a similar relationship with Cyclone.
You can put the grep flags at the end? All these years, and I had no idea.
Do you have anything for anyone with QA/Lead/Automation experience?
Sure, different languages have various, usually bad, definitions of length.

The point is that those two sentences themselves in the article are conflicting with each other, not that we're talking about any language in particular. (But certainly the article could go into a survey of common languages like you have.)
I've been burgled (sp?) twice now and both times the window was intact. I think people who do this regularly have the tools the cops and tow guys have. Makes it look waay discrete rifling in a car with the door opened normally, you could probably do it in broad daylight in front of the police station and be fine.

Smash and grab makes sense if you don't have those tools and know no one, not even pedestrians, react to broken glass or car alarms in that part of town.
All things considered, I think the US is a fine country by global standards. Canada is significantly better in many ways, but the US isn't exactly Syria or El Salvador.
Ah, you are correct. I think it actually strengthens my point, right?

If Softbank is renting 20% of space, and less than 100% of space is rented, then they count for more than 20% of the customer base being institutional.
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Given MS history, EEE was the first thing I thought about too. Take something, extend, then claim it's superior and everyone should stop using the original.

But if it simply means they are making a new language using lessons from Rust - then why not.

Though I didn't quite get what problem they found with using the idea of scope based lifetimes per object, that they needed to redefine it in context of groups.
I use https://duckduckgo.com/lite in a terminal but google elsewhere...
I use Wordpress.com for blogging and its wizzy-wig editor because it gives me a rough visual estimate of how long my text really is. It’s a perfectly stupid reason and totally inadequate for the level of tech-savvy I’m supposed to have. Or maybe it’s just that the heavy crufty web editor was developed for a purpose and is good at it.
Did he repudiate rationalism? Otherwise, if he's talking about rationalists, he's talking about the beam in his own eye.
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Sorry but this is not a narrative rooted in reality.

People don’t not want kids. Lots of people want kids at the right time. Others want it but find they would be unable to provide for their children due to a generation and a half of wage stagnation, along with women not wanting to have to change their profession to “full time childcare”.

Giving people access to childcare is documented to work. There isn’t some magic cultural collapse. It’s just capitalism squeezing everything out of people, and people worn out from it.

https://www.dw.com/en/are-family-policy-reforms-to-thank-for...
I'm genuinely surprised. Maybe it's just for psych ailments (e.g. anxiety) that use has declined.

> the biggest rise in prescriptions during this time period was for back pain and other types of chronic pain.

Now I'm doubly surprised. Some benzos have muscle relaxant properties but I've never heard of them prescribed for pain.

(I've never experienced benzo withdrawal but I've heard it claimed to be as bad as opiate withdrawal.)
If I am unsuccessful, then you are not really responsible for your computer, are you?
The article mistates a cause and effect. The injuries are not caused by Amazon's need to move packages they're caused by Amazon's unreasonable and apparently unsafe systemic requierements on employees. Amazon could move the packages it needs with more employees more safely but have chosen not to.
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If you have to "know how to search" in DDG, e.g. do something different than your intuition (which Google handles very well), then it's simply a worse search engine.

For example, I shouldn't need to add extra context to "elm dict" to get to Elm's Dict package documentation. And I'm not even sure what I need to add to get DDG to know what I'm talking about. Google knows.

DDG is pretty much always worse query-for-query than Google in my experience especially for anything long-tail or in a different language. I don't think there's any nuance to add here. Presumably you're using DDG for other perfectly valid reasons which is where I'd focus my evangelism than "it's just as good if you know how to use it" which is simply wrong because it (basically Bing) is just not as good.
Charlie: as fellow AMO experimental physicist who got a PhD less than a year ahead of you but went straight industry, I recommend you look into how to translate your experience into what someone in industry may be looking for. Brain dump to follow. Take or leave what you'd like.

One of the challenges of an experimental physicist PhD is that you're a very good hack at nearly every engineering field, but not a product builder (largely because the apparatus you're building is n=1). You're not an EE but familiar with what they do and can "hack" their day job. You're not a ME but can hack solidworks to make a part and putz in the machine shop. You're not a programmer but can hack that too. You'd be great in any research environment, but those are hard to find. R&D departments usually skew heavily D, and not so much R.

I've found that systems engineering (the design and test type, not the network admin type) is a solid field for experimental physicists. But most systems engineers reside at bomb building companies. I've been fortunate to find a good fit at a life sciences company that builds products for research labs. Maybe you can too?

To the wider HN crowd, any other industry niches that you know of that fit the experimental physicist skill-set? Usually something that mixes both hardware and software is best. The typically advice I hear is become a programmer... but code without hardware is boring :) ducks

P.S. Charlie, the research work you've done is _really_ cool stuff.
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Or anywhere nearly as easily, to be fair.
Valium isn't prescribed as much because it's off patent and the drug reps don't ply doctors to make sales for the competition.
That one piece of paper doesn't say you do, but, I digress.
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It's also completely unenforceable. Pro theives use tools and you would think the guy owned the car if you saw someone properly break into a car, as there would be nothing to see. Can't have cops ask everyone to turn over their license and title for inspection for walking out of a car with a gym bag.
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I think you're right that in this mix the robots will win.

Amazon is working to automate their logistics as much as possible --but I think they should do it in a way more human way. They should design their process with people in mind and keep people's well being and limits in mind when designing as well as when managing people.

Unionization is not an answer, well it might be but only temporarily as most people in fulfilment will be out of the picture. Given that, I would hope Amazon does the right thing, but I kind of doubt it.
There is a really interesting tension in the world of propaganda - I see it in the modern Hong Kong situation. The better job the propagandists do of minimising Tienanmen for example the more likely China is to get Tienanmen-like protests again.

From that perspective, Western democracies have really struggled to assimilate their long history of toppling other nations and benefiting from their resources into the cultural framework. That probably leaves a vulnerability to being toppled in the same way.
Ha. Yes it sounds ridiculous on it’s face. But... It’s the privacy thing I’m concerned about. If google the tool was all Google is, then I’d have no problem with it. It’s the rest of Google I have an issue with.

I can bang google the tool along with wiki or whatever and still avoid the invasive practices the company uses. I don’t think that’s a complicated concept.
I would pay not to have to do that. That sounds completely horrible.
It's absolutely justified to pass off the information that according to our best current knowledge is the approprate recommendation as of now - the fact that knowing the underlying correct information is difficult, and noone knows for certain if it's entirely correct or there are more nuances to be found doesn't mean that we should just shrug and act as if we have no information whatsoever. We do have some data that allows us to make useful decisions that are more likely than not to be correct. As long as that's the best we have, we should use that information.
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How about removing variation selectors? For example it's possible to turn an emoji back into text by appending a code point!

They are very painful to implement and most don't get it right.

See https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/10894210337932369...
> "If the toaster had a shade selector, a built in camera and was factory color calibrated, then no matter what I stuck in the toaster it would come out that color (or hit some global MAX_TOASTING_TIME) ."

...which would fail on dark breads like pumpernickel or be confused by marbled or cinnamon swirl breads.
Hi Mario,

Your analysis is correct; the issue was due to <div> tags appearing inside <a> tags. This should be fixed now; I've verified that I can follow result links using Lynx.

Once again, my apologies for you running into this issue! Thank you for reporting & debugging it and thank you for your patience as well.

I hope this is resolved for you now; please try it out and let me know whether or not it works for you, or if you run into any other issues.
1984 was basically a sci-fi adaption of Koestler's Darkness at Noon, which was based on the real-life Moscow Trials. Orwell had read (and favourable reviewed) Darkness. He also used a lot of similar details (Rubashov even had a tooth-ache that flared up for dramatic effect much like Winston's varicose vein).
Serious question: are there any major closed-source software companies (so like, not Red Hat or Canonical, etc) who don't lobby for or use software patents?
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It's been done, successfully, before:

https://assetstore.unity.com

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace
The drive to develop them has existed for millennia, sure. But never as reliably or safely as they exist now. The fact that it is so accessible and there is very little stigma around it, is what will change our civilization and culture. The way Huxley depicts it in Brave New World, is the direction it is heading in. And we are at the forefront of that right now for the first time in human history.
I'm in love with Swift's approach, where the default representation is a well defined thing that both users and developers think of as "characters", but all the other representations are trivially accessible.
Could be either.
Can apps still get information that identifies the specific device? If so, another possible threat model could be more about identifying who uses what device rather than anything specifically in the photos themselves.

For example, I already have a database of high value target's faces built from political sources like house.gov. Now I do facial recognition between that set of faces and the FaceApp faces. That allows me to identify the specific devices used by government officials. That would seem to be super valuable for more targeted attacks and/or pairing with other apps for potential kompromat.
I've had past accounts shadow banned for what I assume is posting in threads like this.
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> People don’t not want kids.

I'm not sure which Gen Z's you've spoken to recently, but the next generations certainly want kids much less than previous generations. And this trend will only continue. We have seen family sizes continually drop, until now the average is about 2. That will soon drop below 1 where most people do not have children. Give it 30-40 years max.
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Thank you so much! I meant both similar interactivity and topic. Your links are helpful. :)
In their public-facing work, Cowen and pc talk primarily about the importance and upside of progress and growth [1][2]. As someone who leans left, I find these writings both novel and compelling - some of the most compelling market-oriented thinking I've come across.

At the same time, pc, Cowen, and Zuck are in the thick of the SF "conservative libertarian" milieu. Thiel was a/the first major investor in FB, Stripe, and Cowen's "Emergent Ventures". Cowen's Mercatus center has deep ties (that I don't fully understand) with Koch industries and the federalist society. Etc.

I'm _far_ less impressed with the policies actually advocated for by these groups.

I'd actually be really interested in hearing the three of them discuss opportunities for government policy to have significant positive impact. I'd be surprised if pc wasn't a fan of at least some aspects of the FAA / NTSB [3], and I know Cowen advocates for public increases in basic research / R&D investment [4].

As "libertarian conservative" "public thought leaders", I wonder where else they might agree that government intervention can be net very-positive.

[Edit: sorry about the labels. There are real clusters of thinking and people here that need names, but I'm sure that they'd prefer different labels]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Stubborn-Attachments-Prosperous-Respo... + thorough review/interview https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/tyler-cowen-stubborn...

[3] https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1021995602970923010

[4] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/02/th...
Your comment may read as condescending or snarky but I was wondering the same thing. Then I went and looked at a couple of extensions and the cheapest was $2,000. The button says "Buy extension" and right above the button it says "Subscription will renew in one year". Is that for updates or what?

At the bottom of the page it says "Kuesa 3D Runtime may be used as a tool in the creation of applications. To incorporate it as a library into an application and sell on as a commercial application, ask us for Kuesa 3D Studio. Read the complete EULA."

What am I buying? Am I just buying the privilege to be able to develop with their proprietary software but I can't actually distribute it? Also, why is there a link to github. Is this open source? I'm so confused. I shouldn't have to read a complete EULA to get a basic understanding and I shouldn't have to already know what something is to purchase it in a marketplace. Marketplaces are for discoverability.
That's a good quote; but I think that the crucial sentence is this one:

> The driver must have been written by the sales department.
I can't really blame him/her. CS focuses mostly on discrete mathematics. While there are some required calculus courses in a CS program, IIRC they don't go up to diffeqs and most CS courses never really make much, if any, use of the calculus that is taught.
> saying "yeah but everyone does it" is about as off-topic of a remark as you can get

I've seen this sort of "argument" a lot lately. Not sure why people think it communicates anything other than lazy cynicism.

That everyone (to a rounding error) has sex does not mean that everyone has sex with everyone.
The bigger problem is the issues that led to the surveillance - the get an AR15 and shoot up a school culture in the US or the iffy government in China. Both those would be / have been a problem without any surveillance (eg. 30m + deaths in China earlier). On the other hand in our evolutionary environment we lived is small groups where everyone knew what everyone was up to and in the modern world your tech tracks you - it's just kind of part of life that doesn't really cause problems if people are nice.